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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 (61) a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (62) can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (63) readers. Most of us develop poor reading (64) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency (65) in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have (66) meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. (67) , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (68) words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (69) you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which (70) down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as (71) reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an (72) , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate (73) the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, (74) word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first (75) is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but also your comprehension will improve.

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

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A. 咀爵
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What do many people from the country think of city lifeMany people from the country think city life is ___________.

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Proper street behavior in the United States requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a (21) just enough to show that you’re (22) of his presence. If you look too little, you appear arrogant or furtive (鬼鬼祟祟的), too much, (23) you’re inquisitive. Usually what happens is that people (24) each other until they are about eight feet (25) , at which point both cast down their eyes. Sociologist Dr. Erving Goffman (26) this as "a kind of dimming of lights." Much of eye behavior is so (27) that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a (28) with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes. (29) are he looks at you more often than is usual with (30) a little longer than the normal. You interpret this as a sign of a polite one (31) he is interested in you as a person (32) just in the topic of conversation. Probably you also feel that he is both (33) and sincere. All this has been demonstrated in elaborate (34) . Subjects sit and talk in the psychologist’s laboratory, (35) of the fact that their eye behavior is being (36) from a one-way vision screen. In one fairly typical experiment, (37) were induced to cheat while performing a task, then were (38) and observed. It was found that those who had (39) met the interviewer’s eyes less often than was (40) , an indication that "shifty eyes" to use the mystery writers’ stock phrase can actually be a tip-off to an attempt to deceive or to feelings of guilt. 31().

A. friend
B. foreigner
C. passerby
D. stranger

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