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 phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 7 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） 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（预先确定的） 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（默读）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 Charlce 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 1,28 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．comprehensionC．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
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I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early ________ of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to ________ my parents.
At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with ________ at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to ________ !” Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father even thought it a waste of time.
At that age, I always did something ________ to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found ________ , I would plant a garden!
I planted some lily (百合花) seeds in the yard. But they failed to ________ . I continued to plant sunflower seeds and roses. Wild ________ joy, I found the first rose bloom (开花). One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. ________ , I was touched by this land of wonder.
________ , my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even ________ at me because he found it was ________ to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s ________ , I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds ________ flowers.
Regardless of their________, I kept on planting my garden and ________ to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they ________ to care and love.
It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to ________ my parents. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show, which makes my parents feel very ________ . And now I could say it is my affection for ________ that makes me a real gardener.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A Pennsylvania patrol (巡逻) officer rescued（营救）a German shepherd (牧羊犬) from a car accident in South Londonberry.
Since the rescue, a photo of patrol officer Nick Ague carrying the ________ that his fellow police officers posted to Facebook has got nearly 4,500 likes and tons of ________ comments(评论).
"Amazing people still do exist（存在）!' one user ________ .
The act of heroism began on Aug. 11, when Ague heard on the radio that there had been a car ________ nearby, and that two dogs involved in the crash had fled（逃离）from the ________ .
"I heard other people say they saw a German shepherd________," Ague told ABC News.
com. "Based on the location I could ________ the dog was heading west."
So Ague and a few fellow ________ set out to find the dog, who they later learned was
named Mya. They flagged Mya down, ________ every time they stopped their patrol cars, she would run from them. They called Mya' s ________, and when she arrived on the scene, Mya ________ stopped running. And then the dog wouldn't move at all.
That was when Ague realized something was ________. He quickly realized that it wasn't that the dog wouldn't move but ________ not move.
"The dog was not moving because the skin on her feet was hanging off ________ the distance she ran," Ague explained. "She ran two miles from the crash on hot asphalt ( 柏油).
"When I realized that's why she couldn't walk," he said, "the ________ thing I could think of doing was to pick her up."
So he ________ Mya up, who he said weighed around 75 pounds, and ________ her about 100 yards to her owner’s car.
Mya's owner, Megan Smith, said that Mya's feet were already healed(痊愈), and she was now walking ________.
Ague, who has a German shepherd of his own and described himself as "a real animal
_________ ", said he never thought of doing anything besides ________ Mya.
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完形填空,请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I ________ a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾), it might be a thank-you for a moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of ________ for the coming test or sporting event.
In early grade school they ________ their notes. But as children grow older they become self-conscious (有自我意识的), and ________ he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed me he no longer ________ my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to ________ them but I still needed to write them, I ________ until the day he graduated.
Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move ________ for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduating from college, ________ two internship (实习) in Washington, D.C., and ________ , becoming a technical worker in Sacramento. ________ short vacation visits, however, he had lived away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was ________ happy to have Marc back. Since I was ________ making lunch for his younger brother, I ________ one for Marc, too. Imagine my ________ when I got a call from my 24-yere-old son, ________ his lunch.
“Did I do something ________ ? Don’t you love me ________ , Mom?” were just a few of the questions he threw at me as I ________ asked him what was wrong.
“My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Remembering My Father’s Vest
People get into trouble because they don’t know enough to keep cool. As a child, I had a lot of ________ that had been held back and not released. Worse still, I was not good at ________ constructively.
Once as I was getting ready for school, my mother ________ me my father’s vest instead of mine. This was around the time when I was going to be larger in ________ than my father, so as I put on the vest, I felt like I was being choked in it! I ________ that it was a small oversight(疏忽) on my mother’s part, but ________the feeling of being choked drowned me and I got very angry.
I took my anger out on my mother ________ thinking much. I was so upset when she had handed me the wrong vest, and I ________by violently tearing it apart from my chest!
Later, my mother shared her own ________ with my father: “ See what your son has done.”
Instead of scolding or abusing me, my father________ responded by asking my mother to ________ the vest. He then worn it to work the next day.
When my mother told me about my father’s response much later, when I had________from my fit, I immediately felt a great sense of ________ for my violent behavior, just ________ that he was spending the entire day wearing a(n)________ vest. At the same time, I was filled with great ________ for my father, whose gentle kindness taught me a life lesson I would treasure forever.
On that day, I made a ________ never to let anger get the better of me. I learn to ________ other when I think that they behave in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way, ________ forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off. And whenever I have difficulty ________ my strong emotion, I try to remember my father’s vest.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a beard and dirty hair, jumped up from a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us．Regardless of his , he greeted us in a friendly way．
Once inside, my daughters whispered, "Mom, he ." After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look the dirt．We then watched other customers approach the restaurant but many him. Seeing this rudeness truly upset me. The day I became a mother, I had determined to set a good to my children. Yet sometimes when things didn't go right, being a good example was . When our meal arrived, I realized I had left the car-sick pills in the truck. With the windiest trip ahead, the kids needed them, so I myself from the meal and went to get them．
Just then, the "doorman" was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past him without even acknowledging his . Letting them in first, I said a loud "thank you" to him as I ．
When I returned, we talked a bit．He said he was not allowed inside he purchased food．I went back and told my family his .Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich．
The kids looked as we had already eaten, but when I said the order was for the "doorman" , they smiled．When it was time to our trip, I found the "doorman" enjoying his meal．Upon seeing me, he stood up and thanked me heartily. He then out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully accepted. I suddenly noticed the tears in his eyes—tears of .What happened next drew great astonishment: I gave the " doorman" a . He pulled away, with tears ________ down his face．
Back in truck, I fell into deep thought. While we can't choose many things in life, we can choose when to show gratitude. I said thanks to a man who had held open a door for me, and also said thanks for that to teach my children by example．
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