1 . English for Children

This book will help Russian-speaking children to learn and practice the most common words and phrases in the English language. It is about greetings, introductions and good manners. Each English word and sentence is translated in Russian. The pronunciation is also shown in Russian.

The book starts with greetings like “Good morning!” Then it goes on to introduce expressions of welcoming someone, saying sorry for being late, asking all kinds of questions in the street, and so on.

Price:8.95

Little Snow Girl

This book is about a wonderful Russian story. It’s about an old man and an old woman who have no children. They crave a daughter. One day, they make a girl out of snow, and then the girl comes alive. Will she be able to live in spring?

The book is written in Russian. It is suitable for children aged 3 and up.

Price:5.95

From Morning to Evening

This book has many rhymes (押韵诗) with beautiful pictures. The rhymes are written by V.Dan’ko. They are about little children, their families, pets, toys, nature and more. The book also has a CD. On the CD, the rhymes are read by L.Mochalina. The book is written in Russian. It is the perfect book for children who are going to school.

Price:14.95

1. English for children will help          to learn English.

A．Chinese-speaking children	B．English-speaking children
C．Russian-speaking children	D．French-speaking children

2. The underlined word “crave” is closest in meaning to          .

A．wish to have

B．like

C．look for

D．save

3. If you want to spend less than 20 buying two different books, you can buy         .

A．From Morning to Evening and Little Snow Girl

B．Little Snow Girl and English for Children

C．English for Children and From Morning to Evening

D．All of the above

4. From Morning to Evening was written by         .

A．V.Dan’ko	B．L.Mochalina
C．an old man and an old woman	D．a girl

4 . Tortoise and turtle shells can be used to study nuclear pollution. scientists have found. Just as tree rings can provide snapshots (简要说明) of the Earth’s climate. and ice cores can give us information on past temperature, researchers found that the layers of shells can be used as a time stamp of periods with nuclear fallout.

The researchers focused on turtles and tortoises from areas that have seen nuclear pollution. and measured the uranium (铀) that was present in the bony outer shell that is usually made of keratin (角蛋白) . Each layer of shell equals to one year of the tortoise’s life, and so can reveal what happened in its surrounding environment.

Five different turtles and tortoises from natural history collections were studied. One of these came from Enewetak Atoll, and was collected in 1978. Enewetak Atoll and its neighbour, Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific, were the sites of 67 nuclear tests, with Enewetak the site of 43 of these. Though the sea turtle was probably not alive during the time of the testing, researchers still found uranium pollution in the turtle 20 years after testing ended.

Researchers also looked at an eastern box turtle from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the US. Oak Ridge is the site of a nuclear facility that has produced and processed uranium since 1943. The turtle that was studied from there was collected in 1962 and may have bioaccumulated radionuclides, or radioactive materials, from uranium waste products in the area.

The research supports the idea that these animals can bioaccumulate human-made radionuclides, or from the environment. It also supports the idea that these animals. Which often live a long time, can record information about human activity with nuclear landscapes over a long period. We anticipate that combining analyses of historically collected and modern samples will significantly expand our environmental monitoring abilities as they relate to ongoing nuclear pollution questions.

1. What made the test of uranium by the researchers possible?

A．Uranium made its mark on the turtle shells.

B．Uranium existed in large amounts in nature.

C．The turtle shells were independent from the surrounding environment.

D．The turtle shells’ outer layers were composed of mysterious material.

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to paragraphs 3-4?

A．The turtle studied had to be alive during testing.

B．Bikini Atoll and Oak Ridge stood next to each other.

C．Enewetak Atoll had more nuclear tests than Bikini Atoll.

D．The eastern box turtle from Oak Ridge was collected in 1943.

3. What is the author’s attitude toward the research?

A．Unclear.

B．Dismissive.

C．Doubtful.

D．Approving.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．A study on turtle collections	B．The importance of turtle shells
C．The severity of nuclear pollution	D．A hint of radiation from turtle shells

6 . Favourable Christmas Stays in London

In recent years, the UK has formed an increasingly strong Christmas market scene. Below we have highlighted one of the biggest Christmas markets, Wowcher.

Pricing

Wowcher is giving a £99 overnight London hotel stay for Christmas for two people at the four-star Crown Hotel near Notting Hill. Visitors can also upgrade their stay: a two-night break for two with breakfast starts from £205, and a three-night stay for two with a two-course dinner starts from £295. Every extra bed costs 20% of the total.

Available activities

Visitors can obtain a fantastic trip in the dynamic West End and feel the festive atmosphere in world-famous shopping destinations such as Oxford Street. While London is famous for upscale department stores like Harrods and Selfridges, during the festive season, seasonal stands arise at prosperous Christmas markets selling local conventional goods for truly unique Christmas gifts. You can also catch the Christmas lights show in Regent Street or listen to the carol (圣诞颂歌) singers at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Booking

Choose your dates and fill in your private information, like driving licences, passports and so forth for your later hotel registration.

