1 . Guernsey International Poetry Competition — Poems on the Move

Your poem could be on show in 2024. Winning entries are displayed in two stages: 21 bus poems will be chosen, and the top 9 of these will take part in a second, larger exhibition, first at Guernsey Airport, then all over the island.

How to enter

·Online by completing the online entry form and payment, at www.poemsonthemove.com.

·By email: PotM@guernseyliteraryfestival.com .

·By post: Poems on the Move 2024, Guernsey Literary Festival, PO Box 174, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK,GY1 3LG.

Fees

·Entries are £4 per poem or 3 poems for £10.

·Fees are not refundable.

·Young People’s Poetry: Aged 11-17, entries FREE

Rules

·Entries must be no longer than 14 lines and must be typed and fit on a single A4 page.

·Please do not write your name or age on the same sheet as your poems.

·Enter each poem on a separate page and enclose another separate sheet with your name, address, telephone number, email address, plus the title(s) of your poems.

·Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any public website or broadcast, nor winning or placed in any other competition.

·Closing date for receipt of entries: February15, 2024

The prize is open to anyone except those involved in organizing the competition. Winners will be contacted by March 5, 2024. Winning poems will be shown on Guernsey buses, and 9 of these poems will become part of the Poems on the Move exhibition, for no less than six months.

1. What should entrants do?

A．Show their poems on the bus.	B．Deliver their poems in person.
C．Start entering after February 15, 2024.	D．Have the poems typed as requested.

2. What is expected of the entries?

A．They should be original.

B．They must be over 14 lines.

C．They should be around two pages long.

D．They must be published works on any site.

3. Who is not entitled to the prize?

A．A young man aged 16.	B．A poet involved in the competition.
C．A writer organizing the competition.	D．A teacher writing a poem.

2 . Role of Mass Media in Education

In today’s advanced world, where everything is changing at lightning speed, mass media plays an important role.     1     It isn’t limited to the four walls of a classroom anymore. Mass media is responsible for this development to a great extent. The major roles mass media plays in the education field are:

Universal reach

Mass media has connected people like never before. Education is something which aims to have a universal reach. Mass media has helped to bridge that gap enormously.     2    

Storage of information

Mass media allows storing information which can be accessed from anywhere at any time. It is literally accessible, at our fingertips, which saves a lot of time and energy.     3    

No physical restrictions

    4     But it is not the case now. Mass media has reduced distances and made the world smaller for good. For instance, it is not necessary to be present at a place physically to gain knowledge now.

Fruitful results

Another huge advantage of current technological innovations in mass media is the increased memory capability of students. Many scientific pieces of research have proven that delivering lectures via an audio-visual format (视听格式) is quite effective.     5     All this has only been made possible because of mass media.

A．This results in the reduction of false information.

B．That being said, education is also advancing day by day.

C．Therefore, it serves as a rather useful resource in the field of education.

D．One of the major disadvantages before mass media was a physical restriction.

E．Mass media consists of the tools used for communicating information and ideas.

F．In other words, it is now within everyone’s reach and making the world a better place.

G．It has a more positive impact on the memory power of the brain than an audio lecture.

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Besides such ethical concerns, the legal situations the autonomous vehicle industry is likely to be confronted with have     1     heated debates. In this emerging industry, manufacturing and programming standards are not yet     2    . Moreover, the quality and safety of the technology used in self-driving cars is still being challenged. This could lead to extraordinary cases like who should be held     3     when self-driving cars are involved in accidents — should it be the driver, the software programmer or the manufacturer? Manufacturing and programming standards first have to be agreed upon to make it possible for law courts to decide who is at fault when things go wrong. As     4     in autonomous vehicle design and technology are in progress, the final agreement on laws and regulations     5     this industry remains to be seen.

4 . Consider what goes through your mind after you’ve taken your seat on an airplane. You’ve not seen the captain, but his or her voice comes over the air. “Hello, this is your captain speaking.” Are you about to fly the friendly skies? What you probably don’ realize is that you do make quick judgments (判断) based on very few factors the moment you hear “hello”.

