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Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
To understand why we should be concerned about how young people read, it helps to know something about the way the ability to read evolved. Unlike the ability to understand and produce spoken language, the ability to read must be painstakingly __36__ by each individual. The reading circuits we construct in the brain can be __37__ or they can be robust, depending on how often and how __38__ we use them. The deep reader enters a state of hypnotic trance (心醉神迷的狀態). When readers are enjoying the experience the most, the pace of their reading __39__ slows. The combination of fast, fluent decoding of words and slow, unhurried progress on the page gives deep readers time to enrich their reading with reflection and analysis.
It gives them time to establish an __40__ relationship with the author, the two of them __41__ in a long and warm conversation like people falling in love.
This is not reading as many young people know it. Their reading is instrumental: the difference between what literary critic Frank Kermode calls carnal (肉體的) reading and spiritual reading. If we allow our offspring to believe carnal reading is all there is — if we don't open the door to spiritual reading, through an early __42__ on discipline and practice we will have 43 them of an enjoyable experience they would not otherwise encounter. Observing young people's __44__ to digital devices, some progressive educators talk about meeting kids where they are, molding instruction around their onscreen habits. This is mistaken. We need, __45__ , to show them someplace they've never been, a place only deep reading can take them.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答。
A) acquired
B) actually
C) attachment
D) cheated
E) engaged
F) feeble
G) illicit
I) intimate
J) notwithstanding
K) petition
L) rather
M) scarcely
N) swayed
O) vigorously
H) insistence
