In the old days of publishing, getting your manuscript into the hands of an editor often meant mailing the unsolicited finished product to the offices of literary agents or editors, where it would receive a cursory look from an editorial assistant — or none at all.
A modern version of the slush pile is the online “writing community,” a Web site where aspiring novelists can post their ideas, writing samples or manuscripts and open them to comments and reviews from strangers. On Tuesday Penguin Group USA, the publisher of Tom Clancy, Kathryn Stockett and Nora Roberts, will unveil its own venture, Book Country, a Web site for writers of genre fiction. In its initial phase Book Country will allow writers to post their own work — whether it’s an o
pening chapter or a full manuscript — and receive critiques from other users, who can comment on points like character development, pacing and dialogue. Later this summer the site will generate revenue by allowing users to self-publish their books for a fee by ordering printed copies. (The books will bear the stamp of Book Country
, not Penguin, and the site is considered a separate operation from Penguin.) The site will also explain the business of finding an agent, marketing and promoting a book, using social media and handling digital and subsidiary rights.
Penguin hopes the site will attract agents, editors and publishers scouting for new talent, and allow writers to produce work with more polish and direction than they could otherwise. The project has been spearheaded by Molly Barton, the director of business development for Penguin and the president of Book Country. “One of the things I remember really clearly from my early editorial experiences was this feeling of guilt,” Ms. Barton said in an interview. “I would read submissions and not be able to help the writer because we couldn’t find a place for them on the list that I was acquiring for. And I kept feeling that there was something we could do on the Internet to really help writers each other.” How did an author send unsolicited finished products to editors in the old days of publishing? _______________________________________________
The online “writing community” is where aspiring novelists post their ideas and ___________________________________________________________________________
The site uses social media and
digital and subsidiary rights to _______________________.[来What’s the real purpose of Penguin creating the web site? _______________________________________________
第二节：语法填空(共10小题，每小题l．5分，满分l5分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空。
Long before, there was a large mountainside, where rested an eagle's nest with four large eagle eggs. One day 31 earthquake rocked the mountain, causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain to a chicken farm 32 (locate) in the valley below. The chickens were kind enough to care for the eagle's egg, and an old hen volunteered to nurture (哺育) and raise the large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. Sadly, 33 , the eagle was raised to be a chicken. Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more 34 a chicken. The eagle loved his present family, but his spirit cried out35 more. While playing on the farm one day, the eagle happened to notice a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds."
The chickens roared with 36 (laugh), “You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and chickens do not soar."
The eagle continued staring at his real family up above, 37 (dream) that he could be with them. Each time the eagle would let his dreams 38 (know), he was told it couldn't be done. That is 39 the eagle learned to believe. The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live like a chicken. Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.
You become what you believe you are. So, if you ever dream of becoming an eagle, follow 40 dreams... not the words of a chicken.
第二节语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
Feneque, for his part, couldn't stop wondering what had happened to the woman on the tracks. He went on his own hunt, posting a message on a newspaper website asking if anyone knew 31.________ the woman who'd fallen in the subway 32._________(survive) or not. No one responded. Several weeks later, while surfing the Internet for any new clues, Feneque found a television station had posted an update on its website, detailing Donath's recovery and her search for her rescuer. Feneque e-mailed the address 33.____________(provide) to say that he was that man.
When the two first met, Donath threw 34.____________ arms around Feneque and wept. It was overwhelming, she says, to try to convey her 35.____________ (feel). "What do you say to the person who saved your life?" When they met again several months later, for this photo shoot, it felt a lot 36.____________(easy). "I finally had the chance to hear his side of the story in detail," she says. "He really just seems like such 37.____________ sweet and humble person."
Feneque says there's no point in 38.____________(wonder) why he was on the platform. "Whether it was pure coincidence or sent from above, who's to say? 39.____________I know is I was there and I'd do it again," he says.
"I have a daughter. And I said 40.____________ myself, I'm going to help this person. She could be anybody's daughter."
第三节短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示（汉语提示、首字母提示或语境提示），在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
There is a chemical factory near my home. The manager, who was in
90) c_____of the factory, was criticized (批评) by the government because 90. ________
the factory gave out a lot of waste gas every day, 91)_____ badly influences 91. ________
(影响) people’s health. But the manager still paid no attention to environmental
92)_________(保护). When the factory was forced to stop production, the 92. ________
manager said angrily, “Is there any evidence to prove that we did 93) h______ 93. ________
to people’s health? In 94) r_____, we haven’t done anything wrong.” Just then, 94. ________
a doctor came, with the manager’s physical examination report, saying that the
manager was 95)s________ from a severe lung cancer.95. ________
96)_______ is very clear that the pollution has an extremely bad effect 96. ________
97)______ the people around the factory, including the manager himself. The 97. ________
manager regretted (后悔) that what they had done had 98) r______ in so much 98. ________
pollution. Now he has realized the 99) i__________ of keeping the air clean. 99. ________
第II卷
第四部分模块二基础知识（共三节，满分30分）
第一节课文填空（共5小题；每空0.5分，满分 10分）
The ______ of the room was in the fancy ______ popular in those days. It was also a treasure ______ with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best ______ about ten years to make.
Nowadays any country can ______ part if their ______ are good enough. There are over 250 sports and each one has its own _______. Women are not only _______, but play a very important ______ in gymnastics, team sports and …
As a result I _____ changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown ______. …But I was always so lonely standing there by myself, _____ in the early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a _____. I was able to _____ my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.
I’m ______ myself from mosquitoes. When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It _______ a powerful drug which ______ mosquitoes.
Daisy had always _____ to help ______ species of wildlife. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. “Where do you want to go?” it asked. Daisy ______ immediately. “I’d like to see some…”
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
China's influence on the world's political and economic order has been steadily increasing. Over the past decades, the international political and economic order has been still controlled by a __31 (hand) of developed countries, 32 the majority of developing nations have been ignored despite their rising calls for the establishment of a new world order. In the 1980s, the Chinese leadership, well aware of the core of the complicated international situation, 33(repeat) called for a new international political and economic order 34 (set up) on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and made continual efforts toward this. 35 its peaceful foreign policy and self-development, China has played an increasingly bigger role in the formulation of the long-expected new international order.
China's provision of sufficient food and clothing to 36 large population, one-fifth of the world's total, is itself a big contribution to world peace and security. Over the past decades, China has never stopped safeguarding the authority of the United Nations and 37 (participate) in UN-led multilateral (多边的) activities. It has 38 actively carried 39cooperation with other countries on economic, anti-terror, arms control, peacekeeping, human rights, and environmental issues to better deal with the world's major challenges and hot spots. China's extensive cooperation with the rest of the world on trade, finance, investment and energy has also contributed a lot 40 international efforts towards the establishment of an open and just trade system and the improvement of the current international financial system. All these will help trade disputes be resolved through dialog and negotiation.