Passage Four The comprehension passages on this course are designed to help you increase your speed. A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, fox example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gain will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with. The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. If you get to the point where you can read books of average difficulty at between 40 and 50 w.p.m. with 70% or more comprehension, you will be doing quite well, though of course any further improvement of speed with comprehension will be a good thing. When you practise reading with passages shorter than book length, do not try to take in each word separately, one after the other. It is much more difficult to grasp the broad theme of the passage this way, and you will also get stuck on individual words which may not be absolutely essential to a general understanding of the passage. It is a good idea to skim through the passage very quickly first (say 500 words in a minute or so) to get the general idea of each paragraph. Titles, paragraph headings and emphasized words (underlined or in italics) can be a great help in getting this skeleton outline of the passage. You would expect to read a physics textbook ______.
A. at the same speed as you read a funny story
B. much more rapidly than a newspaper
C. as slowly as you read Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice
D. much more slowly than a newspaper
某重型机械设备厂为在国内外市场提高竞争能力,提出了加强产品质量控制和质量检验的一系列具体措施。其中最根本最重要一项是提高人员的素质。尤其是对质量检验和质量管理相关人员进行有关质量管理知识和技能的再培训。经学习大家对质量检验的概念、预防能力和检验人员的职责等问题加深了认识。现回答以下问题: 质量检验最重要、最基本的功能是( )。
A. “把关”功能
B. 预防功能
C. 鉴别功能
D. 报告功能