- -Let me help you prepare dinner, Mom.

-- ________ , but your homework hasn't been done. You'd better finish it first.

A. That's all right　　B. You're welcome　　C. That's very kind of you　　D. I'd love to

The aims of the Illustrators’(插图画家的) Exhibition, staged as part of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, organized by BolognaFiere and held from 23 to 26 December 2013,are to bring illustrators and publishers together and to promote illustrators and their works among publishers.

　　QUALIFICATIONS

•Individual illustrators or groups of illustrators of any nationality, if they were born before 31st December 1992, whose artwork is intended for use in children’s books, are qualified to enter the Exhibition, either directly or through publishing houses or schools.

•Please state in the application form whether you are entering work for the Fiction or Nonfiction Category. Illustrators may only enter one category.

　　•Artwork previously presented to the Exhibition may not be re-entered.

•The confirmation(确认) form must be filled in and a photograph attached, then presented together with illustrations no later than 15 October 2013.

　　SHIPMENT

Entries may be delivered by post, express delivery service or by hand. From abroad, please use the following forms: Form “A” for registered mail or post by air; Form “B” if using an international forwarding agent or airline.

To avoid delays, material should not be sent by normal post. Material should be sent “carriage paid”, including any customs and delivery costs.

BolognaFiere may not be held responsible for the non-arrival or late arrival of artwork. All published works must be accompanied by a declaration bearing the ISBN number, publisher’s name and address.

　　REQUIREMENTS

　　The illustrations (i.e.the size of the sheet) must not exceed (超过) the following dimensions:

　　Fiction: 32*42 cm (or 42 *32 cm)

　　Non-fiction: 50*70 cm  (70* 50cm)

Illustrations in larger formats will not be considered, nor will they be returned by BolognaFiere. The illustrations must be on paper or flexible board, maximum thickness 2mm (for scanner separation purposes).

SELECTION PROCESS

All artwork received by the stated deadline and meeting the specified requirements will be examined and selected by an international group (whose decision is final), including five members (from publishing house and art schools) appointed each year by BolognaFiere.

　　EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

After the Bologna event, the Illustrators Exhibition will travel to Japan under the supervision of JBBY. The Illustrators Exhibition may afterwards be transferred to other venues (场馆) in other countries. The exhibitions of illustrations held abroad follow the same rules and regulations as the Illustrators Exhibition, and the provisions (条款) of the regulations are extended to the organizers of the exhibitions held abroad.

　　RETURN OF ARTWORK

All the works will be returned to their owners by BolognaFiere or directly by the organizers of the exhibitions and held abroad by the end of July 2014.

45. Which of the following of the Illustrators’ Exhibition is true?

　　A. It will last five days in all in July every other year.

　　B. It can strengthen the relationship between illustrators and publishers.

　　C. It is held by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in BolognaFiere.

　　D. It is intended for college students who are good at painting

46. Which of the following is unacceptable for delivering entries?

　    A. Express delivery.  B. Airline post.    C. Registered mail.    D. Normal post.

47. The illustrators of the Illustrators Exhibition __________.

       A. should be at least 16 and no more than 25

　　B. may re-enter their artwork after it is returned

　　C. should state the category of their artwork clearly

　　D. may choose to attach a photo to the application form

48. What is BolognaFiere responsible for?

　　A. Paying for the delivery costs                     B. Late arrival of artwork

　　C. Confirmation of ISBN number                   D. Returning the illustrators’ works .

49. The illustrators’ works will not be considered if they       .

       A. have already been published abroad before

       B. are smaller than the required size

       C. are received after the day of 15 October 2013

       D. don’t meet the demands of the international experts

—I can start to work next Monday.

    —____________ then. I am glad to be able to offer you the job.

A. You can't be serious.                       B. You're welcome.

C. That's right.                                D. It's settled.

 

Local police will begin pulling over drivers and cyclists tomorrow so they can fill out a survey to help the city better understand and improve its traffic situation.

The survey, which will run from tomorrow until the end of the year, is the biggest of its kind in the city's history. It will be used to gather information about traffic patterns to help future urban planning, particularly for the World Expo in 2010.

“The survey is to determine the city's daily and weekly traffic situations，” Zhang Yan, a senior engineer at the Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute, said yesterday. This is the third time the city has conducted a large－scale traffic survey. The other two surveys were conducted in 1986 and 1995.

Officials will send questionnaires to pedestrians and drivers, record traffic jams in major areas, and analyze the information from electronic traffic signs.

The Road Administrative Office will also survey traffic outside the Outer Ring Road, paying particular attention to vehicles entering or exiting the city.

“With more vehicles from neighboring provinces, we have to find it out how many, when and for what purposes those vehicles are coming to the city，” said Dong Hui, a spokeswoman for the Road Administrative Office.

Officials from her office will stop about half of the vehicles passing by 53 major venues (场所) tomorrow and ask drivers to fill out questionnaires about where they are coming from, where they are headed and whether their trip is for private or business purposes.

1. Who is likely to be stopped by the police for the questions?

A. A student returning home from school.

B. A dustman cleaning a parking lot.    

C. A customer shopping in a market.

D. A garage worker repairing a car.

2. Shanghai has decided to start such a survey because it wants to ________.

A. reduce traffic accidents

B. satisfy the future need

C. make the road users happy

D. make more money

3. Where are the 53 major venues mentioned in the last paragraph?

A. Outside the Outer Ring Road.         

B. We're not told about it in the passage.

C. Inside the Outer Ring Road.

D. Both outside and inside the Outer Ring Road.

4. It seems that Shanghai's large traffic survey is ________.

A. mainly about vehicles going in and out           

B. done by just collecting public opinions

C. done at the request of the World Expo

D. held quite regularly

5. We are NOT told about the ________ of the survey in the passage.

A. contents                     B. time

C. steps                          D. purpose 

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

"I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

"The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"

"I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were !"

61. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A. they hope to save money      B. they're both poor

C. their farms are at the foot of the mountain    D. they're not far from their farms

62. The two farmers carried the apples to the city to _________.

A. make a journey        B. visit some places of interest

C. meet their friends       D. make a profit

63. the tow farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A. theirs weren't as good as the others'

B. theirs were much less than the others'

C. a lot of apples had been already carried to the city

D. they forgot to carry them on a truck

64. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy because _________.

A. they had sustained losses in business

B. they had lost some money in the city

C. something was wrong with the tractor

D. other people profited in the city

65. Which of the following is true?

A. The two farmers found out why they were poor.

B. The two farmers will soon get rich.

C. Neither of the farmers is clever.

D. The two farmers decided to buy a truck.