题目内容：

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In     a job, the ability to read and understand     can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are     readers. Most of us     bad reading habits at an early age, and never get over them. The main reason     in the fact that words have little meaning     they are put together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs.     , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He reads one word at a time and often goes back to     words or passages. The tendency to look back over     you have just read is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which     down the speed of reading is sounding each word as     reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a machine called an accelerator(加速器), which moves a bar     the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate     the reader finds comfortable, in order to train him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast,        word-by-word reading impossible. At first it is difficult to understand. But     you have learned to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster,     your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skill quickly     after some training.        Charlce Au, a business manager, for example, his reading rate was 172 words a minute     the training and now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is happy that now he can     a lot more reading materials in a short period of time.

1.A. applying    B. getting    C. offering    D. supplying

2.A. easily     B. quickly   C. roughly    D. decidedly

3.A. good     B. curious   C. common    D. poor

4.A. developed    B. kicked    C. knew     D. understood

5.A. touches        B. connects    C. lies     D. gets

6.A. unless    B. after      C. since     D. as

7.A. Unfortunately   B. Excitedly    C. Surprisingly   D. Generally

8.A. reuse     B. rewrite    C. reread    D. recite

9.A. which     B. what     C. that     D. if

10.A. breaks    B. cuts     C. goes     D. slows

11.A. some one    B. reader    C. he     D. one

12.A. inside     B. up     C. out     D. down

13.A. then     B. as     C. than     D. beyond

14.A. moving    B. making    C. leading    D. thinking

15.A. when     B. where    C. what     D. which

16.A. or        B. nor     C. but     D. for

17.A. lost        B. weakened    C. sharpened   D. improved

18.A. Take      B. Look     C. Make     D. Consider

19.A. for     B. before    C. after     D. in

20.A. break through   B. go over   C. get through   D. turn over