1. When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his thoughts. A. Just as man is the tool-making animal, the animal that cooks, the political animal, so too he is to us the reading animal, the creature by means of reading can bring himself to some degree of happiness and wisdom. B. In spite of the sneers of so many writers, we hold that man rarely so innocent and fruitfully employed as he is when reading. That is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. C. A book is a machine to think with. In learning to write the pupil does with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil.D. In the same way in reading the greater part of the work, if thought is already done for us. To us the books are a means of escape. 6. So it comes about that if anyone spends the whole day in reading, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking, just as the man who always rides at last forgets how to walk.

1. When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his th

1.	1. When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his thoughts. A. Just as man is the tool-making animal, the animal that cooks, the political animal, so too he is to us the reading animal, the creature by means of reading can bring himself to some degree of happiness and wisdom. B. In spite of the sneers of so many writers, we hold that man rarely so innocent and fruitfully employed as he is when reading. That is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. C. A book is a machine to think with. In learning to write the pupil does with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil. D. In the same way in reading the greater part of the work, if thought is already done for us. To us the books are a means of escape. 6. So it comes about that if anyone spends the whole day in reading, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking, just as the man who always rides at last forgets how to walk.
A.	C D A B
B.	B C D A
C.	C A D B
D.	D A C B
Answer» B. B C D A

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