Question

There are distinctions between reading for informa?tion and reading for understanding. 9  

The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. 10 Such ma?terials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don't have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.

The second sense is the one in which we read some?thing that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader's understanding.

11 Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here "learning" means understanding more, not remembering more information.

What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding. 12 Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, suc?cess of communication is achieved.

13 It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or informa?tion can probably be read for entertainment as well.

A.    Thus, we can employ the word "reading" in two distinct senses.

B.    Such communication between the unequals must be possible.

C.    We can get access to the content of those materials easily.

D.    The writer must be "superior" to the reader in un?derstanding.

E.    The writer should have a better communicating skill.

F.    Besides gaining information and understanding, there's another goal of reading―entertainment.

G.    Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.

Answer 1

A 承接上文的"There are distinctions between reading for information and reading for understanding.，，，并与下文的"The first sense…，，和"The second sense..."呼应，故选A项。

C 与下文的"And clearly we don't have any difficulty in gaining the new information…"呼应可知，获取阅读材料很容易，故选C项。

B 承接上文的"Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader.，，可知，这种沟通并不平等， 由此读者的阅读水平才得以提高，与下文的"Firs" there is inequality in understanding,'，呼应，故选B项。

D 根据上文的"Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader.'，可知，作者的水平要比读者髙些，这样读者才有所获，与下文的"Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack."呼应，故选D项。

F 根据下文的"It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to.，，可知，还有一种阅读的目的属于娱乐型，故选F项。