Oxford Street is a major street in the City of Westminster in London, the United Kingdom. It has about 300 shops. The street was formerly part of London-Oxford road which began at Newgate, City of London, and was known as Oxford Road. Oxford Street follows the route of a Roman road, which becomes one of the major routes in and out of the city.
Oxford Street is one and a half miles from end to end. Most shops are open from 10 am to 6 or 7 pm. Many are also open on Saturdays and Sundays from 6 am to 12 pm. Oxford Street is best known for Selfridges (塞尔福里奇百货公司) and the other big department stores that are all found in the section from Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, along with most of the big-name multinationals (跨国公司). Oxford Street is said to be the busiest shopping street in Europe.
Between the 12th century and 1782 Oxford Street was known as Tyburn Road, Uxbridge Road, Worcester Road and Oxford Road. By 1729, the road had become known as Oxford Street. In the late 18th century, many of the surrounding fields were bought by the Earl of Oxford, and the area was developed. It became popular with entertainers. During the 19th century, the area became known for its shops.
Oxford Street is home to a number of major department stores and numerous flagship stores (旗舰店), as well as hundreds of smaller shops. It is the biggest shopping street within Inner London. Though not necessarily the most expensive or fashionable, it is considered to be the most important, and forms part of a larger shopping area with Regent Street, Bond Street and a number of other smaller nearby streets.
1. What do you know about Oxford Street?A.It is known to be the busiest shopping street in Europe. |
B.It has the biggest multinational in the world. |
C.It is the longest street in the city, London. |
D.It is in the central part of the city, London. |
A.Its location. | B.Its history. | C.Its products. | D.Its transport. |
A.In the 12th century. | B.In the year of 1729. |
C.In the year of 1782. | D.In the late 18th century. |
A.Oxford Street stands for its fashion |
B.only big flagship stores can be found in Oxford Street |
C.Oxford Street plays an important part in the trade of London |
D.shops in Oxford Street are open all day long throughout the year |
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【推荐1】Reading the store guide before going shopping in a department store can help you save a lot of time. Here’s a store guide that shows what is on each floor of a department store.
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1. What does the writer think of the store guide?
A.Necessary. | B.Useful. |
C.Difficult. | D.Boring. |
A.First Floor. | B.Second Floor. |
C.Ground Floor. | D.First Basement. |
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【推荐2】4 Really Strange Beaches
Sandy stretches of gray, brown or even white are the world’s norm. Even rocky beaches or those with sheer cliffs barring passage for everyone save the bravest adventurers are not rare. These unique beaches are some of the best treats nature has to offer.
Papakolea Beach, Hawaii, USA
Papakōlea Beach is a green sand beach located near South Point, in the Ka’ū district of the island of Hawai ’i. One of only two green sand beaches in the World, the other being in Galapagos Islands.
Papakōlea Beach is associated with the southwest rift (裂谷) of Mauna Loa. Since its last eruption, the cinder cone has partially collapsed and been partially swallowed by the ocean.
San Alfonso del Mar Beach, Chile
This beach is located between the largest artificial pool. San Alfonso del Mar Beach is an essential part of the luxurious resort of the same name.
It seems a strange spot for the world’s largest swimming pool. But the pool’s remarkable spaciousness (宽敞) complements the ocean beyond rather effortlessly, and jumping in the pool’s 79℉(26℃) water is a much more attractive prospect than venturing into the 63℉(17℃) seawater nearby.
Maho Beach, Sint Maarten
Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the country of Sint Maarten. It is famous for the Princess Juliana International Airport next to the beach.
Arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 due to the short runway length of 380 metres, resulting in aircraft on their final approach flying over the beach at minimal altitude.
Ocean Dome, Japan
This is an artificial beach constructed in the Seagaia re son along the coastal highway outside the city of Myazaki in Japan it has a fully controlled indoor climate throughout the year.
The Ocean Dome, which was a popular part of the Sheraton Seagaia Resort, measures 300 meters in length and 100 meters in width.
1. What has Papakōlea Beach experienced in Hawaii?A.One mineral. | B.One connection. |
C.One fierce rift. | D.One severe outbreak. |
A.Jumping into the pool’s water |
B.Learning to jump water in the pool |
C.Building a spacious swimming pool |
D.Taking a risk of swimming in the pool |
A.They lie beside good places built. | B.They both lie on an island. |
C.They are both artificial beaches. | D.They are both well-known. |
【推荐3】Many people quote the phrase from Jane Jacobs that “there must be eyes on the street” to emphasize the relationship between urban safety and design. Jacobs’ views on urban safety were, in truth, far more complex than this phrase suggests. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities has become the basis of a worldwide movement to foster safer cities.
Jacobs made an important contribution to our understanding of cities by linking the fear of crime and urban design. In a successful city district a person must feel personally safe on the street among all these strangers. It doesn’t take many incidents of violence on a city street to make people fear the street. And as they fear it, they use it less, which makes the street still more unsafe.
