【推荐2】Qibao Ancient Village

Qibao, located in the center of Minhang District, Shanghai, is a village with a history of one thousand years. In the village, wine and tea are served on old-fashioned square tables together with long benches, long-mouth copper pots and flat-end chopstick used. The most famous snacks in old Shanghai are square pastry, rice wine and steamed salted pork in wine.

Telephone: 021-21087225

Entrance Ticket: 45 yuan per all-in-one ticket (preferable price of 30 yuan is available now), covering almost all tourist attractions inside the village.

Jinshan Village of Farmer Painting

Villagers skillfully make good use of folk arts such as printing and dyeing, embroidery (刺绣), wood carving. They take the various folk customs and the busy scenes of labor of villagers in the lower Changjiang valley as the theme of paintings and create farmer paintings in a simple style.

Telephone: 021-57355555

Entrance Ticket: 30 yuan/person

Merry Countryside Tour in Zhonghua Village

The village provides tourists with accommodations, tours, chess, cards, fitness and entertainment through renting out separate farmhouse and sells tourist products and agricultural by-products related to the merry countryside tour.

Telephone: 021-57395433

Entrance Ticket: Free

Pudong Lingkong Agric Gardening

It is one of Shanghai countryside tour scenic spots, which features art of teapots, crop plantation and export. The Geological Science Popularization Hall stores up tens of thousands of rare stones collected all over the world.

Telephone: 021-33935557

Entrance Ticket: 50 yuan /person

1. What can you do when you are in Qibao?

A．See busy scenes of labor of villagers.	B．Appreciate various folk customs.
C．Taste steamed salted pork in wine.	D．Enter the village free of charge.

2. Where should you go if you are interested in stone collecting?

A．Qibao Ancient Village.	B．Pudong Lingkong Agric Gardening.
C．Zhonghua Village.	D．Jinshan Village.

3. Which number would you call if you want to enjoy the art of embroidery?

A．021-33935557.

B．021-57395433.

C．021-57355555.

D．021-21087225.

4. What is the theme shared by the four tours?

A．Countryside life.	B．City developments.
C．Traditional customs.	D．Agricultural achievements.

【推荐1】Most of the 60,000 emergencies that the Red Cross responds to each year are local, personal disasters like home fires. They may not make the news, but we know they are just as devastating (破坏性) to the families affected. So join us to answer the call when your neighbors need help.

Trained and available, Disaster Action Team volunteers are ready to respond to these emergencies, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. From offering a shoulder to cry on to meeting any immediate needs for shelter or supplies, to connecting people with long term recovery services, our volunteers ensure that families don’t have to face tough times alone.

Disaster action team volunteers share these qualities, life experiences and skills:

• Team spirits

• Tender hearts

• Disaster response experience

• A command of two languages

• Calmness and patience during stressful situations

• Availability and flexibility for at least 4-6 hours per week

Disaster Action Team volunteers help local families cope with emergencies.

Home fires and other disasters can occur any time, any place. As a Disaster Action Team volunteer, you’ll provide emotional support, financial assistance, and information to help families begin the process of recovery. After your initial training, your shifts will include responding to emergencies within 2 hours, night or day, rain or shine, either on the scene or acting remotely to provide immediate care. With experience and further training you can take on leadership to have a wider impact.

Note: the volunteer positions available to you will vary depending on your location and the needs of your local community.

1. What is the duty of a Disaster Action Team volunteer?

A．Train residents on safety awareness.

B．Give permanent support to the victims.

C．Help people handle emergencies at any time.

D．Guide other volunteers to take instant action.

2. What is required of a Disaster Action Team volunteer?

A．The ability to stay cool.	B．Outdoor survival skills.
C．Oversea learning experiences.	D．Serving 4-6 hours monthly.

3. Where might you read this article?

A．In a newspaper.	B．In a magazine.
C．On a website.	D．In a brochure.

【推荐3】We all have a favorite independent pet shop, where we always pick up the tastiest treats and best dog toys. And now, it’s time to praise these small shops! This year, Beco, the UK’s leading pet brand, is launching the Independent Pet

Shop Awards to champion the brilliant people who work tirelessly managing the independent pet shops we love.

