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Subject: Slimming down classics?
Mr.Handsome  2012­2­12 6:34 AM Orion Books, which decides there is a market in creating cutdown classics (经典著作), is slimming down some novels by such great writers as L. Tolstoy, M. Mitchell and C. Bronte.Now, each of them has been whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting 30 to 40 pages percent of original, with words, sentences, paragraphs and, in a few cases, chapters removed.The first six shortened editions, all priced at £6.99 and advertised as great reads "in half the time", will go on sale next month, with plans for 50 to 100 more to follow.The publishing house believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.
Mr.Edwards
2012212
9:40 AM

Well, I"m the publisher of Orion Group.Thanks for your attention, Mr.Handsome. I must say, the idea developed from a game of "shame" in my office.Each of us was required to confess (承认) to the most embarrassing blanks in his or her reading.I admitted that I had never read Anna Karenina and tried but failed to get through Gone with the Wind several times.One of my colleagues acknowledged skipping (跳读) Jane Eyre.We realized that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones.    As a leading publishing house, we are trying to make classics convenient for readers but it"s not as if we"re withdrawing the original versions.They are still there if you want to read them.
Ms.Weir
2012212
11:35 AM
I"m the director of the online book club www.lovereading.co.uk.
   Mr.Edwards, I think your shortened edition is a_breath_of_fresh_air.I"m guilty of never having read Anna Karenina, because it"s just so long.I"d much rather read two 300page books than one 600page book.I am looking forward to more shortened classics
Mr.Crockatt
2012212
4:38 PM
  I"m from the London independent bookshop Corckatt & Powell.
   In my opinion, the practice is completely ridiculous.How can you edit the classics? I"m afraid reading some of these books is hard work, and that is why you have to develop as a reader.If people don"t have time to read Anna Karenina, then fine.But don"t read a shortened version and kid yourself it"s the real thing.
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信息匹配
阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息.
首先请阅读下列几家旅馆的简介:

