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。

“Slow down!” a farmer shouts at a young man, who drives a harvester (收割机) through a rice field. However, he still moves fast on — then gets     1     (stick) in the mud (泥土). The funny scene is the very beginning of “Become a Farmer”,     2     reality TV programme on iQIYI. The producer says it is intended     3     (excite) audiences’ love for the soil and farming. Young people need to “abandon pride and learn from the farmers — again”.

Ten actors and musicians are invited to the countryside and try     4     (they) luck at farming. The young men arrive     5     (pull) big suitcases, only to find what one calls “inhuman” living conditions — an outdoor toilet and endless mud. Audiences are entertained (使娱乐) as they work things out and accept the task at hand. Meanwhile, viewers will be educated by the value, “every piece of rice is hard to come by.”

In recent years, millions of Chinese     6     (join) the “new farmer” movement. Many are young     7    (graduate) who grew tired of the tough competitions or couldn’t find jobs. The state     8     supports the inexperienced hopes young people’s skills will lead to increased production. More     9     (important), today China also encourages young Chinese to show “responsibility and determination” and to focus     10     collective goals.

3 . Best Online Reading Tutoring Services

According to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress Reading Assessment, only 33% of fourth- graders and 31% of eighth- grade students performed at or above“proficient“(熟练的) in reading, down two percentage points for fourth- graders and three percentage points for eighth- graders from 2019.

Literacy (读写能力) affects academic achievement in the long run; about 16% of children who score below proficiency for reading in third grade do not graduate from high school on time (compared to 4% of proficient readers).

But if your child is struggling, help is out there. Getting a reading tutor (辅导老师)doesn’t have to be complex, and there are lots of choices online. Whether your child’s reading skills need just a little help, a complete improvement, or some specialized tutoring toward a particular goal, there’s an online reading tutor out there that’s a great fit. Here are our picks for some of the best online reading tutoring services.

Best Overall: Skooli

Key Specs

Price: $0. 65 to $0. 82 per minute

Grade Level: Elementary school through cllge

Frequency: As needed

Best for Test Prep: Princeton Reriew

Key Specs

Price: $26 to $ 40 per hour

Grade Level: High school, college, and graduate level

Frequency: As needed, one hour per month, three hours per month, or five hours per month

Best for Full- Time Instructors: Revolution Prep

Key Specs

Price; About $40 to $ 117 per session

Grade Level: K - 12 and college

Frequency: 5 hours, 12 hours, or more

Best for 24/7 Help: Wyzant

Key Specs

Price: Starts at $ 10 an hour

Grade Level: All, plus adults

Frequency: As needed

Best for Tweens and Teens: Club Z

Key Specs

Price: $46to $ 57 per hour

Grade Level: Pre-K to college

Frequency: 4-, 8-, or 12- hour packages; custom plans are available

1. What’s the rate of eighth- graders at or above “proficient” in reading in 2019?

A．34%

B．33%

C．31%

D．28%

2. Which is the best for you to pick a full- time instructor?

A．Skooli

B．Princeton Review

C．Revolution Prep

D．Wyzant

3. How much do you need to pay at least if you pick 12- - hour package service from Club Z?

A．$684

B．$552

C．$480

D．$312

5 . PUMA Sports Equipment

Create your own performance standards by supporting your game with best-in-class sports equipment.

All our sports equipment for men is created with selected advanced technologies that ensure the greatest comfort, ventilation(透气), and warmth as you battle the chances of game and weather.

Benefits & Features

·Highest quality PU material.

·Balls with machine-stitched 32-panel construction.

·PUMA’s selected technology to keep gloves warm and comfortable in the coldest temperatures.

·CMEVA: our own compression-molded EVA material to ensure lightweight performance.

Guidance on Picking Sports Equipment

·Always keep your goal in mind as you explore your best choices and then choose the product you believe will bring you close to your goal.

·Make sure you have enough space to keep the equipment safe and dry. You can use the equipment measurements to empty a corner of your room for the safekeeping of your purchase.

·Remember it is not just the quality of the equipment but your regular practice and determination that improve your game. Make sure you work on it every single day.

