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阅读理解 Not long ago, Linda Khan was sitting by a hospital bed in Houston, feeling ill at ease. Beside her lay her father who needed a heart surgery. The two of them had engaged in nothing but depressing small talk. Then, her eye fell on a pile of books. She picked up one, and started to read it out loud. "Right away it changed the mood and atmosphere," she says. Reading gave the daughter a way to connect with her father. Listening allowed the father travel on the sound of his daughter's voice into a place where he felt himself again. "From then on," Khan says, "I always read to him." In a 2010 survey in the United Kingdom, elderly adults who joined weekly read-aloud groups reported better concentration, less anxiety, and an improved ability to socialize. The survey authors owed these improvements in large part to the "rich, varied diet of serious literature" that group members consumed, with fiction encouraging feelings of relaxation and calm, poetry fostering focused concentration, and narratives giving rise to cognitive (认知的) thoughts, feelings, and memories. In truth, almost any kind of reading to another person can be beneficial. Readers get rewards too. For Neil Bush, the late-life hospitalizations of his famous parents, George H. W. and Barbara Bush, became opportunities to repay a debt of gratitude. "When I was a kid, they would read to me," he said. With his parents in and out of care, "We've been reading books about Dad's foreign policy and, more recently, Mom's autobiography." Bush went on, his voice thick with emotion, "And to read their amazing life to them has been a remarkable blessing to me, personally, as their son." To many people, reading to parents may seem so far outside the normal range of regular activities, and it may even feel odd and improper. However, there are still a lot many who brave the momentary strangeness of reading to elderly adults and both reader and listeners are, to borrow a phrase from Wordsworth, surprised by the joy of it. （1） What did reading offer to Linda and her father? A . A way to establish a bond. B . A way to travel together in reality. C . A way to treat the disease. D . A way to engage in learning. （2） What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A . Improvements in mental health. B . Benefits of reading to others. C . Changes in cognitive process. D . Development of social skills. （3） What does Neil Bush's experience prove? A . Reading benefits more than the listener B . Parents should red more to their kids. C . Children should show their gratitude. D . Reding to parents is children's duty （4） How does the author feel about reading to an elderly adult? A . Improper and odd. B . Abnormal but worthy. C . Rewarding and joyful. D . Interesting but unnecessary. 答案： A B A C

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