【推荐1】Beijing's transportation commission released a new regulation on Wednesday banning passengers from eating or drinking on the subway in a move intended to create a more comfortable space for travelers. Uncivilized behavior, such as selling products or playing loud music, are also prohibited under the regulation.

It will be included in the passenger's credit record that if a passenger disobeys the rules, and the he could be forbidden from taking the subway in the future, the commission said. The commission also assigned special inspectors and supervisors to identify improper behavior on subway trains. Prohibitions against smoking electronic cigarettes and using fake tickets were also added to the rules.

Liu Daizong, China transport program director at the World Resources Institute, applauded the new measure and said that as an enclosed space, a subway car will be filled with odors if passengers are allowed to have food. "These easily cause arguments between passengers, but there was no basis for law enforcement（实施） officers to get involved before," he said.

In January, a woman named Wang caused heated discussion online after she was filmed eating snacks and spitting out the food debris onto the floor of a car on Beijing's Line 13.She was later found by netizens to be the same woman previously filmed eating chicken claws and spitting out bones in a Shanghai subway car. Netizens had dubbed her "chicken feet lady". Other passengers asked Wang to clean up her mess but she refused, leaving the food packages in the subway car when she got off.She was later controlled by police in Beijing on suspicion of disrupting public transport.

Han Yanni, a 26-year-old white collar worker in the finance industry in Beijing, said drinking water and bread is her daily routine on the subway, especially in the morning rush. "Except for onions or sunflower seeds, I can put up with most of the eating behaviors," she said. "Especially if they take a garbage bag for their trash."

1. Which statement is true according to the passage?

A．It is not prohibited that a man smokes electronic cigarettes on the subway.

B．If a person breaks the rule, he may lose the chance of taking the subway now.

C．A passenger may be supervised by someone when taking the subway in Beijing.

D．One can eat bread if he or she brings a garbage bag in Beijing subway.

2. What does the underlined word “odors” mean in paragraph 3?

A．an awful smell of food

B．food remains

C．used napkins

D．food package

3. What can we learn about the woman Wang?

A．She had spitted out all she had eaten in a Shanghai subway car.

B．She got away with what she had done in Shanghai.

C．She called herself “chicken feet lady”.

D．She had cleaned up the mess she had caused on Beijing’s line 13.

【推荐2】About 60,000 Pacific Islanders worked as indentured labourers (签订契约的劳工）on Queensland’s sugar cane（甘蔗）fields between 1863 and 1903.They were mainly males, aged 9 to 30, transported to Australia by ship.Some came freely, wanting the new life promised to them, some were tricked, and some were kidnapped（绑架）.

The practice of kidnapping people for labour was called “blackbirding”.“Blackbird” was a term used instead of slave, because slavery was actually illegal.Britain had passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 and as a British colony (殖民地）,Queensland had to follow the Act It is said that a third of Pacific Islanders who worked as indentured labourers were either kidnapped or tricked into coming to Australia.Indentured labour was really just another name for slavery.

Indentured labourers had to work for a required period of time,usually three years,to pay back their passage to Australia and then they could earn money as free labourers.It was hard, dirty work in the Queensland countryside.Most indentured labourers were badly treated, many returning to their homelands as soon as their indentured period was finished.A small number married into local communities and stayed.Free labourers were also badly treated on the cane fields, working for low pay and living in very poor conditions.

Then the Australian Government’s White Australia Policy forced Pacific Islanders to leave Australia.Even people who were born in Australia to Pacific Islander parents were driven out of the country due to their colour.If they didn’t leave voluntarily, they were rounded up and driven away forcibly between 1906 and 1908.This practice destroyed many families.Some of the people had lived in Australia most, if not all, of their lives.Only a few who had married Australians were allowed to stay.A few managed to hide and avoid being driven away.

1. What happened from 1863 to 1903?

A．Australians had a new life.

B．Many Australians were kidnapped.

C．Australia was in want of labourers.

D．Australia’s sugar industry began to slow down.

2. What do we know about slavery in Queensland?

A．It was lawful before 1863.	B．It came to an end in 1833.
C．It was introduced by the British.	D．It replaced the word “blackbirding” .

3. Why did some indentured labourers go back to their homelands?

A．To escape mistreatment.	B．To get a better-paid job.
C．To avoid being kidnapped.	D．To be involved in local communities.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Slaves for sugar	B．Laws in Australia
C．Pacific Islanders’ new home	D．Sugar cane industry's development

【推荐3】France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women. Its lawmakers gave approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra (过分的)-thin models on runways.

The parliament also agreed to ban websites that “ encourage unreasonable thinness” by promoting extreme dieting.

Such measures ;have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health. That’s a start. And the ban on ultrathin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death - as some have done.

The bans, if fully carried out, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters (仲裁人) of their beauty. And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero.

The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep and bone-showing. Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.

In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules regarding the age, health, and. other characteristics of models. The newly revised Danish Fashion Ethical Charter clearly states: “We are aware of and take responsibility for the impact the fashion industry has on body ideals, especially on young people.” The charter’s main tool of enforcement (执行) is to deny access for designers and modeling agencies to Copenhagen Fashion Week, which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute.

Relying on moral persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step. Even better would be to help uplift notions (观念) of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.

1. According to the first paragraph, what would happen in France?

A．Physical beauty would be redefined.

B．New runways would be constructed.

C．Websites about dieting would develop.

D．The fashion industry would decline.

