【推荐3】阅读理解
        The China Daily newspaper group is looking for English-language senior business editors, senior copy editors, copy editors and graphic designers to strengthen its international team. We offer a competitive salary package, accommodation with furniture paid for 90 percent, medical reimbursement (报销), a seven-day paid leave, eleven-day public holidays and a return ticket to the country of residence.
Senior Business Editor
You must:
(1) Assist the business editor in setting goals and working on achieving them;
(2) Be an excellent team person who can generate ideas and think creatively and be able to rewrite totally if needed;
(3) Ideally have been working or have worked in a position of responsibility and understand what leadership intends;
(4) Have had at least five years’ editing experience working on editing the Business Desk and be familiar with industry software.
Senior Copy Editor
You must:
(1) Work on shifts in the Business Desk and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;
(2) Edit or rewrite copy and give smart headlines and captions;
(3) Have had at least two years’ editing experience working on editing desks and be familiar with industry software.
Copy Editor
You must:
(1) Be good at editing or rewriting copy and writing smart headlines and captions;
(2) Be able to work on shifts for different pages, and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;
(3) Have two years of editing experience working on copy desks, and be familiar with industry software.
Graphic Designer
You must:
(1) Have excellent skills in information graphics;
(2) Be good at illustrations and freehand drawings;
(3) Be experienced in newspaper or magazine layouts;
(4) Have a good sense of typography (活版印刷术);
(5) Have good new judgment;
(6) Be fluent in English.
        For enquiries or to apply, write to job@chinadaily.com.cn.
1. What is the purpose of this passage?

A．To describe the positions of the China Daily newspaper group.

B．To tell you how to become part of this group.

C．To describe the working conditions of the China Daily newspaper group.

D．To advertise for employing some good employees.

2. What is not required about Graphic Designer?

A．Be expert in illustrating newspapers.

B．Writing smart headlines and captions.

C．Have excellent skills in information graphics.

D．Having a good sense of typography.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The workers there can enjoy a seven-day leave without pay.

B．Free accommodations are available to the workers.

C．The senior business editor’s only job is to help the business editor to set goals.

D．Senior copy editors can decide on sending the page to print.

【推荐1】Earthquakes are something that people fear. There are some places that have few or earthquakes. Most places in the world, however, have them regularly. Countries that have a of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous.

The most-talked-about earthquake in the United States was in San Francisco in 1906.Over 700 people died in it. The strongest one in North America was in 1964. It happened in Alaska.

Strong earthquakes are not always the ones that kill the most people. In 1755, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded was felt in Portugal. Around 2,000 people died. In 1923, a very strong earthquake hit Tokyo, Yokohama area of Japan. 140,000 people died. Most of them died in fires which followed the earthquake.

One of the worst earthquakes ever was in China in 1976. It killed a large number of people. The worst earthquake ever reported was also in China, in which 830, 000 people were killed. This earthquake happened in 1556.

Earthquakes worry people a lot. The reason is that we often do not know when they are coming. People cannot prepare for them beforehand.

1. How many people died in the earthquake in Portugal?

A．About 2,000.

B．Around 140,000.

C．Over 830,000.

D．Above 700.

2. Which was the worst earthquake ever reported?

A．Portugal, 1755.

B．Japan, 1923.

C．China, 1556.

D．America, 1906.

3. What does the underlined word “beforehand” in the last paragraph mean?

A．For sure.

B．With care.

C．By hand.

D．In advance.

4. According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?

A．Earthquakes are not likely to cause big fires.

B．Earthquakes often hit people unexpectedly.

C．Mountainous countries have no earthquakes.

D．Strong earthquakes often kill the most people.

【推荐2】One of the classic science-fiction treatments of the end of civilization was The Death of Grass, by John Christopher, in which a mysterious sickness struck down all the grasses on which most of the world’s agriculture is based, from rice to wheat. In the end, politics among the survivors of disease, war and famine were reduced to bitter fratricidal struggle over a defensible potato patch. Like most of the so-called “comfortable disaster” novels, this could be criticized for optimism. Depressing as a future of famine and the war of all against all might seem, the consequences were largely limited to humans.

