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In order to make more people know World Book Day, my classmates and I organized an activity in our community last Saturday afternoon.
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2 . In August 2020, Kate Wilson, a 16-year-old from Shrewsbury, posted on the social media video platform TikTok a series of sentences from books she had read. Set to a piece of soft music, the short video plays out as Wilson holds up copies of the books. “You have been the last dream of my soul,” from A Tale of Two Cities(双城计). “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” from Wuthering Heights(呼啸山庄). It has been viewed more than million times.
These posts, called BookTok, can attract millions of views, and light an appreciation of books in young readers again. “I started reading again after six years when I came across BookTok for the first time last October,” says Mireille Lee, 15.
Adam Silvera’s 2017 novel They Both Die at the End is one of the books to have benefited from the BookTok effect. In March, it shot to the top of the teen fiction charts, selling more than 4,000 copies a week. The book has sold more than 200,000 copies in the UK after thousands of posts about it.
Publishers are watching with interest. Publisher Horrox says: “There’s something about the fact that it is under a minute. People who are consuming this content watch a 32-second video and someone’s like: ‘This book has romance, and it’s really heartbreaking. Thankfully, it’s only a fiction.’ And then the viewers think: ‘Those are all things that I’m interested in. I’ll go and buy it.’” By December 2020, Wilson was being contacted regularly by publishers, who had realized that TikTok “really does sell books.”
Jenny is 22, and says: “I thought Tiktok was ridiculous last year before the first lockdown(限制). I really did think it was just for 14-year-olds, but BookTok is such a lovely community. There are people who like the same books as me, and I can talk about the books that I like. It just seems a little bit magical.”
1. What is the purpose of mentioning Kate Wilson’s story?| A．To lead to the main topic. |
| B．To introduce some books. |
| C．To encourage more people to read classics. |
| D．To compare her with other teen fans. |
| A．The readers. | B．The authors. |
| C．The workers. | D．The publishers. |
| A．Worried. | B．Supportive. |
| C．Critical. | D．Puzzled. |
| A．BookTok Attracts Many Fans |
| B．BookTok Helps Readers Select a Book |
| C．BookTok Provides Short Videos about Reading |
| D．BookTok Has a Great Influence on Young Readers |
You’ve finally thrown yourself into bed and opened a detective novel you’ve been waiting for all day. Three pages later, you’re fighting a losing battle against two suddenly very heavy eyelids. You
As the BBC’s Science Focus explains, the coziness (舒适度) of the environment you are in could be working against you. People usually try to read in a quiet, comfortable atmosphere,
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There are some
4 . You can either travel or read, but either your body or your soul must be on the way. The popular saying has inspired many people to read or go sightseeing. Here are four books that you can take on your trip.
1. On the Road, 1957, by Jack Kerouac
The book is a popular spiritual guidebook about youth. The main character in the book drives across the US continent with several young people and finally reaches Mexico. After the exhausting and exciting trip, the characters in the book begin to realize the meaning of life.
2. Life Is Elsewhere, 1975, by Milan Kundera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." The book describes a young artist's romantic but miserable life, about how he reads, dreams and has a relationship during his trip to Central Europe. The book invites you to deeply reflects on your current life and to honor the Czech-born writer Kundera.
3. My Name Is Red, 1998, by Orhan Pamuk
The book, a masterpiece of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Orhan Pamuk, has been translated into more than 50 languages and published around the world. It tells a story of a young man, who was away from home for 12 years, coming back to his hometown in Istanbul. What embraces him is not only love, but a series of murder cases as well.
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, 2013, by Rachel Joyce
The novel tells a story of a 60-year-old man who lived a boring and unhappy life, until one day, he received his old friend's letter who got cancer. In deep shock and sorrow, he went out to send his reply letter. 627 miles in 87 days, he walked depending on one belief that “his friend can survive as long as he walks”.
1. Whose book can make you rethink your own life?| A．Jack Kerouac. | B．Milan Kundera. | C．Orhan Pamuk. | D．Rachel Joyce. |
| A．On the Road. | B．Life Is Elsewhere. |
| C．My Name Is Red. | D．The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. |
| A．He walked to keep healthy. | B．He was in deep shock and sorrow. |
| C．He expected his friend to live longer. | D．He lived a very boring and unhappy life. |
5 . I was always a reader. As a kid, I walked to the library several times a week and stayed up late reading with a torch. I did my undergraduate degree in English and went on to get a master’s in literature. When I created my online profile, I made my screen name “missbibliophile”. Filling out the “favorite books” section, I let my taste in literature speak for me: One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Moveable Feast, White Teeth, The Namesake, The Known World.
But I realized it had been more than two years since I had read most of those titles. I had stopped reading gradually, the way one heals or dies.
David was my online friend. His profile said he liked to read, so I asked him about his last book. His face lit up and his fingers danced. I told him I only read one book that year. “But it’s June. Read a book!” he said.
I was painfully aware of the glaring hypocrisy (虚伪) in my life. I defended the virtues of bookstores in the age of online retailing and bought books, and they sat on every surface until my house appeared to wear books the way one wears clothes.
His suggestion on “reading a book” echoed in my head. One afternoon, I picked up one I’d bought only for its poetic title. I had a hard time getting into it. Whenever I was tempted to give up on it, I thought of David. I pushed through the first two chapters and discovered a new narrator and I loved the alternating points of view. I read at lunch and on my walk home, occasionally lifting my eyes to avoid strangers and uneven road surface. I stayed up late and finished the book.
