Section B

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

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(視幅). The length of time of 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.

81. Show at least three facts which can affect the time of the recognition span. （no more than 14 words）

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82.what does reading require according to the writer?（no more than 8 words）

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83. What is the attitude of the author towards reading improvement courses mentioned in the passage? ( one word ) 

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84. What will probably the writer talk about next? （no more than 12 words）

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22. We know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4, 000 years ago, because they ______write and leave written records for those who lived after them.

A. could       B. should          C. must           D. Shall

24．Last Monday，while the students      on the playground watching the national flag

      being raised，something unexpected           ．

      A．were standing；arose                        B．stood；was arising

      C．had stood；had arisen                         D．would stand；would arise

27.---Where have you been?  

  ---I got caught in traffic, otherwise I _______ here earlier.

A.would be                   B. have been                 C. had been                  D. would have been

30.   She had no idea how it _____ that her husband met with trouble again.

A. came about               B. came out                  C. came across                  D. came up

33.   ________ in the fields on a March afternoon, he could feel the warmth of spring.

       A. To walk                   B. Walking                   C. Walked                    D. Having walked

30. — Excuse me, Dad, but I’m going to the club to meet my friends in the football match.

— OK. ________.

A. Good luck  B. Congratulations  C. Have fun    D. With pleasure

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72．If a boy wants to improve the skill of writing poems he can call___________．

    A．(415) 744-6827                           B．(415) 557-4268

    C．(415) 557-4497                            D．(415) 557-4400

73．Who would be most likely to attend the event on Wednesday，January 9？

    A．A science teacher               B．A retried worker．

    C．A school headmaster.            D．A supermarket owner．

74．Which event doesn’t need booking in advance?

    A．One-on-One Computer or Internet Training Session．

    B．Beyond Journal Writing for Teens．

    C．Power Panels and Films by World Savvy．

D．Business Counseling Sessions.

26. Nobody wants to___________ especially in public.

A. make fun of             B. be made fun of     C. making fun of  D. made fun of 

34. Speaking of all the songs he has written, I think this is probably his _______ one.

A. better-known      B. well-known         C. best-known         D. most-known