I have an American friend, Cathy. Now she is in Hangzhou, China with her parents. She speaks English very well, but she needs help in Chinese. She is now trying to learn and speak it. She often tries to speak Chinese with us, but she still can’t speak it well, so we don’t understand her sometimes.

It’s Saturday afternoon. Cathy wants to see pandas and monkeys in the zoo, but she doesn’t know how to get there. She stops a man and a woman and asks them the way. They don’t know what she says. Cathy looks worried. Then she meets a school boy, but the boy can’t understand her, either. Then she takes out a pen and some paper from her bag and draws a panda on the paper. She shows the picture to the boy. The boy looks at it, smiles and then tells her the way to the zoo.

46. The writer sometimes can’t understand Cathy because _______.

   A. she comes from America             B. she doesn’t stay in China for long

   C. she can speak English very well       D. she doesn’t learn Chinese well enough

47. Why does Cathy want to go to the zoo on Saturday afternoon?

   A. She has no classes on Saturday        B. She is going to see a Chinese boy

   C. She wants to see some animals        D. She wants to get something new

48. The Chinese meaning of the underlined word “understand” is ________.

   A. 认识      B. 遇见       C. 理解        D. 解释

49. Cathy draws a picture on the paper in order to（为了）________.

   A. tell the boy where she wants to go

   B. ask the boy how to say “panda” in China

   C. tell the boy something about the dear animal

   D. teach the boy how to draw a picture with a pen

50. Who tells Cathy the way to the zoo at last?

   A. No one     B. The boy     C. The woman   D. The man

Nora, a 17-year-old American, notices that when she has to do a paper for school and researches it on the Internet, she rarely reads a whole page and does deep reading. “I’ll read the beginning of a paragraph and then I'll skip(跳过) the rest,” she says.
While Nora's mother, Martha, loves sitting down with a good book and reading carefully, her daughter may be the wave of the future.
“Deep reading”, or slow reading, is a process in which people think carefully while they read. With most, that means slowing down --- even stopping and rereading a page or paragraph to really understand what the author is trying to say.
Last summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he was concerned about what he sees as a decline（衰退）in slow reading. Instant messages and 140-character tweets（微博）appear to be reducing out ability to concentrate on a single idea or theme of a book, he told Foreign Policy Magazine.
It's easy to forget the benefits of deep reading in an age when anything worth doing is done fast. Experts warn that without deep reading, it is impossible to be an educated person of the world, a knowledgeable voter or even an imaginative thinker.
“If you want to have a deep relationship with a text and understand a complex idea, then slow reading is a preferred style. It is good for pleasure, too. It is not a rushed experience and you can lose yourself in a text,” said Canadian writer John Miedema, the author of the book Slow Reading.
US' Ohlone College English professor Cynthia Lee Katona says reading is a highly social activity that builds the mind and social connections. If you read, she says, you simply know more and have more to talk about with friends, partners and people you know.
Deep reading can also take a reader on a trip around the world even if they are sitting in a living room armchair, Katona says. Also, deep reading helps people develop thinking, writing and conversation skills.
“If you like beautiful things, authors put words together that are really beautiful and expressive,” she says. “If you want to write well--- and there are lots of reasons to express yourself clearly --- you should read.”
【小题1】The comparison（对比）between Nora and her mother's reading habits _______.