阅读理解,回答26-30题 We all ask **** a lot of questions. But we sho
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阅读理解,回答26-30题
We all ask **** a lot of questions. But we should all ask one question a lot more often:What are you reading?”lt is a simple question, **** powerful one, and it can changelives.
Here is one example: l met, at a bookstore, a woman who told me that she had faller** out of touch of her beloved grandson. She lived in Florida. He**** parents livedelsewhere, She would call him and ask him about his school or about his day. He **** inone-word **: Fine.Noting. Nope.
And then one day, she asked **** he was reading. He has just started The HungerGames, a series of dystopian young-adult novels by Suzanne Collins. The grandmotherdecided to read the first volume so that she **** about it with her ****** time theychatted on the phone. She didn’ t know what to expect, but **** herself hooked fromthe first pages.
The book helped this **** cut through the superficialities of phone chat and **** hergrandson on the most important questions that most **** face about survival anddestruction and loyalty and betray and good and evil, and about ******, Now hergrandson ** wait to talk to her when she called-to tell her where he was, to find outwhere she was and to speculate what would happen next.
Other than ******** family, they had never had much in common. Now they did. Theconduit was reading, We need to read and to be readers now ** than ever.
We over-schedule our days ******** constantly about being too busy. We shopendlessly for stuff we don’t need and feel oppressed by the clutter that surrounds us.We rarely sleep well or enough, ****** bodies to the artificial ones we see in magazinesand our lives to the exaggerated ones we see on television. We ** cooking shows andthen eat fast food. We worry ourselves sick ** join gyms we don’t visit. We keep upwith hundreds of acquaintances but****ly see our best friends. We bombard ourselveswith video clips and emails and ******, We even interrupt ** interruptions.
And at the heart of it, for so many, is fear-fear that we are missing **** somethingWherever we are, ** somewhere is doing or ** or eating or listening to something better.Books are **** to helping us change our relationship to the rhythms and habits of dailylife in this world of endless connectivity. We can’ t ****, we can only interrupt ourselveswhile reading them. They are the expression of an individual or a group of individuals,****** mind or collective consciousness. They speak to us, thoughtfully, one at a timeThey demand our attention, ** they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefsand prejudices and listen to someone else’ s. You can ****** a book, scribble in themargin or even chuck it out the window. Still you won’t change the words on the page.
The technology of a book is genius: the order of the words is fixed, whether **** pageor on the screen, but the speed at which you read them is entirely up to you. Sure, thisallows you to skip **** and jump around. But it also allows you to slow down,****ponder.
At the trial in which he would be sentenced to death. Socrates said that theunexamined life isn’ t worth living. Reading is the best way ******** learn how toexamine your life. By comparing what you **** to what others have done, and yourthoughts and theories and feelings to those of others, you **** about yourself and aboutthe world around you. Perhaps that is why reading is one of the few things that you doalone that can make you feel less alone. lt is a solitary **** connects you to others.
What does the underlined word "it”in paragraph 7 referto? A. Interrupting ourselves while reading books. B.An over-scheduled life that people are living. C.Complaining constantly about being too busy. D.The fear that we are missing out on something