Normally Asked Questions

1. What are the benefits of sports equipment?

High-quality sports equipment can let the player stay focused on their game rather than worry about getting injured or lose their performance to low-quality goods.

2. What are the characteristics of good sports equipment?

Usually, sports equipment should be judged by its strength, cost, hardiness, and anti-movement tiredness.

3. Which sport needs the most equipment?

Though most sports need a lot of equipment, hockey is estimated to be the costliest of all for it needs all sorts of protective equipment.

1. What is an advantage of PUMA’s gloves?

A．It has the cheapest price.	B．It protects against cold effectively.
C．It is fit for various sports.	D．It is made of the strongest material.

2. What can be learned from “Guidance on Picking Sports Equipment”?

A．Where you should fix the sports equipment.

B．What exactly you should do to reach your goal.

C．How often sports equipment should be used.

D．What is needed to use sports equipment.

3. What can high-quality sports equipment help you do?

A．Get enough energy to beat others.	B．Enjoy the game without injuring others.
C．Experience the pleasure of success.	D．Fix your attention on the game.

6 . The effects of advertising often work in tricky (狡猾的) ways. Many people don’t even realize they are being marketed to when they change their behaviour after encountering advertisements. Since advertising is a powerful psychological tool, an entire field of study, which is devoted to unlocking how advertising influences consumer behaviour, has been developed.

Another effect of advertising is educating consumers about specific products or services. This can be part of the persuasion written in an ad. In an advertisement, a company can influence possible buyers by showing how the product works and how it can solve the problems they face or at least ease those problems. For example, a dog owner who previously thought there was no solution to his dog’s anxiety can learn through a dog vest (背心) ad that there actually is a solution, and that solution is the gentle pressure provided by the vest.

Advertisements generally use similar language. Many advertisements are designed to make the viewers take immediate action. Words and phrases often used in such ads include “Buy now!” “Get started!” and “Try now!”. Specifically, the part of an ad that pushes for immediate action is called “call to action”, which is important to any ad because it drives the viewers or listeners to take action. Besides, companies usually use persuasive language in the rest of the advertisement. This can be a recommendation from a previous buyer, a chart showing the product’s benefits, or a list of the product’s benefits.

Advertising is part of marketing. Although the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably (可替换地), they aren’t the same thing. Marketing is the broad process of researching consumers’ needs, collecting and evaluating data related to those needs and developing various strategies for attracting consumers. Advertising, on the other hand, strictly refers to the process of attracting potential customers to make a sale.

1. What’s the effect of advertising on consumers?

A．Asking people to buy the product or service directly.

B．Educating consumers about specific products or services.

C．Having children as advertising targets.

D．Pretending to have good sales of a product.

2. What does the author want to show by telling the story about the dog owner?

A．Consumers are affected by advertisements offering solutions to their problems.

B．Consumers learn about products for pets from advertisements.

C．Consumers’ needs can be satisfied by companies devoted to advertising.

D．Consumers’ problems are the inspiration for advertisers.

3. What does the author focus on in the last paragraph?

A．The importance of advertising.

B．The process of advertising.

C．The effect of marketing and advertising.

D．The relationship between advertising and marketing.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．What are the advantages of advertising?	B．What are people’s attitudes towards advertising?
C．How does advertising affect people?	D．How does marketing differ from advertising?

7 . Live music is back! Do you want to start booking tickets to shows ahead of time? Here’s a guide to the hottest artists that will be hitting the stage this summer.

Doja Cat

Doja Cat will be celebrating the release (发行) of her album with a July 4th performance in Brooklyn. She’s also set to perform at Miami’s Rolling Loud Festival, Leeds and Reading Festival (UK) and Austin City Limits Festival throughout the summer and early fall.

Madison Beer

Madison Beer will be touring Canada and the US starting in October as a part of her “Life Support” tour.   which is also going international in the spring. Alongside Doja Cat, she’s also playing at Leeds and Reading Festival in the UK over the summer.

Bleachers

Bleachers, the official stage name of songwriter and record producer Jack Antonoff, is officially going on tour across America starting in September. “We don’t waste time live and there has not been a stage where we haven’t shown what we are…we are coming home,” Bleachers said in an Instagram post.

