“Reading makes a full man” (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things. Jane Austen was one of the most wellknown women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular. Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, the Hunchback of Notre-
Dame, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe. Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
任务：阅读上文，根据其内容填空。
| The numbers of writers are mentioned in the passage. |
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| Nationality |
Jane Austen was from |
| Jane Austen’s famous novel |
Pride and Prejudice |
| Victor Hugo’s famous novel |
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| The winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1954 |
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Dear Tom,
How are you? I’m in a new school this term. And I’m writing to you in my school now. My new school is big and nice. There are one thousand and four hundred students and one hundred and forty teachers in my school. I like the teachers. They are very kind to me. My classmates are very friendly, too. They teach me Chinese and I teach them English.
There are trees, flowers and green grass(青草) in my school. They are very beautiful. Behind my school there is a small river. The water in it is quite clean. We can swim in it.
We have no classes on Saturdays or Sundays. Sometimes I go to play football or basketball with my classmates. Sometimes I stay at home and watch TV. Sometimes I go to shops with my father and mother. We all like China.
Please write to me soon!
Yours,
JackJack is in a________ school.
| A．English | B．Chinese | C．small | D．Japanese |
There are _________ students and _________ teachers in Jack’s school.
| A．1, 400; 104 | B．1, 040; 104 | C．1, 400; 140 | D．1,040; 140 |
Jack’s teachers _________.
| A．teach him English very well |
| B．only teach him Chinese and English |
| C．don’t like him at all |
| D．are quite good to him |
Jack_________ his new classmates.
| A．don’t get on well with |
| B．don’t like |
| C．makes good friends with |
| D．is going to learn English from |
Which is right?
| A．Jack goes to school every day. |
| B．Jack doesn’t have classes every day. |
| C．Jack has no classes only on Saturdays. |
| D．Jack has no classes only on Sundays. |
阅读下面的短文，并从文本框中为本文选择恰当的段落大意。
①British people like good food ,and more than half of them go to a restaurant every month. Fast food is also very popular— 30% of all adults have a hamburger every three months, but 46% have fish and chips!
②British people don't do a lot of sports. Only 17% of people go swimming every week ,about 9% go cycling and 8% play golf—and only 6% of people play football( but 32% go to watch it ).
③ Movies are very popular in Britain ,and about 60% of people between 15 and 24 go to the cinema every month. At home, men watch TV for about three hours every day — two quarters more than women.
④British people love going on holiday ,and have 56 million holidays every year. Most of these holidays aren't in the UK—27% are in Spain,10% are in the USA ,and 9% are in France. Maybe this is because the weather in Britain isn't very good!
| A. Most British people like movies . B. British people love going on holiday . C. Good food is popular in Britain . D. Most British people don’t like doing sports. |
Paragraph ①: ________
Paragraph ②:_________
Paragraph ③:_________
Paragraph ④:_________
Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about one kilometer away. So Uncle Wang seldom(很少)goes to work by bus. He usually goes bike there by bike, sometimes on foot .It takes (花费) him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today his bike is broken. He wants to walk there. Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at 7:50 and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at 8:30 in the morning and finishes at 4:45 in the afternoon.What does Uncle Wang do?
| A．He sells books. |
| B．He grows flowers. |
| C．He makes shoes. |
| D．He works in a hospital. |
Where is the book shop ?
| A．In the middle of the city . |
| B．In a town . |
| C．Far from his home . |
| D．We don’t know . |
Why does he seldom (很少) go to work by bus? Because _________.
| A．there is no bus |
| B．his shop is not far from his home |
| C．he likes riding a bike |
| D．his shop isn't in the middle of the city |
How long does it take him to walk to his book shop?
| A．Twenty minutes | B．Forty minutes |
| C．Ten minutes | D．Half an hour |
Today his bike is ________.
| A．broken | B．new | C．good | D．beautiful |
His work finished at ________.
| A．4:45 | B．5:15 | C．4:55 | D．5:05 |
The students were having their chemistry（化学）class. Miss Li was telling the children what water was like. After that, she asked her students, “What's water ?”No one spoke for a few minutes．Miss Li asked again，“Why don't you answer my question？Didn't I tell you what water is like？”
Just then a boy put up his hand and said，“Miss Li，you told us that water has no color and no smell．But where to find such kind of water？The water in the river behind my house is always black and it has a bad smell．”Most of the children agreed with him．
“I'm sorry，children．”said the teacher，“Our water is getting dirtier and dirtier．That's a problem． The students were having their _______ class．
| A．English | B．Chinese | C．chemistry | D．maths |
Miss Li was telling the children what ______ was like．
| A．water | B．air | C．earth | D．weather |
A boy said，“The water in the river behind my house is always _______．”
| A．white | B．black | C．clean | D．clear |
Most of the children _______ the boy．
| A．agreed with | B．wrote to |
| C．heard from | D．sent for |
The water in the river has color and smell because it is getting _______．
| A．more and more | B．less and less |
| C．cleaner and cleaner | D．dirtier and dirtier |
The holiday’s upon us．After months of study, you have some time to yourself．So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, “Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and other media (媒体) that offer a lot more colorful programs．Books are history!”
But don’t be fooled．There’s still a lot to be said for reading-and reading as widely as possible．
(1) One clear reason is that a well-chosen ______ is a wonderful collection of ______ and expressions, so long as you have a good dictionary, of course．Believe me, it’s far easier to get new English words and expressions from a book or article than it is from the TV or the Internet．
(2) But an even more important point is that books give you something that modern media simply cannot. The webpage（网页）is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible．
Though “easy” may be welcome, unluckily it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level．For that, there’s still no substitute(替代品)for a book．
But perhaps the best single reason is that simply choosing what you read and doing it by yourself means that it’s something you do by and for yourself．You can choose what you want to read．It’s hard work, but while you are reading, you’ll find that what once seemed like a duty is now a pleasure．Reading can bring us pleasure.在(1)句空白处填入适当的词：___________ ___________
把(2) 划线句子翻译成中文：_______________________________________
回答问题: How many reasons for reading books does the text mention?
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