Books are a high cost of higher education. But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand electronic textbooks for students in developing countries.
The aim is to offer subjects that students may take in their first few years at university. The books could be printed or read on a computer or copied onto a CD or DVD．
Richard Watson is the acting head of the department of management information systems at the University of Georgia, who says the idea went back several years. He was teaching a computer programming class but did not have a good textbook ,so he asked his students each to write part of the book that he would organize and edit. By the end of the term, Professor Watson had a finished product. Since then he has used it for other classes .Now, Professor Watson is seeking volunteers to supervise（監(jiān)督）the creation of books for the library. He is looking for professors or other professionals.?
The Global Text Project is similar in technology to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia （a reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects）that anyone can edit on the Internet .But only one or two people will be able to make the final edits in texts.?
The project includes a committee（委員會）of scholars ,mostly from developing countries ,to advise on necessary textbooks and their contents.?
The group′s first book on information systems is being tested in Ethiopia and Indonesia. The plan is to offer about ten free books within the next year, including an English grammar text. Project organizers also want to offer textbooks in Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. They are working with a translation company and students could also get involved .For example ,a student learning English in an Arab country could translate part of a book into Arabic. Then another student and the class professor could check the translation.?
1．The main topic discussed in the passage is _______.?
A．E-books for university students in developing countries?
B．how to create a free library?
C．how to edit textbooks on the Internet?
D．volunteers in the Global Text Internet?
2．The committee of the Global Text Project consists of_______.?
A．volunteers who are learning foreign languages?
B．scholars from developing countries?
C．some professors or other professionals from developing countries?
D．students from developing countries
3．Paragraph 3 suggests that ________?
A．Richard Watson works in a library in the University of Georgia?
B．the computer programming class doesn’t need textbooks at all?
C．the textbook is organized and edited by each student?
D．Richard Watson is creative in his teaching?
4．The "Wikipedia" in Paragraph 4 refers to ________.?
A．a(chǎn) series of textbooks used in developed countries?
B．a(chǎn) book sold online?
C．a(chǎn) free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
D．a(chǎn)nother name for the Global Text Project
5．According to the passage , which of the statements is TRUE ??
A．The Global Text Project hasn’t been put into practice by far .
B．Everyone can edit the final texts of the textbooks from the Global Text Project.?
C．The Global Text Project aims to offer one thousand textbooks to developing countries.
D．The project may provide a good chance of translation for students learning a foreign language.?
科目：高中英語 來源：2012屆湖北省武漢市武昌區(qū)高三5月調(diào)研英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
Why Rent Textbooks?
Renting textbooks is a relatively new idea for everyone. Back in the old days, the idea of renting one never existed since the books are affordable or readily available in libraries. But the time has changed and with the changes in educational system and various economic challenges happening across the globe, the price of textbooks increased.
Given such fact, textbook renting is now a new fashion among college students. Research was made to find out if renting helps one save money and time rather than buying new textbooks and realized that it really is. Let’s examine carefully further and see why renting books is a cost-effective way to still get to have your textbooks without shelling too much money from your pocket.
Gives value for your money
You don’t have to buy all of your textbooks. Those non-major subjects, are better acquired through renting. It saves one money and helps you give out the money you save on some other personal possessions you need in college.
Renting textbooks allows you to save at least 50% off the standard retail (零售) price for each item. You can tell, with a little research, that renting is a lot cheaper compared to buying used books aside from looking way better than the former.
Saves time
You can save a great deal of time when renting a textbook. Instead of browsing your way for hours trying to look for better deals online, you can simply go to a popular book renting marketplace online and just order away. There is literally no need to skimming for hours and see where you can find a great deal. Often, the rental company gives you prepaid postage slip just to get you going and do the same when you decide to return the book.
This process not only saves you time, it also saves other resources like gas if you decide to go to the nearest bookstore to buy books or spend hours using electricity just to find a good deal.
