大学英语3综合测试3-.doc

中国地质大学(武汉远程与继续教育学院
大学英语3 课程综合测试3
学习层次:专升本时间:90分钟
Part I Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: There are four choices he part. Read them and make the best choice based on what you read. (每题2分
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A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as English. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook----but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gain will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with.
Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, . have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty at speeds of between 240 and 250 . with about 70% comprehension. Minnesota claims that after 12 half-hour lessons, one a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no loss of comprehension, to around 500 . with 70% or more comprehension, you will be doing quite well, though of course any further improvement of speed-with-comprehension will be a good thing.
When you practice reading with short passages, do not try to take in each word separately, one after the other. It is much more difficult to grasp the broad theme of the passage this way, and you will also get stuck on individual words which may not be absolutely essential to a general understanding of the passage. It is a good idea to skim through the passage very quickly first (say 500 words in a minute or so to get the general idea of each paragraph. Titles, paragraph headings and emphasized words (underlined or in italics can be a great help in getting the outline of the passage. It is surprising how many people do not read titles, introductions or paragraph headings.
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