Readers(《朗读者》)is a popular TV show in China. It invites people to read aloud on the stage(舞台). The show also tells moving stories behind those people. They can read everything, like poems, books, and letters. Many people are fans of the show. They begin to enjoy reading aloud at home.

Now, the show gives people a place to read. It is a reading pavilion(朗读亭).It shows up in cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an. Let’s have a look!

The pavilion is not very big. Only one person can come into it each time. There is a microphone in it and it records(记录)people’s voices.

Everyone can read for three minutes in it. You can read anything you like. The show will pick some of the readers and invite them to read on TV.

Lots of people come to the pavilion to read. Yu Duohan is an 11-year-old girl from Shanghai. She read the story Take a Snail for a Walk(《牵一只蜗牛去散步》). “I love reading aloud,” she said. “It makes the story become more beautiful.”

The pavilion will also come to other cities across the country. You can read your favorite stories in the pavilion soon.

1.What can’t people read in Readers?

A. Poems. B. Letters. C. Ads. D. Stories.

2.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A. Readers is a popular book.

B. The show will ask some of the readers to read on TV.

C. Yu Duohan, a 12-year-old boy, likes reading aloud very much.

D. You and your friends can get into the pavilion together.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. There will be pavilions in each city.

B. People from more and more cities can read aloud in pavilions.

C. Readers invites people to read in the pavilion.

D. People have to read aloud in their cities.

4.The best title(标题)is .

A. A Small Place for Reading Aloud B. People Who Like to Read Aloud

C. Why We Need to Read Aloud D. Reading Aloud Is Good

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Would you like to go on a festival that is partly cut off from modern life? Do you want to visit a place where people still have a strong sense of local traditions? Let me introduce a festival that will meet your needs. The festival, called Up Helly Aa, is held in the Shetland Islands ,just off the coast of Scotland.

Many years ago, many of the Shetland Islands had days to celebrate the time when winter began to move towards spring. The early festivals had bonfires(篝火) and involved the whole neighborhood. They were quite dangerous. In one festival, barrels of burning tar (焦油 ) were pulled through the streets. Tar is very sticky and burns easily. Often, the barrels turned over as they were pulled along. The tar poured out, still burning, and houses on the street caught fire and burned down!So. in the early 1800s, the festivals were stopped.

But in 1877, Up Helly Aa started again. It was based on the early fire festivals. It is held about the same time every year, on the last Tuesday in January. The people who organized the first Up Helly Aa wanted to remind people that the festival was "traditional". So they used a Viking image(肖像) , which the early festival did not do. A wooden copy of a Viking ship is pulled through the streets and then burned on a huge bonfire. Men pull the ship through the streets with ropes. More men stand in lines on each side of the roads, holding burning sticks. All of them dress up as Vikings.

All the local people come to Up Helly Aa. But people come from all over the world to watch , too. Only local men can make the ship, pull it through the streets or hold the burning sticks. Women can't take part in this part of the festival , not even the local women. Anyone can go to watch, though.

Once the ship has been burned, there are lots of parties that go on all night. The women have been busy getting the parties ready all day. Everyone in the neighborhood , men, women and children, can go to the parties. There is lots of food and drinks. Often people sing and dance until early the next morning. So no one gets much sleep

1.Where do people have the festival?

2.When is the festival held every year?

3.What is pulled through the streets and burned on bonfires?

4.What do people do at the parties?

5.What's the passage mainly about?

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