单选题 Reading is the key to school success and it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practices until he can play quickly, accurately, with out thinking. Tennis players call that "being in the zone". Educators call it "automatically".
A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and decoding the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less. Then automatically, he doesn' t have to think about the meanings of the words, so he can concentrate on the meaning of the text.
It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found automatic readers in the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests.
"It' s not I. Q. but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to automaticity," according to Rossman. You can test your child by giving him a paragraph or two to read aloud -- something unfamiliar but appropriate to his age. If he reads aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, he probably is an automatic reader. If he reads haltingly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, he needs more practice.

单选题 We can learn from the first paragraph ______.

A. what we should do to learn to walk
B. what automaticity is
C. when a child begins to learn to walk
D. how we train an athlete

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】本题为主旨题，见第一段。第一句便点明了阅读是学习成功的关键，紧接着用小孩学步的例子来做形象的比喻，这些都是为了解释什么叫做automaticity. A)，C)，D)均为所举的例子。

单选题 According to the second paragraph, a child can read automatically when ______.

A. he can sound out the letters
B. he begins to understand the meanings of the words
C. he stumbles less and less
D. he doesn' t have to think about the meanings of the words

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】本题为推断题，见第二段。在文中可以找到，只有当孩子不需要去思考每个单词的意思时，才能做到自主性阅读。A)，B)，C)只是要让孩子达到 D)的阶段所必须的三个步骤。

单选题 Alan Rossman' s study shows that ______.

A. the automatic reader can read faster and score higher than other readers
B. the more difficult the reading passage, the faster the automatic reader can read
C. the first grade students can read three times faster than those in higher grades
D. no one can read faster than the first grade students

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题形式为推断题，实际为理解题，见第三段。最后一句话说，具有自主性阅读能力的读者比其他的读者阅读速度快，且得的分数高。B)文中没有做这样的比较；C)文中参与比较的都是一年级的学生；D)文中也没有做这样的比较。

单选题 What is more important for one to become an automatic reader?

A. The amount of time he spends.
B. The higher I. Q.
C. The lower I. Q.
D. The ways in which he practices reading.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】奉题为推断题，见第四段。第一句说掌握自主性学习能力的关键在于学生花多少时间阅读而不在于智商的高低。B)，C)都不是决定因素；D)文中没有提到。

单选题 What should parents choose to test the automaticity of their child?

A. The story the child is familiar most.
B. The passage full of new words.
C. The paragraph new and fit to him.
D. The sentences he has not studied.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】本题为推断题，见第四段：第二句说测试孩子自主性阅读能力的方法是让孩子读一两段段落，这些段落他们应该不太熟悉却又要适合他们。A)并不是不熟悉的；B)不符合要适合他们的条件；D)应选取段落而不是句子。