四、閿讀測驗（32%)
說明：第41題至第56題，每題4個選項，請分別根據各篇文章之文意選出最適當的一 個答案，畫記在答案卡之「選擇題答案區」。各題答對得2分；未作答、答錯、
或畫記多於一個選項者，該題以零分計算。
第41至44題爲題組
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps, for there is a companionship of books as well as of men, and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today as it always was，and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness, amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love they have for a book. The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel，and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together and he, in them.
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Great thoughts are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out the bad products, for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
【題組】43. The word "affinity” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to "_
(A) infinite possibilities (B) close relationship
(C) wishful thinking (D) heated debate
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