Unit 2 Poems
阅读理解
(2018·成都高中毕业班诊断)
Flaubert had it that “one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in an unending party”. It turns out that reading doesn’t only help us to tolerate existence, but actually lengthens it.
A recent study by Yale University researchers, published online in the journal Social Science & Medicine, concluded that “book readers experienced a 20 percent reduction in the risk of death over the 12 years of followup compared to nonreaders”.
The data was obtained from the study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The study looked at 3,