I. Please read the  text after the speaker.

The pleasure of reading

1.All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind forcenturies, are available to all of us within the covers of books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure and how to get the most from it. ①The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read books.

2.I am most interested in people, in meeting them and finding out about them.②Some of the most remarkable people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, and new worlds.

3.While I am interested in people, others may be interested not so much in who as in how. ③The who inbooks includes everybody from science fiction superman 200 centuries in the future all the way back to the first figure in history. The how covers everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children.

4.④Reading 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. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond theirs. Your experience, compared with theirs, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your own ideas develop as you understand theirs.

5.Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a libraryare like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add upto something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places;⑤ the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.

6.⑥Reading can only be funif you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you that you ought to read, you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till 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 ofreading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered duringthe process.

II. Text analysis

①The most unfortunatepeople in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is toread books.

译文： 世界上最不幸的人是那些从未发现读书是多么令人满足的人。

②Some of the most remarkable people I’ve met existed only in awriter’s imagination.

译文：在我遇到的最了不起的人中，有些最初只存在于作者的想象中，接着跃然纸上，然后徘徊于我的脑海里。

③The who inbooks includes everybody from science fiction superman 200 centuries in thefuture all the way back to the first figure in history.

译文：书里的人物，从科幻小说里两万年后的超人到历史上第一个重要人物，形形色色，应有尽有。

④Reading is apleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: Youreagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. 

译文：读书是一种精神的享受，有点类似体育运动：善于读书的人需要拥有强烈的渴望，渊博的学识和敏捷的反应。

⑤ the humanproblems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, butwith different solutions according to different writings at different times.

译文：一再困扰人类生活的问题也在文学作品里反复出现，只是不同时代的不同著作提供了不同的锦囊妙计。

⑥Reading can only be funif you expect it to be.

译文：只有你期待读书给你带来乐趣，它才能真的给你乐趣。

III. Test

1.All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind forcenturies, are available to all of us within the covers of books, but we mustknow how to make use of this treasure and how to get the most from it. ①The most unfortunatepeople in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is toread books.

2.I am most interested in people, in meeting them and finding out about them.②Some of the most remarkable people I’ve met existed only in awriter’s imagination.I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, and new worlds.

3.While I am interested in people, others may be interested not so much in who asin how. ③The who inbooks includes everybody from science fiction superman 200 centuries in thefuture all the way back to the first figure in history. The how covers everything from theingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries of science andways of teaching manners to children.

4.④Reading is apleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: Youreagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, notbecause the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mindwork. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyondtheirs. Your experience, compared with theirs, brings you to the same ordifferent conclusions, and your own ideas develop as you understand theirs.

5.Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a libraryare 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. Thesame ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places;⑤ the humanproblems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, butwith different solutions according to different writings at different times.

6.⑥Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you that you ought to read, youprobably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till 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.