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I still read out loud to my son. He is in fifth grade and an avid reader. He plows through books and is currently devouring（津津有味地看）The Hobbit which he calls “addicting”. But he still likes it when I read out loud to him before bed.

I’ve always read to him, I could probably recite Goodnight Moon by heart and I like to think it has helped to instill his love of reading in him.

But as he’s gotten older, reading to him has changed. The books are longer, of course, and sometimes he corrects me if I misread a word in the dim light of his room. But what’s really changed is what we both get out of it.

When I was in fifth grade, I had a wonderful teacher, Mr. Hanks, who would read aloud to the class after lunch. I remember him reading Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and me hanging on every word. I could hardly wait for lunch to be over to find out what happened next to little Charlie Bucket.

Now I’m giving the same gift to my own son. Last week he brought me a copy of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol he found on the shelf and asked me to read it to him. One of the bonuses of reading to an older child is you can revisit a beloved book from your past or be exposed to a book you have never read yourself.

Such was the case with A Christmas Carol which I admit I had never read. So when I started reading I worried that it would be a tough go since the book uses expressions and the language Dickens used in the 1840’s. I found myself having to define things such as braziers and balustrades. But in the wonderful descriptiveness of Dickens’ prose, my son was especially taken with his description of Scrooge’s house where he had often played hide-and-seek with other friends.

24. When it comes to reading out loud to the author’s son, she feels _______.

A. tired B. curious C. nervous D. happy

25. It can be inferred from the text that _______.

A. the author’s son enjoys her reading to him

B. the author puts too much pressure on her son

C. the author’s son dislikes reading on his own

D. the author finds it unnecessary to read to her son

26. Compared with Goodnight Moon, A Christmas Carol _______.

A. is much shorter

B. is harder to understand

C. is better known to the author

D. is more popular with younger children