一、词汇运用
1. I prefer reading (非虚构作品) because I can learn about many real-life events.
2. This magazine is an easy and interesting (读物) for kids.
3. The library has a big shelf full of children's (小说) with colourful pictures.
4. Louis Cha's wuxia (长篇小说) are popular among Chinese.
5. He is m up reasons. How could his car break down three times a week?

二、从方框中选择适当的单词或短语，在横线上填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次
although certain count by check out
How the Steel Was Tempered 《钢铁是怎样炼成的》 is a world-famous novel
1. ______ Nikolai Ostrovsky. It follows the life of Pavel Korchagin, a young man who decides to fight for a better world. As a brave fighter, Pavel never gives in, even when facing dangerous battles 战争. 2. ______ Pavel falls seriously ill in his 20s and loses the ability to work, he doesn't give up. Instead, he begins writing to continue his fight. His spirit has encouraged 3. ______ readers to face their life bravely.
The novel teaches people that if you have a strong mind, you will 4. get over any difficulty. If you wish to deeply feel Pavel's spirit, you can 5. this book from our school library and understand the true meaning of "being tempered like steel".

()1. Andy is a good storyteller. Moreover, he always stories by himself.
A. sets up B. holds up C. makes up D. stands up

()2. — I this novel last year and forgot to return it.
— Oh, god! You it for a year!
A. borrowed; keep B. have borrowed; kept
C. borrowed; have kept D. have kept; borrowed

()3. What can you learn from the Chinese saying on the right?
A. We should read while we are travelling.
B. Reading is no better than travelling.
C. You can't learn things until you read a lot.
D. Reading can open up a new world to us.
Reading ten thousand
books is like travelling
ten thousand miles.

()4. You can up to five books each time from the school library.
A. pick up B. check out C. find out D. hold up

()5. — It can be so enjoyable when you read a good book.
— . It also helps me learn a lot.
A. I don't think so B. I agree C. I'm afraid not D. No way

四、信息还原
As a child, I was afraid of the dark, as so many children are. Not the dark itself, but what I was certain it had: bad spirits, bad people, and anything bad. 1. I kept myself inside the light on winter evenings, thinking of light as magic protection. I went to bed with the hall light on.
Later on, two books changed my idea of the dark. One is Jill Tomlinson's book The Owl 猫头鹰 Who Was Afraid of the Dark. I've learned from the baby owl, Plop, that dark can be exciting, kind, fun, beautiful and super. 2. In this book, all the animals that are shown on the signs of a village's store climb down at midnight. 3. I began to see the possibilities of the dark, but I still preferred to meet it with a safety cordon 防护线 of light.
4. There I lived together with real dark for the first time in my life. I learned the wonder of a starry sky. On cool evenings when the stars seemed close enough to touch, I would dress myself in a warm coat and lie in a quiet yard and stretch 伸展 out into the sky, to the calling of owls from the woods. 5.
A. I tried different ways to keep dark away.
B. But I was sure about the wonderfulness of the dark.
C. However, I spent more time outdoors at night.
D. The other important book is Phyllis Arkle's Magic at Midnight.
E. Big changes took place when I moved to the countryside in east London.
F. These stories described night as a magical space where good things could happen.
G. Since then, I have learned to completely love the dark and everything that lives in it.