1 . Hello, everyone. Welcome to our school. Now let’s take a look at some interesting school publications (出版物).
ColumbusIt 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.
DiversionIt 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 BrunerIt 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 TimesIt 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. |
| 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. |
| A．The Trinity Times. | B．Diversion. |
| C．The Bruner. | D．Columbus. |
1. Why does the man recommend Muse Magazine to the woman?
| A．It’s helpful for schoolwork. | B．It’s about science and nature. | C．It has lots of inspiring stories. |
| A．8. | B．9. | C．14. |
| A．Get back to her office. | B．Buy the magazine. | C．Ask for her son’s opinion. |
3 . The Eastern Daily Press (EDP), a newspaper covering Nolfolk, northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridge shire, is published daily in Norwich, UK. Founded in 1879 as a broadsheet called the Eastern Counties Daily Press, it changed its name to the Eastern Daily press in 1872. The paper is now owned and published by Archant, formerly known as Eastern Counties Newspapers Group.
Soon, a Google-backed project named Local Recall giving access to over 150 years of Eastern Daily Press newspaper at the click of a button or spoken question will be released. Archant is home to archive that holds tens of thousands of newspapers-with some Norwich Mercury editions dating from as far back as the middle of the 18th century. In 2017, Archant applied to the Google Digital News Innovation Fund to breathe new life into the archive. The company received ￡600,000 from Google and part-matched the fund to start Local Recall.
The project began in early 2018 and with help from Norwich-based artificial intelligence and chatbot company Ubisend along with specialist historical scanning companies Towns Web Archiving and Findmypast, Local Recall has since digitized an estimated 750,000 pages of EDP newspapers. In the process, more than seven million articles have been uploaded online. The digitization process, while impressive, could not always guarantee exact recreation of the text. Factors such as paper thickness, marks on the page and general wear and tear could make results confusing. It became clear there was a need for human eyes to pick out errors.
Meanwhile, a platform was provided for an army of more than 800 volunteers to help proofread and correct the stories from days gone by. Melanie Duncan, 47, from Helleson, got involved in the project after learning about it through Facebook. “It’s a window of memories into our past that we might have no knowledge of otherwise. The project is an invaluable source of accessible information. I have enjoyed every minute of doing it so far,” she said. Soon, users will be able to explore EDP archives from October 1870 right up to the latest news through a subscription service available on monthly and annual price plan.
1. What can be said about the EDP?| A．It is a regional daily newspaper. | B．It has a history of more than 200 years. |
| C．It belongs to Archant and Findmypast. | D．It is more popular in Suffolk and Norfolk |
| A．The tight schedule of the project. | B．The poor quality of the old paper. |
| C．A shortage of funds. | D．Lack of volunteers. |
| A．Doubt. | B．Emptiness. | C．Appreciation. | D．Disappointment |
| A．It is convenient to renew a subscription on the Internet. |
| B．Many archived newspaper are now available online. |
| C．Archant tries to cooperate with TownsWeb Archiving. |
| D．Local Recall helps people reconnect with their history |
4 . This page explains how to prepare your article for submission to any of our journals.
Note that length limits, article types and other journal specific information are available on the “Author information” page on each journal website.
The submitting author will be required to provide an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) via the online submission system. The benefits of registering an ORCID are outlined here. Provision of ORCIDs by co-authors is strongly encouraged, but not a must.
You are permitted to suggest suitably regular reviewers (审稿人), especially if you are from underrepresented groups, such as women, scientists with disabilities, early life researchers. However, we may choose to use other reviewers.
Editorial rules
Please carefully read our rule page before submitting and review our licensing and open access conditions. Papers submitted to our journals are normally peer reviewed in a single-blind fashion (author names are not hidden, but judge names are).
Unless you have selected for publication of peer review information for accepted papers, the review reports and other contact information relating to your paper should not be shared or made publicly available.
Formatting (编排格式) your article
In order to make submission as easy as possible for authors, we have introduced format-free first submission for the majority of our journals, apart from Biology Letters which requires a Word version upon first submission to enable accurate length calculation.
Once an article has been accepted for publication the main contribution must be submitted as an editable file, not a PDF, and the source files of any figures and tables must be provided.
1. What are women especially suggested doing in the text?| A．Offering their ORCIDs. |
| B．Recommending qualified reviewers. |
| C．Focusing on access conditions. |
| D．Measuring article length correctly. |
| A．Writer names. | B．The review reports. |
| C．Judges’ emails. | D．Judge names. |
| A．An editor. | B．A journalist. | C．A researcher. | D．A reviewer. |
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6 . As technology makes communication easier and quicker, handwritten letters are nearly a thing of the past.
But it is making a comeback on Feng Shengji’s desk. The 34-year-old from Chengdu started an online letter-writing business in February last year, writing and mailing hundreds of letters on behalf of others. She has written letters of appreciation, apologies for wrongdoings, love letters and breakup letters. Her story has spread on social media, triggering wide discussion on the lost art of letter writing. It has been viewed more than 14 million times on Sina Weibo.
