Question

There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. ____1.____

The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. ____2.____ Such materials 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 something 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. _3.___ 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. ___4. 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, success of communication is achieved.

__5. 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 information can probably be read for entertainment as well.

A. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

B. Such communication between 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 understanding.

E. Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.

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

G. Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.

 

Answer 1

1.E

2.C

3.B

4.D

5.G

【解析】

试题分析：

1.根据There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. ____36_____ 可知这里是因果关系，阅读有区别，因此应从两方面理解 故选E。

2.我们很容易从报纸杂志这些材料中获取信息，故选C。

3.根据The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding. ___38___ Otherwise one person could never learn from another.可知这里想说作者与读者之间的不平等沟通会发生，故选B。

4.根据First, there is inequality in understanding. ___39___ Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. 可知这里想说作者必须比读者在理解力上高一等，故选D。

5.根据____40___ 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. 可知这里想说阅读除了获取信息和理解之外还有娱乐的效果故选G。

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