A. Herm Island Hotel
Herm Island is an ideal holiday destination for a short break in a peaceful and calm place away from the
stress of work or school life.Enjoy the beautiful beaches and the safe, clean and pollutionfree environment.There are no cars, no crowds and no stress.
Herm Island Hotel offers first class French dishes as well as the popular afternoon tea.Alternatively you
can camp on Herm Island in one of our modern familysize tents or you can bring your own tent.
B. Woolley Grange Hotel
It is set in the beautiful countryside with farreaching views and is just 8 miles from the city of Bath.We
offer various types and levels of rooms for customers.Also if you are interested, you can choose to sleep
in a tent at night.
Junior Theatre Break will open at Woolley Grange on April 7th to 10th-a wonderful opportunity to
provide your children with a particular experience offering drama performances and craft workshops.
C. Hell Bay Hotel
Surrounded by excellent white Sandy beaches, wild flowers, soaring seabirds and the clear waters of the
Atlantic, Hell Bay Hotel is a perfect place to relax and recharge your batteries.The rooms are all beautifully furnished with Malabar Fabrics set against cool ocean blues and greens.
Outside the hotel is the beautiful place-Hell Bay.It is a relaxing hideaway in extensive grounds where children can run free, and parents can relax and enjoy peace and calm.
D. Choice Hotel Europe
Among over 100 hotels across the UK & Ireland, Choice Hotel Europe is ideal for family breaks.Up to
2 children under 14 can stay free when sharing a room with 2 adults and there"s plenty to keep them
entertained; you will find leisure services, including indoor swimming pools and great movies in the rooms
and children"s menus.It is near top attractions, including Alton Towers and Cadbury World.
E. Crantock Bay Hotel
Situated in the West Pentire hamlet, it is the perfect place for the whole family to enjoy their vacation.
During the school holidays, we offer FREE children"s accommodation and meals for children up to the
age of 12.The hotel offers lots of services including a lovely warm indoor pool, an outside pool, a table
tennis room and a wellequipped gymnasium.
F. Fingals Hotel
Situated a mile away from Dittisham in Devon, Fingals Hotel is well known for its fun, informal style and
French cooking.Among the many activities on offer are tennis, sailing, swimming, walks along cliff paths
and sandy beaches.You can also just relax with a good book.The choice is yours.You can do as much
or as little as you like.
以下是几位游客的个人信息简介,请把他们和适合的旅馆匹配起来.
1. Extremely fond of sandy beaches, Tom is planning to spend his holiday near a beach.He is a sports fan
and a lover of outdoor activities, especially tennis and sailing.He was born in France, so it will be perfect
if the hotel can serve French food.
2. Jane, a 12yearold girl, is going to take a holiday with her parents.In this holiday, she is eager to visit
some top attractions in the daytime and, go swimming and enjoy great movies at night with her parents.
So she wants to share a room with her parents and they hope to find a holiday which is not too expensive.
3. Susan, a biology student, has a particular interest in wildlife.She is curious about wild flowers and seabirds.During her summer vacation, she would like to visit some place near the sea to study the local wildlife
and complete her project.Also, she thinks it will be a good chance to experience the peaceful life outside
the city.
4. Tired of city life, Alice is eager to spend her holiday in a beautiful village where she can eat food made
of fresh local product.She will spend her holiday with her son who is fond of drama.Both Alice and her
son, would like to sleep in a tent as they have never had such an experience.
5. Linda is a college student, who is longing for a break with her best friend after she finishes her term
paper.She wants to spend her holiday in a peaceful place near the sea because she is eager to escape
from noisy cars, crowds and stress in the city.She is especially looking forward to walking on the beaches and living in her own tent.
完形填空
     The aim of writing a letter of application is to help you to "sell" yourself.It should state __1__ the job
you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have __2__.It should be simple, human,
personal and brief without __3__ out any necessary fact.
     In writing a letter of application, bear in mind that the things a possible employer is most __4__ to
want to know about are your qualifications, your achievements and your aims.The opening paragraph is
perhaps the most important part.If the first few sentences fail to __5__ the reader"s attention, the rest of
the letter may not be __6__ at all.Try to key your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the
employer not to your own need or desire.For example, instead of beginning with "I saw your __7__ in
today"s paper." you might say "I have made a careful study of your advertising during the past six months"
or "I have made a survey in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives __8__ your product and
why they like it."
     Try to __9__ generalities.Be clear about the kind of job for which you are now __10__.College
graduates looking for their first positions often ask "What can I __11__ in a letter? Employers want
experience, which, naturally, no __12__ has." The answer is that everything you have ever done is
__13__.
       It is important to write a good strong closing for your letter.__14__ a specific request for an
interview or give the possible employer something definite to do or expect.An excellent __15__ is to
enclose (内附) a stamped, selfaddressed (写上自己地址的) envelope with your letter.That makes it
easier for a possible employer to get in touch with you.
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(     )3. A. sending        
(     )4. A. probable      
(     )5. A. pay            
(     )6. A. kept          
(     )7. A. advertisement  
(     )8. A. change        
(     )9. A. avoid          
(     )10. A. losing        
(     )11. A. offer        
(     )12. A. worker        
(     )13. A. success      
(     )14. A. Make          
(     )15. A. result        
B. carefully    
B. done        
B. taking      
B. possible    
B. win          
B. continued    
B. report      
B. make        
B. remember    
B. applying    
B. supply      
B. beginner    
B. development  
B. Ask          
B. decision    
C. obviously  
C. known      
C. leaving    
C. likely      
C. show        
C. written    
C. article    
C. sell        
C. protect    
C. preparing  
C. mean        
C. owner      
C. practice    
C. State      
C. promise    
D. easily        
D. heard        
D. picking      
D. able          
D. fix          
D. read          
D. introduction  
D. use          
D. gain          
D. fitting      
D. provide      
D. manager      
D. experience    
D. Get          
D. idea          
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     As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods."The woods" was our parttime address,
destination, purpose, and excuse.If I went to a friend"s house and found him not at home, his mother
might say, "Oh, he"s out in the woods," with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance.It"s similar to the tone
people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I"m looking for is on the golf course or at the
gym, or even "away from his desk". For us tenyearolds, "being out in the woods" was just an excuse to
do whatever we feel like for a while.
     We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索).
Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today.History seemed to be mostly about
explorers.Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually
came up along the way.Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial mound.
     Often we got "lost" and had to climb a tree to find out where we were.If you read a story in which
someone does that successfully, be skeptical;_the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold
weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees.There were four or five
trees that we visited regularly-tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
     It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end.By then some of us
has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期). In March, the month
when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring.We
climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were
rather big to be up in a tree.Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school
cafeteria.

