1 . From the ancient Chinese stories, to the stories in the medieval cathedrals（中世纪的教堂）in the west, it is perfectly clear that there is strong pleasure and meaning to gain from stories told through images or pictures. People are lucky enough to have had books with both pictures and words when they were children.
After the world wars, the cheap books without pictures were everywhere and it made reading books illustrated with pictures for adults a very luxurious thing. Somehow, pictures had also come to seem childish or strange.
What is the use of a book without pictures? Very little, it turns out, particularly if we consider that pictures are buried within the very symbols used to write words. As for a picture book for adults, author Tokarczuk sweeps away all doubts. She adores the picture book.
| A．Because it is hard to read books with pictures. |
| B．And yet readers love stories told through pictures. |
| C．However, words and pictures are not always connected. |
| D．Text and picture, after all, are not so far apart. |
| E．For her it is a powerful, old way of telling a story. |
| F．Adults are thought foolish to read such books. |
| G．They often remember the pictures as clearly as the words. |
2 . Whether you’re looking for a gift idea, or you’re hoping to find a way to help your teen make better choices, there are a variety of motivational books on the market that can help you.
1. Do Hard Things
Written by twin brothers, Alex and Brett Harris, Do Hard Things says that low expectations are the reason teens are not motivated to create a better world for themselves or the next generation. By encouraging readers to take the hard road and put challenges in front of themselves, teens can gain motivation to achieve greater things in life.
2. Who Moved My Cheese?
Who Moved My Cheese? written by Spencer Johnson, has been a life changing book for many adults. The teen version will help teens create positive change in their lives as well. Adolescence (青春期) is filled with change and uncertainty and this book helps young people learn how to adapt. Rather than refuse change, teens can learn how to accept change. It will undoubtedly help teens create positive change in their lives as well.
3. The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success
The author, Mawi Asgedom, overcame difficulties when he grew up during civil war in Ethiopia and became a student on scholarship to Harvard. In this quick read, your teens will learn valuable lessons from Asgedom’s own real-life example, and receive practical guidance.
4. Success Express for Teens
The author, Roger Leslie, offers simple and thoughtful activities that will motivate your teen to set clear and attainable goals. This book encourages self-awareness(自我意识) and offers plans to anyone who wants to live their best life.
5. What Color Is Your Parachute for Teens
Written by career authorities Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles, this book will helps teen discover their interests, which could be helpful in their decision on a future career. The book is a quick read and has been updated to include the social media aspect of finding a career and job.
1. Which book should one read if he has trouble getting used to a new environment?| A．Do Hard Things. |
| B．Who Moved My Cheese? |
| C．The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success. |
| D．Success Express for Teens. |
| A．Who Moved My Cheese? |
| B．The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success. |
| C．Success Express for Teens. |
| D．What Color Is Your Parachute for Teens. |
| A．Alex and Brett Harris’ | B．Spencer Johnson’s |
| C．Roger Leslie’s | D．Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles’. |
| A．Parents. | B．Students. |
| C．Educators. | D．Businessmen. |
3 . The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Rabindranath Tagore(1913)
Prize motivation: “because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”
William Faulkner (1949)
Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”
Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954)
Prize motivation: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea”
John Steinbeck(1962)
Prize motivation: “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)
Prize motivation: “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values”
Claude Simon (1985)
Prize motivation: “who in his novel combines the poet’s and the painter’s creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition”
Mo Yan (2012)
Prize motivation: “he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary”
Bob Dylan(2016)
Prize motivation: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
1. Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?| A．William Faulkner | B．Bob Dylan. | C．Rabindranath Tagore | D．Claude Simon. |
| A．Ernest Hemingway. | B．John Steinbeck | C．William Faulkner. | D．Winston Churchill. |
| A．Mo Yan’s | B．Bob Dylan’s | C．Claude Simon’s. | D．Rabindranath Tagore’s. |
4 . The first attempt of even the most talented artists, musicians, and writers is seldom a masterpiece, If you consider your drafts as dress rehearsals (彩排), or tryouts, revising will seem a natural part of the writing
| A．technique | B．style | C．career | D．process |
| A．in particular | B．in other words | C．for example | D．as a result |
| A．rejected | B．skipped | C．undergone | D．replaced |
| A．released | B．rewrote | C．recorded | D．reserved |
| A．addition | B．response | C．opposition | D．contrast |
| A．fixed | B．ambitious | C．fresh | D．familiar |
| A．However | B．Moreover | C．Instead | D．Therefore |
| A．discuss | B．cover | C．exhaust | D．switch |
| A．drafting | B．rearranging | C．performing | D．training |
| A．director | B．audience | C．master | D．visitor |
| A．personal | B．valuable | C．basic | D．delicate |
| A．mixing | B．weakening | C．maintaining | D．assessing |
| A．amazing | B．bright | C．unique | D．clear |
| A．angles | B．evidence | C．information | D．hints |
| A．unnecessary | B．uninteresting | C．concrete | D．final |
While English speakers look back to the time of Shakespeare and Milton 400 years ago as a Golden age, Chinese look back far
A key feature of Chinese poetry is
Amazing 48, 000 poems have survived from the many Tang dynasty poets. After the Tang, poets struggled
Many poems contain specific events from Chinese history, and that makes understanding these poems
6 . Graham Moore is the best-selling author of The Sherlockian and the screenwriter of The Imitation Game. His new book The Last Days of Night is out now. He is talking about some of his favorite books.
