阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项

(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选

项。
I took home a briefcase full of troubles . As I sat down on that hot and damp
36 , there seemed to be no
37 to the problems hanging around in my brain . So I picked up a book , settled into a comfortable chair and
38 my own special therapy (疗法):
39 reading .
I
40 three or four hours on two short chapters of Personal History by Vincent Sheean—tasting each paragraph , staying over a sentence , a phrase , or even a single word , building a detailed mental picture of the scene . No longer was I in Sydney , Australia , on a sticky hot night . Enjoying every word , I
41 foreign journalist Vincent Sheean on a tour to China and anot

her to Russia . I was
42 in the author’s world . And when finally I put it down , my mind was totally 43 .
Next morning , four words from the book—“take the long
44 ” were still in my mind . At my desk , I had a long-view look at my 45 . Once more , super-slow-reading had giv

en me not only
46 but perspective (视角), and helped me in my everyday affairs .
I discovered its
47 years ago . Before that , if I had been really interested in a book , I would
48 from page to page ,
49 to know what came next . Now , I decided , I had to become a miser (守财奴)with
50 and stretch every sentence like a poor man spending his last dollar .
I had started with the practical object of making my book last . But by the end of the second week I began to realize
51 I was getting from super-slow-reading itself . Sometimes just a particular phrase
52 my attention , sometimes a sentence . I would read it slowly, analyze it , read it again—perhaps changing down into an even
53 speed—and then sit for 20 minutes thinking about it before moving on . I was like a pianist
54 a piece of music , phrase by phrase , practicing it , trying to discover and 55 exactly what the composer(作曲家) was trying to convey.
小题1: | A.day | B.morning | C.afternoon | D.evening |
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小题2: | A.solutions | B.doubt | C.wonder | D.courses |
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小题3: | A.tried on | B.applied | C.practiced | D.managed |
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小题4: | A.fast | B.super fast | C.super slow | D.slow |
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小题5: | A.spent | B.wasted | C.cost | D.took |
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小题6: | A.united | B.attended | C.attracted | D.joined |
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小题7: | A.found | B.lost | C.persuaded | D.accepted |
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小题8: | A.broken | B.discouraged | C.refreshed | D.awakened |
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小题9: | A.view | B.care | C.walk | D.distance |
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小题10: | A.therapy | B.problems | C.rea ding | D.work |
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小题11: | A.difficulty | B.success | C.achievement | D.pleasure |
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小题12: | A.use | B.disadvantage | C.value | D.importa nce |
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小题13: | A.look | B.read | C.analyze | D.digest |
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小题14: | A.worried | B.eager | C.glad | D.anxious |
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小题15: | A.books | B.troubles | C.words | D.music |
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小题16: | A.how well | B.how long | C.how many | D.how much |
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小题17: | A.caught | B.missed | C.escaped | D.paid |
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小题18: | A.faster | B.higher | C.lower | D.slower |
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小题19: | A.playing | B.studying | C.writing | D.singing |
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小题20: | A.realize | B.recognize | C.repay | D.understand |
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