UNIT 8 Lesson 1 Focus On Language—语法·提升语言能力(Word教参)-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第三册（北师大版2019）

[课时跟踪检测]　阅读理解专项练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer.This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem — inability to read. In the library, I found my way into the “Children's Room”. I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random.The cover of a book caught my eye.It presented a picture of a beagle.I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child.He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him.I never forgot my beagle.Without opening the book — Amos, the Beagle with a Plan, I borrowed it from the library for the summer. Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos.I read very, very slowly with difficulty.Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home.That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book.At the end of the story, my mind continued to the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together. My mother's call returned me to the real world.I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. I never told my mother about my “miraculous” experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year.And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.The power of the words has held. 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者12岁时，母亲为了治愈他的阅读问题让他每天去图书馆至少借一本书，最后作者被一本书吸引，爱上阅读的故事。 1．Why did the author's mother tell him to borrow a book? A．To let him spend a meaningful summer. B．To encourage him to do more walking. C．To help cure him of his reading problem