Murder in Three Acts
BY AGATHA CHRISTIE
My mother is a crime fiction（侦探小说）lover and, when I was having trouble learning to read, we'd sit in my bed at home in Chicago and take it in turns to read a paragraph. It was the first book I read cover-to-cover and I later became a writer because of that experience. Not only did it give me a love of crime fiction but, more importantly, it taught me that reading can be a shared experience.
Cryptonomicon
BY NEAL STEPHENSON
This book showed me that historical fiction need not be dry, but can be lively and enjoyable. Stephenson asks readers to take science seriously, but writes the story in a funny way. I'd long known of Alan Turing, but Stephenson's technique（手法）of describing him was surprising; I saw how a writer can bring a real person to life for modern readers.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
BY JENNIFER EGAN
Egan uses a technique that I drew on when writing The Imitation Game. She tells stories from different voices and times, and uses many styles that say to readers, "I've done a lot of work, but now you have to join in and work it out for yourselves. "
With my latest book, my greatest hope is that readers will want to get other people discussing the book. I've just started the conversation.
1. What helped Moore to be a writer?| A．Reading crime fiction in secret. | B．Having trouble learning to read. |
| C．Writing stories at a young age. | D．Reading a book with his mother. |
| A．Moore's Friend. | B．A writer. |
| C．A historical character. | D．Moore's teacher. |
| A．To discuss some books. | B．To introduce readers some books. |
| C．To tell writer's stories. | D．To discuss the book with others. |
7 . Toni Morrison was an American writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels, Beloved, Song of Solomon and others explored the way African-Americans search for freedom and identity in a country obsessed (受困扰的) with skin colour. Morrison was nearly 40 when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970. The Nobel Prize committee described her writing as “language itself, a language she wants to liberate from race”. Her novels discussed America’s past, focusing on black history and the effects of slavery and racism. She called her characters “the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment”.
In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, the story of a mother who kills her baby daughter rather than permit her to return to slavery. It became a best-seller and was later made into a film. Many Americans admired her as the country’s greatest writer, including former President Barack Obama.
She was born in 1931. She attended Howard University, an all-black university in Washington, DC. At Howard, she read African, British and American literature, including writers William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. After a short marriage, she became a single mother of two sons and worked as a book editor in New York.
Several publishers rejected her first book The Bluest Eye, but it impressed The New York Times’ book critic John Leonard, who believed Morrison was an important new voice. He said her writing was “so full of pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”.
Morrison enjoyed her literary fame and was proud of her Nobel Prize.
1. What are Toni Morrison’s books mainly about?| A．Women’s equality and rights. | B．The development of America. |
| C．The literature of America. | D．Black history and racism. |
| A．Beloved. | B．Song of Solomon. |
| C．The Bluest Eye. | D．The New York Times. |
| A．To show Barack Obama’s support in literature. |
| B．To prove Toni Morrison’s greatness as a writer. |
| C．To stress Toni Morrison’s contribution to America. |
| D．To remind readers of the skin colour of Barack Obama. |
| A．He thought highly of Morrison. |
| B．He rejected the book The Bluest Eye. |
| C．The book The Bluest Eye made him painful. |
| D．Toni Morrison’s book was hard to understand. |
8 . The city of Richmond announced that Roscoe Burnems would become the city’s first poet laureate (桂冠诗人), a poet recognized for achievements in poetry
During his two-year term as a poet laureate, Burnems is responsible for being a poetry advocate by providing access to poetry throughout the city and offering opportunities to use the power of words to heal wounds, open hearts and minds, and bring people closer together. He has the freedom to create and develop his own projects during his term and will receive a $4,000 annual bonus.
Burnems’ love of poetry began at an early age when he was struggling against depression. His English teacher recommended him to read poetry, which later brought him a peaceful mental state and helped him recover from depression. He soon decided that poetry was something he would run after for his lifetime. “People gravitate to poetry because they can find themselves in the poems,” he says. “It allows readers to feel the emotional part of our experiences.”
