【推荐1】Cultural Center Adds Classes for Young Adults

The Allendale Cultural Center has expanded its arts program to include classes for young adults. Director Leah Martin announced Monday that beginning in September, three new classes will be offered to the Allendale community. The course titles will be Yoga for Teenagers; Hip Hop Dance: Learning the Latest Moves; and Creative Journaling for Teens: Discovering the Writer Within. The latter course will not be held at the Allendale Cultural Center but instead will meet at the Allendale Public Library.

Staff member Tricia Cousins will teach the yoga and hip hop classes. Ms. Cousins is an accomplished choreographer (舞蹈教师) as well as an experienced dance educator. She has an MA in dance education from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she wrote a thesis on the pedagogical (教学法的) effectiveness of dance education. The journaling class will be taught by Betsy Milford. Ms. Milford is the head librarian at the Allendale Public Library as well as a columnist for the professional journal Library Focus.

The courses are part of the Allendale Cultural Center’s Project Teen, which was initiated by Leah Martin, Director of the Cultural Center. According to Martin, this project is a direct result of her efforts to make the center a more essential part of the Allendale community. Over the last several years, the number of people who have visited the cultural center for classes or events has steadily declined. Project Teen is primarily funded by a generous grant from The McGee Arts Foundation, an organization devoted to bringing arts programs to young adults. Martin oversees the Project Teen board, which consists of five board members. Two board members are students at Allendale’s Brookdale High School; the other three are adults with backgrounds in education and the arts.

The creative journaling class will be cosponsored by Brookdale High School, and students who complete the class will be given the opportunity to publish one of their journal entries in Pulse, Brookdale’s student literary magazine. Students who complete the hip hop class will be eligible to participate in the Allendale Review, an annual concert sponsored by the cultural center that features local actors, musicians, and dancers. All classes are scheduled to begin immediately following school dismissal, and transportation will be available from Brookdale High School to the Allendale Cultural Center and the Allendale Public Library. For more information about Project Teen, contact the cultural center’s programming office at 988-0099 or drop by the office after June 1 to pick up a fall course catalog. The office is located on the third floor of the Allendale Town Hall.

1. Which of the following statements is correct?

A．Tricia Cousins will teach two of the new classes.

B．The new classes will begin on June 1.

C．People who want a complete fall catalogue should stop by the Allendale Public Library.

D．The cultural center’s annual concert is called Pulse.

2. According to Leah Martin, what was the direct cause of Project Teen?

A．Tricia Cousins was available to teach courses in the fall.

B．Community organizations were ignoring local teenagers.

C．The McGee Arts Foundation wanted to be more involved in Allendale’s arts programming.

D．She wanted to make the cultural center a more important part of the Allendale community.

3. Which of the following factors is implied as another reason for Project Teen?

A．The number of people visiting the cultural center has declined over the last several years.

B．The cultural center wanted a grant from The McGee Arts Foundation.

C．The young people of Allendale have complained about the cultural center’s offerings.

D．Leah Martin thinks classes for teenagers are more important than classes for adults.

【推荐3】RISE is an exciting project designed and led by young people, for young people. Created by St John Ambulance, the nation’s leading first aid charity, the project is now available in communities across the country. If you’re aged between 16 and 25 years old, and are not in employment, education or training, RISE could help you learn new skills, and improve your prospects.

What you’ll learn

St John Ambulance believes that everyone should have access to first aid, and we are devoted to equipping as many people as possible with the skills to be the difference between life and death. As a participant, you’ll learn first aid through our Stick-it sessions, and also get the opportunity to develop new skills, giving you the confidence to train others in your community, or the qualifications in youth leadership you need to get your career up and running.

Choosing the right path for you

At the heart of the RISE project is a commitment to peer-to-peer learning. As well as being taught first aid, you’ll be given the skills and guidance to pass your knowledge onto other people in your community. RISE offers you the chance to gain a lot of qualifications and to choose a path that helps you make the most of your talents.

Stick-it: Our one-day introduction to first aid focuses on gun and knife related injuries. You’ll find out how to manage an incident and learn some of the most commonly needed first aid skills.

First aid: You’ll focus on CPR (心肺复苏术), bleeds and dealing with an emergency situation on this six-hour course.

Keeping children safe: A course designed for those who come into contact with children through their work or leisure activities. This short programme works by helping individuals to understand the unusual role they play in keeping children safe from harm.

Basic skills in youth work: This course provides an introduction to St John Ambulance and is the minimum qualification for a youth leadership role within the organization.

1. Which of the following courses deals with a serious finger cut?

A．CPR performance.	B．Stick-it.
C．Keeping children safe.	D．Basic skills in youth work.

2. The text is mainly about ________.

A．advantages of taking the courses	B．tips on how to give first aid
C．steps on how to give first aid	D．an introduction to RISE project

3. Where does the text most probably come from?

A．A science magazine.	B．A book review.
C．A community website.	D．A business report.

【推荐1】There are two ways to save money traveling. The first way is to get the best deals on the specific things you want. There is a limitation to this type of approach (途径, 方法) though. If you find the lowest price on the best hotel in Honolulu at the height of the season, you will save money, but still have a very expensive vacation. Trying to get exactly what you want will generally be an expensive proposition, in travel and in life.
The other approach is to be a true opportunist. This will be difficult for some of you, and entirely unacceptable to others. Nonetheless (尽管如此), the travelers who get to travel the most, go to the widest variety of places, learn the most and do the most, are the opportunists. This will be true until you are so wealthy that you have no monetary (货币的, 钱的)limits.
The first time I went to Ecuador, I went there because it was cheap. If it wasn’t, I would have had a great time—somewhere else. The trip lasted a month, and cost $1045, which included airfare and even the $130 fee for a guide to take me to the top or glacier (冰川) covered Mount Chimborazo.
I cut the cost by taking a bus from my home in Michigan to Miami, and back again when I returned from Ecuador. The round-trip ticket cost $158. The round-trip flight to Quito from Miami was only $256, because it was a courier (信使, 通讯员) flight, which meant I signed for some luggage(car parts), and could only take carry-on luggage.
Never did I feel deprived, or bored. I had a great time, eating wherever it was cheap and clean, doing all sorts of inexpensive, but interesting things, and traveling across the country to climb Chimborazo. I also met and fell in love with my wife Ana.
Being an opportunist means you’ll have just as much variety, and probably almost everything you want—eventually. You just have to stop trying to get exactly what you want exactly when you want it. If the guide that took me up Chimborazo hadn’t dropped his price from $200 to $130, I would have spent $2 for a bus and gone hiking on EI Altar, another great Andean mountain. That would have left me with enough money for several other minor adventures.
1. The underlined phrase “the best deals” in the first paragraph probably refers to ______.

A．the best service	B．the lowest price
C．the cheapest goods	D．the best approaches

2. The return tickets from his hometown to Quito cost the author ______.

A．$128

B．$256

C．$207

D．$414

3. The last paragraph was to tell us how to ______.

A．save money for minor adventures

B．cut down traveling costs.

C．deal with different situations

D．become opportunist travelers

4. It’s suggested that the author _____.

A．went hiking on El Altar

B．traveled with his wife in Ecuador

C．is an opportunist traveler

D．likes traveling around the world

5. Which of the following can serve as the best title of the passage?

A．Cheap Travel Secrets	B．Travel Secrets
C．A Travel Opportunist	D．Travel Tips