How to prepare for a museum visit
●Decide which museum to go to.
If you’re visiting a small city, then it’s pretty simple. Your choices will necessarily be limited. If you’re going to a big city like London, Paris or Rome, then you’re faced with a large number of choices.
●Identify the museum’s masterpieces.
Once you’ve chosen a museum to visit, visit the museum’s website.
●Decide how long you want to visit a museum.
Another good tip for visiting a museum is to decide in advance how long you want to stay. This may depend on the size of the museum. Or, it may depend on how long you can stare at art without getting “museum tiredness” and starting to glaze (变呆滞) over the artworks.
●Get a museum or audio guide.
Another way to have an enjoyable and relaxing museum visit is to book a private tour, especially for a very large museum or popular tourist attraction. The tour guide knows the museum very well.
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If you’re visiting a big museum, you’ll want to be efficient with your time. In the case, the best museum tip is to look at the layout of the building in advance. Some museums are shockingly disorganized, sometimes because they’re housed in ancient buildings.
| A．Learn the museum layout. |
| B．So you’ll get a deep look at the museum highlights. |
| C．Check out the hours and what day the museum is open. |
| D．It’s a good idea to figure out your parking options in advance. |
| E．As the length of a museum visit increases, your attention decreases. |
| F．Most museums have virtual tours or online collections that you can explore. |
| G．If that’s the case, do your research and pick a museum that matches your interest. |
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【推荐1】Sitting at the back of a café, two women are working on their laptops. While one asks some questions about motion graphics, font design and scheduling tools, the other is preparing for a presentation. But these women aren’t working; they’re skill swapping(交换).
For many young people kicking off their careers, the thought of paying for an expensive item fills them with fear. And yet, these same people are receiving one-on-one Photoshop sessions, having their makeup done by top-level artists, and accepting professional advice. How? Skill swapping --- the art of trading your services for someone else’s in a mutually(相互地)beneficial agreement.
Upskilling --- regularly updating and expanding your skill set --- becomes necessary in order to fill the gaps between you and your next career move. And yet, with that comes high training fees, unrealistic time expectations and a big overall commitment --- which is why people are choosing to skill swap instead.
Turning your time into a commodity (商品) means money doesn’t change hands during a skill swap; instead, both parties are gaining something other than cash from the partnership. Perhaps it’s a CV redesign in return for a lesson in photography; a blog post edit in return for Photoshop advice.
In fact, you can skill swap just about anything. Stephanie Conway traded in her PR job to set up a marketing virtual assistant business. In exchange for free accommodation, she runs the social media channels of an Airbnb. By trading her social media skills for a roof over her head, Stephanie is gaining not only free rent, but examples to put on her CV. “Skill swapping gave me the opportunity to get my business off the ground by showing what I could do,” she adds.
Skill swapping often comes in the shape of informal agreements, but you still have to treat it like a business deal. Be specific about the skills you’re willing to trade and what you’re hoping to get in return.
1. What do we know about skill swapping?| A．It is for career starters. | B．It benefits both parties. |
| C．It is done between professionals. | D．It concerns low-priced online trade. |
| A．Decline in positions offered. | B．Frequency of career changes. |
| C．Lack of first-class lecturers in training. | D．Time and energy put in training. |
| A．Unclear. | B．Doubtful. | C．Positive. | D．Critical. |
| A．A rising trend in trading time. | B．A new way to upskill yourself. |
| C．The stress from career moves. | D．The suggestions for skill swapping. |
【推荐2】Life continually requires that we write down a few words of thanks: for holidays, meals, presents or people’s place in our hearts. However, too often, our messages end up flat or somewhat unconvincing. To make our messages more effective, we might take a lesson from the history of art.
To some extent, what distinguishes great from common art is the level of detail with which the world has been studied. A talented artist is, first and foremost, someone who takes us into the specifics of the reasons why an experience or a place felt valuable. They don’t merely tell us that spring is ‘nice’, they zero in on the particular contributing factors to this niceness: leaves that have the softness of a newborn’s hands, the contrast between a warm sun and a sharp breeze, the soft cry of baby blackbirds....
Some of the reason why great artists are rare is that our minds are not well set up to understand why we feel as we do. But we can be confident if our minds have been affected, the reasons why they’ve been so will be somewhere, waiting to be uncovered. We stand to realise that it wasn’t so much that the food was ‘delicious’; but that the potatoes in particular had a charming rosemary and garlic flavour. A friend wasn’t just ‘nice’; they brought in a hugely sensitive and generous tone to bear in asking us what it had been like for us when we suffered. The details will be there, waiting for us to catch them.
