【正文】 words so as to understand the main idea of the article and the i__81__points in die article. Skimming and scanning is a good way in it limited (有限的) time, such as when you are taking an exam. However, today, many people skim and scan everything and they have l__82 __ the ability to enjoy reading. Something called the slow reading movement has bee popular to solve the problem. The idea is that people turn off their puters and mobile phones for over half an hour each day and enjoy the h__83__ of reading a good book—slowly! In many cities there are e__84__slow reading clubs here members go to a cafe, not to discuss books, but to sit quietly with each other, drink coffee and just read. Scientists have found that reading slowly, especially books of fiction, helps people relax and think about what they are reading. It also helps people empathize (共鳴). This point is essential. When you read a novel slowly, you get to understand the characters39。__85__their eyes.Reading, of course, isn39。ve enjoyed the pany (陪伴) of heroes, evil criminals and clever detectives, of thousand, of interesting people I would have never met in real life. Reading provided me with escape, but it also e__86__me to understand the world around me. It was an education in a classroom that had no walls.In class, you have learned to read fast. A__87__class, you should try to learn to read slow. You may he surprised at how much you enjoy it.81 important 82 lost 83 happiness 84 even85 through 86 enabled 87 afterEleven 【徐匯】In March of 1999, Edie and Sarah began hiking（徒步旅行）the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. Sarah was a teacher, she and Edie thought their hike would be an intereting learning experience for students. Before they set off, they visited classrooms for two weeks. Students had the chance to try on a bag to see how much 81 w_____Sarah and Edie would be carrying during the trip. Students were also able to ask Sarah and Edie questions about the trail. Sarah and Edie planned to post photos and diaries on the Internett during the trip so that the students would be able to check on their 82 p_____.Before they left, Sarah and Edie packed 18 boxes with things they need like biscuits, noodles, peanut butteer , and dried fruits and vegetables. Their parents would mail the boxes to samll towns 83 a______the trail so Sarah and Edie could pick them up wherever they go. That way, Sarah and Edie did not have to carry all their supplies（補(bǔ)給）with them from the beginning of the trip. Sarah and Edie met plenty of friendly hikers during their trip. People who are hiking the Appalachian Trail often creat “trail names” for 84 t______and their friends. That explains why Sarah and Edie met hikers with names like”Cold Feet” and “Baked Beans”!There are many shelters. Hiker can stay there overnight, especially in times of bad weather. There are also books called Registers（簽到本）at many of the shelters. Hikers can sign the books and leave 85 n_____for friends they have made, giving them some information or just saying “Hi”.Sarah and Edie met with all kinds of weather on their hike. They had days of beautiful clear weather, but they also hiked through rainstorms. 86 S_______the weather was so hot that they had to drink a lot of water.When Sarah and Edie were in Virginia, there was a forest fire. They had to wait until it was 87 c_____safe to go on. Because of a fire in Shenandoah National Forest, they missed a 45mile of the hike. Later in their trip, Sarah and Edie had to ask someone to drive them back there so they would not miss a single mile of the AT!Four and a half months after they began the hike in Georiga, Sarah and Edie finally succeeded at Mount Katahdin in Maine.8187 weight progress along themselves notes sometimes pletelyTwelve【楊浦】When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a hospital for people with mental health problem.When he l 81 the hospital, Adams decided to bee a doctor, so be went to medical school in the state of Virginia, in the . There he often did things differently from the doctors and other students. For example, he didn39。s w 82 coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients. He also tried to make them happy. The doctors at the medical school didn39。 Listen to birds or the sound of your ax (斧子). If the sound is sharp, stormy weather is moving nearer. If the sound dissipates (散去), a highpressure system and nice weather is on the w____81___.216。 View the s____83____of the campfire to see if it rises. If it does, expect a highpressure system and nice 216。 weather. 216。 Feel the direction of the wind. A wind blowing from the east show that a storm is likely to happen. A wind from the west means a s____84____day.216。 Monitor the clouds. The higher the clouds are, the better the weather. If the clouds bine or you see an overlapping (重疊) of increasing clouds, and the sky turns into a milky c____86____—a storm is about to e.