Shawn Dromgoole is a 29-year-old black man who has lived in the same neighborhood his entire life. His family has been in the neighborhood for 54 years. But Dromgoole said that since he was a child, he felt an unease in his hometown, strongly aware that few people looked like him.
“Growing up in my neighborhood, I could always feel the eyes, the looks and the cars slowing down as they passed by me, ” said Dromgoole, who was recently told to stay away from his job temporarily because of the epidemic (疫情) .
As a young man, Dromgoole watched from his window as the neighborhood gradually changed before his eyes: Black families moved out and white families moved in. With each passing year, he felt more and more unwelcome, he said.
Those feelings grew in recent weeks when he heard about Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was out jogging in Georgia when he was shot to death, and then George Floyd, a black man killed while in police custody (羁押) in Minneapolis. “What happened to these men could easily happen to me,” said Dromgoole. “I became scared to walk past my porch.”
There were also frequent postings on Nextdoor, an app that connects neighbors, warning residents to look out for “suspicious black men,” he said. Filled with fear, Dromgoole took to Facebook and Nextdoor, deciding to finally share his own post. “Yesterday, I wanted to walk around my neighborhood but the fear of not returning home to my family alive kept me on my front porch,” he wrote.
Unexpectedly, responses from his community started pouring in. Neighbors, none of whom Dromgoole had ever spoken with, asked if they could join him on a walk. “Neighbor, after neighbor, after neighbor started reaching out, telling me they wanted to walk with me,” he said.
Last Thursday afternoon, Dromgoole notified his neighbors that he was going for a walk at 6 p. m, and anyone who wanted to join him was welcome.
Dromgoole tied his shoes, ventured (冒险) off his porch and walked to the meeting spot in a nearby parking lot.
There he found 75 people waiting for him.
1. According to the passage,which of the following is NOT true?| A．Dromgoole lives in the same neighborhood for a long time. |
| B．Dromgoole was out of work recently at his advanced age. |
| C．Dromgoole felt anxious and unwelcome in his hometown. |
| D．Dromgoole’s neighborhood has changed a lot before his eyes. |
| A．The racial discrimination(歧视)is in existence in Dromgool’s country. |
| B．People who were out jogging in Georgia is likely to be shot. |
| C．The police in Minneapolis has no right to kill people. |
| D．The human rights should be respected in Dromgool’s country. |
| A．persuade his neighbors to walk with him |
| B．show his will to make friends with others |
| C．express his fear of probably being hurt |
| D．promote the development of his community |
| A．amazed | B．frightened |
| C．puzzled | D．indifferent |
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【推荐1】Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child, but researchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills.
Psychologist Susan Levine, an expert on mathematics development in young children at the University of Chicago, found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills. Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition(认知) after controlling for differences in parents’ income, education and the amount of parent talk, Levine said.
The researchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during everyday activities at home and found children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills when assessed at 54 months of age.
“The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate(旋转)and translate shapes,” Levine said in a statement.
The parents were asked to interact with their children as they normally would, and about half of children in the study played with puzzles at one time. Higher-income parents tended to have children play with puzzles more frequently, and both boys and girls who played with puzzles had better spatial skills. However, boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls, and the parents of boys provided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than parents of girls.
The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science.
1. In which aspect do children benefit from puzzle play?| A．Building confidence. | B．Developing spatial skills. |
| C．Learning self-control. | D．Gaining high-tech knowledge. |
| A．Parents’ age. | B．Children’s imagination. |
| C．Parents’ education. | D．Child-parent relationship. |
| A．They play with puzzles more often. |
| B．They tend to talk less during the game. |
| C．They prefer to use more spatial language. |
| D．They are likely to play with tougher puzzles. |
| A．A mathematical method. | B．A scientific study. |
| C．A woman psychologist | D．A teaching program. |
【推荐2】In the early 1980s, one of our neighbors asked my mom if she would make a few gift baskets for her to give as gifts for the holidays. My mom agreed and news of the unique gift baskets my mum was making spread like wildfire throughout the neighborhood. My mum was busy throughout the holiday season, so she asked a friend to help her. When the orders continued after the holiday season for baby gifts, birthday gifts and more, it occurred to them that maybe this job could be turned into a business and they did it.
My mum went into her business because she had a creative idea. She got orders and filled orders. But there was no purpose and no real strategy(策略). In 1991, my mum' s partner got into financial trouble and there was not enough money to support either my mum or her partner.
