Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. Thereader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts__1__ questions, and so on.

　　For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. Attimes, however, we become __2__ of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties,when mismatch is occurring between __3__ and meaning. When successful matching is beingexperienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level.

　　Different people __4__ with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on thepage, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing andexamining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is __5__ in the text. Thelatter represents __6__ levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important,especially for advanced readers.

　　There is another conversation which from our point of view is __7__ important, and that isto do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as__8__ to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the __9__ weemploy in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversationwith a text is usually pretty well __10__. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation.

　　A)opposed

　　B)converse

　　C)equally

　　D)written

　　E)developed

　　F)strategies

　　G)compared

　　H)awake

　　I)higher

　　J)expectations

　　K)deal

　　L)absolutely

　　M)aware

　　N)better

　　O)further

　　參考答案：

　　1. O

　　2. M

　　3. J

　　4. B

　　5. D

　　6. I

　　7. C

　　8. A

　　9. F

　　10.E