Every neighborhood needs a bookstore. One inspired woman took this mission to heart and opened her dream bookstore. Bronx Bound Books is a community project on wheels, ensuring everyone in the neighborhood has a bookstore nearby.
Ever since DeVaughn was a child, she dreamed of opening a bookstore. Adopted by her grandmother, she spent many childhood hours exploring bookshops. “My grandmother was an educator in the South Bronx,” DeVaughn explained. “She read to the people in our community who couldn’t read. Some people’s lives depended on the information she gave them.”
Although her grandmother had passed away, DeVaughn never forgot her dream. She knew her thought was important as the nearest bookstore was one hour away. It was hard for local people to get books. After she was introduced to the idea of a mobile bookshop, she soon wanted to put it into practice.
DeVaughn understood that the community was the most important aspect to ensure the success of this project, so she began by reaching out to friends and neighbors.“Your community is the most valuable resource when you start a small business,”she said.“If you’re determined enough to let them know what you want, they’ll try their best to make it happen for you.”She collected used books from friends and good neighbors and received a small business loan. Soon she had a bus, loads of books, and kindness from lots of warm-hearted helpers.
DeVaughn soon realized that she was making a huge impact on the community. Now she has plans to partner with schools and book fairs, and even get a second bus. Not only is DeVaughn inspiring people in her community to purchase their cherished books and enjoy reading, but her own family also benefit from her encouraging action.
1. What can be known about DeVaughn’s grandmother?| A．She founded a community school. |
| B．She helped the locals get free books. |
| C．She had a positive influence on DeVaughn. |
| D．She put forward the idea of a mobile bookstore. |
| A．To make books easily accessible to local people. |
| B．To fulfil her grandmother’s dying wish. |
| C．To make money to support her community. |
| D．To draw attention to poor children. |
| A．By using her years of working experience. |
| B．By sharing her project online and raising money. |
| C．By seeking professional guidance from educators. |
| D．By uniting the power of her community and friends. |
| A．A woman sets a shining example to kids |
| B．The value of developing a sense of belonging |
| C．A bookstore on wheels drives a love of reading |
| D．The difficulty of opening a community bookstore |
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【推荐1】If you wish to become a better reader, here are four important things to remember about reading rate:
● Knowing why you are reading or what you are reading to find out will often help you to know whether to read rapidly or slowly.
● Some things should be read slowly throughout. Examples are directions for making or doing something, arithmetic problems, science and history books, which are full of important information. You must read such things slowly to remember each important step and understand each important idea.
● Some things should be read rapidly throughout. Examples are simple stories meant for enjoyment, news letters from friends, pieces of news from local, or home-town, papers, telling what is happening to friends and neighbors.
● In some of your reading, you must change your speed from fast to slow and slow to fast, as you go along. You will need to read certain pages rapidly and then slow down and do more careful reading when you come to important ideas which must be remembered.
1. The underlined word "rate" in the first sentence means _______.| A．fast. | B．slow. | C．speed. | D．skill. |
| A．The faster, the better. | B．The more slowly, the better. |
| C．Neither too fast nor too slow. | D．It depends on what we are reading. |
| A．Read slowly when you are reading something important to you. |
| B．Read fast when you are reading something unimportant to you. |
| C．Read the materials that you are interested in slowly. |
| D．Read the materials that you are interested in fast. |
| A．How to decide your reading speed |
| B．How to raise your reading speed |
| C．How to improve your reading skills |
| D．How to choose your reading materials |
【推荐2】Neil Gaiman is an English author of lots of science fiction and fantasy works.
A child in a library is an explorer venturing into a land where he has no map to guide him. This is part of the excitement. Everything is new.
Not knowing what books are good or bad, an eager child will try very different things.
A child reads for enjoyment from all sorts of books. I can’t remember when I stopped reading comics like the Wizard and Hotspur, but I’m pretty sure that my reading of them continued even while I was delighted in Sherlock Holmes or in the short stories of HG Wells.
