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阅读理解，回答题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 was the grandmother’s initial reaction to the firstvolume of the novel series The Hunger Games?
A. She was completely fascinated by the book.
B. She knew what to talk about with her grandson.
C. She felt confused with the dystopian relationship.
D.缺 A．A
B．B
C．C
D．D
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