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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

Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades, and other vocations, like farming and fishery, that has occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary, is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fibre of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity, and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a close guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, the divine, associated freely with his fellow-creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called ""popular science"" makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it - as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.

11. Special words used in technical discussion ____.

A. never last long

B. are considered artificial language speech

C. should be confined to scientific fields

D. may become part of common speech

12. It is true that ____.

A. an educated person would be most technical terms

B. everyone is interested in scientific findings

C. the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him

D. various professions and occupations often interchange their dialects and jargons

13. In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the terminology of

A. farming

B. sports

C. government

D. fishery

14. The writer of the article was, no doubt ____.

A. a linguist

B. an essayist

C. a scientist

D. an attorney

15. The author’s main purpose in the passage is to ____.

A. describe a phenomenon

B. be entertaining

C. argue a belief

D. propose a solution

It is 3A.M. Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quiet, misty darkness - everything except the computer center. Here, twenty students rumpled and bleary-eyed, sit transfixed at their consoles, tapping away on the terminal keys. With eyes glued to the video screen, they tap on for hours. For the rest of the world, it might be the middle of the night, but here time does not exist. This is a world unto itself. These young computer "hackers" are pursuing a kind of compulsion; a drive so consuming it overshadows nearly every other part of their lives and forms the focal point of their existence. They are compulsive computer programmers. Some of these students have been at the console for thirty hours or more without a break for meals or sleep. Some have fallen asleep on sofas and lounge chairs in the computer center, trying to catch a few winks but loathe getting too far away from their beloved machines.
Most of these students don’t have to be at the computer center in the middle of the night. They aren’t working on assignments. They are there because they want to be - they are irresistibly drawn there.
And they are not alone. There are hackers at computer centers all across the country. In their extreme form, they focus on nothing else. They flunk out of school and lose contact with friends; they might have difficulty finding jobs, choosing instead to wander from one computer center to another. They may even forgo personal hygiene.
"I remember one hacker. We literally had to carry him off his chair to feed him and put him to sleep. We really feared for his health, " says a computer science professor at MIT.
Computer science teachers are now more aware of the implications of this hacker phenomenon and are on the lookout for potential hackers and cases of computer addiction that are already severe. They know that the case of the hackers is not just the story of one person’s relationship with a machine. It is the story of a society’s relationship to the so-called thinking machines, which are becoming almost ubiquitous.

06. We can learn from the passage that those at the computer center in the middle of the night are ____.

A. students working on a program

B. students using computers to amuse themselves

C. hard-working computer science majors

D. students deeply fascinated by the computer

07. Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer "hackers"?

A. Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming.

B. For them, computer programming is the sole purpose for their life.

C. They can stay with the computer at the center for nearly three days on end.

D. Their "love" for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machines even when they sleep.

08. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that ____.

A. the ""hacker"" phenomenon exists only at university computer centers

B. university computer centers are open to almost everyone

C. university computer centers are expecting outstanding programmers out of the "hackers"

D. the "hacker" phenomenon is partly attributable to the deficiency of the computer centers

09. The author’s attitude towards the ""hacker"" phenomenon can be described as ____.

A. affirmative

B. contemptuous

C. anxious

D. disgusted

10. Which of the following may be a most appropriate title for the passage?

A. The Charm of Computer Science

B. A New Type of Electronic Toys

C. Compulsive Computer Programmers

D. Computer Addicts

The concept of culture has been defined many times, and although no definition has achieved universal acceptance, most of the definitions include three central ideas: that culture is passed from generation to generation, that a culture represents a ready-made prescription for living and for making day-to-day decisions, and, finally, that the components of a culture are accepted by culture as good, and true, and not to be questioned. The eminent anthropologist George Murdock has listed seventy-three items that characterize every known culture, past and present.

The list begins with Age-grading and Athletic sports, runs to Weaning and Weather Control, and includes on the way such items as Calendar, Fire making, Property Rights, and Tool making. I would submit that even the most extreme advocate of a culture of poverty viewpoint would readily acknowledge that, with respect to almost all of these items, every American, beyond the first generation immigrant, regardless of race or class, is a member of a common culture. We all share pretty much the same sports. Maybe poor kids don’t know how to play polo, and rich kids don’t spend time with stickball, but we all know baseball, and football, and basketball.
Despite some misguided efforts to raise minor dialects to the status of separate tongues, we all, in fact, share the same language.
There may be differences in diction and usage, but it would be ridiculous to say that all Americans don’t speak English. We have the calendar, the law, and large numbers of other cultural items in common. It may well be true that on a few of the seventy-three items there are minor variations between classes, but these kinds of things are really slight variations on a common theme.

