1 . I like reading.
2 . 5 books I loved in 2018
By Bill Gates
A great read is the perfect gift and I think everyone could use a few more books in their lives. My book list covers various topics, including an autobiography on learning throughout a life, a deep search on autonomous weapons (武器), a thriller about the fall of a once-promising company and a guide about meditation (冥想)—there’s something for everyone.
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness, by Andy Puddicombe. The book starts with Puddicombe’s personal journey from a university student to a Buddhist monk and then becomes an entertaining explainer on how to meditate. If you’re thinking about trying mindfulness, this is the perfect introduction.
Army of None, by Paul Scharre. It’s an extremely complicated topic, but Scharre offers clear explanations and presents both the advantages and disadvantages of machine-driven warfare. His fluency with the subject should come as no surprise: he’s an ex-soldier who helped draw up the U.S. government’s policy on autonomous weapons.
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou.Carreyrou gives you the definitive insider’s look at the rise and fall of a company. I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the failure of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari. I’m a big fan of everything Harari has written, and his latest is no exception. If 2018 has left you stressed out by the state of the world, 21 Lessons offers a helpful framework for processing the news and thinking about the challenges we face.
Educated, by Tara Westover. Tara never went to school or visited a doctor until she left home at 17. I loved this life story of a young woman whose thirst for learning was so strong that she ended up getting a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
1. According to Bill Gates, the book list is _____.| A．time-consuming | B．life-changing |
| C．wide-ranging | D．easy-reading |
| A．he used to serve in the army |
| B．he has outstanding writing skills |
| C．he is good at making autonomous weapons |
| D．he was a policy-maker in the U.S. government |
| A．Educated |
| B．Bad Blood |
| C．21 Lessons for the 21st Century |
| D．The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness |
3 . My brother Gene was four years older than me. By the time I turned four, I was upset that he could read but I couldn’t. I burned with
I longed for my father, who was a great storyteller, to read me the books that I couldn’t yet read on my own. But my father worked three jobs to feed the family. He didn’t have the time or
One Saturday afternoon when I was seven, we walked two blocks to the small
In my mind, Mrs. Schwartz was “the keeper of books and the guardian of stories.” Some days she read aloud to a small group of us
Yes, reading changed me. It gave me the
| A．anger | B．desire | C．worry | D．interest |
| A．until | B．before | C．in | D．for |
| A．energy | B．ambition | C．courage | D．ability |
| A．Finally | B．Then | C．Therefore | D．Still |
| A．workplace | B．farmland | C．childhood | D．neighborhood |
| A．explaining | B．introducing | C．describing | D．interpreting |
| A．cooking | B．reading | C．farming | D．living |
| A．picture | B．discover | C．notice | D．catch |
| A．busy | B．hungry | C．poor | D．tired |
| A．laid | B．taught | C．drew | D．left |
| A．club | B．bookstore | C．office | D．library |
| A．saved | B．tested | C．changed | D．controlled |
| A．near | B．old | C．ready | D．free |
| A．graduates | B．candidates | C．regulars | D．communicators |
| A．reward | B．familiarize | C．examine | D．surround |
| A．find | B．check | C．lend | D．sign |
| A．write | B．study | C．recommend | D．reserve |
| A．companions | B．assistants | C．listeners | D．teachers |
| A．chance | B．dream | C．order | D．drive |
| A．lesson | B．love | C．time | D．plan |
Children learn best when they're having fun. “Jungle Gym Jimmy”is an article for parents and children that teaches playground safety and shows how simply playing can promote good health and fitness. The tips are given through the funny voice of the“tour guide”on the playground，seven—year-old Jimmy. By listening to Jimmy, children learn how to use the equipment safely and how to get the most fun out of a day on the playground.
As a Kid Talk subscriber for the last seven years. I am very familiar with your publication, and feel this article would be a positive addition to the “I Can Do It” section of the magazine. The article is 2，114 words，and has been divided into categories in a way that holds children's interest. Being a mother of four children and using our home as a meeting place for most of the neighborhood，I've had the opportunity to test and confirm that the fun and easy “exercises” offered here are not only effective but are lots of fun for kids.
I've been writing children's stories and articles for several years, and have had many of my stories published in Kids Know Best，a small newspaper that the Cinder Primary School publishes each month. I'm also a founding member of the“Right On Baby”editorial group which publishes a monthly e—zine for parents with newborns, and I’m a contributing editor to “Write Now,” an online site that teaches creative writing.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Claudia Parker
1. The author has written this letter to a _________.| A．magazine | B．website |
| C．newspaper | D．primary school |
| A．is experienced in writing articles for children |
| B．writes lots of articles about her own children |
| C．often reads different stories for her children |
| D．is good at designing activities for children. |
| A．open a new section in a publication for parents |
| B．start a game to promote good health and fitness |
| C．organize a class teaching children how to play safely |
| D．recommend an article on how to have fun on the playground |
1．该诗词的名称和作者；
2．该诗词的主要内容；
3．你推荐该诗词的理由。
注意：1. 词数不少于50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
提示词：中国文化艺术社 Chinese Culture & Art Club
中国古诗词诵读比赛Classical Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
6 . How do you deal with hunger of your stomach？ Eat your favorite meal and keep quiet after that？
Once you read a book， you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you.
This is nothing but creativity.
So guys， do give food to your thoughts by reading， reading and more reading.
| A．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading. |
| B．Also this makes a great contribution to your vocabulary. |
| C．Reading can help you make more friends as well. |
| D．Now what are you waiting for？ |
| E．Just like your stomach， your mind is also hungry. |
| F．Why not do some reading while you are hungry？ |
| G．The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. |
7 . One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem—inability to read.
