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:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词; 2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Reading have a lot of benefits. It can open up our eyes because of books are full of knowledge. I like reading newspapers and magazines from that I get lots of fun and learn about what’s going on around the world. I also read storybooks or novels which make me relaxing and happy. I seldom read e-book because they’re bad for eyes. On weekends, I usual spend a whole afternoon read in the library. And I also read for about half the hour before going to bed every night. Now I am going to read more classics as well as English books improve my language skills. I’m sure reading can make a difference to my life.
1. What is the book mainly about?
A.A writer. | B.A parrot. | C.An artist. |
A.Amy Guglielmo. | B.Brett Helquist. | C.Cezanne. |
A.Surprised. | B.Disappointed. | C.Encouraged. |
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.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I bought a book about motivation the few weeks ago. My mother asked me that I would like to share it with others when she finished reading the book. Of course, I was willingly to give it to those who wanted it. It occurs to me that I should send it to my friend, Pam. She supported me through my learning journey but I valued her friendship greatly. Fortunately, she was being admitted into a key university last year. I told her pass it on to someone else if it wasn’t fit to her. I hoped that it would be reading instead of sitting on my bookshelf.
4 . It’s hard to believe that I wrote Number the Stars more than twenty years ago. It seems like yesterday that I answered the phone on a snowy January morning and received the news that it had won the1990 Newbery Medal (美国纽伯瑞儿童文学奖).
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I think readers of every age may match themselves with the important persons in the books they love and ask themselves: Would I have done that? What choice would I have made?
And ten-the age of Annemarie in Number the Stars-is an age when young people are beginning to develop a strong set of personal ethics (道德观;价值观)…They are beginning to realize that the world they live in is not always good and safe.
So they follow a story about a ten-year-old girl who is caught in a dangerous situation, and she must make decisions. Young readers become cheerful when Annemarie takes a deep breath, enters the woods, faces the danger, stands up to the enemy and wins her victory.
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Today, the book has been published in many countries and translated into many languages. It found its way into the hands and hearts of children who had read about but never experienced war...Books do change lives, I know; and many readers have told me that Number the Stars changed theirs when they were young, that it made them think about both cruelty (残酷;残忍) and courage. “It was something that shaped my idea of how people should be treated,”wrote a young woman recently, telling me about her own fourth-grade experience with the book.
The Danish friend who first told me the story of her childhood, and who became the Annemarie in my book, is an old woman now. So am I. We both love thinking of the children reading the story today, coming to it for the first time and realizing that once, for a short time and in a small place,a group of prejudice-free (不存偏见的) people created a touching story of love and kindness towards others.
Lois Lowry
1. What is the name of the book and who is the writer?A.Number the Stars; Lois Lowry. | B.Newbery Medal; Lois Lowry. |
C.Number the Stars; Annemarie. | D.Newbery Medal;Annentarie. |
A.She called a writer on a snowy January morning. |
B.She became cheerful after she read the book. |
C.She was a good friend of a Danish woman. |
D.She experienced many difficulties in a war. |
A.ethics and friendship | B.enemy and victory |
C.cruelty and courage | D.life and memories |
A.The book is about a story of the writer’s own child experience. |
B.The book is well-received and popular around the world. |
C.The Introduction is written in the voice of the third person. |
D.The Introduction is complete and we can read all of it. |
A.In a museum. | B.In a physics lab. | C.In a bookstore. |
1. 阅读经典文学的好处;2. 自己的暑期读书计划。
参考词汇:经典著作classics; 文学literature
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1. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A.Selling their old books. |
B.Some interesting books. |
C.Buying books for their course. |
A.They are not expensive. |
B.He wants to discuss them in detail. |
C.He wants his students to collect more books. |
A.Only the man. | B.Only the woman. | C.Both the man and the woman. |
A.He would buy three and the woman would buy two. |
B.He would just pay fifteen dollars for the books. |
C.He would not share the books with the woman. |
8 . When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages?
Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “bliks.” The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Cafe” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.
Blinkist has been around since 2012.It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.” Well, yes, of course. “So many books, so little time.” declares a poster I once bought at a book market. But I judge the quality of someone’s library by the books he or she has yet to read.
That’s because a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader: The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite:
Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake (吸收) of key ideas. No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency.
When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.
1. What does the underlined part “the joke was on us” in Paragraph 1 mean?A.We were actually joking. | B.We were laughed at by others. |
C.We were underestimating ourselves. | D.We were just embarrassing ourselves. |
A.What Blinkist is. | B.Why Binkist is popular. |
C.How to use Blinkist. | D.Where you can use Blinkist. |
A.There are few new books of quality. | B.Many books are hard to understand. |
C.People do not have enough time to read. | D.People do not like reading as much as before. |
A.Obtaining key ideas efficiently. | B.Further confirming our beliefs. |
C.Accumulating information quickly. | D.Deeply involving ourselves in books. |
9 . Like a tired marriage, the relationship between libraries and publishers has long been dull. E-books, however, are causing heartache. Libraries know they need digital wares if they are to remain relevant, but many publishers are too cautious about piracy (盗版) and lost sales to cooperate. Among the big six, only Random House and Harper Collins license e-books with most libraries.
Publishers are wise to be nervous. Owners of e-readers are exactly the customers they need: book- lovers with money. If these people switch to borrowing e-books instead of buying them, what then? Electronic borrowing is awfully convenient. Unlike printed books, e-book files can be downloaded at home from digital libraries anytime. The files disappear from the device when they are due automatically. Awkwardly for publishers, buying an e-book costs more than renting one but offers little extra value.
E-lending is not simple, however. There are lots of different and often incompatible (不兼容的) e-book formats, devices and licenses. Most libraries use a company called OverDrive, which secures rights from publishers and provides e-books and audio files in every format. Yet publishers and libraries are worried by OverDrive’s global market dominance, as the company can control fees and conditions. Publishers were annoyed when OverDrive teamed up with Amazon, the world’s biggest online bookseller, last year. Owners of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader who want to borrow e-books from libraries are now redirected to Amazon’s website, where Amazon follows up library frequenters directly, letting them know they can “Buy this book” when the loan falls due.
According to Pew, an opinion researcher, library users are a perfect market for Amazon. Late last year Amazon introduced its Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which lets its best customers borrow free one of thousands of popular books each month.
Library supporters argue that book borrowers are also book buyers and that libraries are vital spaces for readers to discover new works. Many were cheered by a recent Pew survey which found that more than half of Americans with library cards say they prefer to buy their e-books. So, publishers keep adjusting their lending arrangements in search of the right balance. Random House raised its licensing prices earlier this year, and Harper Collins limits libraries to lending its titles 26 times.
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 1?A.Many publishers are hesitant to license e-books. |
B.The library-publisher relationship has been unstable. |
C.Libraries and publishers hold the same view towards e-books. |
D.Random House and Harper Collins are the top two publishers. |
A.There may be a noticeable drop in profit. |
B.Rights for publishers can’t be secured any longer. |
C.E-books can be downloaded again when they are due. |
D.E-books and their audio files are provided in every format. |
A.Amazon is adopting measures to win more customers. |
B.E-books can be lent at libraries as many times as you like. |
C.OverDrive distributes e-books and audio files to publishers. |
D.Over half of Americans are borrowing e-books from libraries. |
A.Reading Online or Offline | B.A Marriage-like Relationship |
C.A Bright Future for Publishers | D.A Tense Story Raised by E-books |
10 . 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 |