2. The phrase “impinging on "in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．heightening the value of

B．indicating the state of

C．losing faith in

D．doing harm to

3. A designer is most likely to be rejected by CFW for ________.

A．using extravagant material

B．caring too much about models’ character.

C．showing little concern for models’ health

D．pursuing the perfect physical conditions of models

4. Which of the following may be the best title of the text?

A．The Great Threats to the Fashion Industry

B．Beauty Is Skin-deep

C．A Campaign for Promoting True Beauty in France

D．A Challenge to the Fashion Industry’s Body Ideals

【推荐1】       Counterfeit (假冒的) goods, or false versions of products, may cost the government of Kenya as much as $1 billion each year. The fake goods also hurt business owners who find it hard to keep customers. But information technology is being used to try to stop the problem. Jemima Mwafigu is a 34-year-old businesswoman who sells products like perfume. But in the first year of running her business, she found it hard to keep customers because of counterfeit goods.
       Ms. Mwafigu says her business has improved since she began using a smart phone application called Barcode (条码) Scanner. The app is used to authenticate (验证) products. It checks to make sure the products are not counterfeit.
       “With this application I’m able to scan the bar codes of each perfume and instantly I get the production date, the expiration date and I’m able to know the safety,” she says. “That way, I have confidence in selling to my customers.”
       In 2010, Kenya created the Anti-Counterfeit Agency, or ACA, to fight against illegal trade. The ACA has successfully asked government officials for stronger punishments for counterfeiters.
       Agnes Karingu is the agency’s acting director for research and awareness. She says the ACA is trying to stay one step ahead of those making fake goods.
       “We are also looking into IT solutions where we can be able to use SMS programs, bar codes and information sharing,” she says. “The end users of the products will actually be able to get the authentication information, and this information comes back to ACA and intellectual property rights holders.”
       The agency is testing another program called Allvirtuous. The application is another way to find out if a product is real or not by scanning its barcode. The barcode information is sent to a database. Then a result is sent back to the app.
       The International Chamber of Commerce is a global business organization. It says the value of counterfeit goods produced around the world is expected to be more than $1.7 trillion (万亿) this year.
1. What’s the main purpose of this passage?

A．To tell us that Information Technology is developing fast.

B．To persuade us to resist counterfeit goods.

C．To advise us to use phone apps while going shopping.

D．To inform us that phone apps can help stop counterfeiters’ trade.

2. Why did Kenya create ACA?

A．To raise people’s awareness of counterfeit goods.

B．To ask the government to punish counterfeiters.

C．To deal with illegal trade.

D．To look into IT solutions.

3. The underlined phrase “expiration date” in Paragraph 3 means the time when __________.

A．the product is unable to be used

B．the product is packed

C．the product is first out of the factory

D．the product is made

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Measures should be taken immediately to prevent counterfeit goods.

B．The business of counterfeit goods is falling off.

C．The value of counterfeit goods is likely to be more than $1.7 trillion this year.

D．Counterfeit goods make a great contribution to the world economy.

【推荐2】The e-commerce company that retailers talk about most these days is neither Amazon, the American giant, nor Alibaba, China’s biggest. It is Pinduoduo (PDD), a Chinese firm that started in 2015 as an online food supplier, but whose success has driven its market value above $200bn. Last year it was China’s fastest-growing Internet stock, rising by 330%.

PDD attracts attention for two reasons. One is its business model. David Liu, vice-president of strategy, explains that it has drawn on the popularity of smart phone in China to create an e-commerce experience in which people club together to buy products from robot vacuum-cleaners to bananas. During the pandemic this has expanded into a fast-growing business across thousands of towns and villages, in which PDD’s users gather to buy local farm produce at low prices. Some call this “community group-buy”. Mr. Liu calls it “interactive commerce”. It is one of the hottest parts of the Chinese Internet.

The second is the way PDD has broken the record of giants of online shopping. Until a few years ago, China’s e-commerce market seemed a two-way competition between Alibaba and JD.com, a competitor platform. No longer. Elinor Leung of CLSA, a brokerage, expects PDD’s share of online retail in China to go beyond that of JD in 2021. She expects the number of users over Alibaba. And although PDD put a huge amount of money to lower the prices of goods, ensuring the customers from poorer parts of China easy access to its app, she thinks it may turn profitable this year.

Remarkably, the key to its success focused on parts of the market they have been unable to reach instead of defeating its bigger competitors. Although online sales of groceries have rocketed during the pandemic, less than a tenth of the 8.1trn yuan ($1.25trn) farm-produce market is bought and sold digitally. “We are continuing to grow the pie,” says Mr Liu. That lesson applies elsewhere too. However, no matter how a future market looks, there is opportunity for new online businesses because e-commerce is at an early stage of development.

1. What does the underlined “club together” mean in Paragraph 2 ?

A．Share the expenses.	B．Have a club together.
C．Buy something in groups.	D．Interact with each other.

2. What mainly makes PDD go off with a bang?

A．Ensuring easy access to the app.	B．Exploring new markets.
C．Lowering the price of goods.	D．Competing with giants of online shopping.

3. Which of the following may Elinor Leung agree with?

A．E-commerce has yet to be developed fully.

B．PDD may end up making profits this year.

C．PDD is China’s fastest-growing largest Internet business.

D．PDD’s share of online retail in China has gone beyond that of JD in 2021.

4. What’s Mr Liu’s attitude towards the future e-commerce?

A．Negative.

B．Causal.

C．Positive.

D．Objective.