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A．Because he was famous for his view to keep the Union by force.B．Because he was famou
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We all know that a magician does not really depend on "magic" to perform. his trick.【C1】______ on his ability to act at great speed.【C2】______ , this does not prevent us from enjoying watching a magician【C3】______ rabbits from a hat.【C4】______ the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in 1926. Houdini mastered the art of【C5】______ . He could free himself from the tightest knots or the most complicated locks in seconds.【C6】______ no one really knows【C7】______ he did this, there is no doubt【C8】______ he had made a close study of every type of lock ever【C9】______ . He liked to carry a small steel needle-like tool strapped to his leg and he used this in【C10】______ of a key. Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. They【C11】______ him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himself【C12】______ an instant. The police【C13】______ him of having used a tool and locked him up again. This time he wore no clothes and there were chains around his neck, waist, wrists, and legs; but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his "needle" in a waxlike【C14】______ and dropped it on the floor in the passage.【C15】______ he went past, he stepped on it so that it stuck to the bottom of his foot. His most famous escape, however, was【C16】______ astonishing. He was heavily chained【C17】______ and enclosed in an empty wooden chest, the lid of【C18】______ was nailed down. The【C19】______ was dropped into the sea in New York harbor. In one minute Houdini had swum to the surface. When the chest was【C20】______ . it was opened and the chains was found inside.
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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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A．Don't you know？B．Thanks a lot.C．No problem.D．It doesn't matter.
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