阅读理解 That everyone' s too busy these days is a cliche. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There' s never any time to read.
What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don't seem sufficient. The web' s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: "Give up TV" or "Carry a book with you at all times." But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn't work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning—or else you're so exhausted that a challenging book's the last thing you need. 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.
In fact, "becoming more efficient" is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal. Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it in as a to-do list item and you'll manage only goal-focused reading—useful, sometimes but not the most fulfilling kind. "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." No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.
So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You'd think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behavior helps us "step outside time's flow" into "soul time." You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. "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. 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.

单选题 The usual time-management techniques don't work because______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。根据关键词“usual time management technique”定位到第二段。A项“无法使现代人平静”与原文“The modern mind…is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication”表述不符。B项在原文中并未提及。C项“具有挑战意味的书籍需要重复阅读”与原文“or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need”不符。D项“深度阅读之所需无法保障”是对“Deep reading requires not just time，but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient”的同义替换。因此，D项为正确答案。

单选题 The "empty bottles" metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。根据关键词“empty bottles，pressure”定位到第三段。“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt…We feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles(days，hours，and minutes)as they pass，for if they get by without being filled，we will have wasted them．”主要论述的观点就是如何利用未来的时间。如果没有将未来的时间利用，就让我们感觉时间被浪费了。B项是这句话的同义替换。A项超出定位范围。C项和D项在文中并未提及。因此，B项为正确答案。

单选题 Fberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。根据关键词“Fberle，scheduling regular times”定位到第四段。“Perhaps surprisingly，scheduling regular times for reading．You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set，but in fact，Eberle notes，such ritualistic behavior helps us‘step outside time’s flow’into‘soul time’．”A项并非help的内容，而是scheduling regular times本身。B项来源于定位词help之前。C项是避免分心的方式，并非help的内容，超出定位范围。“such ritualistic behavior helps”中的such指示的内容就是“scheduling regular times for reading”，“soul time”是“immersive reading”的同义替换。因此，D项为正确答案。

单选题 "Carry a book with you at all times" can work if______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】细节题。根据关键词“Carry a book with you at all times”定位到最后一段。“Carry a book with you at all times．．．so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business，before dropping back down．”通过“carry a book with you at all times”这样的方式，读书就会变成生活的默认状态，A项是“reading becomes the default state”的同义替换。因此，A项为正确答案。