After months of study, you have some time to relax. So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, “Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and other media(媒体)that offer a lot more colorful programs. Books are history!” But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot to be said for reading. ① One clear reason is that a well-chosen ______ is a wonderful collection of ______ and expressions, as long as you have a good dictionary, of course. Believe me, it’s far easier to get standard English than from the TV or the Internet. ② But an even more important point is that books give you something that modern media cannot. The webpage is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible. Though “easy” may be welcome, unluckily it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level. For that, there’s still no substitute(替代品) for a book. But perhaps the best reason is that simply choosing what you read and doing it by yourself means that it’s something you do by and for yourself. You can choose what you want to read. It’s hard work, but while you are reading, you’ll find that what once seemed like a duty is now a pleasure. Reading can bring us pleasure.
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假如下图是你学校的平面建筑示意图，请你根据所给提示，以My School为题，写一篇80词左右的英语短文，介绍你学校的建筑布局情况并谈谈你对学校的看法。
注意：
(1) 短文中不能出现真实的学校名称和考生姓名；
(2) 短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。
My School
This is a map of my school.
What is the most important thing in the world? I think it is health. You can take away our money, house, car, or even our clothes and we can survive (生存). But (1) if our health is taken away, we will surely die. This is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly.
(2) Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body. We should do sports for half an hour or forty minutes every morning or every evening, such as going for a walk, playing basketball or football, swimming and so on.
To keep healthy, I have another idea: don’t overwork. Too much work will be bad for you.
Do you know that in some parts of the world, people build temporary（暂时的）hotels made of snow and blocks（大块）of ice? These are known as ice hotels.
Unlike usual hotels, all the rooms in the ice hotels are made of ice. In some ice hotels, even the glasses for drinks are made of ice blocks. So they only serve cold drinks. Also, hot food is not served in the ice hotels, but guests can eat hot food at places nearby.
To keep warm, guests sleep in comfortable sleeping bags on ice blocks that are covered by mattresses（床垫）and reindeer skins（驯鹿皮）.
There are some places in the ice hotels that are heated, such as the bathrooms. This is because, even though it is not as cold in the ice hotels as it is outdoors（在户外）, indoor temperatures are still very low.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the ice hotels is that they are rebuilt every year. They can be used only during the winter months. The ice hotels melt（融化）away when spring arrives. The ice blocks used to build these hotels are from nearby rivers. So, when the ice hotels melt away, they melt back into the rivers.
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