1 . Teens and younger children are reading a lot less for fun, according to a Common Sense Media report published on Monday.
While the decrease over the past decade is steep(急剧的) 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 decreased, 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 suggest 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(屏幕) 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 bought 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.contents of children’s books. |
C.Children’s after-class activities. | D.Parent-child relationships. |
A.In Paragraph 2. | B.In Paragraph 3. |
C.In Paragraph 4. | D.In Paragraph 5. |
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. |
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. |
A.a book review | B.a magazine | C.a science fiction | D.a student’s diary |
2 . 4 Books for Your Christmas List
These spectacular books would make fantastic presents this Christmas.
Journey to the River Sea
by Eva Ibbotson.
Illustrated by Katie Hickey
(Macmillan Children’s Books)
In this children’s classic, travel deep into the Amazon jungle in search of adventure with heroine Mala. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of an award-winning, best-selling story this gift edition comes packed with lots of colorful artwork from illustrator Katie Hickey.
Little People Big Dreams Treasury
by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser
(Frances Lincoln Children’s book)
In this wonderfully illustrated collection you can explore the fascinating true stories of 50 brilliant “dreamers” including activists like Greta Thunberg, artists such as Frida Kahlo, musicians, scientists, sporting legends and writers.
Daughter of the Deep
by Rick Riordan
(Puffin Books)
Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan’s latest book is a thrilling sci-fi adventure set in an academy for underwater explorers. During the sea-trials at the end of their first year, Ana and her classmates witness a terrible tragedy and soon begin to uncover deep, dark secrets and age-old rivalries.
Everyone Sang
by William Sieghart.
Illustrated by Emily Sutton
(Walker Books)
If you like poetry, you’ll love this illustrated collection, which is divided into four sections: Poems to Make You Smile; Poems to Move You; Poems to Give You Hope; and Poems to Calm and Connect You. Poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Lemn Sissay are included.
1. Which book tells true stories about some famous people?A.Journey to the River Sea. |
B.Little People Big Dreams Treasury. |
C.Daughter of the Deep. |
D.Everyone Sang. |
A.A folk tale. | B.A biography. |
C.A science fiction. | D.A true story. |
A.It is written by Eva Ibbotson. |
B.Itis intended for poetry lovers. |
C.It is one of the best-selling hooks. |
D.It contains stories about Lemn Sissay. |
3 . The story of a 92-year-old book lover in a village of Chongqing has touched many recently, Sun Shiquan has collected more than 7,000 books over the past years and has offered a free local library to people there for years.
He was born in Pipa Village in Xiuqi Town of Chongqing’s Chengkou County. Being a bookworm as a child, he read all kinds of ancient books including the Four Books and the Five Classics. In the 1950s, he became one of only a handful of local college graduates and later served as a middle school teacher in the county.
He started to collect books in 1983 and gradually built a collection of many kinds over more than 40 years. Among his holdings is a precious set known as the Si Ku Quan Shu, dating back to Qing Dynasty. It is one of the only seven copies in the country.
Wearing glasses, Sun reads for more than three hours every day. Now he has finished reading most of his collections. Speaking of her father, Sun Ziyu, said, “My father has a habit of making notes on each book. He makes a mark whenever he stops reading so that he can carry on reading from where he left off.”
Village official Liu Jiao said, “Many children in the village love to visit Sun and listen to his stories.” She said the elderly man has earned respect from the whole village. People call him “Teacher Sun” and children call him “great-grandfather”.
Sun Ziyu said her father also writes poems and prose(散文) in his spare time and enjoys reading his works to the family. She said under her father’s influence, family members take the time to read together and exchange views. “That’s their favorite part,” she said.
“My father has loved reading for a lifetime,” Sun Ziyu said. “Reading is his meat and drink.”
1. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?A.Mr Sun was born in a rich family. |
B.There was only one free library in Xiuqi Town. |
C.Mr Sun has been a book lover since childhood. |
D.It was easy for children to get educated in the 1950s. |
A.Colorful. | B.Valuable. | C.Demanding. | D.Enormous. |
A.Mr Sun’s reading habit. | B.Mr Sun’s life experiences. |
C.Mr Sun’s writing hobby. | D.Mr Sun’s book collections. |
A.A person with talent. | B.A person worthy of pity. |
C.A person with disability. | D.A person worthy of respect. |
4 . How to read more and learn more
Today, more and more Chinese people enjoy sending and receiving messages on the phone. It can help them to get the latest news and communicate with friends. But I think I should read more books besides the textbooks, the more, the better. It can open my eyes and improve my language skills.