Beco will ask people to nominate(提名)their favorite independent pet shop. People who want to participate just need to register on www. becopets. com and answer a question. To motivate people to take part in the activity, Beco is giving away a dog basket worth £ 150 to five fortunate participants- The five lucky people will be selected at random. They will be contacted via email- They have 48 hours from the initial email to claim their prizes.

Nominations are now open on www. becopets. com. Judges will visit the nominees before selecting one of them as the UK’s Favorite Independent Pet Shop. The final winner will be announced on November 20.

•This activity is open to anyone who is a citizen of the United Kingdom.

•Participants must be 18 or over.

•Entry to the activity is restricted to one entry per person please.

•Closing date for entries is 11: 59 pm on November 7.

1. Why is the Independent Pet Shop Awards started?

A．To appeal for more attention to pets.

B．To inform people of a famous pet brand.

C．To promote the business of some pet shops.

D．To honor some hardworking pet shop owners.

2. What will be awarded to the five lucky participants?

A．150 pounds.	B．A pet basket.
C．A pet dog.	D．Free pet care.

3. Which of the following will result in disqualification ?

A．Being a UK citizen.

B．Being 19 years old.

C．Submitting two entries.

D．Participating online.

【推荐1】I have a neighbor who is a capable, fashionable, seventy-year-old, single woman. Her name is Grace. Grace was laid off from her job a little over two years ago and has been living off her savings ever since but not officially “retired”. Grace called me up one day about this time last year and asked if I had a ladder. She needed to clean out her gutters (水槽) on the roof and wanted me to hold the ladder.

She didn’t want me to climb up and clean the gutters. She just wanted me to hold the ladder. As it happened I did have a ladder. I said: “The leaves are going to fall off the trees in a month, why don’t we wait till they finish and do it then?” She agreed and naturally we didn’t talk about it again until spring. Spring in Tennessee is wild and we talked about it over the course of three weeks in which it rained nearly every day, then I got busy and Grace went into seclusion (隐居).

A couple of weeks ago, she told me she’d been spending too much money and decided to apply for a bar tending job at a local hotel. “Now I don’t know about you all but I’d never considered what it would be like to apply for and begin a new job at the age of seventy. I’m fifty-three and the older I get, the more I think about how great it’ll be if I can just get out of bed when I’m seventy.” Anyway, she got the job, serving the bar and tending banquets at the hotel.

The day when she left for her training at 6 am, I walked across the street with my ladder and cleaned out her gutters.

1. When did the author advise Grace to clean her gutters?

A．In early spring.	B．In rainy season.
C．In time of leaves falling.	D．In time of few leaves on trees.

2. What was the author’s neighbor doing when the author wrote the text?

A．Working at a hotel.	B．Training for her job.
C．Cleaning out her house.	D．Walking with the author.

3. What did the author think of her neighbor’s re-employment?

A．Valuable.	B．Impossible.
C．Reasonable.	D．Unbelievable.

【推荐2】There are so many websites to help you plan trips and book trips and save money on trips. Here is a selection of 4 you should consider bookmarking(收藏).

Dishtip. com

If I had to pick just one site to help with restaurant information around the world, it would be Chowhound. com. However, Dishtip. com organizes the world of eating out in the United States in a totally new way: By turkey sandwich or blueberry pie. In other words, by single dish, not by restaurant.

Stay. com

I’m generally doubtful of sites that say they can plan your trips for you. But for a quick information collection, Stay. com is not bad at all.

Here’s what you do: Choose one destination. Then go through the list of top attractions, museums and the like. Click on whatever you want. Those choices will turn into a personalized plan that can be either printed out or sent to your smartphone with an online city map.

Skypicker. com

Skypicker seems like the “explore” page of Kayak. com, but just provides flights within Europe, at very, very cheap price.

I once booked a $48 round trip between Ryanair and Nimes in the south of France at Skypicker. com. When I actually went to Ryanair to book, the cost was $55. think the final cost might be a bit more. But still, a good deal.

