Question

    How to Find Time to Read?

That everyone’s too busy these days is ordinary. But one specific complaint is made especially sadly：1. 

What makes the problem worse is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem efficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times”2.Sit down to read and the work-related thoughts keeps going on and on or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “Most people tend to communicate…It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one actually tends to interrupt”. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.

3.Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it on purpose, making any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading-useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles(days, hours, minutes)as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”.4.

So what does work？Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such usual behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”.5.         

“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down. On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.

A.How do we make reading easy?

B.There’s never any time to read.

C.In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem.

D.No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.

E.Most people don't pay more attention to physical book reading.

F.You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers.

G.But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.

Answer

1.B

2.G

3.C

4.D

5.F

【解析】

本文为一篇说明文。介绍了如何在日常生活中挤出时间阅读。

1.

空格前一句说到忙碌对于我们每一个人实在是太普遍了。文章的题目又是需要找时间阅读。所以空格处应该是我们经常抱怨我们没时间进行阅读。故此题选B。

2.

空格前一句The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times”说到网站给我们提供了很多措施来节约时间进行阅读。空格后又说道带着工作思绪阅读让人太劳累了，可知作者认为网站的建议不对，所以横线处存在转折关系。故此题选G。

3.

空格前一句Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.深度阅读不仅需要时间，而且需要一种特殊的时间，这种时间不能仅仅通过提高效率来获得。所以这里说明提高效率无用，但是并未阐述为什么无用，所以空格处应该是继续讲提高效率是无用的。故此题选C。

4.

空格前文“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,”writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and“we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes）as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”. 加里·埃伯勒在他的《神圣的时光》一书中写道：“未来像空瓶子一样，沿着一条不可阻挡的、几乎无限的传送带向我们袭来，当这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟）过去时，我们感到要装满它们的压力，因为如果它们不被填满就过去了，我们就会浪费它们。”引用这句话作者想要表明专注于阅读也是会让人不满意的，而D选项所表达的意义与这个一致。故此题选D。

5.

空格前一处but in fact, Eberle notes, such usual behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”.指出我们在阅读的时候经常会走神。所以下句应该是对走神的解决措施。F选项中limit distractions正好表达了这个含义。故此题选F。