1 . On today’s blog post, I’ll be talking about my favorite magazines. I love reading books & magazines, and I’m learning so many useful tips about healthy living, daily life, etc.
Women’s Health
Women’s Health has a unique content. You can find various interesting information about healthy living or exercises you can do at home. I also love their writers because they explain every topic so simple that you can even understand biological articles.
Healthy Food Guide
I totally recommend it to everyone because it has lots of useful information about being healthy during your daily life. In this magazine, you can find articles about foods you often eat but don’t have much idea what it contains or if they’re healthy. If you are searching for new diets, this magazine gives you all the information.
Time Out
Time Out is a well-known magazine and it’s free in my city. Every time I see a Time Out magazine, I get it because it has lots of useful tips. I got Time Out London when I was in London, and I discovered new restaurants, galleries, museums, and events. This magazine has various information about the city life. For example, it gives you the events that are happening near you. It gives you tips for the railway stations and other transportation choices.
La Cucina Italiana
If you love cooking Italian food, this magazine is for you! It has lots of recipes and also restaurant reviews. You can also find popular restaurants near you in this magazine. I’ve also read articles by famous chefs from my city.
1. What can we find in Healthy Food Guide?A.Ways to keep fit. | B.Tips on cooking. |
C.Different eating habits. | D.Information of new restaurants. |
A.Time Out. | B.Women’s Health. | C.Healthy Food Guide. | D.La Cucina Italiana. |
A.He lives in London. | B.He loves and enjoys life. |
C.He often goes travelling. | D.He likes collecting recipes. |
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3 . Writers of science fiction often feel more prescient (预知的) than others. Whether the threat to women’s rights in the work of Margaret Atwood, the architectural and social dystopias (反乌托邦) of J. G. Ballard’s novels, or the internet-predicting world of E M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, the genre are filled with prescient writers dealing with ever more familiar issues.
Out of all such writers, few seem more likely to predict our times than the American author Philip K. Dick, who died in 1982. In the 30-year period of work, Dick wrote 44 novels and countless short stories, adaptations of which went on to redefine science fiction on screen.
Dick had a surprising ability to predict what would happen in modern world. The famous science-fiction and fantasy author Stan Nicholls suggests Dick’s work is prescient because it explored the future through the then-present. “His stories supposed the popularity of the Internet, virtual reality, facial recognition software, driverless cars and 3D printing,” Nicholls said—while also pointing out that “it’s a misinterpretation that prediction is the primary purpose of science fiction. The genre’s hit rate is actually not very good in that respect. Like all the best science fiction, his stories weren’t really about the future, they were about the here and now.”
Whether his visions were, as he believed, a product of small problems in the simulation or his fading mental health, one thing is for certain—the world in which the work of Philip K. Dick is well known today feels ever closer to the ones imagined by this most unique and exceptional writer.
1. Why does the author mention three writers in paragraph 1?A.To explain how great their novels are. |
B.To explain the women’s rights in the future. |
C.To show science fictions have the foresight. |
D.To show the same interest of science fictionists. |
A.He had the capacity to predict the present age. |
B.He adapted his four short stories for the screen. |
C.He often had ideas different from the editor’s. |
D.He died in the USA in the 21st century. |
A.They are all about other planets. | B.They all focus on the present |
C.They should develop various themes. | D.They should make readers feel satisfied. |
A.Philip K Dick had a great impact on science. |
B.Philip K. Dick had traveled into the future then. |
C.People don’t agree to Philip K. Dick’s prediction. |
D.The world in Philip K. Dick’s works is similar to today’s world. |
1. Where does Thomas Manning work?
A.In the Guinness Company. |
B.At a radio station. |
C.In a museum. |
A.A bird-shooting trip. |
B.A visit to Europe. |
C.A television talk show. |
A.In 1875. | B.In 1950. | C.In 1955. |
A.More records of unusual facts. |
B.The founder of the company. |
C.The oldest person in the world |
When I entered senior high school, I began to take a great interest in poems. Some classmates made fun of me.
Wanting to try my luck, I posted my poem to a newspaper without
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6 . My Favourite Books
Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-author of the This Book Will series(系列)of lifestyle books.Here she picks her top reads.
Matilda
Roald Dahl
I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl’s writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful worlds. Matilda’s battles with her cruel parents and the bossy headmistress,Miss Trunchbull , are equally funny and frightening, but they’re also aspirational.
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
It’s about two sisters — Eri, a model who either won’t or can’t stop sleeping, and Mari, a young student. In trying to connect to her sister, Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse “night people” who are hiding secrets.
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
There was a bit of me that didn’t want to love this when everyone else on the planet did, but the horror story is brilliant. There’s tension and anxiety from the beginning as Nick and Amy battle for your trust. It’s a real whodunit and the frustration when you realize what’s going on is horribly enjoyable.
The Stand
Stephen King
This is an excellent fantasy novel from one of the best storytellers around. After a serious flu outbreak wipes out 99.4% of the world’s population, a battle unfolds between good and evil among those left. Randall Flagg is one of the scariest characters ever.
1. Which of the following tells about Mari and Eri?A.Cosmopolitan. | B.Matilda. |
C.After Dark. | D.The Stand. |
A.A folk tale. | B.A biography. |
C.A love story. | D.A horror story. |
A.Matilda. | B.After Dark. | C.Gone Girl | D.The Stand |
1. What will Adam do in the next two months?
A.Perform some shows. | B.Write a new book. | C.Share stories with fans. |
A.It tells stories in the 1990s. |
B.It is mainly in a funny style. |
C.It becomes a best-seller in 2021. |
A.From 1991 to 1994. | B.From 1994 to 1996. | C.From 1996 to 2001. |
A.At Paris College. | B.At Oxford University. | C.At Westminster School. |
1. What is the man doing at first?
A.Searching for an English magazine. |
B.Looking for an English language book. |
C.Practicing pronunciation of words. |
A.Go to the philosophy section. |
B.Keep the book for more than two months. |
C.Get three books at the same time. |
A.$400. | B.$190. | C.$150. |
A.Patient. | B.Indifferent. | C.Disappointed. |
9 . Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter.
Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to place in tin bores.
At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.
1. Where is Shlande from?A.He is from USA. | B.He is from space. |
C.He is from the earth. | D.He is from New Zealand |
A.an earth monster | B.a monkey | C.a tin box | D.a strange world |
A.a head, arms and legs | B.brown or yellow strings on its head |
C.a hole on its face | D.a swing on its body |
A.a car or a bus | B.a very small earth monster |
C.a TV set | D.a radio |
1. What does the Hopter do?
A.Lift you into the air. | B.Let you see the future. | C.Transport you to any location. |
A.Comic books. | B.Creative items. | C.Pen pals. |