1 . Returning to a book you’ve read many times can feel like drinks with an old friend. There’s a welcome familiarity - but also sometimes a slight suspicion that time has changed you both, and thus the relationship. But books don’t change, people do. And that’s what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.

The beauty of rereading lies in the idea that our bond with the work is based on our present mental register. It’s true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings. But with reading, it’s all about the present. It’s about the now and what one contributes to the now, because reading is a give and take between author and reader. Each has to pull their own weight.

There are three books I reread annually .The first, which I take to reading every spring is Emest Hemningway’s A Moveable Feast. Published in 1964, it’s his classic memoir of 1920s Paris. The language is almost intoxicating (令人陶醉的)，an aging writer looking back on an ambitious yet simpler time. Another is Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm, her poetic 1975 ramble (随笔) about everything and nothing. The third book is Julio Cortazar’s Save Twilight: Selected Poems, because poetry. And because Cortazar.

While I tend to buy a lot of books, these three were given to me as gifs, which might add to the meaning I attach to them. But I imagine that, while money is indeed wonderful and necessary, rereading an author’s work is the highest currency a reader can pay them. The best books are the ones that open further as time passes. But remember, it’s you that has to grow and read and reread in order to better understand your friends.

1. Why does the author like rereading?

A．It evaluates the writer-reader relationship.

B．It’s a window to a whole new world.

C．It’s a substitute for drinking with a friend.

D．It extends the understanding of oneself.

2. What do we know about the book A Moveable Feast?

A．It’s a brief account of a trip.

B．It’s about Hemingway’s life as a young man.

C．It’s a record of a historic event.

D．It’s about Hemingway’s friends in Paris.

3. What does the underlined word ＂currency＂ in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Debt

B．Reward.

C．Allowance.

D．Face value.

4. What can we infer about the author from the text?

A．He loves poetry.

B．He’s an editor.

C．He’s very ambitious.

D．He teaches reading.

2 . I have a special place in my heart for libraries. I have for as long as I can remember. I was always an enthusiastic reader, sometimes reading up to three books a day as a child. Stories were like air to me and while other kids played ball or went to parties, I lived out adventures through the books I checked out from the library.

My first job was working at the Ukiah Library when I was 16 years old .It was a dream job and I did everything from shelving books to reading to the children for story time.

As I grew older and became a mother, the library took on a new place and an added meaning in my life. I had several children and books were our main source(来源) of entertainment. It was a big deal for us to load up and go to the local library, where my kids could pick out books to read or books they wanted me to read to them.

I always read ,using different voices ,as though I were acting out the stories with my voice and they loved it !It was a special time to bond with my children and it filled them with the wonderment of books .

Now, I see my children taking their children to the library and I love that the excitement of going to the library lives on form generation to generation.

As a novelist, I’ve found a new relationship with libraries. I encourage readers to go to their local library when they can’t afford to purchase a book. I see libraries as a safe haven(避风港) for readers and writers, a bridge that helps put together a reader with a book. Libraries, in their own way, help fight book piracy(盗版行为) and 1 think all writers should support libraries in a significant way when they can. Encourage readers to use the library. Share library announcements on your social media. Frequent them and talk about them when you can.

1. Which word best describes the author’s relationship with books as a child?

A．Cooperative.

B．Uneasy.

C．Inseparable.

D．Casual.

2. What does the underlined phrase “an added meaning” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Pleasure from working in the library.

B．Joy of reading passed on in the family.

C．Wonderment from acting out the stories.

D．A closer bond developed with the readers.

3. What does the author call on other writers to do?

A．Sponsor book fairs.	B．Write for social media.
C．Support libraries.	D．Purchase her novels.

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

A．Reading: A Source of Knowledge

B．My Idea about writing

C．Library: A Haven for the Young

D．My Love of the Library

3 . Want to be more successful? If so, then you need to read a few self-help books. Here are four popular ones to get you going.

59 Seconds ( 2009) by Richard Wiseman

This is a self-help book with a difference. Wiseman, a scientist, uses science to prove many self-help myths(神话) are false. For example, self-help books say that if you want to achieve a goal, you should visualize it. But Wiseman says that's the worst thing to do. Studies show that you need to visualize the steps required to achieve the goal.

How to Win Friends& Influence People ( 1936) —by Dale Carnegie

This is the book that launched the self-help type. Carnegie says financial success is 15% professional knowledge and 85% the ability to express ideas, assume leadership, and motivate people. The book is full of practical advice on how to influence people by making them like you.

The Millionaire Next Door (1996) by Thomas Stanley & Wlliam Danko

The authors of this book spent years interviewing American millionaires to figure out the secrets of their success. And they discovered that a majority of millionaires don't live luxury lifestyles. They're rich because they live below their means and reinvest what they earn.

Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)-by Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September 8, 1998, is a motivational business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two “little people”，during their hunt for cheese.

1. What is the key to achieving success in 59 Seconds?

A．To employ science.	B．To follow examples.
C．To picture procedures.	D．To visualize the goal.

2. What is Dale Carnegie's book mainly about?

A．How to master occupational knowledge.	B．How to apply practical techniques.
C．How to gain strong management.	D．How to become popular persons.

3. Which book can help you adapt to change in your life?

A．59 Seconds	B．Who Moved My Cheese?
C．The Millionaire Next Door	D．How to Win Friends& Influence People

4 . If you're a book lover, you have a pile of books on your bedside, or a bookshelf in your library with a “to read” sign on it. Yet you can't stop yourself from adding to the pile. This can lead to feelings of guilt over your new purchases. But I'm here to tell you to stop worrying.

What you have is an antilibrary, and it's a very good thing. The term comes from writer Umberto Eco. He is the owner of a large personal library. He separates visitors into two groups: those who react with “Wow! What a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others who get the point that a private library is not something to show off but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection an antilibrary.

If you think you already know everything about a subject, you're cutting yourself off from a stream of information at an artificial point. So a growing library of books you haven't read means you're consistently curious about the unknown. And that attitude is a great foundation for a lifelong love of learning.

So don't feel guilt over your unread books. Those books will be there for you when you do want them, and as you build your library of read and unread books, you can start using it as you would use a bigger library. Certain books may become references more than read-throughs. Or you may find that a book you bought five years ago has special relevance today. Letting the role of books evolve in your life is a healthy sign of curiosity. That's good for you and good tor the world around you.

1. What does the underlined word "antilibrary in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Feelings of guilt over new books.	B．A pile of books on the bookshelf.
C．The collection of unread books.	D．A large personal library.

2. Which of the following will the writer agree with?

A．The unread books you bought years ago are of no use.

B．You don't have to read every book from cover to cover.

C．Read books are of more use than unread books.

D．You shouldn’t purchase new books until the unread ones are covered.

3. What does the writer think of someone having lots of unread books?

A．Approving.	B．Doubtful.
C．Critical.	D．Indifferent.

5 . By the end of the year, editors of New York Times have picked the 4 best books of 2019, including fiction and non-fiction. Let’s see which one will take your fancy.

Disappearing Earth

By Julia Phillips

In the first chapter of this novel, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town on the edge of the remote and mysterious Kamchatka Peninsula. What follows is a novel of overlapping short stories about the different women who have been affected by their disappearance. Each tale pushes the narrative forward another month and exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka have been destroyed — personally, culturally and emotionally — by the crime.

No Visible Bruises

By Rachel Louise Snyder

Snyder’s thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem”. In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former life partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race. Snyder reveals pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.

Midnight in Chernobyl

By Adam Higginbotham

Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Filled with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astonishing incompetence moves from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation, as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster.

Exhalation

By Ted Chiang

Many of the nine deeply beautiful stories in this collection explore the material consequences of time travel. Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you with no airs and graces. Each thoughtful, elegantly crafted story poses a philosophical question; Chiang arranges all nine into a conversation that comes full circle, after having travelled through remarkable areas.

1. Which of the following tells about the violence from a husband to a wife in a family?

A．Disappearing Earth	B．No Visible Bruises
C．Midnight in Chernobyl	D．Exhalation

2. How may readers feel when reading the book Midnight in Chernobyl?

A．Delighted.	B．Awkward.
C．Tense.	D．Calm.

3. What kind of book is Exhalation?

A．A folk tale.	B．A biography.
C．A love story.	D．A sci-fi story.

6 . "You are the same today as you will be in five years except for the books you read. " A love of reading can make your brain more efficient, lower stress levels, and inspire life pursuits （追求）. Here's how your brain and body benefit when you crack open a book.

Reading can improve brainpower.

    1     Whether you're interested in a book or simply scanning an instruction for your coffee maker, your brain will drive other functions一such as vision, language, and associative （相关的）learning, according to a survey by Ken Pugh, PhD.     2     Another recent study found that older adults who regularly read books are two and a half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.

Reading can melt away stress.

Being lost in a good book lowers your levels of unhealthy stress hormones. In a British study, participants were involved in an anxiety-provoking （引发焦虑的）activity and then either read for a few minutes, listened to music, or played video games. The stress levels of those who read dropped 67 percent.     3    

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Reading about someone who overcame hurdles may encourage you to achieve your own dream. If you'd like a raise, following a character into the boss's office may give you the courage to make the same request. The more you identify with a character and experience the events as if they were happening to you, the more likely you'll take action.

