Reading for pleasure is the easiest way to become a better reader in English. It is also the most important way. Some students say they don't want to read for . They say they want to use their time to learn the rules of the language and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy.

    Many say pleasure reading is very important for learning English. Dr. Stephen Krashen, a famous expert on learning languages, says that pleasure reading helps you learn many important things about English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn more about good writing. Dr. Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student to learn something for himself. Pleasure reading makes it  for each student to learn what he or she needs.

    Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you your own books, and you don't have to remember everything. There are no tests on your pleasure reading books. Pleasure reading will help you：

    •learn how English speakers use English

    •read faster in English

    •find examples of good writing in English

    •learn new words

    •learn about the cultures of English speaker

We must thank John our son with his English.

    Once a boy wanted to fly. He made a pair of wings. He used some wax (错) to keep the feathers on the wooden frame. He flew and flew, and flew too close to the Sun. The Sun melted the wax, and the feathers were blown off by the wind. Down came the boy into the ocean.

    This is just a story. But it tells us that man has always dreamed of flying. In 1783, this dream came true. Two French brothers invented the hot-air balloon. It rose a thousand feet high.

    It took almost 100 years for man to move from the hot-air balloon to the first airship. The first airship was invented in the late 1800s. It was a powered (装有发动 机的) balloon.

    In North Carolina, less than twenty-five years later, the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane. This first flight, in 1903, lasted less than half a minute! It covered just a few feet.

    By the 1960s, man had moved from airplanes to spacecrafts. Today, space crafts can go around the world in less than two hours. Tomorrow. Who knows?