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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

Taste is such a subjective matter that we don't usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone's preference is that it's one person's opinion. But because the two big cola companies-Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola aggressively, we've wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.

We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they'd have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.

We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants' choices with what mere guess-work could have accomplished.

Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 to 27 identified all four samples correctly.

While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so fatigue, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

1. According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to _______.

[A] find out the role taste preference plays in a person's drinking

[B] reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers

[C] show that a person's opinion about taste is mere guess-work

[D] compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks

2. The statistics recorded in the preference tests show _____.

[A] Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people's two most favorite drinks

[B] there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi

[C] few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi

[D] people's tastes differ from one another

3. It is implied in the first paragraph that ______.

[A] the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colas

[B] the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

[C] the competition between the two colas is very strong

[D] blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

4. The word "burnout" (Para. 5) here refers to the state of _____.

[A] being seriously burnt in the skin

[B] being unable to burn for lack of fuel

[C] being badly damaged by fire

[D] being unable to function because of excessive use

5. The author's purpose in writing this passage is to ______.

[A] show that taste preference is highly subjective

[B] argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy

[C] emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

[D] recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas

Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.

Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called "rem". Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage-- a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high amount of rems. So far, no radiation has been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

1. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to
man in that ______.

[A] it protects him against the haumful rays from space

[B] it provides sufficient light for plant growth

[C] it supplies the heat necessary for human survival

[D] it screens off the falling meteors

2. We know from the passage that ______.

[A] exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal

[B] the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming

[C] radiation is avoidable in space exploration

[D] astronauts in spacesuits needn't worry about radiation damage

3. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members ______.

[A] is insignifiacant

[B] seems overestimated

[C] is enormous

[D] remains unknown

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

[A] the Apollo mission was very successful

[B] protection from space radiation is no easy job

[C] astronauts will have deformed children or grandchildren

[D] radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers

5. The best title for this passage would be ______.

[A] The Atmosphere and Our Environment

[B] Research on Radiation

[C] Effects of Space Radiation

[D] Importance of Protection Against Radiation

Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now pollute soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and bird less. Man, however much he may contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?

We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major problem. The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad and should not occur. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world.

Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative over long periods of time, and that the danger to the individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a threat of future disaster. "Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs," says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, "yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed."

16. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence

"Man, ...is part of nature." (Para.1)?

[A] Man appears indifferent to what happens in nature.

[B] Man acts as if he does not belong to nature.

[C] Man can avoid the effects of environmental pollution.

[D] Man can escape his responsibilities for environmental protection.

17. What is the author's attitude to wards the environmental effects of pesticides?

[A] Pessimistic.

[B] Indifferent.

[C] Defensive.

[D] Concerned.

18. In the author's view, the sudden death caused by exposure to

large amounts of pesticides ______.

[A] is not the worst of thenegative consequences resulting from the use of pesticides

[B] now occurs most frequently among all accidental deaths

[C] has sharply increased so as to become the center of public attention

[D] is unavoidable because people can't do without pesticides in farming

19. People tend to ignore the delayed effects of exposure to

chemicals because ______.

[A] limited exposure to them does little harm to people's health

[B] the present is more important for them than the future

[C] the danger does not become apparent immediately

[D] humans are capable of withstanding small amounts of poisoning

20. It can be concluded from Dr Dubos' remarks that ______.

[A] people find invisible diseases difficult to deal with

[B] attacks by hidden enemies tend to be fatal

[C] diseases with obvious signs are easy to cure

[D] people tend to overlook hidden dangers caused by pesticides

Federal efforts to aid minority businesses began in the 1960's when the Small Business Administration (SBA) began making federally guaranteed loans and government-sponsored management and technical assistance available to minority business enterprises. While this program enabled many minority entrepreneurs to form new businesses, the results were disappointing, since managerial inexperience, unfavorable locations, and capital shortages led to high failure rates. Even 15 years after the program was implemented, minority business receipts were not quite two percent economy’s total receipts.

Recently federal policymakers have adopted an approach intended to accelerate development of the minority business sector by moving away from directly aiding small minority enterprises and toward supporting large, growth-oriented minority firms through intermediary companies. In this approach, large corporations participate in the development of successful and stable minority businesses by making use of government-sponsored venture capital. The capital is used by a participating company to establish a Minority Enterprise Small Businesses that have potential to become future suppliers of customers of the sponsoring company.

