【推荐1】More people have strong desire to travel and the market is seeing more opportunities for healing tourism, which means less tight schedules and more health related projects, bringing joy to the spirit, a new survey shows.

As China improved their COVID-19 response measures, the pent-up travel demand has been released (解除). About 91.24 percent of respondents to the survey conducted by Chinese financial media outlet Yicai said they have a plan to travel this year. About 60 percent of respondents said they have a plan to travel domestically, while 32.37 percent choose both domestic and outbound tourism this year.

Though the tourism industry was hit hard by COVID-19, after the pandemic people began to pay more attention to their health and have strengthened their will to travel, Cheng Chaogong, a senior researcher with the research institute of Tongcheng Travel, told Yicai.

A growing number of consumers are paying more attention to health-related consumption, among which healing tourism has become a bright spot. About 87 percent of respondents to the survey said they are willing to spend toward healthy products, and more than half, or 55.24 percent, said they plan to participate in healing tourism this year. In terms of tour cost, 57.39 percent of respondents said they would prefer 10,000-20,000 yuan per person per single trip, while 32.6 percent choose 5,000-10,000 yuan, according to a survey based on more than 1,200 questionnaires.

Data from travelling platforms showed cities located around the tropic of cancer (北回归线) such as Sanya, Zhuhai, Xishuangbanna, Dali, Xiamen, Haikou, Tengchong and Beihai are becoming popular.

1. What does the underlined word “pent-up” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Passive.

B．Top.

C．Decreased.

D．Controlled.

2. Which of the following does Cheng Chaogong agree with?

A．Tourism industry was affected seriously by the pandemic.

B．More and more people prefer to be with their families.

C．People are willing to spend toward fashion products.

D．People pay attention to their health as usual.

3. How is Paragraph 4 developed?

A．By making comparison.	B．By offering figures.
C．By providing examples.	D．By giving definition.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Health-related Consumption Is on the Rise	B．The Tourism Industry Suffered a Hard Hit
C．Healing Tourism Gains Popularity in China	D．A New Survey Shows Economic Revival

【推荐2】Few places in the world can be as good as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This UNESCO World Heritage site has snow-capped mountains and, in its valleys, deep blue lakes. Grizzly bears and mountain lions live in its forests. It is different from most other World Heritage sites due to its location in two countries. This land actually combines two large national parks-Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, and Glacier National Park in Montana, United States.

Back in 1931, local Rotary Club members had the idea of uniting the two parks. The Rotarians believed the area could be better protected and enjoyed as one, and their governments agreed. Then, in 1995, UNESCO agreed as well, and the two parks became a single World Heritage site.

For visitors, Waterton-Glacier Park offers many wonderful things to see and do. Have a picnic or go for a hike- or have a picnic on your hike-and be ready to take lots of pictures. On the lakes, take a boat tour, go fishing or simply go for a swim.

Whatever activities you choose, amazing views will surround you. For example, a road tour anywhere in the park will pass through wonderful scenery. Don’t miss the drive westward along the Going-to-the-Sun Road. You will never forget the great views.

A number of small towns lie within Waterton-Glacier Park or close to it. In these places, you can get a bite to eat, buy gifts or find a place to stay. One must-see is the town of Waterton and Prince of Wales Hotel. Camping in the park is a very popular activity. Many campsites are available on a first come, first served basis while some need to be reserved. If you camp, be sure to keep food locked away at night. Otherwise, you may have an unwanted visit from a bear.

Words cannot describe beautiful Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. You have to see it for yourself！

1. What is special about Waterton-Glacier Park compared with other World Heritage sites?

A．It is cold and snowy all year round.	B．It is home to many endangered wildlife.
C．It has plenty of natural resources.	D．It includes two parks in the US and Canada.

2. Who first suggested joining Waterton Lakes National Park and Glacier National Park together?

A．Local Rotary club members.	B．The US government.
C．The Canada government.	D．UNESCO.

3. What does the underlined word “surround” mean in the fourth paragraph?

A．Be all around.	B．Be familiar to.
C．Be suitable for.	D．Be related to.

4. Why do people in the camp need to put away their food at night?

A．Towns are far away and it’s not easy to buy food.

B．There are so many visitors that food may not be enough.

