【推荐1】How can I exhibit in the Atrium Gallery

The Atrium Gallery provides a space for exhibiting a range of creative work, especially the work of our students and staff.

We aim to promote a programme of high quality art exhibitions which reflect creative activity and research interests.

Proposals to exhibit

We select exhibitions by proposal submission. Selected exhibitions showcase innovative, ambitious new work that contributes to the School’s learning and research activities, and is a source of pleasure and inspiration to students, staff, visitors and the wider LSE community.

You must be a student or member of staff at LSE at the time of the proposed exhibition. LSE Arts has no dedicated source of funding, therefore we will ordinarily expect proposals to come with a minimum level of funding, to cover core exhibition costs.

Proposals will be judged termly for exhibition the following academic term. There is a high demand for our gallery space, so please list your first choice of dates and any alternate dates that would also work.

Proposal Submission Timescales

The deadline for exhibition proposals for Summer term 2019 is Friday 18 January 2019. The committee will review applications and successful applicants will be notified (通知) by the week informed on Monday 11 February 2019. Exhibitions will be on display from 29 April to 14 June 2019 inclusive.

Not all applications will be successful. Successful proposals will generally be exhibited the term after receiving the proposal.

Complete our exhibition proposal form by downloading the exhibition proposal form and sending to arts@ lse. ac.uk with accompanying images.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at arts@ lse.ac.uk.

1. Why does the Atrium Gallery provide a space for exhibitions?

A．To collect money	B．To promote itself.
C．To entertain visitors	D．To encourage creativity

2. What must a student do to exhibit in the Atrium Gallery?

A．Pay the gallery.	B．Submit his proposal.
C．Adjust his schedule.	D．Contribute his works.

3. When will the successful applicants get the results?

A．29 April 2019.	B．14 June 2019.
C．18 January 2019.	D．11 February 2019.

【推荐2】Summer is approaching and the following books can accompany you during the hot season.

◆And Then Comes Summer by Tom Brenner

The smell of fresh-cut grass. The coldness of ice cream on your tongue. The sound of crickets(蟋蟀) at night, This romantic feast for senses is as much a celebration of the season as it is a summer bucket list! Attractive illustrations(插图)and descriptive text warm your heart and inspired play like never before.

Available from Amazon. $11.28

◆Three Little Words by Amy Novesky

Dery’s “Just keep swimming!” message of perseverance is perfect for any one who has ever felt like they were drowning. Follow Dory an unforgettable adventure as she finds her way in this   beautiful watercolor adventure of friendship and survival.

Available from Amazon. $12 06

◆There Might be Lobsters by Carolyn Crimi

Meet Suki. She’s a small dog with a big fear of the beach. When a rescue is in order, Suki saves that the day, proving that there’s nothing to fear but fear itself. Quite possibly the perfect picture book for anxious kids fearful to try new experiences, this timeless treasure opens the door to calming dialogues and messages of bravery and victory.

Available from Amazon. $11.84

◆Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall

You know that feeling when you’re as excited as you are scared to make a leap? That’s how Jabari feels about his first jump off the diving board. He knows how to swim. He knows jumping off sure looks fun. But does he have what it takes to take a try? With some gentle encouragement from his loving father, Jabari jumps.

Available from Amazon. $11.26

1. What can you enjoy in the book And Then Comes Summer?

A．Swimming skills.

B．Fun of summer.

C．Art exhibition.

D．A lovely dog.

2. What do There Might be Lobsters and Jabari Jumps have in common?

A．They have the same prices.

B．Their characters do the same sports.

C．They can be bought in different places.

D．Their characters succeed in ridding fear.

3. Which book describes the experience of learning to swim?

A．And Then Comes Summer

B．There Might be Lobsters

C．Three Little Words

D．Jabari Jumps

【推荐3】As parents, the well-being of your children is very important. It is important to keep them happy and healthy. It is also important to make sure they are active. It is especially important for children under the age of five. As parents, it can be hard to find time for all this. At the Shining Light Day Center, we understand this. We have created a lot of activities to help your children.

Our activities cover many different areas. We want to help children learn to work with others. We want to help children learn to read and speak. We also want to help children to be healthy. Our activities include classes and games. These keep the children interested. At the same time, they are learning and growing.