The only useful thing an adult can do is to give a child a book and say, “I think you might enjoy this.” Don’t complain if he doesn’t like it and turns to something that you think is bad.
| A．Anything he reads may be attractive，too. |
| B．Everybody has a secret world inside of themselves. |
| C．For the young reader even a bad book has its own value. |
| D．Adults should be careful in what they say to a child about his reading. |
| E．Almost everyone who reads widely as an adult has read wildly as a child. |
| F．The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. |
| G．He is also a productive blogger and the point he gave in one of his blogs surely makes sense. |
【推荐3】The World's Coolest Bookstores
Where did you buy your last book? Chances are that you bought it on the Internet. But if you did, you missed the extraordinary experience of browsing in a real bookstore. These days bookstores offer lots of great books and plenty more.
Taipei's Eslite Dunnan Store
Time magazine once named Eslite Dunnan Store in Taipei "Asia's best bookstore ". One visit to the store tells you why. The store, spreading across five floors, offers a combination of restaurants, music and over 200,000 books. With its cosy reading spots, visitors sometimes say it's like a library. Others have called it the " 7-Eleven of bookstores" because it's open 24 hours a day.
Book Garden
The world's biggest bookstore is Tehran, Iran's Book Garden with 700,000 square feet of space. In addition to restaurants and a theater, the Book Garden features a park on the roof.
Libreria Acqua Alta
Venice, Italy, is a city surrounded by water. It seems that one of its most interesting bookstores is Libreria Acqua Alta. Its books are displayed in all things related to water such as boats, bathtubs and more.
La Caverne aux Livres
La Caverne aux Livres—the cave of books—was once a train. Today this unique French bookstore, located north of Paris, is home to thousands of second-hand books.
Bart's Books
Many readers like to sit inside with a good book. But at Bart's Books in California, guests can enjoy a good book and some fresh air. Bart's Books is believed to be the largest independently-owned outdoor bookstore in the US.
Whether you enjoy reading inside or outside, there's always an interesting bookstore to be discovered.
1. What is special about Taipei's Eslite Dunnan Store?| A．You can visit this bookstore at any time of the day. |
| B．You can take books from this store free of charge. |
| C．There are places where you can enjoy your meal. |
| D．It is characterized by a park directly on its roof. |
| A．Admire landmarks of Paris in the distance. |
| B．Search for some information about trains. |
| C．Enjoy a good book and outdoor scenery. |
| D．Browse a huge number of used books. |
| A．To urge people to read books inside and outside. |
| B．To encourage people to go to the real bookstores. |
| C．To inspire booksellers to open creative bookstores. |
| D．To appeal to booksellers to pay attention to this list. |
【推荐1】The 2021 winners of a major international environmental award have just been announced, and the list includes a Vietnamese conservationist who’s known for his vital work helping protect the pangolin (穿山甲) — the world’s most trafficked animal.
Van Nguyen grew up near Cuc Phuong National Park and, as a child, watched poachers (偷猎者) removing pangolin from their holes. “I saw a mum (pangolin), rolling into a ball to protect her baby.” Nguyen decided to make pangolin conservation his life’s work.
Nguyen set out to stop poaching and educate the Vietnamese public on the importance of pangolin conservation in order to reverse the condition of the pangolins. His efforts began with an education campaign. Nguyen also opened the Carnivore and Pangolin Education Center, the first of its kind in Vietnam, in order to provide wildlife conservation courses for students and the general public. Nguyen didn’t stop there; he established Vietnam’s first Asian Pangolin Rehabilitation (康复) Center.
Nguyen even worked with poachers to ask them to take him into the forest and show him how they track and catch pangolins. He also visited markets, restaurants, and doctors of traditional medicine to learn more about the demand for pangolins. In 2018, Nguyen created Vietnam’s first-ever anti-poaching unit. Nguyen has also looked to global strategies and worked with the management authority of the CITES to ban international trade for animals most threatened with extinction.
