1. Why does NOT the woman read newspapers?
| A．She is worried about wasting money. |
| B．She is concerned about the environment. |
| C．She gets all news from the web. |
| A．About three or four. | B．About six or seven. | C．About eight or nine. |
| A．Most of them might not be true. |
| B．They consume too much time. |
| C．People might ignore serious news. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Indifferent. | C．Disapproving. |
2 . By our very rough calculations, Reader’s Digest has published some 35,000 articles in nearly 1,200 issues. These small pages have held some very big names, including U.S. presidents, world leaders, sports legends, and, indeed, the biggest contributors of all, everyday Americans with a story to tell. These are some of our proudest moments.
How to Keep Young Mentally by Mary B. MullettThis first article in the first issue highlighted inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his belief in lifelong learning: “The first essential of any real education is to observe. Observe! Remember! Compare!” It was an appropriate beginning. reflecting our self-educated founder’s endless curiosity.
I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes by Madge HarrahThe morning of a family funeral, an acquaintance shows up unannounced and says, “I’ve come to clean your shoes.” He spends the day quietly shining every pair in the house. The writer ends with: “Now, whenever I hear of an acquaintance who has lost a loved one. I try to think of one specific task suiting that person’s need. And if the person says, ‘How did you know I needed that done?’ I reply, ‘it’s because a man once cleaned my shoes.’”
Strange Encounter on Coho Creek by Morris Homer ErwinA miner spends days camping in the Alaskan wilderness, working hard to earn the trust of a mother wolf stuck in a trap before she and her four pups starve to death. Eventually, he is able to free her. Four years later, he encounters a wolf in the same meadow. Yes, the same wolf. When we shared this classic on rd.com in 2019, it went viral and it has now been read by many millions online and in print.
How Honest Are We by Ralph Kinney BennettOur famous “wallet drop” set up the ultimate test of honesty: If we left wallets in cities around the country, how many would be returned? Well over half, it turned out—67 percent. The most honest city? Seattle, whose upstanding residents returned nine out of ten wallets.
1. What do we know about the acquaintance in the story I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes?| A．He shows concern by cleaning shoes. |
| B．He cleans shoes at the owner’s request. |
| C．He comforts the owner by telling his own story. |
| D．He visits the house where the owner is severely sick. |
| A．How to Keep Young Mentally. | B．I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes. |
| C．Strange Encounter on Coho Creek. | D．How Honest Are We. |
| A．In a history book. | B．In a magazine. | C．In a novel. | D．In a brochure. |
1. When was the first real newspaper started?
| A．In 1609. | B．In 1665. | C．In 1704. |
| A．Germany. | B．England. | C．America. |
| A．Strassburg Relation. | B．The New York Sun. | C．The Boston News-Letter. |
| A．It only cost a dollar. |
| B．It was called The London Gazette. |
| C．It was the first one to have advertisements. |
4 . The London Book Fair
Time and Location
The London Book Fair will take place 18 — 20 June, 2023, Olympia London.
Children’s & Young Adult
Our Children’s & Young Adult section traditionally welcomes the leading names in the field to exhibit. These companies enjoy noisy passageways full of visitors and benefit from the opportunity to increase brand awareness. However, any children under 16 are not allowed to be at The London Book Fair.
Authors & Self-Publishing
Author HQ, which consists of a theatre and networking area, is one of our most popular features, attracting great interest from the self-publishing community. Meanwhile, our Author of the Day programme helps bring writers face-to-face with bestselling authors who will share their journey to publication during a special series of talks at the fair.
Technology and Publishing Solutions
All the new ways to treat content are found in the Tech area at LBF, located in the National Gallery of Olympia. Whether it is an app, game, mobile development or enhanced eBook — or a development not yet launched — the Tech area is its home. To keep the creativity flowing, there is a dedicated Buzz Bar in the heart of the Tech area for those all-important networking meetings.
BA Members
BA Members attend the fair for FREE and receive a number of key benefits, making the fair a more accessible, cost-effective and highly relevant event for booksellers. Simply click here to find out more about becoming a BA member and take advantage of this offer.
If you have any further difficulties, please contact our Customer Services team who will be happy to help.
