Question

Today we'll talk about reading. When we read a text, our eyes move across a page in short, quick movements. We recognize words usually when our eyes still fixate(停留, 凝视). Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time for which the eyes stop varies from person to person. It also varies within any person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. In addition, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, many exercises have been designed to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For example, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for a tenth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often formed in the shape of pyramids, so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive（连续的）fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it's one thing to improve a person's ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated(孤立的) words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

1.The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following factors except _______.

A.1ighting and tiredness

B.one's purpose in reading

C.the length of a group of words

D.one's familiarity with the text

2.What does the author mean by the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?

A.The ability to see words is not needed for an efficient reading.

B.The reading exercises mentioned are of little help to an efficient reading.

C.The reading exercises mentioned can help improve reading.

D.The reading exercises mentioned have done a great job so far.

3.The author may believe that reading ______________.

A.demands a deeply-participating mind

B.requires a reader to see words more quickly

C.requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

D.demands more eyes than mind

4.The tune of the author in writing this text is ___________.

A.supportive B.neutral

C.critical D.optimistic

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：文章主要讲的是阅读。当人们看一篇文章时，人们的眼睛会在字里行间快速移动。人们每次都是看一个意群，即一组单词，而不是一次看一个词，这叫做视觉广度。人们的视觉广度受很多因素的影响。

1.The length of time for which the eyes stop varies from person to person. It also varies within any person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. In addition, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.”可知，对材料的熟悉程度、看书的目的、灯光和疲劳程度都会影响人的注意广度，故选C。

2.many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the page...many exercises have been designed to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation”可知，许多课程只注意训练人们的眼睛，使人们能够看更多的文字，即使能够增加读者看文字的数量，但未必能够真正理解文字所表达的内容，由此可见，这些训练课程对提高阅读能力没有帮助，故选B。

3.Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words.”可知，阅读需要理解字与字之间的逻辑联系，根据第二段可知，单纯训练眼睛一次看的数字的量，不一定能够真正理解文章的含义，排除B、C、D，故选A。

4.Unfortunately,...concentrated too much on...quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently...seem unlikely to help him in reading”可知，作者不赞成那些所谓的培训课程所提供的训练，A支持的；B中立的；C批评的；D乐观的，故选C。

考点：教育类短文阅读