【推荐1】STEM is short for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education. These camps provide the skills needed to succeed in our technological society.

Steve & Kate’s Camp

Steve & Kate’s Camp was founded on the belief that when you trust kids, they learn to trust themselves, and develop a creative confidence that will help them unleash their true potential. It offers a safe, judgment-free environment where kids can be themselves, explore their passions, and make a few mistakes along the way. Phone: 415-389-5437

Asheville School

Asheville School is offering a unique app camp experience for teenagers across the U.S. and abroad who are interested in learning how to make exciting new apps for the iPhone and iPad. Students will learn about Apple’s Swift programming language and learn about Apple’s new AR technology. Phone: 828-254-6345

Game Camp Nation

Harness your child’s energy for video games to fuel their future, strengthen self-confidence and make new friends. Creativity, critical thinking & communication: we emphasize the 3Cs needed for success in today’s media-driven world. Hands-on projects spark curiosity. Our groups are intentionally kept small, and our staff encourage the kinds of peer interaction that easily make friends. Phone: 619-446-6495

Camp Motorsport

For the camper who loves to hear those famous words “Start your engines!”, Camp Motorsport offers exciting motorsport focused summer camp programs for girls and boys ages 9 to 17. In addition to gaining valuable seat time, campers get hands-on experience with the STEM aspects of automotive design. When not driving, Camp Motorsport still has all the fun summer camp activities campers expect including a private lake with swimming, boats, and gala ball just to name a few. Phone: 888-836-1212

1. Which camp will you choose if you want to take programming courses?

A．Steve & Kate’s Camp.	B．Asheville School.
C．Game Camp Nation.	D．Camp Motorsport.

2. Which number will you call if you want to experience all the expected fun in the camp?

A．415-389-5437.

B．828-254-6345.

C．619-446-6495.

D．888-836-1212

3. What do Steve & Kate’s Camp and Game Camp Nation have in common?

A．They both make learners become confident.

B．They both appeal to learners full of curiosity.

C．They both allow students to do whatever they want.

D．They both provide programming language course.

【推荐2】BEST BODY FITNESS

About us

You don’t want just a gym membership. You want a membership that means something. And that means you need support, expert help and a community.

Best Body Fitness isn’t just a gym: it’s full-service fitness membership made for you. Here’s how it works:

STEP ONE: Your assessment

We begin with an assessment session. This is a chance for you to see what we do at Best Body. Our assessment plans are no-cost and no-risk. We’ll also make a training plan specifically for you.

STEP TWO: Your training

When you decide to become a Best Body member, we show you what to do, how to do it and why you are doing it. After a few sessions with an expert private trainer you will feel comfortable working out on your own.

STEP THREE: Your membership

Membership works on a month-to-month basis. There are no sign-up fees and no cancellation fees. Start and stop whenever you want. And the best part? Our fees are the most competitive in the whole downtown area.

STEP FOUR: Your community

At Best Body Fitness, we see everyone as part of a big team. And when you work with a team, you can do great things. Join any of our specialized classes, led by expert trainers. Come to our nutrition classes. Participate in our regular social events. Everything is included in your fee.

Finally, we want to share with you some reasons why our members say that they have chosen us over any other fitness centre in the city.

It’s so EASY

Easy to start, stop, cancel or refund a membership.

Easy to access ― we’re open 24/7, we never close.

Easy results ― our trainers and equipment give you success, fast.

Come and visit us for a personal tour!

1. What can one do in the second step?

A．Have a full assessment.	B．Work with a team.
C．Learn from the private trainer.	D．Make a training plan.

2. If you become a member of this gym, you can ________.

A．get refund when you cancel your membership

B．get expert training but you need to pay extra fee

C．go to the gym only from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm

D．go to the gym only from Monday to Saturday

3. What do you think the above passage is?

A．A story book.	B．A science magazine.
C．A TV show.	D．An advertisement.

【推荐3】Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America, a popular destination(目的地) for tourists. Here are some package tours for you.

