Lin Yutang believes that reading is among the charms of a cultured life and is respected and envied by those who don't read. When we 1、( ) the life of a man who does no reading with that of a man who does, we can 2、( ) .Generally, one who does not have the habit of reading is 3、( ) to contact and conversation with a few friends and 4、( ), and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately 5、( ) a different world. If it happens to be a good book, he is immediately put in 6、( ) with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him into a different country or a different age, even discusses with him some 7、( ) line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about.
Lin agrees with Huang Shanku, a Sung 8、( ), in that reading gives a man a certain charm and flavor, which is the entire 9、( ) of reading, and only reading with this object can be called an art. One does not understand the art of reading if he 10、( ) himself to read.
According to Huang Shanku, the key to reading is to 11、( ) people's personal charm of appearance and flavor in speech. Whether one has "flavor" or not in his talk 12、( ) on his method of reading. If a reader gets the flavor of books, he will show that flavor in his conversations, and if he has flavor in his conversations, he will also have a flavor in his writing.
Reading is an act 13、( ) of two sides, the author and the reader. The net gain comes as much from the reader's 14、( ) through his own insight and experience as from the author's own. The most critical event in one's 15、( ) development is to find his favorite author.If one cannot find one,he will fail to get any real good out of reading.
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