Jacobs widened her attention to urban safety in general, including parks and public housing projects. While most planners focus on the green benefits of parks, she argued against underused or dangerous parks. She observed that parks are successful when they encourage a range of activities and users.
She emphasized design and management policies to encourage interaction at public housing sites. She suggested combining public housing communities with existing street patterns and holding street activities by including businesses in the buildings. She opposed fencing and security guards, creating a sense of territory and isolating public housing residents from the wider community.
Jacobs wrote about her experience of daily life in the city and urged planners to pay attention to how ordinary people actually use urban space. From her experience as a wife, mother, and resident in New York, she arrived at a more human vision of the city than the experts of the day did. Her concern about urban safety was visionary (有远见的), and her manner of looking at the city still offers a critical viewpoint for evaluating crime prevention and community safety strategies today.
1. What purpose does paragraph 1 serve?A.To make the phrase better known. |
B.To attract readers’ attention to the phrase. |
C.To introduce more Jacobs’ complex views. |
D.To prove the popularity of Jane Jacobs’ book. |
A.Warning people of violence in the streets. |
B.Encouraging different activities in parks. |
C.Employing security guards in the buildings. |
D.Introducing safety policies at public housing sites. |
A.Good design and management can increase interaction. |
B.The government should build more parks. |
C.Crimes make the city insecure for people to live in. |
D.Cities should improve public services. |
A.Creating a sense of territory is necessary. |
B.It’s dangerous to walk on the street alone. |
C.People in the city feel more disconnected now. |
D.Various roles in life make Jacob have unique views |
A.Jacobs’ views on urban safety and design |
B.Jacobs’ Book “The Development of Great cities” |
C.Jacobs’experience of daily life in the city |
D.Jacobs’ design and management policies |
【推荐1】Four things that you can’t miss in Macao
Go Bungee Jumping at the Macao Tower
The Macao Tower, 338 meters tall, is the world’s 10th highest tower, with kinds of activities, such as eating and entertainment. One of the activities is the bungee jump. The Macao Tower Bungee Jump is 233 meters high, making it a Guinness World Record as the highest commercial bungee jump in the world. Raise your arms and off you go! If you are not daring enough to jump that height, you can try the sky walk on the 57th floor—it’s still amazing. Take this chance and tick off this item on your list.
Enjoy a traditional Portuguese dinner
Macao was once colonized (殖民) by Portugal before 1999. As a result, Portuguese culture has deeply affected Macao.
Many Portuguese settled and opened Portuguese restaurants here, but it is more adaptable to Chinese people.
Visit a museum
Macao, as a little city with only an area of 30.5 square kilometers, has 23 eye-catching museums. Due to its special history, both eastern and western historical relics can be found. Many of them are preserved for cultural relics, tourist spots or museums, such as the Grand Prix Museum, Maritime Museum and Wine Museum.
Go into an entertainment place
Well known as the “Las Vegas of the Orient”, Macao has 33 entertainment places. You can find different themed entertainment places with their hotels and attractions around every corner of Macao, especially on Taipa Island. Among all, The Venetian is the most popular. With a huge shopping mall and Vegas-style design, it is a must-go place for both tourists and locals to shop and enjoy free time. So when you come to Macao, just walk around and you will still be amazed.
1. What can visitors do at the Macao Tower?A.Visit a museum. |
B.Try an extreme sport. |
C.Enjoy a traditional Japanese dinner. |
D.Challenge the Guinness World Record for jumping. |
A.Visitors can do nothing but shopping. |
B.Portuguese culture has no longer existed in Macao. |
C.The Macao Tower is the highest tower in the world. |
D.Visitors can enjoy both eastern and western historical cultures in Macao. |
A.To introduce something attractive in Macao to visitors. |
B.To encourage people to do sports. |
C.To advertise coming events. |
D.To tell about the history of Macao. |
【推荐2】For thousands of years, humans have built cities. Some of our oldest cities have managed to maintain pieces of their original characteristics while others have disappeared completely.
One of these lost cities belonged to the Anasazi people who lived in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. They built houses along the river that ran through the valley. For nearly 300 years, the Chaco Canyon was the population center of many desert cities. Now nothing is left of this busy city but ruins. Scientists think that drought may have made the Anasazi’s food hard to get or that some kind of disease killed off many of the people. However, no one knows for sure what happened to the people of the Chaco Canyon. Another lost city sits high atop the Andes Mountains in Peru: the city of Machu Picchu. It was once among the most powerful cities in South America. It was home to the Incan emperor. In 1527, its citizens packed up their belongings and moved for unknown reasons. Scientists guess that smallpox, a disease brought by European explorers, was the cause of Machu Picchu’s downfall. Today, tourists from all over the world climb thousands of steep stone steps to view the ruins of this once great city. Yet another city that is no more was called Pompeii. This was one of the wealthiest cities of ancient Italy. This beautiful seaside city was a lively center of trade. However, a storm of lava, smoke, and ash from Mt. Vesuvius buried the city of Pompeii, putting an end to its prosperity. Scientists have studied the ruins of Pompeii, which led to new discoveries about ancient civilizations of Europe.
