1 . I don’t think I need to tell you that reading is good for you — great for you.     1     Sometimes, people do want to read — they’ve got a book at home sitting on the shelf that they fancy — but can never seem to find the time. Well, my friends, this post is for you.

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Obviously, to get yourself motivated to read, read something that interests you. Society, animals, philosophy, science, art — whatever you want. If you’re drawn to the book, you’ll be more willing to pick it up and read it.

● Have a goal.

Some people set radical (激进的) goals for themselves like reading one book a week. Obviously, you don’t have to be as radical as that.     3     It’s all up to you. But setting a goal and trying to reach it gives you a focus that’ll help you get the job done.

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If you’re determined, use every possible moment. On the bus. On the subway. On your lunch break. When you’re at the gym. You won’t regret it, I promise!

● Just start.

Sometimes the thing preventing us from reading is our own mind. Our mind will make up all kinds of excuses not to do something. Not get out of bed. Not clean the house. Not shower. And in this case, not read. The trick to bypassing (避开) this mental block is to just pick up the book and read!     5     Once you start reading, it’s quite difficult to stop!

A．Reading is a pleasure.

B．Have a reading partner.

C．Read whenever you can.

D．Unfortunately, most people don’t read.

E．Don’t pour too much thought into the action. Just do it.

F．When you set a goal, letting yourself down isn’t really a big deal.

G．You can start by reading a book a month, or a book every two months even.

2 . Book:No Looking Back

Author:Shivani Gupta

Shivani had thrown a party one evening and awoke the next morning in hospital because of a car crash. It took Shivani years of pain .struggle and determination to regain control of her life and her body. Then tragedy (悲剧)struck again. As the newly-married Shivani drove to Manali with her family,a truck crashed into her car. Shivani refused to give in—'she wouldn’t let her injury keep her from achieving her ambitions.

Book:Courage Beyond Compare

Author: San jay Sharma

The 10 sports persons in the book are champions in diverse fields like athletics, swimming, and badminton，who have brought glory to the country. They overcame their physical limitations to reach the top of their chosen fields.

Book:Face to Face

Author:Ved Mehta

Blind since the age of four, the author led a lonely childhood in India until he was accepted to the Arkansas School for the Blind to which he flew alone at 15. America and the school changed his life,leading him to degrees at Oxford and Harvard and a fruitful writing career.

Book:This Star WonV Go Out

Author:Lori and Wayne Earl

Diagnosed(诊断)with cancer at 12, Esther Earl was a bright and talented，but very normal teenager. She lived a hope-filled and generous life. A cheerful,positive and encouraging daughter, sister and friend,Esther died in 2010,shortly after turning 16， but not before inspiring thousands through her growing online presence.

1. The book No Looking Back mainly talks about ________.

A．an inspiring teenager who died of cancer

B．an unlucky girl who experienced two car accidents

C．10 disabled athletes who are champions in sports field

D．a successful author who was blind during his childhood

2. In which book does the author tell of himself?

A．Face to Face.	B．No Looking Back.
C．This Star Won't Go Out.	D．Courage Beyond Compare.

3. Which word can best describe the characters of all the four books?

A．Inspiring.

B．Intelligent.

C．Enthusiastic.

D．Negative.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How much does the DVD cost to borrow?

A．$3.

B．$2.

C．$1.

2. When must the man give the books back?

A．This Sunday.

B．Next Monday.

C．Next Tuesday.

3. How long can people usually keep books for?

A．Three days.

B．Five days.

C．Six days.

4 . Your 2018 Reading List, Provided by Bill Gates

Most of us can’t live like billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, but we can read like him. Gates recommended four books in 2018—though some were published earlier.

Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson (2017)

The bestselling biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein researched deeply into da Vinci’s contributions beyond art, highlighting the breadth of his scientific, technological, and creative output. “Leonardo nearly understood almost all of what was known on the planet at the time. That’s mostly because of his curiosity about every area of natural science and the human experience,” said Gates.

