1 . 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.

2 . 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.

2. Which of the following newspapers is operated entirely online?

A．The Detroit News.	B．The Detroit Free Press.
C．The Rocky Mountain News.	D．The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

3. What does the underlined word “rock-bottom” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Increasing.

B．Common.

C．Reasonable.

D．Lowest.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

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.

3 . In this digital age, information is increasingly digitized through the wide use of technology. Newspapers, magazines and even textbooks are becoming or expected to be digital soon. However, despite the sharp increase of such technology in daily life, print media is far from becoming unnecessary. I don’t think that reading in print is a dying mode.

Firstly, print offers a super reading experience. The feeling of holding a book in our hands, feeling its weight and turning over its pages, helps us to be immersed in and engaged fully with the material. The act of turning over pages also helps to direct ourselves in the concepts and structure of the text. In contrast, reading through a number of pages on a device is unsatisfying, and we can lose track of how much we have read. In addition, the artificial glow of digital screens tires one’s eyes out, and can even affect one’s sleep.

Moreover, physical copies express greater aesthetic (审美的) beauty than digital ones. The designs that beautify book covers and spines make the ideas complete and add beauty to our homes as well. The wrinkles that have accumulated over time leave us with an emotional attachment to the books themselves. Furthermore, the presentation of content in print also allows for greater appreciation of imagery (意象). In contrast to the restrictions of digital screens, the tangible (可触摸的) nature of print allows for clear imagery that is clear and impactful in its presence.

Advocates of digital print support the convenience of the medium. Indeed, e-readers   provide a convenient solution to storage and transportation. However, this carries its own weaknesses as well. For one, the use of digital media requires the investment in a smart device. For another, taking notes on the printed text is easier.

In conclusion, despite the conveniences afforded by digital media, physical print still remains a popular mode of reading today. The “less is more” nature of print media remains its strongest selling point today.

1. Which of the following is true according to paragraph 2?

A．Too much digital reading will not influence our health.

B．Turning over pages helps to completely understand the texts.

C．Reading in print offers readers full engagement with materials.

D．Readers can exactly know how much they have read by digital reading.

2. Where does the greater aesthetic beauty of physical copies lie?

A．A clear imagery.	B．Abundant ideas.
C．Emotional dependence.	D．Convenience of transportation.

3. What’s the main purpose of the text?

A．To popularize two types of reading modes.

B．To persuade people to enjoy digital reading.

C．To inform people of a new trend in reading.

D．To argue why reading in print will not disappear.

4. The author states the opinion by _________.

A．using examples	B．making a comparison
C．asking and answering questions	D．analyzing causes and effects

4 . 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.

5 . 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.

6 . 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。

The Guardian is a daily post in the UK, which enjoys a high popularity,     1     its circulation, since its birth larger than other similar media.

The Guardian that saw its birth in mid-1990s posed a great threat to papers that were already in the print-media market as the new     2     (publish) hit the market, and within short time it was in the march with its competitors. The paper targets at the general public and serves all age groups     3     (carry) a rich mix of news articles, features, photos.

In spite of     4     (it) universality, the Guardian also has serious tailor-made contents which touch or suit different groups of our readers and it plays a     5     (decide) role of educating, informing and entertaining the readers.

    6     (function), the paper is up-in-arms to promote economic and social changes. Being a tailor-made product makes it unique, exceptional and     7     crowd –puller.

The Guardian,     8     distribution network is reliable, timely and superb,     9     (read) all over the world, and what is believed in the media circle is that its core position is unshakable     10     the paper itself fails to innovate in the global tide of media reform.

7 . His Refresh

For me, change is in the air. The snow is thawing in the town where Susan and I are living. We both got vaccinated (I’ve never been so happy to have type I diabetes, which qualified me for early shots). And by the time you read this, our daughter will have been married, surrounded by family, on a Mexican beach. Hooyah! This is the spirit of change. In this issue, you’ll find new sections meant to delight you as much as tossing rice at your grinning daughter.

A knowledge quiz. Sharpen your pencils. Brain Games now features “Fact or Fiction” (page 117) to test your recall and worldliness in equal measure. I scored six and got the bonus question only by cheating and consulting 13 Things on page 40.

A new health section. You already our sister site, thehealthy.com. Now we’re curating its content into The Healthy (page 53), full of advice, first person narratives, and medical news.

Where, OH Where? There’s nothing like seeing a gorgeous photograph shot somewhere in the country and wanting —no, needing to know where the heck it was taken. We turn that irresistible sensation into a visual quiz (page 38).

Smile-inducing news. RD editors here and around the world are always finding never-before-seen examples of charity and ingenuity. We’re rolling them into A World of Good (page 18).

Animal stories! Because who can resist? To continue the celebration of our animals’ ability to bond, Best Pet Pals (page 44) will spotlight one priceless submission to your heart’s content.

________ Finally, on page 1,we’re creating a brand-new section, hoping to offer you a friend who brings fun ideas to your kitchen table, who helps everyone laugh and cry together about what makes us all human.

Write to let me know if you have got a flashing idea for the name of this section. And thanks for reading.

1. What may this article be from?

A．Novel.

B．Newspaper.

C．Magazine.

D．Instruction book.

2. If you are confident of your knowledge of pet, and want to check your scope, which section will you mostly read?

A．A knowledge quiz.

B．A new health section.

C．Where, OH Where?

D．Animal stories!

3. If you are writing to give a name for the new section mentioned in the last paragraph, which of the following you may submit?

