Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent.Concepts of reading have changed -1- over the centuries.During the 1950's and 1960's especially, increased attention has been devoted to -2- the reading process. -3- specialists agree that reading -4- a complex organization of higher mental -5-, they disagree -6- the exact nature of the process.Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds, -7- reading as simply the decoding of symbolssintosthe sounds they stand -8-.
These authorities -9- that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process.Others maintain that reading is -10- related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without -11- their meaning is not truly reading.The reader, -12- some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who -13- reads.
Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its -14-. By some expert they would not be -15- as readers.Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one use.By the most -16- and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to -17- the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various -18-, at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do -19- widely and enthusiastically. -20- reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas.
1. [A] substantively[B] substantially [C] substitutively [D] subjectively
2. [A] define and describe [B] definition and description [C] defining and describing [D] have defined and described
3. [A] Although [B] If [C] Unless [D] Until
4. [A] involves [B] involves to [C] is involved [D] involves of
5. [A] opinions [B] effects [C] manners [D] functions
6. [A] of [B] about [C] for [D] into
7. [A] view [B] look [C] reassure [D] agree
8. [A] by [B] to [C] off [D] for
9. [A] content [B] contend [C] contempt [D] contact
10. [A] inexplicably [B] inexpressibly [C] inextricably [D] inexpediently
11. [A] interpreting [B] saying [C] explaining [D] reading
12. [A] like [B] for example [C] according to [D] as
13. [A] sometimes[B] might [C] practical[D] actually
14. [A] entire [B] entirety [C] entirely [D] entity
15. [A] classed [B] granted [C] classified [D] graded
16. [A] inclusive[B] inclinable [C] conclusive [D] complicated
17. [A] break up [B] elaborate [C] define [D] unlock
18. [A] purposes [B] degrees [C] stages [D] steps
19. [A] such [B] so as [C] so [D] such as
20. [A] By the way [B] In short [C] So far [D] On the other hand |
