1. What made the book interesting according to the man?
| A．The main character. | B．The storyline. | C．The language. |
| A．Interviewer and interviewee. | B．Teacher and student. | C．Classmates. |
1. 告知好友读书节的时间，地点，主题。
2. 介绍读书节的主要活动安排。（如共读一本书，展示最美声音等）
3. 希望对方能一起参与。
注意：1.词数不少于100词，开头已给出，不计入总数。
2.可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
How are things going on with you?
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3 . Lifeline Bookfest Brisbane
Welcome to Lifeline Bookfest Brisbane, the largest secondhand book sale in Queensland.
OPENING HOURS
9 am—6 pm 26 June—4 July
Early start, 26 June & 27 June, opening at 8 am
Bookfest up late, 2 July, closing at 9 pm
WHAT’S DIFFERENT THIS YEAR?
To keep you safe, Bookfest will be more spread out across three halls (that means no $1 section this year).
Numbers in the halls will be restricted, but don’t worry, we have 18 months’ worth of books to share and we’ll be restocking (补充货源) daily, so you won’t miss out. Once we reach capacity in the halls, it will be one in, one out.
Sales will be card-only. Sorry for kids who were used to spending their saved cash on their favorite books in the past few years.
PRICES
At Bookfest you’ll find a $2.5 section and a High-Quality section. Books in the High-Quality section range from $4 to $25, and our Rare and Collectible books are individually priced.
LAST WORD
You can hire a trolley (推车) at the event to do your shopping ($2 trolley hire).
You can donate new, used or unwanted books. Baskets will be available at the event (next to the entrance) for book donations.
1. On which day will Bookfest last the longest?| A．26 June. | B．27 June. | C．2 July. | D．4 July. |
| A．6 pm | B．someone gets out | C．the numbers increase | D．you buy a book |
| A．It will restock every other day. |
| B．It won’t be accessible to kids. |
| C．It will have a $1 section. |
| D．It won’t accept cash. |
| A．Hire a trolley for free. |
| B．Donate your used books. |
| C．Buy High-Quality books for $2.5. |
| D．Read individually-priced new books. |
| A．A shopping guide. | B．A book review. | C．An official report. | D．An announcement. |
(1)这本书的简要介绍(不限于参考词汇中给出的书目)；
(2)这本书如何影响你的人生。
注意：
(1)词数不少于100;
(2)内容充实，行文连贯;
(3)题目已给出，不计入词数。
参考词汇：
The Analects《论语》 After Twenty Years《二十年后》
The Little Prince《小王子》 Tuesdays with Morrie《相约星期二》
Three Days to See《假如给我三天光明》 Records of the Grand Historian《史记》
The Romance of the Three Kingdom《三国演义》 Letters from Father Christmas 《圣诞老人的来信》
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5 . When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence(精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages?
Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks” . The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.
Blinkist has been around since 2012. It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.” Well, yes, of course, “So many books, so little time,” declares a poster I once bought at a book market. But I judge the quality of someone’s library by the books he or she has yet to read.
That’s because a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader. The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite: Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake(吸收) of key ideas. No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency.
When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.
1. What is the function of Paragraph 1?| A．To introduce Moby-Dick to readers. | B．To present an argument. |
| C．To look back on his childhood. | D．To introduce the topic of the passage. |
| A．What Blinkist is. | B．Why Blinkist is popular. |
| C．How to use Blinkist. | D．Where you can use Blinkist. |
| A．There are few new books of quality. |
| B．Many books are hard to understand. |
| C．People do not have enough time to read. |
| D．People do not like reading as much as before. |
| A．Obtaining key ideas efficiently. | B．Further confirming our beliefs. |
| C．Accumulating information quickly. | D．Deeply involving ourselves in books. |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative |
| C．Uncaring. | D．Tolerant. |
Reading broadens our horizons and gives us wisdom. Reading can also be a bridge bonding family members.
Rose is my daughter. I read stories to her every night when she was a little girl. So I had her captivated by books when she was at an early age. For example, almost every night she would go to bed early, waiting for my reading. When Rose was about eight, we changed our routine. We took turns selecting our books and reading out loud.
There was no regular pattern in the books selected. I remember that we began with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, enjoying the company of those rough sailors and stumbling (结结巴巴地读) over the eighteenth-century seamen’s dialect. But we loved the book, and learned a lot about pirates daily life, adventures, tricks, greed and so on. We later went through many books, like the chick lit series.
In due course Rose grew up and left for McGill University in Montreal. She was educated in French and was enthusiastic about speaking the language. Her first visit home was at Christmas.
There was a gift from her, an audiobook with six cassettes. It was Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, read by Rose. Her reading was interrupted occasionally by a giggle, and her voice made me remember how happily Rose and I read together in our bedroom every night when she was a kid.
As I write this, Rose is a third-year medical student at Dalhousie University. Now she is interested in medicine while I am interested in history. However, we manage to combine our different personal interests. We recommend selected reading materials to each other. We are currently loving The Crimson Portraitby Jody Shields, a well written novel about the development of plastic surgery during World War I. Our first written collaboration an article on Canadian medical history, will be published this year.
