问题 单项选择题

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.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage().

A. You are expected to read various kinds of materials at the same rate.

B. A great deal of specialized knowledge is required to read books of general interest.

C. Titles, introduction and paragraph heading are of great help for grasping the overview of the text.

D. It is less likely that you can raise your average reading rate over the whole range of materials you wish to cover within a short time.

答案

参考答案:C

解析:

本题是推理题。文中最后一句中get this skeleton outline of the passage与grasp the overview of the text同义,即抓住文章大意。

阅读理解
In this early day of the United States of America, it wasn’t easy ____ from one town or city to _____. There were no trains. Of course, and the roads were very poor. If a man wanted to go from one place to another, he often _____ a horse. And because the roads were bad, he sometimes got very dirty.
One day a man came into a hotel in a little country town. His clothes were very dirty, and he looked very tried. “ Do you have a room here _____ me?” he asked. The hotel man at the desk thought, “ I don’t want this man ____ here. He’s too dirty for my hotel.” “ I’m sorry.” He said. “ We don’t have any ___ rooms. There’s a small hotel down the street. You can ask there.”
Soon an important-looking man having fine clothes came into the hotel. “ I’ve come to see Mr. Jefferson,” he said. “ Mr. Jefferson?” “ Yes, Vice-president(副总统) Jefferson. We planned to meet here.” The hotel man was ____ “ A man _____ dirty clothes was just here. I thought he was a farmer, and sent him to another hotel a few minutes ago.” The hotel man _____ the Vice-president’s room in the other hotel.
“ Oh, Mr. Jefferson,” he said, “ I’m very sorry I thought you were a farmer. We have a room at our hotel. Please come back.”
“ No.” said Mr. Jefferson, “ If there’s no room for a farmer, there’s no room for the Vice president, _____.”
小题1:
A.getB.gotC.to getD.getting
小题2:
A.otherB.the otherC.anotherD.the another
小题3:
A.must to rideB.have to rideC.had to rideD.has to ride
小题4:
A.forB.toC.ofD.at
小题5:
A.stayB.to stayC.stayedD.staying
小题6:
A.manyB.muchC.a lotD.more
小题7:
A.happyB.sadC.afraidD.lucky
小题8:
A.ofB.inC.onD.with
小题9:
A.hurryB.hurriedC.hurried toD.in hurry
小题10:
A.tooB.alsoC.neitherD.either
单项选择题 A1/A2型题