I agree with Meixuen about people who could read well are more likely to graduate from college and get a higher paying job, as by reading, we can enlarge our dictionary of phrases or vocabulary that could help us in essays, and it could definitely help you when you are doing comprehensions. You might never know, the passage you got is a story you read before!

I personally think that reading is important to today's teenagers. Although they doesn't seem to read good reading materials such as novels, but they read other reading materials such as magazines. Without reading, teenagers couldn't improve their language and increase their level of creativity when writing essays. Sometimes, reading blogs does helps.