1 . 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.

2 . BACK ISSUES

JUNE 2020

Full results of the BBC Music Magazine Awards, plus interviews with all winners. Plus Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin on your CD.

JULY 2020

An exclusive (独家的) interview with cellist Yo-Yo Ma as he returns to bluegrass, plus Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé on the cover CD.

AUGUST 2020

A 125th anniversary (周年纪念日) celebration of the people who shaped the Proms, plus Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 on the cover CD.

UP TO 30% OFF FOR SUBSCRIBERS (订购者)

1. We’re sorry, but issues of BBC Music published more than 12 months ago are no longer being sold.

2. BBC Music Magazine and CD slipcases (硬盒) are perfect for storing your collection. Subscribers can save up to 30% when ordering both together.

To order call 03330 162 118

BACK ISSUE PRICES

SUBSCRIBERS	NON-SUBSCRIBERS
UK — £4.48 per copy	UK — £5.60 per copy
Europe — £5.28 per copy	Europe — £6.60 per copy
Rest of the world — £6.08 per copy	Rest of the world — £7.60 per copy

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SUBSCRIBERS

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Europe	£14.00	£8.00	£7.15
Rest of the world	£16.20	£9.15	£8.75

NON-SUBSCRIBERS

LOCATION	MAGAZINE & CD HOLDER	MAGAZINE HOLDER	CD HOLDER
UK	£16.50	£8.50	£8.00
Europe	£20.02	£10.00	£9.00
Rest of the world	£23.25	£11.50	£11.00

1. What do we know about the June 2020 issue?

A．It lists those winning the BBC Music Magazine Awards.

B．It is a special issue about an anniversary celebration.

C．It reports an interview with only one musician.

D．It collects the stories of many musicians.

2. What should we notice when buying the issues?

A．Issues published over a year ago are not offered.

B．People must order magazines and CDs together.

C．Only people in the UK can enjoy the low price.

D．All of the issues have 30% off.

3. How much should a European subscriber pay for a magazine holder?

A．£10.00.	B．£8.00.
C．£6.80.	D．£6.60.

3 .

News plays a significant role in shaping people’s beliefs and opinions. False news has always been a problem in ___________. The following pieces of news are well-travelled legends proved to be not ___________.

Trying to keep warm in ___________ weather, a 50-year-old Cypriot (塞浦路斯人) huddled over his oil heaters. ___________ overturning it, he set himself on fire. ___________ in pain, he ran out and jumped into a nearby river, where he ___________ like a stone and drowned.

Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record (坐旗杆记录). By the time he came down, eight hours short of the 400-day record, his ___________ had gone bust (破产), his girlfriend had ___________ him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

In a hospital’s ICU, patients always died in the ___________ bed at about 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. This ____________ the doctors and some ____________ thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths ____________ around 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, so out of ____________, a worldwide team of experts gathered to ____________ the cause of the incidents.

The next Sunday morning, all the experts ____________ waited outside the ICU to see what would ____________. Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday ____________, entered the ICU and unplugged (拔出插头) the life support system. ____________, he could use the vacuum cleaner.

After being fact-checked, the above three pieces of news have been ____________ that they were almost entirely ____________.

1.

A．estate

B．advertising

C．journalism

D．profession

2.

A．interesting

B．factual

C．beneficial

D．constructive

3.

A．rainy

B．fair

C．unusual

D．freezing

4.

A．Accidentally

B．Intentionally

C．Automatically

D．Fiercely

5.

A．Protesting

B．Breathing

C．Crashing

D．Screaming

6.

A．sank

B．slid

C．bathed

D．trapped

7.

A．headmaster

B．colleague

C．sponsor

D．journalist

8.

A．hugged

B．left

C．kissed

D．released

9.

A．different

B．broken

C．same

D．medical

10.

A．amused

B．puzzled

C．frightened

D．choked

11.

A．still

B．somehow

C．then

D．even

12.

A．occurred

B．extended

C．differed

D．peaked

13.

A．pity

B．curiosity

C．excitement

D．discrimination

14.

A．absorb

B．boost

C．investigate

D．witness

15.

A．patiently

B．kindly

C．critically

D．nervously

16.

A．come about

B．sum up

C．mount up

D．spring up

17.

A．nurse

B．doctor

C．sweeper

D．tailor

18.

A．Otherwise

B．Besides

C．Nevertheless

D．Therefore

19.

A．brought to light

B．brightened up

C．got across

D．got rid of

20.

A．minor

B．false

C．memorable

D．accurate

4 . Mr Wilson, professor of news media, has recently received many questions from his students and answered them online. Here are some of them:

• What is mass media?

Mass media refers to the sources of information and news that reach a large audience. Besides traditional media, technology has changed and there are many new media introduced to convey information to the masses such as: books and magazines, televisions, Internet videos, films and documentaries.

• What is the importance of mass media?

Different types of mass media provide us with various types of political, religious, economic and social related news and information.

Each media has its significance in some or the other way. For example, a newspaper provides information in rural areas and urban areas as well as a TV which also provides information, news and entertainment shows through a digital medium.

• What is traditional media?

Traditional media is considered as the oldest form of mass media, which transfers culture and tradition from generation to generation. People over some time developed different ways of communicating through local languages and written mediums. There are various forms of traditional media such as folk songs, fairs and festivals.

• Which sector is considered as the root of mass media?

The first modern mass media institution began with the development of the printing press.

• Are there any problems associated with mass media?

As with everything in life, mass media also comes with its own shortcomings. But there are enough experts to make up for that.

1. What has contributed to the popularity of modern media?

A．Communication.	B．Economic change.
C．Traditional culture.	D．New technology.

2. Which is described as a traditional mass medium?

A．A dialogue between father and son.

B．A radio programme broadcasted at night.

C．A folk song popular with youngsters.

D．A piece of big news via Weibo.

3. What is true of media?

A．It offers us all kinds of news.

B．The root of mass media is Internet.

C．The invention of paper is considered as the root of mass media.

D．There are no shortcomings in mass media.

5 . 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。

A group of homeless children in India publish a newspaper telling about     1     (they) own lives.

It is called Balaknama,     2     means “children’s voice”. It is written    3     children up to 19 years old. And about 10, 000 people read it.

The children write about poverty, child labor, underage marriages and drugs. A homeless girl    4     (name) Shanno helps edit the paper.

The newspaper has 70 reporters in several states and 14 in the capital. All of the reporters,     5     (editor) and managers are homeless children. Many of their parents are jobless and cannot read or write. The children now earn money,     6     many of them attend classes online that may help them find a job.

The newspaper     7     (publish) every month. It has eight pages. It    8     (change) the lives of many of the children who publish it since it was created, and the children who have been working for it hope     9     (improve) the lives of thousands of others.

Non-governmental organizations and charity groups support the newspaper. The newspaper costs about three cents. That is     10     (little) than the price of a small cup of tea in India. But the small cost gives the children hope that they will some day have a home and a job.

6 . 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.

2. What is the conventional idea about human societies?

A．They progressed in stages.	B．They started with inequality.
C．They began with small tribes.	D．They benefited from population growth.

3. How does the author develop Paragraph 4?

A．By listing figures.	B．By offering examples.
C．By giving a definition.	D．By making a comparison.

4. What is a feature of ancient transitions to agriculture according to the book?

A．A fixed political system.	B．Flexibility of society.
C．A regular revolutionary shift.	D．Improvement of crops.