1. What does the underlined word “captivated” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? (Only 1 word)2. What did the author and her daughter learn from Treasure Island? (no more than 10 words)
3. What did Rose’s reading Shopaholic Takes Manhattan make the author remember? (no more than 10 words)
4. How were the author’s interest and Rose’s interest combined? (no more than 10 words)
5. What do you think of the author’s way of bringing up her daughter? (no more than 20 words)
Across America, libraries used to reach out to readers by sending bookmobiles into school parking lots, street corners and rural byways (侧道). Now, those rolling reading rooms are becoming fewer.
One town in northern New England just lost its bookmobile. The Cobleigh Public Library in Lyndonville, Vt., had managed to keep its van (有蓬货车) rolling until about a month ago, when it died.
If you want to hear first-hand what it’s like to go through a whole month without a single visit from the bookmobile, just ask the preschoolers at a daycare centre.
“We miss the bookmobile,” one child says. “Yeah, we miss the bookmobile until it comes here,” says another.
Now that the bookmobile has broken down, librarians have to bring books in their own cars for story hour. Daycare provider Anneka Bickford says it’s not as exciting as having a big, brightly painted van roll into the driveway and open its doors so the kids can choose their own books.
“It’s getting the children involved with what a library is, how to check out books and how to return books,” Bickford says. “They would do programs with the children; singing, dancing, themes—so it’s the excitement of the library that we can’t give to the children.”
It’s not the first bookmobile to bite the dust. Over the years, Vermont’s large number has reduced to three or four. Lyndonville’s head librarian, Cindy Karasinski, says replacement costs have risen quickly.
“New bookmobiles are expensive; just one of them costs $90,000,” she says, “so that seems not the way we are going to go.” Sadly, Karasinksi says, money that used to support bookmobiles has nearly dried up.
However, not everyone hopes the Cobleigh bookmobile gets a second chance. Some in town feel the bookmobile has served its purpose and become a financial burden (财政负担).
1. What’re bookmobiles? (no more than 5 words)2. What can kids do with the help of bookmobiles in the opinion of Anneka Bickford? (no more than 15 words) .
3. What does the underlined phrase “bite the dust” in Paragraph 7 most probably mean? (no more than 5 words)
4. What leads to the disappearance of bookmobiles? (no more than 10 words)
5. What’s your own opinion on bookmobiles according to the passage? (no more than 25 words)
8 . Audio digital (有声数字化) books are becoming more and more popular these years. One of the reasons for this is that audio digital books can be “read” in many places comfortably.
The first favourite place for many people is in bed, before going to sleep. There are nights when a person would want to do nothing but lie in bed going over what has happened in the day. Many people like to just lie in bed in the dark before they fall asleep at night. This would be the perfect time to listen to an audio digital book. If you read an ordinary book, the lights have to be turned on and you have to turn the pages with your hand. An audio book can just be listened to while a person stays comfortably in bed.
The next favourite place to listen to audio digital books would be in the kitchen. For some people kitchen work is boring. Audio digital books provide good entertainment, and people don’t need to turn pages.
An audio digital book is a favourite while a person is gardening. They can help take a person’s mind off job at hand. It can be fun and exciting to do gardening with the help of these books.
Another great place would be while exercising. It allows the mind to be free while the legs, body and arms are kept busy. This would be a great place to listen to these books.
The next favourite place would be while we are on the road to and from work on buses, trains or even on long flights. Audio digital books have become good companions and help us relaxed.
1. The second paragraph mainly tells us ______.| A．you can listen to an audio digital book comfortably at home |
| B．a favourite place to listen to audio digital books is in bed |
| C．it’s perfect time to listen to an audio digital book at noon |
| D．you have to keep the lights on while reading ordinary books |
| A．they can sing to the music |
| B．it can save power |
| C．it can help them avoid boredom |
| D．the kitchen is the best place to do this |
| A．relax his mind |
| B．keep his body busy |
| C．lose weight easily |
| D．reduce pain quickly |
| A．What is an audio digital book? |
| B．How many kinds of audio digital books are there? |
| C．When were audio digital books invented? |
| D．Where do people like to “read” audio digital books? |
| A．An announcement. |
| B．A book review. |
| C．A science magazine. |
| D．A guidebook. |
1. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
| A．At a classroom. | B．At a library. | C．At a bookshop. |
| A．English novels. | B．Easy articles. | C．Difficult articles. |
| A．English novels with Chinese. |
| B．English novels. |
| C．Chinese novels. |
1）电子书的优势（如便宜，容易携带，节省空间等）；
2）纸质书的优势（如对眼睛伤害较少）；
3）谈谈你的看法。
注意：
1）词数：不少于100；
2）可适当加入细节，以使行文连贯；
3）文章开头已为你写好，不计入词数。
There is a heated discussion among my fellow students over the choice between e-books or paper books.
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