Leeds Castle is in Kent, England. 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Maidstone. It is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the cast of the village of Leeds. It has been open to the public since 1976.
Opening time: April to September. 10:00—18:00 October to March: 10:00~17:00 Tickets：Tickets are valid for one year from date of purchase giving free repeat visits to the Castle, grounds and attractions. Excludes special ticketed events and Christmas Day.
Adult tickets: ￡24 single
Child tickets: ￡16 single (4~15 years old)
Kid ticket: free (under 4)
Transportation:
Coach or express: National Express from London to Leeds Castle directly
Train: Any train from southern cities to Bearsted. transfer by Spot Travel to Leeds Castle. 15 minutes' ride, goes by each hour.
The Upstairs Tour: Thursday 21st April, 11:30am
See the State bedrooms, not normally on show to the public. Hear about the guests of the roaring 1920s. see the bedroom where Edward and Simpson stayed and where Pavarotti was accommodated during his visit.
Price: ￡5 per person. A valid entrance ticket is required per person
Embroidery (刺绣）Taster Workshop: Sunday 5th June, 10:30am
Learn the basics with expert supervision from members of the Embroiderers Association and sew your own small piece of embroidery to lake home and frame to turn into a cushion or handmade greeting card.
Price: ￡20 per person.
A valid entrance ticket is required per person. Includes refreshments and all materials.
1. How much should an adult with a child pay to enter Leeds Castle?

A．￡10.

B．￡24.

C．￡16.

D．￡40.

2. What can visitors see during the Upstairs Tour?

A．Pavarotti.	B．The State bedrooms.
C．A show.	D．Artworks.

3. To visit the Embroidery Taster Workshop, you have to_      .

A．get an entrance ticket

B．show your greeting card

C．know about embroidery

D．join an association

Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer (零售商) who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's. Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department scores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, “The customer is always right,” which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have invented the phrase “Only [so many] Shopping Days until Christmas”.
When he visited London on holiday in 1906 he was surprised to find most of the city's department stores were no match of their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges. a department store named after him. at the west end of London's Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridge's design team shaped an ambitious classical palacc building with a wall of plate glass windows.
Opened in 1909, Selfridges offered customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first aid room and. most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being thoroughly instructed in the art of making a sale.
Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and comprehensively stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key element of the 20th Century culture, and Chaplin acknowledged the growing trend for shopping in the department store in his film The Floorwalker.
4. What can be learned about Mr. Selfridge from Paragraph I ?

A．lie was well-educated.

B．He was a gifted businessman.

C．He was a modest man.

D．He was dishonest.

5. What made Selfridge build a department store in London?

A．The large population in London.

B．His desire to own a department store.

C．His confidence in business success.

D．Affection for London architecture.

6. What was Selfridges' most impressive characteristic?

A．The number of departments.

B．The broad choice of goods.

C．The small group of guards.

D．The well-trained sales guides.

7. What is the main purpose of the article?

A．To introduce the history of Selfridge .

B．To compare different department stores.

C．To encourage readers to spend more.

D．To explain how to start a department store.

Top chefs aren’t known for their friendly character. Assistants who overcook food by ten seconds usually struggle to get out of the kitchen alive. My father was a top chef. We’d had a stormy relationship for years, but I decided to follow in his footsteps anyway, and train as a chef. It was better than the dead-end I ‘d reach with the job I’d been doing.
After three years, I became head chef in a restaurant called The Tortoise. As the boss, I made important decision but if anything went wrong, I was the one who should take the responsibility. Experiencing the sweaty kitchens, I learned why my father was the way he was. When I began, ______________________---I just wanted a regular job—but soon I realized my career was taking off. The rich and famous started to visit the restaurant and eventually came the time when I had to decide about my future: I could either open my own restaurant or go and work for one of the big ones. Then life made the decision for me. My father tried and I got his job.
On my first day, I received an unfriendly welcome. No one would talk to me. What made it worse was that I was ill—I had a cold , and my hands were shaking as I went into the kitchen. I held my breath, stood up in front of everyone and said, My name is Leah Kleist. You all know my father. whether you loved him or hated him, I don’t care. He is the past. Now let’s get to work. And we did.
8. What will happen to assistants who overcook food?

A．They got punished	B．They eat the food
C．They get some advice	D．They get fired

9. Why did the author decide to work as a chef?

A．It was his favorite	B．It was a better job.
C．He was forced to	D．He lost his job.

10. What does the underline part tell us about the author?

A．He knew little about the job.

B．He misunderstood his father

C．He didn’t have a clear goal.

D．He had a very poor eyesight.

11. What caused the staff’s unfriendly attitude towards the author?

A．His lack of experience

B．His poor health condition

C．Their impression of is father

D．Their envy at his success

Where do you keep ice? In die freezer, of course. That’s what scientists might have thought when they were looking for a safe place to store ice from mountain glaciers from around the world. They’ve decided to store ice in Antarctica because global warming is causing some of the glaciers in places like the Alps to melt.

Jerome Chappellaz of the French National Centre for Scientific Research is involved in creating an ice vault (地下室) there. He says: “We are probably the only scientific community whose sample (样本) is in danger of disappearing from the face of the planet. If you work on rocks or on tree rings, the raw material is still here and will be for many centuries.”

And why do scientists need to study ice from the Alps, for example? Ice formed on the top of a mountain is made of snow accumulated over thousands of years. Trapped air bubbles (气泡) contain samples of the atmosphere that existed when that ice was formed. Ice is a record of climate. By examining ice, we know carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher now than in the last three million years. Researchers use this kind of data to build computer models and try to predict what might happen in the future.

The ice vault will be housed in a snow cave at the Concordia Research Station, which is operated by scientists from France and Italy. The ice samples will be sealed in bags and placed 10 meters below the surface. at a constant temperature of -50℃. This will put the scientists’ minds at rest. Losing the ice samples would be a disaster, and nobody wants to see a mine of scientific knowledge lost forever in a giant pool.

12. What makes Antarctica a safe place to store ice?

A．Its large mountains.

B．Its function as a freezer.

C．The abundant ice samples there.

D．The absence of global warming.

13. Jerome compares ice with rocks and tree rings to state that_     .

A．it’s necessary to store ice

B．it’s more valuable to study ice

C．ice disappears very quickly

D．ice should be stored at home

14. What is the researchers’ purpose of studying ice?

A．To learn about climate.

B．To learn about the Alps.

C．To trap air bubbles.

D．To reduce carbon dioxide.

15. What do scientists think of storing ice in Antarctica?

A．They consider it an easy job.

B．They’re not optimistic about it.

C．They think it will cause disasters.

D．They think it’s a reliable way.