Here's a list of books I'm looking forward to this fall season. Not all of them will rise to the level of the advertisement, but it's an abundant crop.
"Home After Dark" by David Small (Liveright, Sept. 11 )
In 2009, Small published a celebrated graphic memoir (回忆录) called"Stitches". Now the Caldecott Medal winner is back with a graphic novel about a motherless 13-year-old boy brought up in an unhappy home in California. This is a tale told in few words and many striking images. On Sept. 11 at 3p.m., Small will be at Amazonbooks at Union Market. More information at www. amazon.com/graph-tale.
"Waiting for Eden" by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf, Sept. 25)
This brief novel is related by a dead soldier who is watching over a horribly burned partner in a Texas hospital. That sounds embarrassingly emotional, but Ackerman, who served in a Navy in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation. More information at www. amazon. com/military-essay.
"All You Can Ever Know" by Nicole Chung (Catapult, Oct. 2)
Chung, the editor of the literary magazine Catapult, was adopted as a baby by a white family in Oregon. In this memoir, she writes about her childhood, her Asian American identity and her search for the Korean parents who gave her up. More information at www. amazon. com/politics-prose.
"Unsheltered" by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, Oct. 16)
Alternating between past and present, this novel tells the story of a woman investigating a late-19th-century science teacher who was caught up in the controversy over Darwinism. Like her other novels, this one promises to explore social and scientific problems. Visit www. amazon. com/tech-science for more information.
1.If you hope for a signature of the author, you will probably buy a copy of ________.
A. All You Can Ever Know
B. Waiting for Eden
C. Home After Dark
D. Unsheltered
2.Who joined the army and was sent to the Middle East?
A. Elliot Ackerman.
B. David Small.
C. Barbara Kingsolver.
D. Nicole Chung.
3.If you want to read books about non-fiction, you can surf________.
A. www. amazon. com/graph-tale
B. www. amazon. com/politics-prose
C. www. amazon. com/military-essay
D. www. amazon. com/tech-science
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As a first responder, you never know what type of situation you might walk into, or who you’ll meet along the way. That’s definitely been the case for Jeffrey Lanenberg, a 51-year-old paramedic(急救医务人员) since 1984.
Ten years into the job, Lanenberg received a call that reported that a man in his early 30s had fallen down in the Mall of America. When Lanenberg and his partner arrived at the scene, they found the young male face down on the ground. He had gone unconscious, making weak attempts to breathe. His wife stood beside him holding their small son in horror. They quickly rushed to defibrillate(除颤) and calm the man to keep him under control. After Lanenberg dropped the patient off at the neighboring hospital, he thought about the man and his family for a long time.
Lanenberg thought he had experienced everything under the sun until one random visit to Office Max three years ago, where he met a man repeatedly walk back and forth while staring at him. As it turned out, the man was the patient he had saved 20 years earlier.
＂You gave me 20 years more than I ever thought I’d have,＂ the man said. He thanked Lanenberg repeatedly and told him he had someone he wanted him to meet. He stepped around the corner and reappeared with a 20-something-year-old man. Lanenberg instantly knew that it was the son he had seen standing by his mother all those years ago.
＂That day changed my life,＂ Lanenberg said. ＂Before that, everything was about work…When I talk to my beginner-training class, I tell them you never know the impact you can have on someone’s life.＂
1.What did Lanenberg do with the young man?
A. He gave the man the first aid. B. He cured the man at the scene.
C. He only sent the man to hospital. D. He took care of the man’s wife and son.
2.What did Lanenberg think of the encounter with the man?
A. It was unbelievable. B. It was a common routine.
C. It was a matter of course. D. It was a dangerous situation.
3.Why was the man thankful to Lanenberg?
A. Lanenberg helped bring up his little son.
B. Lanenberg donated to support his family.
C. Lanenberg gave him the present happy life.
D. Lanenberg taught his son to be a new doctor.
4.How did the meeting change Lanenberg’s life?
A. He changed his attitude to his job.
B. He was rewarded with much money.
C. He got a promotion to be a team leader.
D. He took up teaching work to train newcomers.
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Not all the historians in Canada are historians of Canada. Case in point: Timothy Brook.
Brook was born and schooled in Toronto, and he now teaches in Vancouver. But he’s a historian of China, and his recent book Vermeer’s Hat seems at first to be about Holland in the period of the Dutch masters. When I met Brook recently in Vancouver, he did seem truly a global historian. Vancouver is his home, but Vermeer’s Hat has been published around the world.
Brook was just in from Oxford, UK, where he taught part of the year, by way of New York, where Vermeer’s Hat had just been given the Lynton History Prize. He was about to go to California, where he was due to lecture. Still, the author and the book---and the hat---say something fresh about Canada and the world.
