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  3. All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply 【21】______ to all

All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply 【21】______ to all

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问题     All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply  【21】______ to all of us  【22】______ the covers of books -- but we must know how to avail ourselves  【23】______ this treasure and how to get  【24】______ from it. The most  【25】______ people all over the world, are  【26】______ who have never discovered how  【27】______ it is to read good books.
    I am very interested in people, in meeting them and  【28】______ about them. Some of the most  【29】______ people I’ve met existed only in a Writer’s imagination, then  【30】______ the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, new words.
    If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who  【31】______ in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first  【32】______ in history; how  【33】______ everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes  【34】______ the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children.
    Reading can make our minds feel pleased,  【35】______ means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness  【36】______ you a good reader. Reading is  【37】______ , not because the writer is telling you something,  【38】______ because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the  【39】______ or even goes beyond his. Your experience,  【40】______ his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
选项 A、useful
B、new
C、readable
D、available
答案D
解析 available“可获得的，可利用的”。本句意为长年累月积累的智慧，娱悦了人类几个世纪的故事都以书的形式存在，我们所有人可以很方便地，以很少的费用就得到它们。因此应选available。useful“有用的”；readable“易读的，可看懂的”。
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