4. The airline companies say that they have raised the lost-ticket replacement price in order to ________.
A. attract travelers
to take tieketless flights
B. punish those who
insist on using paper tickets
C. do better than
other airline companies
D. pay for the work
to deal with lost tickets
答案：D 指导：虽然文章中有这样一句话And thereare rising
punishments for paper lovers，但这不是航空公司所说的话，惩罚持票者也不是航空公司的目的，故不选B。文章的最后一句说出了机票挂失提价的真正目的，也就是为了填补因为挂失而查找失票所造成的花费，这与选项D一致。
passage 13
Reading is the key to school success and, like any skill, it takes
practice. A child learns to walk by practising until he no longer has to think
about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practises
until he can play quickly, correctly, without thinking. Tennis players call
that "being in the zone". Educators call it "automatieity (自动)".
A
child learns to read by sounding out the letters and get the meanings of the
words. With practice, he speaks with fewer and fewer pauses and mistakes,
reading by the phrase. With automatieity, he doesn't have to think about
getting the meaning of the words, so he can pay attention to the meaning of the
text.
It
can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois
schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found autonfatic readers in
the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other
children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests. At fifth grade, the
automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others, and still
outscoring them on correctness, comprehension, and vocabulary. "It's not L
Q ,but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to
automaticity, "according to Rossman, any child who spends at least 3. 5 to
4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will most probably reach
automaticity. At home, where the average child spends 25 hours a week watching
television, it can happen by turning off the set just one night in favour of
reading.
You can test your child by
giving him one paragraph or two to read aloud something unfamiliar but suitable
to his age. If he reads aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of
the sentences, he probably is an automatic reader. If he reads hesitatingly, one word at a
time without expression or meaning, he needs more practice.
