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考研英语阅读真题：考研英语（二）第

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That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliche.

But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There’s never any time to read.

What

makes

the problem

thornier

is

that

the usual

time-

management

techniques

don’t

seem

sufficient.

The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book

with you at all times”.

But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.

Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning

—

or else you’re so

exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need.

The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward

communication...

It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption”.

Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely

by becoming more efficient.

In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem.

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally,

judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some

goal.

Immersive

reading,

by

contrast,

depends

on

being

willing

to

risk

inefficiency,

goallessness,

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even time-wasting.

Try

to

slot

it

as

a

to-

do

list

item

and

you’ll

manage

only

goal

-focused

reading

—

useful,

sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind.

“The future comes at us li

ke empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor

belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time,

and “we feel a pressure to fill these different

-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes)as they pass,

for if they get by without bei

ng filled, we will have wasted them”.

No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.

So what does work?

Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading.

You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind

-set,

but

in

fact,

Eberle

notes,

such

ritualistic

behaviour

helps

us

“step

outside

time’s

flow”

into

“soul time”.

You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers.

“Carry

a

book

with

you

at

all

times”

can

actuall

y

work,

too

—

providing

you

dip

in

often

enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care

of business, before dropping back down.

On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading,

and making time for everything else.

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如今人人都抱怨自己很忙，这已经是人们口中的陈词滥调了。

但有一个抱怨听起来尤为让人伤感：一直没时间阅读。

而让这 个问题更糟糕的是，那些常见的时间管理技巧似乎并不足以改变这一问题。

网上充 斥着各种教你如何腾出时间来阅读的攻略：

诸如

“

别看电视

”

或者

“

随时带本书在身

边

”

。

但在我看来，使用这些方法来腾出个

30

分 钟左右的阅读时间是不管用的。

因为当你坐下来阅读的时候，脑海里各种关于工作的思绪就开 始翻腾，或是你太疲劳了

以致于你最不想做的就是读一本吃力的书。

小说家兼批评家蒂姆

·

帕克斯写道：

“

当代人的心理极其倾向于交流

……

并不仅仅是说你被打扰了，而是你实际上很容易被打扰。

深度阅 读需要的不仅仅是时间，而是一种特别的时间，它不是仅仅通过提高效率就能获

得的。< /p>

实际上，

“

提高效率

”

只是解决没有时间阅读这一问题的一方面。

如果能 把时间看做是一种可被最大化利用的资源，那就意味着你能把它当做工具来用，

并且只 有在你时刻都向特定目标迈进的时候，你才认为每一刻时间都是用有所值的。

相反， 深度阅读取决于你愿意承担无效率、无目标地阅读所带来的后果，这种阅读后果

甚至是浪 费时间。

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如果你能把阅读列为你每天必做事项之一，那么你就能做到专 一于目标的阅读

——

有时

这是有效果的 ，但它并不是最让人感到满足的阅读方式。

加里

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埃伯利在他的《神圣的时间》一书中写道：

“

我们的未来就像空瓶子一样，在一条

不可阻挡且似乎无止尽的传送带上流转，