Humans have always built cities as centers for trade, business, and family life. Cities that have been lost provide information about the past, helping to inform our future. By studying lost cities, we can learn how to preserve our current cities.
1. Machu Picchu was once among the most powerful cities in South America because _______.A.it was the center of the Inca Empire |
B.it was located high atop the Andes Mountains |
C.it was founded by powerful European explorers |
D.it is visited by numerous visitors throughout the world |
A.making a comparison | B.stating causes and effects |
C.expressing his own opinions | D.listing numbers and examples |
A.We should set up powerful cities for a competitive world. |
B.We should pass on certain customs of ancient civilizations. |
C.We should figure out how to protect our cities from disease and starvation. |
D.We should learn from the past to ensure that we do not lose cities in the future. |
Vanuatu is an island nation in the South Pacific. It is also one of the smallest countries in the world. But for those interested in adventure and sport, there is a lot to do. Vanuatu’s islands offer visitors two of the most exciting and dangerous activities in the world: volcano surfing and land diving. Volcano Surfing On Tanna Island, Mount Yasur rises 300 meters into the sky. It is known as the Lighthouse of the Pacific Ocean because of its regular eruptions (爆发) for hundreds of years. For centuries, both island locals and visitors have climbed this mountain to visit the top. Some visitors find Yasur terrifying; others captivating. Photographers are beside themselves at the opportunity to make amazing artwork from such a special point. Recently, people have also started climbing Yasur to surf the volcano. Volcano surfing is considered as an extreme sport and there are not many practicing it. A volcano surfer’s goal is to escape the erupting volcano - without getting hit by flying rocks! Riders hike up the volcano and slide down, sitting or standing, on a thin plywood or metal board. Land Diving Most people are familiar with bungee jumping, but did you know bungee jumping started on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu and is almost fifteen centuries old? The original activity, called land diving, is part of a religious ceremony. A man ties tree vines (藤) to his legs. He then jumps head-first from a high tower. It originated as a rite (仪式) for young men trying to prove their manhood. The idea is to jump from as high as possible, and to land as close to the ground as possible. It is also a harvest rite. The islanders believe the higher the jumpers dive, the higher the crops will grow. |
A.Mount Yasur is a light tower on the Pacific Ocean. |
B.The history of volcano surfing dates back centuries. |
C.Land diving came to Vanuatu from another country. |
D.Bungee jumping grew out of land diving. |
A.depressing | B.disappointing | C.charming | D.relieving |
A.Untouched Beauty: VANUATU | B.Extreme Destination: VANUATU |
C.Volcano Adventure : VANUATU | D.Preserved Culture: VANUATU |
【推荐1】PLAYA GRANDE, COSTA RICA? This resort town was long known for Leatherback Sea Turtle (棱皮龟) national Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. However, on a beach where dozens of turtles used to nest on a given night, scientists spied only 32 leatherbacks all of last year.
With leatherbacks threatened with extinction (灭绝), Playa Grande’s turtle museum was abandoned three years ago and now sits among a sea of weeds. And the beachside ticket office for turtle tours was washed away by a high tide in September. “We do not promote that as a turtle tourism destination any more because we realize there are far too few turtles to please,” said Alvaro Fonseca, a park ranger (管理员).
Even before scientists found temperatures going up over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans interest in eating turtle eggs. But climate change may cause the most serious harm to an animal that has lived in the Pacific for 150 million years.
Sea turtles are sensitive to numerous effects of warming. They feed on reefs, which are dying in hotter seas. They lay eggs on beaches that are being covered by rising seas and more violent waves.
More uniquely their gender (性别) is determined, not by genes but by the egg’s temperature during development. Small rises in beach temperatures can result in ail-female populations, obviously problematic for survival. If the sand around the eggs hits 30 degrees Celsius, the gender balance shits to females: at about 32 degrees they are all female. Above 34, you get boiled eggs.
On some nesting beaches, scientists are artificially cooling nests with shade or irrigation and trying to protect broader areas of coastal property from development to ensure that turtles have a place to nest as the seas rise.
