Literature is a means by which we know ourselves. By it we (26)

meet future selves, and recognize past selves; against it we match our present self. Its primary function is to validate and re-create the self in all its individuality and distinctness. In doing so, it cements a sense of relationship between the self and the otherness of the book, and allows us a notion of ourselves as sociable. Its shared knowledge is vicarious experience; by this means we enlarge our understandings (27)

of what it means to be human, of the corporate and independent (28)

nature of human society. The act of reading the book marks both our difference in and our place in the human fabric. The more we read, (29)

the more we are. In the act of reading silently we are alone from the (30) book, separate from ones own immediate surroundings. Yet in the (31)

act of reading we enter other minds and other places, enlarge our (32)

dialogue with the world. Thus paradoxically, while disengaging from the immediate we are increasing its scope. In silence, reading activates a deeply creative function of consciousness. We are deeply committed to the narrative which we coexist while engaged in (33)

reading. All kinds of present physical discomfortness may be (34)

unnoticed while we are reading, and actual time is replaced by narrative time. To imaginatively enter a fictional world by reading it (35)

is then both a liberation from self and an expansion of self.

答案:

26.By改为In

27.understandings改为understanding

28.independent改为interdependent

29.去掉in

30.from改为with

31.ones改为our

32.enlarge前加and

33.which前加with

34.discomfortness改为discomfort

35.去掉it