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

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. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

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

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

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.D

5.F

【解析】

试题分析: 本文是一篇说明文，介绍了阅读的不同作用。阅读可以为了获得信息，也可以为了理解而读。但是同时人们还可以为了娱乐而阅读。在本文中作者对这三种目的的阅读进行了区别和比较。

1.文章开头提出为了查询信息而阅读和为了理解而阅读是两个不同的概念。而且下文分两段分别介绍了这两个方面，由此判断A选项内容Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.可以起到承上启下的作用，答案选A。

2.根据空前内容newspapers, magazines,和空后such materials判断空上内容和阅读材料有关，由此判断C选项内容We can get access to the content of those materials easily.符合语境，其中those materials是和前后呼应的词汇，答案选C。

3.根据前句内容The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.可以判断B选项Such communication between unequals must be possible.可以承接上文，其中such communication可以和communicating呼应，答案选B。

4.前句内容提到了作者和读者的理解方面要存在不平衡，也就是作者的理解水平要高于读者的水平，由此判断D选项内容The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.符合语境，可以起到承上启下的作用，答案选D。

5.根据下文中Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to.可以判断作者指的是除了获得信息和提高阅读能力外，阅读还有娱乐的作用。由此可以判断答案选G。

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