As one of the few people in the world working on pangolin conservation and rehabilitation, Nguyen is filling a necessary and important space for understanding and protecting this critically endangered animal.
1. What made Nguyen start pangolin protection?| A．His love for pangolins. | B．A childhood experience. |
| C．Serious pangolin poaching. | D．The importance of pangolins. |
| A．Worsen. | B．Analyze. | C．Change. | D．Maintain. |
| A．To report them to the police. | B．To learn about the market demand. |
| C．To understand their tricks. | D．To get pangolins to safer places. |
| A．Taking Action: Stories of Pangolin |
| B．Pangolins: A Critically Endangered animal |
| C．Saving Pangolins: Van Nguyen’s Life Mission |
| D．Van Nguyen: An Environmental Award Winner |
【推荐2】In 2009, Shawn Seipler worked for an American technology company. His job required him to travel and visit companies all over America. One evening, he was sitting in his hotel room. He began to wonder what happened to the soap (肥皂) in the bathroom once he left the hotel. There was no way that it could be left in the room for someone else to use. Curious, he asked the hotel manager and was told that the used soap was thrown away and replaced.
Shawn could not sleep that night. A quick Internet search informed him that there were about 4.6 million hotel rooms in America. If 60 per cent of these were used every night, over one million bars of soap would be thrown away every day. Was this really necessary? The young man went on to read reports about the importance of handwashing. He learnt that thousands of children were dying every day from diseases related to bad hygiene (卫生). If the children washed their hands with soap, the number of deaths could be reduced by half. The following day, Shawn left his well-paid job. He approached the Holiday Inn Hotel in Orlando and asked if he could take away their used soap. He transported it to his home, where he and his relatives began to break it down, so it could be used again.
Shawn started his charity. Clean The World, and began distributing (分发) his recycled soap to children all over the world. His another big task was to contact other hotels, so he could take away their used soap. He found that he was really doing the hotels a big favour. Not only was he putting their soap to good use, but he was also preventing millions of bars of used soap from ending up in landfill (垃圾填埋地) every year. His charity was able to raise money by charging the hotels for this service. In return, the hotels could tell everyone they were part of an amazing new charity.
Today, the charity has offices overseas and operates in China, India and Canada. Many of the biggest hotel groups in the world are working with Clean The World, helping to save lives.
1. What troubled Shawn when he was in a hotel room in 2009?| A．His tiring travels. | B．The waste of soap. |
| C．His sleeping problems. | D．The poor service of the hotel. |
| A．It intends to sell soap to poor people. |
| B．It helps hotels make a lot of money. |
| C．It is a win-win for itself and hotels. |
| D．It tries to create environment-friendly soap. |
| A．Responsible and courageous. | B．Public-spirited and caring. |
| C．Curious and humorous. | D．Far-sighted and strict. |
| A．Hotels coming together | B．Recycling soap to save lives |
| C．Creative ways of making soap | D．Developing good hygiene habits |
【推荐3】George Gershwin, born in 1898, was one of America’s greatest composers. He published his first song when he was eighteen years old. During the next twenty years he wrote more than five hundred songs.
Many of Gershwin’s songs were first written for musical plays performed in theatres in New York City. These plays were a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of his songs have remained popular as ever. Over the years they have been sung and played in every possible way—from jazz to country.
In the 1920s there was a debate in the United States about jazz music. Could jazz, some people asked, be considered serious music? In 1924 jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music. Gershwin agreed to compose something for the concert before he realized he had just a few weeks to do it. And in that short time, he composed a piece for piano and orchestra which he called Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin himself played the piano at the concert. The audience were thrilled when they heard his music. It made him world-famous and showed that jazz music could be both serious and popular.