Experts have discovered that “hello” carries enough information for listeners to draw judgments about the speakers personality, such as how reliable (可信赖的) he or she is. They recorded 64 students reading a telephone conversation. The word “hello” was then picked from each recording, and 320 different students listened to that word through a computer. The students were asked to score the voices according to personality, including attractiveness and warmth, giving them points from l to 10. Although every voice was played in one third a second, the students formed an opinion quickly.

It is amazing that from such short voices of speech they can get such an obvious impression of a person. And whether it is correct, their impressions are mostly the same as what the other listeners get. The research also suggests that people’ impressions are based on the tone (语调) of voice. Men and women who present the strength of their voices are regarded as more reliable.

The speed with which the students made their judgments makes much sense. Deciding who to trust can be important to your survival. There’s no point in listening to someone talk for 5 minutes to decide if they’re reliable or not — you could be dead already. The discovery may help improve computer-made voice technologies, experts say.

1. Why does the author mention “the captain” in paragraph 1?

A．To present a fact.	B．To make a prediction.
C．To introduce a new research.	D．To explain the rule on a plane.

2. How did the students tell the speakers’ personality?

A．Making telephone calls.

B．Playing voices at high speeds.

C．Picking “hello” from conversations.

D．Listening to and scoring the records of “hello”.

3. What can we do to leave a good first impression?

A．Make a long speech.	B．Give powerful voice.
C．Follow other listeners.	D．Speak as fast as possible.

4. What will probably be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．The secret to tallying for 5 minutes.	B．The different ways you say “hello”.
C．The application in voice technologies.	D．The method of listening with attention.

5 . There has been a very serious decline in the numbers of shallow-water fish as a result of overfishing. People still want to eat fish, so the fishing industry must look at other sources, especially the deep waters of the Atlantic.     1    

Conservation measures will have to be put in place if these deep-sea fish are to survive. Research on five such species shows that numbers have declined by between 87 percent and 98 percent.     2     Many species could well disappear completely if the present trend continues. These are species that have been swimming in our oceans for hundreds of millions of years.

The problem is emphasized by the fact that the decline in numbers happened in less than twenty years. Deep-sea fish take a long time to reproduce and normally live for many years.     3     The average size of such fish also declined, with one species showing a 57 percent decline in average size. This is of particular concern, as large fish tend to produce more offspring than small ones.

    4     The deep-sea species have been caught as if they were the fast-breeding (快速繁殖) fish like sardine and herring. It is like killing elephants as if they reproduced at the same rate as rabbits.

The damage done by overfishing goes beyond the sea environment. Millions of people make a living in the fishing industry.     5     Measures must be taken to not only conserve ecosystems, but also sustain livelihoods and ensure food security.

A．Billions of people rely on fish for protein.

B．Many people now choose not to eat deep-sea fish.

C．Unfortunately, their reproduction rate is very low.

D．This puts them in the category of “critically endangered”.

E．None of these facts has been taken into account by the fishing industry.

F．Overfishing is a major cause of decline in populations of ocean wildlife.

G．This has resulted in a sharp decline in the numbers of many of the species caught.

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Image waking up one morning    1     the option of staying in bed and     2     a button to send a robot to do all the work for you. How cool that would be! It may seem like building    3    in the air, but given the rate at     4     artificial intelligence, or AI, is being developed, in the future such dreams may actually come    5    .

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Advertising has become part of modern life. In short, it refers to the activity of     1     a product of service. In other words, it tries to persuade people to buy a product or service. The history of     2     has always been closely linked with that of the mass media. As media channels have grown in number and type,     3     have advertisements. Because the mass media reaches so many people, it is a perfect vehicle for advertisers. In addition to    4     people aware of a product or service, a successful advertisement will also create a desire to buy, thus boosting business. Based on the psychology behind creating a desire to buy, advertisers have developed ways of persuading people into purchasing their products or services. A common technique to make an impact is to create a memorable    5    .

