If you want to be a better reader, what should you know about the speed of reading? Some people read very quickly, while others read very slowly. But which one is better? The quick reader may be a good reader when he reads a story—book for fun. But he may not be able to slow down to read instructions (说明书) carefully. The slow reader may be a good reader. But he may spend too much time reading a story for fun. So the reader who reads everything quickly or the one who reads everything slowly isn’t really a good reader. Here are four things to remember about the speed of reading.
Knowing why you are reading will help you to know whether to read quickly or slowly.
Some things should be read slowly throughout. Examples are instructions for making or doing something. Math books, science books and story books are full of important information. You must read these things slowly to understand and remember every important idea.
Some things should be read quickly throughout. Examples are stories for enjoyment, letters from friends, and some news from newspapers.
In some of your reading, you must change your speed.You will need to read some pages quickly and then slow down and do more careful reading when you come to important ideas.
1. Which of the following is TRUE?| A．Reading instructions must be careful. |
| B．A slow reader is a good reader. |
| C．You must not change your speed. |
| D．Reading everything quickly is a good reader. |
| A．穿过 | B．开始 | C．结束 | D．始终 |
| A．Letters from friends. |
| B．Important information from storybooks. |
| C．News from newspapers. |
| D．Picture books for fun. |
| A．read it at any speed you like | B．read it slowly for important ideas |
| C．change your speed from time to time | D．read it quickly for enjoyment |
| A．How to Read Quickly? | B．Reading Slowly Is Better. |
| C．How to Be a Good Reader? | D．Reading Is a Good Hobby. |
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【推荐1】Life are always full of stress these days. How do you usually solve your stress? Do you know doing housework is helpful in solving stress? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed. “Doing some housework such as folding clothes or cleaning the room is a good way to face our stress without taking any medicine.” says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist (心理学家) in New York. She often advises people who are under lots of stress to try doing housework every day. “While washing something,” she says, “you can imagine you're washing away some trouble in your life”
Do people all agree with her idea? Here are some ideas about it.
“Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life,” says Linda in France.(法国). “Get me out of doing the housework and then I'll really be relaxed.”
Gary is a single (单身的) father. “So, a man pays a psychologist $200 an hour for his problem about stress. However, he is just told to go back home and do some housework. I really don't know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man!
1. What does Carol Clark advise people under stress to do?| A．To take some medicine. | B．To call on a psychologist. |
| C．To be as tidy as possible. | D．To do some housework. |
| A．relaxed | B．stressed |
| C．helpful | D．healthy |
| A．Taking medicine. | B．Doing housework |
| C．Making money. | D．Solving trouble. |
| A．his work | B．his wife |
| C．the psychologist | D．the housework |
【推荐2】How to Stay in a Good Mood（心情）
It’s typical to feel your mood starting to become bad. If you want to be able to stay in a good mood, then you have to form these habits that will keep you feeling happy.
·Don’t take love for granted.
If you’re lucky enough to have a special someone, then you should make your time together meaningful.
·Get regular exercise.
Regular exercise is one of the most important habits that you need to form.
·Spend time with your friends.
·Get enough sleep.
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If you want to stay in a good mood, then you have to make sure that you eat three healthy and diverse meals every day. Start off with a healthy breakfast and don’t skip this meal no matter what things happen.Have light snacks throughout the day, like yogurt or fruit, to keep you energetic.
| A．Have a healthy eating schedule. |
| B．Make sure that you sleep for 7－8 hours a day. |
| C．Do begin with a healthy breakfast in the morning. |
| D．Hanging out with friends will keep you feeling alive. |
| E．Don’t stop doing the things you love with the person you love. |
| F．However, you don’t have to do the same boring old thing every day. |
| G．Once you start exercising, do the same sports at the regular time every day. |
【推荐3】Everyone needs friends. There is an old saying, “Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.” But how do you find a real friend and keep it?
The American writer Sally Seamans tells young students some smart ways to find friends. Sally says finding a friend is just like planting (种植) a tree. You plant it and take care of it to make it grow (成长).
First, you should choose a friend. What makes a good friend? It is not because a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be kind and patient (耐心). For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should do his or her best to help you. To make a friend, you can’t be too shy. You should make each other happy and share your lives.
