How to Turn Your Child into a Lifelong Bookworm
Literacy is one of the most important skills we will ever develop over our lifetimes. Most small children love books, looking at the pictures and hearing the story, but as they get older they often move away from books.
Join the library
Libraries have changed a lot in recent years.
Not just novels
Many parents think that reading counts if the child is reading a work of fiction or a novel.
Set an example
If your child never sees you reading, they aren’t going to pick up a book either.
Make their own books
If your child dislikes reading, think about encouraging them to start writing their own stories and novels. Buy them a special notebook. Allow them to write whatever captures their imagination, and don’t worry too much about messy handwriting or poor spelling.
| A．So how do you keep your kids interested in books? |
| B．As long as a child is reading, it doesn’t matter what they are reading. |
| C．Libraries will have a great range of books for children. |
| D．There are newspapers printed especially for children. |
| E．Reading and writing are often thought of as two separate issues. |
| F．The idea is to cause an interest in books, reading and fiction, and the rest will develop over time. |
| G．Next time pick up a newspaper or a book and encourage your child to sit with you and read too. |
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【推荐1】How to learn without forgetting
If you are about to take an exam, it’s useful to use some study tips to help yourself remember what you’ve learned.
Create and stick to a good study schedule.
Discuss what you are learning. Talking about what you are learning can help you store the information better.
Write out what you have to memorize.
Develop a mind map. Mind maps are diagrams (图表) or pictures you can create to help you visually organize information.
| A．Pick a good place to study. |
| B．Read your materials out loud. |
| C．You can study with a friend and test each other. |
| D．Taking notes on what you’ve read can really help. |
| E．They help show relationships between pieces of information. |
| F．Take the time to think about when you are able to concentrate. |
| G．Try to organize the information you’re trying to remember into a rhyme. |
【推荐2】Identical twins Kathy and Sophie arrived at college last year and determined to strike out on independent paths, so they had requested rooms in different dorms. While Kathy got along with her roommate, Sophie was miserable. She and her roommate silently warred over matters ranging from when the lights should be turned off to how the furniture should be arranged. Finally, they divided the room in two and gave up on oral communication. During this time, Sophie kept seeking comfort from Kathy. Before long, the two wanted to live together again. Sophie’s roommate eventually agreed to move out.
Sophie’s ability to solve her dilemma by rooming with her identical twin is unusual, but the conflict she faced is not. Most roommate conflicts spring from such small, annoying differences rather than from grand disagreements over abstract philosophical principles. One person likes quiet, while the other person spends two hours a day practicing the trumpet. One eats only organically produced vegetables and loves animals, while the other likes wearing fur and enjoys cutting up frogs in biology class.
When personalities don’t mix, the excitement of being away at college can quickly fade away. Moreover, roommates can affect each other’s psychological health. A recent study reports that depression in college roommates is often passed from one person to another.
Many schools have started conflict resolution programs to calm tensions that otherwise can build up like a volcano preparing to explode, ultimately resulting in physical violence. Some colleges have resorted to“roommate contracts“ that all new students fill out and sign after attending a seminar on roommate relations. Students detail behavioral guidelines for their room, including acceptable hours for study and sleep, a policy for use of each other’s possessions. Some schools try to head off the feud before it begins by using computerized matching. Students are put together on the basis of their responses to housing form questions.
1. Why is the twins’ story mentioned?| A．To describe college life. |
| B．To reveal the relationship of the twins. |
| C．To show the love between the sisters. |
| D．To present the phenomenon of roommate conflicts. |
| A．They have opposite mindsets. |
| B．They argue over serious matters. |
| C．They differ greatly in life values. |
| D．They hold different preferences in some way. |
| A．Difference. | B．Quarrel. | C．Competition. | D．Disagreement. |
| A．Identical Twins Living Together Again in Colleges |
| B．Roommate Conflicts, Common and Unavoidable? |
| C．Roommate Contracts, Useful in Solving Conflicts? |
| D．Roommate Conflicts Affecting Students’ Psychology |
【推荐3】How to Teach Kids About Setting Goals
Set smart goals. A goal needs to be measurable, specific, realistic and timely in order to be effective. Kids prefer generalizing when it comes to goal setting. For example, one may want to be the best basketball player in the team.
Write down goals.
