1 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.diversifying       B.depressed        C.shifted       D.breaking       E.hammer   F.controversial G.initially     H.converting       I.wholly       J.dump          K.circulations

Soaring newsprint costs make life even harder

The cost of paper around the world is rising to record highs, pushing up expenses for newspapers from Mumbai to Sydney. When times were good, before ads     1     online, newspapers had a supportive partnership with paper mills. As ads departed and     2     fell, they are now at the shouting stage.

Paper mills had the worst of it for years as newspapers went     3     digital or shut for good. The papers were able to     4     down the cost of newsprint from firms fighting for business as demand declined. Many hesitated to shut massive machines costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

That hesitance has disappeared; mills are taking out newsprint capacity and     5    . Norske Skog, a Norwegian paper firm, said in June it would close its 66-year-old Tasman Mill in New Zealand, for example. Many mills are     6     machines to make packaging for e-commerce.UPM, a Finnish firm, announced this year the sale of its Shotton newsprint mill in Wales to a Turkish maker of container board and packaging. For JCS Volga, a Russian mill, newsprint used to account for 70% of production; now half of what it makes is packaging. The pandemic, with people working from home, meant even fewer newspaper purchases, which     7     demand for newsprint again and increased the pain for paper suppliers. In the past 24 months European mills have responded by shutting almost a fifth of their newsprint capacity, says a buyer for a large British newspaper group.

Then economies reopened. Newsprint demand shot up. That, combined with much reduced capacity and coupled with soaring energy prices, has resulted in a price shock. Particularly     8     are energy surcharges that some paper suppliers are seeking to pass on.

Newspaper firms reckon this amounts to     9    contracts. European newspapers will have to pay newsprint prices that are 50-70% higher in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the year before.

Germany’s print and media industry association has warned that mills are going to force newspapers to     10     paper editions, hurting each other in the process. “It’s about the famous branch that both of them are sitting on,” it said recently. But mills can sell packaging instead. “We’re not going to save the publishing industry by being unprofitable ourselves,”says a mill executive in North America.

2 . 自然在文化和精神上为人类福祉做出了贡献，也通过粮食、清洁水和能源的关键生产，以及通过调节地球的气候、污染和洪水等而做出了贡献。（as well as）（汉译英）

3 . 雕塑家的任务涉及很多，比如确定雕塑的尺寸以及寻找材料。（involve）（汉译英）

4 . 制定计划时，你一定要把提高销售量包括进去。 (include) （汉译英）

5 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

commit     remove     inspect     medium     reach out     distinguish          thrill       concern     currently   experiment

1. Although TV has become very popular, newspapers still remain a powerful________ .
2. He deserved his punishment, for he ________many horrible crimes against society.
3. No matter how far you travel, your parents are ________about your safety.
4. That was really a ________football game; our learn beat the opponent at last.
5. The ants defend their trees as fiercely as possible by attacking any other insect that comes near and even ________other plants growing near it.
6. The engineers ________with burnt rubbish to produce a new fuel for cars.
7. Just before the little boy disappeared below the ocean waves, his father ________his arm and caught hold of him.
8. Our director, who is ________ in London, has handed over his business to his assistant.
9. To ensure people's health, the government officials came to ________the restaurant.
10. A good secretary is________from a poor one largely on the basis of reading and writing ability.

6 . 值得称赞的是，他冒着遭受重大财务亏损的风险，全力以赴拯救濒临灭绝的动物，因此在环境保护方面成名。（credit）（汉译英）

7 . The sudden death of model-actor Godfrey warns that public awareness of first-aid procedures for heart attack victims ________.

A．need to improve

B．need to be improved

C．needs improve

D．needs improving

8 . Scientific research discovered that people who were sleep-deprived had a hard time ________ their urges for high - calorie snacks.

A．control

B．to control

C．controlling

D．controlled

9 . 要是谈到下棋，这家跨国公司在这个人工智能领域遥遥领先。(When it comes to, lead n.) (汉译英)

10 . 与他沟通是没有用的，因为他总是对别人的建议置若罔闻。(point) （汉译英）