“I’ve been looking at Vermeer since 1971,” says Brook. Looking at Dutch interior (室内的) scenes from the mid-1600s, he noticed maps, Chinese porcelains (瓷器), South American silver, Virginia tobacco—all marking the influences of the wide world. In Brook’s telling, Vermeer’s masterworks become doorways to the world, and not least to the largest, richest nation in the world, the China of the late Ming Empire, a field in which Brook happens to be a specialist.
Brook used global history as a way to find common ground with fellow historians. “The sixteenth century is the age of discovery, but the seventeenth century is the age of people starting to move the possibility of a global economy, intercultural relations across the globe,” he said.
It proved not hard for this Canadian historian of the world to find Canada in world history--or the world in Canadian history. In Vermeer’s 1658 painting of a Dutch soldier in a wonderful hat, the felt (毛毡) for the hat was probably made in Lachine, from French la Chine meaning China. Established in Canada by de Champlain, the town was so named because Champlain, like other explorers the French explorer Samuel was hoping to get through Canada to China.
1.Which was the line of Brook’s recent journey back home .
A. Toronto--Oxford→ Vancouver
B. Oxford→ New York→ Vancouver
C. California→ Toronto→ Vancouver
D. New York→ California→ Vancouver.
2.Which is discussed in Brook’s Vermeer’s Hat?
A. The Lynton History Prize
B. Ways to give good lectures
C. The Ming Dynasty of China
D. A hat Vermeer wore for years
3.What can we infer about Vermeer?
A. He was a Dutch painter
B. He was a French explorer
C. He was a UK publisher
D. He was a US teacher
4.What can be suitable title for the text?
A. The Influences of masters’ books
B. An age of moving and possibilities
C. The Importance of Cultural Exchange
D. A Canadian Historian Thinking Globally
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Last week, Vodafone started a test of the UK’s first full 5G service, available for use by businesses in Salford. It is part of its plan to trial the technology in seven UK cities. But what can we expect from the next generation of mobile technology?
One thing we will see in the preparation for the test is lots of tricks with the new tech. Earlier this year, operators paid almost £1.4 billion for the 5G wavelengths, and to compensate for that cash, they will need to catch the eye of consumers. In September, Vodafone used its bit of the range to display the UK’s first hologram (全息) call. The Manchester City captain Steph Houghton appeared as a hologram in Newbury. It isn’t all holograms, however: 5G will offer faster internet access. with Ofcom (英国通讯管理局) suggesting that video that takes a minute to download on 4G will be available in just a second.
The wider application is to support connected equipment on the “internet of things” -not just the internet-enabled fridge that can reorder your milk for you, but the network that will enable driverless cars and delivery drones (无人机) to communicate with each other.
Prof William Webb has warned that the technology could be a case of the emperor’s new clothes. Much of the speed increase, he claims, could have been achieved by putting more money in the 4G network, rather than a new technology. Other different voices have suggested that a focus on rolling out wider rural broadband access and addressing current network coverage would be more beneficial to the UK as a whole.
Obviously, 5G will also bring a cost to consumers. It requires a handset for both 5G and 4G, and the first 5G-enabled smart phones are expected in the coming year. With the slow pace of network rollout so far, it is likely that consumers will end up upgrading to a new 5G phone well before 5G becomes widely available in the next couple of years.
1.Why does Prof William Webb say “the technology could be a case of the emperor’s new clothes”?
A. He is in favor of the application of the new technology.
B. 5G will bring a cost to consumers in their daily life.
C. 5G helps people communicate better with each other.
D. He prefers more money to be spent on 4G networks.
2.The underlined word “addressing” in the fourth paragraph has the closest meaning to .
A. making a speech to B. trying to solve
C. managing to decrease D. responding to
3.The last paragraph indicates that .
A. it’ll take several years to make 5G accessible to the public in the UK
B. 5G service shows huge development potential and a broad market
C. customers are eager to use 5G smart phones instead of 4G ones
D. it’s probable that 5G network rollout is speeding up in Britain
4.What do we know about the text?
A. Vodafone is successful in spreading the 5G service.
B. Steph Houghton appeared as a hologram by 4G.
C. The application of 5G will make life much easier.
D. 5G phones are available in rural areas of the UK.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
When I first came to UK from China at 6, I entered the first grade.1.. I saw children throw their left over food into the large trash cans-from half-eaten pizzas to untouched burgers. I watched them pour their milk into a white bucket. In China, this was a huge no-no in school. We had to finish everything.
One day, my first grade teacher announced that we would be having a party and everyone was told to bring something from their country.2.. My mom stayed up after her long day of work and made many dumplings. She put them in the fridge and woke up early in the morning to steam them and fry them so they would taste extra fresh when I brought them to school. They smelled great and looked golden brown after they were cooked.
