1. 简要介绍一本名著；
2. 说明推荐的理由。
参考词汇：
三国演义 Romance of the Three Kingdoms水浒传 Water Margin
西游记 Journey to the West红楼梦 A Dream of Red Mansions
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Writer: Lewis Carroll Price:￥25(in bookstores)￥20(online) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an English novel published in 1865. At the beginning, the book was not written for all people but for a little girl. On a summer day, the writer. Carroll made a short trip up the Thames River and told the story of Alice. The young girl falls down a rabbit hole and goes on unimaginable adventures into a wonderland. |
Peter Pan Writer: J.M. Bairie in Scotland Price:￥15((in bookstores)￥12(online) It is a children’s story full of imagination and adventures, which is about Wendy, Joan, and Michael Darling’s adventures in Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. The children are happy and lovely.(with 2 tapes磁带) |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Writer: Harriet Beecher Stowe Price:￥20(in bookstores)￥16(online) The most famous novel in American history, Uncle Tom’s Cabin talks about the fight between free states and slave states during the American Civil War and is as popular today as when it first came out more than 150 years ago. |
The Secret Garden Writer: Frances Hodgson Burnett in America Price:￥35(in bookstores)￥30(online) Mary Lennox, a sick girl, finds herself in her uncle’s dark house. Why are so many rooms locked? Why is one of the gardens locked? And what is that crying she hears at night? Through the power of hope, friendship, and the magic of nature, the brave girl brings the house and a long-lost garden back to life. |
| A．Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written about one and a half centuries ago |
| B．Peter Pan tells a story about four sad boys |
| C．The Secret Garden is the cheapest of the four |
| D．Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is with 2 tapes |
| A．Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. | B．The Secret Garden. |
| C．Uncle Tom’s Cabin | D．Peter Pan. |
| A．￥17. | B．￥20. | C．￥27. | D．￥30. |
(1)书目名称；
(2)内容简介；
(3)推荐理由。
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jason,
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Yours sincerely
Li Hua
Science fiction, or sci-fi, has
Before the 2000s, Chinese science fiction was a lesser-known and community-oriented genre. Few works were translated, and the western world took no interest
Writing in Chinese is, of course, different from writing in English. The meanings and references used in Chinese sci-fi are unique to the genre. In the works Liu translated, multiple footnotes are used
The use of traditional and cultural objects, words and places in Chinese science fiction makes the genre a cultural and
1. 阅读的重要性；
2. 你的阅读习惯；
3. 你的阅读建议。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
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6 . Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Astonishing numbers of people with years of schooling are actually illiterate and ignorant. This month’s Ljubljana Manifesto (宣言) explains: “The digital field may promote more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many temptations to read in a superficial(肤浅的)and scattered manner— or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.”
That’s frightening, because “higher-level reading” has been essential to civilization. It enabled the enlightenment and an international increase in empathy. Without it, we would suffer a lot. As the Ljubljana Manifesto notes, “one-third of Europeans struggle even with lower-level reading skills.” More than one-fifth of adults in the US “fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category”. Separately, post-pandemic reading scores for American 13-year-olds are the lowest in decades. And the Washington-based Center for Global Development recently estimated that literacy in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa among those with five years of schooling has decreased by 10% this past half century.
Experts in the Ljubljana Manifesto record the demerits of digital reading: “Recent studies of various kinds indicate a decline of critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading.” When you read a book on paper, you can be entirely inside the experience, absorb hundreds of pages of details thoroughly and begin to capture the world’s complexity. But online, says Maryanne Wolf of UCLA, we are “skimming, scanning, scrolling(滚屏)”. The medium is the message: doing deep reading on your phone is as hard as playing tennis with your phone. Recently, a bright 11-year-old told me I was wasting time on books: he absorbed more information faster from Wikipedia. He had a point. But digital readers also absorb more misinformation and seldom absorb fine perspectives.
In short, as professors from Northwestern University foresaw in 2005, we are returning to the days when only an elite (精英) “reading class” consumes long texts, which is a worrying problem.
1. What can we learn about digital reading from paragraph 1?| A．Digital reading has solved the problem of illiteracy. |
| B．Digital reading has lessened the practice of deep reading. |
| C．Digital reading has made deep reading accessible to wider readers. |
| D．Digital reading has aroused a greater appreciation for deep reading. |
| A．To display the popularity of digital reading. |
| B．To highlight the advantages of deep reading. |
| C．To present the unfavorable situation of literacy. |
| D．To stress the illiterate’s lower-level reading skills. |
| A．Effects. | B．functions | C．Features. | D．Drawbacks. |
| A．Advantages of digital reading. | B．Benefits of higher-level reading. |
| C．Ways to encourage digital reading. | D．Measures to practice deep reading. |
7 . Good Literary Podcasts (播客) for Book Lovers
Audio Almanac
The Audio Almanac’s fiction writer Lawson runs this exciting monthly podcast. Here. writers read stories written by other writers. The writers then discuss what they like about the story and what it means to them with Lawson. It is a real treat listening to writers explain their interpretation of the story to us.
