Plan to get to the airport at least an hour early, or two during holidays and other busy times; this will reduce the stress of the flight. If all goes well, you will have time to relax, shop for last-minute items, or have a meal before the flight.
Flight Delays
Find out why your flight is delayed. Call the free call numbers. Find out if other airlines are experiencing similar delays. If you believe the delay is due to something other than weather or air traffic problems, then mention your suspicion (怀疑) and ask the airline agent to book you on the next available flight, either on the same air-line or a competing one. This is called "Rule 240", and all airlines are required to do it.
Flight Cancellations (取消)
If your flight is canceled, then make a reservation(预订)on the next flight to your destination. Usually, air-line personnel(职员) will try to book everyone on their next flight. Often they will put you on a competitor's next flight only if you request it.
If on-time arrival is important to you, when you check flights through our reservation system you can rate your choices based on their on-time arrival records. Be sure to also check the weather conditions, as they often affect flight schedules.
1. A person goes to the airport ahead of time mainly to _______.

A．buy what he wants in the airport

B．have a good rest in the airplane

C．get on the airplane immediately

D．reduce the pressure of the flight

2. If a person calls "Rule 240", he wants to _______.

A．ask the reason for the plane delay

B．make sure the time for the next plane

C．know if other flights' delays happen

D．change for the ticket to the next flight

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

A．Unpleasant travels	B．Dangerous flights
C．Airport travel tips	D．Busy airport

La Gomera is the only place in the world that has a whistle language. We do not know how and why it began because we do not know the complete history of the island. But we can certainly imagine the reasons for the beginning of the whistle language. There are many deep valleys on the island. A person on one side of a valley can not easily shout to a person on the other side. But he can whistle and be heard. Some of the best whistlers can be heard from four miles away and the record is seven miles.
The people who live on the island usually have good teeth, and this helps them to whistle well. They must also have good ears so that they can hear other whistlers.
We can understand why the whistle language continues. It is very useful on the island, and quite easy to learn. When somebody is hurt or ill, the whistle language takes the place of telephone. If the sick person is quite far away from the town, people pass the message from one to another. A boy guarding cattle on a hillside whistles to a man fishing from his boat. The last one is able to describe the trouble fully and exactly to the doctor in town. People help one another in the same way when a car breaks down or a cow is lost.
The whistle language is hundreds of years old, and probably it will continue to live on for hundreds of years more. Radio and TV often kill the special ways of speaking in different parts of a country. But on La Gomera you are nobody if you cannot whistle. Perhaps soon after TV arrives on the island, people there will be whistling the news and other facts and opinions.
4. If a person on La Gomera is ill, ______.

A．the whistle language will help pass the message to the doctor

B．people will take him to town by carriage

C．his family will take him to the hospital

D．others will phone the doctor in town

5. La Gomera is special because ______.

A．we don’t know its complete history

B．people have to shout if they want to communicate

C．people there have good teeth and ears

D．people there use the whistle language to communicate with each other

6. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The whistle language has been used for hundreds of years on the island, but will not beused any longer.

B．The whistle language can only be found on La Gomera.

C．It is not easy for a person to live on La Gomera if he cannot whistle.

D．The record shows that one best whistler can be heard by others from seven miles away.

7. Which of the following will be the best title of this passage?

A．The Secret Language

B．Do You Know the Whistle Language?

C．The Life of Islanders

D．La Gomera－a Mystery

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The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question, “Which is more important, law or Dove?”

Job applicants in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China.

Employers want people skilled, enthusiastic and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response, employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality.

The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Keirsey Personality Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know. This is often called an aptitude test (能力倾向测验).

According to Mark Baldwin many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.

This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma. Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest. But they fail because they don’t understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is always the honest answer.

8. The writer wrote the passage to________.

A．give you a piece of advice on a job interview	B．tell you how to meet a job interviewer
C．describe the aptitude test	D．advice you how to find a job

9. Why do the interviewers ask such questions?

A．They want to discover what the interviewees know.

B．They are curious about the answers.

C．They try to discover the ability of the interviewees solving problems.

D．They just ask questions without thinking much.

10. According to the writer, in an aptitude test, Chinese job applicants should________.

A．not tell the truth	B．learn to tell what they really think
C．be more enthusiastic	D．try to find out what the examiner really want to know

11. From the passage we know that________.

A．job applicants are always asked such questions

B．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job

C．applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner

D．the aptitude test is becoming popular worldwide

More than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are drunk throughout the world each day, and it's likely that many taste bitter. Now, a new study suggests that coffee fans can make their drink sweeter by changing the color of their cups.
Researchers from Oxford set out to prove whether the claim that coffee drunk from a white cup tastes bitter was true. They used 36 volunteers and three different colored cups---blue, white and transparent glass--- to examine the claim.
In one experiment, the white cup increased the intensity (浓度) of the coffee taste relative to the transparent cup. Then, in a second experiment, coffee drunk from the white cup was found to taste less sweet when compared to the other colored cups,             while the blue cup made the coffee taste the sweetest.
The scientists believe that the color brown may be associated with bitterness, and coffee in a white cup appears the brownest. “Our study clearly shows that the color of a cup does influence our sense of the coffee taste,” leading author Dr George             Doorn, wrote in an article for The Conversation. “The effect of the color of the cup on the taste of the coffee reported here suggests that cafe owners should carefully consider the color of their cups,” he said. “The potential effects may spell             the difference between a one-time purchase and a return customer.” Actually, the idea that color can change the food and drink taste came out many years ago. A study published last year reported that red, strawberry-flavored cake served on a white             plate was rated as 10 percent sweeter than the same food presented on a black plate.
12. The passage is mainly about _____.

A．the popularity of sweet coffee.

B．an experiment made in Oxford.

C．the effect of cup color on coffee's taste

D．useful tips on how to make coffee.

13. In which cup will coffee taste the sweetest?

A．A white cup.	B．A blue cup.
C．A transparent cup	D．A brown cup

14. Café owners should consider their cups' color in order to ______.

A．reduce the daily expenses

B．show their taste in coffee

C．appeal to more customers

D．make their café different.

15. We learn from the passage that_____.

A．coffee in a white cup tastes sweeter than that in a transparent glass

B．over 2 billion cups of sweet coffee are drunk worldwide each year.

C．Dr. George Doorn wrote an article about making conversations.

D．the idea that color could affect the taste of drink is not new.