We don’t have to be great artists to send effective thank-you notes. We just need to locate and hold on tightly to two or three highly detailed reasons for our gratitude.
1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?| A．We seldom express gratitude by writing. |
| B．We usually find messages of thanks touching. |
| C．We should take a course for message writing. |
| D．We may draw inspiration for thank-yous from arts. |
| A．Leave out. | B．Clear up. | C．Focus on. | D．Hold back. |
| A．By classification. | B．By example. | C．By definition. | D．By process. |
| A．I am blessed to have such a wonderful week. |
| B．Your caring and warm smile lights up my day. |
| C．Thank you so much for your great present. |
| D．This is the most delicious dinner I’ve ever had. |
【推荐3】4 Ways to Keep Your Attitude Up
When life brings you down, the key is to understand that you can choose your attitude and actions. Truly, the greatest weapon against stress is our ability to train our minds to make the best of what we’ve got.
Create space to breathe.
Feelings and emotions come and go like clouds on a windy day. Hold still for a moment, take a deep breath and free your mind from all the chatter that’s going on inside your head and around you.
Relieve the resistance.
If you evaluate your body right now, you can find some kind of tension.
Relax the tense area of your body — deep breath and a quick stretch often helps. Face the same situation or person, but with a relaxed body and mind.
Every situation imaginable has hidden beauty in it if we’re willing to open up to it. When we get ill, it’s a chance for us to rest. When some unforeseeable event postpones one of our business projects, we spend more time with our family. We choose to find beauty even when it’s buried beneath problems and pain.
Let go and begin again.
Everything in life has to come to an end eventually. It’s important to appreciate and accept the end of an era. Letting go, turning the page, moving forward. What matters is that you leave the past where it belongs, so you can make the best of the life that’s presently available to be lived. This ending is not the end.
| A．Find the beauty behind the pain. |
| B．Where does this tension we feel come from? |
| C．But how exactly can you adjust your response? |
| D．Discover opportunities for us to appreciate life more. |
| E．The world is always bigger than your view of the world. |
| F．It’s a point in your story where one chapter fades into the next. |
| G．Doing so creates space for something new and positive to enter. |
【推荐1】Dubai has become one of the top destinations for tourists. It's considered as the tourism centre in the region. You will find everything you can expect in Dubai ranging from deserts to beautifully built malls. People from around the world visit Dubai for enjoying its wonders.
If you are in Dubai, avoid driving yourself. There are various reasons for this. Firstly, Dubai has strict laws and if you haven't a driving license you might be up the creek. Secondly, Dubai is considered as one of the most dangerous driving places because it has the highest death rates on roads per capital in the world. Thirdly, you might be unaware of destinations. So, avoid driving yourself as much as possible and try to use public transports like taxis, buses and metro trains.
Gulf is hot and the temperature there often reaches above 60 celsius degree especially from April to October. So, if you are planning to visit Dubai, you had better avoid months of extreme hotness and plan your trip in winter so you can fully enjoy the wonders of Dubai without getting worried about weather conditions.
There are different types of hotels ranging from cheap to more expensive ones. So, select one according to your trip budget. However, make sure your hotel is not even close to a construction site. This is because construction in Dubai is being carried out 24 hours non-stop and if you choose a hotel near such a site you might be in trouble because of construction noise. Therefore, always book a room away from such trouble-making places.
In short, for making your trips to Dubai pleasant, you should always prepare beforehand—select the winter weather and book a hotel that's not close to noisy places. You should also try to avoid the things that might create trouble if you like driving by your own without a driving license and without knowing the destination.
1. The underlined words "up the creek" in the second paragraph can be replaced by ________.| A．in use | B．in trouble |
| C．in training | D．in tune |
| A．People had better not drive themselves in Dubai. |
| B．The traffic in Dubai is very busy. |
| C．It's necessary to have a driving license. |
| D．The public transports in Dubai are good enough. |
| A．Spring. | B．Summer. |
| C．Autumn. | D．Winter. |
| A．Because it won't be safe. |
| B．Because you won't have a good rest. |
| C．Because it will cost you lots of money. |
| D．Because it will be too far from the center of the city. |
【推荐2】Fed up with tourists who only come in to check out the scenery, the owners of Queviures Murria, a grocery store in Barcelona, Spain, have put up a sign announcing a 5 euro fee for coming in just to look.
