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Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they reprent. Concepts of reading have changed 1 B.substantially over the centuries. During the 1950's and 1960's especially, incread attention has been devoted to 2C.defining and describing the reading process. 3 A.although specialists agree that reading 4 A.involves a complex organization of higher mental 5 D. functions , they disagree 6 B. about the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to reprent sounds, 7 A. view reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand 8 D. for .
The authorities 9 B. contend that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is 10 A. inexplicably related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without 11 A. interpreting their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, 12 C. according to some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who 13 D. actually reads.
Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its 14 B. entirety.By some expert they would not be 15 C. classified as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one u. By the most 16 C. conclusive and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to 17 D. unlock the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various 18 A. purpos, at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do 19 C. so widely and enthusiastically. 20 B. In short reading is the interpretation of ideas through the u of symbols reprenting sounds and ideas.
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Today, most countries in the world have canals.Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel 1 C. to the coast.Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other 2 B. means of transport.The 3 A. waterways make it possible for boats to travel 4 B. between ports along the coast without being 5 B. expod to the dangers of the open.Some canals, such as the Suez and the Panama, sa
ve ships weeks of time by making their 6 C. voyage a thousand miles shorter.Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not 7 D. locatedon the coast, still other canals 8 B. drain lands wheres there is too much water, help to 9 D.irrigate fields wherethere is not enough water, and 10 A. furnish water power for factories and mills.The size of a canal 11 C. depends on the kind of boats going through it.The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it to 12 B. pass each other easily.It must be deep enough to leave about two feet of water 13 C. beneath the keel of the largest boat using the canal.When the planet Mars was first 14 D. obrved through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was criss-crosd by a 15 B. number of strange blue-green lines.The were called“canals” 16 B. becau they looked the same as canals on earth 17 A. that are viewed from an airplane.However, scientists are now 18 C. certain that the Martian phenomena are really not canals.The photographs 19 B. taken from space-ships have helped us to 20 C. discover the truth about the Martia“canals”.
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More than forty thousand readers told us that they looked for in clo friendships, what they expected 61 B. Of friends, what they were willing to give in 62 D. return, and how satisfied they were 63 C. With the quality of their friendships. The 64 C. Expectations give little comfort to social critics.
Friendship 65 D. appearsto be a unique form of 66 C. Individual bonding. Unlike marriage or the ties that 67 A.bind parents and children, it is not defined or regulated by 68 B. Law ， Unlike other social roles that we are expected to 69D. play—as citizens, employees, members of professional societies and 70 C. Other organizations—it has its own principle, which is to promote 71 C. Feelings of warmth, trust, love, and affection 72 A.between two people.
The survey on friendship appeared in the March 73 B. Issue of Psychology Today. The findings 74 C. Confirm that issues of trust and betrayal(背叛)are 75 D. central
to friendship. They also suggest that our readers do not 76 D. lookfor friends only among tho who are 77 A.most like them, but find many 78 B. Who differ in race, religion, and e
thnic(种族的)background. Arguably the most important 79 A.conclusion that emerges from the data, 80B. However , is not something that we found—but what we did not.
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Before the 20th century the hor provided day to day transportation in the United States。Trains were ud only for long－distance transportation。
Today the car is the most popular 1 B.means of transportation in all of the United States。It has completely 2 C.replaced the hor as a means of everyday transportation。Americans u their car for 3 B.nearly 90 percent of all personal 4 A.trip 。
Most Americans are able to 5 A.buy cars。The average price of a 6 D.recentlymade car was ，050 in 1950， ， 740 in 1960 and up to ， 750 7 B.in 1975。During this period American car manufacturers t about 8 D.improvingtheir products and work efficiency。
As a result， the yearly income of the 9 C.averagefamily incread from 1950 to 1975 10
C.faster than the price of cars。For this reason 11 D.purchasinga new car takes a smaller 12 A.part of a family‘s total earnings today。
In 1951 13 B.proportionally it took 8.1 months of an average family‘s 14 A.income to buy a new car。In 1962 a new car 15 C.cost 8.3 of a family‘s annual earnings。By 1975 it only took 4.75 16A.months income。In addition， the 1975 cars were technically 17 B.superior to models from previous years。
The 18 C.influence of the automobile extends throughout the economy 19 B.as the car is so important to Americans。Americans spend more money to 20 C.keep their cars running than on any other item。
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Many people wrongly believe that when people reach old age, their families place them in nursing homes. They are left in the _1_ A. hands of strangers for the rest of their lives. Their grown children visit them only occasionally, but more often, they do not have any _2
_ C. regular visitors. The truth is that this idea is an unfortunate myth-an _3_ A. imaginary story. In fact, family members provide over 80 percent of the care _4_ A. that elderly people need. Psychologists have found that all caregivers _5_ A. share a common characteristic: All caregivers believe that they are the best _6_ B. people for the job. In other words, they all felt that they could do the job better than anyone el. Many caregivers believed they had _7_D. obligation to help their relative. Some stated that helping others _8_ C. make them feel more uful. Others hoped that by helping someone now, they would derve care when they became old and _9_ B. dependent . Caring for the elderly and being taken care of can be a _10_ C.mutually satisfying experience for everyone who might be involved.
