2024—2025学年江苏省南通市和镇江市丹阳高一上学期期末联考英语试卷.doc

2024—2025学年江苏省南通市和镇江市丹阳高一上学期期末联考英语试卷

一、阅读理解

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CommonwealthShortStoryPrize2024

The2024CommonwealthShortStoryPrizeisnowclosedforentries(参赛作品)andthejudgingprocessisunderway.

Theshortlistandtheregional(地区的)winnerswillbeannouncedinJanuary2025,andtheoverallwinnernextmonth.Wewouldliketothankthe7,359writerswhomailed8,000+shortstories.

Thisyear’sjudgingteam

JenniferNansubugaMakumbi(Chair)

JenniferNansubugaMakumbiwroteTheFirstWoman(2020),whichin2021wontheJhalakPrize.

KeletsoMopai(Judge,AfricaRegion)

KeletsoMopaiisaSouthAfricanwriterandscientist.

OThiamChin(Judge,AsiaRegion)

OThiamChinisashortstorywriterandscreenwriterfromSingapore.

ShashiBhat(Judge,CanadaandEuropeRegion)

ShashiBhatistheeditor-in-chiefofEVENTmagazineandteachescreativewritingatDouglasCollege.

MelissaLucashenko(Judge,PacificRegion)

MelissaLucashenkohaswonaWalkleyAwardforherwriting.

RichardGeorges(Judge,Caribbean(加勒比海的)Region)

RichardGeorgesisawriterofshortstoriesandthreecollectionsofpoetry.

Prizes

Theregionalwinnersreceive￡2,500andtheoverallwinnerreceivesatotalof￡5,000.Thewinningstoriesarepublishedonlinebygrantaandinaspecialprintcollection.Theshortlistedstoriesarepublishedinadda,theonlinemagazineoftheCommonwealthFoundation.

1.WhatdoweknowabouttheCommonwealthShortStoryPrize2024?

A．ItwillbeheldinSingapore.

B．Itwillsaynotoregionalwriters.

C．Over8,000entriesarebeingjudged.

D．Thesigningupprocesshasnotstarted.

2.WhoisthejudgeforcompetitorsinIndia?

A．ShashiBhat.

B．OThiamChin.

C．KeletsoMopai.

D．MelissaLucashenko.

3.Whatwillthewinnersget?

A．Acashprizeof￡2,500.

B．Amedalgivenbyadda.

C．Abookwrittenbythechair.

D．Achancetobeapublishedwriter.

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