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NANJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou will shake hands in their historic meeting scheduled in Singapore on Saturday, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday.

The two-part meeting includes one session open to the media and another behind closed doors, said Zhang Zhijun, who is also head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, when interviewed at the Zijinshan Summit for Entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait.

According to Zhang, Xi and Ma, as "leaders of the two sides" of the Taiwan Strait, will exchange views during the closed-door meeting.

After the meeting, press conferences will be held by both sides. Later, the two leaders are expected to attend a dinner, said Zhang.

Zhang said the meeting will lift cross-Strait communication to a new high.

The landmark meeting is a breakthrough in face-to-face exchange and communication between the leaders across the Taiwan Strait after the relationship became strained following the events of 1949.

Zhang said the meeting will improve mutual trust and allow for an exchange of opinions on handling the cross-Strait ties.

In addition, the meeting will help strengthen the 1992 Consensus(识), which was reached in talks between the two sides in 1992 and recognizes the one-China principle, and safeguards the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties, according to Zhang.

Zhang added that the scheduled meeting will also benefit regional peace and stability.

Also at Wednesday's summit, Chiang Pin-kung, former chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation, hailed the upcoming meeting between the two leaders as a milestone for cross-Strait ties.

Chiang told the media that he believed the meeting will give a boost to the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.

28. According to the article, the meeting of the two leaders will _____.

A. be held at the Zijinshan Summit for Entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait

B. be the first face-to-face communication between people across the Taiwan Strait

C.  be all open to the media

D. improve mutual trust and benefit regional peace and development

29. Which of the following statements about the 1992 Consensus is not true?

A. It was reached in 1992.

B. It recognizes the one-China principle.

C.  It is an agreement between China and Japan.

D. It safeguards the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.

30. Which of the following can best substitute the word “hailed” in the last paragraph but one?

A. was impressed with             B. sang high praise for

C. was concerned about   D. got well prepared for

31. Which might be the right sequence(顺序) of the following events?

a. The two leaders shake hands in front of the media.

b. The two leaders hold press conferences.

c. The two leaders exchange views during the closed-door meeting.

d. The two leaders have dinner together.

A. a; b; c; d                        B.   b; a; c; d

C. a; d; b; c                        D.  a; c; b; d

D

The bed should be reserved as a place for sleep, but people tend to read an iPad a lot in bed before they go to sleep.

Charles Czeisler, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues got a small group of people for an experiment. For five days in a row, the people read either a paper book or an iPad for four hours before sleep. Their sleep patterns were monitored all night. Before and after each trial period, the people took hourly blood tests to paint a day-long picture of just how much melatonin (褪黑激素) was in their blood at any given time.

When subjects read on the iPad as compared to the paper books, they reported feeling less sleepy at night and less active the following morning. People also took longer to fall asleep on the iPad nights, and the blood tests showed that their melatonin secretion (分泌) was delayed by an hour and a half.

The researchers conclude in today's journal article that given the rise of e-readers and the increasingly widespread use of e-things among children and adolescents, more research into the long-term consequences of these devices on health and safety is urgently needed. Czeisler and colleagues go on, in the research paper, to note：“Reading an iPad in bed may increase cancer risk.”

However, software has been developed that can reduce some of the blue light from the screens of phones and computers according to time of day, and there are also glasses that are made to filter (过滤) short wavelengths. While they seem like a logical solution for the nighttime tech users, it needs more research.

32. In Charles Czeislers experiment, all the subjects were asked to______.

A. have their sleep patterns observed all night

B. sit in a row and receive the strict tests

C. read a paper book and an iPad at the same time

D. have their blood tested per hour during the trial

33. The third paragraph tells us the iPad readers were likely to____________.

A. feel less sleepy and tired in the day     B. become less energetic the next morning

C. fall asleep more easily after reading D. have a lot more melatonin secretion

34. The special software recently developed can______.

A. weaken the harm done by doing nighttime e-reading

B. help prevent eyes being harmed by short wavelength

C. remove the blue light from your devices completely

D. be used in all the e-things widely and safely

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

A. Wrong behaviors before bedtime  B. New software for night e-readers

C. No e-reading in bed before sleep D. No games on iPad in bed