1 . New Stories Await Just for You

The Origin of Disease

Carolyn Merchant, JD & Christopher Merchant, MD

Containing exciting information and thought, this book could help people find ways to improve or avoid diseases that can dramatically change lives. Pulling medical knowledge together in an original way, it provides a new vision for understanding chronic(慢性的) disease, and challenges readers to think of chronic disease based on the root causes. For many people, medical books can be a hard barrier to jump. but this book is written in an accessible style and format, and contains information useful to the lay person, not just medical professionals.

From Healing to Hell

W. H. Wall, Jr

From Healing to Hell is about the fall of a good and decent man and goes further to reveal the shocking details of how he was done a cruel injustice at the hands of a CIA government experiment with the drug LSD. The book tells the story of illegal activity by officials in power who operated in the name of protecting the country.

The Stuff of Monuments

Richard A. Crousey

Little things occur regularly, forbidding us to recognize their significance. What finally causes them to blossom into sweetness is their fading away. Through the stories in the book, it is shown that the seasons of our lives are made up of the stuff that went before. Nothing is truly lost. As one picture begins to fade, another begins to dawn.

There Are No Monsters Here

Buffy Brinkley

A little boy is afraid to go to bed when his mother announces his bedtime. He believes there may be monsters hiding in his room. However, his fear doesn’t stop him from trying to find them. What his decision creates is a doorway to acceptance and friendship. Out of fear comes delight, and the idea that what we see and how we initially judge a situation can be wrong——that what it takes to overcome our fears can sometimes be the best way to make a friend.

1. Who are the targeted readers of the book The Origin of Disease?

A．Students preferring challenges.

B．People caring about their health.

C．Researchers in the chemistry lab.

D．Doctors in the emergency room.

2. Which book is most likely to be a collection of short stories?

A．The Origin of Disease.

B．From Healing to Hell.

C．The Stuff of Monuments.

D．There Are No Monsters Here.

3. What brings the boy friendship in the last book?

A．His innocence.

B．His fear.

C．His courage.

D．His creativity.

2 . Ladybug celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary this month. For twenty-five years, the magazine has been trying to reflect the world of young children — and make it a little broader — through stories, poetry, art, and various activities.

Each issue of this magazine encourages kids to take a closer look at the people and places around them. Ladybug invites children to bring their whole selves — their acute (敏锐的) ear for language and keen eye for illustrations (插图), as well as their wonderful sense of play and great power of imagination — when they sit down and start to put their heart into reading.

The significance of Ladybug’s long history is clearest to me, a man who is in charge of the edition of this magazine, when I talk to parents of children who have grown up. They often respond with surprise: “ Ladybug? With the poems, and the stories, and the crafts to cut out, what will you do next? We used to read that magazine when the kids were little. ” And then there is a moment of silence, as if the father is searching for a particular poem, or the mother is remembering the feel of a restless child’s head when it finally settled against her shoulder. It is a great pleasure to contribute to a magazine that families have put in their memory.

Some anniversaries are formal, but at Ladybug, we approached the September issue as if it had been a birthday party. It is full of lively company, jokes, music, stories and poems that celebrate special days and growing up.

In this spirit, we offer one of our favorite birthday stories, “ Big Bear and Skinny Rabbit ” , from an issue that came out a few years ago. It is part of a series about two friends who couldn’t be more different in temperament (气质), yet more perfect for one another.

1. What does Ladybug concentrate on?

A．various stories, poetry and activities	B．some beautiful people and places
C．the great power of imagination	D．the development of little kids

2. What does the author probably do according to the passage?

A．An editor.

B．A businessman.

C．A professor.

D．An artist.

3. We can infer from the third paragraph that ______ ?

A．Only with the stories in Ladybug being read can many children fall asleep.

B．Some parents can remember Ladybug with affection.

C．some parents are concerned about the development of Ladybug.

D．It is expected that more contents should be contained in Ladybug.

