Question

There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding.   1.

The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else.   2.   Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.

The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding. 3.   Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “l(fā)earning” means understanding more, not remembering more information.

What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding.   4.   Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.

5.   It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.

A. Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.

B. Such communication between unequals must be possible.

C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.

D. The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.

E. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

F. Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.

G. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.D

5.F

【解析】

試題分析: 本文是一篇說明文，介紹了閱讀的不同作用。閱讀可以為了獲得信息，也可以為了理解而讀。但是同時(shí)人們還可以為了娛樂而閱讀。在本文中作者對這三種目的的閱讀進(jìn)行了區(qū)別和比較。

1.文章開頭提出為了查詢信息而閱讀和為了理解而閱讀是兩個(gè)不同的概念。而且下文分兩段分別介紹了這兩個(gè)方面，由此判斷A選項(xiàng)內(nèi)容Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.可以起到承上啟下的作用，答案選A。

2.根據(jù)空前內(nèi)容newspapers, magazines,和空后such materials判斷空上內(nèi)容和閱讀材料有關(guān)，由此判斷C選項(xiàng)內(nèi)容We can get access to the content of those materials easily.符合語境，其中those materials是和前后呼應(yīng)的詞匯，答案選C。

3.根據(jù)前句內(nèi)容The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.可以判斷B選項(xiàng)Such communication between unequals must be possible.可以承接上文，其中such communication可以和communicating呼應(yīng)，答案選B。

4.前句內(nèi)容提到了作者和讀者的理解方面要存在不平衡，也就是作者的理解水平要高于讀者的水平，由此判斷D選項(xiàng)內(nèi)容The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.符合語境，可以起到承上啟下的作用，答案選D。

5.根據(jù)下文中Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to.可以判斷作者指的是除了獲得信息和提高閱讀能力外，閱讀還有娛樂的作用。由此可以判斷答案選G。

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