增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，在下面写出改正后的词。
注意：1. 每次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。
Last month, I borrowed an English novel naming Great Expectations. To tell a truth, it was the first time I have read an English novel. It was difficulty because there were many new words. I had to spend much time looking up for new words. However, I decided read one page each day. Sometimes I tried guessing the meanings of the words instead of turning to the dictionary, what seemed to help me remember the words better. In this way, I have gradual learned many new words.
I suggest you read as many English book as you can because it’s a good way to improve my English.
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。
Last month our school held a Reading Week, which aim was to encourage the students to read wide. During the week, book lovers recommended a plenty of good books which were suitable to high school students. In addition, two famous writers are invited to give lectures on how to understand and appreciate great work of literature. The poetry recitation contest was another amazed activity for the students to bring his talent into full play. All the contestants took turns read their favorite poems to the audience. We all find the Reading Week very beneficial. It has not only enriched our school life, and helped us form the habit of reading.
3 . The chance of a snowy holiday season in most American cities is practically impossible this year,so any festive atmosphere to be enjoyed will have to be the imaginary sort. Luckily, there are books for that.
The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Any reader of fairy tales knows Andersen's responsible for the snowy scenes in The Snow Queen,the story of children Kay and Gerda,who must face the goddesslike woman who controls all snowflakes after Kay is kidnapped.
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
It's a beautiful yet tragic novel about an Indian family immigrating to America,only to face entirely new hardships.Sharma's novel isn't entirely set in the wintertime, but his poetic descriptions of winter weather as lovely yet isolating make it a great choice for a December read.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go ahead and give up the movie adaptation that has been produced recently and read or reread the classic itself.You know the story:a scientist driven by his ambition discovers a method for creating life, and spends two years cobbling together a living creature, who later feels angry with him.
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Dillard's first book is,as its title suggests,about her change from being a selfcentered child to being an adult more concerned with the world around her than with her own personal concerns.Her parents are key figures in the story.One famous scene takes place during what the author calls “a big snow”,in 1950.
1. Who wrote a novel about The Snow Queen?| A．Annie Dillard. | B．Mary Shelley. |
| C．Akhil Sharma | D．Hans Christian Andersen. |
| A．The Snow Queen. | B．Family Life. |
| C．An American Childhood. | D．Frankenstein. |
| A．It has been adapted for movies. | B．It's about the secret history. |
| C．It's about an Indian family. | D．It's a fairy tale. |
| A．selfcentered children | B．adults |
| C．scientists | D．Dillard's parents |
4 . Three in five people in the UK hold a library card. For some, they’re a shelter from the stresses of day-to-day life.
Most libraries in the UK allow members of the general public to come and go as they like.
Libraries develop with times. They have changed greatly since decades ago.
Libraries are one of very few spaces left in towns and cities where members of the public can come together and actually be and feel like a community. They have notice boards to offer services like exercise classes or learning centers.
| A．Libraries help people learn. |
| B．Libraries help educate the kids. |
| C．They create a great sense of community. |
| D．You can go in, settle down and read a book without being charged a penny. |
| E．Most libraries now have computers and allow people to borrow CDs and DVDs. |
| F．Libraries help us save money as we’re borrowing books rather than buying them. |
| G．For others, particularly the homeless and people in poverty, a lifeline to the world. |
5 . What’s your favorite online magazine for kids? Here are four that are worth a look and a read.
National Geographic Kids
Parents, students, and teachers can take the help of this quality resource to learn about people, places, science, space, history, nature, and various fun activities. The magazine aims for the age group of 8-14. Interactive content includes videos, games, photos, blogs, etc. This is one online magazine that parents and teachers will always choose without hesitation (犹豫).
TIME For Kids
TIME magazine for adults might be too serious. The version for kids isn’t but it does go deep with a lot of educational content and teaching resources that are helpfully arranged around grades. The weekly classroom news magazine covers world news and aims to develop the reading and analyzing (分析) habit in kids.
Weekly Reader
An offline and online magazine for elementary school students features a lot of educational tools for teachers and students alike. All of its magazines are arranged around grades from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Lots of the tools are interactive and based around nicely designed stories that make learning fun. Some sections are open to only subscribers (注册人) though.
Highlights
Highlights, com brings out magazines for kids of ages 2-12. The publication group’s purpose is to help children become their best selves. The homepage also gives you further websites to explore like Puzzlemaniakids.com and Highlightskids.com. Play free online puzzles, solve riddles, go creative with fun activities, and even learn a little about nature and science at these two sites. For instance, you can go into a story adventure or create your own stories at The Timbertoes.
1. In order to browse all the sections on Weekly Reader, you need to ________.| A．download the contents | B．ask for permission |
| C．subscribe to it | D．use some tools |
| A．National Geographic Kids. | B．TIME For Kids. |
| C．Weekly Reader. | D．Highlights. |
| A．They are accessible through the Internet. | B．They are arranged around grades. |
| C．They are interactive with story-telling. | D．They are encourged by teachers. |
6 . Last week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared war on paper textbooks. “Over the next few years,” he said in a speech at the National Press Club, “textbooks should be abandoned.” In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multi-media websites.
Such technologies certainly have their place. But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology—good old paper—that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet. And while e-readers and multi-media websites may seem appealing, the idea of replacing an effective learning platform with a widely hyped (炒作) but still unproven one is extremely dangerous.
An expert on reading, Maryanne Wolf, has recently begun studying the effects of digital reading on learning, and so far the results are mixed. She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for students that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a Web-linked, e-learning environment and while it's true that the high-tech industry has sponsored substantial amounts of research on the potential benefits of Web-based learning, not enough time has passed for longitudinal(纵向的) studies to demonstrate the full effects.
In addition, digital-reading advocates claim that lightweight e-books benefit students' backs and save schools money. But the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem, and the shocking costs to outfit every student with an e-reader, provide technical support and pay for regular software updates promise to make the e-textbook a very pricey choice.
As both a teacher who uses paper textbooks and a student of urban history, I can't help but wonder what parallels exist between my own field and this sudden, wholesale abandonment of the technology of paper.
1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Multi-media websites and good old paper are kinds of digital-learning technologies. |
| B．Digital learning technologies will replace the paper textbooks sooner or later. |
| C．E-readers and multi-media websites are learning methods that are proved effective. |
| D．A tried-and-true technology is paper textbooks, long used in educational system. |
| A．Their weight. | B．Their price. |
| C．Their content. | D．Their appearance. |
| A．paper learning can provide more potential benefits |
| B．students may not focus on learning by digital reading |
| C．digital reading can't provide potential benefits for users |
| D．the results of digital reading effects are understandable |
| A．Disapproving. | B．Supportive. |
| C．Positive. | D．Objective. |
