浙江省2023-2024学年高二上学期开学英语测试阅读理解The Best Way to Enjoy a Book易错二次开发学案

2023年浙江省高二第一学期开学测试阅读理解易错练习--The Best Way to Enjoy a Book The Best Way to Enjoy a Book I am no slow eater. I can't remember the number of times I was told as a child not to gobble my food. Nor have I been a slow reader. I went through books like combine harvesters through crops in the English village of my childhood. Perhaps I will continue to gobble my food until my last meal on this planet. But books! They are an entirely different matter. Having been prevented from visiting bookstores and libraries during these days of isolation. I have decided to make changes. After all, didn't someone once say, “It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” I imagine slow reading to be like slow cooking: a variety of ingredients mixed into something one can truly enjoy. Slow reading means enjoying each sentence, absorbing all of those paragraphs of description that had probably been sweated over by the author and, more often than not, skipped over by readers like me. This isn't to say I pay only random attention to a book. Before deciding on one to buy or borrow, I always read the synopsis(概要)and the “About the Author” section. I would also read the dedication, the foreword and the author's acknowledgments. Only then do I move on to the book's opening sentence. This is essentially how I had selected the two books that I most recently finished. In order to truly enjoy these two novels, I limited my reading to two hours a day-no more and no less. A funny thing happens when you take two hours out of the day-every day for something you really, really enjoy. I experienced a quiet sense of accomplishment that I had missed for years. English writer Kate Atkinson's Transcription has been advertised as “a novel of rare depth from one of the best writers of our time”. Award-winning Newfoundlander Michael Crummey's The Innocents, meanwhile, is said to be “a richly imagined and fascinating story of hardship and survival”. I am glad I didn't read Transcription at my usual pace. I suspect I