31. The usual time-management techniques don’t work because.
- A. what they can offer does not ease the modern mind
- B. what challenging books demand is repetitive reading
- C. what people often forget is carrying a book with them
- D. what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed
答案：D
答案句：The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication … It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption.” Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.
参考译文：小说家兼评论家蒂姆·帕克斯写道，现代人的心智“极其倾向于交流……问题不仅在于被打断，而在于人们实际上倾向于被打断。”深度阅读需要的不仅仅是时间，而是一种特殊的时间，这种时间无法仅仅通过提高效率来获得。
定位线索：题干“usual time-management techniques don’t work”对应答案句“can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient”；文中“Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time”对应选项D“what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed”。
解析：题干问常规时间管理技巧为何无效，答案句明确指出深度阅读需要“一种特殊的时间”，而“无法仅仅通过提高效率来获得”，即常规技巧无法保证这种特殊时间，对应D项。A项“不能缓解现代思维”是偷换概念，文中说的是现代思维倾向于被打断，而非技巧无法缓解；B项“重复阅读”无中生有；C项“忘记带书”是文中提到的技巧之一，但并非原因。
32. The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to.
- A. update their to-do lists
- B. make passing time fulfilling
- C. carry their plans through
- D. pursue carefree reading
答案：B
答案句：“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.”
参考译文：加里·埃伯勒在他的《神圣时间》一书中写道：“未来像空瓶子一样，沿着一条不可阻挡且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来”，“当这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟）经过时，我们感到有压力去填满它们，因为如果它们过去而没有被填满，我们就浪费了它们。”
定位线索：题干“empty bottles metaphor”对应答案句中的“empty bottles”；文中“we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles... if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”对应选项B“make passing time fulfilling”。
解析：例证题中，例子本身是“空瓶子”比喻，但关键在比喻后的观点句“we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles... if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”，即人们感到压力要填满时间，否则就是浪费，对应B项“让流逝的时间充实”。A项“更新待办清单”无中生有；C项“执行计划”范围过窄；D项“追求无忧阅读”与例子无关。
33. Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps.
- A. encourage the efficiency mind-set
- B. develop online reading habits
- C. promote ritualistic reading
- D. achieve immersive reading
答案：D
答案句：Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time.”
参考译文：也许令人惊讶的是，安排固定的阅读时间。你可能会认为这会助长效率思维，但事实上，埃伯勒指出，这种仪式化的行为帮助我们“走出时间的流动”，进入“灵魂时间”。
定位线索：题干“Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps”对应答案句“scheduling regular times for reading... Eberle notes... helps us ‘step outside time’s flow’ into ‘soul time’”；文中“step outside time’s flow”对应选项D“achieve immersive reading”。
解析：题干问埃伯勒会同意安排固定阅读时间有何帮助，答案句明确说埃伯勒认为这种仪式化行为帮助“走出时间流动”进入“灵魂时间”，即实现沉浸式阅读，对应D项。A项“鼓励效率思维”与原文“but in fact... helps us step outside”相反；B项“培养在线阅读习惯”无中生有；C项“促进仪式化阅读”是手段而非目的，答非所问。
34. “Carry a book with you at all times” can work if.
- A. reading becomes your primary business of the day
- B. all the daily business has been promptly dealt with
- C. you are able to drop back to business after reading
- D. time can be evenly split for reading and business
答案：A
答案句：“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too – providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.
参考译文：“随时随身携带一本书”实际上也能奏效——前提是你足够频繁地沉浸其中，这样阅读就成为默认状态，你只是暂时浮出水面处理事务，然后再沉回去。
定位线索：题干“Carry a book with you at all times can work if”对应答案句“providing you dip in often enough”；文中“reading becomes the default state”对应选项A“reading becomes your primary business of the day”。
解析：题干问“随时带书”何时有效，答案句说“前提是你足够频繁地沉浸其中，使阅读成为默认状态”，即阅读成为主要活动，对应A项“阅读成为你一天的主要事务”。B项“所有日常事务已处理”与原文“temporarily surface to take care of business”矛盾；C项“阅读后能回到事务”是结果而非条件；D项“时间均分”无中生有。
35. The best title for this text could be.
- A. How to Enjoy Easy Reading
- B. How to Find Time to Read
- C. How to Set Reading Goals
- D. How to Read Extensively
答案：B
答案句：But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There’s never any time to read. … So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. … On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.
参考译文：但有一个具体的抱怨尤其令人悲哀：从来没有时间读书。……那么什么方法有效呢？也许令人惊讶的是，安排固定的阅读时间。……在真正美好的一天，你不再觉得是在“挤出时间阅读”，而只是在阅读，并为其他一切腾出时间。
定位线索：题干“best title”对应首段“There’s never any time to read”和末段“making time to read”；文中“scheduling regular times for reading”对应选项B“How to Find Time to Read”。
解析：主旨题需概括全文，首段提出“没时间阅读”的问题，中间分析原因，末段给出“安排固定阅读时间”的解决方案，全文围绕“如何找到时间阅读”展开，对应B项。A项“享受轻松阅读”范围过窄；C项“设定阅读目标”无中生有；D项“广泛阅读”偏离主题。