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No, it’s not their shoe size.
They read. At least two books a month. They’re also among the top 10 richest people in the world. And they’re not alone in their love for books, with 1, 200 other millionaires, who quote reading as a core part of their self-education.
You knew that reading books makes your life better. It’s not even all about money, fame and success. It’s about becoming a more knowledgeable and valuable person. Additionally, reading helps you prevent stress and keep depression at bay, while enhancing your confidence, improving your decision-making, increasing your empathy and overall satisfaction with life.
You know all the benefits of reading, so what’s stopping you from reading more books?
Time!
“I don’t have time to read.”
Have you said those words before?
You say it because...
you have an incredibly demanding college degree to study for…
your loved ones are sitting at home, counting on you to put food on the table…
you are too occupied with work to open a book…
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Would you finally…
have what it takes to start that business?
be a better parent?
feel more fulfilled?
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1. Where does this passage probably come from?A.A leaflet publicizing a reading activity. |
B.A website promoting a reading course. |
C.A TV program advertising reading skills. |
D.A handbook providing reading materials. |
A.To express his admiration for them. |
B.To indicate the importance of reading. |
C.To highlight their time management skills. |
D.To illustrate the success of the course. |
A.Those who are willing to read more but struggle with time. |
B.Those who are sick of making excuses to delay their life plans. |
C.Those who are eager to become a millionaire like the four guys. |
D.Those who are determined to be more and more self-disciplined. |
A.The man can find his talent by himself. |
B.It’s impossible to find one’s hidden talent. |
C.The book won’t be as good as it is introduced. |
D.It’s ridiculous to judge a person by his talent. |
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4 . A symbol of a booming children’s book market is a self-styled “kaleidoscope (万花筒) of creative genius for kids”, the magazine Scoop, a startup based in Dalston, east London, which the author Neil Gaiman has described as “the kind of magazine I wish we’d had when I was eight.”
Scoop is the idea of the publisher Clementine Macmillan-Scott. A year ago, hers looked like an impossible venture. But against the odds for little magazines, Scoop has survived. Macmillan-Scott said, “I really wasn’t certain we would get to this point, but we are now approaching our first birthday.” She links the magazine’s fortunes to a prosperous market and reports that “through the hundreds of children, parents and teachers we speak to at our workshops, we know that children are greedy for storytelling.”
Inspired by an Edwardian model, Arthur Mee’s Children’s Newspaperr, Scoop is a mix of innovation and creativity. Establishment heavyweights such as the playwright Tom Stoppard, plus children’s writers such as Raymond Briggs, author of Fungus the Bogeyman, have adopted its cause. The magazine has also given space to 10-year-old writers and pays all contributors, high and low, the same rate — 10p a word.
It’s a winning formula. Macmillan-Scott reports “a quarterly sales increase of roughly 150% every issue”, but is cautious about her good fortune. “It’s all too clear to us that these children are hungry for print.”
Scoop focuses on the most profitable part of the children’s market, Britain’s eight to 12-year-old readers. In literary culture, this is the crucial bridge between toddlers (儿童) and adolescents and its publisher knows it. Macmillan-Scott is committed to listening to readers aged eight to 12, who have an editorial board where they can express their ideas about the magazine. “If we don’t get these children reading,” she says, “we will lose out on adult readers. To be fully literate, you have to start as a child.”
Macmillan-Scott argues against the suggestion that reading is in decline. “If you look at our figures,” she objects, “you’ll find that children do read and that Scoop is part of a craze for reading hardback books. Kids love paper and print. They might play games on a digital device, but they prefer not to read on a Kindle. The real market for e-books is among young adult readers.” Some of her evidence is anecdotal, but her sales figures and readership surveys support a picture of eight to 12-year-olds absorbed in books.
“What our research shows beyond question,” she says, “is that children have a love for reading that’s not seriously threatened by other kinds of entertainment. Reading for pleasure is a very real thing at this age, and the worries that some adults have about children losing interest in reading are simply not grounded in reality.”
1. It can be learned from the passage that Scoop ________.A.is aimed at teenagers in Britain |
B.has taken a year to publish its first issue |
C.has got its name from Arthur Mee’s newspaper |
D.pays as much to young writers as to famous ones |
A.conclusive | B.undeniable |
C.defensive | D.unconvincing |
A.Children would rather listen to stories than tell stories by themselves. |
B.Magazines for children aged under 8 are not very common in Britain. |
C.Scoop illustrates the power of printed books in the face of digital revolution. |
D.Research carried out by Scoop has been questioned by those writing for children. |
A.the market for children’s e-books remains to be explored |
B.a child who dislikes reading won’t love reading when grown up |
C.other kinds of entertainment have influenced children’s reading habits |
D.it is necessary for adults to worry about children’s lack of interest in reading |
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But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only ____. How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we do seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than ____. Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of thinking. When we read or write something, we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our ____, which is real, and our imagination, which is real in a different way, to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想) use the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read something realistic, we have to ____ that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we ____ that we are real and they are not. It sounds ____, but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and ____ the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by ____ that what we read is like real life. ____, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our ____ when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose ourselves in a good story, eager to find out what will ____ next. Knowing how we feel when we read can help us become better ____, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.1.
A.different | B.possible | C.important | D.necessary |
A.common | B.usual | C.normal | D.certain |
A.instructive | B.realistic | C.reasonable | D.moral |
A.planned | B.thinkable | C.designed | D.imagined |
A.magic | B.lessons | C.dreams | D.experience |
A.grammar | B.knowledge | C.skill | D.words |
A.recall | B.ensure | C.imagine | D.understand |
A.hope | B.find | C.learn | D.know |
A.terrible | B.dangerous | C.serious | D.strange |
A.think about | B.talk of | C.learn from | D.forget about |
A.guessing | B.telling | C.pretending | D.promising |
A.In a way | B.As usual | C.On the contrary | D.By the way |
A.society | B.minds | C.life | D.world |
A.appear | B.argue | C.happen | D.develop |
A.writers | B.fans | C.professionals | D.readers |