Yet technology has made us less careful readers. Computer and phone screens have changed our reading patterns from the top-to-bottom, left-to-right reading order we traditionally used, to a wild skimming and skipping pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text online that has many links to other web pages also leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text. The Internet may have made us stupider, says British journalist Patrick Kingsley, only half joking. Because of the Internet, he claims we have become very good at collecting a wide range of factual tidbits, but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, think and relate all these facts to each other.

　　【文章大意】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了慢速阅读给人们带来的好处和快速阅读特别是电子阅读带来的一些问题。

　　1. Speed reading is a necessary and vital skill in the Internet age because people______.

　　A. have to grasp the meaning faster

　　B. have much more information to read

　　C. no longer read word by word, line by line

　　D. must use their smartphones more frequently

　　【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据文章第一段的With so much information available through our electronic devices, it would be impossible to get through everything if we read word by word, line by line. 可知人们因为信息太多而快速阅读。故选B。

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