He says poetry is a great platform to discuss mental health. depression and the emotional stresses that come with daily life. Relieving those stresses is central to some of the work he does with young people Last year. Burnems started a youth poetry producing competition for local high school students.
Burnems says he loves and supports different types of art, and his next move is to explore poetry through cooperation across media Richmond’s paintings on the wall are a good example. He says, “Richmond is getting known for these beautiful paintings on display across the city, and I want to add a literary component to that.”
1. What is Burnems’ responsibility as a poet laureate?| A．Creating more good poems. | B．Developing his own projects. |
| C．Spreading the power of poetry. | D．Bringing poetry lovers together. |
| A．Poetry made him more confident. |
| B．Poetry helped him through a tough time. |
| C．He was influenced by his English teacher. |
| D．He viewed writing poems as a lifelong career. |
| A．Take pride in. | B．Be used to. | C．Break away from. | D．Be attracted by. |
| A．To shift his focus to paintings. | B．To combine poetry with other arts. |
| C．To hold more poetry competitions. | D．To help youth with mental problems. |
9 . Ender’s Game
Aliens(外星人) have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human beings. We couldn’t lose anymore. Therefore, the world government has started to train military geniuses(军事天才) in the arts of war. Ender Wiggin is taking part in this training. He wins all the games. He knows time is running out, but can he save the planet? It is a good science fiction for boys.
Hatchet
It is the story of a boy named Brian. On a trip to the Canadian oilfields to spend the summer with his dad, the pilot of the Cessna he is traveling in suffers a heart attack and dies. Brian must land the plane in the forest. Brian learns to exist in the forest. He faces many dangers including hunger, animal attacks, and even a tornado.
Ball Don’t Lie
Sticky, 17, is from the streets and has had a hard life so far. But, his hope for his life to be good and get better is basketball. His basketball skills may be his ticket to a better life. This book is encouraging, and raises questions about race and the difficulties in getting ahead in life when you’ve had a bad start.
Crackback
Miles Manning likes to please people, his father, his coach, and his friends. He is a starter on a winning football team that is favored to win the match and have a chance to go to state. However, everybody is pressing Miles to be bigger, stronger and faster, including his new head coach, his strict father, and his best friend.
She
A college professor and his young student follow instructions on a broken pottery shard(陶瓷碎片) that lead them to a legendary lost city in the jungles of Africa, where they encounter She Who Must Be Obeyed, the ruler of the land.
1. Why does the world government train military geniuses in Ender’s Game?| A．To stop the fight against aliens. |
| B．To help people learn more about wars. |
| C．To make sure humans win the next war. |
| D．To destroy the planet aliens are living on. |
| A．Crackback. | B．Ball Don’t Lie. |
| C．She. | D．Hatchet. |
| A．Ender’s Game and Crackback. |
| B．Ball Don’t Lie and Hatchet. |
| C．She and Hatchet. |
| D．Ball Don’t Lie and Crackback . |
10 . Reading and writing poetry is a very personal experience. Poets use language as a way of expressing their feelings. Poems can describe the beauty of nature, a person, a dream or a memorable event. Most people have tried writing poetry at some time. For children, it is a good way to explore language and have fun with words as well as to express themselves.
But teachers and psychologists have found another use for poetry as a form of therapy (疗法) to help people with problems. Writing poetry can help people deal with changes in their lives, death or feelings of sadness, drug or alcohol problems or serious illness. By writing down your feelings, you can learn to understand yourself better and give yourself a voice if you feel you are being ignored. Poem might be a way of telling someone something when you do not feel able to talk about it face to face. And just because people are ill or having difficulties in their lives, it doesn’t mean they have lost their sense of humor. Poems written as therapy can be funny too, as laughter is also considered to be very good medicine.
Students at a special school in Dudley, in England, read and write poems every day. Some of the poems they write are very good, but their reason for writing is not just to be creative. All of them have problems. Some of them have long-term medical conditions, such as cancer, while others have personality disorders or psychological problems. By writing poems students are growing in self-confidence. The poems provide a channel through which they can communicate with the world, and express their feelings. They also help them to recognize and explore their problems and to develop a positive attitude to life.
But the poems are helping other people, too. The school has collected some of the students’ poems and published them in a book which is being sold to raise funds for a local hospital. The book has proved very popular, giving students a sense of motivation and achievement.
1. How can poetry work as therapy?| A．By solving physical problems. | B．By staying away from humor. |
| C．By communicating face to face. | D．By promoting expression. |
| A．They suffer many problems. | B．They know many poems. |
| C．They are very confident. | D．They are very positive. |
| A．They’ll get wealthy. | B．They’ll get inspired. |
| C．They’ll become popular psychologists. | D．They’ll become professional poets. |
| A．The creation of poetry. | B．The power of poetry. |
| C．The development of poetry. | D．The appreciation of poetry. |
