1 . Thrillers and romance and mystery, oh my!     1     And as someone with a massive to-be-read lineup, I sometimes wish I could flip the pages with a little more speed. If you’re also wondering how to read faster, you’re in luck. Here are some tips for how to read faster.

Scan the text first. Before you kick off the speed-reading adventure, give the text a quick scan.     2     By giving your brain a pre view of the topic, you reduce time spent processing surprise information. This tip mainly applies to academic texts, but it can be a helpful strategy for any factual or how-to piece, from nonfiction books to news articles.

Silence your inner subvocalizer. Subvocalizing is the act of silently saying words in your head as you read. It means you are taking the time to read each word and “hear” it in your head. Subvocalizing is a handy way to ensure you understand what you read, but it’s also a habit that can slow you down.     3     Mentally voicing the words you read can be a major roadblock to speed. Instead of silently mouthing each word, train your brain to process chunks of words.

    4     Have you ever been deeply immersed in a story only to stop short at a word you don’t recognize? The stronger your vocabulary, the slimmer your chances of slowing down to puzzle over the meaning of a word.     5    Reading news articles from the economics section can help you learn new financial terms. And reading nonfiction health books can help you pick up medical vocabulary terms you might not see otherwise.

And remember: Becoming a speed reader is like learning to salsa dance. Start slow, find your rhythm, and soon you’ll be breezing through pages like a literary Zorro!

3 . Instagram is a hugely popular way for users to share pictures, videos and messages with family and friends. Most people use the service on their mobile phones.

Now, Instagram users are able to use the service for a completely different activity — reading books. The New York Public Library recently started a new service called Insta Novels. This new service will include a collection of classic books through Instagram. The service is available for all Instagram users, not just people in New York City.

Library officials have promised to provide readers with “some of the greatest stories ever told“. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the first on Instagram. The New York Public Library said this famous story was specially designed for Instagram to include colorful animations(动画)and modern drawings.

Library officials say the main purpose is to raise awareness about reading in general. But it is also designed to show how the library is changing to fit an online world and attract younger people.

Christopher Platt, the New York Public Library’s chief library officer, spoke about the service. “We want people to understand that libraries aren’t just places full of dusty books,” he said.

The library has already lined up several other classic works in the coming months. These include The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

4 . 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。

The Zhongyong, “Doctrine of the Mean,     1     (be) a Confucian classic and part of the Four Books. It is actually     2     chapter of the ritual (礼仪) classic Liji, and     3     (take) out from this book in the Song period. There are several opinions about the authorship of the Zhongyong. It is     4     ( traditional) attributed (认为是) to Zisi, a grandson of Confucius. The text seems,     5     modern authors say, at least partially to have been compiled (编纂) during the Former Han period.

The concept of “the mean” is a core idea of Confucianism. The so-called “mean” by Confucius doesn’t mean “compromise (折中)”     6     a “just-right” way when understanding and handling objective things. This will result     7     harmony in action, and eventually in a harmonious society. Pure harmony without wandering from the central tone, and     8     (stand) in the centre without leaning towards one side will keep all social positions stable.

    9     (wise), kind-heartedness and courage are the three virtues of the mean way that will keep stable all social relations. Almost everything depends on the adequate behavior of each member of society. Another important aspect     10     (treat) in the Zhongyong is sincerity. It is the root of human behavior, and without sincerity there is no man.

7 . Anthony Doerr’s new bestseller, All the Light We Cannot See, holds special appeal for me. That’s how I would describe it. From the poetic language, to the realization of what the tile actually means: that underneath the surface of history, there is light that has not been seen, and stories that have gone untold.

I’m going to be honest-love for this book didn’t hit me straight away. In fact, my first attempt to read it last month ended with me putting it aside and going to find something easier, lighter and less descriptive to read. But this book is built on beautiful imagery. Both in the literal sense-the physical world of 1940s Paris and Germany, and the metaphorical (隐喻性的)sense-scientific and philosophical references to light, to seeing and not seeing, and the differences between the two. It’s a beautiful work of genius, but it does get a little complicated at times.

However, when we get into the meat of this World War II novel, it’s also an upsetting story of a childhood torn apart by war. It’s about Parisian Marie Laure who has been blind since she was six, and a German orphan called Werner who finds himself at the center of the Hitler Youth. Both of their stories are told with sensitivity and sympathy, each one forced down a path by their personal circumstances and by that destructive monster-war.

I think this is the kind of book you will never appreciate if you stop too soon-I learned that lesson. From the first to last page, there is a theme of invisible lines running parallel (平行的)to one another and sometimes, just sometimes, crossing in the strangest way. These two lives we are introduced to seem to be worlds apart, and yet they come together and influence one another. It was this, more than the predictably awful tale of war, that made me feel quite emotional.

8 . All the Light We Cannot See is about a blind girl named Marie-Laure, who lives in Paris, France, in the 1930s. When the Nazis invaded in 1940, she and her father are forced to leave the city. They escape to a countryside town to hide with Marie-Laure’s great uncle, Etienne. After several months, Marie-Laure’s father gets arrested. She continues to live with Etienne, and they start passing on secret signals to aid the French Resistance movement.

Werner Pfennig is German orphan with a hobby of listening to science and music programs on an old radio. Developing a talent for fixing radios, he is later hired by the Nazis to help them track enemy radio signals during the war. One day, he picks up a signal that is coming from Etienne’s home in France.

Anyway, Marie-Laure and Werner meet and develop a strong relationship. These two poor souls try to find a way to escape this horrible war together, but can they?

Anthony Doerr, the author of All the Light We Cannot See is from Cleveland, Ohio. Critics have praised Doerr’s writing for his short, sharp sentences and attention to detail. All the Light We Cannot See is his second novel, which was published in 2014. It quickly became a New York Times best-seller and won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The amazing novel gives readers a look at the ugly face of war. Throughout the book, we see how war can destroy people’s lives in the blink of an eye. Characters such as Etienne and Marie-Laure’s father disappear in an instant and are never heard from again. However, war is also shown to bring out the best in people. The characters who survive must show great courage and strength when they face challenges.

Another important idea is the importance of science and technology. Doerr suggests that technologies, such as the radio, are helpful to society if they are used with good intentions. However, if technologies fall into the hands of evil they can cause great destruction.

10 . My favourite Books

—Posted by Catherine Chung.a great writer

This collection contains several maths stories. The one I recommend is Division By Zero,about Jane Parkinson,a brilliant German mathematician.To her great despair,she ends up proving that mathematics is inconsistent and is able to prove that any two numbers are equal.A beautiful,thought-provoking(发人深省的)story about belief,understanding，and faith.

It's about a woman who comes to work for a once-great mathematician.Due to a brain injury,he has only 80 minutes of short-term memory available to him before he forgets everything. It is filled with beautiful maths,simply and clearly described alongside finely drawn relationships between the characters.

Kovalevskaya was a 19th-century mathematician at a time when women were not allowed in most of Europe to attend university. She married a man who promised to take her to Germany to study. She made major contributions to the field and became the first woman in Russia to obtain a doctorate in mathematics.

It is about a miner who thinks he's discovered the proof to the problem: construct a square,equal in area to a given circle. His wife, not knowing what has suddenly taken his attention and his time, fears he is being unfaithful. A moving exploration of the joys of entering a problem whole and the desire and impossibility of truly knowing those we love.