2007级新视野大学英语试题A(4)

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staring at the page, pretending I was reading it. I remember a terrible feeling of not wanting to get into trouble for not being able to understand. I had to wait until I got home so my mother could explain it to me. How did I ever get into Cornell University?

By eighth grade I started understanding a little on my own, but I was reading at a very slow speed. In eighth grade, I got hold of all the speed reading books I could get my hands on. I read them all very slowly at the time. I even went out and took a course on speed-reading. Then I developed my own way which was easier and produced quicker results. I started practicing these techniques every day, and as I started to read faster, my understanding increased. I found that I stopped daydreaming and thinking about other things while I was reading, and started getting the larger meaning. I was reading faster and comprehending better.

I found that when you read slowly, word by word, you get lost in the words, lose the bigger picture, and your comprehension drops. When you read faster, your comprehension goes up because instead of getting lost in the words, you see the general picture.

31. The main difficulty the writer had in reading in her 7th grade was that __________.

A) she often forgot her school reading assignments

B) she had difficulty reading with comprehension

C) she had a poor vocabulary and very bad grammar

D) she always looked elsewhere when asked to read

32. The writer would pretend to be reading in the last 10 minutes of class because ________. A) she was afraid of being found out

C) she had to do what others were doing B) the reading class was terrible D) her mother told her to do so

B) she took a course on speed reading

D) she developed her own way of reading 33. The writer's reading ability improved a great deal mainly because __________. A) she entered Cornell University

C) her mother managed to help her out

34. From her own experience, the writer found that _______.

A) one's comprehension drops if one reads too slowly

B) in order to understand better, one has to read slowly

C) one does not pay enough attention to information if one reads fast

D) many people read fast in order to save time

35. After reading this passage, we think that the writer wrote the passage in order to _______.

A) prove to readers the importance of higher education

B) tell a story in honor of her mother

C) give a detailed description of different reading skills

D) prove the importance of fast reading

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