The idea of writing letters for others came when Feng tried to draw and write on her iPad to beat boredom during COVID-19. Then, she opened an online store for letter writing. Up till last month, she worked for a local design company in the day, and worked on her online business as a letter writer at night.
In mid-March last year, a doctor from Sichuan became her first client. He was assigned to help fight COVID-19 in Wuhan during the 76-day lockdown. The doctor contacted Feng to help him write thank-you letters to the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital and the hotel he stayed in for their care and support during his time in Wuhan. As mailing services were stopped during the lockdown, Feng wrote the letters on her iPad and emailed the letters. “I told him that I wanted to write the letters free of charge, but he insisted on paying.” Feng recounts.
Since then, her business has taken off. As of January, she has written more than 700 letters , with each letter ranging from dozens of words to thousands. Depending on the length of the letters, each letter can cost from dozens of yuan to less than 100 yuan.
“Letter writing is a meaningful thing, and I want to make it into a lifetime career.” says Feng, smiling. She resigned from her design job and became a full-time letter writer from June.
1. What does the underlined word “triggering” mean in the second paragraph?| A．holding | B．arousing |
| C．witnessing | D．expecting |
| A．To kill time during the pandemic. |
| B．To revive the lost art of letter writing. |
| C．To help the doctors to keep in touch. |
| D．To earn extra money in her spare time. |
| A．Her first customer got the service for free. |
| B．Her business suffered a lot from COVID-19. |
| C．Her business is well received and successful. |
| D．Her letter writing store was started in Chengdu. |
| A．Fighting COVID-19 with handwritten letters |
| B．A creative and successful woman writer |
| C．A written art revived by an online business |
| D．Letter writing — an art calling for preservation |
7 . Scientists rely on journal papers to share their scientific results.
Once researchers are confident of their results, they write up a manuscript(手稿)and send it to a joumal. Editors forward the submitted manuscripts to at least two external referees who are expert in the topic. These reviewers can suggest the manuscript be rejected, published as is, or sent back to the scientists for more experiments.
Research published in peer-reviewed journals has undergone strict quality control by experts. Each year, about 2, 800 peer-reviewed journals publish roughly 1.8 million scientific papers. The body of scientific knowledge is constantly evolving and updating, but you can trust that the science these journals describe is sound. Retraction policies help correct the record if mistakes are discovered post-publication.
How long has this work been on the preprint server? If it’s been months and it hasn’t yet been published in the peer-reviewed literature, be very skeptical.
Be smartly aware of research published in what are called predatory (损人利己的) journals.
| A．That process is called “peer review”. |
| B．Peer review normally takes months. |
| C．Call to confirm that they are proven correct. |
| D．However, they can’t guarantee the papers are correct. |
| E．They let the world see what research has been done, and how. |
| F．They don’t peer-review manuscripts, and they charge authors a fee to publish. |
| G．The scientists submitting the preprint may not come from a reliable institution. |
8 . The role of media historically has been central to the making of society and the construction of identity. It is vital in the search for information, stories and art to feed the human spirit and imagination to overcome the challenges ahead.
In an age of false news and misinformation, good quality content is more valuable than ever. History provides some context. In the UK the development of the liberal(自由的)media prior to the 1950s was characterized by a clear hierarchy(等级)when it came to the control of information. This model eventually gave way to a popular, audience-driven mass media in the 1980s, when the idea of the media as a source of popular pleasure took root.
Today, as more content is distributed via social platforms and the division between content creators and content consumers is unclear, technology companies — or “super competitors” — are taking greater responsibility for guaranteeing the quality and integrity of information. Perhaps as a reaction to this and with an odd nod to pre-1950s paternalism(家长式管理), there is a rising call for governments and regulators to take a more active role in the production and spreading of news to ensure equitable access to information.
Access to or quality of content is better than ever. But while destination media compete to become leaders in their specific areas, the tech giants are working out how to use media to dominate time, spend and data. What will be the impact of the strategies of the tech giants on the overall media landscape? The poet and novelist, Ben Okri, writes, “It may well be that it is not only science that saves us. We may also be saved by laughter, by the optimism of being able to see beyond these times, with stories, with community, with songs.”
In the absence of real contact, interaction and the consumption of experience is now mostly mediated(调解). The value and integrity of media has never been more relevant and significant.
1. What do the underlined words “some context” in Paragraph 2 refer to?| A．The development of the liberal media. |
| B．The model of the British clear hierarchy. |
| C．The changing of factors determining media content. |
| D．The idea of the media as a source of popular pleasure. |
| A．Media are losing their roles in shaping society. |
| B．It’s hard to divide content creators and consumers. |
| C．Media are misused to dominate time, spend and data. |
| D．The quality and integrity of information can’t be available. |
| A．Our life lacks passion. | B．People need proper media content. |
| C．Science can by all means save us. | D．Media cannot change the real life. |
| A．The Core of Media—Value and Integrity |
| B．The Transformation of Media Content |
| C．The Impact of Tech Giants on Media |
| D．The Ups and Downs of Media |
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Julius and Macy: A Very Brave Night
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| A．A travel brochure. | B．A book review. |
| C．A book-selling website. | D．A science magazine. |
