1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How many readers does this magazine have around the world?

A．About 20 million.

B．About 25 million.

C．About 45 million.

2. When was the first Time magazine issued?

A．In 1923.

B．In 1962.

C．In 2003.

3. What is the most notably special issue of Time magazine about?

A．The 100 best novels.

B．The 100 best TV show.

C．The 100 most influential people.

2 . Hello, everyone. Welcome to our school. Now let’s take a look at some interesting school publications (出版物).

Columbus

It is our literary (文学的) magazine; the name shows the place where we live. Editorial training includes developing skills for creative writing. Published twice yearly, many excellent students are also recognized as Scholastic Writing Awards winners.

Diversion

It is our language publication. Published once a year, it impresses readers with student works presented in Chinese, French, and Spanish. Working with advisors who teach these languages, student editors help in presenting their classmates’ work including poems, essays, short stories and art. Diversion is often used by our language teachers in the classroom as well.

The Bruner

It is Trinity’s yearbook. Serving the entire school, it is a yearly testament (证明) to the many aspects of Trinity life. Editorial positions are named in May, allowing editor s to attend a two-day summer meeting at NYU. This meeting allows students to develop their ability to get knowledge before the start of the school year. Work on the yearbook begins immediately thereafter, as students work to create an impressive K-12 publication.

The Trinity Times

It is the upper school newspaper, written, edited, photographed and produced completely by students as an extracurricular activity. Its contents include Arts and Innovation, Trinity Life, NY Culture, Science, Opinion and Editorial, and Sports.

1. What is special about Diversion?

A．It is published in different languages.	B．It publishes teachers’ works.
C．It comes out once a month.	D．It focuses on sports.

2. What is the purpose of the summer meeting at NYU?

A．To prove the advantages of Trinity life.

B．To present students’ poems and essays.

C．To make students better at gaining knowledge.

D．To develop students’ skills for creative writing.

3. Which publication is completely run by students?

A．The Trinity Times.	B．Diversion.
C．The Bruner.	D．Columbus.

3 . The culture of newspaper reading in the United Kingdom started in the19th century. The number of the newspapers circulated daily peaked during the early 21st century. Here are four well-known ones.

The Sun

The Sun is a popular newspaper, which was established in 1964 and bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News International Company in 1969. It is filled with the jokes about heads of state and major events both inside and outside Britain such as mayor’s trousers not being tied properly, politicians sleeping during conferences and so on. Its lively and popular style just meets the taste of the lower classes. The majority of The Sun’s readers are in the age group of 15-34 years. Now its annual circulation has reached 23,100,000 copies.

Metro

Metro is a free tabloid (小报) newspaper distributed from Monday to Friday, which was established in 1999. Metro is published by NMG group and is distributed throughout the United Kingdom. It has gained popularity over time and also has a digital platform. The features section covers a variety of articles including lifestyle, home, science, and health. This variety of content attracts readers from various walks of life.

Daily Mail

Daily Mail, compared to The Sun, is a little more serious. It was established in 1896. Reading Daily Mail can not only understand major political and economic events, but also read some relaxing and helpful contents. Well-known for female favorite topics, it is extremely popular with middle-class housewives.

The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper that was founded in 1821 in London, UK. The Guardian receives average daily readers of about 1.03 million with 126,879 in daily newspapers circulated. The paper focuses on politics, policy, business, and international relations. Their coverage includes News and Opinion, Sports, Culture, Lifestyle, Podcasts, and more.

1. Who may be the target readers of The Sun according to the text?

A．Elderly people.

B．Middle-class men.

C．Lower classes.

D．Scientists.

2. Which newspaper has the shortest history?

A．The Sun.

B．Daily Mail.

C．The Guardian.

D．Metro.

3. Which topic is least likely to be covered in The Guardian?

A．World Cup finals.	B．Jogging methods.
C．Sino-France relations.	D．Gossip news.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Guardian is a daily post in the UK, which enjoys a high popularity,     1     its circulation, since its birth larger than other similar media.