Vayama. com

Vayama is a flight search engine that specializes in international travels. It sometimes gives you a lower price on a “secret carrier” whose name and exact cost you don’t know until you’ve actually your ticket.

1. Which website should you go to find the general information about a restaurant?

A．Chowhound. com.	B．Dishtip. com.
C．Kayak. com.	D．Stay. com.

2. The Stay. com will provide its visitors with      .

A．a reliable trip plan	B．useful information for their trip planning
C．an off-line guide	D．printed and personalized schedules

3. How is Vayama. com different from Skypicker. com?

A．It sells tickets at much lower prices.

B．It does not show the exact ticket prices.

C．It only lists flights operating within Europe.

D．It just provides flights for international travels.

【推荐3】WASHINGTON(Reuters)-People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer(胰腺癌),an unusual but deadly cancer,researchers reported on Monday.

People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk,the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found.

Sugar may be to blame but people who drink sweetened sodas regularly often have other poor health habits,said Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota,who led the study.

“The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin(胰岛素)in The body,which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth,”Pereira said in a statement.

Writing in the joumal Cancer Epidemiology,Biomarkers & Prevention,Pereira and colleagues said they followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for l4 years.

Over that time,140 of the volunteers developed pancreatic cancer.Those who drank two or more sweetened soft drinks a week had an 87 percent higher risk of being among those who got pancreatic cancer.

Pereira said he believed the fndings would apply elsewhere.

“Singapore is a wcahhy country with excellent heahhcare.Favorite pastimes(消遣)are eating and shopping,so the findings should apply to other western countries,”he said.

But Susan Mayne of the Yale Cancer Center at Yale University in Connecticut was cautious.

“Although this study found a risk,the finding was based on a relatively small number of cases and it remains unclear whether it is a causal(因果的)connection or not。”said Mayne.

who serves on the board of the journal,which is published by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer,with 230,000 cases globally.In the United States,37,680 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in a year and 34,290 die of it.

1. According to the text,who is in control of the health study?

A．Mark Pereira.	B．Scientists from Singapore.
C．Researchers in Yale.	D．Susan Mayne.

2. We can infer from Pereira,s words that__.

A．the heahhcare in Singapore should be greatly improved

B．2 soft drinks a day are considered harmful to health

C．87 out of l40 volunteers developed pancreatic cancer

D．sugar might not be the only cause of pancreatic cancer

3. How does Susan seem to feel about the findings of the study?

A．Satisfied.

B．Doubtful.

C．Worried.

D．Hopeful.

4. The best title of the text might be________.

A．The Deadliest Forms of Cancer	B．Drink Fruit Juice Instead of Sodas
C．A Study in University of Minnesota	D．Sugary Soft Drinks Lead to Cancer

【推荐1】From the moment you open your eyes in the morning,     you can feel sweat (汗水)running down your body,     even if you’re barely moving at all. That’s what most people in China felt like this summer. In fact, the entire northern hemisphere(半球 )saw high temperatures in July. The Arctic Circle(北极圈) was no exception(例外). Temperatures in the city of Norilsk, which is in the Arctic Circle, reached a record high of 32 ℃,   The Atlantic reported. Temperatures there are usually just 10 ℃ at this time of the year.

The heat wave in the Arctic is mainly a long-term result of global warming, according to the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. In fact, while the whole world is getting warmer, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. This is called the polar amplification effect(极地放大效应).

The most direct impact(影响) of Arctic warming is the melting of Arctic ice. According to NASA,     Arctic sea ice is now disappearing at a rate of 13. 2 percent every 10 years. NASA said that if this continues,     the Arctic will have no ice by the year 2040.   This has put some Arctic animals, like polar bears, in danger. The ice that the bears live on has shrunk(缩小), the Toronto Star reported.

Melting ice can also cause sea levels to rise in the long term. Since 1993, sea levels have risen at a rate of 3. 2 cm every 10 years, the Guardian reported. Some countries, such as Tuvalu(图瓦卢) in the South Pacific Ocean and Maldives(马尔代夫) in the Indian Ocean, are at risk of disappearing into the sea.

1. Which of the following is true?

A．Some countries in the ocean will disappear in 10 years.

