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. |
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
Although I am not
1. Why do lights grow closer to the little house?
| A．The city is becoming larger. |
| B．Villagers use better lamps. |
| C．People come to visit the village. |
| A．The natural scenery. | B．The life in a big city. | C．The visitors to the village. |
| A．Having a tour. | B．Giving a lecture. | C．Selling a book. |
5 . Charles Blackman: Alice in Wonderland
An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Australia
10 June —12 August 2019
Venue (地点) The Ian Potter Centre
Admission Free entry
Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful paintings of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland—the story of a Victorian girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experiences all kinds of things. At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering from progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events, was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the Alice in Wonderland paintings.
Illustrator Workshop
Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercises and group projects.
Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5 Aug.10am—1pm
Venue Gas Works Arts Park
Wonderful World
Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit.
Date Sunday 24 June, 11am—4pm
Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3
Topsy-Turvy
Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened.
Dates Sunday 8, 15, 22, 29 July, and Tuesday 24—Friday 27 July, 12 noon—3pm
Venue Theatre, NGV Australia
Drawing Workshop
Distortions of scale (比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting. Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world, then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.
Date Friday 27 July, 10:30am—3pm
Venue Foyer, Level 3
1. Charles Blackman’s paintings come from ________.| A．his admiration for Lewis Carroll | B．his dream of becoming a famous artist |
| C．his wish to express his own feelings | D．his eagerness to cure his wife’s illness |
| A．Wonderful World and Topsy-Turvy. |
| B．Topsy-Turvy and Drawing Workshop. |
| C．Illustrator Workshop and Wonderful World. |
| D．Illustrator Workshop and Drawing Workshop. |
| A．Exhibition Space, Level 3 | B．Gas Works Arts Park |
| C．Theatre, NGV Australia | D．Foyer, Level 3 |
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2. 简单介绍该作品；
3. 说明推荐的理由。
注意: 1. 词数100字左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
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7 . The Nobel Literature Prizes are awarded to the persons who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction. The followings are some famous female winners in recent years.
Louise Glück
The Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2020. Childhood, family life, relationships and death are frequent themes in her collections. Gluck seeks out the universal. The rich English-language poetry tradition is her primary literary source of inspiration. Glück’s language is free of poetic formalities and she often uses daily spoken language.
Alice Munro
The Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2013. Alice Munro has devoted her literary career mostly to short stories. The underlying themes of her work are often relationship problems and moral conflicts. The relationship between memory and reality is another frequent theme she uses to create tension. She is able to demonstrate the impact that seemingly small events can have on a person’s life.
Herta Müller
The Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2009. Her works are rooted in her experiences as one of Romania’s German-speaking racial minority. Müller describes how dictatorship (独裁) causes a fear and sense of distance that stays in an individual’s mind. With precise language, she recalls images from the past.
Svetlana Alexievich
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015. Svetlana Alexievich represents life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. Personal experiences have been an important part for her works. She uses interviews to create a picture of a wide range of voices. With her “ documentary novels ” , Alexievich moves in the boundary between reporting and fiction.
1. Whose works does a student loving poems probably read?| A．Louise Glück. | B．Alice Munro. |
| C．Herta Müller. | D．Svetlana Alexievich. |
| A．Writing short stories. | B．Describing significant events. |
| C．Balancing memory and reality. | D．Dealing with relationship problems. |
| A．The language style is precise. |
| B．They have similar backgrounds. |
| C．They are rooted in people’s real life experiences. |
| D．The focus is the relationship between individuals. |
8 . Discover mind - blowing details and improve your knowledge with this factual selection.
Everything Under the Sun
by Molly Oldfield
( Puffin Books )
Find the answers to 366 questions asked by young people in this fun illustrated (有插图的) book. Which was the biggest dinosaur? How much bamboo can a giant panda eat ? Do aliens (外星人) exist ? Experts including famous, award-winning chefs and staff at the Natural History Museum provide the information.
On This Day : A History of the World in 366 Days
( Dorling Kindersley )
This book takes you on a journey through history, one day at a time. You’ll learn about events that took place on each day of the year --- whether they were important historical moments or strange happenings --- and discover which historical characters share your birthday.
