1 . 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.

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.

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.