【正文】 d Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of students can buy books of special prices, much 2 than usual in any bookstore. It is 3 every year. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. On World Book Day 2021, Premier (總理 ) Wen Jiabao called on people to do more reading. He 4 that young people should spend more time reading. “ Books can’ t change the world, but people can change the world by changing 5 through reading.” he said. (B) Microblog (微博 ) started in the USA. It came to China in 2021 and it has developed very fast. Now, more and more people are interested in writing microblogs. For many microblog users, it is a great way of learning the freshest news, talking with friends and sharing different kinds of information, including news, daily life, pictures, music and so on. Many stars and famous people also write microblogs and share good things with their fans. It is easy and fast to send a message on a microblog. Because every message on a microblog is less than 140 words. Microblog plays a new role (作用 ) in the life of Chinese people. 任務(wù) 1：用方框中所給詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使文章通順、連貫、合理。 10. What is being attractive like? ___________________________________________________________________________. 訓(xùn)練 (七 ) （ A） way with usual one different How do we read? Reading aloud and silent reading are two kinds of reading practice 1 found in classrooms. Are they the same or different? Many teachers use the activity of reading aloud when they teach reading in the classroom 2 understanding what it is for. In fact, reading aloud and silent reading are different in many 3 . Reading aloud cannot take the place of silent reading as it improves only the skills of pronouncing the words, while 4 real reading ability needs the reading skills of skimming (略讀 ), scanning (瀏覽 ), predicting (預(yù)測(cè) ) and so on. With these 5 in mind, teachers should know when to practice reading aloud and when to practice silent reading. (B) Thanksgiving is a traditional festival that stared in 1621. That was soon after the European settlers (移民 ) came to the US to start a new life. After a hard year, they had a big autumn harvest. They held a big dinner and invited the local American Indians to thank them for their help. They also thanked their God for giving them enough food. Thanksgiving has been celebrated ever since in the US. When Thanksgiving es, American children will have two days off school. Shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food. Parents usually get busy preparing for a big Thanksgiving dinner before the festival. Thanksgiving is being more and more popular in China. 任務(wù) 1：用方框中所給詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使文章通順、連貫、合理。 10. Where was Leonardo da Vinci born? ___________________________________________________________________________. 訓(xùn)練 (五 ) （ A） mean use read probable easy Reading books is a good hobby for all of us. It’ s useful for us to read books. If you read as a hobby, you’ ll get better at it. This 1 that you will read faster and will bee better at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will 2 find your schoolwork bees much 3 . Many school subjects depend on good reading, as you read, you learn more and more. Some people think, 4 is out of date. This is not true. You have to be able to read to use a puter. The better you read, the better your puter skills will be. Reading is hardly out of date. Reading books is a wonderful hobby. What other hobbies could be more 5 , or more enjoyable? (B) American women have fought for the same place as men for long. This is also shown in the culture and social life in different ways. The earliest change is that American women began to go out of home for work. That has made men not the only one that makes money for home. But soon they began to fight to get the same pay for the same work. So now we can’ t see different pays due to genders (性別 ). And today, the American women are still fighting, because they have found that they don’ t have the same chances to get some jobs. And they should have the ability to do it well. Though this fight has never stopped, they still accept that they are called after their husbands’ family names after marrying them. One victory about their names is the word “ Ms.” . They can be called Ms. something, and it doesn’ t mean they are married or not, just like the used of “ Mr.” . 任務(wù) 1：用方框中所給詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使文章通順、連貫、合理。 10. What has a lot of advantages? ___________________________________________________________________________. 訓(xùn)練 (三 ) （ A） smart write be late fill Reading can benefit people in many ways. Reading helps us to follow the 1 developments of science and technology (科技 ). Reading provides us with information about other culture and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that 2 strange to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the 3 we bee. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English. We all know that we can’ t learn everything at school, for example, the ways English people are speaking and 4 today. Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to form the habit of reading every day. “ Reading makes a 5 man.” (B) In 1928, a new chemical lab was opened to make a kind of an – made materials. Wallace Carothers took part in the team when he was 32 years old. In 1934, he made fibers (纖維 ), but the fibers were quite weak. He didn’ t give up. After many experiments, he made the long and strong fibers in 1935. They named the