Amazon Rainforest Tour

A short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest, From there, you'll spend one day travelling by boat to your hotel in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days explore(探索)the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.

Machu Picchu Tour

This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination, you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas' dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.

Cusco Tour

Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food,and go shopping at the local markets.

Lake Titicaca Tour

Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake.

For more package tours around Peru, contact us at tourinfo@travelperu,org.

1. At which place can tourists learn more about the Inca Empire?

A．Cusco.

B．Lake Titicaca.

C．Machu Picchu.

D．The Andes Mountains.

2. What is special about Machu Picchu Tour?

A．It is the only ancient city tour.

B．It allows one to get close to nature.

C．It is a physically demanding walking tour.

D．It experiences various means of transportation.

3. What do the four tours have in common?

A．They are all totally free.

B．They are tours in the Andes.

C．They are all four-day package tours.

D．They are mainly designed for the young.

4. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To compare four different tours.	B．To draw people to visit Peru.
C．To introduce Peru to the world.	D．To show the unusual beauty of Peru.

5. In which of the following parts would you probably read this passage?

A．Education

B．Parenting

C．Family

D．Amusement.

【推荐2】Called 'the man who shaped America' and 'the father modern industrial design', Raymond Loewy must be one of the most influential designer of all time. He revolutionized the industry, working as a consultant for more than 200 companies and creating designs for everything from packaging to refrigerators, from cars to the interiors of spacecraft.

Loewy's design all had one thing in common. They were shaped by the MAYA principle - Most Advanced Yet Acceptable. His idea was that people will not accept solutions to design problems if the solutions are too different from current designs.

After a short period as a fashion illustrator, Loewy started his career in industrial design in 1929 by re-designing a copying machine for the British manufacturer, Sigmund Gestetner. The 28-years-old designer completed the task in three days and the design of the machine lasted for the next 40 years.

The Gestetner duplicator was the beginning of many design which used streamlining. He described this as 'beauty through function and simplification'. He spent the next 50 years streamlining everything from postage stamps and company logos to the interiors of stores. The famous Greyhound bus and Studebaker car show his use of streamlining in action.

He is perhaps most famous for his re-design of the Lucky Strike packaging. In 1940 , the President of the Lucky Strike Manufacturing Company, Goerge Washington Hill, be Loewy $50,000 that he could not improve the appereance of the green and red Lucky Strike . Loewy accepted the challenge. He changed the background of the packet from green to white. Then he put the red lucky strike target on both sides of the packet. This made it more eye-catching and greatly increased sales. It is now recognised as a design classic.

Loewy's logo design aimed at 'Visual retention'. He wanted to make sure that anyone who saw the logo, even for a short while, would never forget it. He designed many highly visible logos for famous companies such as Shell Oil , Exxon, Greyhound and Nabisco.

By the mid 20th century, his industrial design firm was so famous that he could say 'the average person, leadinga normal life lose is bound to be in daily contact with some of the things, service or structure' designed by his firm.

1. Loewy’s biggest influence was in ______ .

A．completely changing the industry

B．successfully shaping Americans’ taste

C．changing people’s idea about design

D．building a professional design team

2. Loewy’s designs were based on the idea of ______.

A．offering original but not revolutionary answers to problems

B．providing completely different design

C．providing most immediately recognizable designs

D．speeding up the design process

3. The word “retention”(in paragraph 6) most probably means ______.

A．keeping	B．escaping
C．forgetting	D．remembering

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Loewy provided service to ordinary people.

B．Loewy’s design were famous and influential.

C．Loewy’s design firms existed all over the world.

D．Loewy was welcomed and respected by the public.

【推荐3】“In a close cooperation between several first-class chemists, physicists, and biologists, we have developed a very efficient water filter (净水器). It does not need any energy source but sunlight,” said Forró. “Thus our device can supply clean drinking water even at remote places.” The small, adaptable flat-bodied device was designed at Switzerland’s EPFL research institute, by a team led by Prof. Laszl6 Forró.

