【推荐1】Earthquake can strike without warning. But many injuries and deaths from this kind of natural disaster can be prevented if people follow these safety tips.

If you’re inside a building, stay there! One of the most dangerous things to do in an earthquake is to try to leave a building. But do remember: do it carefully.     1     So do it as follows: Drop to the ground. Get under an object (物体) that is not easily damaged. Hold on to it until the shaking stops. You can also get to a corner formed by two walls with your arms over your hand. If you’re in bed when the quake hits, stay there and protect your head with a pillow.

    2     You can go to the park, playground or fields near your house. Don’t take shelter under a tree, streetlights, electric poles or tall buildings. If you are driving, stop as quickly as possible and stay away from overpasses, buildings, bridges or anything else that might fall or collapse beneath you     3    

If you are trapped in ruins, cover your mouth with a handkerchief or a piece of clothing. Use your cell phone to call for help if possible. Don’t shout.     4     Tap (敲) on a pipe or the wall so rescuers can find you.

Be prepared for aftershocks.     5     However, sometimes they even happen months later. Therefore, if you are not in a safe position (位置) after the first shock, you should move quickly but carefully to a safer place.

A．Don’t park your car under a tree or any tall object.

B．Don’t move about or kick up dust.

C．They can happen in the first hours after the earthquake.

D．If you’re outside, go to an open space.

E．Take a good hold of your cell phone in the building.

F．Most injuries happen when people inside buildings try to go out.

G．Shouting can cause you to breathe in dust.

【推荐2】Poetry has healing powers. To get more joy and peace, we don’t have to be a professional poet but we can develop a poetic mindset (心态).     1    

Be in awe (敬畏) of everything.

The poetic mindset starts with the idea that nothing is an accident. Everything is interrelated and plays a part in a greater whole.     2     Close your eyes. Now open them. What is the first thing you see? Look closer. Ask yourself: What does it look like? What does it remind you of? Does it bring happy thoughts or sad ones? Why? I bet your randomly selected object is full of meaning.

    3    

A poem is a place where you can pour out your hard feelings. Don’t be afraid. You can always throw the page into the fireplace once you’ve filled it.     4     Poetry can be a storeroom for everything difficult in your life. But there’s more, I find when I write about something I’m struggling with, my negative feeling begins to become weaker.

Seek what inspires you.

Life isn’t perfect, but you can live with love and trust anyway.     5     There is always goodness to be found once you train yourself to look for it. Poetry to me is a form of praise. I build poems from things I see, people I meet and thoughts and feelings found deep inside. As I present those treasures in poetic language, I am appreciating what is good in them.

A．Let pain be your teacher.

B．How can we manage it in an easy way?

C．What are the steps of writing a good poem?

D．Poetry helps us remember this important wisdom.

E．Or seal it in an envelope and come back to it later.

F．Writing a poem is about describing your inner world vividly.

G．Therefore, everything deserves notice and even appreciation.

【推荐1】TEEN ZONE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
At the Newton Public Library
REGISTER FOR A SUMMER OF STORIES

Sign up and receive your reading log at the Circulation Desk. Record books you read over the summer and have a parent sign next to each title. The top five readers will receive prizes such as gift cards, magazine subscriptions, and movie tickets.

TEEN ZONE RESOURCES

Look to the Teen Zone’s “Ready Reference” comer for all the help you need to locate information on the Internet. Ms. Frye, the librarian, will share tips on keyword searches to find interesting information about certain books. You must have a signed parent permission slip before using the computers. Access is limited to 30 minutes and is on a first-come, first-served basis.

EVENTS
Poetry Session                           Monday, June 16                           6:00-8:00 P.M.

Teen poets can be literary celebrities for a night by reading their original work at this special event. Friends and family members are encouraged to attend and show their support. A few original poems may be selected for publication in the next library newsletter. Food and drinks will be provided

Learn Origami                           Wednesday, June 4                           3:00-4:00 P.M.

This class provides books and instruction in the ancient Japanese art of folding colourful squares of paper into shapes, such as birds, insects, or flowers.

Eco Crafts with Jasleen              Wednesday, June 11                    3:00-4:00 P.M.

Make earth-friendly crafts from recyclable materials. With guidance from a talented teacher and books, you will make new creations from everyday items. Start recycling today, and bring items to share with the group.

Magazine and Book Art              Wednesday, June 18                    3:00-4:00 P.M.

The library needs to beautify the walls of the Teen Zone. We will be transforming artwork from old books and magazines into unique masterpieces to frame and hang on the walls. Put your creative spin on some photographs, and help ensure that the Teen Zone remains the highlight of the library.

Note: Registration is required for all the events. Register at the Circulation Desk or by calling 1-800-290-5992. Space is limited, so reserve your spot soon!

1. To search for information online from TEEN ZONE RESOURCES, you have to       .

A．ask Ms. Frye for the password	B．register at the Circulation Desk
C．get permission from your parent	D．bring your books and reading log

2. If you are interested in making different shapes with paper, you can come to       .

A．Poetry Session	B．Learn Origami
C．Eco Crafts with Jasleen	D．Magazine and Book Art

3. Teen Zone is a place where you can       .

A．watch movies	B．meet many world-famous poets
C．exchange artworks	D．have new experience with books

【推荐2】A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children. Gutierrez started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country’s wealthier neighborhoods. The discarded (丢弃的) reading material slowly piled up. And now the ground floor of his small house is a makeshift (临时的) community library with about 20,000 books ranging from chemistry textbooks to children’s classics.

He says books are luxuries (奢侈品) for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his. New reading material at bookstores is too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota. It is a city of 8.5 million people. But the libraries tend to be located far away from poorer areas. “This should be in each corner of every neighborhood, in all the towns and all the rural areas,” says Gutierrez. “Books are the poor children’s lifesavers. And that is what Colombia needs.”

The 53-year-old Gutierrez has a love of reading that he says comes from his mother. She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school. Up to now he has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with discarded reading material. And his fame as Colombia’s “Lord of the Books” has also brought him thousands of donated books.

Gutierrez is an enthusiastic reader of works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Mario Vargas Llosa. He says he does not reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed word on paper. “There is nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car.” he says.

1. What do we know about Jose Gutierrez from the first paragraph?

A．He was fond of reading.	B．He was poorly educated.
C．He was devoted to the poor.	D．He was against discarding books.

2. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

A．Books are vital to children in poor areas.

B．The distribution of public libraries is very uneven.

C．Children in poor areas are in desperate need of books.

D．There is a serious shortage of bookstores in poor areas.

3. Why have people donated so many books to Gutierrez?

A．Because he is well known.	B．Because he is a great traveler.
C．Because of his love for reading.	D．Because of the influence of his mother.

4. What is Gutierrez’s attitude towards digital books?

A．Supportive.

B．Doubtful.

C．Interested.

D．Tolerant.

【推荐3】Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate (固定). Each time we fixate, we see a group of words, this is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time for which the eyes stop — the duration of the fixation — varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at a successive fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it is one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

1. The time of recognition span can be affected by the following facts except         .

A．lighting and tiredness	B．one’s purpose in reading
C．the length of a group of words	D．one’s familiarity with the text

2. The author may think that reading            .

A．demands more mind than eyes

B．demands a deeply-participating mind

C．requires a reader to see words more quickly

D．requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

3. What does the author mean by saying“but it is one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently” in the second paragraph?

A．The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.

B．The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve one’s ability of efficient reading.

C．The reading exercises mentioned have done a great job to improve a person’s ability to see words.

D．The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both ability to see and to comprehend words.

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.

B．Many experts begun to question the efficiency of eye training.

C．The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.

D．The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.