3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does Tony have in his hand?

A．Lots of books.

B．A book review.

C．A reading list.

2. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Teacher and student.

B．Reader and librarian.

C．Friends.

3. Which book will Tony read?

A．A Song of Ice and Fire.

B．Thirteen Reasons Why.

C．First Test.

4 . Digital reading (数字阅读) appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Astonishing numbers of people with years of schooling are in fact illiterate (文盲). This month’s Ljubljana Manifesto (宣言) explains: “The digital field may promote more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many attractions to read in a casual and scattered (零散的) manner— or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.”

That’s frightening, because “higher-level reading” has been necessary to civilization. It made the understanding and an international increase in empathy (共鸣). Without it, we would suffer a lot. As the Ljubljana Manifesto notes, “as much as one-third of Europeans struggle even with lower-level reading skills.” More than one-fifth of adults in the US “fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category”. Separately, post-pandemic (后疫情时期) reading scores for American13-year-olds are the lowest in decades. And the Washington-based Center for Global Development recently estimated that literacy (读写能力) in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa among those with five years of schooling has decreased by 10% this past half century.

Experts in the Ljubljana Manifesto record the demerits of digital reading: “Recent studies of various kinds indicate a decline of thoughtful reading, slow reading and long-form reading.” When you read a book on paper, you can be entirely inside the experience, absorb hundreds of pages of details thoroughly and begin to catch the world’s complexity. Online, says Maryanne Wolf of UCLA, we are “skimming, scanning and scrolling”. The medium is the message: doing deep reading on your phone is as hard as playing tennis with your phone. Recently, a bright 11-year-old boy told me I was wasting time on books: he absorbed more information faster from websites. He had a point. But digital readers also absorb more misinformation and seldom absorb fine opinions.

In short, as professors from Northwestern University predicted in 2005, we are returning to the days when only an elite (精英) “reading class” reads long texts, which is worrying.

1. What can we learn about digital reading from paragraph 1?

A．Digital reading has weakened the practice of deep reading.

B．Digital reading has solved the problem of illiteracy.

C．Digital reading has made deep reading accessible to wider readers.

D．Digital reading has caused a greater appreciation for deep reading.

2. What’s the second paragraph mainly about?

A．Digital reading’s great popularity.	B．The importance of deep reading.
C．American students’ reading skills.	D．The lowering of the level of literacy.

3. What does the underlined word “demerits” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Functions.

B．Depths.

C．Shortcomings.

D．Features.

4. What might be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．Advantages of digital reading.	B．Measures to practice deep reading.
C．Ways to encourage digital reading.	D．Benefits of lower-level reading.

5 . Technology seems to discourage slow, careful reading. Reading on a screen tires your eyes and makes it harder for you to keep your place. Online writing tends to be more skimmable (易略读的) and list-like than print. The neuroscientist Mary Walt argued recently that this new standard of skim reading is producing“an invisible, game-changing transformation”in how readers process words. The neuronal circuit (神经回路) that maintains and supports the brain’s ability to read now prefers the rapid absorption of information.

We shouldn’t overplay this danger. All readers skim. From about the age of nine, our eyes start to skim quickly across the page, reading only about a quarter of the words properly, and filling in the gap s by inference. Nor is there anything new in these fears about declining attention spans (持续时间). So far, the anxieties have proved to be false alarms. “Quite a few critics have been worried about attention spans lately and see very short stories as signs of cultural decline,” the American author Selvin Brown wrote. “No one ever said that poems were evidence of short attention spans.”

And yet the Internet has certainly changed the way we read. For a start, it means that there is more to read, because more people than ever are writing. And digital writing is meant for rapid release and response. This mode of writing and reading can be interactive and fun. But often it treats other people’s words as something to be quickly taken as materials to say something else. Everyone talks over the top of everyone else, eager to be heard.

Perhaps we should slow down. Reading is constantly promoted as a source of personal achievement. But this argument often emphasizes “enthusiastic” “passionate” or “eager” reading, non e of which words suggest slow, quiet absorption. To a slow reader, a piece of writing can only be fully understood by immersing oneself in the words and their slow understanding of a line of thought.

The human need for this kind of deep reading is too tenacious for any new technology to destroy. We often assume that technological change can’t be stopped and happens in one direction, so that older media like “dead-tree” books are kicked out by newer, more virtual forms. In practice, older technologies can coexist with new ones. The Kindle has not killed off the printed book any more than the car killed off the bicycle. We still want to enjoy slowly-formed ideas and carefully-chosen words. Even in a fast-moving age, there is time for slow reading.

1. Which statement would Selvin Brown probably agree?

A．Online writing harms careful reading.	B．Fears of attention spans are unnecessary.
C．The situation of cultural decline is serious.	D．Poetry reading helps lengthen attention spans.

2. What is TRUE about digital writing?

A．It demands writers to abandon traditional writing modes.

B．It depends heavily on frequent interaction with the readers.

C．It leads to too much talking and not enough deep reflection.

D．It prepares readers for enthusiastic, passionate or eager reading.

3. What does the underlined word “tenacious” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Deep-rooted.

B．Widely-acknowledged.

C．Slowly-changed.

D．Rarely-noticed.

4. Which can be the best title for this article?

A．Slow Reading is Here to Stay	B．The Wonder of Deep Reading
C．The Internet is Changing the Way We Read	D．Digital vs Print: A Life-and-Death Struggle

6 . Here are some of the best nonfiction books of recent years.

Somebody’s Daughter

$ 16 at Amazon

Ashley C. Ford talks about growing up as a black girl in Indiana, dealing with poverty, the complexities of adolescence, and a tense relationship with her mother. She often wished that she could express her feelings with her father, but failed for reasons she didn’t know. Until one day — after going through a heart-broken experience with a boy, which she kept from her family — her grandmother told her. And what she learned turned her entire world upside down.

Crazy Stories About Racism

$ 14 at Amazon

New York-based comedian Amber Ruffin, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, shares their everyday experiences about their bad conditions. It gets especially bad for Lacey who still lives in their home state of Nebraska, and is a start for these ridiculous but all-too-real encounters (遭遇).

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

$ 25 at Amazon

If you want to get in touch with your creative side, this book might just be the trick. As the title suggests, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a literary master class that takes readers into the mind of Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders. He discusses what makes great stories, how they work, and what they say about ourselves and today’s world.

All In

$ 21 at Amazon

Sports legend Billie Jean King writes a self-portrait that talks about the highs and lows of her amazing tennis career, her work in activism, and the ongoing fight for social justice and equality.

1. What is special about Somebody’s Daughter?

A．It tells a girl’s relationship with parents.	B．It tells a confused girl.
C．It tells a girl’s education.	D．It describes a girl’s secret.

2. What can we get from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain?

A．The steps of writing a good story.	B．The secret of George Saunders’ success.
C．The situations of the present society.	D．Experiences of swimming in a pond.

3. Which describes a sport career?

A．All In.	B．Somebody’s Daughter.
C．A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.	D．Crazy Stories About Racism.

7 . 假定你是李华，你校拟在周末举办“名著读书会”。请你写一张留言条邀请交流生Lucy参加。内容包括：
1. 活动的时间和地点；
2. 活动内容。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Lucy,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

8 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does Tony have in his hand?

A．Lots of books.

B．A book review.

C．A reading list.

2. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Teacher and student.

B．Reader and librarian.

C．Friends.

3. Which book will Tony read?

A．A Song of Ice and Fire.

B．Thirteen Reasons Why.

C．First Test.