◆ Clear your purpose for reading
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No matter what you are reading, it is important to enjoy what you read. Your friends may tell you the books they love, but those books might not necessarily be the ones you enjoy.
◆ Give up books that you don’t enjoy
You may have chosen books that you are interested in, and they are right to your purpose. But while you are reading them, there may still be some books that you don’t enjoy reading. Whenever you realize that you aren’t enjoying the book you are reading, give it up.
◆ Set a reading goal
It is interesting that I read the books borrowed from libraries faster than those I bought. The reason is the books I bought don’t have a due date! I don’t need to return those books.
A.Read only what you are interested in |
B.Read the books borrowed from others. |
C.Remember reading shouldn’t be a chore (烦恼事). |
D.Of course, it also can help me to get good grades. |
E.We need to get the latest news and communicate with friends. |
F.Before you start reading, ask yourself why you are reading this book. |
G.Having a reading goal helps you work out how much reading you need to do in a week or even a day. |
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I love reading. So the library was my favorite place in my spare time. Whenever I am freely ,I will go there and bury myself in the books,which makes me relaxing.One day I went to the library as usual. When I was selecting books, little boy caught my attention. Stand in front of a shelf,he was doing her best to put a book back in place. Therefore, he was too short to place it. I walked to him,asking him if he needed help. He thanked me and handed me the books. I said that I was glad to helping him,a boy who was thirsty for knowledge. Hearing of this,he smiled.
6 . An important lesson in the moral (道德的) education of children could be as close as the book in their hands. Stories matter. And they can play a role in building moral values in young audiences, according to the results of a new study.
Lindsay Hahn is the first author of the new study, which explores how media content (内容) influences children. Many studies done before have focused on wide concept (概念), but Hahn’s study looks at how moral values might influence the kids’ values. Do children reading particular moral, characteristics take in those qualities and build their own morality? The findings suggest so.
“Parents, caregivers, and teachers are often wondering how media can be used for good,” says Hahn. “How can it be used for good things? How can it discourage bad habits? How can it educate?” Answering those questions begins with a better understanding of how to use media. “When parents are considering what media they might want to select for their children, they can deliberate what particular moral value is being stressed by the main character, and how the main character is treated because of those actions,” she says.
For the study, Hahn and her workmates took the main character from a young adult novel. They wrote the content to reflect the study’s focus on moral values. Those stories were shared with about 200 participants (参与者) between the ages of 10 and 14. This is a favorable range for media research because it’s more difficult to introduce the understanding of stories to younger kids, while challenging to hold the attention of older teenagers, who become bored with basic storylines, according to Hahn.
1. What is the result of the new study?A.Stories should be spread more by media. |
B.Children like reading books full of funny stories. |
C.Children have learned an important lesson from stories. |
D.Stories help children to develop their own moral values. |
A.How children deal with media content. |
B.How children are exposed to modern society. |
C.How media content influences children’s moral: values. |
D.How children should deal with the moral values in stories. |
A.Describe. | B.Improve. | C.Title. | D.Consider. |
A.The Young Can Build Good Moral Values Easily |
B.It Is Difficult for the Young to Understand Moral Values |
C.Stories Play an Important Role in the Young’s Moral Values |
D.Scientists Find More Ways to Help the Young Build Moral Values |
7 . 1. As a first-time e-paper user, I am not sure if all the momentary pixilation (像素) is normal. The size is ideal for my new-teenager. There are hardly any annoyances and the kid seems enjoying the experience. The parental controls are, mildly put, inadequate. I would anticipate being able to define lock-down timings and limit usage duration for a device targeted at kids.
---Miki
2. This is such a lifesaver! My son reads books constantly. We were doing our best to buy books and use the library, but it was hitting our wallets hard. With the Kindle Free Time included with this Kindle kids edition, he has access to thousands of books. I get to set the age appropriate limits on the book access. As we live on a tight budget, it’s great to have a one-year free subscription to Free Time.
---Billie
3. Just received this device today and I’m ready to throw it out the window. Navigation is horrible and even customer service admitted that they don’t know how to help. It’s a nightmare trying to get your free subscription set up as they just keep redirecting you to set up a 30-day trial and be charged after. I’ll be cancelling everything and sending this back as soon as possible.
---Catherine
4. This is a reader’s kindle. We want our children to read—not play video games all day. From the moment we received this device as a gift, our kids had immediate access to 55 books that we had purchased through our Amazon account. Now they can carry around a whole library of books. Not to mention all of the free out of copyright material that is available.
