Question

【題目】 Returning to a book you’ve read many times can feel like drinks with an old friend. There’s a welcome familiarity - but also sometimes a slight suspicion that time has changed you both, and thus the relationship. But books don’t change, people do. And that’s what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.

The beauty of rereading lies in the idea that our bond with the work is based on our present mental register. It’s true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings. But with reading, it’s all about the present. It’s about the now and what one contributes to the now, because reading is a give and take between author and reader. Each has to pull their own weight.

There are three books I reread annually .The first, which I take to reading every spring is Emest Hemningway’s A Moveable Feast. Published in 1964, it’s his classic memoir of 1920s Paris. The language is almost intoxicating (令人陶醉的)，an aging writer looking back on an ambitious yet simpler time. Another is Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm, her poetic 1975 ramble (隨筆) about everything and nothing. The third book is Julio Cortazar’s Save Twilight: Selected Poems, because poetry. And because Cortazar.

While I tend to buy a lot of books, these three were given to me as gifs, which might add to the meaning I attach to them. But I imagine that, while money is indeed wonderful and necessary, rereading an author’s work is the highest currency a reader can pay them. The best books are the ones that open further as time passes. But remember, it’s you that has to grow and read and reread in order to better understand your friends.

【1】Why does the author like rereading?

A.It evaluates the writer-reader relationship.

B.It’s a window to a whole new world.

C.It’s a substitute for drinking with a friend.

D.It extends the understanding of oneself.

【2】What do we know about the book A Moveable Feast?

A.It’s a brief account of a trip.

B.It’s about Hemingway’s life as a young man.

C.It’s a record of a historic event.

D.It’s about Hemingway’s friends in Paris.

【3】What does the underlined word ＂currency＂ in paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Debt

B.Reward.

C.Allowance.

D.Face value.

【4】What can we infer about the author from the text?

A.He loves poetry.

B.He’s an editor.

C.He’s very ambitious.

D.He teaches reading.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。短文介紹了重新閱讀的意義和益處并向讀者介紹了作者每年重讀的三本書。作者鼓勵(lì)讀者去重新閱讀書籍。

【1】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段最后兩句“But books don’t change, people do. And that’s what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.(但是書沒變，人變了。那就是使重新閱讀行為如此豐富和富于變化之處)”和第二段“The beauty of rereading lies in that our bond with the work is based on our present register. It is true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings.(重新閱讀的美妙之處在于我們與作品的聯(lián)系是基于我們現(xiàn)在的心理狀態(tài)。真的，我年紀(jì)越大，就越覺得時(shí)光飛逝。)”可推知，作者喜歡重新閱讀是因?yàn)橹匦麻喿x可以擴(kuò)展對自己的理解。故選D項(xiàng)。

【2】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段“Published in 1964, it’s his classic memoir of 1920s Paris.”及“an aging writer looking back on an ambitious yet simpler time”可知，這本書出版于1964年，這是他關(guān)于20世紀(jì)20年代在巴黎的經(jīng)典回憶錄，是他老年時(shí)對那些野心勃勃卻更簡單的日子的回顧。由此可判斷出A Movable Feast是關(guān)于海明威年輕時(shí)的生活。故選B項(xiàng)。

【3】

詞義猜測題。根據(jù)最后一段中“while money is indeed wonderful and necessary,(雖然金錢確實(shí)是美妙而必要的)”可知，前后句為轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，根據(jù)上下文的語境可推知，“rereading an author’s work is the highest currency a reader can pay them.”意為“但是但重新閱讀作品是讀者能支付給他們的最高回報(bào)”，由此判斷出劃線詞的意思是“回報(bào)”。故選B項(xiàng)。

【4】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段“The third book is Julio Cortázar’s Save Twilight: selected poems, because poetry.(第三本書是胡里奧·科塔扎的《拯救暮光之城: 詩歌精選》，因?yàn)樵姼?/span>)”可知，作者是由于喜歡詩歌而喜歡這本書。故選A項(xiàng)。