1 . Four Popular Newspapers in 2021

The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper founded on May 5, 1821. It was founded by John Edward Taylor. Its headquarters (总部) is in London, the United Kingdom. It covers daily news from various sections like political news, sports news, business news, jobs and interviews, current affairs, local news, national and international news etc. The Guardian Weekly and The Observer are the sister newspapers of The Guardian.

The Asashi Shimbun

The newspaper is one of the five national newspapers in Japan. This Japan’s oldest and largest daily newspaper was founded on January 25, 1879. Its headquarters is in Tokyo, Japan. It circulates (发行) about 3,000 copies each day. It covers news from various fields like world, sports, business, jobs, current affairs, interviews, breaking news and so on.

The Washington Post

The newspaper, an American daily newspaper, was founded on December 6, 1877. It was founded by Stilson Hutchins. Its headquarters is in Washington, DC, the United States. It is an English newspaper which circulates about 474,000 daily copies while about 830,000 on Sunday. It is the oldest and largest English newspaper in the US that covers news from various fields such as sports, business, jobs, current affairs, politics etc.

China Daily

It is an English-language daily newspaper that was founded on June 1, 1981. Its head-quarters is in Beijing, China. It’s published from Monday to Saturday and its circulation is about 500,000. It is the widest print circulation of any English language newspaper in China. It serves those who are foreigners in China as well as those who wish to improve their English. It covers news from each field like sports, business, jobs, current affairs, politics etc.

1. Which newspaper has the longest history?

A．The Washington Post.	B．The Asashi Shimbun.
C．The Guardian.	D．China Daily.

2. How many copies does The Washington Post circulate every Sunday?

A．About 3,000.

B．About 474,000.

C．About 500,000.

D．About 830,000.

3. What do the four newspapers have in common?

A．They have sister newspapers.

B．They are daily newspapers.

C．They are published for English learners.

D．They were founded in the 19th century.

2 . 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

2. The word “anecdotal” (in Para 6) is closet in meaning to ________.

A．conclusive	B．undeniable
C．defensive	D．unconvincing

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

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.

4. Macmillan-Scott is most likely to agree that _______.

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

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或所给单词的正确形式。

China Daily,     1     (establish) in 1981 as the national English-language newspaper, has developed into a multi-function information platform combining newspapers, websites and apps with a strong     2     (present) on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo and WeChat. It is to its credit     3     it serves more than 200 million readers all over the world and is a preferred choice for people who read about China in English. The news reaches an audience readership     4     (far) than China. The group plays an important role as a channel for information exchanges     5       China and the rest of the world. China Daily cooperates with     6     (lead)global news organizations to publish China Watch,     7       supplement(补充) published as an insert in major newspapers in more than 20 countries including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph etc. With a combined readership of more than 5 million, China Watch     8     (publish) in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese in the last five years. Popular as it is, China Daily is still serving     9     an Asia News Network member by sharing and exchanging stories and staff with mainstream     10     (medium)in other parts of the world.

4 . Richard and Judy's book club has transformed sales figures for dozens of novels, and turned modest publishing successes into triumphs. And now the husband and wife team have turned literary talent spotters too, with competition for potential authors that could make a star of a grandmother and doctor from Bournemouth.

    1     She beat more than 4,000 other viewers who were asked to submit a summary and the first chapter to the show's Hot to Get Published contest. Her manuscript temporarily entitled The Olive Renders, was described as a love story of courage and saving from sin told by a young woman who writes from a dystopian（反面乌托邦的）future. Ms. Aziz said winning gave her “the luxury of having time to finish writing my novel” without worrying about money. Ms. Aziz, who was born in Yorkshire, has worked as a shop assistant, dental receptionist, factory packer, singer and cleaner, but her only experience of writing was as a news reporter for three years.     2    

    3     It comprised Joseph O'Connor, whose book Star of the Sea increased rapidly in sales after crazy reviews on Richard and Judy, Amanda Ross, the head of the television company which makes the show, and Maria Rejt, publishing director for Pan Macmillan, which will publish the winning story.

In a surprise move, Pan Macmillan also offered the three runners-up the chances to be published，with advances of E 20,000 each: Alison Penton Harper, 40, a mother of two from Northamptonshire; Rachel Zadok te Riele, 33, from South Africa, a waitress who lives in south London; David Fidimore, 60, who is married with two children and has with two unpublished novels and numerous short storied.     4    

A．Christine Aziz, 52, who left school at 15 with a single O-level in English, on the Channel 4 show's competition and will receive a 50,000 advance for her first novel.

B．The Channel 4 show's competition was funded by the publishing company Pan Macmillan.

C．Ms. Aziz said the money would be enough to support the rest of her life

D．Five aspiring authors made it on to the shortlist for judging by a panel.

E．She did not like the pressure of journalism, but now she must complete the work and prepare herself for sales and marketing treatment usually reserved for bestselling authors.

F．Ms. Rejt said the shortlist reflected “an extraordinary range of talent from the extremely commercial to the beautifully literary”.

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1. What is special about Bien-dire Initial, Tuttoltaliano and Puntoy Coma?

A．They come out every month.	B．They include one-hour audio CDs.
C．They have English editions.	D．They feature some writing skills.