But things can’t always be happy. Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a fight with your friend? You have to talk to him or her. When there is no one around, have an honest talk. If he or she doesn’t want to talk, you could write a letter.
There are three steps to being friends again:
Tell him or her how you are feeling, say what your friend has done wrong, and explain why you did this or that. Remember that friendship is the most important thing in your life.
1. Sally wants to tell students the ways to ________.| A．find friends | B．plant trees | C．get happy | D．keep healthy |
| A．be lovely and cool | B．be kind and patient |
| C．have lots of money | D．have good looks |
| A．buy a present for | B．never say a word to |
| C．have dinner with | D．write a letter to |
| A．Give him or her some money. | B．Do your best to help him or her. |
| C．Plant some trees. | D．Share your life. |
| A．Teenagers and Friendship | B．The Good Friends Around You |
| C．The Trouble of Growing Up | D．How to Find a Friend and Keep It |
【推荐1】Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May 27, 1907. Her mother Maria Carson was a school teacher. She loved nature and showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also loved books and taught little Rachel to read. So Rachel fell in love with books, too. At a very early age, she decided to be a writer someday. Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old.
Her first book Under the Sea Wind. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always learned about the sea carefully before she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write the book. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No.1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous. It made her rich enough to leave her job and spend all her time writing. In the book called The Edge of the Sea, Carson told us what happened to life in and near the sea.
Rachel Carson’s most famous book Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides（杀虫剂）like DDT would make the number of birds decline because it would kill them as well. Finally in November 1969, the United States government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years.
Rachel Carson died in 1964. As a great environmentalist and writer, she will be remembered by the world.
1. How old was Rachel Carson when she died?| A．56. | B．57. | C．58. | D．59. |
| A．The Sea Around Us was the best-seller for over a year. |
| B．Carson had a great love for books because of her mother. |
| C．Carson hoped to become a writer when she was young. |
| D．The government decided to stop using DDT from 1969. |
| A．增加 | B．加强 | C．维持 | D．减少 |
| A．A wonderful life | B．Books about sea |
| C．A successful writer | D．Four interesting books |
【推荐2】Perhaps you’ve already watched or heard about Readers, a TV show that has recently become popular. It invites different people to read aloud on stage, as well as tell the touching stories about them. They can read everything, like poems, novels and letters.
Many people are fans of the show and begin to enjoy reading aloud at home. Now the show gives people a special place to read across China. Reading pavilions (亭子) are now in cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an.
The pavilion is quite small. Only one person can come into it each time. There is a microphone in it and it records people’s voices. Everyone can read anything they like for three minutes in the pavilion. The show will later pick some of the readers and invite them to read on TV.
People of all ages have come and read in the pavilion. “Reading should be just like singing and talking,” said Dong Qing, the hostess of the show. “We can actually express our deep feelings through reading aloud.”
“Both the TV show and the pavilion are promoting reading among the public (公众),” reported China Youth Daily. Quite a lot of people are more and more interested in reading. In fact, this is also what our country is trying to do now.
1. What is in a reading pavilion?| A．A telephone. | B．A microphone. | C．A tape recorder. | D．A camera. |
| A．To help ordinary people become superstars. | B．To help the TV show pick possible readers. |
| C．To teach people how to read aloud. | D．To help people express their feelings freely. |
| A．推动 | B．抵制 | C．拒绝 | D．描述 |
| A．people must pay to record their voices in the pavilion |
| B．few people are interested in the reading pavilion |
| C．the TV shows aims to encourage more people to read aloud |
| D．everyone can read for ten minutes in the pavilion |
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| A．You may feel happy and well-organized. |
| B．You may reduce stress by 50% if you read. |
| C．You may become a writer like J. K. Rolling. |
| D．You may make more friends through reading. |
| A．To improve your memory by reading. | B．To encourage you to do more reading. |
| C．To show how reading influences brains. | D．To advise you to care about your health. |
| A．A book review. | B．A health report. |
| C．A travelling guide. | D．A science magazine. |
Richard, 11, said, “I want to make friends, but I don’t know how. I don’t have any friends in my class. Help me, please.”