C．Wild animals will come to the camp for food.

D．People want to save food for the wild animals.

5. Which word can best describe the activities in Waterton-Glacier Park?

A．Annoying.	B．Dangerous.
C．Relaxing.	D．Creative.

【推荐3】Many visitors to the UK go straight to London and never explore outside the capital, which is a pity, for there is various landscape only a few hours away, in any one of Britain’s largest areas of protected countryside, its national parks.

The Cairngorms

The biggest is the Cairngorms in northern Scotland, with some of the country’s highest mountains and the best place for skiing. Ponytrekking, climbing and fishing are also popular, along with Scotland’s national game, golf. Wildlife enthusiasts are well rewarded—this is the home of the red deer, red squirrel and golden eagle.

The Lake District

Over the border in England is the Lake District, originally made famous by local Romantic poet William Wordsworth two hundred years ago. People have been travelling here in large numbers since 1847 when a railway was built to its biggest lake, Windermere. Children’s writers have found inspiration here too, and the mountains make for excellent walking, with breathtaking views.

Snowdonia

Wales also has its fair share of impressive landscape — Snowdonia was one of the first national parks to be created in 1951. You will find the road signs in two languages and hear Welsh spoken in the local shops. If mountain climbing is not your thing, try visiting a castle built by a 13^th-century prince, or check out the nearby beaches.

The Giant’s Causeway

For the strangest coastal scenery of all, cross the Irish Sea to the Giant’s Causeway, a set of basalt (玄武岩)columns formed by volcanic activity sixty million years ago — or, as legend (传说)has it, built by warrior giant Finn McCool to walk from Northern Ireland to fight his enemy in Scotland. The stone “steps” are not complete because the giant fell asleep — something you’ll probably want to do yourself at the end of an exciting day in the great British outdoors.

1. Which of the following can offer you wonderful snow scenery?

A．The Giant’s Causeway.

B．Snowdonia.

C．The Lake District.

D．The Cairngorms.

2. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A．All of these national parks can be reached in several hours.

B．Snowdonia was the first national park to be created in the UK.

C．The Giant’s Causeway was built by warrior giant Finn McCool.

D．The Lake District attracts large numbers of people in that people can find inspiration there.

3. Which of the following magazines does this passage most probably appear?

A．Discovery.	B．News Weekly.
C．National Geographic.	D．Space Exploration.

【推荐2】When I was young, it wasn't the parental love that filled my thoughts in the spring. It was baseball.

I loved everything about the game — the crack of a bat, the excitement of chasing a ground ball across short green grass, even watching the games on our old black-and-white TV. Yet looking back now, nothing was quite as important to me as the annual ritual (老规矩) of playing catch with my dad.

Dad was never much of a baseball fan, but as green leaves began to shoot on bare branches and warmth returned to the air, he would grab his old mitt (棒球手套) and head out to the yard with me just the same. There was something beneficial about playing catch with him, the hum of the ball as it sailed through the air, and the friendly pop as it hit the leather netting. We may have been 26 feet apart, but the flight of that ball connected us, forming as strong a relationship as any father-son talk ever could have.

I was never the star of my Little League team, yet Dad never cared about that. Every year, he would be out there, waiting to field any false throw I sent his way.

As I grew older, I realized that our game was a reflection of our relationship—that even if a problem didn't involve a glove and a ball, Dad would always be there to handle anything I threw in his direction. His devotion to our springtime ritual showed his devotion to me — not only to my love of baseball but also to my life.

I've often heard it said that "the devil is in the details." Now I realize that in my relationship with my father, love was in the details.

1. When the author was young, he didn't care much about ________.

A．the sound of hitting a ball	B．the company of his father
C．the joy of running after a ball	D．the games broadcast on TV

2. The author's father practiced catching baseball with him on warm spring days, ________.

A．having a father-son conversation with him

B．killing time while doing some physical exercise

C．making him an excellent baseball player

D．giving him a guiding hand in his life

3. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．a yearly celebration was held to start their spring baseball catching ritual

B．the author and his father used to have a loose relationship with each other

C．the author fully realized his father's love for him when he was young

D．the author's father always stood by him whenever he was in trouble

4. What is the passage mainly about？

A．The same hobby shared between the author and his father.

