1 . Are you looking for books to inspire and encourage you? Well, check out our selection of books! Both print books and their digital forms are available right here on our site.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Hardcover: $7. 48

E-book: $1. 99

The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who fight against their human farmer hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Hardcover: $8.18

E-book: $2.19

Two close friends who are different in size and personalities, come from different situations, but end up going through struggles of the real world together. Throughout the book. Steinbeck expresses the big idea “the need for friendship”.

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Hardcover: $19. 66 E-book: $2. 99

The collection consists of various themes and styles but all the works are connected, with each representing poet Whitman’s celebration of nature and the individual human’s role.

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Hardcover: $23.99 E-book: $3.99

Do you take your life for granted? your knowledge? access to information? This book will have you questioning and appreciating your own life. In the book, Westover tells her own story of distancing her family in order to go to college, and stresses the importance of education in expanding her world.

1. Which book will attract readers who are interested in poetry?

A．Leaves of Grass	B．Of Mice and Men
C．Animal Farm	D．Educated: A Memoir

2. What do we know about the book Educated: A Memoir?

A．Its author gains educational support from her family.

B．It expresses ideas of equality and friendship.

C．It tells a fictional story of a poor teenager.

D．Its author benefits from receiving education.

3. What might be the purpose of the text?

A．To introduce readers books in the library.

B．To attract readers to buy books.

C．To call on people to be friendly with each other

D．To suggest people protecting animals.

5 . If you struggle with reading, then watching TV can certainly seem a lot easier.     1     But what benefits are you missing out on by not reading? And what specifically are the benefits of reading compared to watching television or movies? Here are reasons why you should read more books.

Reading improves your concentration.

Unlike blog posts and news articles, sitting down with a book takes long periods of focus and concentration, which at first is hard to do. Being fully engaged in a book includes closing off the outside world and burying yourself into the text.     2    

Readers enjoy the arts and improve the world.

A study done by the NEA explains that people who read for pleasure are many times more likely (than those who don’t) to visit museums and attend concerts.     3     And they are almost three times as likely to perform volunteer and charity work.

Reading improves your imagination.

    4     The worlds described in books, as well as other people’s views and opinions, will help you expand your understanding of what is possible. By reading a written description of an event or a place, your mind is responsible for creating that image in your head, instead of having the image placed in front of you when you watch television.

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Books offer an outstanding wealth of learning and at a much cheaper price than taking a course. Reading gives you a chance to consume huge amounts of research in a relatively short amount of time. Heavy readers tend to display greater knowledge of how things work and who or what people were, which, in turn, leads to a quick mind.

A．Reading makes you smarter.

B．You are only limited by what you can imagine.

C．Over time, it will strengthen your concentration.

D．Subjects only need to read silently to reduce stress.

E．It certainly requires little effort from us but to relax.

F．Reading is not only fun, but it has all the added benefits.

G．Readers are active participants in the world around them.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Which book does the woman read?

A．American Dirt.

B．The Outside Boy.

C．The Crooked Branch.

2. When did the author move back to the US?

A．In 2020.

B．In 2013.

C．In 1997.

3. From whom did the author get her inspiration for the book?

A．From her mother.

B．From her father.

C．From her cousin.

4. How many books has the author written until now?

A．2.

B．3.

C．4.

9 . 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。

For much of history, reading was a fairly noisy activity. Some 4,000 years ago, the commonly used words for ^“to read” literally     1    (mean) to cry out” or “to listen”.

Today, silent reading is the norm (常态). The majority of     2    (we) bottle the words in our heads as if sitting in the hushed confines of a library. Reading out loud is     3    (large) reserved for bedtime stories and performances.

But a growing body of research suggests that we may be missing out by reading only with the voices inside our minds. The ancient art of reading aloud has a number of     4    (benefit) for adults, from helping improve our memories and understand complex texts, to    5    (strengthen) emotional bonds between people.

Colin MacLeod,     6    psychologist at the University of Waterloo in Canada, has extensively researched the impact of reading aloud on memory. So far he as well as his collaborators     7    (show) that people consistently remember words and texts better if they read them aloud     8    if they read them silently.

In another study, adults     9    (age) 67 to 88 were given the same task - reading words either silently or aloud - before then writing down all those they could remember. They were able to recall 27% of the words they had read aloud,     10    only 10% of those they'd read silently.