2017届高考英语一轮复习知识梳理练习：选修8 Unit 24 Society（北师大版）_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语一轮复习知识梳理练习：选修8 Unit 24 Society（北师大版）

　　New sudden clear understandings can be gained from the process of re-reading.Journalist Rebecca Mead,a long-time Englishwoman in New York,first came across George Eliot’s Middlemarch at 17.Since then,she has read it again every five years.With each re-reading,it has opened up further;in each chapter of her life,it has resonated(引起共鸣) differently.Mead evidenced the large number of ways in which really good books not only stand the test of repeat reads,but also offer fresh gifts each time we crack their spines.These kinds of books grow with us.

　　Scientists have also recognized the mental health benefits of re-reading.Research conducted with readers in the US found that on our first reading,we are concerned with the “what” and the “why”.Second time round,we’re able to better appreciate the emotions that the plot continues to express.As researcher Cristel Russell of the American University explained,returning to a book “brings new or renewed appreciation of both the great book and its readers.”

　　It’s true that we often find former selves on the pages of old books (if we’re fond of making notes on the pages).These texts can carry us back to a time and place,and remind us of the kind of person that we were then.We’re changed not only by lived experience but also by read experience—by the books that we’ve discovered since last reading the one in our hand.

　　More so than the movie director or the musician,the writer calls upon our imaginations,using words to lead us to picture this declaration of love or that unfaithfulness in life.A book is a joint project between writers and readers,and we must pour so much of ourselves into reading that our own life story can become connected with the story in the book.