Our programs are for children between the ages of 3 and 5. Children will learn basic math and English skills. Our program helps children start grade school.

Our classes are held at two different times. On weekdays, classes are held from noon to 3 p.m. On weekends, classes are held from 9 to 11 a.m. This gives you a lot of choice as a parent.

All parents should consider the Shining Light Day Center; it will give your children a good beginning in life. Visit our website today to learn more.

Learning Activity	Details (详情)
Storytelling	Children listen to stories being told. Then they help write the ending of the story.
Telling Time	Children learn counting skills by using clocks. They count hours and minutes.
Hide and Seek	Children must find toys hidden in our outdoor play areas.
Puppet (木偶) Show	Children use hand puppets to act out stories. They work in pairs.

1. When does the Shining Light Day Center have classes?

A．9 to 11 a.m. on Saturdays.	B．9 to 11 a.m. on Mondays.
C．3 to 5 p.m. on Sundays.	D．3 to 5 p.m. on Fridays.

2. Which activity from the table would be most likely to help develop math skills?

A．Storytelling.

B．Telling time.

C．Puppet Show.

D．Hide and Seek.

3. The text is most likely _____.

A．a news article

B．a teaching plan

C．a business report

D．an advertisement

【推荐2】Get started on Airbnb

Create your listing

Your listing is like an advertisement for your space, so make it as attractive as possible, while being honest about details.

➢Start with basics. Enter details like the location of your place, and the number of bedrooms guests will have access to.

➢Take best photos. Guests love looking through photos when making a decision. Tidy up your space beforehand and use natural light to get quality shots.

➢Highlight unique details. Put stress on what makes your place special. Also, note aspects that might be important to know before booking, like the parking space.

Organize the details

Your next step will be working out details to make the hosting process run smoothly.

➢Add House Rules. To help guests understand your expectations, add House Rules, including limits on smoking, pets, or parties.

➢Set up calendar. To get reservations only when you're able to host, update your Airbnb Calendar regularly.

➢Choose your price. How much you charge is up to you, but Airbnb has Smart Pricing to help you match price with demand, and Pricing Control for specific requirements.

Prepare your space

Whether you're expecting your 1st or 100th guest, these steps are to ensure your space is ready.

➢Tidy up. Clean the house, especially bedrooms. Make sure there's no hair or dust and, most importantly, that the beds are with fresh sheets.

➢Store valuables. If you have valuables, store them in storage facility.

➢Consider providing supplies. To help guests feel at home, consider providing shampoo, toilet paper, and towels. It can't hurt to prepare some for guests.

➢Add finishing touches. Cuests love details. Small gifts can make them feel welcome, but definitely aren't required.

1. What may help guests decide on where to stay?

A．Parking space.	B．Enough bedrooms.
C．Convenient location.	D．Quality photos.

2. What can house owners use to set prices?

A．Smart Pricing.	B．Pricing Control.
C．Airbnb Calendar.	D．House Rules.

3. What must be provided in a hosting house?

A．Small gifts.	B．A hair drier.
C．Storage facility,	D．Fresh sheets.

【推荐1】National Zoo in Australia

OPEN TIME

9: 30 am-5: 00 pm every day of the year, except Christmas Day.

TICKET PRICES

Children: 3-15 years $26

Students: 16 years or above with student card $40

Seniors Card/ Aged Pension(退休金) Card Holders:$40

Adults: $47

Family: 2 adults and up to 3 children: $130

CARERS FOR SPECIAL VISITORS

Carers for visitors with disabilities are admitted free of charge. Carers ID is required upon entry.

COMPANION CARD holders receive free entry, as well as their carers.

Please note, we aren’t a government funded zoo and don’t receive a subsidy (补贴) to accept many of the government concession (减价票).

GROUP RATES

If you are visiting the zoo in a group of 10 or more, you may qualify for our Special Group rates on General Entry prices.

DAILY ACTIVITIES & KEEPER TALKS

Make the most of your zoo visit and check out our daily keeper activities. There are great opportunities to see animals in action. Watch them enjoy a treat and interact with their keepers as they receive a feed.

On weekends and during school holidays, additional Keeper Talks are added to the schedule and visitors have the chance to meet or even feed some of our wonderful animals!

