2014高三时文阅读（一）From magic to maturity词数 398 建议阅读时间 6分钟EMMA Watson might always beHermione Granger to you aftershe made her career starring inthe Harry Potter film series.Instead of taking a quick trip togrown-up stardom like manyother young actors, she decidedto spend a few years atuniversity. Now, the23-year-old from Britain is backand smarter than ever. She‟slooking to prove that she is nolonger the little girl at Hogwarts. “I need to be able to be good,bad, bold (胆大的) or innocent (纯真的) in whatever role I take on,” Watson told Spain‟s Metro Latin America, discussing her new movie Noah (《诺亚方舟》). The film follows a man, Noah, who has visions (幻觉) of death and destruction by floods of water. So, he decides to build a massive (巨大的) boat, Ark, to hold animals and his own family before disasters take place. Watson plays Noah‟s adopted (收养的) daughter, Ila, whom he had saved from death and raised as one of his own. The movie has been a box office success in theaters around theEmma Watson, 23, will graduate from Brown University next month.AFPworld. Since the Potter series, Watson has worked hard to shake her wholesome (品学兼优的), childlike image. Sometimes, she has a hard time convincing directors that she can play more adult roles. “I was being offered roles that I didn‟t feel were very complicated,” she told Elle magazine. “[I was being asked to play] women that were a bit one-dimensional (单维度的). Real women never are.”So, rather than accept mediocre (普通的) work, she only accepts projects that challenge her public persona (形象). In Noah, Watson found her first in which she becomes a woman on screen. The story stretches over many years, which posed (造成) a challenge in casting. “You needed the poise (仪态) of a strong woman as well as the innoce nce of a young child,” the movie‟s director, Darren Aronofsky, told Elle. He recalled Watson‟s steely (钢铁般的) nerve on set. “She was able to block out all those ridiculous external (外部的) forces and just focus on the emotion at hand.” Watson certainly has come a long way to become a great actress and fashion icon. As a student at Brown University, where she‟ll be graduating in May, she is rapidly becoming a role model. She often speaks out against women‟s beauty standards, according to UK-based online magazine Contact music. She says the perfect image that comes from digital manipulation (操作) is “dangerously unhealthy”. “I‟m more interested in women who aren‟t perfect. They‟re more compelling (吸引人的),” Watson t old the UK‟s The Sunday Times.Teens点金stretchvi. 延续，穿越一段时间Her interest in art stretches back to her childhood.（二）Time spent offline让青春远离毫无营养的网络小说。
词数 385 建议阅读时间 6分钟EITHER I nodded off or fixed my vacant (空洞的) eyes on the blackboard. My mind wasfilled with various moving plots of Internetnovels. I behaved this way in class.Completely hooked (着迷的) on the wordson the cell phone screen, I nodded or shookmy head in response to my parents‟attempts to talk with me. I behaved thisway at home. Isolated (被孤立的), I couldn‟t concentrate on what my friends were saying, and I couldn‟t have fun with them. I behaved this way when hanging out with friends. As you can see, since I got addicted to Internet novels, my life has almost been ruined.But so silly was I that I didn‟t give the slightest notice or care to my dangerous situation. I became blind and found excuses to dig into novel after novel, which were full of unrealistic love stories or lucky dogs‟ incredible p aths to success, all catering to (迎合) teenagers‟ imaginations.Then, one day, I started to change my behavior.Depression overwhelmed (使不知所措) me that day because my test score was an utter disaster. I rushed home immediately after school, hoping to seek some comfort from my parents. But much to my disappointment, they didn‟t embrace (拥抱) me as usual. Rather, they just fixed their eyes on the TV screen and th rew me a careless “never mind”.Hating to bear their coldness, I could n‟t help but burst into tears. Suddenly, I found myself in Mom‟s arms. She held me tightly, wiped my tears and said that theyGeng Xiaoqing used to struggle with Internet addiction. PHOTO COURTESY OF GENG XIAOQINGwere pretending to act that way to make me realize how awful my behavior had been in those days.“It‟s high time that you reflected on what you‟ve done,” she said.I began to feel truly ashamed of my addiction and my lack of self-control.I instantly deleted all the novels from my computer and cell phone.I tried to pay full attention to school work and spend quality time with my parents and friends.Every time that horrible period of my life flashes through my mind, it warns me that no one is supposed to be under the control of anything, especially any forms of entertainment. This tough lesson will propel (激励) me forward to reach my dreams（三）谈谈你对中国运动式校服的看法。
