That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There’s never any time to read.

    What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times.” But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning—or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication… It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption.” Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.

    In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal. Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading—useful sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”. No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.

    So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time.” You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. “Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too—providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down. On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.

答案精析：根据题干中的Eberle和scheduling regular times for reading可定位至最后一段第二句。文章指出，艾伯乐认为这种养成习惯的阅读能帮助我们跳出时间的限制，而进入心灵的时间。由此可知，安排固定时间阅读有助于实现沉浸式阅读，原文中的soul time指的就是D项的immersive reading，故选择D项。

错项排除：本段第三句指出，设定固定的阅读时间可能会让人觉得助长了以效率为重的心态，但随后指出，作者和艾伯乐都不同意这个看法，故排除A项。文章提及使用电子阅读器是为了减少阅读中分散精力的机会，而非有助于培养在线阅读的习惯，因此排除B项。C项中的ritualistic reading和scheduling regular times for reading都是阅读时间管理的手段，而不是要达成的效果，因此排除C项。