阅读理解
Humans are naturally drawn to other life forms and the worlds outside of our own．We take delight in the existence of creatures and even whole socicties beyond our everyday lives．
This sense of wonder is universal look at the efforts that scientists have made to find out whether life of some kind exists on Mars, and the popularity of fantasy(幻想)litcrature or movies like The lord of the Rings, This sense of wonder drous us to each other, to the world around us, and to the world of make-believe．But have we gone to far in creating worlds of fantasy that we are missing the phcasure of other worlds that alrewly exist all around us?
Human beings, as biologists have suggested, possess an inborn desire to connect with and understand other life forms, However, people, especially in big cities, often lead rather isolated lices．In a study of British schoolchildren, it was found that children bye age eight were much more familiar with hurmans for television shows and cideo games than with common wildlife．Without modern technology ,a amall pond could be an amazing world filled with strange and beautiful plants, insects, birds, and animals．When we lack meaningful interaction(交互)with the world around us, and sometimes ecen with our families and friends , we seek to understand and communicate with things that exist only in our imaginations or on a computer screen
The world of make-believe is not neccsanly bad, But when the world of famsity becomes the only outlet(出路)our sense of wonder ,then we are really missing something, We are missing a connection with the living world．Other wonderful worderful worlds exist all around us．But even more interesting is that if we look closely enough ,we can see that these worlds, in a broad sense , are really part of our own．
