1 . Your 2018 Reading List, Provided by Bill Gates

Most of us can’t live like billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, but we can read like him. Gates recommended four books in 2018—though some were published earlier.

Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson (2017)

The bestselling biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein researched deeply into da Vinci’s contributions beyond art, highlighting the breadth of his scientific, technological, and creative output. “Leonardo nearly understood almost all of what was known on the planet at the time. That’s mostly because of his curiosity about every area of natural science and the human experience,” said Gates.

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui (2017)

Gates calls this graphic novel “really impressive”. Bui is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees who came to America after the fall of Saigon, and becoming a parent inspired her to look into her own parents’ miserable history. “I was struck by how the experiences Bui illustrates manage to be both universal and specific to their circumstances,” said Gates.

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders (2018)

Saunders, a long-time short story writer, won high praise for this novel. The book imagines the ghosts that haunt (萦绕) the basement of Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son, who died at 11 in real life. “Willie’s death after the Civil War made the president have a new understanding of the grief he’s creating in other families by sending their sons off to die in battle,” said Gates.

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, by David Christian (2018)

This new book is by the creator of Big History, a free, online social studies course. It traces history in wide, sweeping movements, starting with the Big Bang, and it provides, in effect, a short course in modern science. This is a brief history of the universe. “David gets a little stuck on the current economic and political problems in the West, and I wish he talked more about the role innovation will play in preventing the worst effects of climate change,” said Gates.

1. Which books refer to the field of science?

A．Origin Story and Leonardo da Vinci.

B．Lincoln in the Bardo and Origin Story.

C．Leonardo da Vinci and The Best We Could Do.

D．The Best We Could Do and Lincoln in the Bardo.

2. If you are interested in thrillers, whose book will you most probably choose?

A．Walter Isaacson.	B．Thi Bui.
C．George Saunders.	D．David Christian.

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．The Best We Could Do is an autobiography.

B．Lincoln in the Bardo has been warmly received.

C．David Christian talks much about the part that innovation will play.

D．Readers can only read about Leonardo da Vinci’s contributions towards art.

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Good morning, everyone! Now I'd like to sharing my view in reading.I think reading is one of the more beneficial and practical activities that a man can do. It is through reading which a person is able to discover new ideas, places, and people. Even though I had a heavy load of classes, I can manage to find about fortieth minutes a day to read books. I prefer to read before sleeping or while waiting a bus. As a result, you can write many good article. I can also take part in conversation with others easy. Let s read some books together and talk about them a next time!

That’s all. Thank you.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

With so much information available in books and online, it’s easy     1     (learn) a few new facts each day. But how much of that do you     2     (actual) remember?     3     your answer is ―not much, here is the good news. Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, recently designed a new typeface (字体)     4     was invented with read-it-and-forget-it people     5     mind. Very appropriately, it’s called Sans Forgetica.

The idea behind Sans Forgetica is simple. The typeface is a tiny bit     6     (difficulty) to read, which     7     (mean) your brain has to work twice as hard to understand what it says. Because of that deeper focus, you’ll have a better memory for whatever you’re reading. That’s not just a theory, either. The typeface was created by a team of     8     (researcher) from RMIT University’s School of Design and its Behavioural Business Lab. The group worked with a famous typographer Stephen Banham to test and improve       9     (they) product.

The typeface uses principles of cognitive psychology to create an effect     10     (know) as desirable difficulty, the researchers note, ―which causes the brain to take part in deeper cognitive processing. The result is improved memory.

4 . I start every summer with the best of intentions:to attack one big book from the past, a classic that I was supposed to have read when young and ambitious. Often the pairings of books and settings have been purely accidental: "Moby Dick" on a three-day cross-country train trip: “The Magic Mountain” in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond. Attempting "The Man Without Qualities" on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (册), then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead.

But this summer I find myself at a loss. I’m not quite interested in Balzac, say, or “Tristram Shandy.” There’s always War and Peace, which I've covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the "War" part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite-once more into “The Waves” or “Justine,” which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious literature.

And then there’s Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black,” which happens to be the name of my favorite cocktail (鸡尾酒) of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and BackForty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea. Cecconi's theory: "I take whatever’s fresh at the green market and turn it into liquid." The result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once, lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...

1. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?

A．He has a cottage in New England.	B．He shows talents for literature.
C．He enjoys reading when traveling.	D．He admires a lot of great writers.

2. What do the underlined words "get bogged down" in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Get confused.	B．Be carried away.
C．Be interrupted.	D．Make no progress.

3. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?

A．He finishes them quickly.	B．He should read something serious.
C．He barely understands them.	D．He has read them many times before.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Books of Summer	B．My Summer Holidays
C．To Read or Not to Read	D．It’s Never Too Late to Read

5 . Tips to create great readers

Great readers are made; they are not born. After all, children don’t enter the world knowing how to understand a text or make inferences.     1    Here are some tips for making children great readers by habit.

    2    The most important moment in reading instruction is when a student gets something wrong. If the student continues practicing the skill incorrectly, he or she will build weaker habits. Intervene (干预) with a targeted question, such as “How does this part of the text help you understand this character?” Doing so can prevent poor habits from taking root and build great ones in their place.

Build great reading and writing skills hand in hand. Just like adults, students use writing to gather their thoughts about a text and communicate their ideas to others.     3    For example, students can have a discussion about what they’re reading by answering a focus question in writing: “What is the author trying to teach us in this story?”    4    By doing this, you can get a better understanding of what guidance the students will need during the discussion.

Make sure students are reading. Independent reading time is important for any reading program. It’s a chance for students to put together everything they’ve learned in reading lessons and fly using their own wings.     5    Providing a rich class library and letting students know that they are expected to read for the entire period will ensure their success as lifelong independent readers.

A．Build habits at the moment of error.

B．Make sure students fall in love with reading.

C．Then, you can review their written responses.

D．They grow into great readers by learning great habits.

E．But it only works if they really do spend that time reading.

F．Specific lines or phrases from the text help to reveal that information.

G．Therefore, you can develop their writing and reading skills at the same time.

6 . A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when _______.

A．it is repeated without any change	B．it is treated as a joke
C．some changes are made to it by a parent	D．it is set in the present

2. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A．in a realistic setting	B．told in a different way
C．repeated too often	D．heard for the first time

3. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A．develops their power of memory

B．makes them less fearful

C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A．they are full of imagination

B．they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C．they are not interesting

D．they are just made up of the stories which are far from the truth

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

2. The book caught the author’s eye because________.

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

3. Why could the author manage to read the book through?

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.

4. Which one could be the best title of the passage?

A．My Passion for Reading	B．Mum’s Strict Order
C．Reunion with My Beagle.	D．The Charm of a Book.

8 . Teens and younger children are reading a lot less for fun, according to a Common Sense Media report published Monday.

While the decline over the past decade is steep for teen readers, some data in the report shows that reading remains a big part of many children’s lives, and indicates how parents might help encourage more reading.

According to the report’s key findings, “the proportion (比例) who say they ‘hardly ever’ read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds and 9 percent of 17-year-olds in 1984 to 22 percent and 27 percent respectively today.”

The report data shows that pleasure reading levels for younger children, ages 2—8, remain largely the same. But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

When it comes to technology and reading, the report does little to counsel(建议) parents looking for data about the effect of e-readers and tablets on reading. It does point out that many parents still limit electronic reading, mainly due to concerns about increased screen time.

The most hopeful data shared in the report shows clear evidence of parents serving as examples and important guides for their kids when it comes to reading. Data shows that kids and teens who do read frequently, compared to infrequent readers, have more books in the home, more books purchased for them, parents who read more often, and parents who set aside time for them to read.

As the end of school approaches, and school vacation reading lists loom(逼近) ahead, parents might take this chance to step in and make their own summer reading list and plan a family trip to the library or bookstore.

1. What is the Common Sense Media report probably about?

A．Children’s reading habits.

B．Quality of children’s books.

C．Children’s after-class activities.

D．Parent-child relationships.

2. Where can you find the data that best supports “children are reading a lot less for fun”?

A．In paragraph 2.	B．In paragraph 3.
C．In paragraph 4.	D．In paragraph 5.

