問題詳情

V. Reading Comprehension: Choose the best answer. 15% (各 1.5 分)It is simple enough to say that since books have classes—fiction, biography, poetry—we shouldseparate them and take from each what is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask frombooks what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds,asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall beflattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all suchpreconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author;try to become him. Be his fellow worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve, and criticizeat first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But ifyou open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness,from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human beingunlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that yourauthor is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt tomake something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks;reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. Perhaps the quickest way tounderstand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write, to make your ownexperiment with the dangers and difficulties of words. Recall, then, some event that has left a distinctimpression on you—how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A treeshook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, anentire conception, seemed contained in that moment.
36. Which of the following statements is the writer’s attitude toward reading?
(A) Reading a long novel and building a house are not alike at all.
(B) Readers had better try to write themselves to realize what authors think about.
(C) Readers must not identify themselves with authors since they are totally different.
(D) Readers should be critical enough in the beginning of reading to get more valuable messages.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.590909
統計：A(1),B(13),C(5),D(3),E(0)

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