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 【C1】______a job or advancing in one，the ability to read and comprehend 【C2】______can mean the difference between success and failure.Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 【C3】______readers.Most of us de-velop poor reading 【C4】______at an early age，and never get over them.The main deficiency 【C5】______in the actual stuff of language itself--words.Taken individually，words have 【C6】______meaning until they are strung together into phrased，sentences and paragraphs.【C7】______，however，the untrained reader does not read groups of words.He laboriously reads one word at a time，often regressing to 【C8】______words or passages.Regression，the tendency to look back over 【C9】______you have just read，is a common bad habit in reading.Another habit which 【C10】______down the speed of reading is vocalization-sounding each word either orally or mentally as 【C11】______reads.
To overcome these bad habits，some reading clinics use a device called an 【C12】______，which moves a bar （or curtain）down the page at a predetermined speed.The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 【C13】______the reader finds comfortable，in order to ’stretch’him.The accelerator forces the reader to read fast，【C14】______word-by-word reading，regression and subvocalization，practically impossible.At first 【C15】______is sacrificed for speed.But when you learn to read ideas and concepts，you will not only read faster，【C16】______your compre-hension will improve.Many people have found 【C17】______reading skill drastically improve dafter some training.【C18】______Charles Au，a business manager，for instance，his reading rate was a reasonably good 172words a minute 【C19】______the training，now it is an excellent 1，378words a minute.He is delighted that how he can 【C20】______a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

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