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Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. 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 in which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, 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 printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth 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 constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive 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 words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.
【小题1】The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________ .
| A．the length of a group of words. |
| B．lighting and tiredness. |
| C．one’s familiarity with the text. |
| D．one’s purpose in reading. |
| A．demands an deeply-participating mind. |
| B．demands more mind than eyes. |
| C．requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation. |
| D．requires a reader to see words more quickly. |
| A．The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading. |
| B．The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words. |
| C．The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted. |
| D．The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see or comprehend words. |
| A．The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading. |
| B．The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text. |
| C．The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time. |
| D．Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training. |
| A．pessimistic | B．optimistic | C．critical | D．neutral |
Has anyone noticed how, with the passage of time, one’s relationship with one’s grown-up daughters and sons becomes changed? I’ve been aware of this for some time but I’m not quite sure how to deal with it.
Take the kitchen sink for example.
Following a family get-together at my place, I walked into the kitchen to find Kate, my daughter carefully cleaning the sink.
“Don’t do that; what are you doing that for?” I said, unhappy about the hidden criticism.
“Mum,” she said, “you really ought to put your glasses on when you clean the sink. Behind the tap here was black!”
But it’s not just things like kitchen sinks. Another time Kate arrived to pick me up to lunch. She looked at me and then asked, “Mum, why do you use brown eyebrow pencil when your hair is grey?”
A sudden memory of her, aged 14, going to her first mixed party flooded back. She had come in to say goodbye. For a moment I thought she’d been an accident. Both eyes were black. I remember suggesting that perhaps a little less eye make-up might be more effective.
Now I told her, “My hair used to be brown.”
“It looks absurd.”
“Mrs. Menzies had dark eyebrows with grey hair.”
“Yes, but you’re not Mrs. Menzies, are you?” she said triumphantly, as if that proved her point.
But a recent event made me realize that something really must be done.
She had returned some for a few weeks before getting married. One evening I went out on a dinner date. By the time my companion left me at the front door, it was about 2am. As I stepped in, an angry figure in a white nightgown stopped me.
“Well, what time of night is this to be coming home?” she shouted. “Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick!”
Shades of the past come back to disturb me. But what should I do about all this? Nothing, probably. Maybe, after all, it’s only a stage young people are going through.
【小题1】The daughter thought her mother didn’t clean the kitchen sink well because of her .
| A．laziness | B．carelessness | C．unhappiness | D．poor-quality glasses |
| A．didn’t want to help with the sink |
| B．didn’t like brown eyebrow pencils |
| C．had an accident when she went to her first party |
| D．shouted at her mum because she came home late |
| A．Shocked. | B．Proud. | C．Envious. | D．Confused. |
| A．their relationship became stronger |
| B．their roles changed as time passed |
| C．her daughter very much cared about her |
| D．her daughter got upset as she grew up |
Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. 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 in which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, 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 printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth 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 constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive 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 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 facts except ________ .
A. the length of a group of words.
B. lighting and tiredness.
C. one’s familiarity with the text.
D. one’s purpose in reading.
2.The author may believe that reading ______.
A. demands an deeply-participating mind.
B. demands more mind than eyes.
C. requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation.
D. requires a reader to see words more quickly.
3.What does the author mean by saying “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.” in the second paragraph?
A. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading.
B. The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words.
C. The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.
D. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see or comprehend words.
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.
B. The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.
C. The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.
D. Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.
5.The tune of the author in writing this article is ________.
A. pessimistic B. optimistic C. critical D. neutral
Water costs money．In some places water is hard 36 ．What 37 when a town has these problems？A small town in California found a happy 38 ．
Very 39 rain ever fell there．The town had no water 40 ．The water it used was 41 from a river 300 miles away．As more people 42 live in the town， 43 water was needed．Now water 44 to be brought in from 600 miles away．All these cost 45 money．
The town 46 a plan．It found 47 to clean its “dirty” water．Once the cleaned water was reused 48 many ways．Five 49 lakes were built．Here people could swim and fish and go 50 ．They 51 have picnics in their new parks．Farmers had more water 52 their crops．New factories can be built，now that they have the promise of 53 ．
In most places，water is used and thrown 54 ．The town that saved 55 water
has saved the town！
| A．supplying | B．getting | C．to get | D．to supply |
| A．happens | B．happening | C. is happened | D．happened |
| A．key | B．answer | C answering | D．way |
| A．little | B．a little | C．few | D．a few |
| A．of itself | B．of its own | C．for its own | D for itself |
| A．fetch | B．take | C．brought in | D．guided |
| A．come to | B．came to | C．coming to | D．came for |
| A．many | B．plenty of | C．more | D．many more |
| A．has | B．had | C．must | D．needed |
| A．many | B．a few | C．a great many | D．a lot of |
| A．put | B．made | C．supply | D．noticed |
| A．a way | B．ways | C．an answer | D．a key |
| A．for | B．by | C．at | D．in |
| A．man-making | B．man-make | C．man-made | D．man made |
| A．boating | B．to boat | C．to boating | D．on boating |
| A．must | B．could | C．needed | D．had to |
| A．as | B．with | C．for | D．to |
| A．water enough | B．enough water | C．crops enough | D．enough crops |
| A．off | B．of | C．away | D．out of |
| A．it’s | B．its | C．one’s | D．his |
Water costs money．In some places water is hard 16 ．What 17 when a town
has these problems？A small town in California found a happy 18 ．
Very 19 rain ever fell there．The town had no water 20 ．The water it used was 21 from a river 300 miles away．As more people 22 live in the town 23 water was needed．Now water 24 to be brought in from 600 miles away．All these cost 25 money．
The town 26 a plan．It found 27 to clean its “dirty” water．Once the cleaned water was reused 28 many ways．Five 29 lakes were built．Here people could swim and fish and go 30 ．They 31 have picnics in their new parks．Farmers had more water 32 their crops．New factories can be built，now that they have the promise of 33 ．
In most places，water is used and thrown 34 ．The town that saved 35 water has saved the town！
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