8 . Your fingerprints differ from mine; that is, your fingerprints are not identical ______________mine. (用适当的词填空)

9 . Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

In the third of five planned Fantastic Beasts films, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) conflict with the dark forces of Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen, taking over from Johnny Depp) in the 1930s.

Released(发行) on 8 April in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and 15 April in the US and Canada.

Petite Maman

The heroine of Petite Maman is eight-year-old Nelly. After her grandmother’s death, Nelly plays in the woods near her mother’s childhood home, and meets Marion, a girl of her own age and with similar features. They play together every day, fast becoming close friends.

Released on 22 April in the US.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

BBC Culture’s Caryn James enjoyed the “great production values” of the first Downton Abbey film, which was released in 2019. The series, once again written by Julian Fellowes, promise to be even more impressive. In a storyline, the Dowager Countess shows that a villa(别墅) in the south of France has been passed on to her, so the family heads down to the Riviera to have a look.

Released on 29 April in the UK and Ireland.

Operation Mincemeat

In 1943, as British forces were preparing to invade(侵略) Sicily, a group of intelligence officers expressed a detailed plan to throw the enemy off the track. This stranger-than-fiction film tells the story of the officers who drew up a set of false plans, planted the plans on dead people dressed in a Royal Marines uniform, and then threw them off the coast of Spain, hoping it would finally fall into German hands.

Released on 15 April in the UK, and 27 April in France.

1. What do the four sections listed above have in common?

A．They all involve the war.	B．They all have the series.
C．They come to market in April.	D．They happen in the woods.

2. Which best suits children interested in playing in the woods?

A．Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.	B．Petite Maman.
C．Downton Abbey: A New Era.	D．Operation Mincemeat.

3. Where can the text be found?

A．In a history book.	B．In a science fiction.
C．In a film brochure.	D．In a literature novel.

10 . During the 1930s, the Great War broke out. A 25-year-old American soldier, probably never thought that his life would change forever when he volunteered to go to France.

One night while the American unit was returning to the base after a bloody fight, Suleyman stumbled into the ground and noticed a bit of movement from the bush. Being stuck between two choices either its enemy or an animal, Suleyman found a five-year-old girl from the bushes shivering with cold and utmost fear. Due to the atrocity of the war, the girl was abandoned by her family and the whole village was killed.

During the war, it was impossible to find the child’s family so Suleyman took this little French girl under his wings and gave her an American name Flora which means like the flower. Soon, Flora became the apple of the eye of everyone living in the army camp.

For one and a half years, Flora and Suleyman became inseparable; however, every fairy tale comes to an end. When the war ended, Suleyman was sent back to USA, while Flora was put in an orphanage, the Normandy School, which was founded by the American government for orphaned French children to have an education.

For years, Suleyman always thought about Flora. When the French National Olympic Team was playing in the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, Suleyman gazed through the audience on TV, hoping to catch a glimpse of Flora, but he never could.

At the age of 85, Suleyman attended the 60th anniversary reception of the Great War where Suleyman shared his story with American and French officials. After hearing his story, a French journalist started to investigate the story, and all government files were read in detail. The moment the journalist helped dial the number, in tears, Flora said Suleyman was her hero, and everything came flooding back to her.

1. What does the underlined word “atrocity” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Cruelty.

B．Challenge.

C．Range.

D．Stress.

2. Why did Suleyman watch 1984 Summer Olympics?

A．Because Flora might be in the French team.

B．Because Suleyman was greatly interested in sports.

C．Because Flora might be watching the event.

D．Because Suleyman wanted to travel to Los Angeles.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Flora and Suleyman became attached to each other.

B．Flora was sent to an orphanage called Normandy.

C．Suleyman found some animals in the bush.

D．Suleyman would never see Flora again.

4. Which can serve as the best possible title for the text?

A．A Tough Flower in the War	B．The Influence of the War
C．The Lost and Found Love	D．The Apple of the Father's Eye