    5    Turn off your phone and computer, and set aside one or two hours to read books every day.

A．Reading can encourage life goals.

B．Reading can recall your memory.

C．As a result, stress is associated with reading.

D．That process forces you to think and concentrate.

E．Reading gives your brain a different kind of workout.

F．We cannot think too highly of the benefits of reading.

G．It was a more important drop than that of the other groups.

7 . 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。

It’s one of the     1     (great) novels in world literature. First published in 1791, A Dream of Red Mansions, also     2     (know) as The Story of the Stone, is to Chinese people as William Shakespeare’s famous plays are to westerners.

The novel,     3     reflects the history of the Qing Dynasty, follows the rise and fall of the noble Jia family. Originally, the family seems     4     (be) wealthy and powerful, thanks in part to its close relationships with the royal family. Yet, the heir to the family, Jia Baoyu, enjoys     5     (live) a pure, carefree life, having no interest     6     politics at all.

Expected to pair with Xue Baochai, Jia     7     (stay) glued to his delicately brilliant cousin, Lin Daiyu. As the lovers head toward a tragic end, the family falls on hard times, fading away eventually.

The     8     (appreciate) of the classic novel is surely both a pleasant treat and a bittersome challenge. As always, the novel has experienced various adaptations. Making the detailed 120-chapter novel into just several hours is     9     (absolute) no piece of cake. “Still, choices have to be made,” the opera’s stage director Stan Lai concluded. “For everyone else, the challenge is to make it     10     excellent opera.”

8 . 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。

Ahead of this year’s London Book Fair in March, media reported a rise in interest in translated works among British readers. For translator Anna Holmwood, this signals the     1     (arrive) of a new era.

“This is a big moment for Chinese fiction abroad,” says Holmwood,     2     has translated Chinese literature for almost a decade.

Her translation work, Legends of the Condor Heroes, a fantasy novel written by Jin Yong, and Liu Cixin’s science-fiction book, The Three Body Problem, are shown in a Nielsen report     3     examples of two of the most popular Chinese fiction works in Britain in 2018.

“Languages in growing demand include Chinese and Arabic.” according to the Nielsen report. It found that, against the commonly     4     (see) “not more than 3 percent rule” of translated literature’s presence in the English-language book markets, the number for 2018 was 5.63 percent in Britain     5     the total annual sales was worth $27.1 million.

Charlotte Collins, translator and co-chair of the British Translators Association, says: “As we can see, this proportion (比率)     6     (double) in recent years... This is     7     (real) exciting news.”

The Guardian quotes (引用) Fiammetta Rocco, administrator of the Man Booker International Prize, “    8     (read) fiction is one of the     9     (good) ways of putting ourselves in other people’s shoes. The rise in sales of translated fiction     10     (show) how hungry British readers are for terrific writing from other countries.”

9 . There are numerous benefits of reading good books.    1    Whatever your field might be, it's very important to create a good habit to read beyond your horizons. Here are tips to help you cultivate a better and consistent reading habit:

●Determine your reading goal.    2    This goal should be clear and backed up with a purpose. Start by thinking about how a consistent reading pattern can help you grow indifferent areas of your life-spirit, academics, career, relationships and more.

●    3     Once you' re done setting your reading goal for the year, you'll need a list to back it up. Write out a list of the amazing books you want to read. Ask for recommendations from friends and instructors. It s important to keep a journal listing the books you'll like to read for each month.

●Get a responsible reading partner to promote your reading. Goals need to be backed up in order to help put a check and encourage you during times you don't feel motivated.    4    

To develop a reading culture, you must first analyze your current reading habits. Do you read at all?    5     In order to truly achieve your reading goals and build a consistent reading habit, you'll need to set up simple systems， find responsible partners， and generally be hungry to grow beyond your comfort zone.

A．Do you study hard at school?

B．Make a list of books for each month.

C．Do you start off and stop at some point?

D．Get up early and go to bed late to back up your goal.

E．It's important to start off by setting a goal to create a reading habit.

F．Get a friend willing to read, and create a plan to help you achieve your reading goals.

G．It can make you think deeper, sharpen your skills and teach you more about your field.

10 . How do you deal with hunger of your stomach？ Eat your favorite meal and keep quiet after that？    1     But it never lets you know， because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars.So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow.When mind loses its freedom to grow， creativity sets a full stop.This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next？”， “Why can’t I think？”

    2     Why reading but not watching TV？ It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood.Since it develops other aspects of our life， we have to get help from reading.

Once you read a book， you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you.     3       Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas.If it is used many times， the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things， which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams！

This is nothing but creativity.     4     Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words.

So guys， do give food to your thoughts by reading， reading and more reading.     5       Go and grab a book！

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.