Metro Pocket Guide

Metrorail(地铁)

Each person needs a farecard to enter and go out. Up to two children under age five may travel free with a paying customer.

Farecard machines are in every station. Bring small bills because there are no change machines in the stations and farecard machines only have up to $5 in change.

Hours of service

Open: Monday - Friday                            5 a.m.

               Saturday - Sunday                           7 a.m.

Close: Sunday - Thursday                    11 p.m.

        Friday - Saturday                           midnight

Last train times change. To avoid missing the last train, please check the last train times posted in stations.

Metrobus

When paying with exact change, the fare is $1.35. When paying with a SmarTrip card, the fare is $1.25.

Fares for senior / disabled customers

Senior citizens (aged 65 and older) and disabled people may ride for half the regular fare. On Metrorail and Metrobus, use a senior/disabled farecard or SmarTrip card. For more information about buying senior/disabled farecard or SmarTrip cards, please visit MetroOpensDoors. com or call 202-637-7000 and 202-637-8000.

Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use Metrobus and Metrorail services well by calling 202-962-1100.

Travel tips

·Try not to take riding during weekday rush hours - before 9:30 am and between 4 and 6 pm.

·If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call Lost and Found at 202-962-1195.

1. At what time does Metrorail stop service on Saturday?

A．At 11 p.m..

B．At midnight.

C．At 5 a.m..

D．At 7 a.m..

2. What is good about a SmarTrip Card?

A．It can be bought at every station.	B．It saves money for its users.
C．It can be bought at any time.	D．It is sold on the Internet.

3. Which number should you call if you lose something on the Metro?

A．202-962-1195.

B．202-962-1100.

C．202-637-7000.

D．202-637-8000.

Did your friend give you a nickname(绰号)? How do you feel about it? What does it mean to give someone a nickname?

A student put a note on his classmate’s back while they had a break at school one day. It was a nickname on the note. He asked other classmate not to tell the boy. The other students started laughing at the boy, but wouldn’t say why.

Soon, it was time for their afternoon math class. Their teacher wrote a difficult problem on the blackboard. Only the boy with the note on his back was able to solve it.

Ignoring the laughter, he walked to the blackboard and solved the problem. The teacher asked the class to clap for him and took the note off his back. She said to him, “It seems that you didn’t know about the note on your back, but you didn’t seem to care anyway.”

Then the teacher looked at the other students and said, “Let me tell you two things. First, all of you will be put on notes by other people who don’t want you to be better. All you have to do is to ignore these notes. You have to take every chance to learn, grow and improve.”

“And it seems that none of you are friends with this boy, and none of you are kind enough to tell him about the note. If that’s true, then you’d better hope that you have some good friends yourself and they will tell you if you meet this situation someday.”

4. What did the students do after the boys was put on a note?

A．They helped the boy take off the note.

B．They told the boy about the note.

C．They asked the teacher for help.

D．They said nothing but laughed at the boy.

5. Why did the boy walk to the blackboard?

A．Because the boy couldn’t answer the question.

B．Because the boy laughed at his classmates in class.

C．Because the teacher wanted to take off the note.

D．Because only the boy could solve the problem.

6. What does the word “ignoring” mean?

A．Hearing of	B．Focusing on
C．Paying no attention to	D．Showing an interest in

7. What might the students do after the experience?

A．They might give a nickname to another student.

B．They might be friendly and try to help others.

C．They might be very angry with the boy.

D．They might not make friends anymore.

Have you ever thought of moving to a new country? How about starting a new country? Patri Friedman is just planning to do that. He left Google years ago to set up the Seasteading Institute. And his dream is to build seasteads—floating(漂浮的) micro-nations in the middle of the ocean.

So, what will life on a seastead be like? Probably a bit like life on a cruise liner(游轮), but much larger, with shops, gyms, swimming pools, schools and other areas. In fact, the early seasteads may actually be specially-rebuilt cruise liners. But as science develops, Friedman believes they’ll more like floating cities, with several hundred people.

