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As is often the case, reading involves looking at illustrative symbols and expressing mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed   26 over the centuries. During the 1950's and 1960's especially, increased attention has been devoted to  27  the reading process. Although experts agree that reading ___28   a complex organization of higher mental  29  , they disagree about the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds,  30  reading as simply the decoding(解码) of symbols into the sounds they stand for .

These authorities  31  that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is unexplainably related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without  32  their meaning is not truly reading. The reader,  33  some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who  34  reads.

Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its  35   some expert they would not be  36  as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one use. By the most  37  and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to  38  the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various  39  , at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do so widely and enthusiastically.  40  reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas.

26. A. specifically              B. dramatically            C. abstractly               D. ridiculously

27. A. understanding                 B. translating               C. defining                  D. substituting

28. A. involves                   B. concentrates            C. specializes               D. analyzes

29. A. opinions                   B. effects                    C. manners                 D. functions

30. A. view                        B. look                        C. reassure                  D. agree

31. A. support                    B. argue                      C. attempt                  D. compete

32. A. interpreting               B. saying                     C. reciting                   D. reading

33. A. in addition to             B. for example             C. according to            D. such as

34. A. completely                B. carefully                 C. publically                D. actually

35. A. part                          B. whole                      C. standard                 D. straight

36. A. applied                     B. granted                   C. classified                       D. graded

37. A. instructive                       B. doubtful                  C. certain                    D. complicated

38. A. strike                              B. illustrate                  C. define                      D. unlock

39. A. purposes                  B. degrees                   C. stages                     D. steps

40. A. On one had               B. In short                  C. By the way             D. So far

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26-30 BCADA  31-35 BACDA  36-40 CCDAB

知识点：人物传记 故事阅读类

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