完型填空一
For many people today, reading is no longer keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of 1 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 2 can mean the difference between success and 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 n individually,words have 6 meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. 7 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 8 words or ession, the tendency to look back over 9 you have just read, is a common bad habit in her 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 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, practically impossible. At first 15 is sacrificed for 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 1,378 words a is delighted that how he can 20 a lot more reading material in a short period of time.
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參考答案
1.【答案】D
【解析】本句意思是“誰如果想謀得一份差事”。applying需加for,意思是“申請”;g做;ring提供此三項均不符題意， 只有ing(獲得)適合。
2.【答案】A
【解析】本句意爲“快速閱讀與理解的能力，是關係到成敗的關鍵所在”只有quickly與原意吻合。easily(容易地);roughly (粗略地); decidedly(果斷地)均與原文內容不符。
3.【答案】C
【解析】英語中，閱讀速度快的人稱爲good reader，反之，就是poor reader。
根據上下文的內容，多數人都屬於poor reader，因此選poor(差的)。其它選項不妥。
4.【答案】B
【解析】此處的意思是“大多數人早期養成看書慢的習慣”因此選habits(習慣)。training (訓練，培訓);situations(形勢);custom(風俗習慣)。
5.【答案】A
【解析】此處說的是“主要的困難在於語言的自身要素，即單詞”。combines聯合;touches接觸;involves包括，這三項的詞義與原文不符。而lies與in構成搭配，意爲“在於”。
6.【答案】C
【解析】這裏的意思是“如果單個地看這些字，它們並沒有什麼意義”。some有點;A lot許多;dull單調的。此三項不合題意。只有little(很少)是否定詞，合乎邏輯。
7.【答案】D
【解析】此句意爲“作者對未受過閱讀訓練的人的不良習慣感到遺憾”。
Fortunately幸運地;In fact事實上;Logically合乎邏輯地,均不妥。
Unfortunately(不幸地)合乎句義。
8.【答案】B
【解析】此句意爲“在閱讀時經常重讀(反復讀)”因此，選reread重讀。reuse再使用;Rewrite改寫;recite背誦。
9.【答案】A
【解析】此處所填的詞既是look back over的賓語，又是you have just read的賓語，只有what能充當這種雙重成分。
10.【答案】C
【解析】scales down按比例減少;cuts down削減;此兩項不合題意。
measures不能與down搭配。只有slow與down搭配的意思“放慢”，在此合適。
11.【答案】B
【解析】本段前文已經出現you，在此選one(泛指人們，我們，你)來代替you。some one無此用法。如果用reader，前面應加定冠詞。he不能與該段邏輯一致。
12.【答案】A
【解析】此句意爲“訓練快速閱讀所使用的工具必然與提高閱讀速度有關”，因此選accelerator (快讀器)。actor演員;amplifier放大器;observer觀察者。
13.【答案】D
【解析】前面的faster決定了應當選than，構成比較級。
14.【答案】C
【解析】此句意爲“快速閱讀器迫使你加快閱讀速度，使你再也不能逐字閱讀，回顧前文內容或者默讀”。enabling相當於making possible;leading引導;indicating指出，表明。都不合題意。只有making (使，使得)最合適。
15.【答案】B
【解析】這裏的意思是“速讀最初會影響理解”，所以選comprehension(理解力)。meaning意義，意思，指詞或詞組表示的意義;gist大意，要旨regression回顧
16.【答案】A
【解析】與前半句中的not only相呼應，構成句式“不僅……，而且……”，只有選but，而nor;or或for均不能構成固定用法。
17.【答案】C
【解析】本句中的主語是第三人稱複數，物主代詞必然是their。
18.【答案】B
【解析】take與後面的for instance構成短語，意爲：“以……例”，其它三項不能構成搭配。
19.【答案】D
【解析】這裏提到受訓之前與受訓之後進行比較,對比，因此選before。
20.【答案】D
【解析】此處意爲：在較短時間內，讀完衆多的材料。master掌握;go over複習;present呈現，展現;此三項均不妥;只有get through (讀完)最恰當。
完形填空二
If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and ess or 1 in your work would depend, to 2 great extent, 3 your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage.4 the utmost importance is your attitude.
