1 . Are you looking for some informative magazines? The following ones can surely meet your needs.
Mental Foss is a magazine full of bite-sized（small bits） trivia（琐事）and mostly short articles with really interesting facts that you'll want to share with others. The writing is fun and friendly, so it’s easy to understand the answers to the more difficult questions, like: What does outer space smell like? Why isn't cat food mouse-flavored? While the print edition of the magazine stopped publishing in 2016, you can still read Mental Floss online.
Reader's Digest is not actually about books reading. Instead, it is about people. Inside you'll find anecdotes—short, personal articles about things that have happened to people. There are stories in simple writing about everything from funny celebrity moments and inspiring personal store to funny jokes and articles.
Cricket and Cicada are easy-to-read literary magazines aimed at teenagers. Each issue is full of wonderful short stories and poems, and beautiful illustrations. Even though these are technically children's magazines, they are perfect for learning English because they have high quality writing.
Time is one of the most well-known magazines in the world. Inside you'll find news, beautiful photographs and everything you need to get a" deeper understanding of the world in which we live. "Since Time is very high quality and provides deep insight on many serious topics, it can also be difficult for English learners to read. If you have trouble understanding Time, try Time For Kids, which has similarly great content but is written in a simpler way.
1. What can readers obtain from Mental Floss?| A．They can be inspired by the comments on the magazine. |
| B．They can understand some tough facts in a funny way. |
| C．They can enjoy a variety of eye-catching pictures. |
| D．They can have a deep understanding about the current events. |
| A．The language is easy and friendly to readers. |
| B．The articles are mostly adapted from books. |
| C．The stories are all based on private experiences. |
| D．The topics are serious and difficult to comprehend. |
| A．It's of great help for English beginners. |
| B．It has two editions for readers to choose from. |
| C．People can have an access to it online. |
| D．It is perfect for teenagers who love anecdotes. |
2 . 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.
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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. |
3 . 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. |
4 . A symbol of a booming children’s book market is a self-styled “kaleidoscope (万花筒) of creative genius for kids”, the magazine Scoop, a startup based in Dalston, east London, which the author Neil Gaiman has described as “the kind of magazine I wish we’d had when I was eight.”
Scoop is the idea of the publisher Clementine Macmillan-Scott. A year ago, hers looked like an impossible venture. But against the odds for little magazines, Scoop has survived. Macmillan-Scott said, “I really wasn’t certain we would get to this point, but we are now approaching our first birthday.” She links the magazine’s fortunes to a prosperous market and reports that “through the hundreds of children, parents and teachers we speak to at our workshops, we know that children are greedy for storytelling.”
Inspired by an Edwardian model, Arthur Mee’s Children’s Newspaperr, Scoop is a mix of innovation and creativity. Establishment heavyweights such as the playwright Tom Stoppard, plus children’s writers such as Raymond Briggs, author of Fungus the Bogeyman, have adopted its cause. The magazine has also given space to 10-year-old writers and pays all contributors, high and low, the same rate — 10p a word.
It’s a winning formula. Macmillan-Scott reports “a quarterly sales increase of roughly 150% every issue”, but is cautious about her good fortune. “It’s all too clear to us that these children are hungry for print.”
Scoop focuses on the most profitable part of the children’s market, Britain’s eight to 12-year-old readers. In literary culture, this is the crucial bridge between toddlers (儿童) and adolescents and its publisher knows it. Macmillan-Scott is committed to listening to readers aged eight to 12, who have an editorial board where they can express their ideas about the magazine. “If we don’t get these children reading,” she says, “we will lose out on adult readers. To be fully literate, you have to start as a child.”
Macmillan-Scott argues against the suggestion that reading is in decline. “If you look at our figures,” she objects, “you’ll find that children do read and that Scoop is part of a craze for reading hardback books. Kids love paper and print. They might play games on a digital device, but they prefer not to read on a Kindle. The real market for e-books is among young adult readers.” Some of her evidence is anecdotal, but her sales figures and readership surveys support a picture of eight to 12-year-olds absorbed in books.
“What our research shows beyond question,” she says, “is that children have a love for reading that’s not seriously threatened by other kinds of entertainment. Reading for pleasure is a very real thing at this age, and the worries that some adults have about children losing interest in reading are simply not grounded in reality.”
1. It can be learned from the passage that Scoop ________.| A．is aimed at teenagers in Britain |
| B．has taken a year to publish its first issue |
| C．has got its name from Arthur Mee’s newspaper |
| D．pays as much to young writers as to famous ones |
| A．conclusive | B．undeniable |
| C．defensive | D．unconvincing |
| A．Children would rather listen to stories than tell stories by themselves. |
| B．Magazines for children aged under 8 are not very common in Britain. |
| C．Scoop illustrates the power of printed books in the face of digital revolution. |
| D．Research carried out by Scoop has been questioned by those writing for children. |
| A．the market for children’s e-books remains to be explored |
| B．a child who dislikes reading won’t love reading when grown up |
| C．other kinds of entertainment have influenced children’s reading habits |
| D．it is necessary for adults to worry about children’s lack of interest in reading |
5 . 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. |
| 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. |
| A．affects the way people skim |
| B．encourages people to read more |
| C．becomes popular among the youth |
| D．limits people's thinking development |
| 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. |
6 . Write On is the longest-running literary journal of writing for kids in New Zealand. We celebrate the best of children's writing and provide an opportunity for publication. The magazine is published twice yearly in Winter and Summer.