Queviures Murria has been in business since 1898 and is one of the most eye-catching locations in all of Barcelona. The vintage (老式的) look of the store and the traditional design of the inside attract hundreds of tourists every day, but the problem is that many of them aren’t actually interested in the products sold inside—all kinds of traditional Spanish cured sausages, cold cuts, cured cheeses, oils, wines, etc. According to the store, many tourists enter the store without even saying a simple “hello”, wander around taking pictures, and then simply leave without buying anything. So it decided to charge people for “just looking” just to discourage them.
Toni Merino, one of the managers at Queviures Murria, said that the idea to charge tourists a fee for simply coming into the grocery store and looking around without buying anything started out as a joke, but as the staff and the regular customers became increasingly inconvenienced by random tourists looking around, taking pictures, with absolutely no interest in the products on display, they decided to do it.
Merino has clarified that he and his partners have no interest in actually charging the fee, and they don’t really have to anymore. By posting a warning about the 5 euro fee in the shop window, they have managed to discourage most unwanted visitors.
After photos of the 5-euro fee announcement in the window of Queviures Murria spread quickly on social media, the Barcelona business faced a public outcry, and it was forced to explain the reasons and clarify that it didn’t really plan on carrying on the measure.
1. What can we learn about Queviures Murria?| A．Tourists are not welcome there. |
| B．It has a history of nearly 100 years. |
| C．It charges people for taking photos. |
| D．Tourists prefer its design to the products sold there. |
| A．To earn a fame. |
| B．To attract more tourists. |
| C．To warn the impolite visitors. |
| D．To provide a convenient shopping environment. |
| A．Opposed. | B．Objective. | C．Supportive. | D．Unconcerned. |
| A．A travel journal. | B．A news website. |
| C．A fashion magazine. | D．A debate program. |
【推荐3】After Li Daiyu and her cousin arrived in Toronto, the largest and wealthiest city in Canada, they only had a few hours to kill before they had to proceed to the next leg of their trip to Montreal, so they went on a tour of the city. They went up the CN Tower and looked across the shores of Lake Ontario. Standing in the distance, they were astonished to see misty clouds rising from the great Niagara Falls, which is on the south side of the lake. Water from the lakes flows into the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to the sea.
The girls saw hundreds of skyscrapers of glass and steel, and old-fashioned cars rolling by. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, “Lin Fei, one of my mother’s old schoolmates, lives here. I should phone her and see if she’s available for dinner.”
They met Lin Fei around dusk over dinner at a restaurant in downtown Chinatown. The cousins chatted with Lin Fei, who had moved to Canada many years earlier.
“This is the largest Chinatown in Toronto. We have a few more in the Greater Toronto Area, so you can guess that there are a lot of Chinese people in Canada! Chinese people have been coming here for more than a hundred years. Therefore, we can get all kinds of great food here from all over China,” Lin Fei told them.
The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal early the next morning. At the station, in contrast to Toronto, they heard people talking in French. They were surprised to see that all the signs and advertisements were in French and many people spoke English with an accent.
“We don’t leave until this evening,” said Liu Qian. “Let’s go downtown. Old Montreal is close to the water.”
They spent the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces along St Paul Street. As they sat in a restaurant alongside the broad St Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them.
“Hello, my name is Jean-Philippe. I’m a photographer,” he said, “and I was wondering where you are from.”
The girls told him they were from China and were on a train trip across Canada. When they told him they had only one day in Montreal, he said, “That’s too bad. You owe it to yourselves to stay longer. Overall, Montreal is a city with wonderful sights and sounds. Most of us speak both English and French, and the city has unique Quebec culture and traditions. There are fantastic restaurants and clubs around, too. Here, we love good coffee, toast, and cheese. And good music, of course!”
That night the train was speeding along the St Lawrence River towards the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast towards the province of Nova Scotia and its largest city, Halifax. The cousins dreamt happily of the beautiful cobblestone streets, old brick buildings, and thee red maple leaves of Montreal.
1. Read the passage quickly and underline the people and places mentioned in the passage.2. Read the passage and sum up the main points of each part.
Paragraph 1-4:
Paragraph 5-9:
Paragraph 10:
3. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions.
（1）What did the girls see when they went up the CN Tower?
（2）Why was it possible to get all kinds of good Chinese food in Toronto?
（3）What did Jean-Philippe tell the girls about Montreal and the people there?