WALK ON THE WILDSIDE

Become a zoo keeper for a day with the ultimate all day wildlife experience.

ZOOVENTURE TOUR

Hand feed a tiger, and pat a rhino, which may be your most unforgettable experience.

GETTING HERE

BY CAR

We are located on Lady Denman Drive, next to Scrivener Dam. Find us on Google Maps.

BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Unfortunately, there are no bus services running to the zoo at present.

1. How much will a 17-year-old student pay with a student card?

A．$ 40.	B．$ 47.
C．$ 26.	D．$ 130.

2. Which of the following may be the most unforgettable experience?

A．Being a zoo keeper.	B．Feeding the tiger.
C．Talking with the keepers.	D．Watching animals in action.

3. What can be learned from the text?

A．People can take a free bus to the zoo.

B．Keeper Talks are available everyday.

C．People caring for disabled people can visit for free.

D．Senior people have a free visit.

【推荐2】One morning, Ann’s neighbor Tracy found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers (传单), and put them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann went to the dollar store and bought some pet supplies, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was recovering from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog threw itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley dashed into the boys’ room where Ann found Jack suffering from a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, but as soon as Ann bent over to help him the dog went silent.

“If it hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Jack would have died,” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to keep it.

The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter recognized his lost dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started crying, and told him, “That dog saved my friend’s son.” Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep it.”

1. What did Tracy do after finding the dog?

A．She looked for its owner	B．She gave it to Ann as a gift.
C．She sold it to the dollar store.	D．She bought some food for it.

2. How did the dog help save Jack?

A．By breaking the door for Ann.	B．By leading Ann to Jack’s room.
C．By dragging Jack out of the room.	D．By attending Jack when Ann was out.

3. What was Ann’s attitude to the dog according to Paragraph 4?

A．Sympathetic	B．Doubtful
C．Tolerant	D．Grateful

4. For what purpose did Peter call Tracy?

A．To help her friend’s son.	B．To interview Tracy
C．To take back his dog.	D．To return the flier to her.

5. What can we infer about the dog from the last paragraph?

A．It would be given to Odie.	B．It would be kept by Ann’sfamily.
C．It would be returned to Peter.	D．It would be taken away by Tracy.

【推荐3】Ladies, if you find yourselves wandering an unknown city with a man who is questioning your directional abilities, don’t doubt yourselves.

A   recent   small   study   published   in   the   journal   Psychological   Science   found   that   the longstanding theory that women have a more difficult time reading maps wasn’t true.

Historically, men have performed better than women in studies that tested their spatial(空间的)ability.   But   the   leading study   author   Margaret Tarampi   and a   researcher   from the University of California, Santa Barbara theorized that social influences had an effect on this outcome: The cultural belief that women are worse at reading maps could be seen as a stereotype(固有模式) threat, meaning women believe they’re bad at something, so they perform poorly as a result. The researchers also theorized that women performed better at skills that involve a social element. In other words, if reading a map means helping someone else, they might perform better.

Tarampi and her team tested both theories on undergraduate students at UCSB across three separate experiments. And, indeed, the results showed that men scored better than women only when they were mentioned the stereotype of male superiority before the test.

When the researchers did not mention it and gave a social context for reading the map, women’s scores improved across the board. Women also performed better when the test maps simply included human figures, rather than just random objects and landmarks.

So ladies, next time you struggle to figure out whether you should make a left or right at the Louvre, take out your tourist map with a healthy dose of confidence.

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To warn women of one of their shortcomings.

B．To introduce the topic of the passage.

C．To encourage women to read maps.

D．To state a social phenomenon.

2. Women are thought to be worse at reading maps because of .

A．a poor sense of direction	B．a lack of experience
C．a social stereotype	D．threats from others

3. Men performed better than women in the study when .

A．they were asked to help someone else by reading a map

B．they were informed of the stereotype before the test

C．the test maps simply included human figures

D．there were social elements in the map

4. What can be concluded from the passage?

A．Women can read maps as well as men.	B．Women are better drivers than men.
C．Women always have difficulty reading maps.	D．Women are better at spatial ability.

