You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the【C1】______of your reading. I want to persuade you to "write between the lines".【C2】______you do, you are not likely to do the most【C3】______kind of reading. I【C4】______, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love. There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the【C5】______right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture.【C6】______this act of purchase is only the【C7】______to possession. Full ownership comes【C8】______you have made it a part of yourself, and the best【C9】______to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. A(n)【C10】______may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and【C11】______it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you【C12】______it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be【C13】______in your bloodstream to do you【C14】______. There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard【C15】______and bestsellers—unread, untouched. The second has【C16】______books—a few of them read through, most of them【C17】______, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they【C18】______. The third has a few books or many—every one of them dogeared and dilapidated, shaken and【C19】______by continual use, marked and【C20】______in from front to back. This man owns books.
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：由空格后的修饰语of your reading，选项中能跟该修饰语连用的是A项course“过程，进程”，此处应表示“在阅读的过程中”，故A正确。
【答案解析】解析：四个选项都可表示“大量，许多”，但books为可数名词复数，只有D项a great many of后可接可数名词复数，故选D。
单选题
【C17】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：根据空格前的a few of them read through(少数几本细读过)，可推断“大部分书没有细读”，故此处应使用表“(简要地)浏览”之义的固定搭配。B项dip into本义为“浸一浸”，此处形象地用来指大多数书只是浏览了一下、没有仔细地读。符合要求。空格后面的“所有书都干净、光洁”也印证了答案。