Reading is a healthy habit that everyone should develop from childhood because of the benefits that come with it.
Narrow mindedness. Reading a variety of books broadens the readers’ mind. Most people who don’t read have a certain narrow mindedness to them that can easily be noticed.
Low brain power. One advantage of reading is its ability to improve brain function. Reading can help people become better thinkers and use brains more effectively. People who don’t read usually have low brain power because they don’t exercise the brain as much as readers do.
Poor imagination. Reading books allows you to tap into your imaginative power.
| A．Learning difficulty. |
| B．The reason for this is simple. |
| C．Such exercise strengthens the brain. |
| D．Inability to fully understand the world. |
| E．It then makes you picture what you read. |
| F．It is developed slowly just as any habit would. |
| G．The ability to read is important in today’s world. |
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【推荐1】A man was fishing on the bank of a river. A boy came to see him fishing. The man was really good at fishing and he could catch a full basket of fish in a short time. The man saw that the boy was very cute, and he wanted to give him a whole basket of fish. But the boy shook his head. The man was surprised and asked, “Why don’t you want the fish?”
The boy replied, “I want the fishing rod (竿) in your hands.”
The man asked, “Why do you want the rod?”
“I will eat up all the fish in the basket soon, but if I have the fishing rod, I can use it to catch a lot of fish by myself.”
Many people will certainly say the boy is very smart…wrong! If he doesn’t know fishing skills. He can’t catch fish without a fishing rod. It’s useless to only have a fishing rod, fishing skills are more important than having a fishing rod.
Many people want to have a “fishing rod” in their life. They are just like the boy, they thought that if they had a fishing rod, they would have fish to eat. Life is full of exciting things, we should try to learn fishing skills instead of having a fishing rod.
1. The man was fishing on the bank of________．| A．a river | B．a lake |
| C．a pool | D．a sea |
| A．Because he didn’t like fish． |
| B．Because he wanted his fishing rod． |
| C．Because he wanted some big fish． |
| D．Because he wanted to have fishing skills． |
| A．smart | B．silly |
| C．wrong | D．hardworking |
| A．The Fishing Rod | B．The Fishing Man |
| C．The Fishing Boy | D．The Fishing skills |
【推荐2】My name is Jacob Cramer. I am a freshman at Orange High School.
In 2013, I founded an organization called Love for the Elderly. Many elderly people have no one to care for them, no one to look after them, and no one to love them. The elderly have paved the pathway of success for my generation. They deserve to be shown appreciation and kindness but are often ignored.
I am sure all of you have someone in your heart who has been at a nursing home. Think of them while I say this: they deserve the best and nothing but the best. The elderly are such an outstanding group, and their wisdom can most definitely be learned from. This idea of appreciating the elderly reverberated(回响) inside my head until finally, I decided it was time to step up and make a difference.
My passion for writing led me to create an organization, where people from all across the globe send letters filled with kindness and joy, from Iceland, Romania, Finland, Australia, and more. I then send these letters to senior centers, nursing homes, and retirement communities located all across the country. To this date, I have collected over 1,000 letters, and the response I have received has been truly unbelievable.
This past month, I had the opportunity to receive $100 from KindSpring through their monthly kindness contest to help my organization. This money has been of great help. We do not receive much money, and so it helped to pay for many costs, including postage and envelopes. This gesture of kindness has been very beneficial to my organization, and I could not be more appreciative. Thank you so much to KindSpring for this amazing opportunity. If any of you would like to get involved in my organization, please visit lovefortheelderly.org.
1. What does the author tell us about the elderly?| A．All are in bad condition. | B．They appreciate others’ kindness. |
| C．A few live a successful life. | D．Most get little love or care. |
| A．Outgoing and honest. | B．Kind and ambitious. |
| C．Aggressive but careful. | D．Considerate but silent. |
| A．To express his thanks to the organization. |
| B．To appeal to others to donate money. |
| C．To show mean behaviors of the organization. |
| D．To advertise for the organization. |
| A．Volunteer in Senior Centers—Your Choice |
| B．Stay Alone after Retirement—the Elderly’s Suffering |
| C．Love for the Elderly—a Chance to Show Kindness |
| D．Letters to Parents—the Way of Expressing Love |
【推荐3】You’re so young right now, but I hope this letter will be helpful to you one day when you’re older. I feel it is my responsibility, as a mother of two little girls, to lead you down a path that is relatively healthy when it comes to beauty and self-image. In a lot of women’s eyes, I’ve probably already failed in this aspect due to a lot of pink Barbie dolls in Vera’s room right now.
But I will say this about Barbie dolls: I played with Barbie dolls for many years when I was growing up and here I have a healthy body and a positive image. I have a master’s degree, a successful career and a published book. If Barbie dolls were really so damaging to my femininity(女人气质) and self-image, I highly doubt whether I could list all of these achievements.
It’s hard for women not to worry about our weight or to wish we could afford more stylish clothes. It’s hard not to want someone else’s hair or eyelashes. We women go round and round in circles, holding hands and trying to be one another sometimes. The thing I’ll tell you is this: not even the prettiest of us feel settled. The girl you think looks the most perfect in all the world is probably the girl who wants to change herself more than anyone else.
Don’t let that message carry any weight within yourselves. You are not worthless. You are so full of love and light and you should let it shine through your every second. If someone pushes you down for standing tall then just push yourself back up and stand even taller, and know that the reason why they pushed you down in the first place is just that they’re scared. I want to tell you that I have never in my life felt more beautiful than when I have stood my tallest.
