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contains a divination (卜卦) system comparable to Western geomancy (泥土占卜); in Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose. Traditionally, the Book of Changes and its hexagrams (六角星形)were thought to pre-date recorded history, and based on traditional Chinese accounts, its origins trace back to the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BCE (公元前). During the Warring States Period (战国时代), the text was re-interpreted as a system of cosmology (宇宙论) and philosophy that subsequently became intrinsic to Chinese culture. It centered on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change.
▇ Extended questions (Para. 8)
Q: What can we learn from this paragraph?
A: This paragraph tells us that the appreciation of certain books demands certain insight and experience
on the part of the reader. If the reader is not mature enough or is not intellectually prepared for a certain book, he or she would not be able to benefit and gain pleasure from reading it, and sometimes this kind of reading may do more harm than good.
Section C Voicing Your Views
1 Work in pairs and list in the following table Lin Yutang’s views on reading in Text A.
Lin Yutang’s Views on Reading 1. Unlike readers, nonreaders are imprisoned in their immediate world in respect to time and space. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ▇ Answers for reference:
Lin Yutang’s Views on Reading 1. Unlike readers, nonreaders are imprisoned in their immediate world in respect to time and space. 2.The best reading is that which leads one into a contemplative mood, and not that which is merely occupied with the report of events. Therefore, reading newspa