Seasteading raises a lot of questions. First of all, how will the new countries make money? The Seasteading Institute has suggested several money-making ideas, including ocean-based theme parks and fish farming. There’s also the question of safety. With storms, typhoons and pirates, the high seas are a dangerous place. However, the Institute says that it can stand bad weather and stop crimes with its well-designed systems.

So, is this just a daydream? Well, maybe not. One of the people behind the project is Peter Thiel. He found PayPal and was one of the first investors(投资者) in Facebook. So far, he has donated $500,000 to the project.

And Friedman isn’t wasting any time. He has recently created the Poseidon Award. This will be given to the first seasteads with fifty people.

8. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Seasteads will not make any money in the future.

B．Friedman isn’t worried about the safety of seasteads.

C．Friedman didn’t have some supporters for his project

D．Peter Thiel didn’t create the Poseidon Award.

9. Where did Friedman work years ago?

A．In Facebook.	B．In the Seastead Institute.
C．In PayPal.	D．In Google.

10. A future seastead may be most likely to look like ________.

A．A cruise liner

B．a floating city

C．a swimming pool

D．a school

11. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

A．Seasteading: A New Idea of Living

B．Seasteading: A Wild Way of Farming

C．Petri Thiel: A Man Behind the project

D．Patri Friedman: A Crazy Daydreamer

①Millions of people around the world cook their food on fire every day. People must spend lots of money on cooking fuel. However, there is a much easier and cheaper way to cook using energy from the sun.

②Solar cookers have been used for centuries. A Swiss scientist made the first solar cooker in 1777. Today, people are using solar cookers in many countries around the world. People use them to cook food and to heat drinking water.

③There are three kinds of solar cookers. The first is a box cooker. It is designed with a special wall that collect sunshine into the box. A box cooker is good for slow cooking of a lot of food.

④The second kind of solar cooker is a panel cooker. It has several flat walls that collect the sunshine onto the food. People can build panel cookers quickly. They do not cost much. In Kenya, for example, panel cookers cost just two dollars.

⑤The third kind of solar cooker is a parabolic(抛物线的) cooker. It has rounded walls that collect sunlight into the bottom of the cooker. Food is cooked quickly in parabolic cookers. However, these cookers are hard to make. They must be moved again and again to follow the sun. Parabolic cookers can also cause burns and eye injuries if they are not used correctly.

⑥You can make solar cookers from boxes or heavy paper. They will not catch fire. Paper burns at 232℃. A solar cooker never gets hotter than that. Solar cookers cook food at low temperatures over long time. This allows people to cook food and do other things at the same time.

12. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The first solar cooker was made by a Swiss scientist.

B．Cooking on fire is a much easier and cheaper way.

C．Box cookers can be dangerous sometimes.

D．Solar cookers can get hotter than 232℃.

13. A parabolic cooker ________.

A．has several flat walls	B．is good for slow cooking
C．has rounded walls	D．has a special wall and a box

14. According to the passage, ________ costs very little.

A．a box cooker

B．a panel cooker

C．a parabolic cooker

D．a fire cooker

15. What is the structure of this passage?

A．①/②③④⑤/⑥	B．①②/③④⑤/⑥
C．①/②③④⑤⑥	D．①②/③④⑤⑥

下面文章中有5处需要添加小标题，请从以下选项A、B、C、D、E和F中选出符合各段意思的小标题，其中有一项是多余选项。

Coming back to study after vacation can be difficult. How can you be at your best? Here is some good advice.

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Faced with so many tasks, most students will feel tired as the vacation is over. What can we do to deal with this? You had better get everything prepared the day before you go to school.

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A clean and comfortable study place is very important. Why? On the one hand, it will make you have a good mood and make you relaxed. On the other hand, you can get to study faster as you get organized.

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It’s not easy for you to catch up with all the work you left behind. So don’t push yourself so hard and allow yourself to study a bit more slowly at first. This will give your body time to settle in(适应).

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One of the best ways to get back to study after vacation is to make a plan. With the plan, you can know what should be done first and what can be finished later. This will help you get things done in a good way.

