第二部分 综合知识应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完型填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 16 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 17 （退回）to 22 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 23 down the speed of reading is vocalization — sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads. can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 18 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 19 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 20 in the actual stuff of language itself — words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 21 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 24 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined（预先确定的） speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 25 the
