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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 news papers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In【21】______a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend【22】______can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are【23】______readers. Most of us develop poor reading【24】______at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency【25】______in the actual stuff of language itself--words. Taken individually, words have【26】______meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs.【27】______, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to【28】______words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over【29】______you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading, Another habit which【30】______down the speed of reading is vocalization--sounding each word either orally or mentally as【31】______reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics used device called an【32】______,which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate【33】______the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast,【34】______word-by-word reading, regression and sub vocalization, practically impossible. At first【35】______is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster,【36】______your comprehension will improve. Many people have found【37】______reading skill drastically improved after some training.【38】______Char lee Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute【39】______the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can【40】______a lot more reading material in a short period of time.
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Almost every activity in life requires communication. When you make a speech at school, 【11】______your food at a restaurant, or tell a joke, you are communicating. Learning to speak and express your thoughts【12】______is the basic requirement of good communication. But there is【13】______to speaking-one that's often neglected. That's "listening" If you don't listen, how will you know what to say when your workmate needs help or your friend is upset？ So, try to remember that good communicators listener twice【14】______as they speak. Maybe that's why God gave us two ears and just one【15】______.
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If the weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air-conditioning they get. At least, the street lights still burn. Indoors, few people can afford to keep lights burning after supper.
As for the winter—well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn. But sweaters are popular indoor wear. Showers are not an everyday luxury.
It is sore in the suburbs, which were born with the auto, lived with the auto, and are dying with the auto. Suburbanites from associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Rushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open.
What energy is left must be conserved for agriculture. The great car factories make trucks and farm machinery almost exclusively. The American population isn't going up much any more, but the food supply must be kept high even though the prices and difficulty of distribution force each American to eat less. Food is needed for export to pay for some trickles of oil and for other resources.
The rest of the world is not as lucky as we are. They're starving out there because earth's population has continued to rise. The population on earth is 5.5 billion—up by 1.5 billion since 1997—and outside the United States and Europe, not more than one in five has enough to eat at any given time. There is a high infant mortality rate.
It's more than just starvation, though. There are those who manage to survive on barely enough to keep the body working, and that proves to be not enough for the brain. It is estimated that nearly two billion people in the world are permanently brain damaged by undernutrition, and the number is growing.
At least, the big armies are gone. Only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes, and ships—which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves.
Machines must be replaced by human muscle and beasts of burden. People are working longer hours, and with lighting restricted, television only three hours a night, new books few and printed in small editions—what is there to do with leisure？ Work, sleep, and eating are the great trinity of 1997, and only the first two are guaranteed.
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