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【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读能力基础自测（速度、难度、深度、越障、真题、RAM）
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"【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读全方位锻炼--速度【CET】汇总贴
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规则：

每天我贴出五篇CET级别的阅读
大家来做，需要准备一个计时器

每篇文章只看一分钟，一分钟之后就一定要停下来，读到哪里算哪里，这篇就算过了
D# O
如果上一篇没有读完，那么就要提醒自己在下一篇中加速，同时调整自己阅读的节奏感，找到最舒服的方式
[注]
1、直接在电脑屏幕面前做，虽然GRE阅读是在纸上考，但是这个过程会遏制你做笔记，同时给你的阅读造成视觉障碍，也就是把难度训练和抗干扰训练同步结合，增加效率（初期会很累，但是既然大家想要成为高手，那么就别对自己太温柔）
2、这些文章不用拿来讨论，我给出习题但是不用大家去做，学有余力的可以去做，不过做的时候不要回视文章了，通过瞬间阅读和不回视做题锻炼你大脑的存储量

Silicon Valley is a magnet to which numerous talented engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs from overseas flock to in search of fame, fast money and to participate in a technological revolution whose impact on mankind will surely surpass the epoch-making European Renaissance and Industrial Revolution of the bygone age. With the rapid spread of the Internet and the relentless technological innovations generated through it, the information era is truly upon us, profoundly influencing and changing not only our lifestyle, but also the way we work, do business, think and communicate with others. It is noteworthy that close to 50% of its skilled manpower, including engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs, come from Asia. Prominent among them are Indians and Chinese, and not a few Singaporeans. Intellectual challenges aside, it is a common practice for start-ups to offer generous share options to employees in order to attract the right talent into their folds. This is a powerful incentive to motivate the staff to do their utmost and to share in the company's prosperity if it reaches its goal. Many regard this as the foundation of a successful enterprise.（184 words）

1. Why is Silicon Valley compared with a magnet? Because

A. it is very famous. B. it attracted numerous talented people.

C. numerous talented people flock to it. D. its impact will surpass

European Renaissance and Industrial Revolution.

2. What does “it” in 2nd paragraph refer to?

A. the Internet
B. the rapid spread of the Internet

C. the information era D. our lifestyle

3. What does “its” in 2nd paragraph mean??

A. Silicon Valley’s B. the Internet’s

C. Asia’s D. America’s

4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the common practice for start-ups?

A. Intellectual challenges. B. Generous share options.

C. Sharing in the company's prosperity. D. A successful enterprise.

5. The main idea of the passage is

A. Silicon Valley’s success B. the information era upon us

C. Intellectual challenges
D. practice of successful enterprise

To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, "all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing." One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that opposed immunizations; she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, "Then 1 would have to say yes." Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, "Don't worry, scientists will find some way of using computers." Such well-meaning people just don't understand. Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst. Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

1. The author begins his article with Edmund Burke's words to .

A. call on scientists to take some actions

B. criticize the misguided cause of animal rights

C. warn of the doom of biomedical research

D. show the triumph of the animal rights movement

2. Misled people tend to think that using an animal in research is .

A. cruel but natural

B. inhuman and unacceptable

C. inevitable but vicious

D. pointless and wasteful

3. The example of the grandmotherly woman is used to show the public’s.

A. discontent with animal research

B. ignorance about medical science

C. indifference to epidemics

D. anxiety about animal rights

4. The author believes that, in face of the challenge from animal rights advocates,

scientists should .

A. communicate more with the public

B. employ hi-tech means in research

C. feel no shame for their cause

D. strive to develop new cures

5. From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is -

A. a well-known humanist

B. a medical practitioner

C. an enthusiast in animal rights

D. a supporter of animal research

German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of today's social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization. Motivated in part by Christian compassion for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement, Chancellor Bismarck created the world's first worker’s compensation law in 1884. By 1908, the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacked workers' compensation insurance. America's injured workers could sue for damages in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers. For example, employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employer negligence and that they themselves were ignorant about potential hazards in the workplace. The first state worker's compensation law in this country passed in 1911, and the program soon spread throughout the nation. After World War II, benefit payments to American workers did not keep up with the cost of living. In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four. In 1970, President Richard Nixon set up a national commission to study the problems of workers' compensation. Two years later, the commission issued 19 key recommendations, including one that called for increasing compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states' average weekly wages. In fact, the average compensation benefit in America has climbed from 55 percent of the states' average weekly wages in 1972 to 97 percent today. But, as most studies show, every 10 percent increase in compensation benefits results in a 5 percent increase in the numbers of workers who file for claims. And with so much more money floating in the workers' compensation system, it's not surprising that doctors, and lawyers have helped themselves to a large slice of the growing pie.

