单选题 I recently wrote an autobiography in which I recalled many old memories. One of them was from my school days, when our ninth grade teacher, Miss Raber, would pick out words from the Reader"s Digest to test our vocabulary.
Today, more than 45 years later, I always check out "It pays to Enrich your Word Power" first when the Digest comes each month. I am impressed with that idea, word power. Reader"s Digest knows the power that words have to move people—to entertain, inform, and inspire. The Digest editors know that the big word isn"t always the best word. Take just one example, a Quotable Quote from the February 1985 issue: "Time is a playful thing. It slips quickly and drinks the day like a bowl of milk."
Seventeen words, only two of them more than one syllable, yet how much they convey! That"s usually how it is with Reader"s Digest. Small and simple can be profound.
As chairman of a foundation to restore the Statue of Liberty, I"ve been making a lot of speeches lately. I try to keep them fairly short. I use small but vivid words: words like "hope", "guts", "faith", "dreams". Those are words that move people and say so much about the spirit of America.
Don"t get me wrong. I"m not against using big words, when it is right to do so, but I have also learned that a small word can work a small miracle—if it"s the right word, in the right place, at the right time. It"s a "secret" that I hope I never forget.

单选题 The passage is mainly about ______.

单选题 It seems that Reader"s Digest is a magazine popular with ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段中“One of them was from my school days, when our ninth grade teacher，Miss Raber, would pick out words from the Reader"s Digest to test our vocabulary.”(上学时候老师就选用Reader"s Digest中的词来测试他们的词汇量)，接着第二段表述多年后作者一直对Reader"s Digest情有独钟，而且Reader"s Digest中所用的词都是small and simple。所以可以推断Reader"s Digest受到所有年龄层次的人的欢迎。

单选题 The example the author gives in the second paragraph might mean ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 第二段最后一句“Take just one example, a Quotable Quote from the February 1985 issue: "Time is a playful thing. It slips quickly and drinks the day like a bowl of milk."”其实就是在告诉人们，不善用时间，时间很容易就流逝掉了。

单选题 The author"s "secret" is ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 根据最后一段倒数两句“I"m not against using big words, when it is right to do so, but I have also learned that a small word can work a small miracle—if it"s the right word, in the right place, at the right time. It"s a "secret" that I hope I never forget.”判断出答案就是C项。

单选题 According to the author, well-chosen words can give people ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段第三句“Reader"s Digest knows the power that words have to move people—to entertain, inform, and inspire.”判断出答案就是D项。entertainment与entertain对应，information与inform对应，power与inspire对应。