I felt great and proud of myself. The last time I’d pulled an all-nighter to read, I was 12. I felt him pushing me to be more of the person I used to be and more of who I wanted to be.
1. Why did the author purposely list many classics in her profile?| A．To show her taste. | B．To list books read. | C．To fill out the form. | D．To indicate her ability. |
| A．He is interested in dancing. | B．He is excited about books. |
| C．He is curious about the Internet. | D．He is patient with strangers. |
| A．By refusing online books. | B．By decorating her house with books. |
| C．By wandering about bookstores. | D．By constantly buying different books. |
| A．She stayed up all night. | B．She finished reading a book. |
| C．She regained passion for books. | D．David pushed her to read. |
6 . Almost everyone knows the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”, which means you should not guess the worth or value of something based on how it looks. That message was clear at a recent event called the Human Library Project. The event took place at the Northern Virginia, or NoVa, Community College, outside of Washington. D.C.
The Human Library began 19 years ago in Denmark. It grew from a youth organization called “Stop the Violence”. Today, it is a worldwide movement. At the NoVa event, students got the chance to learn from a person — a “human book” — instead of a library book.
Patricia Cooper organized the event. She said that human books celebrate variety by telling their life stories in an easy-going setting. The goal of the human library is to talk to people in your community who you may otherwise not speak to because you have your own prejudices and hopefully to break down some of these barriers.
This is the third year that NoVa has held such an event. The collection of human books included a civil rights activist, a scientist from the American space agency NASA, and an opera singer.
Artist Brian Dailey was a human book. He spoke about his travels to 113 countries in seven years. Dailey said that, during his travels, he asked people whom he took pictures of for a one-word answer to a series of other words-such as love, freedom and war. He discovered that people in different countries often had very different reactions to the same word.
When Dailey asked people in Africa about the word “war” they used words like justice, liberation and peace. When he asked the same question to people in Syrian refugee (难民) camps, the answer was: “tears, hunger, fear, destruction”.
1. According to the text, how to understand the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”?| A．Readers may miss a lot if they read a book just between lines. |
| B．People can learn more life lessons from others in the human library. |
| C．People can really understand the value of a book in the human library. |
| D．Readers can't underestimate the worth of a book because of its plain cover |
| A．To provide more information for readers | B．To satisfy the needs of the new generation |
| C．To make people communicate with each other. | D．To improve the environment of the community. |
| A．His reactions to different cultures. | B．His international travel experiences. |
| C．His strong devotion to human rights. | D．His contributions to advances in society. |
| A．Don’t Read Books just Between Lines | B．Prefer a Human Book to a Real Book. |
| C．Enjoy Reading with the Help of Others. | D．Talk with a Fellow Human from This Library. |
7 . Learning English requires action! First of all, it is better to find out what type of books is suitable for you to read and improve your English level. You might not understand everything you read. But reading one from cover to cover will give you a real sense of achievement. The key is to find the right book. Let’s take a look at these.
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1. Which book should you choose to study the expression about trade?| A．Travel English. | B．Business English. |
| C．Idioms-Learn 250 Idioms. | D．Practise English Conversations. |
| A．To show the content in four books. |
| B．To introduce the four English books. |
| C．To stress the importance of English learning. |
| D．To encourage readers to buy the books. |
| A．A magazine. | B．A website. |
| C．An essay. | D．A textbook. |
8 . A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today as it always was, and it will never change. It is one of the most patient and cheerful companions.
A good book is often the best container of a life keeping the best that life could think out, for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, the world of his thoughts.
Books possess an essence of immortality（不朽）.They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time is to knock out the bad products.
| A．We feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe. |
| B．Nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good. |
| C．The book is a living voice and an intellect to which we still listens. |
| D．The best books are treasuries of good words and the golden thoughts. |
| E．Men often discover their shared interest by the mutual love they have for a book. |
| F．There is a companionship of books as well as of men. |
| G．Book does not turn its back upon us in times of hardship or sadness. |
9 . When you read something from an English book, you either imagine a scene in your head, or understand clearly what the writer is trying to say. Reading is relaxing as it takes your mind off the present pressure. You can get endless benefits from reading a book.
Think in English.
Thinking in English is important to develop a natural English fluency. Reading English books might just restrict you thinking in English.
Help you learn new vocabulary.
Reading a book will help you find new words. You can gradually rich quite a large English vocabulary. You can use those new words while speaking with other English speakers. To achieve that,
Every good course on the planet has a matching book to go with it. Books help explain difficult subjects. They provide information that goes deeper than just classroom session. Therefore, reading English books develops your important skills.
Improve memory.
Several studies show if you don’t use your memory, you’ll lose it.
| A．Build your skills |
| B．When you develop an ability to read in English quite fast |
| C．Here are some tips on how to improve your English reading skills |
| D．Improve writing skills |
| E．you have to practice speaking English with yourself or others |
| F．Reading an English book helps you remember details, facts and figures, themes and characters |
| G．Let’s find some reasons to read books |
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Dear Helen,
I’m very glad to receive your email. Now I would like to tell you something about the extracurricular reading in our school.
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Yours
Li Hua
