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广州外国语学校14学年高三第二次月考 英语科试卷??（2013年9月30日） ? 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题及语法填空）和第Ⅱ卷（其他非选择题）两部分。第Ⅰ卷1页至8页，第Ⅱ卷9页至10页。全卷共150分。考试120分钟。 一．语言知识及运用 （共两节，满分45分） 第一节：完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 1 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 2 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 3 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 4 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency（缺乏） 5 in the actual stuff of language itself — words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 6 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） to 7 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 8 down the speed of reading is vocalization — sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 9 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined（预先确定的） speed．The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 10 the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The device forces the reader to read fast, 11 word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization（默读）practically impossible. At first 12 is sacrificed for speed．But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your understanding will 13 . Many people have found their reading skill greatly improved after some training. 14 Charlie Au, a business manager, for instance, his readi