When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This
new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very .
Some stories are told they were
true. Real people who live in a world
do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing
what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not .
They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things
that would be for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If
we think about it, even realistic writing is only .
How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For
example, when we read about Harry Potter, we seem
to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at
Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than .
Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of .
When we read or write something, we do much more than simple look at words on a
page. We use our -- which is real--
and our imagination-- which is real in a different way --- to make the words
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Both realism
and fantasy(幻想) the
imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we
read realistic, we have to imagine
that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we that
we are real and they are . It sounds ,
but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and about
the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by 52
that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the
book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on
in our when we are reading. We pick
up a book and lose in a good story,
eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel we
read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about
the real magic of books.
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2.A. that B.
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4.A. realistic B.
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D.
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designed C.
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dreams C.
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10.A. knowledge B.
skill C.
words D. grammar
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