-----I am sorry for having been so rude to you.
---------That’s OK. I am sure you didn’t___________.
A. have to B .mean to C. hope so D. want so
This book is said to be a special one, which __________many events not found in other history books.
A .writes B. refers C. deals D. covers
Only when I read this story for a second time _________to appreciate its beauty.
A .did I begin B. that I begin C. I began D. had I begin
随着网络的日益普及，当前有人选择网络阅读，有人则喜欢传统阅读。传统的阅读方式似乎正在被网络阅读方式取代。假如你是某中学的李华，请你以 “Traditional Reading or Online Reading？”为题按照下列表格提供的信息写一篇英语短文，并发表自己的看法。
注意：1. 短文词数不少于100； 2. 开头部分已写好，不计入总词数；
3. 内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯； 4. 短文须写在答题卷的指定区域；
5. 书写须清晰、工整。 6. 短文中不能体现本人真实信息。
Traditional Reading or Online Reading?
With the popularity of the Internet, there seems to be a trend that the traditional reading is being replaced by online reading among people, especially among students.
Have you ever listened to young children talking on the playground? They are always boasting（自夸）. They say things like, “My dad’s car is bigger __1.__ your dad’s,” and “My mom is smarter than yours.”
There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin, _2.___were always boasting. Gavin was the worst. Everything about his family was always the best. ___3.___ the others said, he could always go on better. One day ___4.__ they were walking to school, Harry said, “My father had a bath twice __5.__ week,” Ted spoke next. “That’s nothing,” he said. “That is dirty. My father has a bath every day, sometimes twice.” Ted looked at Gavin. Now it was __6.___ turn. But this time Ted thought, “I’m going to win.” Gavin didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t say that his father had a bath three times a day. That was silly. He walked on ___7.___ silence. Both Ted __8.__ Harry smiled. They were sure that for once they___9.___ (beat) Gavin. They reached the school gates. Still Gavin said nothing. “We’ve won,” Ted said to Harry, but he spoke too soon. On the way home, Gavin said, “My Dad is ___10.__ clean that he doesn’t have to bathe at all.”
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the learned in the early days of the history, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become popular.
One should be careful, however, of supposing that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is distraction（分散注意力）to others. Examination of reasons connected with the historical development of silent reading shows that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a gradual increase in literacy（读写能力）and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, so the number of listeners dropped, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the popularity of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, trains and offices, where reading aloud would disturb other readers in a way.
Towards the end of the century there was still heated argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its advantages are, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and magazines for a specialized readership on the other.
By the end of the century students were being advised to have some new ideas of books and to use skills in reading them which were not proper, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological developments in the century had greatly changed what the term “reading” referred to.
1.Why was reading aloud common before the nineteenth century?
A. Because silent reading had not been discovered.
B. Because there were few places for private reading.
C. Because few people could read for themselves.
D. Because people depended on reading for enjoyment.
2.The development of silent reading during the nineteenth century showed_______.
A. a change in the position of literate people
B. a change in the nature of reading
C. an increase in the number of books
D. an increase in the average age of readers
3.Educationalists are still arguing about__________.
A. the importance of silent reading
B. the amount of information provided by books and newspapers
C. the effects of reading on health
D. the value of different types of reading material
