Question

根据短文内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文完整，正确。（每个词只能用一次）

quick, popular, call, funny, like, hold, fast, possible, it, they, relax, member, rise, increase

Speed reading is an important skill in the Internet age. We read articles, e-mails and other things 1.________ to try to know the meaning of a certain text. To get information from the Internet, it would be 2._________ to go on fast with our work if we read word by word, line by line. But a new idea 3.________ on people to enjoy reading slowly.

“The Wall Street Journal” recently reported a story about a book club in Wellington, New Zealand.

4.________ of it meet in a cafe and turn off their phones. They sit in soft chairs and read in silence for an hour.

5.__________other traditional book clubs, the purpose of the Slow Reading Club isn’t sharing ideas about a certain book. It just wants 6.________ readers to get away from the Internet and read in a quiet and 7.________ environment. According to the Journal, the Slow Reading Club is just an example of a movement 8._________ by book lovers, who miss the old-fashioned way of reading.

Slow readers say the habit of slow reading has many advantages. It develops the mind, 9.____________ attention, reduces stress levels and improves the ability of doing things. Now slow reading is becoming 10.___________ than before in some parts of the world. Lots of people join it.

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