A cancerstricken British teenager said Thursday she had been moved by messages of support from around the world after writing an online “Bucket List” of things she wanted to do before dying.
Alice Pyne,15，created an Internet blog in which she described her fight against a cancer of the white blood cells.“I’ve been fighting cancer for almost four years，and now I know that the cancer is gaining on me and it doesn’t look like I’m going to win this one，” she wrote.
For her list，at the site：www.alicepyne.blogspot.com，she has included making everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor (骨髓捐赠者)，swimming with sharks，meeting boy band Take That and getting a purple iPad computer.
Messages of support and offers of help quickly flooded her webpage and it became one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter.
“Oh，dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends！” she wrote after her site attracted huge attention.“Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me.”
Pyne，who lives with her family in the northwest English town of Ulverston，revealed (透露) the management of Take That had arranged for her to see the band after reading her blog. A group of local lawmakers have also joined forces with the Anthony blood cancer charity to encourage people to join its stem cell register.
1.What happened after Alice Pyne wrote her “Bucket List”？
A. People around the world sent messages to support her
B. People sent gifts to her from all over the world.
C. A lot of people offered to donate bone marrow to her.
D. The media called on people to help her.
2.Alice Pyne wrote her “Bucket List” to________.
A. catch people’s attention
B. say goodbye to a few friends
C. give comfort to two terminally ill men
D. express her last few wishes
3.It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Alice Pyne________.
A. is unaware of her own conditions
B. is very sad to know that she will die
C. is calm to know that death is approaching
D. is still quite confident in fighting against cancer
4.Take That will arrange to________.
A. meet Pyne in person
B. help Pyne in any possible way
C. donate money to Pyne
D. invite Pyne to join the band
A crisis is on the way. Global warming? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who’s responsible? What is responsible? The Internet, of course, and everything that comes with it—Facebook, Twitter, etc.
There’s been a warning about the coming death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to end the written world. None did. Reading survived; In fact, it not only survived, but it has developed better. The world is more literate than ever before — there are more and more readers and more and more books.
The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations(插图), an e-book can provide readers with an unlimited number of links：to texts, pictures, and videos.
On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization(碎片化).One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long“digests”of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation(碎片)of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span(时间)—that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.
In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone entirely in pace with modern technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.
1.In Paragraph 2,we can learn .
A. the disappearance of traditional books
B. the development of human civilization
C. the historical challenges for reading
D. the birth of pioneering e-books
2.According to the passage, the advantage of e-books is .
A. 1imited link
B. imaginative design
C. low cost
D. varied contents
3.How does the author feel towards single-sentence-long novels?
A. Doubtful B. Worried
C. Shocked D. Hopeful
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Technology is an opportunity and a challenge for traditional reading.
B. Technology pushes the way forward for reading and writing.
C. Interconnectivity is a feature of new reading experience.
D. Technology offers a greater variety of reading practice.
He showed us a magazine an article about him was printed along with his photograph.
A. when B. in whom
C. in which D. which
The famous writer is going to talk about the European countries and people he has visited in the past two months.
A. who B. whom
C. that D. which
These activities can offer you a platform you can meet new friends from all over the world.
A. where B. what
C. when D. which
I remembered one of those cool moonlit evenings we walked hand in hand along the lake.
A. which B. where
C. when D. what
