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to ask permission for the bathroom. Of course, there is the ultimate question: Why would you lock it in the first place? 21. Snake Leash was designed to_______. A. take a snake for a walk C. catch a snake together
22. What can be inferred about the backward sections? A. They are close to the center of a stadium. B. They are for fans who have poor eyesight.
C. They are for fans who can’t afford to buy good tickets. D. They are in the center of a stadium.
23. Which of the following inventions can help to save your time? A. Toilet Lock. C. Snake Leash.
B
I like writing; I like meeting people; I like discovering new things, then telling everyone about them; and I couldn’t keep a secret if you paid me. So I became a journalist.
I wrote for my school magazine, did unpaid work on my local paper, took a master’s
B. Bacon Alarm Clock. D. Stadium Helmet. B. keep off a snake
D. keep dogs and snakes
degree, got a part-time job, and then became a full-time journalist.
Or at least that is what my resume would say; but the life of a journalist is more
exciting than that－even if that excitement can come with a side of pain and frustration.
I have lost count of the numbers of e-mails I have ignored. I have spent hours at meetings
listening as hard as I could for a story－only to go home empty-handed.
Once I ran around knocking on doors in a dark, dangerous-looking street in the snow
to find a woman who (my editor had told me) “woke at night to find water pouring on her head”. Somehow I found her. I took photos. I interviewed her, the building owner and the fireman. I wrote the story...then I opened the paper to find it at the back, which no name on it, only 100 words long.
Strangely, though, that challenge made me want to keep going. If you do succeed, the
rewards of journalism are truly great.
I once wrote about an old people’s home where residents, including a 90-year-old blind
man, were living in rooms that were full of fleas(跳蚤), and being told to do their own repairs. A week after the story was published, the residents phoned me, overjoyed. The managers had apologized and promised to change their ways.
Journalism can be dangerous and dull, and the pay (at least in the UK) is usually terrible. But it’s also one of the most thrilling, rewarding jobs around. For me, there is no better career than making a difference and telling the world about it. 24. What is the article mainly about?
A. Getting started in a career in journalism B. Why life is easier for male journalist. C. How you can be a good journalist.
D. The author’s colorful experiences as a journalist.
25. According to the author, her frustration in her job often comes from_______.
A. fruitless efforts C. misunderstanding
B. unfair treatment D. danger and risks
26. What deeply attracts the author as a journalist is that _______.
A. she gets to see her name printed
B. she can help others and bring about changes in people’s lives C. she can meet different people and hear their stories D. she earns a lot through writing fun stories
27. From the article we can conclude that the author_______.
A. is not good at keeping secrets. B. is not appreciated by her editor.
C. does not mind the challenges in her career. D. is interested in exciting and dangerous work.
C
New Yorkers and visitors to the Big Apple will get to ring in the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year in the U.S., in style with a fireworks display on the Hudson River set to music written by Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun.
The display is part of the fourth annual “Happy Chinese New Year: Fantastic Art China”
festival held in New York on February 15-20, 2018. The China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the U.S.-China Cultural Institute and the Cultural Associate of the Committee of 100 announced this year’s events on November 18 at a press conference at the Lincoln Center.
The “Fantastic Art China” festival will feature a larger and more diverse series of artistic and cultural events across New York’s top cultural venues (地点) and landmarks, including the Lincoln Center, Empire State Building and Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
This year’s theme focuses on exploring the complicated relationship between sound and image, said Professor Yu Ding from CAFA, who is also president of Fantastic Art China and in charge of the festival’s design. Lunar New Year, which celebrates the “Year of the Dog” in 2018, is an opportunity to bring China’s modern art to mainstream America, and the festival serves as an innovative approach to establishing cultural exchange between China and New York City, Yu said.
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Tan Dun’s music is a new edition that will be featured at several venues, including a major art exhibition at the Javits Center, events at the Lincoln Center and the fireworks display on the Hudson, which will take place on the evening of February 6. Five barges (游艇) on the river will launch the fireworks designed by CAFA that will tell a story about celebration and conservation.
“We Chinese are fond of nature, so the best way to celebrate the Lunar New Year is to salute with the sounds of nature, such as sounds of water, stone and bamboo,” said Tan Dun at the press conference, “And it will be fun to use the music of water during the firework display.”
In addition to the fireworks, a special lighting show at the Empire State Building will illuminate New York City during the holiday.
Chinese New Year is being recognized as a public school holiday for the first time in New York. Children from the National Dance Institute, which represents 75 schools, will perform traditional Chinese dances at the Lincoln Center and the Javits Center. And, in celebration of the “Year of the Dog” events will feature a conservation message about the endangered golden Dog in China.
28. The theme of this year’s celebration is centered on ________.
A. diversity of Chinese traditional festivals
B. relationship between sound and image of nature C. endangered species and environment protection D. cultural exchange between China and America
29. The coming “Year of the Dog” is to be celebrated in New York by ________. A. sailing on the Hudson River along with a new-year speech B. holding a special concert at the Empire State Building C. asking a week off and organizing Chinese dance contests D. setting off fireworks and holding a special lighting show
30. What does the underlined word “illuminate” (in Para. 7) most probably mean? A. Surround. B. Lighten. C. Decorate. D. Broaden. 31. This passage is written mainly in order to ________.
A. report celebration activities for the “Year of the Dog” in New York B. attract visitors to America for the coming new-year celebration C. strengthen the cultural co-operation between China and America D. compare some traditional festivals in China and America
D
Have you ever run into a careless cell phone user on the street? Perhaps they were busy talking, testing or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new “species” of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name — phubbers (低头族).
Recently, a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight. In the short film, phubbers with various social identities bury themselves in their phones. A doctor plays with his cell phone while letting his patient die, a pretty woman takes selfie in front of a car accident site and a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone. A chain of similar events eventually leads to the destruction of the world.
Although the ending sounds overstated, the damage phubbing can bring is real. Your health is the first to bear the effect and result of it. “Constantly bending your head to check your cell phone could damage your neck,” Guangming Daily quoted doctors as saying.