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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