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ory.D. To find outAbout their ways of thinking.C Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and them need to disscus ,the website BookCrossing, turns the page on the traditional idea of a book groups. Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves place, hoping that the book will have an adventure,traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it. Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, The two山logs thatchange your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing bines both Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops.Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it. People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of are then can to the BookCrossers to keep them updated about their books have been found. Bruce Pederson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the real and notthe virtual(虛擬).The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundredthirtyfive countries.29. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph? explain what they are.B. To introduce BookCrossing.C. To stress the importance of reading. encouraac readers to share their kleas.30. What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. The book. B. An adventure. public place. D. The identification number. will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?A. Meet other readers to discuss it. it safe in his bookcase. it on to another reader.D. Mail it back to its owner.32. What is the best title for the text?A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour.B. Electronic Books: A New Trend. book Group Brings Tradition Baok. Website Links People throught Books.D A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life. Frank Hurley39。s pictures would be outstanding undoubtedly firstrate photojoumalism if they had been made last fact,they were shot from 1914 through 1916,most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海難), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survial. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship. The ship was the Endurance,a small,tight,Norwegianbuilt threemaster that was intended to take Sir Emest Shackleton and a smakk crew of seamen and scientists,27 men in all,to the southernmost shore of antarctica39。s Weddell that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four panions on the march back.As writer Caroline Alexander makes clearin her forceful and wellresearched storyThe Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly mercial effort. Scott39。s last journey, pleted as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world39。s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchantnavy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the Soum Foie in 1908, started a busine