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2020 SAN FRANCISCO
WRITERS CONFERENCE
17th Celebration of Craft, Commerce & Community February 13-16, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Speakers:
*Walter Mosley*Jonathan Maberry
*Brooke Warner
Plus authors, editors, publishers & literary agents from New York, L.A. & S.F. Bay Area
2019 SAN FRANCISCO
WRITING FOR CHANGE
A one-day conference for all writers who want to change the world through their writing.
www.SFWritingforChange.org
SFWC/San Francisco Writers Foundation is a nonprofit organization
Behind the Scenes of a Writing Conference
When you attend a writing conference, you see a facade that took months or longer to make up. Plenty is going on behind the scenes. Let’s take a look behind the curtain.
The day starts long before attendees walk through the door. Registration is set up, signs posted and tables arranged. Logistics ( 后 勤 ) all fall on the conference organizers. For example, the annual conference I direct in San Francisco (see the poster above) is a simple one-day conference that takes more than eight months to put together and around 15 staff and volunteers to manage. Larger multi-day conferences have even more going on behind the scenes.
Overseeing it all is the conference director, a conductor who typically works with committee directors to make sure everything runs smoothly. Over the course of the conference, staffers make sure everything stays on track. It’s not unusual for staff to walk miles in a day and
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go without meals.
Conference staff and volunteers are always behind the curtains making sure your experience is perfect. The next time you attend a well-run writing conference, take a moment to thank staff and volunteers for their devotion. They deserve all the praise they can get because without them, there would be no conference.
60. The underlined word facade refers to A. the effort behind the scenes B. the scenes visible to the public C. the literary masterpiece on display D. the material distributed at the meeting
61. What’s the latest time to start to arrange for the one-day conference in San Francisco? A. July, 2019.
B. March, 209.
C. September, 2019 .
D. January, 2019.
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62. According to the writer, the attendees of the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference should praise the A. three speakers
. B. authors and editors C. staff and volunteers D. corporate sponsors
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Each year, backed up by a growing anti-consumerist movement, people are using the holiday season to call on us all to shop less.
Driven by concerns about resource exhaustion, over recent years environmentalists have increasingly turned their sights on our “consumer culture”. Groups such as The Story of Stuff and Buy Nothing New Day are growing as a movement that increasingly blames all our ills on our desire to shop.
We clearly have a growing resource problem. The produces we make, buy, and use are often linked to the destruction of our waterways, biodiversity, climate and the land on which millions of people live. But to blame these issues on Christmas shoppers is misguided, and puts us in the old trap of blaming individuals for what is a systematic problem.
While we complain about environmental destruction over Christmas, environmentalists often forget what the holiday season actually means for many people. For most, Christmas isn’t an add-on to an already heavy shopping year. In fact, it is likely the only time of year many have the opportunity to spend on friends and family, or even just to buy the necessities needed for modern life.
This is particularly, true for Boxing Day, often the target of the strongest derision(嘲弄) by
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anti-consumerists. While we may laugh at the queues in front of the shops, for many, those sales provide the one chance to buy items they’ve needed all year. As Leigh Phillips argues, “this is one of the few times of the year that people can even hope to afford such ‘luxuries’, the Christmas presents their kids are asking for, or just an appliance that works.”
Indeed, the richest 7% of people are responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly harmful when you take into account that those shopping on Boxing Day are only a small part of our consumption “problem” anyway. Why are environmentalists attacking these individuals, while ignoring such people as Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has his own￡1.5bn yacht with a missile defence system?
Anyway, anti-consumerism has become a movement of wealthy people talking down to the working class about their life choices, while ignoring the real cause of our environmental problems. It is no wonder one is changing their behaviours—or that environmental destruction continues without any reduction in intensity.
63. It is indicated in the 1st paragraph that during the holiday season, many consumers A. ignore resource problems B. are fascinated with presents C. are encouraged to spend less D. show great interest in the movement.
64. It can be inferred from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the environmentalist movement A. has targeted the wrong persons B. has achieved its intended purposes C. has taken environment-friendly measures D. has benefited both consumers and producers
65. The example of Roman Abramovich is used to show environmentalists’ A. madness about life choices B. discontent with rich lifestyle C. ignorance about the real cause D. disrespect for holiday shoppers
66. It can be concluded from the text that telling people not to shop at Christmas is A. anything less than a responsibility C. indicative of environmental awareness
B. nothing more than a bias D. unacceptable to ordinary people
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Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
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A. Regrettably, that point has not yet come. B. Elephant numbers started falling.
C. The existence of even a small legal market increases the opportunities for illegal trade. D. They point out that they have devoted huge resources to the elephant. E. In the long run technology can help make trade coexist with conservation.
The Ban on Trading Ivory(象牙) is Unfair but Necessary
As in some countries elephant population have recovered, there are competing proposals about how absolute the ban on elephant trading should be. Countries seeking a modest relaxation have a strong case to make. But it is not strong enough. The ban must stay.
Understandably, countries that have done a good job protecting their elephants feel this is unfair. 67. And the real burden of all this is borne by poor local people who are in competition with wildlife for resources, and sometimes in conflict with it—elephants can be destructive. People and governments, so the argument goes, need to have an economic stake(利害关系) in the elephants’ survival. The ivory trade would give them one.
To understand why these reasonable-sounding proposals should be rejected, consider what has happened to elephant numbers since some legal trade was authorised, when Botswana, Namibia and South Africa were allowed in 2007 to sell a fixed amount of ivory to Japan. 68. A survey conducted in 2014-15 estimated that elephant numbers had
fallen by 30% across 18 countries since 2007.
69. In better-resourced national parks, drones are used to make it
easier for park keepers to spot illegal hunters. DNA testing of ivory can identify where they came from, and thus whether they are legal. As prices of the technologies fall and countries get richer, both technologies are likely to spread.
The objection to trade in products of endangered species is not moral. When the world is confident that it will boost elephant numbers rather than wipe them out, the ivory trade should be encouraged. 70. And until it does, the best hope for the elephant—and
even more endangered species, such as rhinos(犀牛)—lies not in easing the ban on trading their products, but in enforcing it better.
IV. Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
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