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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, for 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 practice 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.

To do the most effective reading, you should ().

A. try every possible means to increase your reading rate

B. above all improve your comprehension of the text

C. hunt for whatever is implied in the reading material

D. increase your reading speed and improve your understanding

答案

参考答案:D

解析:

本题是细节题。文中第三段提到在提高阅读速度的同时,同时也要有好的理解,有效的阅读应该具备这两点。A、B选项只是有效阅读的一个方面,原文第一段第二句中的A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you...已经点明了有效阅读的这两个因素。C选项原文未提及。

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In the United States, engineering is a profession(职业) that has been historically under the control of men. Even today, it’s still true that few women become civil or chemical or mechanical engineers, but that’s something on www.EngineerGirl.org encouraging girls to change the present situation. Young women who visit the web site can find out about a great job choice they might not have considered.
"Women are not well represented in engineering and in engineering education programs and then of course, down the road, in the engineering workforce. So only about 20 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees(本科文凭) go to women, and then only about nine percent of working engineers are women."
Mary Mattis, the National Academy of Engineering, says "we know from the research that middle-school girls are at a critical point in their lives, and that it’s a time when we need to reach them, so this website aims to increase their awareness of interesting fields in engineering. On the other hand, it wants to make them understand what a wonderful productive and exciting job you can have as an engineer.”
Engineering is a demanding course of study—there is a lot of science and math, for many girls and even boys that can be challenging. But Ms. Mattis says that the EngineerGirl website stresses that engineering can also be fun and exciting.
"It’s about designing things. It’s about changing the world for people. It’s about making a difference. And, in addition, you can make a good living; you can be independent economically by becoming an engineer. All of those things are messages that girls need to get."
While most engineers go into traditional fields such as mechanical and electrical engineering, the EngineerGirl site also emphasizes engineering jobs which are related to other fields such as bio-engineering, sports engineering and --- believe it or not—chocolate engineering.
Even if you are not a girl in the target(目标) age group, there’s a lot of interesting information on the site, including biographies(自传)of some well-known women engineers.
Title
Website(56)______ Girls to Learn Engineering
Present(57)_____ for the engineering profession in the USA
The majority of men take up the profession throughout(58) ______, while only a small number of women work as engineers.
(59)_____ of the website
▲To increase young women’s(60)_____of interesting fields in engineering.
▲To make them understand what productivity and (61)_____ the job of being engineers can bring them.
(62)___________ of being engineers
▲ It can be fun and exciting.
▲ It can(63)_____ the world for people.
▲ You can make a good living.
▲ You can get economic independence by (64) _____ an engineer.
Other fields concerning engineering
Various chances are talked about like bio-engineering and engineering (65) _____ to sports, and even chocolate.
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