1. Why does the resort town stop promoting it’s turtle tourism?A.It decides not to disturb the turtles’ normal life. |
B.Tourists have lost interest in watching turtles. |
C.There are only very few turtles now. |
D.The turtle museum was destroyed by a high tide. |
A.The locals eating habit. |
B.Drift net fishing. |
C.Beach development. |
D.Global warming. |
A.are doing research on the sea rise |
B.are moving turtles to new homes |
C.are protecting turtles’ nests |
D.are getting rid of sea weeds |
A.introduce a special kind of sea turtle |
B.explain the mystery of turtles’ eggs |
C.show the dangers a certain kind of turtle is facing |
D.attract more visitors to a sea turtle museum |
【推荐2】If you are forgetful or make mistakes when in a hurry, a new study from Michigan State University (MSU) found that meditation (冥想) could help you to become less likely to make mistakes.
The research, published in Brain Sciences, tested how open monitoring meditation (OMM) changed brain activity in a way that suggests increased error recognition. The findings suggest that different forms of meditation can have different effects. “Some forms of meditation have you focus on a single object, commonly your breath, but OMM is a bit different,” Lin said. “It has you pay attention to everything going on in your mind and body. The goal is to sit quietly and pay close attention to where the mind travels without getting too caught up in the scenery.”
Lin and his MSU co-authors—William Eckerle, Ling Peng and Jason Moser— employed more than 200 participants to test how OMM affected how people detect and respond to errors. The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute OMM exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through EEG (脑电图) .
While the meditators didn’t have immediate improvements to actual task performance, the researchers’ findings offer a promising window into the potential of sustained meditation. “These findings are a strong demonstration of what just 20 minutes of meditation can do to enhance the brain’s ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes,” Moser said. “It makes us feel more confident in what meditation might really be capable of for performance and daily functioning right there in the moment.”
Looking ahead, Lin said, “The next phase of research will determine whether changes in brain activity can translate to behavioral changes with more long-term practice. It’s great to see the public’s enthusiasm for meditation, but there’s still plenty of work from a scientific viewpoint to be done to understand the benefits it can have, and equally importantly, how it actually works.”
1. How does OMM differ from other forms of mediation?A.It fixes your focus on your breath. |
B.It keeps your mind and body calm. |
C.It makes you caught up in the scenery. |
D.It enables you to be aware of everything. |
A.The mediators acquire the habit of meditating regularly. |
B.The mediators can improve their ability to recognize errors. |
C.Meditation has an immediate influence on task performance. |
D.Meditation can increase people’s confidence about themselves. |
A.How to monitor brain activity. |
B.How to sustain meditation practice. |
C.Meditation’s influence on behavior. |
D.The public’s response to meditation. |
A.Meditation Helps People Sit Quietly |
B.OMM Helps Measure People’s Brain Activity |
C.Brain Activity Improves People’s Performance |
D.Meditation May Help People Make Fewer Mistakes |
【推荐3】A rare genetic skin condition has been corrected for the first time using a gene therapy that is applied to the skin.
About 1 in 800,000 children in the US are born with a severe condition called recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (不良性大疱性表皮松解症 RDEB) that makes their skin extremely weak and likely to be torn and blister (长水疱).
“It is very painful,” says Vincenzo Mascoli, 22, who travelled from Italy to the US to have the gene therapy. He had open wounds all over his body, including one covering his entire back that had been there since he was 2 years old. “Sometimes I also get blisters in my eyes and have to keep my eyes closed, and sometimes I get blisters in my throat that make it difficult to eat,” he says. Mascoli and other people with the condition have weak skin because they have an improper version of a collagen (胶原) gene called COL7A1. That means their skin can’t produce the collagen proteins needed to give it structure and strength.
Peter Marinkovich at Stanford University in California and his colleagues developed a way to insert normal COL7A1 genes into the skin of such individuals so they can start producing collagen properly. “All it does is go into the cell and deliver the gene,” says Marinkovich.
The gene therapy was then incorporated into a gel (凝胶) so it could be applied to the skin. It was tested in a late-stage clinical experiment in the US involving 31 children and adults with RDEB, including Mascoli.
The treatment was repeated weekly until the wounds closed. After three months, 71% of the wounds treated with the gene therapy had completely healed, compared with 20% of those who had the ineffective gel applied, and there were no serious side effects.
A US company called Krystal Biotech has partnered with Marinkovich and his colleagues to develop the gene therapy and will apply in the next few months for approval to make it available to more patients in the US.
1. What do we know about RDEB?A.It is a serious skin disease on children. |
B.It brings unbearable pain to the patients. |
C.It makes patients’ skin weak but seldom blister. |
D.About 800,000 children in the US suffer from it. |
A.They don’t have the gene called COL7A1. |
B.They don’t deal with the wounds properly. |
C.Genes on them fail to provide right proteins. |
D.They have serious side effects after treatments. |
A.It was developed by Krystal Biotech. |
B.It has proved highly effective on all patients. |
C.It will be applied to patients in a larger scale. |
D.It has positive effects on patients immediately. |
A.A biography. | B.A course plan. |
C.A mathematics paper. | D.A science magazine. |