All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only  be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.
Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate(分開的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相關(guān)的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解決方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, you not only find out about the world and the people in it, you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on(專注于) books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’ t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t suffer during the process.
小題1:Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?
A.You will never meet amazing people in your life unless you read.
B.You think actively instead of getting facts passively(被動地)when reading.
C.You will get much delight from any book that you are told to read.
D.You can relax yourself by reading because it involves little thinking.
小題2:What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A.We can often find something connected with ourselves in books.
B.Different writings at different times share the same characteristics.
C.The same problems will appear in different books with similar solutions.
D.Reading books which are written for your generation is more helpful to you.
小題3:What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?
A.To advise us to enjoy ourselves by reading.
B.To encourage us to make full use of libraries.
C.To encourage us to find out solutions in books.
D.To advise us to discuss books with other people.

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題1:A

試題分析:本文主要闡述了書籍在人類發(fā)展進(jìn)步和文明中的偉大作用。
小題1:理解歸納題,根據(jù)文中語句“Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his.”理解可知。讀書可以讓我們主動的接受一些新知識,故選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)文中第四自然段的語句理解可知。在書籍里可以找到和我們密切相關(guān)的一些東西,故選A。
小題3:理解歸納題,根據(jù)文中語句理解可知,作者寫這篇文章的目的就是建議我們?nèi)プx書,故選A。
點(diǎn)評:首先通讀全文,了解大概意思。然后看問題,帶著問題精讀全文,同時選擇答案,必要時用排除法,注意,文章中一般都會有答案,有的可以直接找到,英美人并不愿意把問題弄得太深奧,不必想得太復(fù)雜,很多都是直接了當(dāng)?shù),千萬別自己發(fā)揮想象。但不得不說,平時多積累詞匯量的話,答題可能就會主動一些,有把握一些。
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