Haim

Our favorite sisters are set to play at various music festivals and shows. By far, we know they’re playing the Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas and the All Things Go Music Festival in Maryland. If you live in the UK, you’re in luck because Haim also announced that their UK tour is officially rescheduled for this September. They’ll be hitting up Glasgow, Nottingham, Cardiff, Manchester and London!

Billy Joel

Billy Joel will be touring across some cities in the US starting in August and performing at the United States Grand Prix in October. He will be primarily performing in New York City with six shows at Madison Square Garden in the fall.

1. What’ s the purpose of Doja Cat’s July 4th performance?

A．To celebrate a festival.	B．To promote her new album.
C．To support her foreign tour.	D．To collect money for another album.

2. At which of the following can you see two artists mentioned in the text?

A．Austin City Limits Festival.	B．The show at the United States Grand Prix.
C．Leeds and Reading Festival.	D．The shows at Madison Square Garden.

3. Who will bring the audience the enjoyment of group singing?

A．Haim.

B．Billy Joel.

C．Bleachers.

D．Madison Beer.

9 . Fall 2021 Story Contest

Our Fall Contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We're looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts (摘录) from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries (参赛作品) must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.

As always, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR WORKS

Awards: First Prize is $2,500, second Prize is $l,000, Third Prize is $500, and up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.

Submission Fee: There is a $27 fee for each entry. With your entry, you'll receive three months of free access to Narrative Backstage.

All contest entries are qualified for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.

Timing: The contest deadline is November 30, 2021, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

1. Which of the following will be accepted by the contest?

A．A short story once published in a magazine.	B．A novel that entered the 2020 year ten finalists.
C．An essay not ever published with 2,000 words.	D．An essay having won honorable mention in other contests.

2. What will you receive if your entry is accepted?

A．$27 for submission.	B．Qualification for prize money.
C．A guarantee of publication.	D．Free lifetime access to Narrative Backstage.

3. What can we say about the contest?

A．It is held in the UK.	B．It is free for every entry.
C．It charges $100 as entrance fee.	D．It has a deadline of November 30, 2021.

10 . On the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), red tourism has gained popularity among tourists who flood in to visit historic sites with a modern revolutionary heritage.

Jinggangshan

This is one of the most crucial and splendid chapters of history of establishing Red China as well as a unique and wonderful ecosystem, which is covered with rich forest, rugged peaks and several memorials to the Red Army. The best time to visit is between April and October, with the most temperature timing April and May when the large azaleas (杜鹃花) bloom.

Open: 8:00-17:00 (Feb. 16-Nov. 15). 8:00-16:30 (Nov. 16-Feb. 15)

Xibaipo

It is an old revolutionary base where the leadership of the Communist Party of China was stationed, drawing up the blueprint for a new country. A memorial hall was built to honor the memory of this site. The lake and the hill here add brilliance and beauty to each other and form pleasant scenery.

Open: Tuesdays to Sundays 9:30-17:00 (Xibaipo Memorial Hall)

The Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall

A new exhibition is held with updated display approaches, including phantom imaging (全息影像) and oil painting, which are used to improve visitors' experiences. The exhibition shows four stages of the CPC from its establishment to its achievements.

Open: Tuesdays to Sundays 8:30-18:00 (closed on Mondays)

Former Site of the Editorial Department of New Youth

New Youth started the New Culture Movement and spread the influence of the May Fourth Movement. The site was briefly based in Beijing but moved back to Shanghai in 1920 and also served as the office for the Communist Party of China Central Committee in the 1920s.

Open: Thursdays to Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:30, 13:30 - 16:30 (closed on Wednesdays)

1. Where would visitors learn more about the history of the Red Army?

A．Jinggangshan.

B．Xibaipo.

C．The Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall.

D．Former Site of the Editorial Department of New Youth.

2. What do we know about the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall?

A．It focuses on Chinese achievements in art.

B．It mainly advertises the coming anniversary.

C．It applies modernized methods to the exhibition.

D．It briefly introduces the rise and fall of Nanhu.

3. When can tourists visit Former Site of the Editorial Department of New Youth?

A．At 1:00 p.m. on Mondays.	B．At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesdays.
C．At 2:00 p.m. on Fridays.	D．At 5:00 p.m on Sundays.