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Throwing yourself into work as soon as you’re back will make you more painful. Take a break, listen to music or talk with your friends. Do anything to make you feel comfortable! Then you can start studying happily.

A．Make an action plan.

B．Clean up your study place.

C．Get everything prepared.

D．Do something that relaxes you.

E．Rome wasn’t built in a day.

F．Catch up on everything you missed.

通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中选出一个最佳选项。

Last weekend, I read an article online about a 10-year-old boy in Thailand. He didn’t want to go to school, so his mother made him collect waste in the street to make some money. It made me _______ of one of my most unforgettable experiences.

Last summer, I didn’t want to go to school anymore because I was _______ to my test scores. I found a part-time job during my summer vacation. Since I didn’t have any work skills, the manager just asked me to ________ newspapers.

At the beginning, I had thought that it would be a piece of cake. To my _______, when I went to people’s houses, they started to look me up and down. I could feel that they looked down on me. I was _______ hurt and felt discouraged. Then I went to one house where a black dog jumped out suddenly. I was so afraid that I screamed, _______ no one came to help me. At that time, I _______ that sending newspapers was a lot more difficult than reading a book in the classroom. I thought about _______, but I didn’t. I tried my best to do the job better. I believed that if we put our heart into what we are doing, nothing is _______.

Now, I am sitting in the classroom and studying harder than ever before. And I am also more confident and ________. As long as I don’t lose heart and work harder, I will make great progress.

21.

A．dream

B．tell

C．think

D．hear

22.

A．happy

B．sad

C．relaxed

D．bored

23.

A．send

B．take

C．bring

D．buy

24.

A．joy

B．surprise

C．sadness

D．amazement

25.

A．slowly

B．deeply

C．carefully

D．loudly

26.

A．but

B．and

C．so

D．or

27.

A．realized

B．remembered

C．took

D．asked

28.

A．giving away

B．giving out

C．giving up

D．giving in

29.

A．usual

B．important

C．confident

D．impossible

30.

A．sadder

B．happier

C．quieter

D．slower

根据对话内容，选出恰当的句子完成对话，使其完整、通顺（其中有一个多余选项)。
A: I am so happy these days! Our homework is less than before. I can finish it at school!
B: Really? That’s great.     36    
A: Yes. The best thing is I have more time in after-school activities. There are some interesting clubs for me.
B:     37     I know you like drawing.
A: I have joined an art club.     38    
B: I think you can draw better and better after joining the club. Well, when you go back home, what do you usually do?
A:     39     And then, I can watch TV for half an hour.
B: What kind of TV shows do you like to watch?
A: I watch the news most of the time.     40    
B: I guess you have more time to do what you like now.

A．I do some reading first.

B．What club do you join?

C．Teachers give us more time to practice drawing.

D．Because I can know what’s going on around the world from the news.

E．You don’t need to stay up late to finish your schoolwork any more.

F．I just stayed at home.

阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Wang Ping is a cleaner. He has worked in a park for 5 years. He is also a good father. Nothing can make him     41     (happy) than playing with his little daughter in his free time.

Last Tuesday afternoon, while he was cleaning the park, suddenly, he heard a woman crying for help. He ran up quickly     42     (see) what happened. The woman’s 15-month-old baby girl choked(窒息) on a small piece of pear and her face turned purple. The baby was too young to save     43     (she) and the mother was so nervous     44     she didn’t know how to save her daughter properly.     45     (lucky), Wang Ping knew what to do. He took the baby in his arms without thinking twice.     46     the mother’s help, Wang Ping held the baby upside down and gave her a few pats on the back. After a short while, he succeeded in getting     47     piece of pear out of her mouth and the baby     48     (begin) to cry. Her mom was so thankful because her daughter was saved.

Wang Ping tried his best and saved the baby’s life. In his mind, helping others     49     (be) just helping himself. He hopes more people can volunteer to help the people     50     need if possible.

51. It is raining outside. You’d better take u________ with you, boys.