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  3. It is simple enough to say that since books have classes: fiction, biography, poetry—we should separate them and take from each

It is simple enough to say that since books have classes: fiction, biography, poetry—we should separate them and take from each

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问题     It is simple enough to say that since books have classes: fiction, biography, poetry—we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books 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 be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception 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 (同谋).
    If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fitness(委婉之处), from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Immerse yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author 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 to make 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 to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and difficulties of words. Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you--how at the comer of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment.
The author mean that ______ by saying "Yet few people ask from books what books can give US".
选项 A、lots of people read few books
B、readers have only absorbed part of knowledge in books
C、few people have a proper idea about what content some kind of books should include
D、readers can scarcely understand most of the books
答案C
解析 作者说“然而很少有人向书籍索取它们所能提供给我们的东西。”的真正含义是什么?解答此题，正确理解第一段第二句“Yet...us”的含义是关键。其实质含义是：“许多人读书时因观念不正确，而仅仅能从书本中得到很少的知识，获得很少的启迪”。A项意为“作者认为许多人读的书都太少”，显然与我们的分析不符。B项意为“作者认为读者仅仅从书中汲取了部分知识”。这句话只是引文部分的字面含义，所以也应排除。C项“作者认为许多人对某类书应该包含什么样的内容没有正确的观念。”这才是作者的隐含意思，所以是正确的。而D项“作者认为许多读者对大量的书都不能读懂。”这也是一种错误的理解，也应排除。可确定选项为C正确。
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