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　　That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully： There’s never any time to read.

　　What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient. 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” But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning-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, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication…It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption”. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.

　　In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging 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”. No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.

　　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 ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”. You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. “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.

　　31. The usual time-management techniques don’t work because?????

　　[A] what they can offer does not ease the modern mind

　　[B] what challenging books demand is repetitive reading

　　[C] what people often forget is carrying a book with them

　　[D] what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed

　　32. The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to?????

　　[A] update their to-do lists

　　[B] make passing time fulfilling

　　[C] carry their plans through

　　[D] pursue carefree reading

　　33. Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps?????

　　[A] encourage the efficiency mind-set

　　[B] develop online reading habits

　　[C] promote ritualistic reading

　　[D] achieve immersive reading

　　34. “Carry a book with you at all times” can work if?????

　　[A] reading becomes your primary business of the day

　　[B] all the daily business has been promptly dealt with

　　[C] you are able to drop back to business after reading

　　[D] time can be evenly split for reading and business

　　35. The best title for this text could be?????

　　[A] How to Enjoy Easy Reading

　　[B] How to Find Time to Read

　　[C] How to Set Reading Goals

　　[D] How to Read Extensively

　　31 答案 D what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed.

　　解析：因果細節題。題干指出：傳統的時間管理方法不起作用的原因是什么。根據題干定位到第二段首句指出the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient，是題干的同義替換，但要找原因。整段都在分析過程環節，最終原因必然在該段末句提到。直接定位到該段末句，指出深入閱讀不僅需要時間，而且是一種僅僅通過有效無法獲得的一種時間。結合選項D，深入閱讀所需的無法得到確保，是原文末句的同義替換。

　　32 答案 B make passing time fulfilling

　　解析：題干問的是“empty bottles”暗喻證明了人們在做什么方面有壓力，empty bottles直接可以在文中Gary Eberle所說的話中找到：“The future comes at us like empty bottles…”。其所說的話證明的目的必然是為了說明前一句的觀點。因此，該題定位到三段“try to slot…but not the most fulfilling kind”，該句就指出：只會處理目標集中的閱讀，這是有用的，但不是最有滿足感的。結合選項B使流逝的時間更有滿足感，是原文的同義替換。

　　33 答案 D achieve immersive reading

　　解析：文中人物觀點題，注意區分文中人物觀點和作者觀點。題干問的是Eberle贊同為閱讀設定規定性時間幫助什么。根據題干精確定位到第四段第二句：“You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, E…..into soul time”，意思是你會認為這可以提升效率性思維設定，但實際上這些行為幫助我們跨入到靈魂閱讀時間。對應選項D，獲得深入閱讀，屬于同義替換。

　　34 答案 A reading becomes your primary business of the day

　　解析：細節題。題干指出：總是帶一本書會起作用如果怎么樣。根據題干定位到末段中間部分“carry a book with you at all times can actually work, too … so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business.”，意思是這樣的話閱讀就成為默認狀態，偶爾會出來管理工作（注意business并非默認狀態，非主要事情）。對應選項A 閱讀成為每天的主要任務，是該句的同義替換。

　　35 答案 B How to Find Time to Read

　　解析：標題題，即全文中心主旨。通過題干，可發現題干關鍵詞中time復現多次，因此可確定time為全文的主題詞。整篇文章都圍繞閱讀時間來展開，因此正確答案為A如何尋找閱讀時間。