Many people think that everyone knows how to make friends, but a lot of people don’t. Maybe the best way to make friends is to decide what kinds of friends you want to make. I asked some of children, they are 13-year-old boys and girls to talk about what kinds of friends they like. They said that good friends: show an interest in what people do, always have a smile on their faces, shouldn’t laugh at people, be kind, help others carry things or do something else, invite people to do something.
1. Everyone knows how to make friends.2. The best way to make friends is to decide what kinds of friends you need.
3. A good friend should show an interest in what people do.
4. Good friends always laugh at people.
5. The boys and girls thought that good friends should be active and always help others.
【推荐2】The phrase “southern potatoes” has become popular, thanks to Harbin, a city in Northeastern China that has taken the Internet by storm.
Over 3 million tourists visited Harbin during the three-day New Year holiday. And many of them came from southern China where snow was nowhere to be found. Harbin locals gave these visitors a cute nickname “Nanfang xiaotudou” or “southern potatoes”. It is because southern people are usually shorter and they look like small potatoes when wearing thick jackets and hats. To Harbin people, this name is not to make fun of southerners, but to create a sense of warmth with humor.
Harbin tried everything to meet tourists’ needs, especially those from the south. Cooks carefully cut the local frozen pear into small pieces. Some drivers pick up southerners for free. A man-made moon is lifted above for tourists to take photos. Harbin really went all out to make “southern potatoes” happy.
However, even though they did all these to please the southern tourists, this nickname “southern potatoes” sparked a discussion on the Internet. While Harbin locals use the name to show warmth and kindness, some visitors feel that calling them “small potatoes” is making fun of their height.
Even though people from the Northeast are kind and warm, we have to realize that there is regional stereotype (地区刻板印象) in some parts of China. Nowadays, people travel all the time, so it’s important to make the world a more welcoming place. After all, everyone likes kindness instead of discrimination (歧视), whether it’son purpose or not.
1. Why do Harbin people call southerners “southern potatoes”?| A．Because southerners look like potatoes in thick jackets and hats. |
| B．Because southerners like to eat small potatoes. |
| C．Because southerners sell small potatoes in Harbin. |
| D．Because Harbin locals want to make fun of southerners’ height. |
| A．Southern travelers were very happy with Harbin tourism. |
| B．Harbin cooks made some nice food for southern tourists. |
| C．Harbin tried their best to attract tourists and make them happy. |
| D．Food, free ride and the man-made moon attracted many tourists. |
| A．offered | B．burned | C．included | D．caused |
| A．More than 13 million tourists visited Harbin during the three-day New Year holiday. |
| B．To Harbin people, “southern potatoes” is to show a sense of warmth with humor. |
| C．Cooks carefully cut the local frozen apple into small pieces. |
| D．All visitors feel that calling them “small potatoes” is making fun of their height. |
| A．We should discriminate them whether it’s on purpose or not. |
| B．We should be kind and welcoming. |
| C．We should do everything to make them happy. |
| D．We should treat them according to their stereotypes. |
【推荐3】In 1933, an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney. He had an unusual voice and he wanted to work in Disney' s cartoon film for children. When Walt Disney heard Nash' s voice, he said “Stop! That's our duck!”
The duck was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared in 1934 in the film The Wise Little Hen. Donald lived in an old houseboat(水上住家) and wore his sailor jacket and hat. Later that year he became a star after an eight-minute Mickey Mouse film. The cinema audience liked him because he was lazy and greedy(贪婪的)，and because he lost his temper very quickly. And they loved his voice when he became angry with Mickey's eight nephews(侄子). Soon Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse himself, probably because he wasn't a goody-goody like Mickey.
In the 1930s, Donald and his friends Mickey, Goofy and Pluto made hundreds of Disney cartoons. He also made educational films about the place of the USA in the world and safety in the home. Then in 1966 Donald Duck and his voice disappeared- there were no more new cartoons.
Clarence Nash died in February, 1985. But today’s children can still see the old cartoons on television and hear that famous voice.
1. When was the first Donald Duck film made?| A．In 1933. | B．In 1934. | C．In 1966. | D．In 1930. |
| A．A cartoonist. | B．Donald Duck's voice. | C．A film-maker. | D．A film star. |
| A．In new film. | B．At the cinema. | C．On television. | D．At concerts. |
| A．reads | B．formal interview | C．law freedom | D．the people who watch a film at a cinema |