A．Fun Guy in Kitchen of Fantastic Food	B．A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World
C．Hooyah to Humor and Human	D．Ideas to Laugh and Cry

8 . I couldn’t be more excited to join Reader’s Digest as we celebrate our 100th anniversary. Since 1922, this magazine has shared stories about remarkable people across the country and the kind and heroic things they do for one another.

I grew up in a family of storytellers. My father, a police officer in our central Illinois town, came home every day with stories about the people in our community: funny anecdotes or dramatic stories that revealed the lives of the individuals in our town and what they went through every day.

My mother was a gifted storyteller and her job in the front office of our local middle school provided a lot of material. My sister and I heard about classmates who were caught skipping school or forced by the principal to admit their mischief on unpopular teacher. She would deliver the play-by-play to us, laughing about kids and the things they do. My sister and I learned how to find and tell our own stories in a way that the April 1960 issue held Mom and Dad’s attention and earned their laughs. I suspect those conversations pushed me toward journalism, a way of telling stories to an audience beyond the dinner table.

In this special anniversary issue, we look at some of the incredible stories from famous writers, politicians, everyday heroes, and average Americans that have filled the pages of Reader’s Digest for a century. We also talk about humor, health, and how to feel hopeful about the next century. Of course, there is too much for one issue, so be sure to visit us online at rd.com/100th for more.

Most of all, thank you for being a part of the first 100 years of Reader’s Digest. I look forward to hearing and sharing your stories for years to come.

1. Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mischief” in paragraph 3?

A．Trick.

B．Pressure.

C．Influence.

D．Emphasis.

2. What drove the writer to become a journalist?

A．His abundant reading of Readers’ Digest.

B．His principal’s suggestion and guidance.

C．His parents’ good talent of telling stories.

D．His family’s frequent exchanging of stories.

3. Why is this anniversary issue of Readers’ Digest special?

A．Because it shares stories beyond the dinner table.

B．Because it has only one offline version available.

C．Because it is a story collection of the previous editions.

D．Because it is particularly enjoyed by the writer’s parents.

4. What is the purpose of the writer writing the text?

A．To prove the editor’s theory.

B．To state the writer’s opinion.

C．To promote the sale of the magazine.

D．To encourage contributions from readers.

9 . The news plays an important role in our lives, which has been emphasized even further during the past year. If you find yourself beginning to feel negative impacts from the news, now is the time to start putting protective steps into place.

Control consumption.     1     Alternatively, you may have noticed a pattern you are experiencing — for example, do you tend to feel more negative impacts if you read the news when you’re tired or just before bed, or during periods of increased stress? If so, you may wish to limit exposure at certain times of day or in particular contexts.

Take ownership over your emotions.     2     It is your right to feel how you do. In doing so, acknowledge that you have control over your reactions. This can help you feel more empowered to act positively.

    3     If you’re being disturbed by negative news coverage, try to find some other resources to focus on. For instance, during the current pandemic (流行病), the WHO suggests focusing on recovery stories.

Seek support. Contact support groups or health care professionals. It’s important to recognize the value of positive social support and to recognize that seeking help is a positive and strong step. These contacts can also help you find other helpful resources.     4    

What works for one person may not be the best approach for another. Everyone is an individual.     5     Do not hesitate to seek professional help to guide you through this process.

A．Focus on the positive.

B．Take time to find what works for you.

C．Always remember that you are not alone.

D．Never blame yourself for negative emotions.

E．It’s also important to invest time in self-care.

F．This includes taking some time out from the media.

G．Staying informed and educated is particularly important.

10 . While most lifestyle and fashion magazines are full of photos of slim male and female models that create an unrealistic image of the human body, a fresh Japanese men’s magazine called Mr. Babe is taking an unusual approach. It is targeted at chubby men, a body type that is rarely represented in the mainstream fashion industry.

Mr. Babe describes itself as Japan’s first fashion and lifestyle magazine of chubby men, by chubby men and for chubby men. Its major goal is to increase the confidence of its readers and convince them that they can lead a happy and successful life regardless of the few extra pounds. It offers fashion tips, health advice and articles on marriage. The chief editor said, “Mr. Babe is in no way persuading men to become fat. Our message is that chubby men can be attractive by making use of what they have now. ”

Norihito Kurashina was in charge of Men’s Knuckle for over 10 years before shifting completely and launching Mr. Babe. Up to now, Men’s Knuckle is still a famous magazine for young Japanese. 52-year-old Kurashina describes himself as a chubby man for 25 years.

According to the National Health and Nutrition Survey, the percentage of overweight men in Japan has been increasing gradually over the last decade, while the number of overweight women has decreased. Kurashina says the growing number of chubby men is largely due to the long working hours. In addition, they go drinking after work to relax. Naturally, they have no time, energy or money to go to the gym and keep in shape.

The chubby men in Mr. Babe magazine are not much more different than the handsome and sexy men that show up in most mainstream magazines. They are charming and well-dressed. 50, 000 copies have been printed of the first issue, which has film star Jack Black on the cover. Norihito Kurashina says he is already feeling a good response from the audience.

1. What does the underlined word “chubby” in Para. 1 mean?

A．Fat.

B．Thin.

C．Ugly.

D．Modern.

2. What does Mr. Babe mainly aim to do?

A．Encourage more men to put on weight.

B．Make its readers confident in themselves.

C．Offer suggestions about how to lose weight.

D．Become the most popular magazine in Japan.

3. What can we infer from the text?

A．Mr.Babe has several film stars on its cover.

B．Mr.Babe is designed for all Japanese people.

C．Norihito Kurashina is sure about Mr. Babe’s success.

D．The men in Mr.Babe are charming though dressed casually.