阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项

科目：英语
题型：完型填空
难度：中等
人气：1464

题文

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
I took home a briefcase full of troubles . As I sat down on that hot and damp 36 , there seemed to be no 37 to the problems hanging around in my brain . So I picked up a book , settled into a comfortable chair and 38 my own special therapy (疗法): 39 reading .
I 40 three or four hours on two short chapters of Personal History by Vincent Sheean—tasting each paragraph , staying over a sentence , a phrase , or even a single word , building a detailed mental picture of the scene . No longer was I in Sydney , Australia , on a sticky hot night . Enjoying every word , I 41 foreign journalist Vincent Sheean on a tour to China and another to Russia . I was 42 in the author’s world . And when finally I put it down , my mind was totally 43 .
Next morning , four words from the book—“take the long 44 ” were still in my mind . At my desk , I had a long-view look at my 45 . Once more , super-slow-reading had given me not only 46 but perspective (视角)， and helped me in my everyday affairs .
I discovered its 47 years ago . Before that , if I had been really interested in a book , I would 48 from page to page , 49 to know what came next . Now , I decided , I had to become a miser （守财奴）with 50 and stretch every sentence like a poor man spending his last dollar .
I had started with the practical object of making my book last . But by the end of the second week I began to realize 51 I was getting from super-slow-reading itself . Sometimes just a particular phrase 52 my attention , sometimes a sentence . I would read it slowly, analyze it , read it again—perhaps changing down into an even 53 speed—and then sit for 20 minutes thinking about it before moving on . I was like a pianist 54 a piece of music , phrase by phrase , practicing it , trying to discover and 55 exactly what the composer(作曲家) was trying to convey.