Pod Pals
This inspiring podcast invites authors to bring objects that became their source of inspiration in their journey as a writer. They discuss the significance of these objects in their lives. and how it represents their struggles and successes. It is a real treat to listen to good advice from these seasoned guests.
The Starfish Podcast
For all you literary enthusiasts who have ever thought, what makes a writer click? Or what was that great moment that changed their lives? This podcast is for you. This relatively new podcast hosted by Edward interviews other writers about their deeply transformative experiences. They make suggestions for you to begin writing stories.
Insightful Chronicles
This literary podcast will feel right as rain for those who don’t have the patience for big books and stories. Aldridge, the former host of a popular TV show Rain Reading, thrills his audience with every episode (一集) of short story reading. Authors from all around the world from every literary genre (体裁) penned these short stories.
1. Where can you listen to the stories read by writers?| A．From Audio Almanac. | B．From Pod Pals. |
| C．From The Starfish Podcast. | D．From Insightful Chronicles. |
| A．They talk about objects in various books. | B．They deal with writers’ struggling stories. |
| C．They offer suggestions for some listeners. | D．They are hosted by many famous writers. |
| A．It copies a popular TV show. | B．It broadcasts pieces from big books. |
| C．It refers to books on the topic of rain. | D．It invites hosts from around the world. |
8 . Three Books for a More Honest View of Mother
Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson, author of one of the most wonderful novels of all time, The Haunting of Hill House, and of the short story The Lottery, also wrote two charming autobiographical (自传的) novels about raising her four children in a farmhouse in rural Vermont. In my favorite, Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s humor is as smart as her horror is scaring and her children seem never to inspire in her anything worse than a fond anger.
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Amy Bloom
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You contains one of the most absolute expressions of a mother’s love in fiction. Much of it takes place in the waiting room of a gender-reassignment surgeon. It’s about a woman who is determined to be the mother her child needs her to be. In this book, ordinary women rise to the occasion demanded by motherhood. They make mistakes but they generally succeed in making up for them.
Family Man, Calvin Trillin
My last recommendation is not about mothers at all, but rather about fathers, or rather one father in particular. In Family Man, Calvin Trillin writes about his wife and daughters. He gives what I think is the most useful piece of parenting advice: “Getting advice on the best way to bring up children is like getting advice on the best way to breathe. Sooner or later you’re probably going to forget it and go back to your regular old in-and-out.” Trillin gives the impression of being the best kind of husband.
1. Which book is about a mother’s change and growth?| A．The Lottery | B．Life Among the Savages |
| C．The Haunting of Hill House | D．A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You |
| A．Advice on how to raise children. |
| B．Advice on how to be a successful writer. |
| C．Advice on how to get along with others. |
| D．Advice on how to balance between work and family. |
| A．To educate. | B．To recommend. | C．To advertise. | D．To advise. |
9 . You can’t just rely on textbooks to learn English, if you want to learn a foreign language well. Actually, you need an excellent language environment. This does not mean that you have to move abroad or live with foreigners. It is also a good way to read the original books, and the best and most reliable ones are the classics. Here are four famous books. Let’s see which one you are most interested in.
Ulysses
Ulysses did “stream of consciousness” before the term existed, and it’s also a complicated (难懂的) novel filled with references, wordplay, confusing jokes, and intense, personal reflections by the characters.
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick has a fame for being very dull. Melville’s novel wasn’t received well on publication (it took decades before people really started to realize how great it is), and the negative evaluation (评价) is repeated every year when students are forced to read it.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece in the literary world, being the inspiration, basis, and model for so many modern novels. You’re probably more familiar with its plot (情节) and characters than you think. For a book written in the early 19th century, its modernity is surprising only until you realize this is the novel that in many ways defines what a modern novel is.
The Big Sleep
It’s true that the book is written in what seems to modern audiences like a self-consciously tough style, peppered with old-fashioned expressions, and the plot is famously complicated, even for a mystery. It actually has several loose ends that never get solved, but it doesn’t matter.
1. Which book failed to be popular at first?| A．Ulysses. | B．Moby-Dick. | C．Pride and Prejudice. | D．The Big Sleep. |
| A．It is full of confusing jokes. | B．It is famous for its dullness. |
| C．It is a typical modern novel. | D．It has some mysterious (神秘的) ends. |
| A．A textbook. | B．An English magazine. |
| C．A travel brochure. | D．A novel. |
1. What does the speaker do?
| A．She is a reporter. | B．She is a writer. | C．She is a hostess. |
| A．Experiencing strong emotions. |
| B．Enjoying detailed descriptions. |
| C．Learning about characters other than Spiderman. |
| A．He would have been proud of the book. |
| B．He wanted the book to have a classic story. |
| C．He passed away right after the book came out. |
