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After serving as a ski guide in Utah’s back country for more than two decades, a Park City woman is being recognized by Outside Magazine as 2015’s Best Ski Guide.

Deb Lovci grew up in Colorado and began skiing when she was five years old. Later she moved to Utah and fell in love with the back country of Wasatch Mountains. Lovci has now served as a Ski Utah Interconnect guide for 27 years. “Anything that you slide on snow, I’m in love with, ” she said.

Lovci leads ski tours through the back country of six different resorts located in the Wasatch Mountains. Lovci typically takes a group of eight to ten people on a ski tour each day, and on average, she takes 300 customers on tours through the back country each season. She loves showing off Utah’s wilderness. “I love the back country,” she said. “I love the snow science behind it. I love the safety … I just love it.”

Along with leading ski tours, Lovci is passionate about anything related to activities. She also runs a bed-and-breakfast in Park City, the Old Town Guest House. As “a jack-of- all-trades”, she also runs Alpine skis, Nordic skis competitively, and snowboards, and leads mountain bike tours during the summer.

Outside Magazine selected five travel guides in various outdoor fields to name as the best in their Best of Travel April issue. Lovci said she was unexpectedly cheerful when she was selected as 2015’s Best Ski Guide by Outside Magazine. “We all work really hard in what we do and we love it and it’s really nice to get acknowledged,” she said. “I work with a lot of excellent guides and the award could have gone to anybody — any one of us. I often recall my ski experiences which were fearful at the beginning, but they helped me achieve a success.”

In a news release, Ski Utah director of communications, Paul Marshall said, “Deb Lovci is one of the most enthusiastic, focused, knowledgeable guides in the industry. Without her as the forefront of our Interconnect Tour, we would not have the success we have. She has been an enthusiastic part of the Interconnect Tour for 27 years and is thought highly of by our customers.”

1. What helped Deb Lovci to be selected as 2015’s Best Ski Guide?

A. Her being ready for any ski risks.

B. Her love for Utah’s wilderness and her ski experiences.

C. Her dreaming of the best ski job on the planet.

D. Her gender and age.

2.The underlined words “a jack-of- all-trades” in Para. 4 probably mean “someone ______”.

A. who is very skilled at communicating

B. who can be recognized as a workaholic

C. who is enthusiastic about doing business

D. who can do many different types of work

3. From Paul Marshall’s words, we can infer that _______.

A. Lovci should have helped them in the tour

B. everyone should think highly of Lovci

C. Lovci deserved the award.

D. Lovci achieved her success with Interconnect Tour’s help.

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Deb Lovci —2015’s Best Ski Guide

B. Deb Lovci and Outside Magazine

C. The Ski Utah Interconnect Tour

D. Deb Lovci — a ski guide for 27 years

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Electronic book publishing has many of the same risks and opportunities as electronic music publishing. By delivering text direct to the user’s computer screen, the e-book could cut down costs, and allow creators to deal directly with their audience, bypassing (绕过) traditional publishers and readers. But it also raises the possibility of mass piracy (盗版). Phil Rance, founder and managing director of Online Originals, a London-based e-book publisher, sums it up. “No one wants Napster (在线音乐服务) to happen to books.”

Indeed, the most popular MP3 have put the frighteners on (威胁) an industry that generally operates some way behind the “bleeding edge”. The Mata Group, a leading US-based market researcher, says publishers are far too concerned about protecting their rights, “We believe all the recent legal control over Napster is like putting a finger in a river that is already overflowing. Publishers need to deal with reality and come up with new ways to develop wide electronic distribution (分布), asking the question: ‘How can we use the certainty of wide distribution to our advantage?’”

At the moment, most publishers would like to limit the use of e-books to the person who bought them, or to the computer used to download them. If that can be done, e-books become just an extra income stream in a publishing industry that would continue to operate the way it does today, according to Terry Robinson, business manager for Adobe’s e-paper group. “If you’ve cracked digital rights aspect, you’ve cracked the market,” he says.

Robert Nichols, Books Director at BOL agrees, “Rights management is absolutely important. Publishers just say that ‘until copyright is secure, we’re not going to talk’.”

1.Which of the following can be the best title for this text?

A. Changes Brought by E-books

B. The E-book— an Extra Income Stream

C. An Economic Rise from E-books

D. The E-book— a New and Big Challenge

2.According to the text, what do e-books and electronic music have in common?

A. They result in piracy.

B. They lead to price reduction.

C. They avoid industry management.

D. They bring in more money to creators.

3.What do publishers care most about e-books?

A. Copyright. B. Price.

C. Quality. D. Popularity.

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I had arrived at the airport about 30 minutes before the check?in. It had been very _______ three days for me with lots of meetings. So I was glad to have the _______ time to make a note of what I _______to do the following day. But then came the _____ that my flight had to be ______ because there was a problem with the plane.

As I sat waiting for my _______ to be called, I reflected on my last meeting of the day. It was not a business meeting but rather a very enjoyable _____ with an old business friend I had not seen for over 12 years. Our lunch was spent recalling time gone by _______ filling each other in what had happened in our lives over the last 12 years. We both laughed and smiled as we recalled the good times and the great experiences we had ______ together. At the end of our time together, we both said how much we had ______ it and that we must do it again.

It was great to have this additional time to replay in my ____ all that we had talked about. I realized how important it was to have regular_____ of the good times in our life. I was lucky enough to have had the chance to take a short ______ and reflect on the good things that had happened in my life over the last 12 years.

It was somewhat like looking at an old photo album ______ in a cupboard in your house. There before your eyes were lots of wonderful _______ that take you back to times and places, and most importantly to those people who were in the ______.

My flight home was finally ____ three hours later. I smiled as I _____ the plane and realized that I was not at all ______ about the delay in the flight, as I had been able to spend the time ____ on the good times from days gone by.

1.A.important B.busy C.convenient D.useful

2.A.pleasant B.satisfying C.happy D.extra

3.A.had B.failed C.needed D.managed

4.A.announcement B.declaration C.opening D.speech

5.A.waited B.cancelled C.taken D.delayed

6.A.flight B.turn C.name D.order

7.A.negotiation(谈判) B.lunch C.party D.discussion

8.A.as well B.except for C.as well as D.in addition

9.A.spent B.met C.managed D.shared

10.A.got B.enjoyed C.made D.paid

11.A.heart B.spirit C.flight D.mind

12.A.time B.plans C.reminders D.remainder

13.A.way B.cut C.method D.break

14.A.stored away B.put on C.set aside D.given out

15.A.celebrations B.memories C.awards D.presents

16.A.cupboard B.books C.childhood D.photos

17.A.shouted B.phoned C.called D.commanded

18.A.left B.boarded C.jumped D.reached

19.A.upset B.happy C.crazy D.surprised

20.A.taking B.seizing C.reflecting D.bringing

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