Cultivate Your Reading Habit
Cultivate Your Reading Habit
We may say with, certainty that the more one reads, the better one understands; and that the better one understands, the more one is inclined to read. In other words, from reading comes understanding, and from understanding comes more reading. The reading habit is actually cultivated by reading itself.
Now let us discuss the question of what to read. There are books on various subjects—history, literature, philosophy, science, fine arts, etc. When you are to choose from among a vast number of subjects the best books to read, you will feel quite at sea. I therefore suggest that, before you proceed to read any book, you try to find out what others have done before you, that is read the results of other people"s labour first. Usually newspapers or magazines are always your convenient guide to the world of best writings.
Another problem is how to read. Here, I would offer two suggestions: concentration and reflection. You cannot well understand what is said in books unless you concentrate your mind on what you read. And then you must think over what you have read. This is reflection which helps to summarize your reading. To a great extent, concentration and reflection are interdependent.
A reading habit thus formed will prove valuable to you. Whenever you have spare time, you will resort not to places of pleasure, but to the bookshelves, you will not feel lonesome when you are alone, because you can see all kinds of characters moving and acting on the pages, and you can hear all kinds of good counsel. In the long run, your imaginative power will be increased, your esthetic sensibility heightened, your vocabulary enlarged, and finally your ability of writing tremendously improved.
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本文是一篇說明文，旨在說明如何培養閱讀習慣。
第一段引言部分圍繞“閱讀一理解一閱讀”的必然關系展開，主題句在段尾“閱讀習慣實際上是通過閱讀本身培養起來的。”第二、二段分別闡明“讀什麽”和“如何讀”這兩個問題，這是本文的主體。最後一段以“養成閱讀習慣帶來的好處”而結尾。全文層次感強，有說服力，促使人們試著去做。