2017年6月大学英语四级阅读选词填空试题及答案12

　　Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts __1__ questions, and so on.

　　For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become __2__ of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between __3__ and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level.

　　Different people __4__ with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is __5__ in the text. The latter represents __6__ levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.

　　There is another conversation which from our point of view is __7__ important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as __8__ to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the __9__ we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well __10__. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation.

　　[A]opposed

　　[B]converse

　　[C]equally

　　[D]written

　　[E]developed

　　[F]strategies

　　[G]compared

　　[H]awake

　　[I]higher

　　[J]expectations

　　[K]deal

　　[L]absolutely

　　[M]aware

　　[N]better

　　[O]further

　　参考答案：

　　1.O

　　2.M

　　3.J

　　4.B

　　5.D

　　6.I

　　7.C

　　8.A

　　9.F

　　10.E