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Do your relationships keep failing? When you leave your home in the morning are you already feeling stressed? Is there no time i

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问题     Do your relationships keep failing? When you leave your home in the morning are you already feeling stressed? Is there no time in your life for fun any more? Cancel your appointment with the doctor. What you need is a good interior-design book. Publishers have created a new genre of books for the home, titles that go beyond paint charts and superficial style and instead show you how your home can be transformed and even heal your life.
    Dawna Walter is one of the authors leading the way in Britain with her book Organized Living that attempts to show how even a tidy sock drawer can improve the quality of your life. Walter is the owner of the Holding Company, a shop on London’s Kings Road which sells hundreds of storage ideas for the home. It has been such a hit that Walter is planning to open four new outlets in the near future. Born in America, Dawna Walter is a fast talker, a self-confessed perfectionist, and a tidiness fundamentalist. "If it takes 10 minutes for you to find a matching pair of socks in the morning, then you are not in control and your outlook just isn’t any good. Being organized saves you a couple of hours every week and gives you more time to do the things you enjoy," she explains.
    Her book contains dozens of ideas for streamlining your life.  In the kitchen she recommends filing magazine recipes immediately, and organizing them by types of dishes or particular cooks, and using ice-cube trays to freeze sauces in individual portions. Her ideas seem common sense but nevertheless require you to be at least slightly obsessive. CDs are a case in point: "How often do you want to find one particular CD and can’t? Now, how much easier it would be if you placed them in alphabetical order? That will only take an hour. Then divide out the ones you listen to regularly into a separate section."
    Another recent book in the British market was Sarah Shurety’s Chinese-inspired Feng Shui For Your Home. Within 14 days of publication every copy had been sold. Shurety’s room-by-room guide to creating a harmonious living space, based on the ancient Chinese tradition Feng Shui, contains rules for how to create the best atmosphere and promote health, wealth and happiness. Dinner party hosts are told to place quiet people at the head of the table and facing the door so that they will feel more garrulous; those looking for romance learn to place pink flowers by their beds; and house-buyers are warned to beware of properties built on sloping foundations if they want stability in their lives.
    The book Creating Space, by Elizabeth Wilhide, claims that readers following its advice will not just improve their homes but transform their lives.  Wilhide believes that as we increasingly work from home, we need to reassess the way our houses work (especially when there are children in the household) if we want to avoid being overrun by junk and that feeling of "being mentally weighed down". Unfortunately, she admits, she finds it difficult to follow her own advice. She sheepishly confesses to having "dumping zones" in her house, a handbag "that doesn’t bear looking into", and a car "that’s a no-go zone". But she is undaunted by these small failures. In the future, she says, she is determined to tidy up her own life and follow the path to stress-free health, wealth and happiness.
选项 A、review some newly-published interior-design books.
B、explore the potential market for interior-design books.
C、persuade people to buy some good books.
D、stress the importance of reading good books.
答案C
解析 此题为快速浏览题。本文一开始就提出三个问题，目的是吸收读者的注意力。随着阅读的逐步深入，我们很快知道此乃带有广告性质的新书推荐文章。第1段第4、5句为劝说读者购买有关室内设计的书。此文浏览的关键在于捕捉文章的体裁特征——即广告性语言特征。
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