Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text．The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and get answers．In the light of these he put further questions, and so on．
For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness．At times, however, we become aware of it．This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning．When successful matching is being experienced our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level．
Different people converse with the text differently．Some stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining．The former represents a kind of comprehension that is written in the text, while the latter represents higher levels of comprehension．The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers．
There is another conversation that from our point of view is important, and that has not to do with what is read but with how it is read．We call this a “process” conversation as opposed to a “content” conversation．It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in reading．If we are skilled readers, our ability to hold a content conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed．Not so our ability to hold a process conversation．It is just this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level．
(1)
Reading as a kind of conversation between the reader and the text becomes conscious only when _________．
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A．
the reader’s expectation agree with what is said in the text
B．
the reader asks questions and gets answers
C．
the reader has trouble understanding what the author says
D．
successful matching is occurring
(2)
At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to _________．
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A．
read a text slowly
B．
read without thinking hard
C．
interpret a text in their own way
D．
concentrate on the meaning of words only
(3)
A “process” conversation has to do with _________．
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A．
the development of our ability to check the details
B．
determining the main idea of a text
C．
what reading material is read
D．
the application of reading strategies
(4)
From the passage we know _________．
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A．
it’s important for readers to have conscious and unconscious levels of comprehension
B．
readers should take a critical attitude towards the author’s ideas
C．
readers should learn to use different approaches in reading different texts
D．
readers should pay more attention to the content of a text
My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．
In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．
By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．
My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．
(1)
Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?
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A．
Weekly allowance．
B．
Her earning s by picking crop s．
C．
Share s left by grandma．
D．
Money earned from selling share s．
(2)
The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．
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A．
she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s
B．
enough money had been earned for her car
C．
the work wa s too hard for children like her
D．
she had no time to do that again for some rea son
(3)
We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．
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A．
16
B．
17
C．
18
D．
19
(4)
The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．