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui (2017)

Gates calls this graphic novel “really impressive”. Bui is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees who came to America after the fall of Saigon, and becoming a parent inspired her to look into her own parents’ miserable history. “I was struck by how the experiences Bui illustrates manage to be both universal and specific to their circumstances,” said Gates.

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders (2018)

Saunders, a long-time short story writer, won high praise for this novel. The book imagines the ghosts that haunt (萦绕) the basement of Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son, who died at 11 in real life. “Willie’s death after the Civil War made the president have a new understanding of the grief he’s creating in other families by sending their sons off to die in battle,” said Gates.

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, by David Christian (2018)

This new book is by the creator of Big History, a free, online social studies course. It traces history in wide, sweeping movements, starting with the Big Bang, and it provides, in effect, a short course in modern science. This is a brief history of the universe. “David gets a little stuck on the current economic and political problems in the West, and I wish he talked more about the role innovation will play in preventing the worst effects of climate change,” said Gates.

1. Which books refer to the field of science?

A．Origin Story and Leonardo da Vinci.

B．Lincoln in the Bardo and Origin Story.

C．Leonardo da Vinci and The Best We Could Do.

D．The Best We Could Do and Lincoln in the Bardo.

2. If you are interested in thrillers, whose book will you most probably choose?

A．Walter Isaacson.	B．Thi Bui.
C．George Saunders.	D．David Christian.

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．The Best We Could Do is an autobiography.

B．Lincoln in the Bardo has been warmly received.

C．David Christian talks much about the part that innovation will play.

D．Readers can only read about Leonardo da Vinci’s contributions towards art.

5 . Tips to create great readers

Great readers are made; they are not born. After all, children don’t enter the world knowing how to understand a text or make inferences.     1    Here are some tips for making children great readers by habit.

    2    The most important moment in reading instruction is when a student gets something wrong. If the student continues practicing the skill incorrectly, he or she will build weaker habits. Intervene (干预) with a targeted question, such as “How does this part of the text help you understand this character?” Doing so can prevent poor habits from taking root and build great ones in their place.

Build great reading and writing skills hand in hand. Just like adults, students use writing to gather their thoughts about a text and communicate their ideas to others.     3    For example, students can have a discussion about what they’re reading by answering a focus question in writing: “What is the author trying to teach us in this story?”    4    By doing this, you can get a better understanding of what guidance the students will need during the discussion.

Make sure students are reading. Independent reading time is important for any reading program. It’s a chance for students to put together everything they’ve learned in reading lessons and fly using their own wings.     5    Providing a rich class library and letting students know that they are expected to read for the entire period will ensure their success as lifelong independent readers.

A．Build habits at the moment of error.

B．Make sure students fall in love with reading.

C．Then, you can review their written responses.

D．They grow into great readers by learning great habits.

E．But it only works if they really do spend that time reading.

F．Specific lines or phrases from the text help to reveal that information.

G．Therefore, you can develop their writing and reading skills at the same time.

6 . A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when _______.

A．it is repeated without any change	B．it is treated as a joke
C．some changes are made to it by a parent	D．it is set in the present

2. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A．in a realistic setting	B．told in a different way
C．repeated too often	D．heard for the first time

3. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A．develops their power of memory

B．makes them less fearful

C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A．they are full of imagination

B．they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C．they are not interesting

D．they are just made up of the stories which are far from the truth

7 . A new library in Tianjin—Tianjin Binhai Public Library—recently became an online hit. The Daily Mail described it as the “world’s ultimate (终极的) library”, while the word “breathtaking” was the choice of Newsweek magazine. One look at the library and you’ll see why. With its futuristic (未来主义) design and walls loaded with books, it’s the dream library of every book lover.