In 1928, Gershwin went to Paris. He applied to study composition (作曲) with the well-known musician Nadia Boulanger, but she rejected him. She was afraid that classical study would ruin his jazz-influenced style. While there, Gershwin wrote An American in Paris. When it was first performed, critics (评论家) were divided over the music. Some called it happy and foil of life, to others it was silly and boring. But it quickly became popular in Europe and the United States. It still remains one of his most famous works.
George Gershwin died in 1937, just days after doctors learned he had brain cancer. He was only thirty-nine years old. Newspapers all over the world reported his death on their front pages. People mourned the loss of the man and all the music he might have still written.
1. Many of Gershwin’s musical works were ________.| A．written about New Yorkers | B．composed for Paul Whiteman |
| C．played mainly in the countryside | D．performed in various ways |
| A．It attracted more people to theatres. |
| B．It proved jazz could be serious music. |
| C．It made Gershwin leader of the orchestra. |
| D．It caused a debate among jazz musicians. |
| A．He created one of his best works. | B．He studied with Nadia Boulanger, |
| C．He argued with French critics. | D．He changed his music style. |
| A．Many of Gershwin’s works were lost |
| B．The death of Gershwin was widely reported. |
| C．A concert was held in memory of Gershwin. |
| D．Brain cancer research started after Gershwin’s death. |
【推荐1】Hillary Sterling, a chef at Vic’s in New York’s NoHo, prides herself on expressing the finest principles of the Italian cooking tradition: making delicious meals, while minimizing food waste. “I think Italian cooking is really a perfect example of simple, elegant, delicious food without any excess,” says Sterling. “They grow what they make and that’s it. And they use what they have.”
About 30 percent of food is wasted in the US, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Nearly all of that food — 95 percent — is simply thrown away, leading to an average loss of 38 million tons of food per year. But hunger in America isn’t a supply problem — there’s more than enough food to meet demand. And that doesn’t sit well with a community-minded chef like Sterling.
“I’m here to feed people but I’m also here to educate,” Sterling said. “There’s no reason we should not be helping people — especially children.” That passion inspired Sterling to join other chefs who volunteer with No Kid Hungry, a national campaign focusing on ending childhood hunger in the U.S. through programs like school breakfast and summer meals.
Of course, no one should ever grow up hungry and yet more than 11 million children in the United States live in food insecure families. Children who regularly miss meals can face an increased risk of a range of medical conditions, including chronic illnesses. They’re also more likely to struggle at school — and problems can last for a long time even after their food insecurity problems are solved. But hunger is a solvable problem and today, according to the organization No Kid Hungry, one-third fewer kids live with hunger in America than when it began nine years ago.
With the support of its long-time partner Citi, No Kid Hungry has provided more than 150 million meals for kids in need. And this year Citi is once again matching all donations up to $100,000 — enough to provide one million additional meals.
1. Which of the following makes Hillary Sterling proud of herself?| A．Finding a well-paid job in an Italian restaurant. |
| B．Cooking tasty food without wasting materials. |
| C．Encouraging customers to reduce food waste. |
| D．Creating unique Italian cooking techniques. |
| A．Food waste is increasingly common around the world. |
| B．America needs to produce more .food to meet demand. |
| C．Many Americans are short of food-saving awareness. |
| D．Food prices are increasing fest at the market. |
| A．Helping children avoid suffering from hunger. |
| B．Offering free, meals to people in her community. |
| C．Inspiring American teenagers to make Italian food. |
| D．Educating people on donating money to poor families. |
| A．Achievements in helping needy children. |
| B．The value of making donations to children. |
| C．Support between two non-profit organizations. |
| D．The need to help children with the problem of hunger. |
When Ayers went to make a payment toward the $283 balance for her family’s Christmas gifts at Walmart, her money was refused. According to a Walmart employee, a woman had paid a part of Ayers’ bill after seeing her shopping in the store. The unknown woman also left Ayers a touching note, which left the mother of two in tears.
