74.The Pleasures of Reading读书的乐趣
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读书之所以快乐，并非因为作者在讲述什么，而是因为读书能使思想活跃起来。你的想象力与作者一道驰骋，或更胜作者一筹；你的阅历同作者两相对照，或不谋而合，或各有千秋。随着对作者的深入了解，你的思想认识也有所提高。此谓读书可以益智怡情也。
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All the wisdom of the ages， all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries， are easily and cheaply available in books-but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it.AThe most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I am most interested in people， in meeting and finding out about them. Some of the most remarkable people I"ve met existed only in a writer"s imagination， then on the pages of his book， and then， again， in my imagination.I"ve found in books new friends， new societies， new worlds.
Reading is a pleasure of the mind， which means that it is a little like a sport：your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. BReading is fun， not because the writer is telling you something， but because it makes your mind work.Your own imagination works along with the author"s or even goes beyond his.Your experience， compared with his， brings you to the same or different conclusions， and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself， like a one-family house， but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate， together they all add up to something；they are connected with each other and with other cities.The same ideas， or related ones， turn up in different places；the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature， but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.Books influence each other；they link the past， the present and the future and have their own generations， like families.Wherever you start reading you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas and， in the long run， you not only find out about the world and the people in it；you find out about yourself， too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. lf you concentrate on books somebody tells you you“ought”to read， you probably won"t have fun.But if you find one that means something to you， and then relax with it， you will almost certainly have a good time-and if you become， as a result of reading， better， wiser， kinder， or more gentle， you won"t have suffered during the process.
The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
Reading is fun， not because the writer is telling you something， but because it makes your mind work.
难点重点，一目了然！
长难句解析Sentence Structures
AThe most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
世上最不幸的人莫过于尚未领略读好书之快乐的人。
注意those who这样的句子结构，具有较强的表达能力和广泛的用途。
BReading is fun， not because the writer is telling you something， but because it makes your mind work.
读书之乐，与其说是作者给你讲故事，倒不如说是活跃了你的思维。
注意掌握用not……but……，表达“不是……而是……”
75.Best Teacher I Ever Had 我曾遇到过的最好的老师
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一个人的成长离不开老师。在你成长的道路上，一定有你心目中的好老师。这位老师尊重你，信任你，给你勇气，教你做人；这位老师知识渊博，幽默风趣，富有魅力，令你一生难忘。请听欧文心目中的好老师，相信你也会喜欢的。
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Mr.Whitson taught sixth-grade science.On the first day of class， he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus， an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the lce Age.He passed around a skull as he talked.We all took notes and later had a quiz.
When he returned my paper， I was shocked. There was a big red X through each of my answers.I had failed.There had to be some mistake！I had written down exactly what Mr.Whitson said.Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed.What had happened？
We should have figured it out， Mr. Whitson said.After all， at the very moment he was passing around the cattywampus skull（in truth， a cat"s），hadn"t he been telling us that no trace of the animal remained？He had described its amazing night vision， the color of its fur and any number of other facts he couldn"t have known.AHe had given the animal a ridiculous name， and we still hadn"t been suspicious.The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in his grade book， he said.And they were.
Mr. Whitson said he hoped we would learn something from this experience.Teachers and textbooks are not infallible.In fact， no one is.He told us not to let our minds go to sleep， and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.
One day he told us that his Volkswagen was a living organism. It took us two full days to put together a refutation he would accept.He didn"t let us off the hook until we had proved not only that we knew what an organism was but also that we had the fortitude to stand up for the truth.
BIf I"m ever asked to propose a solution to the crisis in our schools， it will be Mr. Whitson.His class gave me and my classmates something just as important：the courage to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong.
Not everyone sees the value in this. I once told an elementary school teacher about Mr.Whitson.The teacher was appalled.“He shouldn"t have tricked you like that，”he said.I looked that teacher right in the eye and told him he was wrong.
难点重点，一目了然！
长难句解析Sentence Structures
AHe had given the animal a ridiculous name， and we still hadn"t been suspicious.
他给该动物起了一个滑稽的名字，即便这样也没有引起我们的疑心。
BIf I"m ever asked to propose a solution to the crisis in our schools， it will be Mr. Whitson.
若要我给我们的学校面临的危机提出解决办法，那就是我们需要惠特森先生这样的老师。
propose a solution to对……提出解决方法
76.How to Study 如何学习
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学习是人的基本需求，如同吃饭一样重要。在21世纪，学习应该说是一种生活态度和生活方式；学习也可以说是一种能力，一种生存手段。从一定意义上说，一个不学习的人可能一事无成。
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