Prior to the election, the candidate had promised to improve the living conditions of the workers.

A.Until B.Due to C.Considering D.Before

We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who’s responsible? Actually, it’s more like, What is responsible? The Internet, of course, and everything that comes with it—Facebook, Twitter (微博). You can write your own list.There’s been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before—there are more and more readers, and more and more books.The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an e-book can provide readers with an unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and videos, in the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long “digests” of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span—that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone utterly in tune with modem technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg’s invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization. Once upon a time the physical book was a challenging thing. We should remember this before we assume that technology is out to destroy traditional culture.

1. Which of the following paragraphs briefly reviews the historical challenges for reading?

2.The following are all cited as advantages of e-books EXCEPT（ ）.

3. Which of the following can be best to describe how the author feels toward single-sentence-long novels?

4. According to the passage,people need knowledge of modern technology and（ ）to survive in the fast-changing society.

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

Members of the opposite culture felt a need to point out to us how these actions ______ have the opposite effect of what we intended and desired.

The differences between social reality and legal reality. (250 words)

1.一见这幅画，我就记起了我故乡的童年时代。2.在这短短的三十年中，我们国家发展得这么快，使人民高兴，世界瞩目。3.贵公司的工作条件和工作环境很好，我可以充分施展我的专业知识。4.政府颁布了一项新政策，规定所有博物馆以后不得对学生收费。5.代表团到该市考察后说，他们相信该市完全有能力成功举办世博会。

The local government subsidized the project housing for the poor of the city.