---Norah
1. What does Billie say about Kindle?A.It can save his son’s life. | B.It has no parental controls. |
C.It saves him a lot of money. | D.It offers free books permanently. |
A.Miki. | B.Billie. | C.Catherine. | D.Norah |
A.Book reports. | B.Diary entries. |
C.Tablet advertisements. | D.Customer reviews. |
8 . After high school English teacher Larry Abrams started his teaching career in a far suburb outside of Philadelphia, he found he taught in a book desert (荒漠). Many of the kids in school simply struggled (挣扎) with reading and then writing .
In 2017, when one of his students told him she had no book to read to her 2-year-old daughter, Abrams took action. He put forward a call to friends and family asking for gently used children’s books, and in no time, he had more than 1, 000 of them. He began handing out the books to young moms and local elementary schools. That was the start of his nonprofit, BookSmiles, which has since collected, sorted, and handed out hundreds of thousands of books throughout New Jersey and the Philadelphia area — and will soon reach 1 million.
BookSmiles calls on people to help collect books and drop them off in the group’s large collection boxes, which are painted with literary-themed artwork and put outside local businesses, houses of worship, schools, and people’s homes. Books are often handed out through teachers, who come to the book bank and choose as many books as they want.
Larry Abrams thinks children should be read to because it’s something joyful that creates a bond (纽带) between the parent and the child in such an important way. Reading books creates a moment that will never die off and always stay with the child. And what’s more, reading books to kids gives them power. The most important tool that they get is words. There are some kids who grow up hearing lots of words because they’re read to every single night. They are used to hearing sentences connected together when they’re babies. And then there are other kids who never get that. Reading and books help level that playing field. It gives words, millions of words, to these babies who really, really need them.
1. What did Larry Abrams find about his working environment?A.He had to live a hard life in a desert. |
B.His students were very short of books. |
C.His students couldn’t read or write at all. |
D.His school was struggling to make ends meet. |
A.His student’s trouble. | B.His school’s requirement. |
C.His daughter’s need for books. | D.His close friend’s request. |
A.What books BookSmiles hands out. | B.Where BookSmiles’s boxes are. |
C.How busy BookSmiles’s workers are. | D.How BookSmiles works. |
A.It helps parents and children to kill time. |
B.It makes children depend more on their parents. |
C.It puts children far ahead of those without being read to. |
D.It develops children’s language skills by parent-child behavior. |
9 . Today, many people spend a lot of time reading online, whether reading news, social media, or e-books. While online reading opens up a lot of knowledge to people, there are some drawbacks, too. These include eyestrain, headaches, as well as difficulty in even finishing reading the text. Now a new reading plugin (插件) has been intended to help people overcome these problems and read faster online.
The reading plugin called Bionic Reading, which was developed by Swiss designer Renato Casutt, was created with the belief that your brain can read faster than your eyes. The plugin makes the first few letters of each word in bold (粗体), which actually allows your eyes to skip over parts of the text and your brain to fill in what is missing. Incredibly, reading like this feels like finally unlocking 100 percent of people’s brain.
Casutt came up with the plugin by accident. He was reading a book in a foreign language and realized he could read it faster and well master it if he separated it into parts. He has worked for six years to develop Bionic Reading and is still working to perfect it. Many people who want to strengthen their reading ability show interest in it, but more research is needed before it can be definitively shown that the system improves reading ability. But people with dyslexia (诵读障碍) have confirmed that Bionic Reading did help them focus on what they are reading.
Casutt’s goal is to integrate the plugin into all reading apps and online services. “In a digital world dominated (支配) by shallow forms of reading, Bionic Reading aims to encourage a more in-depth reading and understanding of written content,” he said. Bionic Reading is available in several apps like Fiery Feeds, Lire, and Next App. The best way to know if it helps you read better online is to try it yourself and find out what it is all about.
1. How does Bionic Reading work?A.Users can read faster with less thinking. |
B.Users keep their brains much less active. |
C.Users keep an eye on part of the whole text. |
D.Users guess the meanings of some key words. |
A.Selecting suitable reading contents. |
B.Keeping up with reading contents. |
C.Limiting reading time. |
D.Reducing stress from reading. |
A.It has not been put into use so far. |
B.It has already been fully developed. |
C.It leaves users a further reading and thinking. |
D.It helps users skip the new words in reading. |
A.New Pioneering Plugin Improves Online Reading |
B.Online Reading Is Sure To Perfect People’s Brain |
C.Spending Time On Online Reading Is Worthwhile |
D.New Pioneering Plugin Still Needs To Be Improved |
A.An exciting story. | B.A famous writer. | C.A latest book. |