- “ HOW LONG IS THE SEMINAR

25. - “ How long is the seminar?” - “_____ knowledge, it takes about three hours.”

A. To my best B. To the best of my C. In my best of D. In my best

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Why did you decide to read this, and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand

every single part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight’s (26)____? Common sense

(27)____ that the answers to these questions depend on “readability”- whether the (28)____ matter is

interesting, the argument clear and the (29)____ attractive. But psychologists are trying to (30)_____why

people read - and often don’t read certain things, for example technical information. They also have

examined so much the writing as the readers.

Even the most technically confident people often (31)____ instructions for video or home computer in favor of

hands - on experience. And people frequently take little notice of consumer information, whether on nutritional

labels or in the small print of contracts. Psychologists researching reading (32)_____to assume that both beginners

and competent readers read everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are (33)_____among them

about the roles of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some people believe that fluent readers take in very

letter or word they see; others (34)_____ that readers rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to

another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts,

comprehension(35)____, then reading stops.