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/ 托福综合写作练手材料 年轻人不再像之前那么爱看文学作品 摘要：100托福小编为考生们搜集了一系列的托福综合写作的阅读材料，考生们快来练手吧。下面是托 福综合写作练手材料系列——《托福综合写作练手材料 托福综合写作练手材料 年轻人不再像之前那么爱看文学作品》（含文章分析和范文）。 100托福小编为考生们搜集了一系列的托福综合写作的阅读材料，考生们快来练手吧。下面是托福综合 写作练手材料系列——《托福综合写作练手材料 年轻人不再像之前那么爱看文学作品》。 托福综合写作——年轻人不再像之前那么爱看文学作品 阅读材料： A recent study reveals that peopleespecially young people are reading far less literature – novels, plays, andpoems – than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunateeffects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for the future ofliterature itself. 最近的研究显示人们，尤其是年轻人不再像以前那样爱读想小说、喜剧或者诗歌这类文学作品了。这个 现象是令人担忧的。这是因为这对广大读者受众、对广义文化以及对于文学本身未来的发展都是非常不 幸的。 While there has been a decline in bookreading generally, the decline has been especially sharp for literature. Thisis unfortunate because nothing else provides the intellectual stimulation thatliterature does. Literature encourages us to exercise our imaginations,empathize with others, and expand our understanding of language. So, by readingless literature, the reading public is missing out on important benefits. 在书籍阅读量下降的大气候下，文学类书籍阅读量下降更为明显。这是令人遗憾的，因为在启迪心智方 面，没有什么可以替代文学作品的作用。文学让我们发挥我们的想象力；让我们同他人心灵相通；让我 们体味语言的魅力。文学阅读量的下降，让很多公众错失了这些文学的益处。 Unfortunately, missing out on the benefitsof literature is not the only problem. What are people reading instead?Consider the prevalence of self-help books on lists of best seller. These areusually superficial poorly written, and intellectually undemanding.Additionally, instead of sitting down with a challenging novel, many persons arenow more likely to turn on the television, watch a music video, or read a Webpage. Clearly, diverting time previously spent in reading literature to trivialforms of entertainment has lowered the level of culture in general. 不幸的是，公众失去的不仅仅是文学本身的益处。人们用什么取代阅读呢？想想畅销书排行榜上那些颇