The Guardian that saw its birth in mid-1990s posed a great threat to papers that were already in the print-media market as the new     2     (publish) hit the market, and within short time it was in the march with its competitors. The paper targets at the general public and serves all age groups     3     (carry) a rich mix of news articles, features, photos.

In spite of     4     (it) universality, the Guardian also has serious tailor-made contents which touch or suit different groups of our readers and it plays a     5     (decide) role of educating, informing and entertaining the readers.

    6     (function), the paper is up-in-arms to promote economic and social changes. Being a tailor-made product makes it unique, exceptional and     7     crowd –puller.

The Guardian,     8     distribution network is reliable, timely and superb,     9     (read) all over the world, and what is believed in the media circle is that its core position is unshakable     10     the paper itself fails to innovate in the global tide of media reform.

5 . “It’s like tasering an elderly person who’s already on a pacemaker,” says a British newspaper boss of the newsprint market, where prices have risen by over 50% in a matter of months.

When times were good, before ads went online, newspapers had a supportive partnership with paper mills. As ads went away and circulations fell, “paper mills had the worst of it for years as newspapers reduced pages, went wholly digital or shut forever.”

The papers were able to cut down the cost of newsprint from firms fighting for business as demand decreased. Price-taking paper mills suffered in silence, taking out newsprint capacity and adjusting machines to make packaging for e-commerce. The pandemic, with people working from home, meant even fewer newspaper sales, which depressed demand for newsprint again and increased the pain for paper suppliers. In the past 24 months European mills have responded by shutting almost a fifth of their newsprint capacity, says a buyer for a large British newspaper group.

Then reopening of economies and growing demand for newsprint, combined with much reduced capacity and coupled with up-going energy prices, has resulted in a price shock. Particularly controversial are additional energy charges that some paper suppliers are seeking to pass on.

Newspaper firms consider this amounts as breaking agreements. European newspapers will have to pay newsprint prices that are 50—70% higher in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the year before. As for their counterparts in Asia and Oceania, they are facing prices around 25% to 45% above their usual level. North American prices went up earlier, and more gradually; agreements are fixed monthly rather than half-yearly. But there, too, newsprint prices are 20—30% higher in 2021 than in 2020.

Germany’s print and media industry association has warned that mills are going to force newspapers to quit paper editions, hurting each other in the process. But more digital adrenaline is one possible response of newspapers to the paper mills’ tasers.

1. What can be learned from the first three paragraph?

A．Newspapers have raised their prices by over 50% .

B．Newspapers and paper mills were good friends all the time.

C．Newspapers and paper mills affect each other.

D．Newspapers increased their sales and the pain of paper mills.

2. The paper mills and the newspapers don’t agree with each other on the prices for ________ ?

A．Reopening of economies.	B．Growing demand for newsprint.
C．Much reduced capacity.	D．Additional energy consumption.

3. Which of the following area has the highest increase in newsprint prices?

A．Europe.

B．Asia.

C．Oceania.

D．North American.

4. Which column does this passage belong to?

A．Health.

B．Science.

C．Business.

D．Environment.

6 . Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier (安抚奶嘴） for babies and toddlers.School-aged children read stories on smartphones. Their parents read on Kindles or skim a long list of email and news feeds. An invisible, game-changing transformation links everyone in this picture:the neuronal circuit(神经元回路）that underlies(成为···的基础）the brain's ability to read is rapidly changing.Our important “deep reading" processes may be under threat as we move further into the new digital-based ways of reading.

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like' it is with vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further,it will adapt to that environment's requirements. If the environment advantages the reading processes that are fast, multi-task oriented(以···为方向的） and well-suited for large amounts of information,like the current digital-based reading, so will the reading circuit. As a result, less attention and time will be allocated to slower,time-demanding deep reading processes.