Water enters via a tube (管子) in the top, flows through a multilayer composite (复合的) material sandwiched between two sheets of glass, and exits through a tube in the bottom. The composite material is made up of titanium dioxide nanowires (TDN,二氧化钛纳米线) interwoven with carbon nanotubes. When the filter is exposed to sunlight, the UV light (紫外线) causes the composite to produce a group of molecules (分子) known as reactive oxygen species. These molecules are highly effective at killing harmful bacteria and viruses. Its potential challenge when working outdoors is rainy or cloudy days.

The filter has already been successfully tested on water containing E. coli bacteria, with results indicating that it should also have no problem ridding of other harmful bacteria. In fact, it is believed that the technology may also prove effective at ridding of micro-pollutants such as pesticides (杀虫剂) and drug remains. It should be noted that when activated by UV light, titanium dioxide nanowires on their own are capable of killing harmful viruses and bacteria. For that matter, even UV light alone can purify water, if the water is left sitting in the sunlight in a transparent container.

However, Prof. Forró told us that his team’s filter is much more effective — this is due in part to the carbon nanotubes’ ability to absorb heat from the sunlight, making the purification process faster. The present small-scale model can treat 2 liters (0.5 gal) of water per day, although that figure would rise considerably if the technology were to be scaled up.

1. Why can the new filter work at remote areas?

A．It is small and flat-shaped.

B．It can be powered by sunlight.

C．It’s designed by famous scientists.

D．It can be efficient in cleaning water.

2. Which aspects of filter does paragraph 2 mainly focus on?

A．Appearance and possible effects.

B．Working conditions.

C．Structure and working process.

D．Strengths and weaknesses.

3. What can we learn from paragraph 3?

A．The filter can kill all kinds of bacteria of the water.

B．The filter is able to get rid of a lot of drugs in the water.

C．TDN can kill viruses without being activated by UV light.

D．UV light is able to purify the water in transparent containers.

4. What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A．To state a new function of UV light.

B．To introduce a solar-driven water filter.

C．To inform the discovery of a new material.

D．To stress the effectiveness of a water filter.

【推荐1】ISSI Advanced Adventurer Course

●2 sessions of 8h
●The AAC starts on every Wednesday and Saturday, lasting 2 days
●Fees: $450
Exploration, Excitement, Experiences

That’s what the Advanced Adventurer course is all about. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it — it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives.

Who should take this course?

Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and sign up for an Advanced Adventurer course. Divers under 18 may only participate in certain Adventures Dives — check with your SSI Instructor.

What will you learn?

You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives — Deep and Underwater Navigation — and you choose the other three. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn bow to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive helps improve your navigation skills. The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have — photography, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

What scuba equipment will you use?

Beyond basic scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass and a dive knife. You may also use specialized equipment depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. Your SSI Instructor will explain the equipment that you need and ma suggest additional equipment.

1. On which of the following dates can you take the course?

A．From Friday to Saturday.	B．From Saturday to Sunday.
C．From Tuesday to Wednesday.	D．From Wednesday to Saturday.

2. Which of the following is a must to take the SSI Advanced Adventurer Course?

A．Open Water Diver certification.	B．Expensive diving equipment
C．Advanced scuba skills.	D．Reaching adulthood.

3. How many dives can you learn during the course?

A．2.

B．3.

C．5.

D．7.

【推荐2】Who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

Jane Addams (1860— 1935)

Addams helped the poor and worked for peace. She provided shelters, education opportunities and services for people in need. In 1931, Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rachel Carson (1907— 1964)

Rachel Carson was born in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania in America. The popular book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in 1962 made people realize the dangers and the harmful effects of pollution on humans and on the worlds’ lakes and oceans.

Angela Merkel (1954—)

In 2005, Germans chose Angela Merkel as their first woman head of the country. She had been a scientist in the past. As Germany’s leader, she has had an effect on the whole world.

