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  3. Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and【C1】______worlds, while dur

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】______.
【C8】
选项 A、receded
B、declined
C、increased
D、expanded
答案B
解析 考查上下文语义及动词辨析。此空前一分句讲读者数目增加了，那么相应地，听别人读书的人应该是减少了。与increased形成反义复现的只有B．declined“下降”。而且从后文As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common…也可得到证实。receded“后退，倒退”，不能用来修饰the number；increased“增长”，expanded“膨胀，扩张”，均与文意相反。因此答案为B．declined。
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