So if you are led by your creativity or enthusiasm, make sure you ask yourself what you want out of your business. If you don't set goals, how will you know what direction to go in? Do you want to create jobs and growth in the economy? Are you looking for a hobby? You can't keep scores if you don' t know what game you are playing.
After my mom's partner gave up, she had to abandon(抛弃) her business to support herself. She swore（ 发誓） she would run a business again and do it differently the next time. However, there wasn't a "next time" for her. She passed away just after her 51st birthday. She never had someone tell her how important having a goal was. She never had an opportunity to be everything that she could be.
There are no right or wrong goals, only the ones that matter to you. Set them so that you can make progress and achieve success, whatever that may mean to you.
1. The author's mum started her own business after she .| A．got continuous orders with her friend |
| B．cooperated with one of her neighbors |
| C．advertised her products in the neighborhood |
| D．designed unique gift baskets for the holidays |
| A．enthusiasm | B．imagination |
| C．intelligence | D．consideration |
| A．hoped to restart it after her 51st birthday | B．wanted to find a different partner |
| C．reflected on her failure | D．didn’t work any more |
| A．creativity | B．opportunities |
| C．goals | D．partners |
【推荐3】Maybe it’s because it was our first purchase as homeowners. The salesman must have spotted just how green we were, so he began persuading. And soon he led us to a classic leather chair. All these years later, I remember he used words like handsome, useful and the thing every living room needed.
We believed him. So we bought that chair just less than $ 100, a great deal in the 1970s for a young couple!
How we loved that chair! It always occupied a place of honor in our various living rooms, moving with us from our first tiny house to our beloved new house.
Somehow, conversations were better on that chair, and life was more fun around it. Three daughters spilled their secrets on it. Old friends seemed to be attracted by it on those wonderful occasions. Crazy as it sounds, that leather chair seemed to have—well, powers. All for good.
At first, we didn’t really care that the leather was showing signs of wear or that it had lost its sheen (光泽). But in our most recent move, when the chair was moved in our new living room, it suddenly looked terribly lonely sitting close to newly painted walls and a couple of shiny new tables.
My husband and I tried but still we couldn’t ignore the rough spots. Our chair had a skin disease. Even our adult kids raised eyebrows, urging us to at least remove the chair to some dark comer of the room. Neither of us could imagine such a retirement for it.
So we had an idea. We’d call in an upholsterer (修理工)to give our old chair a whole new life. Our friend Joe studied the chair and then took out a simple leather conditioner. He explained that although it wouldn’t work miracles, it would definitely get our weary chair looking younger again. It certainly doesn’t look new, but its seat and back are shining, and some of its deeper wrinkles have lightened.
Best of all, it’s back in the living room, looking like a wise old friend to the furniture around it. And, yes, there it will stay. Because some things, like some people, just deserve a happy old age.
1. How did the salesman persuade the author into buying the chair?| A．By thinking highly of the author. | B．By describing how great the chair was. |
| C．By saying that the author was green. | D．By comparing the chair with others. |
| A．Family activities and parties of friends. | B．Various functions of the chair. |
| C．Sweet memories with the chair. | D．People’s comments on the chair. |
| A．Because she was persuaded by Joe. | B．Because she didn’t have enough money. |
| C．Because it showed signs of damage. | D．Because it couldn’t match her new house. |
| A．Old friends and wine are best. | B．From saving comes having. |
| C．It is never too late to mend. | D．East or west, home is best. |
【推荐1】The UK will ban all new petrol and diesel-powered vehicles from its roads beginning in 19 years for environmental reasons, a government report says.
The plan aims to start removing petrol and diesel engines in 2040. It follows a similar official statement in France and comes after the British government was ordered by the High Court to develop new plans to reduce NO2 in the air. Judges ruled that previous clean-air plans were not enough to meet European Union pollution limits in the coming years.
The British government has said the poor air quality has an unnecessary and avoidable negative effect on citizens’ health, and costs up to $3.5 billion in annual lost productivity.
Part of the new plan involves an offer of $260 million to local governments to change rules where vehicle emissions (排放量) are over EU standards. Ideas so far include changing road layouts, reprogramming traffic lights and charging a fee for the oldest and most polluting cars on the road.
