1 . 假设你是李华，你将参加主题为“Let’s pick up a book and read”的英语演讲比赛。请你写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：
1.目前很多学生课余时间沉迷于网络，远离书本，导致记忆力减退、对学习失去兴趣等问题；
2.阅读的益处，如：开阔视野，增强理解力，提高成绩等。
注意:1.词数100左右；
2.演讲稿的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数；
3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
4.参考词汇：broaden开阔；deepen加深。

Good morning, everyone, I’m Li Hua. The topic of my speech is “Let’s pick up a book and read.”

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2 . A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps, for there is the companionship of books as well as of men.    1    

A good book may be among the best of friends. I's the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.    2    It always receives us with the same kindness, amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and supporting us in age.

    3    They do so just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which they both have for a third. There's a proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think , feel , and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.

Books introduce us into the best society.    4    We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were actors or actresses with them in the scenes which they describe.

There is a story of two men: one was a king, who dreamed every night that he was a beggar; the other was a beggar, who dreamed every night that he was a prince , and lived in a palace.    5    But when we read, we : may not only be kings and live in palaces, but, what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the world, without tiredness ,inconvenience or expense.

A．Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.

B．Books are to mankind what memory is to a man.

C．Nothing in books can long survive but what is really good.

D．It doesn't turn its back upon us in times of difficulty or hardship.

E．They bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.

F．And one should live in the best company whether it may be of books or men.

G．Men discover their liking for each other by the love they each have for a book.