Set up review points. You can ask them to write their main goal on the poster and mention the steps they would take for achieving their goal.
| A．Learn to set a long-term goal. |
| B．How is a goal like this measured? |
| C．Give up goals that are not realistic. |
| D．This tip is supported by science as well. |
| E．Goals can never be achieved unless they are written down. |
| F．It is essential for everybody, especially for kids, to set goals in life. |
| G．You can also ask them to track their progress once a week or month. |
【推荐1】I am reading a novel at the moment, a story set in Britain and India in the 19th century. It was written by an Indian author who now lives in Denmark, but neither in the language of Hindi nor Danish. Although the paperback edition I’m holding was published in New Delhi, India, four years ago, I (an American) purchased it recently from a second-hand bookshop in Tokyo, Japan.
That’s quite a history already. But there’s more.
The novel is a tale of various mysteries, all expertly put into a well-structured story by a very skillful author. Yet my particular copy presents even more mysteries than the tale.
One summer morning in the year of my paperback’s publication — on July 15, 2012— someone else was reading it while eating breakfast in a restaurant in Mumbai, India.
I know this because I found a receipt of coffee and bread inside. I also know that this person was not the owner of the paperback immediately before me.
In fact, the owner before me was not Indian at all, but Japanese.
I know this because in the book there are handwritten notes in Japanese —translations of English words with which the reader was unfamiliar.
Japanese being a language of characters, not letters, it is not easy to determine if the note writer was a man or a woman. But the care taken to write the translations neatly in the limited spaces available on each page indicates a woman’s hand clearly, and probably a university student, who would keep a dictionary at hand while reading a novel.
But why did she suddenly stop reading? The last translation in my paperback appears on Page 83, less than a third of the way through the novel. Did she give up because the book was proving too difficult? Or was there some other reasons?
Many a novel presents mysteries, all of which are solved by the end of the tale. The mysteries presented by my little paperback, however, remain mysteries, all expertly put into a well-structured story, not by a skillful writer, but this time by the numberless vagaries（变化莫测）of life itself.
1. What can we learn about the novel?| A．It is about a world trip. |
| B．It is well written. |
| C．It was written in an American restaurant. |
| D．It was first published in the 19th century. |
| A．the pretty handwriting | B．the food written on the receipt |
| C．the good condition of the book | D．the effort taken in writing the notes |
| A．He is a great reader of historical fiction. |
| B．He is a hard-working university student. |
| C．He is a productive writer with sensibility. |
| D．He is a careful observer with imagination. |
| A．The tale of a Paperback | B．Different Life Experiences |
| C．Unsolved Mysteries of Life | D．A Book’s Exciting Adventure |
【推荐2】To become a flexible reader, you need to know how to select and use a reading style that is consistent with your purpose reading.
The second reading style is skimming. The purpose of this reading style is to quickly get a general idea about the reading material.
The third reading style is scanning. The purpose of this reading style is to quickly locate a specific piece of information within reading material.
Before you begin your next reading assignment, identify your purpose of reading. Decide if you are reading for a high level of comprehension, trying to get a general idea about what you are reading, or looking for specific information.
| A．Study reading is the reading style used by flexible readers. |
| B．Your reading purpose plays an important role in your reading. |
| C．There are three important reading styles you should learn to use. |
| D．Then use the reading style that is appropriate for your reading purpose. |
| E．The skimming style is most useful when you have to read a lot of material quickly. |
| F．If you want to find the topic sentence in a passage, the skimming style is your choice. |
| G．The information to be located may be contained in any place of the reading material. |
【推荐3】If you’re looking for some books to read, the following may be your best choices.
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff believes we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest goals when we work together, not as individuals. However, he says today’s society is threatened by many elements that weaken our ability to connect. He calls on us to take action.
Climate-A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
With an entire chapter stating climate change, Charles Eisenstein advocates expanding our limited focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. He thinks rivers, forests and the creatures of nature are valuable in their own right, not simply for preventing a rise in temperature.
Who Can You Trust? by Rachel Botsman
In this book, Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history. She says we might have lost faith in many other people, but millions of people exchange digital currencies or find themselves trusting a robot. She says if we are to benefit from this shift, we must understand the mechanics of how trust is built, managed, lost and repaired in the digital age.
The Happiness Fantasy by Carl Cederstrom
Carl Cederstrom traces our present-day conception of happiness. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to experience physical pleasure. He says, however, there is a vision of the good life which promotes deeper engagement with the world. Guided by this more reasonable worldview, we will present ourselves with a new image.
1. What does Team Human focus on?| A．Individuals’ ability. | B．Teamwork. | C．Social events. | D．Creatures. |
| A．Douglas Rushkoff. | B．Rachel Botsman. | C．Charles Eisenstein. | D．Carl Cederstrom. |
| A．Team Human. | B．Climate-A New Story. |
| C．Who Can You Trust? | D．The Happiness Fantasy. |
