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For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In__1__a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend__2__can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are__3__readers. Most of us develop poor reading__4__at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency__5__in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have__6__meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. __7__, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to__8__words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over__9__you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which ____10_____down the speed of reading is vocalization-- sounding each word either orally or mentally as__11__reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an__12__, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speeD.The bar is set at a slightly faster rate__13__the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, __14__word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first__15__is sacrificed for speeD.But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, __16__your comprehension will improve. Many people have found__17__reading skill drastically improved after some training. __18__Charles Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute__19__the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can__20__a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

1. A.Applying B.doing C.offering D.getting

2. A.Quickly B.easily C.roughly D.decidedly

3. A.Good B.curious C.Poor D.urgent

4. A.Training B.habits C.situations D.custom

5. A.lies B.combines C.touches D.involves

6. A.some B.a lot C.little D.dull

7. A.Fortunately B.In fact C.Logically D.Unfortunately

8. A.Reuse B.reread C.rewrite D.recite

9. A.what B.which C.that D.if

10. A.scales B.cuts C.slows D.measures

11. A.some one B.one C.he D.reader

12. A.accelerator B.actor C.Amplifier D.observer

13. A.then B.as C.beyond D.than

14. A.enabling B.leading C.making D.indicating

15. A.meaning B.comprehension C.gist D.regression

16.A.but B.nor C.or D.for

17.A.our B.your C.their D.such a

18.A.Look at B.Take C.Make D.Consider

19.A.for B.in C.after D.before

20.A.master B.go over C.present D.get through