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 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they re- present. Concepts of reading have changed【S1】______ over the centuries. During the 1950&39;s and 1960&39;s especially, increased attention bas been devoted to defining and describing the reading process. Although specialists agree that reading involves a complex organization of higher mental【S2】______ , they disagree a- bout the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily us a code using symbols to represent sounds,【S3】______ reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand for. These authorities【S4】______ that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is【S5】______ related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without【S6】______ their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, according to some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who actually reads.
Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its entirety. By some expert they would not be【S7】______ as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one use. By the most【S8】______ and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to【S9】______ the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various【S10】______ at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do so widely and enthusiastically. In short reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas.
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E interpreting F functions G inexplicably H inclusive
I view J purposes K conclusive L unlock
M contend N classified O opinions
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