4. ______ will probably be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．An introduction of Ladybug’s birthday.	B．The new issue of Ladybug.
C．A collection of poems.	D．A story published before.

3 . 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.

2. Which can we find in the articles submitted to the journals?

A．Writer names.	B．The review reports.
C．Judges’ emails.	D．Judge names.

3. Whom is the text probably written for?

A．An editor.

B．A journalist.

C．A researcher.

D．A reviewer.

4 . School newspapers are considered to be one of the best media of teaching students about various problems in the society. They create a sense of achievement in the minds of the students and help students improve their writing, creativity and management skills at a young age.     1    So it's important to start a school newspaper.

School newspapers are supposed to be "Of the students, By the students and For the students". The committee of the "little journalists" should include a student with excellent writing and editing skills acting as the editor, along with a team of 3 or 4 other writers regularly writing articles. Students outside the committee might also be given a chance to write short stories, poems, jokes etc.     2     This is because it can give a fair chance to all the students.

    3     To make the contents available to readers, the contents have to be classified into different topics, including news articles on current problems, school news and announcements, activity schedules for sports and quiz competitions, columns for personal contributions, such as jokes, puzzles, paintings and photography.     4     School kids can be asked to write their views about the paper or about any topic that they wish for.

It's common to publish school newspapers every month. The committee may be allowed to select any other duration if it wishes to.     5    

Now, does starting a school newspaper still seem like a challenge?

A．It reflects students' special interests and hobbies.

B．A school newspaper is basically a collection of contents.

C．It would be advisable to elect a new committee annually.

D．They have the art of discovering new talent out of the students.

E．Letters to the editor are also an important part of the newspaper.

F．However, committee members should ensure publishing schedules are followed.

G．But schools may publish their newspapers by putting them up for viewing in classrooms.

5 . Vlogging is an increasingly popular activity. And it’s no wonder that with so many_________ vloggers sharing personal experiences in their countries online, young Chinese people have_________ to hear their stories. But what makes American Jerry Kowal_________ outstanding as such an influential vlogger?

In videos, Kowal offers his sincere_________ into current events to his over 53 million followers on video sharing platform Bilibili. _________ other vloggers who tend to focus on one topic, his videos_________ various issues, such as governance, pandemic and_________. After leaving Chengdu for New York in January, Kowal posted_________ America’s measures serve to face the COVID-19 outbreak, having visited local hospitals_________ at the risk of getting infected.

As a responsible citizen journalist, Kowal is deeply concerned about__________ issues. During the protests triggered by George Floyd, an innocent and__________ African American who died while in police custody(拘捕), Kowal__________ questions from his fans about his perspectives and attitude toward this situation. Kowal uploaded an informative video clip explaining that he believed this event was a__________ of racial bias and police violence.

“Vlogs help people learn the culture of other countries...”__________ by CCTV on June 10, he put, “the US, China and everything have all__________ my fancy, which inspires me to tell people what I have seen.”

1.

A．foreign

B．familiar

C．special

D．fine

2.

A．dropped in

B．taken in

C．put in

D．tuned in

3.

A．little

B．almost

C．that

D．enough

4.

A．approval

B．expectation

C．admission

D．insight

5.

A．Besides

B．Against

C．As

D．Unlike

6.

A．checked

B．undertook

C．addressed

D．spared

7.

A．reputation

B．racism

C．evaluation

D．dignity

8.

A．what

B．how

C．why

D．when

9.

A．bravely

B．patiently

C．eagerly

D．relaxedly

10.

A．recreational

B．cultural

C．financial

D．social

11.

A．unhealthy

B．unaffected

C．unarmed

D．unkind

12.

A．preferred

B．encountered

C．recommended

D．ignored

13.

A．result

B．misunderstanding

C．improvement

D．start

14.

A．invited

B．interviewed

C．encouraged

D．praised

15.

A．taken

B．predicted

C．controlled

D．missed