3. Why do many parents limit electronic reading?

A．E-books are of poor quality.

B．It could be a waste of time.

C．It may harm children’s health.

D．E-readers are expensive.

4. How should parents encourage their children to read more?

A．Act as role models for them.

B．Ask them to write book reports.

C．Set up reading groups for them.

D．Talk with their reading class teachers.

9 . Buying books on the Internet is a great way to save time and money. Online bookstores offer new books and used books that can save you lots of money. They are far better compared to traditional bookstores as they offer much broader kinds of books. Another advantage of shopping online is that you can also read the book reviews as well as readers’ reviews to get an idea whether the book is worth buying. Online bookstores offer great discounts (折扣) to regular customers, which is a big attraction for book lovers.

For book lovers, the most important thing is to get books on time. Therefore, you need to find a reliable (可靠的) online bookstore that will be able to provide fast deliveries (送货).

Here are some tips to use when choosing an online bookstore. Some online bookstores are popular for fiction books; some are for non­fiction books or novels, etc. Understanding their specialization will help you get the right kind of books in time. Check whether you will be buying the books from a third­party seller or directly from the website. Although the website could be reputable (声誉好的), third­party sellers advertised on their site may not have a good reputation. Never jump at stores that offer super cheap prices, as books sold at such low prices could be in very bad condition.

Most of the popular online bookstores offer useful tools. One tool is a wish list tool on its website. You can update (更新) the list of books you wish to buy in the future. The bookstore will know what you want and will email you immediately when the book of your choice is available.

1. Why do you think online bookstores are much better than traditional ones?

A．Because online bookstores offer readers the latest books.

B．Because online bookstores offer readers more kinds of books to choose from.

C．Because online bookstores offer readers the lowest prices.

D．Because online bookstores offer readers more about their favorite authors.

2. How can a reader buy a worthy book when shopping online?

A．By comparing service.

B．By asking for discounts.

C．By reading online review.

D．By asking booksellers for advice.

3. What do online book lovers care about most?

A．The speed of deliveries.

B．The author of books.

C．The prices of books.

D．The condition of books.

4. The wish list tool can help readers ____________.

A．learn about the number of the books

B．get to know more reliable booksellers

C．pay for their books more quickly

D．buy their favorite books in time

10 . A new library in Tianjin—Tianjin Binhai Public Library—recently became an online hit. The Daily Mail described it as the “world’s ultimate (终极的) library”, while the word “breathtaking” was the choice of Newsweek magazine. One look at the library and you’ll see why. With its futuristic (未来主义) design and walls loaded with books, it’s the dream library of every book lover.

But as the surprise continues, there’s a burning question lying in the back of our minds: When physical bookstores are closing down one by one, what makes libraries safe from the wave of digitalization (数码化)? And do we really still need libraries now that we’ve got the Internet in our hands?

Reporter Ian Clark has the answer. “Libraries are not declining in importance—people are simply changing the way they use them,” he wrote on the Guardian website.

What Clark means is that libraries have shifted from simply being storehouses of books to a medium to help “bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots” according to website Libraries Are Essential. Since not everyone can afford a smartphone, a tablet or an Internet connection, and not everyone has the know-how to search the Internet correctly and efficiently, it’s public libraries that make sure that these resources and technologies are available to a larger group of people.

“Nobody is trying to sell you anything in the library. There is no pressure to buy and there is no judgment of your choices/’ Anne Goulding, a professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, wrote on the Newsroom website. “There are few other spaces that you can just ‘be’ without somebody questioning your presence or your motivation.”

1. What cause book-lovers to like Tianjin Binhai Public Library?

A．Breathtaking magazines.

B．World’s ultimate buildings.

C．Design and book walls.

D．Digitalization.

2. Where does the text most probably come from?

A．A fiction.	B．A tour guide.
C．A newspaper.	D．A book.

3. Why are physical libraries necessary to exist?

A．Everyone has a phone with them.

B．Some people are still used to the old ways.

C．More and more people use computers.

D．People can buy what they want there.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．Libraries living on in digital age.

B．Internet libraries nowadays.

C．Physical libraries in the past.

D．People’s dream libraries.