However, the threatened extinction of insect populations around the world raises the prospect of a much less general disaster, which would involve plants, birds, fish, small mammals, and everything else depending on insects. That’s just the start. Other species, and we ourselves, depend on the animals and plants that need insects. When they go, we go. This is not just a greater disaster. It’s a much more reasonable one. The most recent study has concluded that insect biomass is decreasing around the world at a rate of 2.5% a year. At that rate, half the insects in the world will be gone in 50 years’ time, and all of them in a century — though no one will be keeping track of centuries then.

The chief driver of this disaster is unchecked human greed. For all our individual and even collective cleverness, we behave as a species with as little foresight as a colony of nematode worms that will consume everything that it can reach until all is gone and it dies off naturally. The challenge of behaving more intelligently than creatures that have no brain at all will not be easy. But unlike the nematodes, we know what to do. The UN convention on biodiversity was signed in 1992, alongside the convention on climate change. Giving it the strength to hold back our appetites is now urgent. Biodiversity is not an optional extra. It is the web that holds all life, including human life.

The two main expressions of greed that speed this apocalypse are global warming and industrial agriculture. It appears that most of the damage is being done in the developed world by farming practices. The use of giant fields, lacking in   shelter for insects of any sort at all, whether they are harmful to human interests or not, and where the plants are drenched in long-lasting pesticides, has been fatal for uncounted billions of insects. The effects of this kind of forming reach beyond the fields immediately affected, too. There has been a huge loss of aquatic insect species from the rivers into which the products of industrial agriculture arc flushed by rain. Even in German nature reserves, which are by definition protected from the use of pesticides, there have been sleep falls in insect populations because so many of the most widely used ones are persistent and prevent breeding.

1. Which of the following statements about The Death of Grass is true?

A．It gives a vivid account of the most serious famine in history.

B．It holds an optimistic attitude towards famine in the future.

C．It understates the severity of the disaster facing the world.

D．It demonstrates how evil human nature turns out to be.

2. In paragraph 2, the writer mentions the most recent study in order to________.

A．prove that the prediction about the great disaster makes sense

B．suggest a possible approach to increasing insect biomass

C．show how soon the insects worldwide will go extinct

D．argue for the necessity to protect insect populations

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Humans are similar to nematode in that both of them lack foresight.

B．Modem farming is to blame for the threatened extinction of insects.

C．Germany sets a good example by minimizing the use of pesticides.

D．We haven’t done enough about maintaining biodiversity.

4. What will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?

A．What we can do to deal with the situation.

B．How industrial agriculture brings about apocalypse.

C．What influence pesticides may have on people’s lives.

D．Why insect populations in Germany are on the decline.

【推荐3】Many scientists believe our love of sugar may actually be an addiction. When we eat or drink sugary foods, the sugar enters our blood and affects parts of our brain that make us feel good. Then the good feeling goes away, leaving us wanting more. All tasty foods do this, but sugar has a particularly strong effect. In this way, it is in fact an addictive drug, which doctors suggest we all should cut down on.

“It seems like every time I study an illness and search for the first cause, I find my way back to sugar,” says scientist Richard Johnson. One-third of adults worldwide have high blood pressure, and up to 347 million adults have diabetes (糖尿病) . Why? “Sugar, we believe is one of the culprits, if not the major reason,” says Johnson.

Our bodies are designed to survive on very little sugar. Early humans often had very little food, so our bodies learned to be very efficient in storing sugar as fat. In this way, we had energy stored when there was no food. But today, most people have more than enough. So the very thing that once saved us may now be killing us.

So what is the solution? It’s: obvious that we need to eat less sugar. The trouble is, in today’s world, it’s extremely difficult to avoid. From breakfast cereals (谷物) to after-dinner desserts, our foods are increasingly filled with it.

But there are those who are fighting back against sugar. Many schools are replacing sugary desserts with healthier food like fruit. Other schools are growing their own food in gardens, or building facilities like walking tracks so students and others in the community can exercise.

1. What do scientists think of sugar?

A．It benefits our health.	B．It causes us to become dependent on it.
C．It is less addictive than drugs.	D．It should be taken under a doctor’s guidance.

2. What does the underlined word “culprits” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Diseases.	B．Poor diets.
C．Causes of a problem.	D．Unknown things.

3. Why is it so hard to avoid sugar?

A．It’s in so many foods and drinks.	B．We cannot survive without it.
C．It gives us much needed energy.	D．We like it too much.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Ways to Avoid Sugar.	B．Good Sugar VS Bad Sugar.
C．Illnesses Caused by Sugar.	D．Our Addiction to Sugar.