When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very
31 .
Some stories are told
32 they were true. Real people who live in a
33 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not
34 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be
35 for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only
36 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we
37 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than
38 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of
39 . When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our
40--which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想)
41 the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read
42 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we
43 that we are real and they are
44 . It sounds
45 ,but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and
46 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by
47 that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our
48 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose
49 in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 50 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
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| 小题2: | | A．that | B．what | C．whether | D．as if |
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| 小题3: | | A．usual | B．normal | C．certain | D．common |
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| 小题4: | | A．realistic | B．reasonable | C．moral | D．instructive |
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| 小题5: | | A．difficult | B．impossible | C．important | D．necessary |
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| 小题6: | | A．thinkable | B．designed | C．imagined | D．planned |
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| 小题8: | | A．lessons | B．dreams | C．experience | D．magic |
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| 小题9: | | A．working | B．thinking | C．living | D．understanding |
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| 小题10: | | A．knowledge | B．skill | C．words | D．grammar |
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| 小题12: | | A．a newspaper | B．something | C．everything | D．a story |
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| 小题13: | | A．find | B．learn | C．know | D．hope |
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| 小题15: | | A．dangerous | B．serious | C．strange | D．terrible |
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| 小题16: | | A．talk | B．learn | C．read | D．think |
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| 小题17: | | A．telling | B．pretending | C．promising | D．guessing |
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| 小题18: | | A．mind | B．life | C．world | D．society |
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| 小题19: | | A．heart | B．time | C．money | D．ourselves |
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