【正文】 ch person has his own taste in the kinds of books he enjoys reading. Forcing one to read books that he dislikes will achieve no positive results.5 Yes. People can benefit from reading the same book at different ages and get different flavors out of it. According to the author, people at different ages should read different kinds of books and good books can be read more than once at different ages.Exercise 2 Text A can be divided into four parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part.PartParagraph(s)Main IdeaOne13Two45Three 68Four9▇ Answers for reference:PartParagraph(s)Main IdeaOne13The benefits of reading can be seen from such parison: Nonreaders are imprisoned in their immediate world, while readers can travel freely in their mind to different countries or different ages. And the best reading leads readers into a contemplative mood, not merely occupied with the report of events.Two45The object of reading is to cultivate personal charm of appearance and flavor in speech, not to “improve one’s mind”, which kills the joy of reading and forces one to read with a sense of obligation. Three68The key to all reading lies in taste, which is selective and individual. No one should be forced to read books against his own will and there is no book that one absolutely must read. It is wise to read books that meet the development of one’s intellectual interest. Four9Benefit from reading relies on the contributions of both the author and the reader. The profit will be greater if one is lucky enough to find his favourite author.Section B Indepth StudyIn the following text, Lin Yutang, the Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor, shares with us his insight into reading as an art. He not only addresses such questions as why to read, what to read, and when to read, but also convinces us of the beauty and benefits of reading as an art.The Art of ReadingLin Yutang1 Reading or the enjoyment of books has always been regarded among the charms of a cultured life and is respected and envied by those who rarely give themselves that privilege. This is easy to understand when we pare the difference between the life of a man who does no reading and that of a man who does.2 The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine。 the more select, the more enjoyable. — Louisa May Alcott Interpretation:Books and friends should be few but good. We should be highly selective in reading books, and our greatest pleasure in reading es from the best books.About Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888): an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women (《小婦人》）.Section C Watching and Discussion▇ Watch the following video clip “Reading Really Matters” and do the tasks that follow.Introduction of the video: Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is talking about arts education. First he mentions a problem in the United States: People are reading less and employers are facing a serious problem that their new employees can’t read and can’t write. According to Dana Gioia, those people who read do exercise more and do more volunteering charity work. Then he es to talk about how reading actually matters to a person. 1 Now fill in the note form according to what you hear. Topic: Reading Awakens Something inside the Reader1) reading increases your sense of your own personal destiny. 2) reading makes the lives of other people more real to you.In summary, reading makes you understand that other people have an inner life as plicated as your own.Reading builds a society with not only imaginative capability, intellectual capability, but passion, and humanity.2 Discuss the following questions.Do you agree that Chinese people are reading less?Do you think modern technology has influenced the way people read?Open. ▇ Script： Americans are reading less. Because they read less, they read less well. Because they read less well, they do less well in the educational system. We are in the process in the United States of producing the first generation in our history that’s less welleducated than their parents. Now, I mean, to me, this is, you know a…an abandonment of the whole American misroutes of self improvement. Because they do less well in school, they do less well in the job market and economically. The number one problems for new employers in the United States: new employees can’t read, new employees can’t write. And in fact, for those people who can’t even read above the basic level, 55% of those people end up unemployed. And even on a further level, they overwhelmingly are like, you know, are more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. Only 3% of the people in . prisons read at a proficiency level. Because they read less well, you know, because in a sense they don’t develop these things, they are also less likely to be engaged in personal positive behavior however you wanna measure it. We can measure it many different ways. You would not think it, but it is overwhelmingly demonstrable: that people that read exercise more。Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book FourUnit Seven: Reading and ReflectionPart I Get StartedSection A Discussion▇ Sit in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions.1 Why do you think we need to read?2 What do you prefer to read — poems, novels or plays?3 What role do you think literary works play in our lives?▆ Answers for reference:1 Hints:l Reading broadens our horizons.l Reading enriches our knowledge.l Reading puts us in contact with the best minds of human history.l Reading enriches our experience.l Reading empowers us with knowledge.l Reading