上海市高考英语短二轮：完形填空练习1及答案.docVIP

2016上海市高考英语短二轮：完形填空练习（1）及答案 【由2013界上海市宝山区 Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Reading involves looking at illustrative symbols and expressing 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. Although experts agree that reading 3 a complex organization of higher mental 4 , they disagree about the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds, 5 reading as simply the decoding（解码）of symbols into the sounds they stand for. These authorities 6 that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is inexplainably related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without 7 their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, 8 some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who 9 reads. Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its 10 . By some experts they would not be 11 as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one use. By the most 12 and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to 13 the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various 14 , at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do so widely and enthusiastically. 15 , reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas. 1. A. specifically B. dramatically C. abstractly D. ridiculously 2. A. understanding B. translating C. defining D. substituting 3. A. involves B. concentrates C