The plan also includes $1.3 billion for government purchase of extreme-low-emission vehicles, nearly $130 million to improve infrastructure for electric vehicle charging stations and $378 million for remodeling existing vehicles.
Climate change is also a reason for the plan to get these vehicles off the road. “We can’t carry on with petrol and diesel cars,” Environment Secretary Michael Gove said. “It’s important that we all prepare for a significant change which deals not just with the problems of health caused by emissions, but the broader problems caused in terms of accelerating climate change.”
Gove added that local communities are partly responsible for coming up with ways to limit emissions, including possible limitations on commuters (上下班往返的人) and the addition of cleaner mass transportation options. Local leaders are called on to draw up “appropriate plans” to deal with climate challenges related to emissions, he said.
1. Why does the British government decide on this ban?| A．To focus on its citizens’ health. | B．To promote solar energy in transport. |
| C．To respond to the court’s request. | D．To follow in France’s footsteps. |
| A．Limiting the number of traffic lights. |
| B．Changing the way roads are arranged. |
| C．Spending some money on electric vehicles. |
| D．Removing old and high-emission vehicles. |
| A．Convenient public transportation is badly needed. |
| B．Petrol and diesel cars may hold back economic progress. |
| C．Vehicle emissions are the key factor in climate change. |
| D．United efforts are required to achieve the plan. |
| A．Practical ways to reduce vehicle emissions. |
| B．The UK plans to take petrol and diesel engines off roads. |
| C．The EU forces the UK to improve the poor air quality. |
| D．Relationship between vehicle emissions and climate change. |
【推荐2】Marcelo Toledo usually creates sculptures and jewelry out of metal. Now the Argentine artist is working with a new material: waste from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as masks, to create an exhibition exploring the painful impact of the virus.
Toledo, who has made jewelry for the musical “Evita” on Broadway and unique pieces for many famous people, was among the first in Argentina to be infected with COVID-19, which left him hospitalized for eight days. The experience had a great effect on his life and led to a series of artworks, including a 14-meter mask with the Argentine flag that he placed on the famous obelisk (方尖纪念碑) in Buenos Aires to raise awareness about organ donation during the pandemic.
For his new exhibition, the “Museum of the After”, Toledo is collecting recycled waste from the COVID-19 sent by hospitals, laboratories and strangers, including old medical parts and newspapers about the pandemic.
“I am excited to be able to turn pain into beauty and this exhibition is just recording everything that is happening to us as a society,” Toledo said. The artworks, which will go on show from September in a public space in downtown Buenos Aires, will all be made from waste materials or garbage that people send him. “It is the first time that I have done an exhibition in which I do not have to buy any of the elements,” he said.
In the exhibition, there will be a real ship that will symbolically cross a “storm” and recycling islands to raise awareness about the importance of caring for the environment. “The exhibition will tell the story of this ship that went sailing and was stranded (搁浅) by a storm, which is a great metaphor for what is happening to us. This pandemic is a great global storm,” Toledo said.
As with the huge mask, which was in countries such as the United States and Japan, the artist dreams of replicating (复制) the new exhibition in other cities around the world.
1. What inspired Toledo to make the 14-meter mask?| A．Organ donation. | B．His hospital stay. |
| C．The encouragement from his friends. | D．His Broadway experiences. |
| A．It was first exhibited in hospitals. |
| B．Toledo had to buy elements to make the artworks. |
| C．It was replicated in other countries around the world. |
| D．The artworks were made from rubbish about the pandemic. |
| A．People’s irresponsible behaviour leads to natural disasters. |
| B．People’s awareness of environmental protection is improving. |
| C．The COVID-19 pandemic is a big challenge for our human beings now. |
| D．People from all over the world should work together to defeat the pandemic. |
| A．A newspaper. | B．A history book. |
| C．A travel magazine. | D．A science magazine. |
【推荐3】Joe Seaman-Graves is the city planner for the small town of Cohoes, New York. He was in search of a less costly way of providing electricity to the town. There was no extra land to build on. But Cohoes does have a nearly 6-hectare reservoir (水库).
Seaman-Graves learned that the town’s reservoir could hold enough solar panels (面板) to power all city buildings. And that would save the city more than $500,000 each year.
Floating solar panel projects have seen quick growth as a new form of clean energy in the United States and Asia. Floating solar panels are sought after not just for their clean power, but also because they save water by preventing evaporation (蒸发).