【推荐1】Should we allow modern buildings to be built next to older buildings in a historic area of a city? In order to answer this question, we must first examine whether people really want to preserve the historic feel of an area. Not all historical buildings are attractive. However, there may be other reasons—for example, economic (经济的) reasons—why they should be preserved. So, let us assume that historical buildings are both attractive and important to the majority of people. What should we do then if a new building is needed?

In my view, new architectural styles can exist perfectly well alongside an older style. Indeed, there are many examples in my own home town of Tours where modern designs have been placed very successfully next to old buildings. As long as the building in question is pleasing and does not dominate (影响) its surroundings too much, it often improves the attractiveness of the area.

It is true that there are examples of new buildings which have spoilt (破坏) the area they are in, but the same can be said of some old buildings too. Yet people still speak against new buildings in historic areas. I think this is simply because people are naturally conservative(保守的)and do not like change.

Although we have to respect people’s feelings as fellow users of the buildings, I believe that it is the duty of the architect and planner to move things forward . If we always reproduced what was there before, we would all still be living in caves. Thus, I would argue against copying previous architectural styles and choose something fresh and different , even though that might be the more risky choice.

1. What does the author say about historical buildings in the first paragraph?

A．Some of them are not attractive.

B．Most of them ate too expensive to preserve.

C．They are more pleasing than modern buildings.

D．They have nothing to do with the historic feel of an area.

2. Which of the following is true according to the author ?

A．We should reproduce the same old buildings.

B．Buildings should not dominate their surroundings.

C．Some old buildings have spoilt the area they are in.

D．No one understands why people speak against new buildings.

3. By “move things forward ” in the last paragraph , the author probably means“      ”

A．destroy old buildings

B．put things in a different place

C．respect people’s feelings for historical buildings

D．choose new architectural styles

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To explain why people dislike change.

B．To argue that modern buildings can be built in historic areas.

C．To warn that we could end up living in caves.

D．To admit how new buildings have ruined their surroundings.

【推荐2】Here are some must -know festivals from a handbook which you cannot miss.

The Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival is the world’s most famous film festival and is held in May each year in Gannes, In the south of France. It was held for the first time from September 20 to October 5, 1946, in the coastal（沿海的） city of Cannes. This festival attracts the attention of all the media（媒体）and receives the visits of important artists, Hollywood actors and directors as well as a large number of film makers.

French Open The Roland Garros Stadium plays host to the Grand Slam Tennis Tounament（联赛）. It takes place in Paris at the end of May every year. Only the best tennis players around the world can take part in this tournament.

Nice Jazz Festival Nice, in the south of France, receives more than 45,000 visitors each year. All of them are there for Nice Jazz Festival, which takes place in the Arencs dc Cimicz every summer. Concerts are held each day between 7 p.m. and midnight.

1. The first Cannes Film Festival lasted for ________.

A．ten days	B．about half a month
C．more than 20 days	D．five days

2. If you are a tennis lover and you’re in France in May, you can’t miss ________.

A．the Cannes film Festival	B．Nice Jazz Festival
C．French Open	D．none of them

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．during Nice Jazz Festival, concerts are held between 7 p. m. and midnight.

B．Some important artists, Hollywood actors and directors are interested in the Cannes Film Festival.

C．The Cannes Film Festival and French Open take place in the same month.

D．The Cannes Film Festival and Nice Jazz Festival were first held in the same year.

【推荐3】Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors(流星), but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on the earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment suitable to live. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.

Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed(畸形的) children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and, during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

1. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is necessary to man because of the following reason EXCEPT________

A．protecting him against the harmful rays from space	B．providing sufficient light for plant growth
C．suppling the heat necessary for human survival	D．screening off the falling meteors

2. We learn from the passage that ________

A．exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal

B．the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming

C．radiation is avoidable in space exploration

D．astronauts in spacesuits needn’t worry about radiation damage

3. The harm radiation that has been done to the Apollo crew members ________

A．is insignificant

B．is enormous

C．seems overestimated

D．remains unknown

4. It can be inferred from the passage that________

A．the Apollo mission was very successful

B．the protection from space radiation is no easy job

C．astronauts may possibly have deformed children or grandchildren

D．radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers

5. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Space is dangerous only because of meteors.

B．Explorers in space have to avoid the damage from radiation

C．We have got effective ways to treat illnesses caused by radiation.

D．The atmosphere doesn’t screen off radiation