Stuff
by Maddie Moate
Illustrated by Paul Boston
( Puffin Books )
Explore the hidden stories behind everyday objects with Maddie Moate, presenter of CBBC’s Do You Know. Learn about ink made from soot（烟灰）, shoes made from old tyres（轮胎）, and paper made from elephant poo --- as well as many other ways people throughout history have used and reused things around them.
A History of the World in 25 Cities
by Tracey Turner and Andrew Donkin
Illustrated by Libby VanderPloeg
( Nosy Crow )
Visit wonder-filled cities around the world and throughout history with this beautiful book of illustrated maps, put together by experts from the British Museum. Explore Athens in ancient Greece, China ’ s long-lost city of Xianyang and modern-day Tokyo --- one of the world ' s most densely（密集地）populated cities.
1. Which book provides answers to 366 questions?| A．Stuff. |
| B．Everything Under the Sun. |
| C．A History of the World in 25 Cities. |
| D．On This Day : A History of the World in 366 Days. |
| A．Molly Oldfield’ s. | B．Maddie Moate’ s. |
| C．Libby VanderPloeg’s. | D．Tracey Turner and Andrew Donkin’ s. |
| A．They are full of facts. | B．They are history-related. |
| C．They are award-winning books. | D．They are produced by Puffin Books. |
9 . Some years ago a young man applied to a large United States optical firm for a job as a lens designer. He apologized for lack of training, but on announcing that he owned two copies of the classic Conrady’s Applied Optics and Optical Design, one for his office and a second for his bedside table, he was hired on the spot. Perhaps the story will be repeated some day with Buchdahl’s Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics as a similar certificate of qualification.
Hamiltonian theory describes with powerful generality the overall properties of optical systems considered as ‘black boxes’, although it does not describe the detailed structure needed to construct the systems and achieve these properties. Buchdahl’s book is therefore on the subject of geometrical optics, but it is not about how to design lenses. It is, however a compact comprehensive account of the fundamentals of the theory written with the lens designer’s needs very much in mind. Every lens designer worth his salt has at some time in his career attempted to apply the broad concepts of Hamiltonian optics to the solutions of practical problems. Success has been sufficiently rare that the theory, as such, has made little direct contribution to techniques for optical instrument design. The failures have been frustrating because of the obvious fundamental power of the theory and because of its conceptual elegance. The indirect effects have been large, however, both in contributing to an understanding of fundamental principles that govern the overall behavior of optical systems and in pointing the way to other, more practical, theoretical approaches.
Buchdahl approaches the subject not only as a capable mathematical physicist, but as one who with a knowledge of practical optics has made a significant contribution to geometrical optical theory. Buchdahl’s approach has, over the last decade, had a major impact on modern lens design with computers. Thus, he brings to this exposition of Hamiltonian optics a familiarity with practical optics not usually found in authors on this subject.
The author claims his book to be non-mathematical, and indeed it might be so viewed by a professional mathematician. From the point of view of many physicists and engineers, it will appear to be quite mathematical. Moreover, this is a tightly written book. The subject matter is developed with precision, and the author expects the reader, at very point, to be master of the preceding exposition.
1. Hamiltonian theory met with failures as a result of ________.| A．newer finding related to the wave particle nature of light |
| B．very complicated concepts too difficult to understand by most lens designers |
| C．too much mathematical detail in the theory |
| D．not enough practical information offered by the theory to allow for use by lens crafters |
| A．the students who are major in mathematical geometry |
| B．those who want to grasp the basic principles of optical systems |
| C．the lens designers who look for instructions on practical designs |
| D．those who are interested in physics |
| A．indirect ways of learning mathematics |
| B．a fundamental power within the theory |
| C．its the conceptual elegance |
| D．its the practical applications in finding new approaches to old problems |
| A．a review of a book | B．a chemistry textbook |
| C．an optician’s essay | D．a general science text |
| A．Interesting. | B．Boring. | C．Moving. |
