假设你是红星中学高三（1）班的学生李华，请根据下面四幅图的先后顺序，为校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文，记述你上周日陪同英国朋友Tom 和Mary体验北京的主要过程。词数不少于80。

You ________ reach him on his mobile now --- his mobile is still under repair.

A. shouldn’t B. wouldn’t

C. can’t D. mustn’t

______ opinions on the schedule, we finally reached on agreement.

A. Having exchanged B. Exchanging

C. Exchanged D. To exchange

______ she has earned her PhD, she wants to find a job with higher pay.

A. As if B. Now that

C. Even though D. In case

Premier Li Keqiang delivered a speech at the conference, _________ university graduates to start their own business.

A. encouraging

B. to encourage

C. having encouraged

D. encouraged

As we grow old, we realize that we have so little time to read and there are so many great books that we’ve yet to get around to. Ye re-readers are everywhere around us. For certain fans, re-reading The Lord of the Rings is a conventional practice annually. One friend told me that Jane Austen’s Emma can still surprise him, despite his having read it over 50 times.

New sudden clear understandings can be gained from the process of re-reading. Journalist Rebacca Mead, a long-time Englishwoman in New York, first came across George Eliot’s Middlemarch at 17. Since then, she has read it again every five years. With each re-reading, it has opened up further; in each chapter of her life, it has resonated (引起共鸣) differently. Mead evidenced the large number of ways in which really good books not only stand the test of repeat reads, but also offer fresh gifts each time we crack their spines. These kinds of books grow with us.

Scientists have also recognized the mental health benefits of re-reading. Research conducted with readers in the US found that on our first reading, we are concerned with the “what” and the “why”. Second time round, we’re able to better appreciate the emotions that the plot continues to express. As researcher Cristel Russell of the American University explained, returning to a book “brings new or renewed appreciation of both the great book and its readers.”

It’s true that we often find former selves on the pages of old books (if we’re fond of making notes on the pages). These texts can carry us back to a time and place, and remind us of the kind of person that we were then. We’re changed not only by lived experience but also by read experience – by the books that we’ve discovered since last reading the one in our hand.

More so than the movie director or the musician, the writer calls upon our imaginations, using words to lead us to picture this declaration of love or that unfaithfulness in life. A book is a joint project between writers and readers, and we must pour so much of ourselves into reading that our own life story can become connected with the story in the book.

Perhaps what’s really strange is that we don’t re-read more often. After all, we watch our favourite films again and we wouldn’t think of listening to an album only once. We treasure messy old paintings as objects, yet of all art forms, literature alone is a largely one-time delight. A book, of course, takes up more time, but as Mead confirms, the rewards make it adequately worthwhile.

1.The two books are mentioned in Paragraph 1 mainly to __________.

A. attract the attention of readers

B. introduce the topic of the passage

C. provide some background information

D. show the similarity between re-readers

2.The underlined expression “crack their spines” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A. recite them B. re-read them

C. recall them D. retell them

3.It can be learned from the passage that __________.

A. reading benefits people both mentally and physically

B. readers mainly focus on feelings on their first reading

C. we know ourselves better through re-reading experience

D. writers inspire the same imaginations as film directors do

4.The purpose of the passage is to __________.

A. call on different understandings of old books

B. focus on the mental health benefits of reading

C. bring awareness to the significance of re-reading

D. introduce the effective ways of re-reading old books

假设你是红星中学高二（1）班的学生李华，请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，为校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文，记述寒假期间你在中国国家博物馆做志愿讲解员的经历。

注意：1．词数不少于60。

2．短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。

During this winter vacation, I worked as a volunteer guide in the National Museum of China.

—Is the project difficult for the students?

—No. Most of the relevant information ______ to them.

A. has been provided B. has provided

C. had been provided D. had provided

Once ______, the book will surely attract readers’ attention since it is related to people’s health.

A. publishing B. having published

C. published D. to publish

Students show great interest in ______ Professor Edwards presents to them in his class.

A. whichever B. wherever

C. whatever D. however