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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 t

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问题     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, even time-wasting. Try to slot it in 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 like 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 being filled, we will have wasted them." No mind-set could be worse for losing yourslef 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 behavior 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 actually 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.
The usual time-management techniques don’t work because ______.
选项 A、what they can offer does not ease the modern mind
B、what people often forget is carrying a book with them
C、what challenging books demand is repetitive reading
D、what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed
答案D
解析 细节题。根据关键词“usual time management technique”定位到第二段。A项“无法使现代人平静”与原文The modern mind“is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication表述不符。B项在原文中并末提及。C项“具有挑战意味的书籍需要重复阅读”与原文or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’sthe last thing you need不符。D项“深度阅读之所需无法保障”是对Deep reading requires not just time，but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient的同义替换。因此，D项为正确答案。
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