Guo Liqin, 24, works as a primary school teacher in a distant area in Yunnan Province. The Internet offers him the latest news and entertainment from the outside world. And many people like him also depends on the online libraries for the free literature(文学) reading.
A survey in China last year found the online literature is the biggest growth area of Internet entertainment.
Reading for free is also popular in other countries. See what solutions other countries are taking.
Public Libraries
In countries such as Germany, Canada, and the UK, governments pay the authors to have their books in public libraries.
The pay is different from country to country. Some pay according to how many times a book has been borrowed; others pay according to whether the library has bought the book or not.
Google Books
Google Books allow users to see some free parts before buying them.
The author can choose to make from 20% to 100% of the book’s content(内容) for free reading . But you can see a full view of books that are out of copyright(版权).
E-magazines
E-magazines are usually about pop culture, and make money through advertisements. The writers are usually paid by the numbers of words they write.
Digital Library
There are many free online libraries of books which are no longer in copyright.
American and European websites offer classic(古典的) literature and non-fiction texts like dictionaries for download in different languages.Guo Liqin depends on for free reading.
| A．online libraries | B．city bookstores | C．school libraries | D．borrowing books |
From the passage we know other countries are taking solutions for reading for free.
| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 | D．6 |
In some countries, the authors are paid by to have their books in public libraries.
| A．advertisements | B．readers | C．governments | D．the word numbers |
Google Books and Digital Library allow users to read the full books .
| A．which are out of copyright | B．which are in copyright |
| C．which are about pop culture | D．which have some free parts |
The best title of the passage is .
| A．Enjoy Reading | B．Learn How to Read |
| C．The Importance of Reading | D．How to Read for Free |
It’s 9:00 in the evening. The family are at home. Jim’s father sits in a chair. He’s watching TV(看电视). His mother stands near the window. She feeds(喂) the birds—Polly. Polly says, “Thanks! Thanks!” Where is Jim? Oh, he’s behind the door. Kate is looking for(找) him. They play games in Kate’s room.
( )１．There are ________people in the family.
A. three B. four C. five D. six
( )２．Who sits in a chair?
A. Jim B. It’s Jim C. Jim’s father D. It’s Jim’s mother
( )３．Where is Jim?
A. He’s is watching TV. B. Behind the door.
C. He’s looking for Kate. D. Near the door.
( )４．Jim and Kate are ___________.
A. good friends B. two girls
C. two boys D. brothers and sisters
( )５．Where’s Kate?
A. She’s behind the door. B. She’s near the window.
C. She’s in her room. D. She plays games.
请仔细阅读下面小题中的个人说明，从A 到F的六个选项中，选出符合个人要求的最佳选项，其中一项为多余选项。Jeff likes sports and travel. He would like something that can help him
spend boring time on his journey. Mrs. Green doesn’t like to exercise, but she likes cooking and reading
books about foreign places. Mr. Dean wants to improve his garden during summer. So he would like something that could help him to do that.
Lisa , a 22-year-old girl, worries about her weight. She is wondering how to lose weight.
Sophia likes to look smart. When she is free, she enjoys listening to the music. Now she plans to learn something about music.
| A．Learn how to play the guitar. This popular video helps the beginner to become a guitar player in just 200 hours. |
| B．Road trips. A program loved by young people, especially those fat girls. Join in it and make yourself become thin. |
| C．The new pocket MP4. This kind of MP4 fits right into your pocket. It lets you listen to your favorite artist, even when you are on a journey. |
| D．Singapore. The story of a city. This book is about the history. the culture and the favorite dishes of this small country. |
E. Spanish in 10 Minutes a Day. A fun, 132-page complete language learning work book. Includes 150 sticky labels: flash cards, a crossword puzzle and more. It is one of the best-selling language series in print.
F. Special scissors(剪刀). This kind of tools will make it easy to deal with flowers and trees. Anyone can learn to use it quickly.
Walter owns three Italian restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers（顾客） all over the world.
He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics(道德准则) of his father came into play . It made him a person who studied and explored （探索）the secrets in the food business.
Walter’s learning never stops. He says “ The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind.” So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work.
Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says “Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I’m a happy man.”The underlined phrase “came into play” means
| A．played a joke on him | B．needed to be used |
| C．gave him much help | D．began to be studied |
The secret of Walter’s success is .
| A．building a bridge to the country |
| B．keeping on learning without any stops |
| C．getting new cooking ideas from his family |
| D．bringing the Italian cooking culture into America |
From the last sentence of the passage, we can know that it is .
| A．happy to make a lot of money |
| B．exciting to have more and more customers |
| C．important to make the customers pleased |
| D．impossible to make 15 or 20 customers happy every day |
We can learn from the passage that .
| A．the lifetime education is important |
| B．creative spirit always comes first |
| C．exploring the food business is difficult |
| D．new ideas are necessary in running a restaurant |
The best title of this passage may be “ ”
| A．Culture is Important for Cooks |
| B．A Cook and His Customers |
| C．The Story of Three Restaurants |
| D．A Winner is Made, not Born |
One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign which said,“I am blind. Please help me.”
There were only a few coins（硬币） in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat .He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure(珍惜)what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way. From the passage we know that______.
| A．the boy is the man’s son. | B．the man is one of his neighbors. |
| C．the boy is blind and needs help. | D．the boy works for the man. |
On the sign what the man wrote was,“_______.”
| A．Treasure what we have already had. |
| B．Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it. |
| C．We are so lucky that we are not blind. |
| D．Try your best to help those who need your help. |
According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
| A．The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign. |
| B．The man took away all the few coins from the hat. |
| C．The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school. |
| D．Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy. |
The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.
| A．承认 | B．接受 |
| C．表扬 | D．认出 |
“____”is the best title for this story.
| A．Be careful. |
| B．Be creative. There is always a better way! |
| C．Be kind to the blind! |
| D．Do not always get, but offer! |
“Millions of young people will lose their hearing in five years if they listen to MP3 or MP4 players at a too high voice every day,” scientists say recently.
Do you often listen to MP3 players at a too high voice? Are you frightened to hear this?
The sizes of MP3 players are very small, but small MP3 players make it easy to take hundreds of songs with you. So many young people carry them and listen to music every day. MP3 players are very popular among students.
The scientists say teenagers should be far from high volume (音量), including mobile phones’ noise. A study says, “High volume and long listening time can cause hearing problems.” They think if young people listen at more than 89 decibels (分贝) every day, they will lose their hearing in five years. A scientist said, “So many young people often use personal music players and mobile phones at a high voice. I am afraid that they may be losing their hearing.
So let’s turn our MP3 players down!According to the passage, which of the following is true?
| A．Scientists tell young people to turn off their MP3 players. |
| B．Teenagers will lose their hearing if they listen to hundreds of songs in MP3 players. |
| C．A person will lose hearing in 5 years if he or she listens to an MP3 player every day. |
| D．The mobile phone can also cause hearing problems if we don’t use it correctly. |
The underlined word “they” (Paragraph 4) most probably refers to ______.
| A．scientists | B．MP3 players | C．mobile phones | D．teenagers |
Which might be the best title for this passage?
| A．Turn your MP3 players down! | B．Never use MP3! |
| C．How to protect your hearing. | D．Young people’s hearing. |
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