题目内容
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
George claims that he read 53 books in 2012. My friend and I found this fairly unbelievable, considering he seems to have a pretty full schedule.
Anyway, it appears that I am on track to read 72 new books this year. But I've come to realize that this number can easily be skewed（扭曲）. For instance, currently I am reading Rising Tide: The Story of the Mississippi Flood of 1927. This book is over 700 pages. It's going to take me the month of May (along with Harry Potter rereads; I can't read nonfiction while going to sleep). So my May average will be way off. However, when I read chick-lits (鸡仔文学, 都市女性文学), I can get those done in a day. I guess it all depends on what I choose to read.
In reality, reading is beneficial because it encourages us to slow down our thinking, and also to fully interpret someone else's experience. Reading keeps the mind sharp and expands a person’s vocabulary. We read to educate ourselves. We read to help ourselves. We read to escape our own lives and live in that of another for a little while.
【写作内容】
1．以约30个词概括上文的主要内容；
2．以约120个词就“读书”这个话题谈谈你的想法，内容包括：
（1）对比上文，你每年阅读多少书籍；（2）举例说明你从阅读中获得的好处；
【写作要求】 （3）呼吁人们多读书。
1．可以使用实例来支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
Compared with the books his friend read in a year, the number of those ones the author read seems a little bit larger. Reading really brings the readers a lot of benefits such as broadening one’s mind.
Reading books plays an important role in a person’s lifelong development. Nowadays though there exist other medias through which we can learn a lot, there is no denying that we should never give up reading books. Reading opens the world and the human experience to everyone, no matter what his or her social status is. Books make us dream and wonder. They seize our imaginations and let us escape our daily life for a moment. Since I became a senior student, I have read a great number of books, around 40 books a year. For example, I once read a book called Man, Woman and Child, which enabled me to understand the love in a family. Besides, I really built up a large vocabulary by reading many English books.
There are books on every subject written for almost every level of understanding. Therefore, we are able to make our own choices. I hope everyone can read a certain number of books every year.
期末冲刺100分创新金卷完全试卷系列答案阅读下面的短文，然后从A-F选项中，为每一小段选择合适的标题, 并把答案写在答案卷上。
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A. The most common problem is a “wandering” mind B. Selective listening is also a mental barrier C. Listening isn’t an easy skill to master D. Attitude can also influence good listening E. Noise and background music makes listening more difficult F. Listening is also related to the level of the listener’s knowledge |
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Listening is not as easy as someone thought. Even good listeners may recall only fifty percent of what they hear. Retention, the ability to remember and recall information, decreases about twenty to twenty-five percent after a few days. So no matter how well you listen in class, you’re always going to have to refresh your memory before a test! Unfortunately, many people have poor listening habits, and little listening training. To improve your listening skills, it’s important to understand what causes poor listening.
2.___________
If you find it difficult to concentrate solely on what a speaker is saying, there’s a good reason. The mind processes information much faster than a speaker can speak. The brain can process over 500 words per minute, while the average speaker talks at a rate of 124 to 250 words per minute. That means the mind can hear what’s being said and can think about something else at the same time.
3.____________
If you have a negative idea about the speaker or the topic, you’ll find it difficult to listen attentively. Hostile or captive audiences often have more difficultly listening than do favorable or voluntary ones.
4.____________
If a speaker speaks “above the heads” of an audience, people find it difficult to concentrate. Speakers who use unfamiliar words or who use incomplete explanations make it more difficult to listen. Speakers who “speak down” to audiences, failing to acknowledge what the audience already knows, also create mental blocks.
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When people listen selectively, they simply block out what they don’t want to hear. For instance, many people have habits that are dangerous to their health, like smoking. However, they often choose to block out what a speaker says about health risks. They may listen to a speech and think that the speaker’s message applies to other people, not them. In other words, they hear what they want to hear and ignore what they don’t want to hear.