New Competition for Issue 55: What Year Is It?
We've had enough of 2020 already! So your challenge is to write a story of up to 400 words set in ANY OTHER YEAR. That could be 2019, 5 BC, or 3020! The trick will land us right in the middle of the most important part of the story!
Thanks to Scorpio Books' generosity, the prizes for the competition are as follows:
YEARS 4-6: Two winners will receive a $ 20 Scorpio Books voucher(代金券).
YEARS 7-8: Two winners will receive a $ 30 Scorpio Books voucher.
YEARS 9-10: Two winners will receive a $ 50 Scorpio Books voucher.
Competition Submission Guidelines, Terms and Conditions
●All submissions must be made via this online form.
●Please format your work in size 12, Times New Roman, black. Only .doc or .pdf files are accepted.
●Please rule pictures out—let your wonderful writing create the pictures.
●All entries will be judged blind, so please don't write down your name or school on your entry.
●The entry fee is $ 5 per entry or $ 25 for six entries from a school.
●Winning entries will come out in Issue 55, about one and a half months after the closing date of October 23.
1. What do we know about the competition?| A．It is aimed at foreigners. | B．It is supported by Scorpio Books. |
| C．It is free for all participants. | D．It is held every two years. |
| A．Sending their works only as PDFs. | B．Submitting their works by mail. |
| C．Attaching no pictures to their works. | D．Including their names on their works. |
| A．Getting their works published in December. |
| B．Receiving free copies of the magazine. |
| C．Being awarded at least $ 20 in cash. |
| D．Having a chance to tour New Zealand. |
7 . Geographical, the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has been published continuously since 1935. Each month, Geographical brings the world into its readers’ living rooms, highlighting the rich diversity of world’s cultures, wildlife and places. also provides an authoritative voice on the social and environmental issues that face humanity, educating and informing its readers. Employing inspiring photography and exclusive in-depth editorial features, the brand offers a unique blend of:
• People and cultures
• Exploration and discovery
• Responsible travel
• Outdoor-equipment advice
• The natural world
• Environmental issues
• Science and technology
• The best of Britain
THE NUMBERS
Our 106,000 readers are well educated, literate, and affluent.
They approach their purchasing decisions with a mixture of thorough organisation and meaningful intent.
82% of readers subscribe to the magazine.
Readers spend an average of 94 minutes reading each issue of Geographical.
On average, our readers pick up the magazine 5.8 times per issue.
Each issue of Geographical is read by an average of 4.1 people.
81 % of readers archive their copies of the magazine for future use.
What it all adds up to... There is simply no other audience that has the all-round knowledge of, and ongoing interest in, the environment, geography and travel.
45% of leaders agree that Geographical ‘gives me ideas for things to buy’.
67% of readers contact advertisers in the magazine.
48% of readers are professionals.
19% of readers are students.
16% of readers are self-employed.
1. What do we know about Geographical?| A．Most people like reading it in library. | B．The number of its readers is larger. |
| C．It covers the normal trips. | D．Its content is rich. |
| A．82%. | B．19%. | C．45%. | D．81%. |
| A．Interesting. | B．Expensive. | C．Essential. | D．Demanding. |
8 . 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. |
9 . 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 |
10 . What is a book nowadays in a world of Kindles and iPads? Traditional publishers are traveling a long and confusing road into the digital future. Here's the conventional wisdom about publishing: People expect e-books to be cheaper than physical books, and that drives down prices. But the story's not that simple. For one thing, digital publishers have the same problem that traditional publishers do:piracy(盗版).
It turns out, though, that some publishers are doing pretty well despite the piracy problem. "We've had an amazing year," says Sourcebooks President Dominique Raccah. "Last year was the best year in the company's history. This year we beat that, which I didn't think was even possible." Raccah adds that her company is doing well because of digital publishing.
It turns out there are some huge advantages-at least for publishers. A big one: The price of an e-book isn't fixed the way it is with physical books. Ten years ago, a publisher would have sent out its books to the bookstore with the price stamped on the cover. After that, it was done - the publisher couldn't put a book on sale to sell more copies.
"The exciting thing about digital books is that we actually get to test and price differently, " Raccah says. That's what American publisher Little, Brown and Company did with Robert Dallek's book An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy. In the middle of November, Little, Brown and Company dropped the price from $ 9. 99 to $ 2. 99 for 24 hours. That sparks sales; it gets people talking about it," says Terry Adams, a publisher with Little, Brown and Company.
If you read the new e-book 40 Years of Queen, you will find it full of links. Links to iTunes, where you can buy the music you've been reading about. That's another huge advantage of e-books:Publishers can sell you things inside your book.
There's still one big problem putting pressure on publishers. "We actually don't have a good gifting tradition yet for e-books," says Raccah. Despite all the advances in reading technology, physical books are still the best Christmas presents.
1. How does Raccah feel about her company's achievement this year?| A．It's really disappointing. | B．It's less than satisfactory. |
| C．It's just what she predicted. | D．It's far beyond her expectations. |
| A．To stress it had its own advantage. |
| B．To show its marketing was not flexible. |
| C．To complain about the changing prices of books. |
| D．To indicate the unpopularity of physical books. |
| A．It was written by John F. Kennedy. |
| B．It caused disagreements among buyers. |
| C．It was sold at a huge discount for one day. |
| D．It was sold at a different price every week. |
| A．Buy items mentioned in the book. |
| B．Find links to other relevant books. |
| C．Get some background information. |
| D．Listen to music in the book for free. |