In the library, I found my way into the “Children’s Room”. I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my “secret sharer”, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.
There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked identical(相同的) to my dog. I ran my fingers over the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos: the Beagle with a Plan. Unknowingly, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a brush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together
My mother’s call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly wonderful and I was going to read them.
I never told my mother about my “miraculous(奇迹)” experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words has held.
1. The author’s mother told him to borrow a book in order to ________.| A．encourage him to do more walking | B．let him spend a meaningful summer |
| C．help cure him of his reading problem | D．make him learn more about weapons |
| A．it reminded him of his own dog |
| B．he found its title easy to understand |
| C．it contained pretty pictures of animals |
| D．he liked children’s stories very much |
| A．He was forced by his mother to read it. |
| B．He identified with（对某事有同感） the story in the book. |
| C．The book told the story of his pet dog. |
| D．The happy ending of the story attracted him. |
| A．My Passion for Reading | B．Mum’s Strict Order |
| C．Reunion with My Beagle. | D．The Charm of a Book. |
Have you ever read a food blog? If your answer is no, here is one for you. WeirdMeat.com is an online journal that was started a few years ago. Basically, the blog records the author’s experiences of eating strange foods around the world, and his observations of how different cultures feel about food. So far, the author has tried snakes, scorpions, spiders and nighthawks. Just as the author says, “What is weird (奇异的) to one might be normal to another.”
Many of the things on the author’s weird-meat list might sound horrible to us. For example, ostriches are cute birds, but people in Iran make big ostrich sandwiches, supposed to be the world’s largest sandwich. If you are tired of eating meat, you can try “lemongrass giant crickets (蟋蟀) with Thai spices”. They go well with salads. If you enjoy the crispy texture of the crickets, you might want to eat several. How about some “turtle shell jello”? You might have heard of it though you’ve never had a chance to try any, “Gui Lin Gao” (turtle jelly) is Chinese. It’s a popular dessert in summer and usually served cold. It tastes like Coca Cola, and it is also said that the mixture is good for the skin. And in Bangkok, the author has tried all kinds of insects, including white ant eggs. A soup is cooked with ant eggs, larvae, and baby ants, and you may find that the ants’ little black eyeballs are staring at you while you eat the soup. “Awesome” is the word the author uses to describe the flavor. He couldn’t wait to have another bowl.
Want to find out more? Visit the weird meat blog, and maybe you can also add one or two things to the list.
1. What is WeirdMeat.com?（不多于三个单词）2. What is the second paragraph mainly about?（不多于五个单词）
3. What word can be used to describe the blog author?（仅用一个单词）
4. What does the author mean by saying “What is weird to one might be normal to another.”?（不多于五个单词）
9 . The Art of Slow Reading
If you are reading this article in print, chances are that you will only get through half of what I have written. And if you are reading this online, you may not even finish a fifth.
So are we getting stupider? Actually, our online habits are damaging the mental power we need to process and understand textual information. Round-the-clock news makes us read from one article to the next without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content. Our reading is frequently interrupted by the noise of the latest email and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook more regularly than longer texts.
| A．The Internet is probably part of the problem. |
| B．Now some campaigns are advocating slow reading. |
| C．These are the two findings from the recent research projects. |
| D．But if you just occasionally want to read more slowly, help is at hand. |
| E．Some of them have suggested turning their computers off for one day a week. |
| F．Slow reading can help connect a reader to neighborhood and become popular. |
| G．Because of the Internet, we have become very good at collecting information. |
10 . Beverly Cleary has sold 85 million copies of 41 books and — if those numbers weren't impressive enough — she turns 100 on Tuesday. Though the world was a very different place when Cleary was a child, she has always maintained that kids pretty much stay the same — which explains the ongoing popularity of her beloved characters, like Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and Ralph S. Mouse.
Cleary was in her early 30s and working part time in a bookstore when she sat down at a typewriter to see if just maybe she could write a book for kids. She had worked as a librarian before World War II, and she wished she'd had books for young readers about children living everyday lives.
"I think children want to read about normal, everyday kids," she told NPR in 1999. "That's what I wanted to read about when I was growing up. I wanted to read about the sort of boys and girls that I knew in my neighborhood and in my school. ... I think children like to find themselves in books."
Her first book, Henry Huggins, came out in 1950. Henry had a friend named Beezus, and Beezus had a mischievous（爱恶作剧的） but lovable little sister named Ramona. Over the next five decades, Cleary took Ramona all the way from nursery school （托儿所）to the fourth grade. Cleary says when she was writing Ramona, she took inspiration（灵感） from a little girl who lived in the house behind her as a child.
Her books have hooked generations（几代） of children, including a young Jeff Kinney, who grew up to become the author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series.
"I must have been about 8 or 9 years old when I first read Beverly Cleary," Kinney recalls. "The book that really grabbed me was Ramona Quimby, Age 8. She looked feral. I needed to get to know this character."
"Most kids have parents, teachers, bullies（欺凌） — we all experience these things,"Kinney says. "And Beverly Cleary tapped into that. Her work is still as relevant today as when it first came out."
Now, generations of children have been fortunate enough to enjoy her stories of Klickitat Street.
1. What can we infer about Beverly Cleary’s works?| A．They are about adults’ ordinary lives. |
| B．They interest and delight young readers. |
| C．They receive much criticism from other writers. |
| D．They are based on Cleary’s childhood experiences. |
| A．A neighborhood girl. | B．Her work as a librarian. |
| C．Her fourth-grade daughter. | D．Her work experience in a bookstore. |
| A．Described | B．Praised |
| C．Surprised | D．Attracted |
| A．Brave and patient | B．Generous and honest |
| C．Productive and influential | D．Considerate and optimistic |