But as the surprise continues, there’s a burning question lying in the back of our minds: When physical bookstores are closing down one by one, what makes libraries safe from the wave of digitalization (数码化)? And do we really still need libraries now that we’ve got the Internet in our hands?

Reporter Ian Clark has the answer. “Libraries are not declining in importance—people are simply changing the way they use them,” he wrote on the Guardian website.

What Clark means is that libraries have shifted from simply being storehouses of books to a medium to help “bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots” according to website Libraries Are Essential. Since not everyone can afford a smartphone, a tablet or an Internet connection, and not everyone has the know-how to search the Internet correctly and efficiently, it’s public libraries that make sure that these resources and technologies are available to a larger group of people.

“Nobody is trying to sell you anything in the library. There is no pressure to buy and there is no judgment of your choices/’ Anne Goulding, a professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, wrote on the Newsroom website. “There are few other spaces that you can just ‘be’ without somebody questioning your presence or your motivation.”

1. What cause book-lovers to like Tianjin Binhai Public Library?

A．Breathtaking magazines.

B．World’s ultimate buildings.

C．Design and book walls.

D．Digitalization.

2. Where does the text most probably come from?

A．A fiction.	B．A tour guide.
C．A newspaper.	D．A book.

3. Why are physical libraries necessary to exist?

A．Everyone has a phone with them.

B．Some people are still used to the old ways.

C．More and more people use computers.

D．People can buy what they want there.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．Libraries living on in digital age.

B．Internet libraries nowadays.

C．Physical libraries in the past.

D．People’s dream libraries.

8 . 1. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
Another must-read for history fans, McCullough tells the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who taught the world how to fly. Drawing on all types of historical data — from personal diaries and scrapbooks, to thousands of private letters of family letters — we get a close look at the actual personalities behind one of the most influential moments in history.
2. The Wonder Garden, by Lauren Acampora
This novel is really a collection of several interwoven stories of people living in the rich Connecticut suburbs. From tales of an elderly artist to a young mother to a woman whose husband just behaves carelessly, The Wonder Garden gives us an unforgettable reminder that there’s often so much we don’t know about what happens with our neighbors behind closed doors.
3. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris
Does someone mistaking who for whom make your blood boil? Do you want to throw a dictionary at someone for mistaking sit for cite? Enter Between You & Me. Mary Norris brings her experience working in The New Yorker’s copy department to eager grammar fans in this laugh-out-loud book that looks at some of the most common spelling, punctuation, and usage problems in the English language.
4. My Struggle: Book Four, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle is a six-volume autobiographical novel that follows the life of Karl Ove Knausgaard, a Norwegian father of three. In Book Four, he writes of his decision at the age of 18 to move to a fisherman’s village in the far north of the Arctic circle to work as a school teacher. It’s there that he struggles with love, alcoholism, and becoming loved by one of his students.
1. What does the book The Wright brothers focus on?

A．Invention of airplanes.	B．Nature of the characters.
C．History of airplanes.	D．Ordinary life of the characters.

2. Who describes his or her real life experiences in the novel?

A．David McCullough.	B．Lauren Acampora.
C．Karl Ove Knausgaard.	D．Mary Norris.

3. Which of the following books might make you burst into laughter?

A．My Struggle.	B．The Wonder Garden.
C．The Wright brothers.	D．Between You & Me.

9 . Reading is the ability to process text, understand its meaning and to integrate it with what the reader already knows. Of all the reading skills speed-reading is a necessary skill in the Internet age. We skim over articles, e-mails and WeChat to try to grasp key words and the essential meaning of a certain text. Surrounded with information from our electronic devices, it would be impossible to cope if we read word by word, line by line. But a new trend calls on people to unplug and enjoy reading slowly, listing benefits beyond the intelligent stimulation.