B．The way the author and his father used to spend spring days.

C．The author's sweet memory of his father's love for him.

D．The analysis made by the author about father-son relationship.

【推荐2】It's a little hard to figure out the rules for sure but the baby African buffalo (水牛）seems to have the upper hand. The two stand a couple   feet apart, staring at each other. Behind them, their mothers look on with the kind of indifference (不关心）of mothers everywhere who see their kids playing a harmless game.

The alarm went off about half an hour ago, the second time tonight. Here，one bell means "elephant ",two "rhino"(犀牛），and three and four，I really can't remember for what，because when you' re awoken by bells in the middle of the night，your first thought won’t be Animal", But as soon as I realized it was the rhino alarm, I was running for the stairs.

Yet I'm the only one watching the animals stare-down. Either nobody else died of a heart attack when the bells went off, or I was the only one in the entire hotel who didn't turn the alarm switch to off before going to bed.

The Ark, a hotel shaped like the biblical ark(圣经的方舟), lies in the highlands of Kenya’s Aberdare National Park, about 100 kilometers north of Nairobi. At the Ark's prow (船首) are huge windows overlooking a waterhole. Earlier tonight，I'd watched a pack of wolves, buffalos and elephants. And now, at Three or so in the mornings   I'm   down   for   the round of rhino bells. The first time, 2.5 hours ago, it was a single black rhino, which came   down, got a   drink, and left.

I'd have been sorry for the lost sleep. I've already arranged with a guide to take me out at sunrise for the so-called "should-never-missed" bird-watching, where well get to see 30 species, but really, how many times in your life will you get to wake up and say，"Wow! Rhino? Isn't that the definition of a pretty good right? Last week we went from Uganda into Kenya，Before I left home, I thought I'd be happy with ten elephants and five or six giraffes on the whole trip.I   didn't dare to dream the rhino.

1. The message that the hotel's bells sent was       .

A．a very wise way the author had never heard of

B．hard for the author to remember in detail

C．a matter that all visitors had got used to

D．like conditioned response training for animals

2. What's the author's attitude toward the bell?

A．It's   bothering but two bells are welcome.

B．It should be turned off whenever it rings,

C．Its visitors have a chance to see buffalos.

D．It is a very bad way to wake the guests up.

3. What does the underlined part “died of a heart attack" in paragraph 3 mean ?

A．died unexpectedly

B．felt extremely excited

C．felt very uncomfortable and tired

D．suffered from a terrible heart attack

4. What did the author see at about 3:00   a.m.?

A．Two buffalos were fighting fiercely for food,

B．A rhino and a buffalo were fighting for water.

C．A rhino and a buffalo were staring at each other.

D．A buffalo was teaching its baby to walk freely.

【推荐3】Four people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51,It wasn’t much—a picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed –the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.

Her name was Rosalind Franklin.” She should have been up there,” says historian（历史学家） Mary Bowden.” If her photos hadn’t been there, the others couldn’t have come up with the structure.” One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholars（学者）doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitors

At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Click tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA’s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King’s College in London, Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule(分子). The rays produced patterns reflection the shape.

But Wilkins and Franklin’s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick, Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant .But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project.

What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, “Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to to go or be put in her place.”

As Franklin’s competitors, Wilkins, Watson   and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin, Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that   “Franklin was only two steps away from the solution.”

No, Franklin was the solution. “She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of DNA . She must be considered a co-discoverer,” Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once described as the “Dark Lady of DNA”, Franklin is finally coming into the light.

1. What is the text mainly about?

A．The disagreements among DNA researchers.

B．The unfair treatment of Franklin.

C．The process of discovering DNA.

D．The race between two teams of scientists.

2. Watson was angry with Franklin because she            .

A．took the lead in the competition

B．kept her results from him

C．proved some of his findings wrong

D．shared her data with other scientists

3. Why is Franklin described as “Dark Lady of DNA”?

A．She developed pictures in dark labs.

B．She discovered the black X-the shape of DNA.

C．Her name was forgotten after her death.

D．Her contribution was unknown to the public.

4. What is the writer’s attitude toward Wilkins, Watson and Crick?

A．Disapproving.	B．Respectful.
C．Admiring.	D．Doubtful.