Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
It has been established beyond a shadow of doubt that readers in general waste a great deal of time and effort. Why is this (1)? Why is it that the poorest readers by (2) standard are often the ablest______(3)people? Why is it that the majority of students have very (4) idea of how to tackle __________(5) reading? Why is it that a high (6) of readers—not excluding those ________(7) professional work involves a lot of reading—use a technique that is (8) more advanced than (9) they were children?
Or why __________(10) there people—to take an extreme but illuminating_________(11) —who in conversation and discussion___________(12) sustain a difficult argument with ease and _________(13) who as readers assimilate only factual information, and__________(14) that with difficulty, so that worthwhile books are virtually_________(15) them? In our opinion, reading presents technical__________(16) of communication that dispose the reader to use (17) methods of assimilation; this, and only__________(18), can provide an adequate__________(19) of why readers___________(20) a class so inefficient..
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1. A) it |
B)so |
C)that |
D)kind |
