Istarteverysummerwiththebestofintentions:toattackonebig...

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I start every summer with the best of intentions: to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: Moby Dick on a three-day cross-country train trip; The Magic Mountain in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond. Attempting The Man Without Qualities on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (册), then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead.

    But this summer I find myself at a loss. I'm not quite interested in Balzac, say, or Tristram Shandy. There's always War and Peace, which I've covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the "War" part, set it aside for a while, and realise that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone's name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favourite—once more into The Waves or Justine, which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious literature.

And then there's Stendhal's The Red and the Black, which happens to be the name of my favourite cocktail (鸡尾酒) of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and Back Forty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea. Cecconi's theory: "I take whatever's fresh at the green market and turn it into liquid." The result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once, lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...

1. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?

enjoys reading when travelling.

shows talents for literature.

has a cottage in New England.

admires a lot of great writers.

do the underlined words "get bogged down" in Paragraph 2 mean?

confused.

no progress .

interrupted.

carried away.

does the author say reading his favourite books feels like cheating?

finishes them quickly.

has read them many times before.

barely understands them.

should read something serious.

can be a suitable title for the text?

Read or Not to Read

Summer Holidays

Books of Summer

's Never Too Late to Read

【回答】

1-4 ABDC

解析：1.推理判断题。根据文章第一段中的Moby Dick on a three-day cross-country train trip, The Magic Mountain in a New England beachside cottage和The Man Without Qualities on a return to Hawaii可知，这几本书都是作者在旅途中读的。由此推断作者喜欢在旅行时看书。故选A项。

2.词义猜测题。根据文章第二段第三句 it aside for a while, and realise that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone's name and social rank. 可知，"我"暂时把它搁在一边，然后意识到自己不得不从头再来，因为"我"忘记了每个人的名字和社会地位。即"我"在读到"战争"那一部分时就没有进展了。由此推断get bogged down意为"毫无进展"，与make no progress意思相近。故选B项。

3.细节理解题。根据文章第一段第一句和第二段最后一句可知，作者每年夏天给自己定的目标是读自己年轻时该读而没读的经典文学著作，而自己最喜欢的书很吸引人，但这感觉就像*。故作者读他最喜欢的书就像*是因为他觉得他应该读些严肃的作品。故选D项。

4.主旨大意题。根据文章第一段第一句 I start every summer with the best of intentions: to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. 可知，每年夏天，"我"都抱着最好的打算开始：读完一本"我"年轻且有抱负时就应该读的经典著作。然后下文讲述了今年夏天作者读几本经典著作时的经历。故以"夏天的书"作为标题最恰当。故选C项。

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题型：阅读理解