A recent story from The Wall Street Journal reported on a book club in Wellington, New Zealand, where members meet in a cafe and turn off their smartphones. They sink into cozy chairs and read in silence for an hour. Unlike tradition book club, the point of the slow reading club isn’t exchanging ideas about a certain book, but to get away from electronic devices and read in a quiet, relaxed environment. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Wellington book club is just one example of a movement started by book lovers who miss the old-fashioned way of reading before the Internet and smartphones.

Slow readers, such as The Atlantic’s Maura Kelly, say a regular reading habit sharpens the mind, improves concentration, reduces stress levels and deepens the ability to sympathize. Another study published last year in Science showed that reading novels helps people understand others’ mental states and beliefs, a fundamental skill in building relationships.

Yet technology has made us less attentive readers. Screens have changed our reading patterns from the top-to-right, left-to-right sequence to a wild skimming and skipping pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text punctuated with links leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text. The Internet may have made us stupider, says Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian. Because of the Internet, he says, we have become very good at collecting a wide range of interesting news, but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, reflect, and relate all these facts to each other.

Slow reading means a return to an uninterrupted, straight pattern, in a quiet environment free of distractions. “Aim for 30 minutes a day,” advises Kelly from The Atlantic. “You can squeeze in that half hour pretty easily if only during your free moments, you pick up a meaningful work of literature,” Kelly said. “Reach for your e-reader, if you like. Kindles make books like War and Peace less heavy, not less substantive, and also ensure you’ll never lose your place.”

1. The book club in Wellington mentioned in Paragraph 2 shows____________.

A．the new trend of slow reading	B．the decline of electronic devices
C．the importance of exchanging ideas	D．the increasing number of club readers

2. According to Patrick Kingsley, people are stupider partly because of_____________.

A．a non-stop reading pattern	B．the straight, left-to-right screen
C．a wide range of interesting news	D．the lack of reflection

3. According to the passage, slow reading___________.

A．contributes to understanding among people

B．promotes the current technology advances

C．provides people with a quiet environment

D．cures the memory loss of elderly people

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Benefit of Reading Clubs	B．Return of Slow Reading
C．Reading of the Internet Age	D．Influence of Speed Reading

10 . Having a great collection of books at home doesn’t really mean that you are a person who has a passion for literature and reading. It can be a family inheritance（继承） or it can be just to impress people around you about the fact that you are a person of culture. On the other hand, there are many persons who cannot afford to buy books, because some of them are quite expensive, but they usually go to libraries and spend hours reading something that interests them a lot, or just borrow books to read at home.
From my point of view, literature is very important in our lives from several points of view. For example, reading is a means of gaining culture and enriching our knowledge in different areas of activities. It can help us have a great imagination and it makes things easier when it comes to making compositions on different themes. It gives you the possibility to speak about science, even if you don’t work in this field, or you can express your opinion about a political aspect, just because you have read something connected to that.
Secondly, literature offers us the possibility to enter the world of imagination, and to leave apart the real one for a couple of hours. We come to meet kings and queens many years ago, dream in the world of the rich or imagine how life will be in the future. Sometimes, we identify ourselves with the characters in the stories we read and they can give us some clues to solve our problems and how to react in certain circumstances.
To conclude, I would like to say that literature is the perfect means to enrich our culture, to express correctly and have a rich vocabulary, to be able to interfere（干涉） in conversations in different fields of interest and to really be considered an erudite person.
1. The people who are fond of literature are those that _________.

A．go to libraries on weekends

B．buy expensive books in the bookstore

C．keep many books in their studies

D．have much interest in reading

2. We can learn from the third paragraph that _________.

A．we can bring kings and queens back to life

B．what we read can be useful in our daily life

C．it is very good for us to stay alone for some hours

D．we can make friends with the people in the stories

3. The underlined word “erudite” in the last paragraph probably means_________.

A．hard-working	B．enthusiastic
C．learned	D．creative

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage？

A．To advise readers to like reading.

B．To explain the true meaning of reading.

C．To tell readers how to read a book.

D．To tell readers who has the real passion for literature.