第一部分 选修6 Module 2　Fantasy Literature-（达标训练）【导学教程】2024旧教材老高考英语新编大一轮总复习（外研版）

[对应学生用书P464] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2022·潍坊测评)In recent years, there has been a rise in the volume of audiobook sales, which is easily aided by the dominance of the smartphone. Are there other contributors to the rise beyond technology? One thing is obvious: Reading even a short book involves a significant investment of time and prevents any other activity. You can't drive or garden while reading. Andy Miller，the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously，said，“I was hunting for a book to read. Kit Waal, my friend, said, ‘you should get the audiobook Old Filth；it's fantastic.’ She was right. I could walk the dog and still be reading a brilliant novel, or have one read to me brilliantly. I love that book and I love that way of reading it. So 　I'm a recent convert　.” Does he worry audio provides too different an experience to reading itself? “Clearly on audio you are at the mercy of the reader's skills，” he says. “But then，ego (自我) aside，the same is true of reading a book on the page. We're all at the mercy of our own skills and tastes, aren't we? But on audio you are influenced by someone else's interpretation. And you might simply dislike the voice of the reader. But at its best audio offers a complementary (互补的) experience to the actual book.” Will audiobooks distract us from the page before us? Better to focus on what we might gain. As someone who frequently interviews authors on stage，I'm aware of the unique insight into a text produced by hearing someone read their own work; I've frequently reinterpreted a passage after such an experience. But that has had no impact on whether or not I'll read a book by a writer I will never hear reading. I once met the writer Don Delillo. In response to a question about the process of writing，he remarked that he sometimes became attracted by the shape of particular letters, by the way individual words appeared before him. He sounded hippy­dippy; then it made perfect sense. Reading does start with shapes, which slowly resolve to make a cert