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A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook--but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gained will be the same as whatever kind of reading you are concerned with.
The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks, and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or a light novel. If you read this kind of English, with understanding at four hundred words per minute, you might skim through a newspaper at perhaps 650～700, while with a difficult textbook you might drop to two hundred or two hundred and fifty.
perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A, for example, have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty, for example, Tolstoy's War and Peace in translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250 words per minute with about seventy percent comprehension. Students in Minnesota claim that after twelve half-hour lessons, once a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no less of comprehension, to around five hundred words per minute.
(1)From the first paragraph, we know _______
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A．we will read a newspaper and a textbook at the same speed.
B．a higher reading speed will help a lot in learning a language.
C．reading fast and understanding more will help us not only in our language study but also in other subjects.
D．raising your speed will affect your understanding.
(2)In general, the reading passages have the following characteristics EXCEPT ________
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A．the length is about five hundred words.
B．they are about topics that arouse people's interest.
C．they concerned with common knowledge.
D．they are full of technical terms.
(3)The average speed of untrained native speakers in the University of Minnesota is ________.
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A．about three hundred words per minute
B．about two hundred and forty-five words pen minute
C．about sixty words per minute
D．about five hundred words per minute
(4)According to the passage, how fast can you expect to read after you have attended twelve half-hour lessons in the University of Minnesota?
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A．You can increase your reading speed by three times.
B．No real increase in reading speed can be achieved.
C．You can increase your reading speed by four times.
D．You can double your reading speed.
(5)Where do you think the passage is taken from?
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A．The introduction to a book on fast reading.
B．A local newspaper for young people.
C．A school newspaper run by students.
D．The introduction to an English textbook.
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(1) C 读得快理解得多不仅对语言学习有帮助，而且对其他科目也有帮助.依据文章的第一句话. (2) D “充满技术术语”不是reading passages的特点.文章第二段描述reading passages的特点.从They are…. They are…及not require a great deal of specialized knowledge(不要求很多的专业知识)可以断定答案. (3) B 依据：Students without special training can read English of average difficulty at speeds of between 240 and 250 words per minute with about seventy percent comprehension.文中还有一处提到学生阅读较难材料时读速为每分钟200到250. (4) D 文章最后说：未经训练的学生的读速为每分钟240到250之间，训练后读速可增加到大约每分钟500字.所以是double(两倍). (5) A 文章可能选自一本关于快速阅读书的导言部分.因为本文提出快速阅读的重要性，然后受训练和不受训练的差异. |
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