Does reading great literature make you a better person? There's a theory, vaguely associated with evolutionary psychology,
maintaining that fiction builds empathy, and therefore morality, _____(31)_____ inviting us into the minds, hearts and experiences of
others. This is what one of the British children's book authors implied recently, when he claimed that "developing in young
children a love of poems and stories" might someday _____(32)___ the human-rights organization Amnesty International obsolete.
While many experts are all for _____(33)___ such tastes in children, they also don't think the love of stories has to be taught. Most
children are keenly interested in stories in all their forms. Yet there has always been a need for groups like Amnesty and it
seems probable there always will be, no matter how many stories we _____(34)___ our youth. Isn't it just as likely that many people
who are already empathetic and moral will be _____(35)___ to literature because they're curious about and interested in how others
think and feel? 【題組】
31. (A)for (B)by (C)beyond (D)next to