Zhengnengliang, or positive energy, _______a term used in the book Positive Energy by Richard Wiseman, has developed into a popular phrase in Chinese society where people approach life with optimism and confidence.

A．naturally          B．originally          C．roughly           D．constantly

Compared with male graduates, a(n) ______ small number of female graduates can get employed when they go job-hunting.

A．casually           B．relatively          C．roughly           D．gradually

Bob was a clever college student, but his family was poor, so he had to work after class and during his holidays to get enough money for his studies.
One summer he got a job in a butcher’s shop during the day time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learned to cut and sell meat. He did so well that the butcher went into a room behind the shop to do all the accounts. In the hospital, of course, Bob was told to do only the easiest jobs. He helped to lift people and carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both in the butcher’s shop and in the hospital, Bob had to wear white clothes.
One evening in the hospital, Bob had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the operating - room. The woman already felt frightened when she thought about the operation. When she saw Bob coming to get her, she felt even more frightened.
"No! No!" she cried. "Not a butcher! I won’t let a butcher operate on me!" with these words ,she fainted away.
【小题1】根据第一段Bob was a clever college student, but his family was poor, so he had to work after class and during his holidays to get enough money for his studies.描述,可知选C.
【小题2】根据第二段One summer he got a job in a butcher’s shop during the day time, and another in a hospital at night.描述,可知选B.
【小题3】根据In the hospital, of course, Bob was told to do only the easiest jobs. He helped to lift people and carry them from one part of the hospital to another. 描述,可知选D.
【小题4】Bob had to work after class and during his holidays because_________.

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   16  a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend  17  can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are  18__  readers. Most of us develop poor reading    19  at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency（缺乏）  20  in the actual stuff of language itself — words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs.   21 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） to  22 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading.

Another habit which   23  down the speed of reading is vocalization — sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an   24 , 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   25   the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The device forces the reader to read fast,   26  word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization（默读）practically impossible.

At first   27  is sacrificed for speed．But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your understanding will   28 . Many people have found their reading skill greatly improved after some training.  29  Charlie Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 182 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can    30  through 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．Hopefully       B．Actually         C．Logically D．Unfortunately

7.                A．reuse          B．reread          C．rewrite   D．recite

8.                A．scales          B．cuts            C．slows     D．measures

9.                A．accelerator      B．actor           C．loudspeaker   D．observer

10.               A．then           B．as             C．beyond    D．than

11.               A．having         B．leading         C．making    D．indicating

12.               A．meaning        B．comprehension  C．vocalization D．regression

13.               A．arise           B．reduce         C．improve   D．worsen

14.               A．Like           B．Take           C．Make     D．Consider

15.               A．master         B．make          C．finish D．get

Compared with male graduates, a(n) ______ small number of female graduates can get employed when they go job-hunting.