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Hwo we read

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 Read the text below and decide which word (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. The first one is given as an example.

 

 

HOW WE READ

 

Why did you decide to read this and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every  (0)  ....... part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight's  (1) .......? Common sense  (2) ....... rhR RHW naqwea ro rhwaw uwariona swpwns on "readability" - whether the  (3) ....... matter is interesting, the argument clear and the  (4) ....... attractive. But psychologists are discovering that to  (5) ....... why people read - and often don't read - technical information they have to  (6) ....... bot so much the writing as the reader.

 

Even the most technically confident people often  (7) ....... instructions for the video or home computer in favour of hand-on experience. And people frequently  (8) ....... little notice of consumer information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts.

 

Psychologists researching reading  (9) ....... to assume that both beginners and  (10) ....... readers read everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are  (11) ....... among them about the  (12) ....... of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some believer that fluent readers take  (13) ..... every letter or word they see: others  (14) ....... that readers rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, comprehension  (15) ....... then reading stops.

 

Eg. 0    A. absolute     B. one     C. single     D. unique
 

1 A. term B. period C. time D. gap
2 A. suggests B. transmits C.advises D. inform
3 A. subject B. topic C. content D. text
4 A. pattern B. formation C. layout D. assembly
5 A. ensure B. determine C. value D. rate
6 A. examine B. inquire C. trace D. calculate
7 A. miss B. omit C. pass D. ignore
8 A. get B. pay C. take D. make
9 A. tend B. undertake C. lead D. consent
10 A. competent B. sufficient C. considerable D. valid
11 A. objections B. arguments C. contests D. separations
12 A. role B. concern C. share D. relation
13 A. up B. over C. out D. in
14 A. insist B. direct C. urge D. press
15 A. sets B. occurs C. issues D. establishes
         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS

 

1. C     2. A      3. A     4. C     5. B     6. A     7. D     8. C

9. A     10. A     11. B     12. A     13. D     14. A     15. B

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