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| The winter skies are grey and it's cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time 1 and alone. Many people 2 winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read. For many students reading means school; it means 3 . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it's something you're 4 . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most 5 thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can 6 a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no 7 for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings《指环王》,or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen's Emma《爱玛》, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye《麦田守望者》. All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that 8 young people. 9 . even there, many high school students don't enjoy reading the books because they are 10 their school work: "Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I'll never be able to read 11 much." But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the 12 .Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they 13 . At the moment the thought 14 reading is work disappears and reading becomes 15 . Reading anything is 16 but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and 17 you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English 18 : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don't let me 19 it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to 20 on a cold winter evening. | ||||
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