1. The world's first workers' compensation law was introduced by Bismarck.

A. for fear of losing the support of the socialist labor movement

B. out of religious and political considerations

C. to speed up the pace of industrialization

D. to make industrial production safer

2. We learn from the passage that the process of industrialization in Europe.

A. met growing resistance from laborers working at machines

B. resulted in the development of popular social insurance programs

C. was accompanied by an increased number of workshop accidents

D. required workers to be aware of the potential dangers at the workplace

3. One of the problems the American injured workers faced in getting compensation in the early 19th century was that.

A. they had to produce evidence that their employers were responsible for the accident

B. America's average compensation benefit was much lower than the cost of living

C. different states in the U. S. had totally different compensation programs

D. they had to have the courage to sue for damages in a court of law

4. After 1972, workers' compensation insurance in the U. S. became more favorable to workers so that.

A. the poverty level for a family of four went up drastically

B. more money was allocated to their compensation system

C. there were fewer legal barriers when they filed for claims

D. the number of workers suing for damages increased

5. The author ends the passage with the implication that .

A. compensation benefits in America are soaring to new heights

B. people from all walks of life can benefit from the compensations system

C. the workers are not the only ones to benefit from the compensation system

D. money floating in the compensation system is a huge drain on the U. S. economy

In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 p.m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it's a matter of life and death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance. In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U. S. A, guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from cultures that treat time differently; promptness is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U. S. no one would think of keeping a business friend waiting for an hour; it would be too impolite. A person who is 5 minutes late is expected to make a short apology. If he is less than 5 minutes late, he will say a few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence.

1. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 p.m." Here "attached" means.

A. taken

B. drawn

C. given

D. shown

2. Supposing one wants to make a telephone call at midnight, this would mean.

A. the matter is less important

B. the matter is somewhat important

C. the matter requires immediate attention

D. it is a matter of life and death

3. According to this passage, time plays an important role in.

A. everyday life

B. private life

C. communications

D. transmission

4. The best title for this passage is.

A. "The Voices of Time"

B. "The Saving of Time"

C. "The Importance of an Announcement"

D. "Time and Tide Wait for No Man"

5. According to the passage, the author of the article may agree with which of the follow statements?

A. It is appropriate to send your invitation cards three of four

days before a dinner party date in the U. S..

B. It may be appropriate to send your invitation cards to your

guests three or four days before a dinner party date in some cultures.

C. It is best for one to make telephone calls at night because it costs much less.

D. If one is less than 5 minutes late, he has to make a short apology.

Early in the age of affluence that followed World War II, an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, "Our economy...demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption... .We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate." Americans have responded to Lebow's call, and much of the world has followed. Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even embedded in social values. Opinion surveys in the world's two largest economies—Japan and the United States—show consumerist definitions of success becoming ever more prevalent. Overconsumption by the world's fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but perhaps population growth. Their surging exploitation of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests, soils, water, air and climate. Ironically, high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms, too. The time-honored values of integrity of character, good work, friendship, family and community have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches. Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow—that, misled by a consumerist culture, they have been fruitlessly attempting to satisfy what are essentially social, psychological and spiritual needs with material things. Of course, the opposite of overconsumption—poverty—is no solution to either environmental or human problems. It is infinitely worse for people and bad for the natural world too. Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, and hungry nomads turn their herds out onto fragile African grassland, reducing it to desert. If environmental destruction results when people have either too little or too much, we are left to wonder how much is enough. What can the earth support? When does having more cease to add noticeably to human satisfaction?

1. The emergence of the affluent society after World War II .

A. led to the reform of the retailing system

B. resulted in the worship of consumerism

C. gave rise to the dominance of the new egoism

D. gave birth to a new generation of upper class consumers

2. Apart from enormous productivity, another important impetus to high consumption is______.

A. the people's desire for a rise in their living standards

B. the concept that one's success is measured by how much they consume

C. the imbalance that has existed between production and consumption

D. the conversion of the sale of goods into rituals

3. Why does the author say high consumption is a mixed blessing?

A. Because poverty still exists in an affluent society.

B. Because overconsumption won't last long due to unrestricted population growth.

C. Because traditional rituals are often neglected in the process of modernization.

D. Because moral values are sacrificed in pursuit of material satisfaction.

4. According to the passage, consumerist culture.

A. will not alleviate poverty in wealthy countries

B. will not aggravate environmental problems

C. cannot thrive on a fragile economy

D. cannot satisfy human spiritual needs

5. It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. human spiritual needs should match material affluence

B. whether high consumption should be encouraged is still an issue

C. how to keep consumption at a reasonable level remains a problem

D. there is never an end to satisfying people's material needs