I was so excited to share these with my class and teachers. It was placed in the corner of the table next to all the other delicious food.3.. One or two kids bravely took a piece and knew what they were because they had it with their parents at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the party, it was cleanup. My teacher walked up to me and asked, pointing to the dumplings, “Would you like to take these home?” I carefully replied, “No...”4.. I thought she was going to share it with other teachers, but immediately after I said that, she threw all the dumplings into the trash and continued cleaning. I was confused; what just happened?
5.. And today I still witness this frequently in my English friends. Please eat all your food or take it to go or hare it or just get enough so you don’t have to throw it away. Thank you.
A. In China, “no” usually means “yes”
B. I got super excited and told my parents
C. It was very impolite to take your gift home
D. This was the biggest culture shock I have experienced
E. When I got home, I shared the experience with my parents
F. Many kids had the cookies and juices and were hesitant to try the dumplings
G. I didn’t understand why kids were getting their lunch food and not finishing it
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September 22, 2018 will be World Car-Free Day, a day on which people across the globe are encouraged to find______methods to meet their transportation needs and re-discover buses, bikes, and their own______.
On this day, people get together in the streets, intersections, and neighborhood blocks to______the world that we don’t have to accept our car-controlled society.
While______along these lines had taken place from time to time starting______the 1973 oil crisis, it was only in October, 1994______a structured call for such projects was______in a keynote speech by Eric Britton at the International Accessible Cities Conference held in Toledo (Spain).
The first national campaign was launched in Britain in 1997, and the French followed suit in 1998. In 2000, car Busters issued an open______for a “World Car-Free Day” to______with Europe’s Car-Free Day on September 22.______then, we have begun to call for citizens to organize______on or near this day.
However, we do not want______one day of celebrations and then return to______life. World Car-Free Day is the______time to remind city planners and politicians to______cycling, walking and public transport. It is up to us, cities and governments to help______permanent changes to______pedestrians, cyclists and other people who do not drive cars.
While______accomplishment has been achieved in terms of media coverage, these events______to be difficult to achieve real success and even a decade later there is considerable uncertainty about the usefulness of this approach. Broad public support and______to change is needed for successful implementation (执行).
1.A. effective B. efficient C. useful D. alternative
2.A. legs B. motors C. subway D. feet
3.A. recall B. remind C. realize D. recommend
4.A. projects B. events C. activities D. meetings
5.A. as B. on C. with D. beyond
6.A. when B. that C. where D. how
7.A. undertaken B. submitted C. developed D. issued
8.A. answer B. call C. wish D. longing
9.A. connect B. involve C. consist D. concern
10.A. Since B. Before C. After D. Right
11.A. events B. affairs C. incidents D. accidents
12.A. even B. still C. just D. ever
13.A. usual B. previous C. ordinary D. average
14.A. perfect B. limited C. accurate D. correct
15.A. give way to B. give priority to C. give rise to D. give in to
16.A. employ B. decrease C. create D. increase
17.A. assist B. benefit C. instruct D. influence
18.A. constant B. similar C. envying D. considerable
19.A. turn out B. work out C. carry out D. figure out
20.A. approach B. attitude C. chance D. commitment
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。
Around the world, malnutrition (营养不良) has become a problem that costs $3.5 trillion per year, according to the latest Global Nutrition Report,1.gives an analysis of food and nutrition issues each year.
Although most countries have fallen short in their efforts2.(deal) with poor nutrition and food insecurity, the US appears to be badly off track, the report found. The world’s3.(large) economy continues to suffer from high rates of obesity, diabetes and anemia (贫血), according to the data and has more than a million overweight children.
“Malnutrition is responsible for more ill-health4.any other cause.5.health consequences of overweight and obesity contribute to four million deaths6.(globe).” Corinna Hawkes, director of the Center for Food Policy,7.(write) in the report.
According to the study, most countries have at least two issues related to malnutrition. The most serious issues are children who are either overweight, anemic,8.suffer from undeveloped growth. Overall, malnutrition contributes to about half of all childhood deaths the research showed. And those9.(affect) may not be able to get as good a job as they could have, if they had been fed well. It also prevents them10.(be) able to contribute to society, and the economy, as well as they would have in a healthier environment.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每次错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Mauritius, an island nation, is working to get rid of fossil fuels by replace them with sugar cane stalks. An island has relied on imported gas as fuel for long but it points out which its main cash crop is providing a more economical choice.
Once a sugar cane stalk has squeezed, a pile of dry stalks remain. These leftovers are then burned to generate power, and it accounts for 14 percents of the island’s energy needs.
Sugar canes, the nation’s main cash crop, continues leading the charge towards a more environmental friendly future. Currently, four sugar companies run his own power station together with generating up to 60% of the island’s electricity. However, the carbon dioxide generated by the burning process is then used to add to soft drinks.
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假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Kate即将完成学业，不久前来信就是否到中国工作询问你的意见，请根据以下提示回一封电子邮件：
1. 建议她可以来中国；
2. 阐述你的理由；
3. 承诺可提供帮助
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.文章开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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