For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In ____1____ -- a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend ____2____ -- can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ____3____ -- readers. Most of us develop poor reading ____4____ -- at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency ____5____ -- in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually, words have ____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 a time, 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 speed of reading is vocalization - sounding each word either orally or mentally as ____11____ -- reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an ____12____, which moves a 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 stretchhim. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, ____14____ -- word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first ____15____ -- is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, ____16____ -- your comprehension will improve. Many people have found ____17____ -- reading skill drastically improved after some training. ____18____ -- Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute ____19____ -- the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can ____20____ -- a lot more reading material in a short period of time.
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