The Perils of Book-Spurning弃书之患‌

The experiment was simple; so too， you may have thought， was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House1” by Charles Dickens and asked to read and then explain them. In other words， some students reading English literature were asked to read some English literature from the mid-19th century. How hard could it be？

这个实验很简单，你可能认为任务本身也同样简单。（剩余11840字）