If you enjoy reading, the world in books will become a place which is not to be experienced in watching television only for entertainment. Studies have shown how those who read for pleasure achieve more in literacy（读写能力）and thinking abilities than those who don’t.Actually, there is nothing else that will expand your language skills and make your imagination fly.
To begin with, language skills can be better learned through reading for pleasure than through watching TV for entertainment. At its best, television can be educational as well as entertaining, but nobody wishes to improve his literacy by simply sitting in front of a TV box. Therefore, only by reading can you enlarge your vocabulary. However, it must be made clear that the relation between literacy and reading is like comparing health to sport. One is something practical and the other is something you do because you enjoy it.
The books that help you most in imagination are those that make you think most. In this point, reading for pleasure, both paper-based and on-screen, is far more helpful than watching TV. For example, there is always a book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit: imagination. Unluckily, some people's love of books is lost influenced by television, which is considered as a decline in thinking abilities.
On the whole, watching TV is largely harmless as an entertainment and information tool, but there is no better way to improve your language skills and imagination than reading for pleasure. For those who would continue to enjoy reading, there is a paradise（天堂） not yet being lost. Having got an amount of language skills through wide reading, you might as well imagine that such a paradise would not be very unlike a kind of library.
1.What does the writer mainly talk about in Paragraph 1?
A.The advantage of reading books.
B.The way of improving language skills.
C.The pleasure in watching TV.
D.The advantage of our imagination.
2.What does the writer say about reading in the text?
A.People can get the latest information through it.
B.It offers more pleasure than watching TV.
C.It plays a bigger role in kids’ growth than watching TV.
D.More language skills will be gained as people read more.
3.Which word can replace the underlined word “decline” in Paragraph3?
A.Development.
B.Decrease.
C.Destroy.
D.Improvement.
4.What does the writer think of watching TV?
A.It’s a waste of time and energy.
B.It’s a paradise for those who like watching TV.
C.It’s helpful in some aspects.
D.It’s done only for entertainment.
US president Donald Trump has popularized the phrase “fake news”.But not too long ago these words in combination（结合）would have meant little to everyday English speakers.
Anatoly Liberman writes about the origins of the word “fake”. The word, it turns out, has a very dark past. The best guess at how “fake” became the mainstream, argues Liberman, is that it was a kind of word used by thieves in London. But “how it got there, nobody in the world knows, and probably nobody will ever know,” he tells a newspaper.
Liberman is a professor at the University of Minnesota and the author of Word Origins... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. He writes that early records of “fake” as an English adjective appeared around the middle of the 18th century. The word likely comes from cant, or thief jargon（行话）.
The OED mentions “fake” as a verb starting in 1819, which basically meant “to do” in jargon, but also “to kill, wound, or rob someone”. An entry from a dictionary that year reads: To fake any person or place is to rob them; to fake a person may also imply “to shoot, wound, or cut”; to fake a man out and out is to kill him.
Liberman traces（研究……的历史）the word next to Chares Dickens，who used “cly-faker”, where “cly” means a pocket, in Oliver Twist. This is how he believes knowledge of “fake” as a word that means “to steal”. Eventually it became a common English word.
1.What can we learn about Anatoly Liberman?
A.He shows great interest in words’ origins.
B.He is interested in all the English words.
C.He lived in England for a long time.
D.He likes writing articles in English very much.
2.What is mainly discussed in this passage?
A.The history of English words.
B.Some stories about English words.
C.The importance of the English word “fake”.
D.The origins of an English word.
3.What can we infer from this passage?
A.We must focus on the words of Donald Trump.
B.We should study English words very carefully.
C.“Fake” likely comes from words used by a class of people.
D.“Fake” is a new English word made by Donald Trump.
单句语法填空
1.I have heard a lot of good things about you ______ I came back from abroad.
2.He smiled politely ______ Mary apologized to him for her drunken friends’ rudeness.
3.If you don’t understand something, you may research, study, and talk to other people ______ you figure it out.
4.Silk ______ （become）one of the primary goods traded along the Silk Road by about 100 BC.
5.The first time I ______ （meet）her, she was waiting for a bus.
6.She was studying at the University of Rochester when a professor ______ （suggest）a research subject to her.
7.They have regularly sent newspapers, but they rarely read them ______ they have so much work to deal with.
8.Was it ______ Jack came late for school that Mr.Smith got angry?
9.Now that the kids ______ （leave）home, we get more room.
10.______ everything is prepared, let’s begin our experiment right now.
单句改错
1.There were two witnesses who happened to be there when the accident had occurred.
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2.It was as I missed the early bus that I was late for school.
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3.John thinks it won’t be long after he is ready for his new job.
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4.I felt very proud because the first prize I got with my robot.
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5.A person doesn’t necessarily grow wiser with he grows older.
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6.We recognized his voice immediate he spoke on the radio.
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7.Cindy couldn’t hold back her tears for the moment she saw her mom.
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8.Whenever you will buy a present, you should think about it from the receiver’s point of view.
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假定你是李华，你的澳大利亚笔友 James来信告诉你他要参加学校的演讲比赛。请你给他发一封电子邮件，内容如下：
1. 表示鼓励
2. 提出建议；
3. 预祝成功。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节 ，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
There is a library in our community. My brother and I went to the library every Saturday either do homework or pick out whatever we want to read. We spend a couple of hour there and find lots of things to talk about afterward. Saturday’s night is family movie night so we usual pick up a DVD to watch that night. We get everything the library has to offer. I have DVDS, books and magazines borrowing from our library. My brother enjoys listen to music so he often checks out records. The library has always been a community that values of reading and learning. It has also been a social center that we can connect with another children and find out about activities that are going on.
