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 “l(fā)earning” 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】

1. is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding，意思是：在閱讀信息和閱讀理解之間存在著區(qū)別，所以閱讀這個(gè)詞可以表示兩個(gè)不同的含義。故選A

2. 我們可以很容易獲取這些材料。由后面的Such materials may increase our store of information中Such materials，可知道，前面講的是我們?nèi)菀撰@取這些材料。故選C

3. 這種不平等間的交流是非�？赡艿�。前面一句The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.意思是作者在交流一些能夠提升讀者理解的東西，而后面的一句Otherwise one person could never learn from another.意思是否則一個(gè)人永遠(yuǎn)不能從其他人身上學(xué)到東西。說明雖然作者和讀者之間的交流有時(shí)是不平等的，但是這很有益讀者從作者身上學(xué)習(xí)和提升理解的，故選B

4. there is inequality in understanding，所以就說明作者的理解能力要高于讀者，故選B

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考點(diǎn):考查說明文閱讀。