For many peopletoday,reading is no longer relaxation.To keep up their work they must readletters,reports,trade publications,interoffice communications,not to mention

newspapers andmagazines:a never-ending flood of words.In__________(51)a job or advancing inone,the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference

between success andfailure.Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of usare_________(52)readers.Most of us develop poor reading habits at an earlyage,and never__________

(53)them.The maindeficiency_________(54)in the actual stuff of language itself一words.Taken individually,wordshave_________(55)meaning until they are strung

together intophrases,sentences and paragraphs.___________(56),however,the untrained readerdoes not read groups of words.He laboriously reads one word at a time,often

regressing to rereadwords or passages.Regression,the tendency to look back over_________(57)youhave just read,is a common bad habit in reading.Another habit

which________(58)downthe speed of reading is vocalization一sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.

To_________(59)thesebad habits,some reading clinics use a device called an accelerator, which movesa bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed.The bar is

set at a slightlyfaster rate than the reader finds comfortable,in order to "stretch"him.The accelerator forces the reader to read fast,_______(60)word-by-word

reading,regressionand sub-vocalization,practically impossible.At first_________(61)is sacrificedfor speed.But when you learn to read ideas and concepts,you will not only

readfaster,________(62)your comprehension will improve.Many people have found theirreading skill drastically improved after some training.________(63)Charlie Au,a

business manager,forinstance.His reading rate was a_________(64)good 172 words a minute_________(65)thetraining;now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute.He is

delighted that hecan get through a lot more reading material in a short period of time._________(58)

A.scales

B.cuts

C.slows

D.measures