Margaret Thatcher (1952—2013)

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. She served until 1990, which made her the first British leader to serve three terms in a row. Because of her high standards and strong will, people called her Britain’s Iron Lady.

Marie Curie (1867— 1934)

Polish-born scientist Marie Curie discovered that some types of metal give off energy called radiation. Her research led to new medical treatments and arms. She received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and in Chemistry in 1911.

1. Who once won the Nobel Prize?

A．Jane and Margaret	B．Jane and Marie
C．Marie and Angela	D．Marie and Rachel

2. What do Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher have in common?

A．They are famous for being strict

B．They once worked for three terms

C．They were scientists before coming to power.

D．They became the first woman leader of their country

3. What did Rachel Carson work to do according to the text?

A．Help the poor	B．Protect the rights of women
C．Protect the environment.	D．Spread physical knowledge

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1. When someone is in an unsafe situation, he/she should________.

A．push the NO button	B．turn on the built-in camera
C．call 18665217856	D．press the 5Star button

2. If you buy a new Jitterbug now, ________.

A．you can get a free car charger	B．you can get $25 discount
C．you should stick to a two-year contract	D．you will be charged at most $14.99 a month

3. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A．The Jitterbug Flip is very friendly to elderly people.

B．The Urgent Response Agent doesn’t provide service on weekends.

C．There is no need for customers to change their current phone number.

D．The affordable price makes the cell phone competitive on the market.

【推荐1】Michael is a guy who is always optimistic about life whatever happens.

One day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t understand it. You can’t be positive all the time. How do you do it?”

Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Life is all about choices. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. The bottom line is: It’s your choice how you live life.”

Soon, I left the big company that I had worked in for years to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life.

Several years later, I heard Michael had a serious accident, falling off 60 feet from a tower. After l8 hours of operation and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

“The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon-to-born daughter,” Michael replied. “Then, lying on the ground, I remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren’t you afraid?” I asked.

Michael smiled, “The doctors and nurses kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on their faces, I got really scared. In their eyes, l read ‘He’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action.”

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a nurse shouting questions at me,” said Michael. “She asked me if I was allergic(过敏) to anything. ‘Yes,’ I said. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Gravity(重力)!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I’m choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead’.”

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.

1. The underlined word “optimistic” in Paragraph 1 means ______.

A．devoted

B．generous

C．hopeful

D．reliable

2. When something bad happened, Michael would make a choice to ______.

A．be in a good mood

B．ignore it

C．be sad about it

D．learn from it

3. The following statements are true about Michael Except that ______.

A．Michael left the former company to start his own business.

B．Michael fell off 60 feet from a high place and was seriously injured.

C．Michael was going to have a daughter when he had the accident.

D．Michael survived the 18-hour operation in hospital.

4. Why did Michael say that he was allergic to gravity?

A．Ever since falling down he had become afraid of gravity.

B．He would like to play a joke on the doctors and nurses to make them burst out laughing.

C．He was determined to live and wanted to encourage doctors and nurses.

D．He was sure that he would get through the operation.

5. Which of the following proverbs(格言) can be learned from Michael’s story?

A．A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

B．A friend in need is a friend indeed.

C．It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

D．If you fail, don’t forget to learn your lesson.

【推荐2】Each day, 10-year-old Seth asked his mom for more and more lunch money. Yet he seemed skinnier than ever and came home from school hungry. It turned out that Seth was handing his lunch money to fifth-grader, who was threatening to beat him up if he didn’t pay.

Most kids have been teased by a brother or a friend at some point. And it’s not usually harmful when done in a playful and friendly way, and both kids find it funny. But when teasing becomes hurtful, unkind, and constant, it crosses the line into bullying and needs to stop.

Bullying is intentional tormenting（折磨）in physical or psychological ways. It can range from hitting, name-calling, threats, and mocking (嘲弄) to blackmailing money and possessions. Some kids bully others by deliberately separating them and spreading rumors about them. Others use social media or electronic messaging to tease others or hurt their feelings.

