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 (冊), 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 (雞尾酒) 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.推理判斷題。根據文章第一段中的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，這幾本書都是作者在旅途中讀的。由此推斷作者喜歡在旅行時看書。故選A項。

2.詞義猜測題。根據文章第二段第三句 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"暫時把它擱在一邊，然後意識到自己不得不從頭再來，因為"我"忘記了每個人的名字和社會地位。即"我"在讀到"戰爭"那一部分時就沒有進展了。由此推斷get bogged down意為"毫無進展"，與make no progress意思相近。故選B項。

3.細節理解題。根據文章第一段第一句和第二段最後一句可知，作者每年夏天給自己定的目標是讀自己年輕時該讀而沒讀的經典文學著作，而自己最喜歡的書很吸引人，但這感覺就像*。故作者讀他最喜歡的書就像*是因為他覺得他應該讀些嚴肅的作品。故選D項。

4.主旨大意題。根據文章第一段第一句 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"都抱着最好的打算開始：讀完一本"我"年輕且有抱負時就應該讀的經典著作。然後下文講述了今年夏天作者讀幾本經典著作時的經歷。故以"夏天的書"作為標題最恰當。故選C項。

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