A recent study found that more than 6,000 cities in 124 countries could potentially produce all of their electricity demand using floating solar panels. It also found that the panels could spare the cities enough water each year to fill 40 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The idea of floating solar panels is simple: attach panels on structures that float on water. The panels serve as a cover that reduces evaporation to nearly zero. The water keeps the panels cool. This permits them to produce power more effectively than land-based panels, which lose efficiency when they get too hot.
One of the floating solar farms in the U.S. is the 4.8-megawatt project in Healdsburg, California. It was built by the company Ciel & Terre, which has built 270 projects in 30 countries. Floating solar panels cost 10 to 15 percent more than land solar ones at first. But the technology saves money in the long term. Deeper water can increase setup costs, and the technology cannot operate on fast-moving water, on the open ocean or on coastlines with very large waves.
Problems can come up if the solar panels cover too much of a water body’s surface. That could change the water temperature and harm underwater life. But Seaman-Graves said he believes his town’s floating solar panel project can serve as an example for other American cities.
1. Why does the author mention “no extra land” in paragraph 1?| A．To show what is needed to build a reservoir. |
| B．To stress the necessity to build floating solar panels. |
| C．To indicate the shortage of land in big cities. |
| D．To stress the difficulty the city planner face in their work. |
| A．Making more electricity. | B．Keeping water still. |
| C．Avoiding natural disasters. | D．Protecting wildlife better. |
| A．Fast-moving water. | B．Calm and not very deep water. |
| C．Open oceans. | D．Coastlines with large waves. |
| A．Making Good Use of Water Surface |
| B．Argument About Floating Solar Panels |
| C．Bad Effects Caused by Floating Solar Panels |
| D．Floating Solar Panels Becoming Popular |
【推荐1】Scientific research gives new explanations to a very old relationship.
Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behaviour Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet. By John Bradshaw. Basic Books; 324 pages; $25.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Dogs seem to have been our beloved companions since there was written history. It is hard to be precise(精确地) about when the friendship began, but a reasonable guess is that it has been going strong for more than 20,000 years. For John Bradshaw, a biologist who founded the anthrozoology department(the place known as human-non-human-animal studies) at the University of Bristol, having some idea about how dogs got to be dogs is the first step towards gaining a better understanding of human-dog relationship. It is generally accepted that dogs were raised by human beings from wolves. However, Bradshaw’s research refuted the wrong ideas about the close relationship of dogs to wolves and the mistakes that this has led to, especially in the training of dogs over the past century or so.
Dogs are not like nicely brought-up wolves, says the author, nor are they much like people despite their excellent ability to enter our lives and our hearts. However, dogs have a distinguish talent: they experience and react to the world through their extraordinary sense of smell: their sensitivity to smells is between 10,000 and 100,000 times greater than ours. And their trainability allow dogs to perform almost unimaginable tasks, such as smelling the early stages of a cancer long before a normal medical diagnosis(诊断) would discover it.
The latest scientific research can help dogs and their owners have happier, healthier relationships by encouraging people to understand dogs better. But Mr. Bradshaw is also fearful. In particular, he fears the incestuous（近亲繁殖）narrowing of the gene pool that modern breeders have brought about. He also worries that the increasing urbanization of society and the pressures on couples to work long hours are putting dogs under huge stress.
“Dog Sense” is neither a report nor a description of the joys of dog-ownership. At times its use of research data can be slightly difficult to understand. But this is a wonderfully informative, instructive book that will do good to every dog whose owner reads it.
1. What’s the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 3?| A．Proved | B．Disagreed | C．Described | D．Explained |
| A．Dogs and wolves are close relatives. |
| B．Some dogs can smell early stage cancers. |
| C．The relationship between dogs and humans has a long history. |
| D．Dog may suffer from depression. |
| A．to introduce something about dogs |
| B．to present the result of a book |
| C．to change people’s attitude towards dogs |
| D．to advertise a book about dogs |
| A．Boring | B．Interesting | C．Useful | D．Hard |
【推荐2】Michael was a good boy. He was hardworking but shy, so he had no friends at school. James was a new student in his class.Other students soon got on well with him except Micheal.
One day,some boys put some money into Micheal's bag and one of them pretended(假装) to have lost his money. Of course, they found the money in Micheal's bag at last.
Michael felt it shameful, but he could not say anything about it. Soon his classmates called him a thief and laughed at him at school.His teachers also believed he stole the money and called his parents to the school. Just then, James stood out and helped Michael make everything clear.