B．China is the hottest in the northern hemisphere this summer.

C．The temperatures in Norilsk used to be lower than this summer.

D．The world gets warmer because of the heat wave in the Arctic.

2. What does the underlined word “this” in the third paragraph refer to?

A．The heat wave in the Arctic.

B．The result of global warming.

C．Getting warmer in the world.

D．The Arctic getting warm faster.

3. What may be the result of the melting of Arctic ice?

A．The polar will become dangerous.

B．Sea levels rise in the long term.

C．There will be an end of water shortage.

D．There will be no ice in the world by 2040.

4. What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Heat hits Arctic.

B．Arctic animals are in danger.

C．The world became hotter than before.

D．Some countries may disappear into the sea.

【推荐2】Have you ever heard of Nollywood? Nollywood is the name of the Nigerian (尼日利亚的) film industry. Nigeria is one of the largest film industries in the world based on the quantity of films produced, placing them right below India’s Bollywood and above USA’s Hollwood!

Born in around 1992. Nollywood is the youngest compared with the other two “woods”, and uses new forms of financing and production. Now it’s in adulthood. and bigger productions have become more regular. However, this was not always the case. Although movie theaters were rare in Nigeria during earlier period, original stories were not. Despite lack of funds and experience, self-made directors began to use commercial video cameras to shoot their movies and sold them for home viewing. Even though this resulted in movies with low production value, the original stories instantly made them a hit. Today, the film industry is the largest employer after agriculture and makes up 5% of Nigeria’s GDP.

Nigeria is a big player in the industry and it is constantly improving its craft, taking on new challenges. Nollywood is known mainly for its comedies and dramas, but we are increasingly seeing horror movies and musicals.

Although sometimes heavily criticized for low production values. Nollywood continues to grow fans worldwide. Nigerian movies now make up 11% of Nigeria’s non-oil exports! The average movie is produced in 7-10 days on a budget between ￡7,000-12,000 (Hollywood’s average is around ￡60 million per movie with one year production time).This is changing, however, as more filmmakers are receiving proper training and are aiming to make films up to the international standard.

1. What is the advantage of Nollywood?

A．Commercial support.	B．Original stories.
C．Dominant comedies.	D．Fast production.

2. Which of the following statements about “woods” is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Bollywood produces more films than the other two “woods”.

B．Nollywood is known as the youngest among the three “woods”.

C．Hollywood’ s budget for an average movie is much less than Nollywood’s.

D．It takes much less time to produce a Nollywood film than a Hollywood one.

3. We can infer from the passage that _________.

A．Nollywood’s contribution to Nigera’s GDP is second only to agriculture

B．Nollywood makes fewer comedies and dramas than horror movies and musicals

C．movies made by Nollywood occupy more than 11% of Nigeria’ s export industry

D．more filmmakers in Nollywood are attempting to improve the quality of its films

4. The passage mainly talks about _______.

A．films worth enjoying in Nigeria.

B．major differences among the “woods”.

C．promising future of Nollywood.

D．features and changes of Nollywood.

【推荐3】Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. Some scientists had already observed comets then, and Halley studied them carefully. The orbit (轨道) of one special comet was a very hard mathematical (数学的) problem. He couldn’t work it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.

However, Halley had a friend named Newton, who was an excellent mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse (椭圆).

Now Halley set to work. He worked out the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607, and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart.

This seemed very strange to Halley. The different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets, as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again.

It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what comet would happen in the future. He decided that this comet would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley's prediction could be tested. In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he has died some years before. Ever since then that comet has been called Halley's comet, in his honor.

1. Halley made his discovery ________.

A．by using the work of other scientists	B．through his own careful observation
C．by doing some experiments secretly	D．by figuring out some hard problems

2. Halley made an amazing, but right prediction in ________.

A．1607

B．1682

C．1705

D．1811

3. This passage in general is about ________.

A．Halley and other scientists	B．the orbit of a comet
C．Newton and Halley	D．Halley and his discovery

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The orbit of a comet was a round shape.

B．Halley did not live up to the year 1758.

C．Halley was an Australian mathematician.

D．Halley worked out the comet’s orbit first.