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閱讀下面的短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。

George claims that he read 53 books in 2014. My friend and I found this fairly unbelievable, considering he seems to have a pretty full schedule.

Anyway, it appears that I am on track to read 72 new books this year. But I've come to realize that this number can easily be skewed（扭曲）. For instance, currently I am reading Rising Tide: The Story of the Mississippi Flood of 1927. This book is over 700 pages. It's going to take me the month of May (along with Harry Potter rereads; I can't read nonfiction while going to sleep). So my May average will be way off. However, when I read chick-lits (雞仔文學(xué), 都市女性文學(xué)), I can get those done in a day. I guess it all depends on what I choose to read.

In reality, reading is beneficial because it encourages us to slow down our thinking, and also to fully interpret someone else's experience. Reading keeps the mind sharp and expands a person’s vocabulary. We read to educate ourselves. We read to help ourselves. We read to escape our own lives and live in that of another for a little while.

【寫作內(nèi)容】

1．以約30個詞概括上文的主要內(nèi)容；

2．以約120個詞就“讀書”這個話題談?wù)勀愕南敕�，�?nèi)容包括：

（1）對比上文，你每年閱讀多少書籍；

（2）舉例說明你從閱讀中獲得的好處；

（3）呼吁人們多讀書。

【寫作要求】

1．可以使用實例來支持你的論點，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；2．作文中不能出現(xiàn)真實姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

【評分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)】 概括準(zhǔn)確，語言規(guī)范，內(nèi)容合適，語篇連貫

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