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
外语
Prof. Adler mentioned an illustration of beefsteak in order to prove
Prof. Adler mentioned an illustration of beefsteak in order to prove
admin
2013-04-23
18
问题
Prof. Adler mentioned an illustration of beefsteak in order to prove
F: "Don’t ever mark in a book!" Thousands of teachers, librarians and parents have so advised. But Professor Mortimer Adler disagrees. He thinks so long as you own the book and needn’t preserve its physical appearance, marking it properly will grant you the ownership of the book in the true sense of the word and make it a part of yourself. Welcome to our show, Mr. Adler, so why do you think marking up a book is so essential?
M: Well, there are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the first step to possession. (1) Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher’s icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do you any good.
F: I see. Then what if the book is a first edition of "Paradise Lost", a rare edition, or a richly manufactured volume?
M: I would say, I’d no more scribble all over a first edition of "Paradise Lost" than I’d give my baby a set of crayons and an original Rembrandt! I’d buy myself a cheap edition and pay my respect to the author.
F: How does marking up a book help in reading?
M: (2) First, it keeps you awake, and I don’t mean merely conscious; I mean wide awake. In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.
F: Can you explain, please?
M: Sure. If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. You can’t let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read. (3) Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, Gone with the Wind, doesn’t require the most active kind of reading. The books you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of which you are capable. Well, the physical act of writing, with your own hand, brings words and sentences more sharply before your mind and preserves them better in your memory. To set down your reaction to important words and sentences you have read, and the questions they have raised in your mind, is to preserve those reactions and sharpen those questions. You can pick up the book the following week or year, and there are all your points of agreement, disagreement, doubt and inquiry. It’s like resuming an interrupted conversation with the advantage of being able to pick up where you left off.
F: (4) And that is exactly what reading a book should be: a conversation between you and the author.
M: Right. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; naturally you’ll have the proper humility as you approach him. But don’t let anybody tell you that a reader is supposed to be solely on the receiving end. Understanding is a two-way operation; learning doesn’t consist in being an empty receptacle. The learner has to question himself and question the teacher. He even has to argue with the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. And marking a book is literally an expression of your differences, or agreements of opinion, with the author.
F: How should we mark up a book in an intelligent way?
M: There are all kinds of devices for marking a book intelligently and fruitfully. Here’s the way I do it: (5) Underlining for major points, or for important or forceful statements. Vertical lines at the margin are used to emphasize a statement already underlined. Star, asterisk, or other doodads at the margin are used sparingly, to emphasize the ten or twenty most important statements in the book. Numbers in the margin are to indicate the sequence of points the author makes in developing a single argument. Number of other pages in the margin serves to indicate where else in the book the author made points relevant to the point marked. Circling of key words or phrases is recommendable. I write in the margin, or at the top or bottom of the page, for the sake of recording questions and perhaps answers, and of reducing a complicated discussion to a simple statement. I also use the end-papers at the back of the book to make a personal index of the author’s points in the order of their appearance. The front end-papers are, to me, the most important. Some people reserve them for a fancy bookplate; I reserve them for fancy thinking. After I have finished reading the book and making my personal index on the back end-papers, I turn to the front and try to outline the book, not page by page, or point by point, but as an integrated structure, with a basic unity and an order of parts. This outline is, to me, the measure of my understanding of the work.
F: Great there. I really appreciate your way of reading. We usually read "between the lines" to get the most of anything, but here with Professor Mortimer Adler, we learned how to "write between the lines". Thank you, Mr. Adler.
M: Any time.
选项
A、the importance of eating a beefsteak.
B、eating eggs and toast is important for learning another language.
C、learning another language is as easy as eating eggs and toast.
D、full ownership of a book comes only when one marks it up.
答案
D
解析
理解题。Mortimer Adler教授说边看书边做笔记才是真正意义上拥有书籍,就如同牛排一样,买来放在冰箱里并没有拥有它,只有吃下去融入血液才有意义。所以这提到牛排,目的在于说writing between the lines的重要性。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/wF4O777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
InrecentyearsspeculationhasaboundedthatAlbertEinsteincanhavehadAspergersyndrome.
Agreatnumberofattentionisbeingpaidtodaytotheso-calleddigitaldivide—1.______thedivisionoftheworldintothein
Agreatnumberofattentionisbeingpaidtodaytotheso-calleddigitaldivide—1.______thedivisionoftheworldintothein
Plasticsarematerialswhicharesoftenedbyheatandsetintolastform1.______whenareshapedinamold.Somearenatural;s
WhichofthefollowingisCORRECT?
WhichofthefollowingworksisNOTwrittenbyWallaceStevens?
Althoughitmighthavehappenedanywhere,myencounterwiththegreenbananastartedonasteepmountainroadintheinteriorof
Vibrationsinthegroundareapoorlyunderstoodbutprobablywidespreadmeansofcommunicationbetweenanimals.Itseemsu
Theeconomystoppedshrinkingayearago,butAmerica’sunemploymentproblemisasbigasever.Theofficialjoblessratewas9.
TheinnercircletrainfromtheCityrushedimpetuouslyoutofablackholeandpulledupwithadiscordant,grindingracketin
随机试题
关于我国涉外民事诉讼代理问题,下列说法错误的是()
决定社会经济制度性质的是【】
患者男性,头部外伤后2小时入院,伤后曾昏迷约30分钟。入院查体:意识清楚,GCS评分:10分,头顶有一头皮血肿约3cm×3cm,头皮无明显裂伤。左侧外耳道可见稀薄血性液体流出。CT:左颞可见一线形骨折,左额颞可见一薄层硬膜下血肿,左颞点、片状高密度,颅内可
患者李某,女性,17岁。半年来因学习紧张,思想压力较大,晚上经常难以入睡,或多梦易醒,伴心悸健忘,四肢倦怠,饮食乏味,面色少华,舌质淡,脉细弱。其治疗应首选的方剂是
审判长在法庭审理过程中突发心脏病,无法继续参与审判,需在庭外另行指派其他审判人员参加审判。法院院长的下列哪一做法是正确的?(2011—卷二—32,单)
防排烟系统中,排烟风管的隔热层应采用厚度不小于()的不燃绝热材料。
()类贷款不属于不良贷款。
某外国投资者拟在中国境内出资设立一家外商独资企业。根据涉外投资法律制度的规定,下列各项中,可以作为该外国投资者出资方式的有()。
激励的目的是追求利润的最大化和建立一个具有凝聚力的团队来吸引并留下优秀的人才。但包容与信任作为一个并不深刻的激励手段,为什么往往被人们所忽视呢?这种现象很大程度上是人们对人性的曲解,美其名日人是贪婪的、自私的。因此,更多的人往往不愿往更深处去开采、去挖掘。
A、HeisTracieHiggins’sboyfriend.B、Heisabadboy.C、HebecomesverywelcomebywomenwithTrade’shelp.D、Heisalwayspopu
最新回复
(
0
)