[单项选择]The plan to allow the reading public to rent e-books, much as they rent movies, has proved so much more contentious than its pioneer, the former Waterstones managing director Tim Coates, had hoped. That publishers are very cautious of the idea of his new Bilbary e-rental venture, which launched this week, is perhaps not entirely surprising: although the e-rentals automatically delete themselves when the borrowing time expires, they fear the scheme might harm sales. Less controversial, however, is Mr Coates’ generous pledge to donate a good chunk of Bilbary’s profits to campaigns to keep open libraries threatened by government budget cuts. Hundreds of the nation’s 4,000 public libraries are at risk; and campaigners’ attempts to persuade courts and councils to keep them open are largely failing. Closing libraries is inevitable, the argument goes, in an era when two out of three British homes have a computer. But that is far from the whole story. While 200 million boo
A. the fall of sale of books
B. the advent of digital technologies
C. the government budget cut
D. the world economic recession

[单项选择]The plan to allow the reading public to rent e-books, much as they rent movies, has proved so much more contentious than its pioneer, the former Waterstones managing director Tim Coates, had hoped. That publishers are very cautious of the idea of his new Bilbary e-rental venture, which launched this week, is perhaps not entirely surprising: although the e-rentals automatically delete themselves when the borrowing time expires, they fear the scheme might harm sales. Less controversial, however, is Mr Coates’ generous pledge to donate a good chunk of Bilbary’s profits to campaigns to keep open libraries threatened by government budget cuts. Hundreds of the nation’s 4,000 public libraries are at risk; and campaigners’ attempts to persuade courts and councils to keep them open are largely failing. Closing libraries is inevitable, the argument goes, in an era when two out of three British homes have a computer. But that is far from the whole story. While 200 million boo
A. chronological error
B. phonological error
C. etymological error
D. historical error

[简答题]reading suggests allow use cell phone in library 而listening 反对 1,library should quiet, talking with others will make noise 2, if emergency, they can go out to check messages

[填空题]Reading in public is an activity that children have not always felt comfortable about doing.

[简答题]Reading Passage 2 Title: Public Art Program: research updates Question types: list of heading; 人名理论matching; summary 文章内容回顾 关于art的好处、社会作用、应该鼓励民众参与art等。 题型难度分析 Summary对于程度好的学生而言是比较简单的。做这样的题型可以以句子为单位进行阅读，进行“空格类型判断”、“定位词选择”、“方向判断”。这种题型一般是按照行文顺序出题的，这对我们做题是比较方便的。 题型技巧分析 Heading题考查学生对段落大致含义的把握能力，虽然出题人可能希望我们好好的读懂全段，但是考生未必有这样的能力。我们可以根据一些特定的词语在段落中寻找主题句的出现位置： 1. 在段落开头有举例结构的地方往往说明该段的主题句在举例结构之前。 2. 在段落中间有比较明显的转折结构，那么转折后的内容有可能是段落的重点内容。 3. 在段末有表示结果的词语，那么该句句子有可能是段落的主题句。 常见的段落结构有：总分结构；对比结构；并列结构；分总结构。总分结构还是占大多数的。

[填空题]No one(allow)（）to take any reading materials out of the reading room.

[简答题]Reading Do you like reading books

[名词解释]Marshall Plan

[简答题]ambitious plan

[简答题] ground plan

[单项选择]
A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbookbut you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage (百分比) gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with.
The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or ligh
A. only in your reading of a physics textbook
B. improve your understanding of an economics textbook
C. not only in your language study but also in other subjects
D. choose the suitable materials for you to practice reading

[简答题]part 1 Reading Do you like reading books What kinds of books do you like to read When you were young, what books made the greatest impression on you What do you think are the benefits of reading to children Would you like to write a book Would you like to receive a book as a gift

[简答题]　Reading 　　Do you like reading 　　What (sorts of books) do you like to read 　　How much time each day do you spend reading 　　Did you read much when you were a child 　　What did you (like to) read when you were a child 　　For children, what are the benefits of reading 　　What books (or, what things) have you read recently