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3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To advertise some magazines.	B．To introduce some learning methods.
C．To explain some cultural differences.	D．To recommend some language agencies.

6 . Are newspapers dying? Many say the disappearance of the daily paper is just a matter of time. Now newspaper circulation is dropping, ad income is drying up, and the industry has experienced a great wave of layoffs (裁员) in recent years. A third of the large newsrooms across the United States had layoffs between 2017 and April 2018 alone. So these people say the Internet is just a better place to get news. “On the web, newspapers are live, and they can enrich their coverage with audio, video, and the invaluable resources of their vast archives (档案),” said Jeffrey I. Cole, director of USC’s Digital Future Center. “For the first time in 60 years, newspapers are back in the breaking news business, except now their delivery method is electronic and not paper.”

Yes, newspapers are facing tough times, and the Internet can offer many things papers can’t. However, newspapers are still here, and many of them remain profitable. Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, says the widespread newspaper industry layoffs of the last decade should make papers more survivable. “Many newspapers are operating more leanly (精简地) now,” Edmonds said. “The business will be smaller, but there should be enough profit there to make a sustainable business for years to come.”

Those who claim the future of news is online ignore one important point: Online ad income alone just isn’t enough to support most news companies. Thus, online news sites will need a new business model to survive. One possibility may be paywalls, meaning people have to pay for content. The 2013 Pew Research Center media report found that paywalls had been adopted at 450 of the country’s 1,380 dailies.

Until someone figures out how to make online-only news sites profitable, newspapers aren’t going anywhere. Despite the occasional scandal (丑闻) at print institutions, they remain trusted sources of information people turn to.

1. Why are newspapers still there?

A．Many newspapers report more scandals.

B．Newspapers have applied new marketing methods.

C．Many newspaper companies simplified their operation.

D．Newspapers enrich their coverage with audio and video.

2. How can online news sites make more profits to support them?

A．By charging their readers.	B．By featuring the online advertisements.
C．By releasing more shocking news.	D．By cooperating with local printed newspapers.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Newspapers won’t exist.	B．Newspapers won’t be dead.
C．Newspapers won’t be trusted.	D．Newspapers won’t be reduced.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．The future of newspapers.

B．Advantages and disadvantages of newspapers.

C．The meaning of the existence of printed newspapers.

D．The comparisons between newspapers and online news.

7 . 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.

2. What does the author want to stress about the college students?

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.

3. According to Paragraph 4,the F or Z pattern

A．affects the way people skim

B．encourages people to read more

C．becomes popular among the youth

D．limits people's thinking development

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

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.

8 . 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?

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YEARS 7-8: Two winners will receive a $ 30 Scorpio Books voucher.

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●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.

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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.

2. What is the requirement for the competitors?

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.

3. What benefit can the winners get from the competition?

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.

9 . Welcome to TeenInk, a national teen magazine, bookseries, and website devoted to teenage writing, art and photos. Students must be ages 13-19 to take part, and submit(提交) works. TeenInk magazine offers some of the most thoughtful and creative works finished by teens and has the largest distribution(分配) of any publication of its kind. We have no staff writers or artists; we depend completely on submissions from teenagers nationwide for our content.

We offer teenagers the opportunity to publish their creative works and opinions on the problems that affect their lives. Hundreds of thousands of students have submitted their works to us and we have published the works of more than 55,000 teens since 1989.

The Young Authors Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organisation that supports all TeenInk publications. The foundation is devoted to helping teens share their own voices, while developing reading, writing, creative and critical thinking skills. All proceeds from the printed magazine, website and TeenInk books are used only for charitable(慈善的) and educational purposes.

1. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To introduce TeenInk.	B．To praise TeenInk.
C．To collect some works.	D．To attract some readers.

2. TeenInk’s works are mainly from ________.

A．primary school students	B．middle school students
C．middle school teachers	D．college students

3. The underlined word “proceeds” in paragraph 3 probably refers to ________.

A．ideas

B．works

C．money

D．advertisements

10 . 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 Palace Museum in Beijing released its calendar for 2022 on September 6 although the Year of the Tiger is still more than four months away. “The calendar has become a new way for many people     1     (record) their life,” Chen Lihua, editor-in-chief of the calendar, says.

Though printed calendars seem to have lost     2     (they) functionality in the digital era, the museum s delicate calendar has become     3     item to collect. On each page of the new calendar, a tiger-themed cultural relic of the Palace Museum is introduced,     4     (range) from a jade ornament (翡翠) in the shape of a tiger dating back some 5,000 years     5     paintings created by modern Chinese masters such as Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian.

“The tiger is     6     stands for strength and energy in traditional Chinese culture.” Chen says, “We want to reflect tiger-related culture from various     7     (aspect).”

As the 2022 Winter Olympics     8     (schedule) to be held in China in February, a section of the calendar will introduce royal winter sports during the Qing Dynasty through art pieces.

In spite of the established reputation, creativity is still     9     (bad) needed for new editions of the annual calendar. Other than new design of pages, augmented (增广的)reality is now being used, making it     10     (access) for readers to have a better view of the moving pictures of cultural relics by scanning QR codes.