[单选题]根据以下材料,回答
Aswithspokenlanguage,writtenlanguageisalwaysusedforapurpose.Peoplereadatext11theythinkthatitwillenablethemtofindanswerstoquestionsthattheyareinterestedinanswering.Peoplewritetoexpressan12ortogiveinformationtoparticularreaders.Thereare,ofcourse,manydifferentpurposesforreadingandwritinganddifferentpurposeswill13differentreadingandwritingstyles.
Ingeneral,writtenlanguageisstructurallymore"correct"thanspokenlanguage.Ithasclearwordandsentence14anditsinformationismoredenselypacked.Moreissaidin15words.However,writtenlanguagealsocontainsbothstructuralandcontextualredundancyandthiscanhelpreadersto16thetext.
Writtenlanguageisoftenstructurallymore17thanspokenlanguage.Thisisbecausewhenpeoplewritetheyhave18tothinkaboutwhattheywanttowriteandareableto19towhattheyhavewrittenandreviseitasoftenastheywish.Thisgreater,structuralcomplexityisonefactorthatmaymakeatext20tounderstand.
Whenpeoplereadintheirfirstlanguage,theydonotusuallyreadeverywordinthetext.Readers21theireyesacrossanddownthetextstoppingatgroupsofwords(fixations)tocheckformeaning.Thespeedwithwhichpeopleread22theirpurposeforreadingandonhow23arangeofpossiblemeaningstheirbrainhastochoosefromateveryfixation.24readersusethestructuralandcontextualredundancyofthelanguage,their25ofwhattheyhavealreadyreadandthegeneralknowledgetheyalreadyhaveto26whatwillcomenext,andso27thenumberofpossiblechoicesthatthebrainhastoconsideratanyfixation.
Bothwriters,whenchoosinghowtoexpresstheir28meaningfortheaudiencethattheyhaveinmind,29readers,wheninterpretingwriters′meaning,relynotonlyontheirlinguisticknowledge,but30theirgeneralknowledgeofthecontextinwhichtheyarereadingandwriting.Suchknowledge,whetherspecificallylinguisticorcontextual,isstoredinthelong-textmemory.

A
apology
B
invitation
C
enthusiasm
D
intention
正确答案:D
题目解析
考查句意理解和名词辨析。根据句意“人们写东西是为了向特定的读者表达___________或传达信息”可知,intention“目的,意图,意向”,最符合题意,故选D。apology“道歉,抱歉”,invitation“邀请,招待”enthusiasm“热情,热忱”,均不符合题意。
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