单选题 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 41 a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 42 can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 43 readers. Most of us develop poor reading 44 at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 45 in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have 46 meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. 47 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 48 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over 49 you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 50 down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as 51 reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 52 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 53 the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The acceleratorforces the reader to read fast, 54 word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first 55 is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, 56 your comprehension will improve. Many people have found 57 reading skill drastically improved after some training. 58 Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute 59 the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can 60 a lot more reading material in a short period of time.