1. The author and his friends were often out in the woods to ________.

A. spend their free time
B. play golf and other sports
C. avoid doing their schoolwork
D. keep away from their parents

2. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A. The activities in the woods were well planned.
B. Human history is not the result of exploration.
C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.
D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

3. The underlined word "skeptical" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

A. calm        
B. doubtful        
C. serious          
D. optimistic

4. The reason why we visited the four or five trees regularly is the following except that ________.

A. they were tall beeches
B. they were easy to climb
C. they were not high to climb
D. they were comfortable to sit in


5. How does the author feel about his childhood?

A. Happy but short.
B. Lonely but memorable.
C. Boring and meaningless.
D. Long and unforgettable.

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    Many animals recognize their food because they see it.So do humans.When you see an apple or a
piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat.You can also use other senses when you
choose your food.You may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good.You may dislike
some types of food because they do not look, smell or taste very nice.Different animals use different
senses to find and choose their food.A few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most
animals use more than one sense.
    Although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one type.
The giant panda eats only one particular type of bamboo.Other animals eat only one type of food even
when given the choice.A kind of white butterfly will stay on the leaves of a cabbage, even though there
are plenty of other vegetables in the garden.However, most animals have a more varied diet.The bear
eats fruits and fish.The fox eats small animals, birds and fruits.The diet of these animals will be different
depending on the season.
    Humans have a very varied diet.We often eat food because we like it and not because it is good for
us.In countries such as France and Britain, people eat foods with too much sugar.This makes them
overweight, which is bad for their health.Eating too much red meat and animal products, such as butter,
can also be bad for the health.Choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern
life.

1. We can infer from the text that humans and animals ________.

A. depend on one sense in choosing food  
B. are not satisfied with their food
C. choose food in similar ways  
D. eat entirely different food

2. Which of the following eats only one type of food?

A. The white butterfly.    
B. The small bird.
C. The bear.
D. The fox.

3. Certain animals change their choice of food when ________.

A. the season changes            
B. the food color changes
C. they move to different places  
D. they are attracted by different smells

4. We can learn from the last paragraph that ________.

A. food is chosen for a good reason    
B. French and British food is good
C. some people have few choices of food
D. some people care little about healthy diet

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE?


A. Animals often use senses to eat their food.
B. Most animals have a more varied diet.
C. All animals spend their lives eating one type of food.
D. The diet of birds and fox will be the same depending on the season.

完形填空
     The "show business" attracts many young people.   1  , only a few can hope to become famous.
Talent(才能)is not   2  Without a good manager, a performer can never hope to succeed.
    Fashion is _3   important in this business. The best tailor in the world will never be successful if he
always makes    4  clothes. In exactly the same way, a performer must change his "act" in order to
  5  the taste of the moment. This is   6  for actors and dancers, but perhaps most of all for singers.
    "Pop"   7  for "popular", and a pop singer has to work hard to become popular. He must either give
the pubic what they want, or he must find a (n)   8  way of singing that will attract their attention. Even
when he has succeeded, and his records are sold    9  , he cannot relax. He must work harder than ever
to remain popular,   10  there are always younger singers trying to become famous.
    The life of a successful pop singer is not at all   11  . He can only relax when he is alone, because
everything he does is watched and reported in the special newspaper written for the "fans". The fans
are the most important people in the world for   12  . But they can be very troublesome, too.
    They sometimes   13  handkerchiefs, they tear off buttons, and they even cut off pieces of the
unfortunate singer"s hair.   Many singers have been forced to   14 . A pop singer has to spend a lot
of money on  15 because he must always look smart. He must have a nice car.  And above all, he
must always keep smiling for the good of himself.
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