26.According to the research, people
with
emotional
least 20 minutes each day.We hope to help families develop a habit of reading aloud every day throughout and beyond primary
We'll
finish
the
instability are more likely to be born in .
A. spring B. summer school. C. autumn D. winter 27.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. The season of your birth decides who you are.
B. Physical exercise can change your personality. C.
You
can
change
your
personality regardless of your birth season.
D. A lot of research has been done on how someone’s birth season affects their personality. C
Join the Family Read-Aloud Celebration, held by the Gonda Family Library and the Family School Alliance at UCLA Lab School, from February 21 to March 14,2020. We ask you to spend time reading aloud to your children at
celebration with a party on March 14 for the whole school. Ways to join:
● Visit Book Corner for reading aloud suggestions.
Come to the start of the activity on Friday, Feb, 21.
● Add books to our list of favorite read aloud
● Send us a photo of your family reading together (jkan,tor@ucta. edu). We will share it at the party.
● Record your family's reading journey! .
● Join us for th︿ party on March 14,5一7 p. rn. Go on a reading journey! Books can introduce your family to interesting people, exciting places,
adventures
and
information. Let your journeys
take you through these categories:
● Fiction ● Picture books ● Poetry
● Science ● History ● Sports
● Arts ● other Non-Fiction ● Benefits of Reading Aloud Reading aloud helps a cloud to read with pleasure, create background knowledge, and build vocabulary. It also provides children with a reading model. Reading aloud doesn't just benefit
young children. Parents should continue reading aloud as their children grow because listening comprehension is more important than reading skills in middle school.
Jim Trelease, in his Read-Aloud Handbook, has noted that almost as big a mistake as not
reading to children at all is stopping too soon Until about the eighth grade, children listen and
comprehend on a higher level than their reading skills allow them to read independently, This means children can hear and understand stories that are more difficult and more interesting than
anything they can read on their own
28.What’s the purpose of the Family Read-Aloud Celebration? A To celebrate the joys of reading.
B. To help improve family relationship,
C. To change families bad reading habits.
D. To get families into the habit of reading aloud.
29.If you want to join the activity, you're supposed to __
A. mail a book to the school B. make an appearance at the
starting day
C. read out loud from 5～7 p. m every day D. share your reading experience at the party 30.We can infer from Jim Tyelease that .
A. young children show greater skills at listening than reading B. children should be allowed to make mistakes in reading C. interesting stories are easier
for
children
to
understand
D. the eighth-graders can-t read on their own
31.In which part of a website can We find the text?
A Culture B. Lifestyle. C. Education. D. Science. D
I was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a complaint about our way to deal with an old bush which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters
to the local paper, even to a national to protest about our projected by-pass to her village, and, looking at a map, the route was nowhere near where she lived and it wasn’t as if the area was attractive. I was more than puzzled, I was intrigued. I wanted to know what it was that motivated her. So it was that I found myself knocking on a cottage door, being received by Mary Smith and then being taken for a walk to the woods. “I’ve always loved this place”, she said, “it has a lot of memories for me, and for
others. We all used it. They called it ‘Lovers lane’. It’s not much of a lane, and it doesn’t go anywhere important, but that’s why we all came here. To be away from people, to be by ourselves.” She added. It was indeed pleasant that day and the songs of many birds could be heard. Squirrels gazed from
the branches, quite bold in their movements, obviously few people passed this way and they had nothing to fear. I could imagine the noise of vehicles passing through these peaceful woods when the by-pass was built, so I felt that she probably had something there but as I hold strong opinions about the needs of the community over-riding the opinions of private individuals, I said nothing. The village was quite a distant and dangerous place because of the traffic especially for old people and children, their safety was more important to me than an old woman’s whims (怪念头). “Take this tree”, she said pausing after a short while. “To you it is just that, a tree. Not unlike many others here”. She gently touched the bark. “Look here, under this branch, what can you see?”
“It looks as if someone has done
a bit of carving with a knife” I said after a cursory (草率的) inspection.
“Yes, that’s what it is!” she said softly. “There are letters and a lover’s heart”. I looked again, this time more carefully. The heart was still there and there was an arrow through it. The letters on one side were indistinct, but on the other an ‘R’ was clearly visible with what looked like an ‘I’ after it. “Some budding romance?” I asked, “Did you know who they were?”
“Oh yes, I knew them”, said Mary Smith, “it says RH loves MS”.
After a pause, she went on … “He had a penknife and I helped him to carve my initials. We were very much in love, but he was going away, and could not tell me what he was involved in the army. I had guessed of course. It was the last evening we ever spent
together, because he went away the next day, back to his Unit.” Mary Smith was quiet for a while, then she sobbed, “His mother showed
me
the
telegram.
‘Sergeant R Holmes ... Killed in action in the invasion of France.’”
I realized that I could be getting out of my depth, and longed to be in my office, away from here and this old lady, snug, and with a cup of tea in my hand. There was a further pause. Mary Smith gently touched the wounded tree, just as she would have caressed him. “And now they want to take our tree away from me.” Another quiet sob, then she turned to me. “I was young and pretty then, I could have had anybody, I wasn’t always the old woman you see here now. I could have had everything I wanted in life, a lovely man, health and a future to look forwards to”. She paused again and looked
around. The breeze gently moved through the leaves with a sighing sound. “There were others, of course, but not a patch on my Robin!” she said strongly. “And now I have nothing except the memories this tree holds. If only I could get my hands on that awful man who writes in the paper about the value of the road they are going to build where we are standing now, I would tell him. Has he never loved, has he never lived, does he not know anything about memories? We were not the only ones, you know, I still meet some who came here as Robin and I did. Yes, I would tell him!” I turned away, sick at heart. 32.Why was the by-pass to Mary Smith’s village to be built through these woods?
A. The community wanted to explore the beauty of the woods as a way of tourism.
B. Many people passed these woods causing heavy traffic jam.
(衡水万卷)2020届高三英语二轮复习 作业卷三十六
