There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding.31 The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else.32Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don' t have any difficulty in .gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.

　　The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely un- derstand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader' s understanding.33Otherwise one per- son could never learn from another. Here "learning" means understanding more, not remembering more information.

　　What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding.34Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Sec-ond, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.

　　35It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for under- standing or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.

　　A. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

　　B. Such communication between unequals must be possible.

　　C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.

　　D. The writer must be "superior" to the reader in understanding.

　　E. Thus, we can employ the word "reading" in two distinct senses.

　　F. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.

　　G. Besides gaining information and understanding, there' s another goal of reading-enter-tainment.

　　答案及解析

　　31.E【解析】根據(jù)第二段第一句的“The first sense is the one...”和第三段第一句的“The second sense is the one in which we…”可知E選項(xiàng)符合題意。故選E項(xiàng)。

　　32.C【解析】下文中提到“Such materials may increase our store of infor-marion，but they cannot improve our understanding.”，而且選項(xiàng)C也提到了materials一詞，故選C項(xiàng)。

　　33.B【解析】前面兩句中說作家的作品中有些讀者不知道的內(nèi)容，是需要讀者認(rèn)真領(lǐng)會(huì)的，因而作家與讀者在知識(shí)上是不對(duì)等的(une.quals)�？崭窈蟮木渥覱therwise one person could never leam fromanother.表示“否則一個(gè)人不可能從另一個(gè)人那里學(xué)到東西”，該句也解釋了unequals(兩個(gè)水平不同的人)的含義。同時(shí)，從行文上看，空前一句提到了communicating，而只有B項(xiàng)中的suchcommunication與之銜接緊密。

　　34.D【解析】D選項(xiàng)The writer must be“superior”to the reader in under-standing(作者必須比讀者的理解力強(qiáng))與本段第二句“First，thereis inequality in understanding.”相符。故選D項(xiàng)。

　　35.G【解析】下文內(nèi)容是上文內(nèi)容的一個(gè)延續(xù)，與上文為遞進(jìn)關(guān)系，所以用besides開頭。本段后面出現(xiàn)了兩次entertainment也提示答案為G項(xiàng)。