For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation.To keepup their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications,interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers andmagazines: a never-ending flood of words.In _1_ a job oradvancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend _2 _canmean the difference between success and failure.Yet theunfortunate fact is that most of us are _3 _readers. Most of usdevelop poor reading _4 _at an early age, and never get overthem. The main deficiency _5_ in the actual stuff of language itself-words.Taken individually, wordshave _6_ meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. _7_ ,however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words.He laboriously reads one word at atime, often regressing to _8_ words or passages.Regression, the tendency to look back over _9_you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading.Another habit which_ 10 _down the speedof reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as _11_ reads.
/ j% ^5 s1 l, [! y. z NTo overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an _12_ , which movesa bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed.The bar is set at a slightly faster rate_13_ the reader finds comfortable, in order to“stretch”him.The accelerator forces the reader toread fast, _14 _word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. Atfirst _15 _is sacrificed for speed.But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not onlyread faster, _16_ your comprehension will improve. Many people have found _17_ reading skilldrastically improved after some training. _18_ Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, hisreading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute _19_ the training,now it is an excellent1,378 words a minute.He is delighted that how he can _20_ a lot more reading material in a shortperiodof time.8 l) s5 ?+ O0 ^
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