高中三年级英语(人教版)全一册 Unit 8 Integrating Skills 2

　　ON READING

　　On the subject of reading, Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." This good advice shows how it is possible to read different types of books in different ways. For example, you might pick up a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep. It is enough to dip into it and read bits here and there. In a word, this is "tasting".

　　Some stories are for "swallowing". Imagine that you have found a good story, and what is even more important, the time to enjoy it. You might be on holiday, or on a long train journey, ff it is a good book, you might say, "It's so good that I can't put it down." But not all stories belong to this class. Reviewers sometimes describe books as "hard-to-put-down" or "hard-to-pick-up-again".