Ayers, whose sons are 11 and 3, says the stranger’s great generosity came at the perfect time for her family. Before the anonymous payment was made, Ayers had worried she would not be able to get her kids’ toys in time for Christmas.
Ayers is still looking for the woman who helped pay for their Christmas gifts for her kids. She took a picture of her receipt with the headline: This stranger paid 4 gifts for us. I wish I could thank her for helping give our kids a Merry Christmas!
For thousands of families like Ayers’, feeling this financial pressure around Christmastime is nothing new. These families who still have a roof over their heads and food on their tables often slip through the cracks — they can afford all the necessities, but the “extras” are harder to come by. Considering that Americans are estimated to spend $882 on Christmas gifts this year, it makes sense that a family with a few financial problems would have a hard time filling the stockings for their kids.
Realizing how common this Christmas problem really is makes Ayers’ story even more special. These random acts of kindness around the holidays, often from nameless strangers, can determine what a family’s Christmas looks like. Christmas may not be all about the material stuff, but for families, and especially for kids, it’s the little things that can make the biggest difference.
1. Why did the Walmart employee refuse Ayers’ money?
| A．She was too poor to afford it. |
| B．Her money was not enough. |
| C．Someone had paid for her. |
| D．The charismas gifts were free. |
| A．To say thanks to her. |
| B．To pay her money back. |
| C．To praise her online. |
| D．To make friends with her. |
| A．They value Christmas very much. |
| B．They try their best to buy kids gifts. |
| C．They hate to spend Christmas. |
| D．They live from hand to mouth. |
| A．Praiseful. | B．Helpful. |
| C．Troublesome. | D．Useless. |
【推荐3】Orly Wahba is an educator, speaker, entrepreneur (企业家), author and community activist passionate about inspiring and motivating people to be the best that they can be.
As a young child, listening repeatedly to the song, “Heal the World” by Michael Jackson, Orly knew that she wanted to leave her mark and she wanted more than anything to bring people together under the name of peace, respect, and love. Since her teenage years, Orly has worked extensively with tweens and teens as well as local charities in her community providing a helping hand for those who need it most.
Orly began her career in kindness as a middle school educator at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn, NY, teaching the children to use the power they have to influence the world for good. With 8,000 cards, she started a wave of pay-it-forward kindness. Each card contained an act of kindness that once completed, would be passed onto another person. Her project succeeded, enhancing the lives of her students and raising their sense of self-worth as they saw their direct hand in causing a ripple (涟漪) effect. Even now, people may encounter Orly giving out her famed Acts of Kindness Cards on the subway.
Desiring to make a larger impact with her beneficent work and after having been inspired by a small sign on a plane labeled “Life Vest Inside”, Orly founded (2011) Life Vest Inside, a non-profit organization with a mission to encourage people to embrace (拥抱) the incredible power of giving and recognize that in times of hardship, kindness, like a life vest, keeps the world afloat (漂浮).
LVI shot to national attention when Orly's short film Kindness Boomerang went viral, receiving more than 100 million views and coverage in media such as The TODAY Show, NBC, CBS, ADWEEK, International Business Times and more. In 2013 Orly was invited to speak at TED.
The magic that Orly spreads is undeniable! Through LVI, kind happenings are becoming more frequent. And more people are experiencing the addictiveness in the giving of kindness.
1. How did the song “Heal the World” influence Orly?| A．She wanted to become an entrepreneur. |
| B．She decided to make a difference to the world. |
| C．She managed to raise money for local charities. |
| D．She started to work for a peace organization. |
| A．It teaches people to play cards. | B．It remains a campus campaign. |
| C．It uses the power of an educator. | D．It encourages people to pass kindness. |
| A．More people become addictive to magic. |
| B．Orly achieves amazing success in film career. |
| C．More people are inspired to show kindness to others. |
| D．Orly receives international awards for her contribution. |
