B
(学习能力 兴趣培养)I arrived home from work, but my mind was still busy. I was going to perform a very important experiment(实验), but I had spent the whole day worrying about it. And I wanted to shake off my worries very much. So after dinner, I made a cup of hot chocolate, sat on my sofa, and opened a page. Almost at once, my mind left behind the experiment and went into a wonderful world different from my daily life. It was exactly what I needed.
Growing up, I was actually never a big fan of novels(小说). My classmates would be crazy about the latest novel, while my copy sat collecting dust on a bookcase. Instead, I would choose to read through the books about school lessons. After I started graduate school, extra reading didn’t interest me at all, but I spent most of my time at school working on research papers and my mind couldn’t process nonfiction(非小说类纪实作品)books at home. So I knew that I needed to find a way to enjoy reading again.
To help me stick to it, I made a New Year’s resolution(决定): I would read two fiction books per month. The result was that I loved fiction almost at once, along with many unexpected results including ones that were good for my schoolwork.
▲. Some of the best books I read were historical fiction books. I learned life in different countries, as well as challenges which people there faced during difficult periods in their histories. The books have helped me build sympathy and understanding, with an unexpected advantage(优点): I’ve started to think more deeply about the different types of the scientific problems in my study and could serve them with all my heart.
6. How did the writer deal with his worries?
A. By getting lost in a book.
B. By being busy with his housework.
C. By sleeping on his sofa after dinner.
D. By drinking a cup of hot chocolate.
7. According to Paragraph 2, it can be inferred that .
A. reading didn’t interest the writer at all
B. The writer was too busy to read any book
C. The writer thought reading novels was a waste of time
D. The writer only cared about the research papers he had at school
8. (新考法 补全文章)Which of the following can be put in “▲”?
A. What worried me most was how many problems I had
B. What interested me most was how the stories ended
C. What influenced me most was how the writers wrote
D. What surprised me most was how much I learned
9. How did the New Year’s resolution help the writer?
A. He became more peaceful.
B. He had more ideas about study.
C. He learned much about writing.
D. He understood his classmates better.
10. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Reading：A Lifelong Hobby
B. Novels：Love at Second Sight
C. The Power of Research Papers
D. The Advantages of Reading History