1. Who will be welcomed by the London Book Fair?| A．A mother with a kid. | B．A green hand writer. |
| C．A primary school student. | D．A visitor getting to London in July. |
| A．Apply for BA members. | B．Attend networking meetings. |
| C．Increase brand awareness. | D．Contact Customer Services team. |
| A．A textbook. |
| B．A newspaper. |
| C．A website. |
| D．A fashion magazine. |
5 . From a heart-warming read about an unlikely friendship to a guidebook uncovering the surprising science of walking, here are four books you won’t want to miss this month.
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time by Annabel Streets (Out now)
We’re all familiar with the wonderful physical benefits that come with walking. Maybe you feel relieved from stress after taking a wander outside, or maybe you’ve seen your sleeping routine improve as a result. As impressive as this is, there is so much more to walking that most of us have vet to explore. In Annabel Streets’ informative handbook, she digs into the lesser known benefits of walking, such as why a slow relaxing walk alone strengthens our memories, or why walking in woodlands makes you sleep soundly at night which helps you rediscover the joy found in this simple act.
Milk Street: Cook What You Have: Make A Meal Out of Almost Anything by Christopher Kimball (Out now)
Do you ever have those nights when the contents of your cupboards are empty, and you’re too tired to go shopping? Cook What You Have is here to show you how to make hearty, warming meals from the leftover items and everyday essentials that you already have, with over 225 delicious recipes(食谱)to choose from.
Moon Yoga: Poses, Flows, and Rituals to Help You Move With the Moon by Lisa Hood (Out 5, January)
Go on a spiritual journey with yoga instructor Lisa Hood, and discover how to use the moon’s energy for enhanced wellbeing. This beautifully explanatory and insightful guide is packed with yoga flows and journaling instructions.
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (Out now)
Heart-warming and uplifting, The Reading List is a story of an unlikely friendship between a man grieving(悲痛)the loss of his wife, and an anxious teenager trying to overcome the difficulty in life. Could a wrinkled list of books be the key to helping them find comfort in the next chapter of their lives?
1. What does 52 Ways to Walk mainly talk about?| A．The benefits of walking. | B．The joy of walking. |
| C．The best place to walk. | D．The best time to walk. |
| A．They both have instructors. |
| B．They have both been published |
| C．They are both related to our health. |
| D．They can both help us find the joy of exercise. |
| A．Milk Street | B．The Reading List |
| C．Moon Yoga | D．52 Ways to Walk |
| 观点 | 理由 |
| 纸质报纸有存在的意义 | 可以随时阅读，不受时间限制； 版面大，字大，阅读方便； 内容的可信度相对较高。 |
| 纸质报纸没有存在的意义 | 携带不方便;不环保。 |
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Whether printed newspapers should exist?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7 . What is the future of newspapers as the industry has faced increasing newsprint prices, falling sales and the great drops in circulation (发行量)? In recent years the number of newspapers being closed down has risen, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom. Income has dropped while competition from the Internet has pressed older print publishers a lot.
To live on, newspapers are considering uniting and other choices though the result hasn’t been agreed.
Since the beginning of 2009, the United Sates has seen a number of major newspapers closed after no buyers appeared, including The Rocky Mountain News, closed in February, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reduced to a complete Internet operation. In Detroit, both newspapers, The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, cut down home delivery to three days a week, while inviting readers to visit the newspapers’ Internet sites on other days. In Tucson, Arizona, the state’s oldest newspaper, The Tucson Citizen, would stop publishing on March 21, 2009, when parent Gannett Company failed to find a buyer.
A number of other large, financially troubled newspapers are trying to get buyers. One of the few large dailies finding a buyer is The San Diego Union-tribune. It agreed to be sold to a private firm for what The Wall Street Journal called the rock-bottom price over of less than $50 million considered to have been worth about $1 billion in 2004.
In the United Kingdom, newspaper publishers have been similarly hit. In late 2008 The Independent announced job cuts. In January the chain Associated Newspapers sold a controlling stake (股金) in the London Evening Standard as it announced a 24% decline in 2008 as income. In March 2009 parent company Daily Mail and General Trust said job cuts would be deeper than expected.
