【正文】 the example she has set. I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother looks in mine. 25. The author prefers to show appreciation to her mother. A. to tell her mother face to face B. to make a call C. never to tell her mother D. to write it out 26. According to the last paragraph, the author tends to . A. follow her mother’s example B. pray for friends’ mother C. ask God more questions D. show love to her mother 27. What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage? A. To tell us how to raise a child. B. To memorize her friends’ mothers. C. To thank her mother and be a good mother. D. To expect something special from her children. C If it had been for Fan Jinshi and her team, the word cultural heritage at Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in a remote Chinese desert might have long been destroyed by sand, weather or humans. Born and raised in Shanghai, Fan has spent half a century fighting an uphill battle to preserve the ancient Buddhist wall paintings at Dunhuang, in Northwest China’s Gansu province, The 1,600yearold Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are a huge collection of Buddhist artmore than 2,000 Buddha figures and 45,000 square meters of paintings spread among 735 caves. It is China’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Archaeologist Fan was sent to Dunhuang after graduating from Peking Univereity in 1963. While in Dunhuang, a remote village in the desert then, Fan lived in an abandoned temple. At first, she did not even dare to go out to the toilet at night. To protect the treasures from sand and dampness， Fan and other workers put doors on the caves, planted trees and started monitoring temperature and humidity (濕度 ) in the caves. They also control the number of visitors. In the late 1990s, with tourism booming nationwide since national holidays were extended, the local government planned to go public with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, but found Fan firmly in their way. “The heritage would have been destroyed if it had been listed,” she said. Dunhuang academy has now photographed and cataloged online all the sculptures and paintings. “Despite our efforts to minimize damage, we can’t pletely stop them from being eroded (腐蝕 ). But the digital database will last.” Fan was grateful when her husband joined her in Dunhuang in 1986 after 19 years of separation. Her two sons grew up in Shanghai with their aunt. “I have not been a good mother or wife. With regard to my family, I’m full of guilt,” she said. Fan, 79, retired two years ago as the director of Dunhuang Academy but continues her efforts as a national political advisor. 28. Which measures didn’t Fan Jinshi take to protect Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes? A. Opened Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes to the public extensively. B. Planted trees and stopped the Dunhuang Mogao being eroded. C. Pictured and classified all the sculptures and paintings online. D. Put doors on the caves and monitored temperature and humidity. 29. When was Fan separated from her husband? A. In 1963. B. In 1967. C. In 1986. D. In the late 1990s. 30. The passage is mainly about . A. the history of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes B. the attractions of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes C. Fan’s devotion to preserving Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes D. the appeal for the protection of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes 31. What kind of person do you think Fan is? A. considerate and easygoing B. kind and intelligent C. humorous and sweettempered D. devoted and persistent D It doesn’t matter if books are delivered in print or by smart phone, and the main thing is to get lost in reading them. Why should we bother reading a book? All children say this occasionally. Many adults with reading difficulties repeat it to themselves daily. In a world of accelerating technology, increasing time poverty and decreasing attention lengths, should they devote precious time sinking into a good book? The discovery is that an extraordinary book has a transformative, effect on the way we view the world. This transformation only takes place when we lose ourselves in a book, abandoning the emotional and mental chat of the real world. That’s why studies have found deep reading makes us more attentive to the inner lives of others. We know reading is the foundation stone of all education, and an essential strength of the knowledge economy. But perhaps even more significant is its emotional role as the starting point for individual development and pleasure. Books can open up emotional, imaginative and historical views that equal and extend the corridors (通道 ) of the web. If reading were to decline significantly, it would change the very nature of our species. If we, in the future, are no longer wired for our own reflection and creative thought, we will be weaker. However, technology throws up solutions as many as challenges: for every door it closes, another opens. So the ability, offered by equipments like ereaders, smart phones and tablets, to carry an entire library in your hand is an amazing opportunity. We should concentrate on the message, not worried about the medium. We must also get better at controlling the ability of the inter to inform readers, and potential readers, about all the new books that are published every year, and to renew their acquaintance with the best of rich literary tradition. If we stop reading, we will be different people: less plex, less interesting. There can hardly be a better reason for fighting to protect the future of the book. 32. Why does deep reading make us more attentive to the inner lives of others? A. Because we have varieties of resources of reading. B. Because