1. What does the author think about Barbie dolls?| A．They did no harm to her image. | B．They enable her to achieve a lot. |
| C．They prevented her development. | D．They contributed to her promotion. |
| A．It’s women’s nature to be envious. | B．It’s easy to read women’s thoughts. |
| C．Women like to be close to each other. | D．Women tend to pursue a perfect appearance. |
| A．Try to be the most beautiful. | B．Stand tall with love and toughness. |
| C．Compare themselves with others to improve. | D．Push others down on the way to be the tallest. |
| A．To tell her daughters what real beauty is. | B．To warn her daughters of the trouble in life. |
| C．To share with her daughters all her experience. | D．To persuade her daughters to follow her example. |
【推荐1】This is a common situation for beginner-level language learners—they want to read classic（经典的）books, but what their language skills allow are usually little more than children's books.
Oxford University Press tried to solve this problem back in 1988 by designing a series of graded English reading materials known as the Oxford Bookworms Library. It now has a collection of over 200 books—many of them simplified versions of classics—which fall into seven difficulty levels from "starter level" to level six.
However, there has always been a debate over whether shortened versions of classics have less value. Some worry that by reading them, students don't get to learn the essence（精华）of the original（原版的）text.
Rob Waring, a Japanese professors, mentions one of his students, Satoko, as an example in his booklet The "Why" and "How" of Using Graded Readers. Satoko was a Japanese student majoring in English. But by the time she graduated, she had only managed to finish reading just one English book because it was far beyond her language level. "For Satoko, reading in English was a fight; a fight that she lost, "wrote Waring, who suggested that reading easy texts is necessary because it helps language learners build up confidence and fluency in reading. By reading a lot-rather than getting stuck in one book—they can get used to kinds of English expressions and writing styles. Only by doing this can they reach what Waring calls the "reading-with-ideas" level of reading.
So it doesn't matter if the books are original classics or not--for beginner--level language learners, the simple act of reading is a form of learning in itself. "Stories offer a window to other cultures, other worlds, real or imagined, beyond the classroom," Jennifer Basset, the first editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, said in an interview with Get English Lessons.
1. Why did Oxford University Press design the Oxford Bookworms Library?| A．Tо attract as many English learners as possible |
| B．To make classics popular with more English learners |
| C．To allow English beginners to read classic books |
| D．To help English beginners improve their language skills |
| A．language learners don't need to read easy texts |
| B．language learners are expected to read a lot |
| C．reading a lot can build up language learners' confidence |
| D．reading easy texts can give language learners more ideas |
| A．Supportive. | B．Unclear. | C．Unconcerned. | D．Doubtful. |
【推荐2】Storytelling provides children with a window to new worlds.
Storytelling has also proven to help develop a sense of empathy as children are encouraged to put themselves in the position of the story’s major characters; to consider their actions and reactions and why they may have behaved in certain ways.
Reading to a child can increase their willingness to express themselves and communicate their thoughts and feelings.
Storytelling also encourages children to be creative and use their imagination to picture the setting, the characters, and the story as it unfolds. It’s different from watching a film where children are given the imagery to accompany the words.
| A．Stories are one of the best ways of firing up curiosity. |
| B．Consequently, they are more likely to relate to others. |
| C．Through storytelling children are encouraged to listen to others. |
| D．They build the world within which the story is set for themselves. |
| E．Ask them to talk to you about the plot and characters in the story. |
| F．It gives them the opportunity to learn new ideas and information. |
| G．What starts off as verbal storytelling will lead onto reading books. |
【推荐3】New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka came of age alongside the internet. As a teen, he published his own blog and joined forums(论坛)for the Dave Matthews Band. He discovered one of his favorite jazz songs — John Coltrane’s full version of “My Favorite Things” — driving around at night, listening to the local radio station.
Chayka misses this time — and the ways, then, that personal discoveries like these were made. In his new book, Filter World: How Algorithms(算法). Flattened Culture, Chayka says he never would have fallen in love with Coltrane’s song if he’d heard it on Spotify, an online music streaming service. He says he doubts Spotify’s algorithm would even suggest it, because the song is so long. And that, even if it did, he wouldn’t have learned anything about Coltrane as an artist, because the Spotify interface doesn’t provide the same context that a radio DJ does, sharing details between songs. The person behind the song choice, he argues, made his emerging interest in Coltrane possible in a way modern recommendation systems cannot.
This is one of many “back in my day” stories Chayka uses to illustrate his argument that algorithms have “flattened culture”. Thanks to recommendation, generators like Netflix’s top picks and Spotify’s autoplay suggestions, “the least troublesome and perhaps least meaningful pieces of culture are promoted,” Chayka argues. He admits that quality is subjective when judging these things, and instead argues that recommendation systems undermine personal taste. Taste, he writes, was once a combination of personal choices and popular influence — but now algorithms rely more on choices of the masses. Developing taste requires effort and active engagement, but what we see now are algorithms turning taste into consumerism.
A central point of the book, in fact, is that people today are not only well aware of the power of algorithms, they can’t escape them. He interviews a young woman who wonders if “what I like is what I actually like,” worried that her taste is so shaped by algorithms that she can’t trust herself. The book may be most useful in these sections, where Chayka and his interviewees attempt to make sense of how internet algorithms have shaped their own lives and work.
1. Why does Chayka tell his own experience in his book?| A．To promote his new book. | B．To attract readers’ attention. |
| C．To explain the background. | D．To support his opinion. |
| A．How early internet shapes our culture. |
| B．How technology influences our personal taste. |
| C．How social media changes our view of reality. |
| D．How digital platform redefines mass consumption. |
| A．Ambiguous. | B．Favorable. | C．Tolerant. | D．Critical. |
| A．Show the highlights of the book. | B．Comment on the structure of the book. |
| C．Summarize the main arguments. | D．Praise Chayka’s writing styles. |