From that day on, Michael and James became good friends. James often took Michael to take part in activities and Michael became active. Michael often helped James with his math. Then Michael got more friends, and he even became the monitor in his class.
1. Michael had no friends at school because________．| A．he was a new student | B．he couldn't get on well with James |
| C．he was shy | D．he worked very hard |
| A．害怕的 | B．高兴的 | C．伤心的 | D．可耻的 |
| A．James | B．some boys | C．his teacher | D．his parents |
| A．music | B．math | C．science | D．English |
| A．The classmates were angry with James. |
| B．Michael was still very shy. |
| C．James was a good monitor. |
| D．Finally，Michael could get on well with his classmates. |
【推荐3】What do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia（百科全书）? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?
There’s no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. It’s one of the most comprehensive resources available which includes almost all details, facts and information that may be concerned. It’s got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you don’t need any formal training.
Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for harmful comments（such as politicians）are off-limits to public editing. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isn’t easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, it’s also open to “vandals”（恣意破坏公共财物者）.
Some of the damage is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gate’s photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Plato’s biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of ‘Barney the purple Dinosaur’”.
But other things are harder to spot. The most common form of vandalism（恣意破坏公共财物罪） involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the dirty tricks. For example, in an article about British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynn’s wartime hit. There’ll be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. He did no such thing. And in other article, it was reported that TV Theme tune composer Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7’s hit Reach again, not true. So, if you’re going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double- check it first.
1. According to the passage, which of the following statements about Wikipedia is true?| A．The primary job of the administrators is to guarantee information conveyed is accurate. |
| B．Wikipedia is updated daily so it is the most comprehensive resources available. |
| C．Wikipedia is sure to be attacked because too many people are using it. |
| D．Whoever has access to the Internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like. |
| A．information about famous people is likely to be inaccurate. |
| B．all items of false information are not easy to get spotted. |
| C．however famous the papers are, they will be cheated. |
| D．you can never be careful enough while updating information online. |
| A．Objective. | B．Critical. | C．Satisfied | D．Supportive |
| A．The Most Reliable Online Encyclopedia |
| B．Why Is Wikipedia So Popular? |
| C．An Online Encyclopedia With Advantages And Disadvantages |
| D．How Dose Wikipedia Help You? |
【推荐1】In 1918, my wife’s grandfather Karel Bondy, a Czech officer was on his way back to the barracks one evening when he encountered a drunk German colonel. Karel asked the officer whether he needed help. It turned out he was lost. So Karel took the colonel back to his tent.
When they arrived, the colonel insisted they have a drink together. At the end of the night the colonel decided to reward Karel with an Iron Cross for his act of kindness. Naturally, Karel protested, but his refusal was to no avail. Not only did the colonel stop him giving it back, but he handed a certificate to him. “Now it’s official, ” he said.
In 1939, the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Realizing he and his family were in mortal danger, Karel planned to relocate the family to England. But to leave he needed four exit visas, so he submitted his application to the German authorities and awaited an interview.
However, one afternoon two Gestapo officers turned up at his house. Accusing Karel of being a British spy, the officers ransacked his home looking for secret documents, only to find the Iron Cross. “How did you get this?” one officer demanded. “I got it for bravery during the First World War,” Karel replied, showing them the certificate with his name on it. The two officers marvelled at the medal they both longed for. “How much do you want for it?” the other officer demanded. At this point, Karel had to think on his feet. Should he trade the Iron Cross for the exit visas?
“Tm sorry, but l cannot part with it. I was proud to serve my country and l accepted that on behalf of the men in my unit.” This speech impressed the officers. Their attitude began to change and even tried to clean up the mess they'd made. Rubber stamps and ink pads were quickly produced and the exit documents were authorised.
Eventually, Karel and his family left for England, and started a new life there.
1. What does the underlined phrase “to no avail” in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．Unavailable. | B．Unbearable. | C．Worthless. | D．Useless. |
| A．To search for the Iron Cross. | B．To find the evidence of Karel as a spy. |
| C．To check if Karel had fought in WWI. | D．To offer the exit visas. |
| A．Faithful and modest. | B．Courageous and enthusiastic. |
| C．Warm-hearted and smart. | D．Generous and adaptable. |
| A．A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
| B．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
| C．A good heart conquers ill fortune. |
| D．Keep your friends close and enemies closer. |
【推荐2】A week into the stay-at-home order. I longed for connection. But not the kind available from a screen. Inside my wallet I found 10 stamps, and I put out a tweet: “Today I am going to write letters to send through the post. Direct message me your snail mail address if you want a random letter.”