There are other items that show variability, not in relation to class, but in relation to religion and ethnic background-funeral customs and cooking, for example. But if there is one place in America where the melting pot is a reality, it is on the kitchen stove; in the course of one month, half the readers of this sentence have probably eaten pizza, hot pastrami, and chow mein. Specific differences that might be identified a signs of separate cultural identity are relatively insignificant within the general unity of American life; they are cultural commas and the paragraphs and pages of American life.

01. According to the author''s definition of culture, ____ .

A. a culture should be accepted and maintained universally

B. a culture should be free from falsehood and evils

C. the items of a culture should be taken for granted by people

D. the items of a culture should be accepted by well-educated people

02. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Baseball, football and basketball are popular sports in America.

B. Pizza, hot pastrami, and chow mein are popular diet in America.

C. There is no variation in using the American calendar.

D. There is no variation in using the American language.

03. It can be inferred that all the following will most probably be

included in the seventy-three items except ____.

A. heir and heritage

B. childrearing practices

C. dream patterns

D. table manners

04. By saying that "they are cultural commas and semicolons..."

the author means that commas and semicolons ____.

A. can be interpreted as subculture of American life

B. can be identified as various ways of American life

C. stand for work and rest in American life

D. are preferred in writing the stories concerning American life

05. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to ____.

A. prove that different people have different definitions of culture

B. inform that variations exist as far as a culture is concerned

C. indicate that culture is closely connected with social classes

D. show that the idea that the poor constitute a separate culture is an absurdity

The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High school English teachers are not doing their jobs." He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established.

My topic is its decline. What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young; he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.

My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies. But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack.

The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate.

Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today's young people, it naturally follows that today's English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise, not commit offenses against the language.

16. The speaker the author mentioned in the passage believed that _____.

[A] the language of the younger generation is usually inferior to theat of the older generation

[B] the students had a poor command of English because they didn't work hard enough

[C] he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years

[D] English teachers should be held responsible for the students' poor command of English

17. In the author's opinion, the speaker ______.

[A] gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students

[B] had exaggerated the language problems of the students

[C] was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their

jobs

[D] could think and speak intelligently

18. The author's attitude towards the speaker's remarks is ______.

[A] neutral

[B] positive

[C] critical

[D] compromising

19. It can be concluded from the passage that ______.

[A] it is justifiable to include English as a school subject

[B] the author disagrees with the speaker over the stadard of English at Grade 9 level

[C] English language teaching is by no means an easy job

[D] Language improvement needs time and effort

20. In the passage the author argues that ______.

[A] it is unfair to blame the English teachers for the language deficiencies of the students

[B] not commit offences against the language if the teachers did their jobs properly

[C] to eliminate language deficiencies one must have sensitive eyes and ears

[D] to improve the standard of English requires the effort of several generations

The concept of "environment" is certainly difficult and may even be misunderstood; but we have no handy substitute. It seems simple enough to distinguish between the organism and the surrounding environment and to separate forces acting on an organism into those that are internal and biological and those that are external and environmental. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways, because the organism and the environment are constantly interacting so that the environment is modified by the organism and vice versa.

In the case of man, the difficulties with the environmental concept are even more complicated because we have to deal with man as an animal and with man as a bearer of culture. If we lookat man as an animal and try to analyze the environmental forces that are acting on the organism, we find that we have to deal with things like climate, soil, plants, and such-like factors common to all ; but we also find, always, very important environmental influences that we can only class as "cultural", which modify the physical and biological factors. But man, as we know him, is always a bearer of culture; and if we study human culture, we find that it, in turn, is modified by the environmental factors of climate and geography. We thus easily get into great difficulties from the necessity of viewing culture, at one moment, as a part of the man and, at another moment, as a part of the environment.

11. Which of the following words can best describe the popular understanding of "environment" as the author sees it?

[A] Elaborate.

[B] Prejudiced.

[C] Faultless.

[D] Oversimplifid.

12. According to the author the concept of "environment" is difficult to explain because _______.

[A] it doesn't distinguish between the organism and the environment

[B] it involves both internal and external forces

[C] the organism and the environment influence each other

[D] the relationship between the organism and the environment is unclear

13. In analyzing the environmental forces acting on man the author suggests that _______.

[A] biological factors are less important to the organism than cultural factors to man

[B] man and other animals are modified equally by the environmental forces

[C] man is modified by the cultural environment as well as by the natural environment

[D] physical and biological factors exert more influence on other organisms than on man

14. As for culture, the author points out that ______.

[A] it develops side byside with environmental factors

[B] it is also affected by environmental factors

[C] it is generally accepted to be part of the environment

[D] it is a product of man's biological instincts

15. In this passage, the author is primarily concerned with ______.

[A] the interpretation of the term "environment"

[B] the discussion on organisms and biological environment

[C] the comparison between internal and external factors influencing man

[D] the evaluation of man's influence on culture