It’s important to take bullying seriously and not just brush it off as something that kids have to tolerate. The effects can be serious and affect kids’ sense of safety and self-worth. In severe cases, bullying has contributed to tragedies, such as suicides and school shootings.

Kids bully for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they pick on kids because they need a victim—someone who seems emotionally or physically weaker, or just acts or appears different in some way—to feel more important, popular, or in control. Although some bullies are bigger or stronger than their victims, that’s not always the case.

Sometimes kids torment others because that’s the way they’ve been treated. They may think their behavior is normal because they come from families or other settings where everyone regularly gets angry and shouts or calls each other names. Some popular TV shows even seem to promote meanness—people are “voted off”, ignored, or ridiculed for their appearance or lack of talent.

Unless your child tells you about bullying—or has visible injuries—it can be difficult to figure out if it’s happening.

1. What is the author’s purpose of telling Seth’s story?

A．To introduce the topic.	B．To raise public concern.
C．To analyse the cause.	D．To display harmful effects.

2. The phrase “brush it off” in paragraph 4 means ________.

A．removing bullying	B．ignoring bullying
C．avoiding bullying	D．stressing bullying

3. Why does bullying exist in schools?

A．Bullies consider school bullying interesting and rewarding.

B．Bullies want to dominate everyone physically and mentally.

C．Bullies have taken the behavior from their original families.

D．Bullies are intentionally taught by some popular TV shows.

4. What is predicted to convey in the following session of the passage?

A．Signs of bullying.	B．Love for kids.
C．Problems of bullying.	D．Advice for kids.

【推荐3】In my first week as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964 I met with a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies; he was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great difficulty. This was Stephen Hawking. I learned that he had a bad disease and might not live long enough even to finish his PhD degree.
But, amazingly, he has reached the age of 73. Even mere survival would have been a medical miracle, but of course, he didn’t merely survive. He has become arguably the most famous scientist in the world for his brilliant research, for his bestselling books, and, above all, for his astonishing victory over hardship.
Stephen received his “death sentence” in 1964, when I thought it was hard for him to go on with his study. Stephen went from Albans School to Oxford University. He was said to be a “lazy” undergraduate, but his brilliance earned him a first-class degree, an “entry ticket” to a research career in Cambridge and a uniquely inspiring achievement.
Within a few years of the burst of his disease he was wheelchair-bound, and his speech was so unclear that it could only be understood by those who knew him well. But his scientific career went from strength to strength: he quickly came up with a series of insights into the nature of black holes (then a very new idea) and how the universe began. In 1974 he was elected to the Royal Society at the exceptionally early age of 32.
The great advances in science generally involve discovering a link between phenomena that were previously conceptually unconnected — for instance, Isaac Newton realized that the force making an apple fall to earth was the same as the force that holds the moon and planets in their orbits. Stephen’s revolutionary idea about a link between gravity and quantum(量子) theory has still not been tested. However, it has been hugely influential; indeed, one of the main achievements of string theory(弦理论)has been to confirm and build on his idea. He has undoubtedly done more than anyone else since Einstein to improve our knowledge of gravity and he is one of the top-ten living theoretical physicists.
1. What impressed the author most about Stephen Hawking?

A．His brilliant research.

B．His defeating hardship.

C．His serious disease.

D．His bestselling books.

2. What made Stephen Hawking start his research career at Cambridge?

A．His death sentence.

B．His “lazy” attitude.

C．His above-average talent and ability.

D．His rich experience.

3. It can be inferred that Stephen Hawking was born       .

A．in the early 1940s	B．in the late 1940s
C．in the early 1930s	D．in the late 1930s

4. What can we learn from the text?

A．Hawking’s theory was proved years ago.

B．Hawking was not as successful as Newton.

C．Hawking’s theory has had little influence on others.

D．String theory built on Hawking’s idea.