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正确答案：D
解析：细节题型The thirty-two chapters of a novel——if we consider how to read a novel first——are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks；reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. 从第一段的这几句中的划线部分可看到：作者将阅读一本厚书比作是建座大楼是因为建楼房是要精确的规划的，且需要时间；因此D为答案。