On the first day, I wrote to strangers in Arizona, California, Missouri, New York, Texas and Washington. The next day, I wrote to an 11-year-old who was born in Plano, Texas, where I grew up. I wrote to a letter carrier from Minnesota who requested a letter for himself. The 10 stamps ran out quickly, so I restocked. By the time I’d finished sending a letter to anyone who requested one, I’d written over 50 letters to addresses in almost every state.
I am “very online”, so it’s obviously much easier to reach far more than one person at a time with a tweet. But the process of sitting down to compose a letter by hand, addressing an envelope and stamping it is filled with extra intention. It feels like a way to show an old-fashioned kind of caring, the kind that can travel the distance and be similar to a hug.
I wanted to be frank about signaling the letters came from a real human , and nothing automatic, so finding ways to personalize each one was key. When I ran out of my personal letter paper, I found my four-year-old daughter Isa’s doodles in a notebook and wrote my letters on those pages.
I never expected replies. The satisfaction for me was in writing to people and knowing they’d receive something rare. But the replies ended up being the best part. I received dozens of handwritten replies. People wrote to me about how they were spending their time. A lot of letters included wishes for what comes out of this crisis. The one consistent hope was that the attention we’re paying to each other can continue in the next phase of our living history.
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?| A．The author had long-standing friends all over America. |
| B．The author selected a stranger in each state to receive a letter. |
| C．The author’s act of sending handwritten letters was well-received. |
| D．The author’s attempts to write to everyone asking for a letter were in vain. |
| A．It enjoys popularity among close friends. | B．It gives people a sense of closeness. |
| C．It is really old-fashioned. | D．It is relatively inefficient. |
| A．Receiving constant attention from strangers. | B．Getting answers from the recipients. |
| C．Supporting each other during the crisis. | D．Writing all the letters by hand. |
The 4-day classic Beijing tour is designed for tourists who come to visit China for the first time. It covers the most popular and typical places in Beijing, fully displaying the scenery, culture, history, local lifestyles and features, food and drinks, business, etc. for you.
Day 1:Arrival in Beijing
Your guide meets you at Capital Airport, and helps you check in at your hotel.
Enjoy Beijing Duck as welcome dinner.
Accommodation: Beijing downtown
Day 2:The Great Wall & the Summer Palace
Start your day at the most famous part of the Great Wall, the Badaling Great Wall. Leave the downtown for the Great Wall at 8 am. Since it is a long drive to the Great Wall (about 2 hours’ riding) have a break at the Jade Museum on the way. Lunch will be enjoyed in a local restaurant. In the early afternoon come back to the city and have a sightseeing tour of the Summer Palace.
Recommended Activity: Beijing Opera Show (Liyuan Theatre, 19:30-21:10 every evening)
Accommodation: Beijing downtown
Day 3:Beijing city sightseeing & Local experience
Your guide meets you at the hotel at 8 am and set out for the day’s touring: Tian’anmen Square and the Forbidden City.
After visiting the two sites, have a break and get ready for lunch.
Hutong visit: see some traditional arts of the old Beijing, such as paper cutting and kite making, and visit a local family.
Accommodation: Beijing downtown
Day 4:Beijing Olympic sites
Visit the Olympic sites: Bird’s Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park, witnessing the fast developing modern China. Enjoy some free time after visiting the sites.
After lunch, it is shopping time and then the tour is over.
1. This advertisement is aimed at ________.
| A．foreigners who are new to China |
| B．experts who study history and cities |
| C．kids who were born in other cities |
| D．people who are interested in touring |
| A．go to Liyuan Theatre in the evening |
| B．visit the Summer Palace on the first day |
| C．go sightseeing in Beijing Hutong |
| D．live and eat downtown in Beijing |
| A．Day 4. | B．Day 3. | C．Day 2. | D．Day 1. |
| A．Beijing Capital Airport. |
| B．Bird’s Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park. |
| C．Tian’anmen Square and the Forbidden City. |
| D．The Great Wall & the Summer Palace. |
| A．Age requirement. | B．The hotel’s address. |
| C．Contact information. | D．The guide’s name. |
