阅读理解：For many of us, there's nothing better
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For many of us, there's nothing better than burying our head in a good book. Whether it's a story or a biography, it's good to read a book to switch off from the distinctions（分心）of everyday life. .
It may seem obvious that reading is beneficial to our health. It can be educational and broaden the mind. A good novel can make us happy, or make us cry as we sympathize with characters. This power of reading books was first recognized a few years ago by the British charity Reading Agency, who published a list of books that doctors could offer to patients, treating topics from depression to dementia（痴呆）and to some pain.
Professor Philip Davis, author of a book called Reading for life, studies people in reading groups and found that it's reading literature（only written work thought to have artistic value） that has the best effect. When reading something for pleasure, he said ”...・the brain begins to work from different parts, and it gets excited, it gets pre — emotional. ."
