A. Her foreign culture eperience. C. Her embassy internship. employment.
B. Her trouble in finding a job. D. Her preparation for future
23. What was the author forbidden to do when the Australian prime minister visited America?
A. Record door-stop interviews. C. Tae pictures of special events. staff.
24. What can we infer about her daily routine at the Embassy?
A. It is tiring. C. It is relaing.
B
Three years ago Jenny Salgado, a Dominican shop assistant, moved to Highland town, a neighborhood of Baltimore. When she arrived the shop she wors in was one of only a few Spanish businesses. Now there are many more. “It’s good now if you spea Spanish,” she smiles.
Baltimore has been losing people for 60 years. To address this, its former mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blae, wanted to mae it the most immigrant-friendly city in the world. Its libraries provide Spanish-language eercise classes. To help those with no papers, the city is introducing micro-loans (小额贷款）which require no credit checs. City police would no longer routinely chec the immigration status of citiens or enforce any federal immigration law unless required to. The then governor, Martin O'Malley made it possible for illegal immigrants to get driving licenses. Such welcoming policies are spreading. Such cities as Cleveland, Dayton and Philadelphia all eagerly try to please immigrants. Ric Snyder, Governor of Michigan, has ased the federal government to offer 50,000 visas to
B. It is disgusting. D. It is eciting.
B. now top-secret information. D. Stand among the Australian
people who agree to live in Detroit. His administration has made it easier for silled migrants to get professional licenses.
When a city’s population falls, both ta receipts and services fall. Half-deserted neighborhoods breed (滋生）crime, driving yet more people to leave.
No city has escaped this without attracting new residents, says Steve Tobocman of Global Detroit. Several studies suggest that when immigrants arrive, crime goes down, schools improve and shops open up. In Detroit, immigrants living near the tiny separate city of Hamtramc have formed local watches to guard against thieves. Their neighborhoods are not just safer; they are also among the only places where it is as easy to buy fresh vegetables as drugs and alcohol.
But attracting new immigrants to the cities which most need them is hard, argues Audrey Singer of the Brooings Institution. They care about the same things as everyone else safe streets, good schools and jobs. Cities which have lost population for decades struggle with all of these.
24. What does the underlined word “address” mean?
A. deal with
B. remar on
C. get through
D. refer to
25. Which can best describe the situation mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. A constant matter B. A dilemma case
26. What is the topic of the last but one paragraph?
A. Problems caused by immigrants. play.
C. The living conditions of immigrants. Detroit.
27. Which statement may Audrey Singer agree with?
A. There is no need to encourage such immigrant-friendly policies.
D. Difficulties immigrants face in
B. The positive role immigrants
C. A death circle D. A classic
B. Immigrants have higher epectations of a city than its locals. C. Attracting immigrants helps prevent a city from losing population. D. Attracting immigrants to cities losing people is demanding.
C
I recommend a lot of non-fiction boos, and every once in a while I review a novel. But I don’t thin I’ve ever written about a boo of poetry before. That’s almost what Maylis de erangal’s The Heart is, though. It’s poetry disguised as a novel.
Three French 20-year-olds go surfing in the middle of the night, and as they’re driving bac from the beach just before sunrise, they have a car accident. Two of them survive but one of them, Simon, dies, and his parents have to decide whether to donate his heart or not. They finally decide to do it, and doctors transplant（移植）the heart, and the boo is over. That’s just its story.
The car crash happens in the first 15 pages, so the rest of the boo is a meditation（冥想）on life, death, and, as the title suggests, the heart. There aren’t even that many characters you meet Simon’s father and mother, the doctor on duty at the hospital when Simon gets there, the nurse assisting him, the head of the organ donation organiation, the woman who gets the heart in the end , and a few other people.
But just describing the plot is lie saying “during a heart transplant, doctors put one person’s heart into another person’s body” and leaving it at that. It’s not the plot that maes The Heart such a wonderful boo. First of all, there’s the language. It maes me thin of Vladimir Naboov more than anybody else. The sentences are rich and full, and they go on and on, which is the eact opposite of how I write.
At times I found myself reading more slowly than usual, simply because the way she describes things is so beautiful at one point she describes a character’s words an
“reddening rocs from a still-burning fire”. The choices of words are very specific—I went to the dictionary a doen times to loo up the words I didn’t now. 28. What does the author thin of the story of the boo?
A. not comple. inspiring.
29.From the 16th page, the boo ________.
A. starts telling stories
B. shows some poems D. tals about something big
B. very touching.
C. very interesting.
D. very
C. becomes more eciting
30. What maes the boo wonderful according to the author?
A. Its theme. Its characters
31. This passage can be classified as________.
A. an advertisement B. a boo review C. a feature story D. A news report
D
When a laptop or smart phone battery starts losing its power, the only options are to buy an epensive replacement, or just eep it plugged in (接通电的) all the time. But one woman may have found the answer to this problem.
Mya Le Thai is a scientist studying at the University of California. She recently discovered a process that may lead to batteries that last forever.
Thai said she had been frustrated that the batteries for her wireless devices degraded(退化) over time, until they failed to charge fully. Thai did not lie having to eep her laptop connected to an electrical outlet (电插座) to eep it powered on. So, she decided to do something about that problem. At first, she and her team at UC Irvine thought about inventing a new battery. But as they eperimented, Thai discovered
B. Its plot
C. Its writing style
D.
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