1 . Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Astonishing numbers of people with years of schooling are actually illiterate and ignorant. This month’s Ljubljana Manifesto (宣言) explains: “The digital field may promote more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many temptations to read in a superficial(肤浅的)and scattered manner— or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.”

That’s frightening, because “higher-level reading” has been essential to civilization. It enabled the enlightenment and an international increase in empathy. Without it, we would suffer a lot. As the Ljubljana Manifesto notes, “one-third of Europeans struggle even with lower-level reading skills.” More than one-fifth of adults in the US “fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category”. Separately, post-pandemic reading scores for American 13-year-olds are the lowest in decades. And the Washington-based Center for Global Development recently estimated that literacy in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa among those with five years of schooling has decreased by 10% this past half century.

Experts in the Ljubljana Manifesto record the demerits of digital reading: “Recent studies of various kinds indicate a decline of critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading.” When you read a book on paper, you can be entirely inside the experience, absorb hundreds of pages of details thoroughly and begin to capture the world’s complexity. But online, says Maryanne Wolf of UCLA, we are “skimming, scanning, scrolling(滚屏)”. The medium is the message: doing deep reading on your phone is as hard as playing tennis with your phone. Recently, a bright 11-year-old told me I was wasting time on books: he absorbed more information faster from Wikipedia. He had a point. But digital readers also absorb more misinformation and seldom absorb fine perspectives.

In short, as professors from Northwestern University foresaw in 2005, we are returning to the days when only an elite (精英) “reading class” consumes long texts, which is a worrying problem.

1. What can we learn about digital reading from paragraph 1?

A．Digital reading has solved the problem of illiteracy.

B．Digital reading has lessened the practice of deep reading.

C．Digital reading has made deep reading accessible to wider readers.

D．Digital reading has aroused a greater appreciation for deep reading.

2. What is the purpose of the figures used in paragraph 2?

A．To display the popularity of digital reading.

B．To highlight the advantages of deep reading.

C．To present the unfavorable situation of literacy.

D．To stress the illiterate’s lower-level reading skills.

3. What does the underlined word “demerits” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Effects.

B．functions

C．Features.

D．Drawbacks.

4. What might be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．Advantages of digital reading.	B．Benefits of higher-level reading.
C．Ways to encourage digital reading.	D．Measures to practice deep reading.

3 . What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A．A play.

B．An actor.

C．A case.

4 . 假定你是李华，你校组织了一次“拒绝校园霸凌”(Say No to Campus Bullying)的主题活动，你代表你班发表相关的倡议演讲。
内容包括：
1.倡议主题介绍
2.倡议内容
3.呼吁大家抵制校园霸凌
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Say No to Campus Bullying

Dear fellow students, good morning!
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7 . This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia for a holiday.

My sister, Diana, who kept _______ with me for the holiday, went blind in one eye about 9 years ago. Diana sometimes is _______ about the way her eye looks. The pupil (瞳孔) is no longer black; it’s sort of “flaming” in photos. Diana recently _______ a special contact lens (隐形眼镜片) that makes her _______ look normal, but she doesn’t wear it often because it becomes quite painful after about an hour.

One night, a photographer _______ by the hotel to take pictures of the guests as they entered the dinner area was snapping us. Diana _______ said if she had known there were pictures taken to save this special _______, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn’t be so _______ in the picture.

The next day, while I was sitting with Diana talking, the same photographer handed her a photo, and quietly said, “I _______ the color of your eyes in the picture.” As he walked away, my sister happily said to me, “Look! He fixed my eye!” Hearing this, the photographer ________, walked back and said, “Just to be clear: I didn’t ________ your eye. There isn’t anything wrong with your eye. I ________ had the color of your eyes go well with each other.”

Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very ________ for her heart to hear these beautiful words. It helped her change the ________ she feels about herself, and the picture, or rather, the ________ of human kindness has stuck in her memory ever since.

1.

A．pace

B．security

C．company

D．faith

2.

A．sensitive

B．guilty

C．cautious

D．critical

3.

A．fetched

B．invented

C．detected

D．purchased

4.

A．expression

B．eye

C．outline

D．face

5.

A．assigned

B．applied

C．guided

D．inquired

6.

A．desperately

B．regretfully

C．apologetically

D．sympathetically

7.

A．impression

B．memory

C．hotel

D．guest

8.

A．ugly

B．funny

C．shiny

D．misty

9.

A．printed

B．matched

C．painted

D．mixed

10.

A．turned around

B．turned away

C．got around

D．got away

11.

A．focus

B．cover

C．protect

D．change

12.

A．extremely

B．simply

C．really

D．definitely

13.

A．appealing

B．amusing

C．healing

D．inviting

14.

A．perspective

B．insight

C．opinion

D．way

15.

A．display

B．exchange

C．secret

D．account

8 . What will Alice do next?

A．Shoot a picture.

B．Plant a tree.

C．Attend a race.

10 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Our church congregation (集会) in Toronto has a way of assisting those who have financial difficulties without making the receiver feel shame or guilt. Money is dropped into an offering box with only the name of the receiver on the envelope. The envelopes are then distributed to those members without them knowing the name of the giver.

There came a time when my husband and I were among those in need. Both of us lost jobs at that time and there was little hope that we could be employed within a short time. Of course, out of self-esteem (自尊), we did not talk about our financial difficulty with anyone else. The only reason our children knew was that we had to cut back on many things. Still, we hoped they were not aware of the extent of our need, nor of how much their father and I were suffering because of it. We did not want to burden them with a problem they could do nothing to solve.

With time going by, our situation wasn’t improving, and my husband and I knew that we would have to look for outside help. In that cold winter, just as we reached the point of despair, our church gave us a gift envelope that had been left in the offering box. You couldn’t imagine how overjoyed we were on receiving such a very substantial amount of money, which was enough to bring us through that desperate time. We couldn’t help but wonder who had given such a generous gift. We were extremely relieved and enormously grateful. In this way, we could survive this tough period with the money. Besides, we needn’t worry about our son’s university tuition, that is, he needn’t apply for any loan because he had taken a part-time job and worked hard to earn some money since he was nine years old. He had been a paper carrier for The Toronto Star, a car washer, a dishwasher and so on. He had been careful for his small earnings so we had trusted him to leave all his wages with him instead of putting it into the bank towards his education.

Paragraph1:

A year later, our son was applying for a student loan.

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Paragraph2:

Finally, in tears, and with great unwillingness, my son told us the truth.

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