1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
| A．Teacher and student. | B．Brother and sister. | C．Classmates. |
| A．Once a month. | B．Twice a week. | C．Once a week. |
| A．In a library. | B．In a classroom. | C．In a bookstore. |
3 . It’s known that reading is good for a child’s vocabulary and literacy skills, teaching them math or science concepts and helping them learn history. Apart from those, reading has another benefit. Have you read a story and felt tears well up because of a character’s suffering? If so, that is because you have empathy (共鸣) for the character — and empathy can be learned through various fictions. “It’s a magic eye that sees into other people’s hearts,” explains author Cressida Cowell.
Research shows that human brains react differently to stories and facts. “Many more areas of your brain light up when you’re enjoying a story,” explains Miranda McKearney from EmpathyLab, an organization that builds empathy through reading. “Your brain thinks you are in the story… This means you experience the characters’ thoughts as if they are real.”
Empathy helps you to read people’s emotions and work out the best way to respond. This skill, called emotional intelligence, can make it easier to communicate and connect with people. Research has shown that building empathy can lead to greater kindness and tolerance. One study found that children who read the Harry Potter novels — which tell stories about humans fighting against the evil — were less likely to behave unfairly towards powerless groups including refugees (难民).
This theory has been put into practice by St Michael’s Primary School. After reading The Boy at the Back of the Class — a story about a boy who is a refugee escaping from the war — students in that school were inspired to do a 10-mile walk for the non-profit organization Refugee Action. Their empathy also spurred them to raise £1,000 for people who were forced to leave their homes because of war.
Reading encourages children to empathise with others, which could potentially lead to several beneficial learning outcomes, new research suggests. For society to develop, creative, communicative and empathetic individuals really matter.
1. Why do readers cry about a character’s experience?| A．They have magic eyes. | B．They want to show empathy. |
| C．They understand his feelings | D．They have the same experience. |
| A．The process of building empathy. |
| B．The benefits of developing empathy. |
| C．The definition of emotional intelligence. |
| D．The results of the school’s activity. |
| A．Reminded. | B．Permitted. | C．Persuaded. | D．Encouraged. |
| A．Read to learn empathy. |
| B．Become empathetic to others. |
| C．Put themselves in others’ shoes. |
| D．Read as many books as possible. |
4 . More than anything, this is a book about unconditional love—a bond between a caring woman and a loyal dog.
Harley’s Harlequin Heart written by Christy Jaeger and
Harley takes us along on all his
Through surgery, this smart dog
Harley’s
As Jaeger notes, “The book spreads love to us. This small element can be
| A．explained | B．presented | C．designed | D．included |
| A．misfortune | B．unease | C．inconvenience | D．discomfort |
| A．packages | B．dreams | C．burdens | D．adventures |
| A．mysteries | B．problems | C．cures | D．challenges |
| A．forbids | B．hits | C．informs | D．warns |
| A．active | B．inner | C．useful | D．sudden |
| A．pushes through | B．bends down | C．cheers up | D．gets off |
| A．success | B．recovery | C．victory | D．survival |
| A．innocently | B．automatically | C．gradually | D．accidentally |
| A．suffer | B．behave | C．perform | D．delay |
| A．competing | B．battling | C．continuing | D．mixing |
| A．possess | B．close | C．share | D．print |
| A．sad | B．happy | C．ridiculous | D．unusual |
| A．decisive | B．logical | C．attractive | D．influential |
| A．meaning | B．principle | C．message | D．expression |
5 . Reading is a complex and crucial skill that impacts the youth’s ability to perform as students. Therefore, it’s important to develop reading skills during childhood. A team of researchers focused on the effect of whole-body learning in instruction, known as embodied learning.
The research included 149 children, aged 5 to 6, who had just started school. They were divided into three groups: one that stood up and used their whole bodies to shape letter sounds; a seated group that shaped letter sounds with their hands and arms;and a control group that received traditional, seated instruction during which they wrote letters by hand.
“Our research showed that children who used their whole bodies to shape the sounds of letters became twice as proficient(熟练的)at letter sounds that are more difficult to learn as those who received traditional instruction,” says PhD student Linn Damsgaard of UCPH’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports.
With regard to difficult letter sounds, she adds, “There are many difficult letter sounds in Danish. These sounds are particularly important because once children become proficient at them, they will be better readers.”
Associate professor Jacob Wienecke, who led the study, explains, “The primary goal is to learn more about which methods can be used to give beginner readers a good start. The idea is that if, through play and movement, we can learn where their strengths truly lie, we’ll create a form of learning that combines reading with play, and that’s truly positive.”
Previously, the researchers showed that the children felt more motivated by teaching methods which included physical movement. Jacob Wienecke hopes this will provide an opportunity to inspire teachers and school managers to prioritize movement across subjects.
The study also investigated whether a direct effect of embodied learning could be found on children’s reading of individual words. This was not possible, which might be due to the fact that the children were at such an early stage of their literacy development that they could not yet use their knowledge of letter sounds to read words.
