教育文化类：读书
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should focus on the importance of reading. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
范文
In the picture above is an editor talking with an author in an editorial department. Sitting in a chair comfortably and holding a mobile phone in his hand, the former is asking the latter to condense her novel in 140 characters to appeal to adolescents.
The purpose of the drawing is to show us that due attention should be paid to reading. Firstly, a good book is our faithful friend. It can increase our contentment when we are cheerful and happy, and lessen our pain when we are sad or lonely. Furthermore, reading can also offer us a wide range of experiences. In reading we may join tourists marveling at incredible power of Niagara Falls, mingle with the happy throngs strolling in the Paris boulevards and experience the bitterness or joy of people in different lands and in different times. Few of us can travel far from home or live long over one hundred, but all of us can live many lives through the pages of books.
Though with the advent of TV and Internet, books are no longer read as extensively as they once were, nothing can replace the role that reading extensively plays in our lives.
参考译文
上图中有一位编辑正在和一位作者在编辑部谈话。这位编辑舒适地坐在沙发里，手里拿着手机，要求作者把她的小说浓缩到140词以吸引年轻人。
这幅漫画的目的是告诉我们应该充分重视读书。首先，一本好书就是我们一个忠实的朋友。当我们高兴和幸福时，书能增添我们的快乐;当我们伤心和孤独时，书能减轻我们的痛苦。书还能向我们提供各种经历。读书中我们可以成为游客，尽情赞叹尼亚加拉瀑布那雷霆万钧之势，喜洋洋地和许多人一起漫步在巴黎的林荫大道上，还可以体验到不同时代、不同国土的人民的酸甜苦辣。我们中很少人能到很远的地方去旅游，或能活过一百岁，但是通过读书我们能经历各种各样的生活。
虽然随着电视、手机和网络的出现，读书的人没有以前多了，但没有什么东西可以取代书籍在我们生活中的作用。
亮点词汇
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道长点评
国内写作考试已经多次考察关于“读书”的话题，分别是1991年专业四级真题“My View on Reading Extensively”，1999年6月四级真题“Reading Selectively or Extensively”(有选择阅读还是博览群书)，2015年英语(一)小作文“推荐书籍”等。2012年莫言成为首个获得诺贝尔文学奖的大陆作家，掀起了全国范围的读书热，希望考生引起重视。
经典句型
Novels require that we use our own imagination to visualize the settings, characters and events, allowing us to become an active participant in the story.小说要求我们运用自己的想象力使背景、人物和事件形象化，允许我们成为故事中积极的参与者。
Reading are gratifying in its own way and can people to relax and unwind.读书有令人满意的地方并且可以帮助人们放松休闲。
Whether you are reading a book in your native language or a foreign tongue, you can always enhance your language skills.不管你读的书是母语还是外语写的，你总是能提高自己的语言技能。
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