According to the passage, what has changed about reading?
It is often claimed that screens have killed reading, but the evidence is more complicated. People today read more words each day than people did a generation ago, though much of it is in short messages, headlines and social media posts. What has changed is not the amount of reading but its kind. Long, sustained attention to a single book has become harder for many people to maintain, and teachers report that pupils find it difficult to stay with a text for more than a few minutes. Yet defenders of the new habits point out that skimming is itself a skill, and that the ability to find information quickly is useful in a world that produces more of it than anyone could possibly read. The real danger may not be that we read less but that we lose the patience for the kind of reading that asks us to think slowly.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The kind of reading that people do
- Step 1: The passage says people read more words than before. Step 2. What has changed is the kind. Answer: the kind of reading. Why not the others: these are not discussed.
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