User Friendly
Aside from being able to save money and time, renting textbooks brings convenience to all users. Imagine trying to scan the virtual bookshelf and checking on comments of previous users and figuring out which ones got bad comments and which had great ones. It could be fun at first but if you are short of time, the process can become annoying.
If you rent books, you will only be needing the book’s ISBN number and find it right away. No more time-wasting site search. Type in the ISBN number, order the book, and wait for it to get shipped to your home.
【小題1】The reason why people haven’t the habit of renting textbooks in the old days is that ______.
| A．the educational system has not changed by now |
| B．people can afford books or get books easily in libraries |
| C．different economic challenges happen across the world |
| D．the price of textbooks is much higher than that of nowadays |
| A．saving | B．spending | C．removing | D．wasting |
| A．One can save a great deal of time in browsing for better deals online |
| B．It brings convenience to all the users apart from saving money and time |
| C．The process saves other resources if you don’t go to the nearest bookstore |
| D．It saves one money and helps him spend money on what he need most in college |
| A．renting textbooks allows you to save a lot of money |
| B．renting a textbook can also save you a great deal of time |
| C．textbook renting was a relatively new fashion among college students |
| D．textbook renting is a money-saving, fun, and, convenient way for college students |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014屆廣東東莞第七高級中學(xué)高二下學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：信息匹配
請閱讀以下相關(guān)的職業(yè)或興趣愛好:
A．The person works in a hospital emergency room. His/her job is to assist doctors to rescue patients who are seriously ill.
B．The person likes sports activities the most. For him/her, having sports activities is very interesting.
C．The person works for himself/herself at home. He/She writes for others.
D．The person doesn’t like other things such as gardening. But he/she really likes music, especially classical music.
E. The person likes collecting all kinds of things, such as baseball cards and stamps.
F. Many people may like collecting things, such as collecting cards or stamps. But he/she likes reading very much.
請閱讀以下個人信息，然后匹配與他們相關(guān)的職業(yè)或興趣愛好：
1. Mary: I never used to like stamp collecting. I read almost everything I can: books, magazines, newspapers. I go to the public library about twice a week. If you’d like to send me something, maybe books are my favorite.
2. Tom: My wife says I should take up gardening. We have a big garden and she loves working in it. But the truth is, it bores me. My friends and my wife think I’m really boring, because I’m always listening to music. I go to concerts all the time. I love Mozart and all that classical staff.
3. Mike: I don’t really like video games and that sort of things. I prefer being outdoors, hiking or playing sports. I always go out with my family playing baseball and stuff all the time. I think most sports are pretty interesting.
4. Lisa: I’m a free writer, and a lot of people think my job is easier because I don’t have to go to the office every day. And I don’t have to deal with office politics. But, you know, my job is very hard. I have to be very organized and much disciplined. And pretty self-motivated. And when I have a problem, there is no one around to help me.
5. Victor: My life is very stressful. In my working place, everyone is in a hurry and under tremendous pressure. The doctors are demanding, and there is always too much to do to save a dying patient.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014屆吉林省吉林市高二3月月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these "How to" books are available; in fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words "How to" One book may tell you how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or spend it, and another may explain how to give your money away. Many "How to" books give advice on careers (職業(yè)). They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed at it. If you fail, however, you can buy a book called “How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Million”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called "How to" Live on Nothing? One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read "How to" Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life.? If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer a book called "How to". Make Yourself miserable?
Many of these books help people use their time better. Some people want books which will give them useful information about sports, hobbies, and travel. Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes. They prefer books which give step by step instruction on how to repair things like plumbing (衛(wèi)生管道工程) and electrical wiring, or on how to redecorate (重新裝飾) or enlarge a house.
Why have "How to" books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. "How to" books help people deal with modern life.
1.These "How to" books are written to______.
A．tell people to love their life
B．earn money
C．give people some good advice on how to do something they want to do
D．say something about America
2.Before someone wants to find a good job. He had better______.
