【正文】 chool activity. Depending on whether an embassy event was going on, I would attend weekly meetings to listen in on planning and see what I could do to help. Usually there were smaller tasks to be done such as creating visitors39。s experience. As an embassy employee you will gain invaluable knowledge while spending your summer in a culturally diverse workplace. 21. What is the author talking about? A. Her foreign culture experience. B. Her trouble in finding a job. C. Her embassy internship. D. Her preparation for future employment. 23. What was the author forbidden to do when the Australian prime minister visited America? A. Record doorstop interviews. B. Know topsecret information. C. Take pictures of special events. D. Stand among the Australian staff. 24. What can we infer about her daily routine at the Embassy? A. It is tiring. B. It is disgusting. C. It is relaxing. D. It is exciting. B Three years ago Jenny Salgado, a Dominican shop assistant, moved to Highland town, a neighborhood of Baltimore. When she arrived the shop she works in was one of only a few Spanish businesses. Now there are many more. ―It’s good now if you speak Spanish,‖ she smiles. Baltimore has been losing people for 60 years. To address this, its former mayor, Stephanie RawlingsBlake, wanted to make it the most immigrantfriendly city in the world. Its libraries provide Spanishlanguage exercise classes. To help those with no papers, the city is introducing microloans (小額貸款） which require no credit checks. City police would no longer routinely check the immigration status of citizens or enforce any federal immigration law unless required to. The then governor, Martin O39。 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 Brookings 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. remark 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 C. A death circle D. A classic case 26. What is the topic of the last but one paragraph? A. Problems caused by immigrants. B. The positive role immigrants play. C. The living conditions of immigrants. D. Difficulties immigrants face in Detroit. 27. Which statement may Audrey Singer agree with? A. There is no need to encourage such immigrantfriendly policies. B. Immigrants have higher expectations 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 remend a lot of nonfiction books, and every once in a while I review a novel. But I don’t think I’ve ever written about a book of poetry before. That’s almost what Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart is, though. It’s poetry disguised as a novel. Three French 20yearolds go surfing in the middle of the night, and as they’re driving back 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 book is over. That’s just its story. The car crash happens in the first 15 pages, so the rest of the book 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 an donation anization, the woman who gets the heart in the end , and a few other people. But just describing the plot is like 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 makes The Heart such a wonderful book. First of all, there’s the language. It makes me think of Vladimir Nabokov more than anybody else. The sentences are rich and full, and they go on and on, which is the exact 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 rocks from a stillburning fire‖. The choices of words are very specific—I went to the dictionary a dozen times to look up the words I didn’t know. 28. What does the author think of the story of the book? A. not plex. B. very touching. C. very interesting. D. very inspiring. the 16th page, the book ________. A. starts telling stories B. shows some poems C. bees more exciting D. talks about something big 30. What makes the book wonderful according to the author? A. Its theme. B. Its plot C. Its writing style D. Its characters 31. This passage can be classified as________. A. an advertisement B. a book 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 expensive replacement, or just keep it plugged in (接通電源的 ) 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