C．reading is the key to school success

　　D．how an athlete is trained

　　解析：推理判断题。主题句在第一段段尾，即Educators call it"automaticity"，第一段用几个例子说明了什么是自如，因此选A。

　　答案：A

　　2．The Illinois study shows that the automatic reader's high speed________.

　　A．costs him a lot of time

　　B．affects his comprehension

　　C．leads to his future success

　　D．doesn't affect his comprehension

　　解析：细节理解题。由第二段倒数第一句提供的细节．..the automatic readers were reading twice as...vocabulary可知，自动阅读者的高速度并不影响他们的理解。

　　答案：D

　　3．A bright child________.

　　A．also needs practice to be an automatic reader

　　B．always achieves great success in comprehension tests

　　C．doesn't need practice a lot

　　D．is a born automatic reader

　　解析：细节理解题。由第三段第一、第二句"It's not IQ...to automaticity"可知，自动阅读来源于大量阅读，答案为A。

　　答案：A

　　4．The word"outscoring"in Paragraph 2 means________.

　　A．scoring higher than

　　B．scoring lower than

　　C．scoring as high as

　　D．scoring unfavorably in

　　解析：词义猜测题。outscoring为合成词，由out＋scoring构成，out意为"超出"；score"得分"；由构词法可推测outscoring意为"得分高出"。

　　答案：A

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