What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A.Teacher and student. B.Boss and secretary. C.Colleagues.
Where did the woman spend her summer holiday?
A.In Beijing. B.In Tokyo. C.In London.
Why did Cathy call the woman?
A.To borrow magazines.
B.To make an invitation.
C.To get her magazines back.
How did the woman usually go to school?
A.On foot. B.By bus. C.By bike.
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1.不久之后，失主就来认领他的行李了，这出乎我们的意料。(which)
2.在如此这样的一个特殊时期，对于吉祥航空的这一人性化操作，很多网友手动点赞。(Such)
3.在采访最后，提起武汉，这个84岁，为国家操劳了一生，和病魔战斗了一辈子的钟南山院士academician却哽咽了。(devote)
4.趁着寒假宅在家，有的学生挥剑，有的学生在网上练习配音，还有的泼墨挥毫，尽管被限于家中，他们做完寒假作业之余可谓是丰富多彩。(take advantage of ,describe)
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.
This is a story about a book that just kept selling, catching publishers, booksellers and even its author off guard. The book is Sapiens, by the Israeli academic Yuval Noah Harari, published in the UK in September 2014.It is a recondite(深奥的) work of evolutionary history charting the development of humankind through a scholarly examination of our ability to cooperate as a species.
Sapiens sold well on publication, particularly when it came out in paperback in the summer of 2015.What is remarkable about it, though, is that it's still selling in vast numbers. Sapiens has sold a further half million copies, establishing itself firmly at the top of the bestseller lists. The book's wild success is symptomatic of a broader trend in our book-buying habits: a surge in the popularity of intelligent, challenging nonfiction, often books that are several years old.
It was trade publication, the Booksellers, that first noted the rise of what is called the “brainy backlist”, it also highlighted a concomitant fall in the sales of the books that had been such a staple of publishers' catalogues-celebrity biographies. We are turning away from exciting but disposable stories of fame towards more serious, thoughtful, quiet books that help us understand our place in the world. Mark Richards, publisher at John Murray Prese, see the return to serious works of nonfiction as a response to the spirit of the age, “People have a hunger both for information and facts, and for nuanced(有细微差别的) exploration of issues, of a sort that books are in a prime position to provide.” he says.
In the end, the story of Sapiens is about a book becoming part of a national conversation. At a time when politics is more furious and fragmented than ever, when technology is colonizing our everyday existence.
