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II. Cloze：10%(Choose the best one for each of the following blanks)     “Deep reading” — as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the Web — is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to 12 as we would asignificant work of art. Its disappearance would imperil the intellectual and emotionaldevelopment of generations growing up online, as well as the 13 of a criticalpart of our culture: the novels, poems and other kinds of literature that can beappreciated only by readers whose brains have been trained to apprehend them.   Recent research in psychology has demonstrated that deep reading — slow,immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional complexity — is a distinctiveexperience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words. Although deepreading does not require a conventional book, the built-in limits of the printed pageare 14 conducive to the deep reading experience. A book’s lack of hyperlinks15 the readers 15 making decisions and allowing them to remain fullyimmersed in the narrative. The immersion is supported by the way the brain handleslanguage rich in detail, allusion and metaphor: by creating a mental representationthat draws on the same brain regions that would be active if the scene 16 in reallife. The emotional situations and moral dilemmas in books are also vigorousexercise for the brain, propelling us inside the heads of fictional characters and evenincreasing our real-life capacity for empathy.
12.
(A) conserve
(B) sustain
(C) preserve
(D) guarantee

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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