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  3. Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and【B1】______worlds, while dur

Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and【B1】______worlds, while dur

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问题     Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and【B1】______worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term "reading" 【B2】______ meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace. One should be wary, however, of【B3】______that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a(n) 【B4】______ to others. Examination of factors related to the 【B5】______ development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in【B6】______.
    The last century saw a steady gradual increase in 【B7】______, and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, the number of potential listeners 【B8】______, and thus there was some 【B9】______ in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a【B10】______activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would【B11】______distraction to other readers.
    Towards the end of the century there was still【B12】______argument over whether books should be used for information or treated【B13】______, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way【B14】______weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However,【B15】______its advantages, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was【B16】______by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a【B17】______readership on the other.
    By the end of the century students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use skills in reading them which were inappropriate,【B18】______not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological changes in the century had greatly【B19】______what the term "reading"【B20】______.
【B4】
选项 A、interruption
B、distraction
C、bother
D、pressure
答案B
解析 考查上下文语义及名词辨析。本题要求填入一个名词来判断大声阅读对他人的影响。文章第二段的末尾同样谈到了大声阅读对他人的影响，且用了“distraction”一词。所以正确答案为B．distraction“分散，干扰”，与后文呼应。interruption“打断，中止”，指的是瞬间行为使别人中断做某事，reading显然是一段时间的行为；bother“麻烦，打扰”，往往指“麻烦他人做某事”；pressure“压力”，均不符合题意。
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