MESBIC's are the result of the belief that providing established firms with easier access to relevant management techniques and more job-specific experience, as well as substantial amounts of capital, gives those firms a greater opportunity to develop sound business foundations than does simply making general management experience and small amounts of capital available. Further, since potential markets for the minority businesses already exist through the sponsoring companies, the minority businesses face considerably less risk in terms of location and market fluctuation. Following early financial and operating problems, sponsoring corporations began to capitalize MESBIC's far above the legal minimum of $500,000 in order to generate sufficient income and to sustain the quality of management needed. MESBIC's are now emerging as increasingly important financing sources for minority enterprises.

Ironically, MESBIC staffs, which usually consist of Hispanic and Black professionals, tend to approach investments in minority firms more pragmatically than do many MESBIC directors, who are usually senior managers from sponsoring corporations. The latter often still think mainly in terms of the 'social responsibility approach' and thus seem to prefer deals that are riskier and less attractive than normal investment criteria would warrant. Such differences in viewpoint have produced uneasiness among many minority staff members, who feel that minority entrepreneurs and businesses should be judged by established business considerations. These staff members believe their point of view is closer to the original philosophy of MESBIC's and they are concerned that, unless a more prudent course if followed, MESBIC directors may revert to policies likely to re-create the disappointing results of the original SBA approach.

11. Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?

[A] The use of MESBIC's for aiding minority entrepreneurs seems to

have greater potential for success than does the original SBA

approach.

[B] There is a crucial difference in point of view between the staff

and directors of some MESBIC's.

[C] After initial problems with management and marketing, minority

businesses have begun to expand at a steady rate.

[D] Minority entrepreneurs wishing to form new businesses now have

several equally successful federal programs on which to rely.

12. According to the passage, the MESBIC approach differ s from the

SBA approach in that MESBIC's _____.

[A] seek federal contracts to provide market for minority businesses

[B] Encourage minority businesses to provide markets for other minority businesses

[C] Attempt to maintain a specified rate of growth in the minority business sector

[D] Rely on the participation of large corporations to finance minority businesses

13. Which of the following statements about the SBA program can be

inferred from the passage?

[A] The maximum term for loans made to recipient businesses was 15 years.

[B] Business loans were considered to be more useful to recipient

businesses than was management and technical assistance.

[C] The anticipated failure rate for recipient businesses was

significantly lower than the rate that actually resulted.

[D] Recipient businesses were encouraged to relocate to areas more

favorable for business development.

14. The author refers to the 'financial and operating problems'

encountered by MESBIC's primarily in order to _____.

[A] broaden the scope of the discussion to include the legal

considerations of funding MESBIC's through sponsoring companies

[B] call attention to the fact that MESBIC's must receive adequate

funding in order to function effectively

[C] show that sponsoring companies were willing to invest only

$500,000 of government-sponsored venture capital in the original

MESBIC's

[D] Compare SBA and MESBIC limits on minimum funding

15. It can be inferred from the passage that the attitude of some

MESBIC staff member toward the investments preferred by some MESBIC

directors can be best described as _____.

[A] disappointing

[B] Indifferent

[C] Shocked

[D] Defensive

Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from 'invisible earnings' to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only $285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional $375 million and this washes out the almost $400 million by which imports exceed exports.

It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus -- $66 million. Greece has a decent a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.

In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don't mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece's problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $60 to $70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countryside, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here: "Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government's red tape and shrewdness about small points."

Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.

Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities. Tourism itself has jumped from approximately $31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome – without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.

1. The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is

_____.

[A] Greek income and expenditures

[B] The improving economic situation in Greece

[C] The value of tourism

[D] Military expenditures

2. Many peasants earn less than _____.

[A] $60 a week

[B] $2 a week

[C] $1 a day

[D] $10 a month

3. The Greek Government spends _____.

[A] more than 25%of its budget on military terms

[B] More than its collects

[C] A third of a billion dollars in gold

[D] Less than 25% of its budget on military terms

4. According to the passage, Greece has _____.

[A] a dictatorship

[B] a monarchy

[C] a single majority party

[D] too much red tape

5. Greece imports annually goods and materials _____.

[A] totaling almost $700 million

[B] that balance exports

[C] that are paid by tourists

[D] costing $66 million