首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Sometime late last year I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That’s a problem if you do what I do, but it’s an e
Sometime late last year I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That’s a problem if you do what I do, but it’s an e
admin
2019-06-26
34
问题
Sometime late last year I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That’s a problem if you do what I do, but it’s an even bigger problem if you’re the kind of person I am. Since I discovered reading, I’ve always been surrounded by stacks of books. I read my way through camp, school, nights, weekends; when my girlfriend and I backpacked through Europe after college graduation, I had to buy a suitcase to accommodate the books I picked up along the way.
In his 1967 memoir, "Stop-Time," Frank Conroy describes his initiation into literature as an adolescent on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. "I’d lie in bed... ," he writes, "and read one paperback after another until two or three in the morning... The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy." I know that boy: Growing up in the same neighborhood, I was that boy. And I have always read like that, although these days, I find myself driven by the idea that in their intimacy, the one-to-one attention they require, books are not tools to retreat from but rather to understand and interact with the world.
So what happened? It isn’t a failure of desire so much as one of will. Or not will, exactly, but focus: the ability to still my mind long enough to inhabit someone else’s world, and to let that someone else inhabit mine. Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
Such a state is increasingly elusive in our over-networked culture, in which everything new is blogged and tweeted. Today, it seems it is not contemplation we seek but an odd sort of distraction masquerading as being in the know. Why? Because of the illusion that illumination is based on speed, that it is more important to react than to think, that we live in a culture in which something is attached to every bit of time.
Here we have my reading problem in a nutshell, for books insist we take the opposite position, that we immerse, slow down. "After September 11," Mona Simpson wrote as part of a 2001 LA Weekly round-table on reading during wartime, "I didn’t read books for the news. Books, by their nature, are never new enough." By this, Simpson doesn’t mean she stopped reading; instead, at a moment when it felt as if time was on fast forward, she relied on books to pull back from the onslaught, to distance herself from the present as a way of reconnecting with a more elemental sense of who we are.
Of course, the source of my distraction is somewhat different: not an event of great significance but the usual ongoing trivialities. I am too susceptible to the tumult of the culture, the sound and fury signifying nothing. What I’m struggling with is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that there is something out there that merits my attention, when in fact it’s mostly just a series of disconnected riffs and fragments that add up to the anxiety of the age.
According to the text, why do people have reading problem nowadays?
选项
A、Every rumor and mundanity is on the Internet so that we don’t have to read.
B、People tend to prefer to one-time entertainment rather than deep mediation.
C、Quick reaction to news is a better way to obtain knowledge.
D、The extremely cyber-conscious world can’t get along with books.
答案
D
解析
属细节题。选项A的分析过于浅显,网上有新闻和讯息并不是人们不读书的深层原因,故选项A错误。选项B犯了强加联系的错误,人们选择上网来“及时行乐”而放弃读书不能成为人们不再读书的原因,故选项B错误。选项C偷换概念,原文表示人们误以为获取真知靠的是速度,做出反应比思考更重要,这是错误的观点,并不是得到验证了的客观事实,故选项C错误。人们现在不愿意坐下来静心读书,究其原因还是在于过于网络化的生活同读书所推崇的价值观格格不入,故选项D符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/m29Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterprise,market-orientedeconomyinwhichconsumerslarg
Whenpeopletalkabouta"north-southdivide"inBritain,theyusuallyrefertohouseprices,employmentandtheratioofprivat
Nowthattheeconomyisatlastgrowingagain,theburningissueinBritainisthecostofliving.Priceshaveexceededwagesfo
Threeyearsago,onJanuary13th,RukhsarKhatun,then15monthsold,wasdiagnosedwithpolio.Shenowhasacrippledlegands
【F1】Islanguage,likefood,abasichumanneedwithoutwhichachildatacriticalperiodoflifecanbestarvedanddamaged?Ju
Formanypeople,emotionsareascarything.【C1】______oftheproblemisthatwejustdon’tknowwhattodowiththem,according
Formanypeople,emotionsareascarything.【C1】______oftheproblemisthatwejustdon’tknowwhattodowiththem,according
RunningfortheofficeofthePresidentoftheUnitedStatesisexceptionallyarduousandshouldnotbeundertakenbythe【C1】___
RunningfortheofficeofthePresidentoftheUnitedStatesisexceptionallyarduousandshouldnotbeundertakenbythe【C1】___
Entirecitiesandcountieshavebannedthem.McDonald’sandKFChavedeclaredtogivethemup—ashaveStarbucks,RubyTuesday,a
随机试题
试述长期高血压引起心力衰竭的发病机制。
患者,女,58岁。绝经数年,忽又来潮,量多、色淡,肌热面赤,烦渴欲饮,脉洪大而虚。治疗应选用()
按照规定,()应当将汇总的建设工程文件档案向地方城建档案管理部门移交。
(2008)按现行《无障碍设计规范》的要求。设有观众席和听众席的公共建筑应设轮椅席位,下列叙述哪项有误?
实行持仓限额制度的目的在于()。
关于税法的基本原则,下列表述不正确的是()。
食用油品牌A的产品特征:(1)产品原料主要来自于豆类,原料概念新,产品形象新;(2)产品中维生素含量丰富,并且比市场上现有品牌的维生素含量高;(3)营养价值高,营养成分平衡;(4)产品有一定的保健功能;(5
游客因团内矛盾,或者因为无法满足其个人要求,提出提前退团,要请全陪或领队劝解,希望他继续随团旅游。如劝说无效,可满足其要求,未享受的综合服务费如何退还由地接社决定。()
对生活在化工厂附近地区的居民所作的正常医疗检查发现,这些居民在致命器官上受到的可能导致癌变的伤害的百分比相当高。这可能是由于有毒的化学物质从化工厂流人河床而导致的。以下哪项所提供的信息对决定化工厂对可能出现癌变的当地居民是否应当负责任最有用?
中国共产党同各民主党派和无党派民主人士进行合作和协商的形式有()。
最新回复
(
0
)