Michel is a young girl who works for the police   36  a handwriting expert. She has helped   37  many criminals (罪犯) by using her special talents.
When she was fourteen, Michel was already   38  interested in the differences in her friends'   39  that she would spend hours  40 them. After 41 college she went to France for a   42  two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.
Michel says that it is  43  for people to hide their handwriting. She can discover _44  of what she needs to know simply   45  looking at the writing with her own eyes,   46  she also has machines   47   help her make    48  different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often   49  great help to the police.
Michel believes that handwriting is a good   50  of what kind of person the 51  is. "I wouldn't go out with a fellow    52  I didn't like his handwriting." She says. But she   53 she fell in love with her future husband, a young policeman   54  she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be    55 , however.

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  1  a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend  2   can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet 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 itself ——words. Taken individually, words have  6   meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs.    7  , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） to  8    words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over   9  you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another 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（预先确定的） speeD．The 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（默读）practically impossible. At first  15  is sacrificed for speeD．But 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 1,28 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can   20  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．some       B．a lot        C．little        D．dull

7．  A．Fortunately     B．In fact      C．Logically        D．Unfortunately

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

9．  A．what        B．which      C．that D．if

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

11．A．some one        B．one   C．he    D．reader

12．A．accelerator      B．actor        C．amplifier D．observer

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

14．A．enabling B．leading    C．making    D．indicating

15．A．meaning B．comprehensionC．gist    D．regression

16．A．but   B．nor   C．or     D．for

17．A．our   B．your        C．their        D．such a

18．A．Look at    B．Take        C．Make       D．Consider

19．A．for   B．in     C．after        D．before

20．A．master     B．go over     C．present     D．get through

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Michel is a young girl who works for the police  16  a handwriting expert. She has helped 17  many criminals(罪犯) by using her special talents (天才).

　　When she was fourteen, Michel was already  18   interested in the differences in her friends'  19  that she would spend hours  20  them. After  21  college she went to France for a   22  two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.

　　Michel says that it is  23   for people at hide their handwriting. She can discover  24  of what she needs to know simply  25  looking at the writing with her own eyes,  26   she also has machines   27  help her make  28  different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often  29  great help to the police.

　　Michel believes that handwriting is a good  30  of what kind of person the  31  is. "I wouldn't go out with a fellow  32  I didn't like his handwriting. " She says. But she  33  she fell in love with her future husband, a young policeman  34  she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be  35  , however.

1. 　A. with 　　　　B. by 　　　       C. like 　　    D. as

2.　A. search　　 　B. follow 　　  C. catch 　　  D. extra

3. 　A. so　　　　　    B. too 　　　　 C. quite 　　   D. extra

4.　A. books　　    B. letter　　　     C. tongues 　  D. handwriting

5.　A.writing 　　　B. studying　       C. settling 　 D. uncovering

6. 　A.attending　　    B. finishing    C. starting D. stepping into

7. 　A. powerful 　　B. natural 　　    C. special　  　    D. common

8.　 A.main 　　　  B. safe 　　　  C. easy 　      D.impossible

9.　A. most 　　　 B. nothing　　  C. little 　　      D. sight

10.　A. with 　　　     B. by 　　　　 C. of　　　     D. about

11.　A. so 　　　　     B. for 　　　　     C. thus 　　 　 D. but

12. 　A. they 　　　    B. in which 　      C. that 　　  　    D. those

13.　A. up 　　　　 B. out 　　　　 C. for 　　  　 D. into

14.　A. of 　　　　 B. to　　　　 　    C. with 　　　 D. for

15.　A. test 　　　  B. sign(标记)　    C. means 　 　  D. habit

16.A. thief 　　 　B. criminal　  　    C. writer 　　 D. policeman

17.　A. whether 　　B. unless 　　      C. if 　　　　 D. after

18. A. adds 　　　 B. tells 　　　     C. repeats 　  D. cries

19.　A. before 　 　 B. after 　　 　   C. shyly 　　       D. and

20.　A.necessary　 　B. all right  C.important 　  D. quite easy

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　　Mary Kimble Smith was an ordinary 12-year-old girl: ordinary in every way 1 one. She suddenly started to walk in her 2 . No one knew why this happened. The best guess 3 to be that it represents 4 the sleepwalker is worried. This feeling normally remains under control during 5 hours, but at night, when the mind is in a 6 passive mode, it 7 to the surface and show itself in the form of 8 movement.

　　At first, her family 9 help from just about every doctor they could find. But 10 of them were able to suggest a means 11 which she could be cured. Then her parents were frightened, and they 12 waking her up when she was sleepwalking. In fact, the general advice is that we 13 not wake a sleepwalker. This follows the idea that 14 comes from some deep anxiety.

　　To wake a person and bring them to a 15 realization that they are not 16 they thought they were could increase the feeling of anxiety and perhaps 17 reinforce (加强) the habit.

　　 18 sleepwalkers stop without any warning — they just never do it again. In Mary's case, 19 , she slatted sleepwalking soon after her twelfth birthday and was still doing it the day 20 she died, in 1989, at 93 years of age.

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