Increasing reports from educators and researchers in psychology and the humanities bear this out. English literature scholar and teacher Mark Edmundson describes how many college students actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries because they no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts. We should be less concerned with students' "cognitive impatience", however than by what may underlie it: the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with a level of critical analysis enough to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts.

Ziming Liu from San Jose State University has conducted a series of studies which indicate that the “new norm" in reading is skimming. Many readers now use an F or Z pattern when reading in which they sample the first line and then word-spot through the rest of the text. When the reading brain skims like this, it doesn't have time to grasp complexity, to understand others' feelings, to be aware of beauty, and to create thoughts of the reader's own.

Karin Littau and Andrew Piper have noted another aspect: physicality. They stress that the sense of touch in print reading adds an important part to information - a kind of“geometry(几何结构）”to words, and a kind of spatial "'thereness" for text. As Piper notes, human beings need a knowledge of where they are in time and space that allows them to return to things and learn from re-examination-what he calls the “technology of recurrence (再现）＂.The importance of recurrence for both young and older readers involves the ability to go back,to check and evaluate one's understanding of a text. The question, then, is what happens to comprehension when our youth skim on a screen whose lack of spatial thereness discourages “looking back".

1. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．What affects people's neuronal circuits.

B．Why deep reading is important to people.

C．Why people now prefer digital reading.

D．What will happen to our brain when we read.

2. What does the author want to stress about the college students?

A．Their lack of attentiveness.

B．Their lack of reading techniques.

C．Their inability to understand the complexity.

D．Their ignorance of various forms of literature.

3. According to Paragraph 4,the F or Z pattern

A．affects the way people skim

B．encourages people to read more

C．becomes popular among the youth

D．limits people's thinking development

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Reading physical books helps us comprehend a text better.

B．Techniques should be suited for different reading materials.

C．A reading space can help us be more attentive.

D．It is important to use all senses to learn.

7 . Welcome to TeenInk, a national teen magazine, bookseries, and website devoted to teenage writing, art and photos. Students must be ages 13-19 to take part, and submit(提交) works. TeenInk magazine offers some of the most thoughtful and creative works finished by teens and has the largest distribution(分配) of any publication of its kind. We have no staff writers or artists; we depend completely on submissions from teenagers nationwide for our content.

We offer teenagers the opportunity to publish their creative works and opinions on the problems that affect their lives. Hundreds of thousands of students have submitted their works to us and we have published the works of more than 55,000 teens since 1989.

The Young Authors Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organisation that supports all TeenInk publications. The foundation is devoted to helping teens share their own voices, while developing reading, writing, creative and critical thinking skills. All proceeds from the printed magazine, website and TeenInk books are used only for charitable(慈善的) and educational purposes.

1. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To introduce TeenInk.	B．To praise TeenInk.
C．To collect some works.	D．To attract some readers.

2. TeenInk’s works are mainly from ________.

A．primary school students	B．middle school students
C．middle school teachers	D．college students

3. The underlined word “proceeds” in paragraph 3 probably refers to ________.

A．ideas

B．works

C．money

D．advertisements

8 . Almost every family buys as least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers?

Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown(推翻)or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.

Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and of course, advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.

1. The phrase “subscribe to” in the first paragraph means“________”

A．go to the newspaper stand and buy	B．send their own news stories to
C．agree to buy for a specific period of time	D．become faithful readers of

2. Before the time of the newspaper, ________

A．bad news traveled quickly and good news slowly

B．few people cared about events that took place in faraway countries

C．kings and rulers were often overthrown or killed

D．news was passed from one person to another

3. The author seems to agree that money spent on advertisements is ________.

A．wasted	B．not much
C．well spent	D．of no use to anyone

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Five hundred years ago it took a long time for news to reach other countries.

B．Newspaper advertisements turn people’s attention away from their products.

C．The news that we read in newspapers is mainly about new products.

D．When newspapers are sold at a low price, the newspaper producers will lose money.