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As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of literature between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboys imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical (激进的) ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and shock my fellow students with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; I searched the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982, it had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奥的) knowledge of post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading.
Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren at all interested in philosophy. I didn stop reading, you can avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals (操作手册) and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book on the go for the duration of aeroplane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even got a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
My new TV is an extra circuit board (电路板) inside my computer. Its on a desk in front of a working chair and I can see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and its nice to have it on while Im typing this… but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and Im reading about six at the same time. I don want to be any of the characters. I don care if a thousand people have already read them. I don have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that theyve been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
【小题1】The writer enjoyed reading “literature” between the ages of nine and fourteen because .A．he thought it was important for a schoolboy to do soB．he was still too young to understand other booksC．he believed all the real historical figures were his friendsD．he could imagine himself being the characters in the books【小题2】“Existentialism” (in paragraph 4) is probably .A．a library intended for teenagersB．a kind of books on traditionsC．a philosophy theoryD．a kind of reading skill【小题3】The main reason the writer stopped reading books was that .A．he found watching TV was more interestingB．he became too busy to read any booksC．he found books were of little use to his workD．he had to read a lot of manuals, contracts and documents【小题4】Now the writer starts to read books again .A．to find back his youth in booksB．for the pure pleasure of readingC．so as to help kill his spare timeD．for only business purposes【小题5】Which of the following is the best title of the passage?A．The Years with BooksB．Books and TV ProgramsC．Don’t Judge a Book by Its CoverD．Reading Makes One ExcellentD
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(答案→)D
解析：本文主要讲述的是我多年以来阅读的心路历程，从小时候到大学再到大学以后工作了，曾经有一段时间放弃了阅读，最后又重新拿起课本进行阅读的过程。
【小题1】D 推理题。根据第二段1,2行I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of literature between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves.后半句中我们有足够的时间去做White Fang, Robinson Crusoe。说明他把自己想象成了文学作品中的角色。故D正确。
【小题2】C 推理题。根据本句Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奥的) knowledge of 以及最后一段2,3行You had to travel about and speak to people who weren at all interested in philosophy. 可知post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism.可知post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism.都是一些深奥的哲学理论，故C正确。
【小题3】C 细节题。根据文章最后一段1,2行Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn seem to be much in books that would actually get things done.可知很多的书在我的工作以后都没有用了。所以我也就不读这些书了。故C正确。
【小题4】B 推理题。根据文章倒数3行There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that theyve been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.可知我实际上喜欢的是拿起书阅读的快乐。故B正确。
【小题5】A 主旨大意题。本文主要讲述的是我多年以来阅读的心路历程，从小时候到大学再到大学以后工作了，曾经有一段时间放弃了阅读，最后又重新拿起课本进行阅读的过程。故A正确。