A．buy a book on "How to" Make a Million?
B．read a book on how to choose a career and how to succeed at it
C．beg bosses or managers for it
D．use his free time to look for it
3.If people will not succeed in what he is doing a book called________
can give help.
A．＂How to" Turn Failure into Success？
B．"How to" Make a Million?
C．"How to" Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life?
D．"How to" Make Yourself Miserable?
4.Which headline of the following is the best for this passage?
A．“How to" Books in America
B．"How to" Books Are Ordinary in America
C．Thousands of "How to" Books
D．Books with Title That Begin with the Words "How to"
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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆浙江省高三第一次月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：完型填空
Megan's Library of Love book drive began in 2006, in memory of a student who passed away. The_ 21__ to send books to a school _22 _was created by Megan's classmates at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle School as a tribute（悼念）to her.
The project formed out of the desire to23 _Megan, to help our community heal, and to make a _24__ in the life of others. Students have many 25_ of Megan, but the most vivid was her love for her family and the diligent 26__ she gave to her classmates. They combined this with her _27_ for learning and reading to create the Library of Love. This project honors Megan's special qualities. In the _28__of one of her classmates, Megan was, “A good daughter, a good student, a good friend. ”We are all blessed to have been a _29_ of Megan's life.
Every February, on Megan's birthday, fifth graders at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle School _30 _donations of newly purchased books and send them to a school in need. The “Love books” are truly a __31__ of love meant to _32_ reading and learning. Students earn the money for postage by writing letters to local _33 _.The fifth graders also have the _34_ of labeling every book with a Library of Love sticker（標(biāo)簽）, _35_ the books into categories（類別）, and _36_ all the books for shipping.
In the two years since the Library of Love _37 _began, students have collected over 5000 newly purchased books to send to schools in need. In 2006, 3419 books were sent to St. Bernard's Parish to help _38 their school library after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the community. In 2007, 1613 books were sent to White Mountain School in Alaska, who _39 _their high school in a fire. Students look forward to sending the gift of _40 _to other schools in the future.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2012-2013學(xué)年河北衡水中學(xué)高三第一次模擬考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Sir,
Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Your company, Cosmo books Ltd., offered this set (eight books of plays and two books of poetry) at what was claimed to be a ‘remarkable’ price: fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing. I had wanted a set of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for some time, and these books, in red imitation leather, looked particularly attractive; so I sent for them.
Two weeks later, the books arrived, together with a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens which I had not ordered. So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a cheque for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare. Two more weeks passed. Then there arrived on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six book set of the plays of Moliere, in French. Since I do not read French, these were of no use to me at all. However, I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to come and collect all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further notice.
You did not reply to that letter. Instead you sent me a bill for forty two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two weeks, the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I hardly know what I have. The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and my car has to stand in the rain outside.
I have no room for any more books, and even if I read from now until the Last Judgment, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent me.
Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters demanding payment. Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, leaving me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.
Yours faithfully,
SIMON WALKER
1.Simon Walker wrote the letter to ________
A．show his anger to Cosmo Books Ltd..
B．complain about getting books he didn’t want.
C．a(chǎn)dvise readers not to order books from Cosmo Books Ltd..
D．urge for the final solution to the problem with the unwanted books.
2.The advertisement that Mr. Walker saw in the Morning Mail was for ________
A．unlimited number of Cosmo Books.
B．a(chǎn) set of 10 books of the works of Shakespeare.
C．fifteen pounds and fifty pence.
D．a(chǎn) book containing all the plays and poems of Shakespeare.
3.Mr. Walker answered the advertisement because ________
A．he wanted a set of Shakespeare’s works which was a good bargain
B．he claimed that the books were being offered at a remarkable price.
C．he had ordered the set and had been waiting for them to come for some time.
D．the set he already had was not particularly attractive.
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