A person 5 begins a job convinced that he isn’t going to like it or is 6 that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only
hinder his the other hand, a person who is secure 7 his belief that he is probably as capable 8 doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt 9 it possesses a certain strength of purpose.
The chances are that he will do well. 10 the prerequisite skills for a particular job is ing those skills is obviously a weakness.A book?keeper who can’t add or a carpenter who can’t cut a straight line with a saw 11 hopeless cases.
This book has been designed to help you capitalize 12 the strength and overcome the 13 that you bring to the job of insgroupsto measure your development, you must first 14 stock ofswheresyou stand now. 15 we get further along in the book, we’?ll be 16 in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening 17 ver, 18 begin with, you should pause 19 examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to your success or failurein school: your 20 ,your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.
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答案及解析：
1.【答案】C
【解析】本句的意思是：“成功或失敗在很大程度上取決
於你是否能揚長避短。”improvement改進;victory勝利;achievement成果，成就。這三個詞都不合
題意，只有ure“失敗”最合適。
2.【答案】A
【解析】to a great extent是固定短語，意思是“很大程度上”，符合題意。類似的說法還有：to a large extent,to some extent, to an extent, to a certain extent, to that extent, to the extent of…。the, some, certain都不能與great extent搭配。
3.【答案】B
【解析】on與前面的depend構成本句謂語。
4.【答案】B
【解析】of與名詞連用,表示具有某種性質,狀態，做表語。置於句首，表示強調。正常語序爲：Your attitude is of the utmost importance.
5.【答案】A
【解析】A person後應當是定語從句,“開始工作的那個人”。
6.【答案】C
【解析】本句的意思是“如果一個剛剛開始工作的人就深信自己不會喜歡或肯定不適應這項工作，那麼阻礙他成功的缺點就暴露出來了。”or後面省略了主語he。ensure保證;certain肯定的(只能用於It做主語的句子裏);surely確實地;sure肯定的。
7.【答案】D
【解析】in one?s belief相信。其它選項都不能與belief搭配。
8.【答案】C
【解析】capable of doing是固定搭配，意爲“能夠幹什麼”。
9.【答案】D
【解析】attempt用做名詞，後接介詞at，意爲“試圖，努力”;如果後面接介詞on，表示攻擊的意思。其他兩項都不能與attempt搭配。
10.【答案】C
【解析】本句的意思是“具有某一工作的必要技能是一個優勢”此處應填句子的主語，故選動名詞having。
11.【答案】D
【解析】本句主語是A book?keeper or carpenter…。根據主謂一致原則，其謂語應當用單數is，而不是複數are。being, been都是分詞，應該排除。
12.【答案】D
【解析】on與前面的capitalize搭配，表示“利用”。做不定式help的補語。其它選項不能與capitalize搭配。
13.【答案】B
【解析】本句的意思是“克服缺點”,應選weakness(缺
點，弱點)。idea觀點;strength優點;advantage優勢。
14.【答案】B
【解析】固定短語take stock of，意爲“對……估價，對……作出判斷”。
15.【答案】A
【解析】本句的意思是：“隨着更深入的閱讀”，從語法角度，此處應填關聯詞。四個選項中，只有as能用做關聯詞。
16.【答案】D
【解析】選項A, B, C分別是deal(處理，論述，涉及)的原形，過去分詞及被動語態。根據語法和語義，此處應填將來進行時，意思是“隨着書中內容的進一步深入，我們將詳細論述發展和加強學習技能的具體過程。”
17.【答案】C
【解析】根據上下文，這裏應當指“學習技能”。
18.【答案】B
【解析】固定短語to begin with，意爲“首先，第一”，常用做插入語。
19.【答案】A
【解析】謂語動詞pause後，examine又是動詞原形，所以這裏應當選to，可構成動詞不定式，做目的狀語。其餘選項都是介詞，不合題意。
20.【答案】C
【解析】本句對全文進行總結概括，與文章的開頭相呼應，Of the utmost importance is your attitude故選attitude。