One £99 voucher (优惠券) is valid for only two people. Purchase your voucher and complete the deal.

Wait to reccive a code to your email account which you need to input online later to confirm your booking.

This incredible deal can be used on selected dates between December 24 and 30, 2023, although it only is available to purchase on the Wowcher website until December 15. Besides, the dinner option is available on the first night only.

1. How much should a couple pay for a 3-night stay with their 7-year-old son?

A．£354.

B．£304.

C．£295.

D．£236.

2. Which activity can visitors enjoy in Regent Street?

A．Learning seasoning skills.	B．Admiring charming lights.
C．Appreciating Christmas carols.	D．Purchasing local traditional goods.

3. Which of the following is TRUE about booking a stay?

A．If your deal involves a dinner, it is only available on Christmas.

B．Adding basic personal information is an essential for later check-in.

C．Receiving a code to your email account means the success of the booking.

D．You can purchase the voucher on the Wowcher website on Christmas eve.

7 . Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Astonishing numbers of people with years of schooling are in effect illiterate. This month’s Ljubljana Manifesto (宣言) explains: “The digital field may promote more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many temptations to read in a superficial and scattered (零散的) manner — or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.”

That’s frightening, because “higher-level reading” has been essential to civilization. It enabled the enlightenment and an international increase in empathy. Without it, we would suffer a lot. As the Ljubljana Manifesto notes, “as much as one-third of Europeans struggle even with lower-level reading skills.” More than one-fifth of adults in the US “fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category”. Separately, post-pandemic reading scores for American 13-year-olds are the lowest in decades. And the Washington-based Center for Global Development recently estimated that literacy in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa among those with five years of schooling has decreased by 10% this past half century.

Experts in the Ljubljana Manifesto record the demerits of digital reading: “Recent studies of various kinds indicate a decline of critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading.” When you read a book on paper, you can be entirely inside the experience, absorb hundreds of pages of details thoroughly and begin to capture the world’s complexity. Online, says Maryanne Wolf of UCLA, we are “skimming, scanning, scrolling”. The medium is the message: doing deep reading on your phone is as hard as playing tennis with your phone. Recently, a bright 11-year-old told me I was wasting time on books: he absorbed more information faster from Wikipedia. He had a point. But digital readers also absorb more misinformation and seldom absorb fine perspectives.

In short, as professors from Northwestern University foresaw in 2005, we are returning to the days when only an elite (精英) “reading class” consumes long texts, which is worrying.

1. What can we learn about digital reading from paragraph 1?

A．Digital reading has solved the problem of illiteracy.

B．Digital reading has lessened the practice of deep reading.

C．Digital reading has made deep reading accessible to wider readers.

D．Digital reading has aroused a greater appreciation for deep reading.

2. What is the purpose of the figures used in paragraph 2?

A．To display the popularity of digital reading.

B．To highlight the advantages of deep reading.

C．To present the unfavorable situation of literacy.

D．To stress the illiterate’s lower-level reading skills.

3. What does the underlined word “demerits” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Effects.

B．Depths.

C．Features.

D．Drawbacks.

4. What might be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．Advantages of digital reading.	B．Benefits of higher-level reading.
C．Ways to encourage digital reading.	D．Measures to practice deep reading.

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

To act with integrity was a habit with Susan who always follows the Golden Rule: “Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you.” But when she thought over her past conduct, a blush of shame crept to her cheeks, as many little acts of selfishness and unkindness came back to her memory. She resolved that for the future, both in great things and small. she would remember and follow the Golden Rule.

It was not long after this that an opportunity occurred, which tried Susan’s principles. One Saturday evening when she went, as usual, to Mr. Thompson’s inn, to receive the money of her mother’s washing for him, which amounted to five dollars, she found Mr. Thompson apparently in a terrible rage with some horse dealers with whom he had been bargaining. He held in his hand an open pocketbook (钱袋子) , full of bills and scarcely noticing Susan as she made her request, except to swear at her for troubling him when he was busy, he handed her a banknote.

Glad to escape so easily, Susan hurried out of the gate. Pausing to put the money safely in her purse, she discovered that he had given her two bills instead of one. She looked around; nobody was near and her first impulse was joy at the unexpected prize.

“It is all mine,” said she to herself. “I will buy my mother a new coat with it, and she can give her old one to my sister Mary, and then Mary can go to the Sunday school with me next winter. I wonder if I can buy a pair of shoes for my brother Tom, too.”

At that moment she remembered that he must have given it to her by mistake. But again the voice of the tempter whispered, “He gave it, and how do you know that he did not intend to make you a present of it? Keep it! He will never know it, for he had too many such bills in that great pocketbook.”

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
This conflict was going on in her mind between good and evil.
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“Sir, you paid me two bills instead of one,” she handed him the extra note.
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