1. What were the participants required to do in the study?| A．To pick out difficult letter sounds in Danish. |
| B．To learn new letters through repeated writing. |
| C．To learn letter sounds using different approaches. |
| D．To memorize some letter sounds as soon as possible. |
| A．By combining learning with games. |
| B．By offering them chances to cooperate. |
| C．By inspiring them to overcome difficulties. |
| D．By explaining instructions to them patiently. |
| A．Promoting harmonious teacher-student relationships. |
| B．Urging schools to pay attention to physical exercise. |
| C．Enabling researchers to carry out further studies. |
| D．Encouraging educators to apply it to teaching. |
| A．Whole-body learning—a good start to children’s reading |
| B．Embodied learning—a booster for children’s reading speed |
| C．Children’s reading skills matter a lot in their literacy development |
| D．Children’s literacy development depends on the flexibility of their bodies |
| A．A detective story. | B．An adventure novel. | C．Science fiction. |
7 . From cottages surrounded by impressive gardens to days spent exploring sandy beaches and deep woods filled with wildlife, in My Family and Other Animals, English writer Gerald Durrell provided a vivid account of his family’s time on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
Come for the arresting descriptions of Corfu landscapes and stay for Durrell’s laugh-out-loud tales of his unusual family. This book, Durrell wrote humorously in the introduction, “was intended to be a nostalgic(怀旧的)account of natural history, but in the first few pages, I made the mistake of introducing my family.”
Durrell, later known for his zoo keeping and the preservation of wildlife, was just a child during his family’s five-year stay in Corfu. He is 10-year-old Gerry in the book—curious, passionate about animals and a detailed storyteller of his strange family: his imaginative elder brother Larry with his literary ambitions, lovestruck sister Margo, sporty brother Leslie and his ever-calm, loving mother.
Durrell’s attention to detail is what makes the book so winning, with every sight, sound and smell of the island brought to life. One minute you’ll be laughing as Larry’s clever literary friends walk down to the daffodil-yellow cottage, the next you’ll be catching your breath as Durrell describes swimming at night in the Ionian Sea: “Lying on my back in the silky water, staring at the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly, I was looking at the Milky Way stretching like a silk scarf across the sky and wondering how many stars it contained.”
My Family and Other Animals is quite difficult to classify, being one part travel, one part autobiography, one part natural history, and one part comedy, with a thread of descriptive language running throughout that sometimes raises it nearly to poetry.
As a real delight to read, it’s the perfect literary escapism for any adult or older teenager who is currently walking down a tough road in life.
1. Which word best describes Durrell’s life in Corfu?| A．Diverse. | B．Busy. | C．Risky. | D．Tough. |
| A．I just introduced my family by mistake. | B．I shouldn’t have introduced my family. |
| C．I gave false information about my family. | D．I couldn’t help introducing my family. |
| A．Durrell’s rich imagination. | B．Some interesting plots of the book. |
| C．The book’s writing feature. | D．Some vivid descriptions of the island. |
| A．To share an experience. | B．To introduce a writing style. |
| C．To recommend a book. | D．To describe an unusual place. |
1. How does the man like the film?
| A．Boring. | B．Scaring. | C．Attractive. |
| A．Snake skin. | B．Snake cream. | C．Snake poison. |
| A．A film. | B．A book. | C．An animal research. |
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The English Reading Club
May 20, 2023
10 . Scientist Erika Nesvold once asked a company aiming to mine the moon how he planned to address risks that mining equipment might carry microbes (微生物) from Earth and pollute the moon. The response: “We’ll worry about that later.”
That’s an irresponsible mindset when it comes to preparing for people to live and work in space, Nesvold argues in her new book, Off-Earth. “... adopting a ‘worry about it later’ attitude...strikes me as a path to repeating the tragedies of that history through ignorance.” Nesvold writes.
Off-Earth is an extension of her 2017 podcast (播客), Making New Worlds, which asked ethical (伦理的) questions about space settlement. The book takes some of the same questions and expands on them.
Most chapters start with three short scenes, usually from different time periods. A chapter outlining debates over whether to settle space at all starts by asking the reader to imagine being in the 1600s and deciding to uproot your family and head to the New World. A chapter on how land usage and ownership rights might work in space imagines a person recently freed from slavery in the U. S. South in 1865 and worrying that the new president will take back the land they finally own. The third scene is usually set in the year 2100, on a space settlement.
Then Nesvold examines how various ethical scenarios (场景) related to the chapter’s theme might play out in space. She quotes experts in fields that don’t often come up in space science: ethics, philosophy, law. This approach is a departure from many books about the future of life on the final frontier, forcing readers to face hard realities and possible points of friction. To have the best chance of avoiding disaster, the time to consider those questions is now, not later, even though space settlement may be decades or centuries away, Nesvold argues.
Off-Earth should be required reading for anyone who dreams about living in space and can help make our earthbound civilizations better too.
1. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 1?| A．To clarify a concept. | B．To introduce a topic. |
| C．To make a prediction. | D．To generate a discussion. |
| A．Its writing style. | B．Its text structure. |
| C．Its story elements. | D．Its writing techniques. |
| A．Cautious. | B．Unclear. |
| C．Intolerant. | D．Disapproving. |
| A．A short story. | B．A news report. |
| C．A book review. | D．A research essay. |
