首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I wa
[originaltext] I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I wa
游客
2024-05-16
68
管理
问题
I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes — anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony or its very complicated truth. 1 merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title 1 might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)
There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization". "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality, "these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato’s The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that 1 had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What did the speaker think on hearing the teacher’s suggestion of reading?
33. What do we learn about the speaker at high school?
34. What is the speaker’s purpose of mentioning The Republic?
35. Why does the speaker provide two book lists?
选项
A、He had plans for reading.
B、He learned to educate himself.
C、He only read books over 100 pages.
D、He read only one book several times.
答案
A
解析
短文中提到,说话者在高中时看了报纸上一位教授推荐的书单,然后按照书单去阅读,由此可知,说话者在有计划地读书,故答案为A)。C)为强干扰项,是对And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length的误解。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3600226.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Overthepastsixweeks,Nicky,42,hascutherdailyroutine
[originaltext]M:(22)Thankyouforcomingtodaytotalkaboutthenewrecyclin
[originaltext]M:(22)Thankyouforcomingtodaytotalkaboutthenewrecyclin
[originaltext]W:Hi,Tom.Haveyoubeenplayingmuchbasketballlately?M:Ipl
[originaltext]W:Hi,Tom.Haveyoubeenplayingmuchbasketballlately?M:Ipl
[originaltext]W:Hi,Tom.Haveyoubeenplayingmuchbasketballlately?M:Ipl
[originaltext]W:Hi,Tom.Haveyoubeenplayingmuchbasketballlately?M:Ipl
[originaltext]W:Hi,Tom.Haveyoubeenplayingmuchbasketballlately?M:Ipl
[originaltext]W:Hi,Tom.Haveyoubeenplayingmuchbasketballlately?M:Ipl
[originaltext](26)GettingintoHarvardUniversitygottougherthisyearas
随机试题
Haveyougotanyideaforthesummervacation?Idon’tmindwherewego____
读书的习惯是人类获得知识的最重要的方法之一;而我们在阅读属于自己的书籍时所得到的乐趣,远远胜于阅读借来的书时所得到的乐趣。所以,每一个人都应该在青年时期就开始搜
A.functionB.warningC.definitionD.replacingE.expressF.wordsG.
A.markingB.sinceC.nuisanceD.arriveE.profoundF.signsG.explos
【B1】[br]【B11】A、whichB、whereC、whenD、whyB此处需要的是引导词来引导宾语从句,从句意上看,应选where,相当于t
A.头孢拉定 B.头孢他啶 C.头孢克洛 D.头孢氨苄 E.双氯西林
冲击地压能够引发多种矿井灾害,尤其是瓦斯、煤尘爆炸以及火灾、水灾、干扰通风系统等
制作的多媒体课件能够稍加改造就可以为其他教师所用,这体现了多媒体课件设计的()
供计算机使用的不停电电源装置,其容量的选择应留有裕度。
以下证券中风险通常比政府债券高的金融工具有()。A.银行定期存款 B.期货
最新回复
(
0
)