1. How does the author feel about the future of newspapers?| A．Concerned. | B．Uncaring. | C．Hopeful. | D．Satisfied. |
| A．The Detroit News. | B．The Detroit Free Press. |
| C．The Rocky Mountain News. | D．The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. |
| A．Increasing. | B．Common. | C．Reasonable. | D．Lowest. |
| A．More newspapers in the UK and the USA are closing down. |
| B．Newspaper publishers try to control their employees. |
| C．Newspapers are developing fast in the UK and the USA. |
| D．British newspapers have been losing money. |
8 . Concerns have existed long about what’s gone wrong in modern societies. Many scholars explain growing gaps between the haves and the have-nots as partly a by-product of living in large, urban populations. The bigger the crowd, from this perspective, the greater the distance is between the wealthy and those left wanting.
In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow challenge the assumption that bigger societies surely produce a range of inequalities. Using examples from past societies, the pair also rejects the popular idea that social development occurred in stages.
Such stages, according to conventional wisdom, began with humans living in small hunter-gatherer bands where everyone was on equal footing. Then an agricultural revolution (变革) about 12, 000 years ago fueled population growth and the appearance of tribes (部落) and eventually states.
This assumption makes no sense to Graeber and Wengrow. Their research, which extends for 526 pages, paints a more hopeful picture of social life over the last 30, 000 to 40, 000 years. Hunter-gatherers have a long history of changing social systems from one season to the next, the authors write. About a century ago, researchers observed that native populations in North America and elsewhere often operated in small, mobile groups for part of the year and formed large, settled communities the rest of the year. For example, each winter, Canada’s Northwest Coast Kwakiutl hunter-gatherers built wooden structures while in summers, they separated, and fished along the coast in less formal social ranks.
Social flexibility and experimentation, rather than a revolutionary shift, also characterized ancient transitions (转变) to agriculture, Graeber and Wengrow write. Middle Eastern village sites now indicate that the domestication (驯化) of crops occurred on and off from around 12, 000 to 9, 000 years ago. Ancient Fertile Crescent communities regularly gave farming a go while still hunting, gathering, fishing, and trading. Early people were in no rush to treat land as private property or to form political systems headed by kings, the authors conclude.
1. What might The Dawn of Everything mainly deal with?| A．Historic stages. | B．Social inequalities. |
| C．Historic revolution. | D．Social development. |
| A．They progressed in stages. | B．They started with inequality. |
| C．They began with small tribes. | D．They benefited from population growth. |
| A．By listing figures. | B．By offering examples. |
| C．By giving a definition. | D．By making a comparison. |
| A．A fixed political system. | B．Flexibility of society. |
| C．A regular revolutionary shift. | D．Improvement of crops. |
9 . A Time magazine special project known simply as “Firsts” celebrates women who have made big achievements. These women have made their mark in business, entertainment, politics and more. The project hopes to provide girls and women with positive examples who assure (使确信) them that they can succeed.
The “Firsts” project includes video features (特写), a book and a webpage. The webpage has the women’s pictures and short descriptions of their achievements. The project’s producers, Spencer Bakalar and Diane Tsai, made video profiles (简介) of 37 of the 46 original women featured by the project. And the webpage anticipates that more women will be added as they become new “Firsts”.
The women featured in “Firsts” have achieved success in many fields. Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle. Jennifer Yuh Nelson was the first woman to direct a major Hollywood movie alone-Kung Fu Panda 2. Serena Williams set a record for tennis Grand Slam singles titles. The road to success hasn’t always been smooth for these women. It took hard work to reach excellence. Many of them also put up with rude comments because they were women. But they also received support from key people, especially parents. Many of the women also speak about the difficulty of balancing work and family life. Their work sometimes required them to sacrifice time with their children or miss important family events. Yet several of them also say that they see their work as setting a good example for their children. They want their sons and daughters to see their mother working and know that they, too. can achieve remarkable things.
Michelle Phan was the first woman to build a US $500 million company from a web series. She tells entrepreneurs (企业家) to find a problem that they care about and then offer a way to tackle it. That is vital advice that anyone in any field should follow.
1. What is the purpose of the “Firsts” project?| A．To teach girls how to design a webpage. |
| B．To introduce successful people to children. |
| C．To celebrate businesswomen’s achievements. |
| D．To encourage girls to succeed by giving superb examples. |
| A．It has recorded 46 videos. |
| B．It is going to find more women. |
| C．It was launched by a businesswoman. |
| D．It gives a full account of successful people’s life. |
| A．by time. | B．by cause and effect. |
| C．by example. | D．by comparison and contrast. |
| A．Invest. | B．Devote. | C．Fill up. | D．Give up. |
