Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and【C1】______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【C1】______worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term "reading" 【C2】______ meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace. One should be wary, however, of 【C3】______that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a(n) 【C4】______to others. Examination of factors related to the 【C5】______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【C6】______.
    The last century saw a steady gradual increase in【C7】______, and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, the number of potential listeners 【C8】______, and thus there was some【C9】______in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a【C10】______activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would 【C11】______distraction to other readers.
    Towards the end of the century there was still【C12】______argument over whether books should be used for information or treated【C13】______, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way【C14】______weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However, 【C15】______ its advantages, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was 【C16】______ by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a【C17】______ 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, 【C18】______not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological changes in the century had greatly 【C19】______what the term "reading"【C20】______.
【C12】

选项 A、considerable
B、considerate
C、moderate
D、immoderate

答案A

解析 考查形容词辨析。该句意思为:到世纪末仍然存在着______争论…。considerable“相当多的,相当可观的”;considerate“考虑周到的”;moderate“中等的,适度的,适中的”;immoderate“不适中的,不合适的”。由still这个词可知此处为肯定的含义,故选A.considerable。
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