SECTION III: READING Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question. Why did you decide to read, and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every single part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight’s (56) ­­­________ ? Common sense (57) ­­­________ that the answers to these questions depend on “readability”- whether the (58) ­­­________ matter is interesting, and the argument clear and the (59) ________ attractive. But ...

SECTION III: READING

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

Why did you decide to read, and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every single part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight’s (56) ­­­________ ? Common sense (57) ­­­________ that the answers to these questions depend on “readability”- whether the (58) ­­­________ matter is interesting, and the argument clear and the (59) ________ attractive. But psychologists are trying to (60) ­­­________ why people read – and often don’t read certain things, for example technical information. They also have examined so much the writing as the readers.

Even the most technically confident people often (61) ­­­________ instructions for the video or home computer in favor of hands- on experience. And people frequently take little notice of consumer information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts. Psychologists researching reading (62) ________ to assume that both beginners and competent readers read everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are (63) ­­­________ among them about the role of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some people believe that fluent readers take in very letter or word they see; other (64) ­­­________ that reader rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, comprehension (65) ­­­________, then reading stops.