【推荐1】The travel budget (预算) is the first thing that you need to think about when you have a travel plan. Do you know how to reduce the travel budget? If you know about some skills, you can save much money.

★ Choose the low season

The expense (费用) of transportation and living always takes up a large part of the travel cost. If you choose a right time, you can save much money. In the low season, both flights and hotels will offer big discounts (折扣). It may save 40%～50% of fares for you.

★ Choose a group

The more people you travel together with, the less money you will pay. It will save much money because others can share the expense of transportation and guide service with you. A travel agency (旅行社) can also provide group tickets for you at a low price.

★ Choose a professional (专业的) travel agency

A professional travel agency can not only provide excellent service but also save money for you. A professional travel agency has skilled and experienced workers to make a reasonable plan.

1. According to the passage, it is the first thing to think about ________ before travelling.

A．where to travel	B．when to travel
C．whom to travel with	D．how much to spend

2. If you have to pay 2,400 yuan for a trip in the high season, you can save at least ________ in the low season.

A．960 yuan

B．1,060 yuan

C．1,200 yuan

D．1,440 yuan

3. You should choose a professional travel agency because it ________.

A．never offers discounts on group tickets

B．provides good guide service for free

C．shares the expense of transportation with you

D．is experienced enough to do its job better

4. What does the underlined word “reduce” in the first paragraph mean in Chinese?

A．减少

B．变成

C．降服

D．浓缩

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．How to be a good tour guide	B．How to make a travel plan
C．Skills to reduce the travel budget	D．What is a professional travel agency

【推荐2】

Beijing Half-day Tour Time and place: Our tour bus will wait for you at your hotel at 9: 00 a.m. or 2: 00 p.m. And we’ll drive you back at about 1: 00 p.m. or 6: 00 p.m. Tour route: First visit the Drum Tower dating (追溯到）from 1420; climb up the big Drum Tower and look at the old Beijing buildings—the hutong and siheyuan. Then drive to Mr. Kang’s courtyard (庭院）for a cup of tea. After the tea, ride a bike to Dajinsi Hutong, the most famous hutong in the Shichahai area. Then walk to the Prince Gong’s Mansion (恭王府）. After the tour, you may return to your hotel.

1. Mr. Jones gets up at 10 am. He can start the tour at_________.

A．9: 00 a.m.

B．1: 00 p.m.

C．2: 00 p.m.

D．6: 00 p.m.

2. How many places can travelers visit in the tour?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Travelers will go to Mr. Kang’s courtyard on foot.

B．The Drum Tower has a history of more than 600 years.

C．Travelers can have tea in the Drum Tower.

D．The Prince Gong’s Mansion is the last place to visit.

4. We may read this passage from ________.

A．a newspaper

B．a postcard

C．a play

D．a story book

【推荐3】It’s hard to find a person who doesn’t like traveling. The human’s hopes to explore (探索) new areas drive us to visit new countries and discover new places.

It’s a pity that it is impossible to explore every corner of the world even if you travel the whole life. So people search travel articles to learn more.

If you want to become a travel writer who helps people to choose a trip, you should know how to create an article about traveling experience. Maybe the following can help you.

Read different resources (资源)． Do you want to improve your skills and do great writings? Start by exploring how experts do. Start by following famous travel writers and discover how they engage readers. Also, it will help you to know about the latest news in the traveling.

For sure, anyone can create a blog (博客） about traveling. But the top travel writers don’t create articles according to stories of other people. They make every trip by themselves and share their experience in their articles. If you want to become a successful writer, you should have a large background in traveling. So you can create original（原创）articles and share your traveling secrets with your readers.

Don’t forget about your opinions when you discover how to write a travel article. If you want to copy someone’s story, you can rewrite it and collect a few points. But if you’re going to become a famous travel writer, you need to create original articles. Feel free to share your opinions and feelings.

Being a travel writer is exciting. You have to travel, explore new areas and share your experience with readers.

1. The Chinese meaning of the word “engage” is ________.

A．聘请

B．利用

C．告诫

D．吸引

2. If you want to improve your writing skills, you should ________.

A．explore how experts do	B．visit new areas
C．discover more readers	D．report the latest news

3. According to Paragraph 4, a top travel writer should ________.

A．create a blog about reading	B．become an experienced traveler
C．write article about others’ stories	D．share other people’s traveling secrets

4. According to Paragraph 5, we know a famous travel writer ________.

A．should often copy someone’s story	B．usually rewrites somebody’s travel articles
C．should always have their own opinions	D．only shares others’ experience and feelings

5. This passage mainly tells us ________.

A．why people search travel articles to learn more

B．why people want to become a travel writer

C．how to travel, explore new areas and share your experience

D．how to write a good article about your traveling

【推荐1】People always think about the relationship between money and happiness. We may think we can use money to buy happiness. Probably not. But you can spend money increasing（增加）it.

Buy better relationships

Sometimes the key to happiness is how you deal with your relationships with others. Use the money to go to some parties with others. Especially for younger adults, they will attend（参加）a social life, such as searching for life partners and make your social circles bigger.

Buy experiences

The usual advice is "buy experiences, not things", But the difference between them is often not so clear. A bicycle can provide an experience, and a new camera can keep one. So buy experiences, especially with other people, but also think about buying material things that allow you to have experiences or keep good memories.

Buy for your interests

If you almost eat out, you shouldn't spend much money buying an expensive set of kitchen knives. But if you love cooking, you can bring yourself happiness in this way. It reminds us—___________. If you are interested in something, you can spend more on it.

Buy self-discipline（自律）

Do you want to improve your health or diet but have trouble doing it? That might mean choosing a cheap gym. Or even you could hire（雇用）a personal trainer. At the supermarket, it could mean buying healthy food. Sometimes, you can spend some money joining a sports club or buying some home sports machines.

1. What does the Paragraph 1 tell us?

A．Money has nothing to do with happiness.	B．We can make full use of happiness to make money.
C．Money can bring happiness to us.	D．We can make us happier by spending money

2. What can be put back into the passage?

A．doing things yourself is challenging	B．interests push us to do things better
C．beautiful tools make work a joy	D．working together makes us happier

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．There's no need to spend money on relationships with others.

B．We may get experiences through buying some material things.

C．It's not right for us to eat out and buy expensive but nice kitchen things.

D．Spending money hiring a personal trainer won't make us happy.

4. Why does the writer write this passage?

A．To tell us happiness comes from small things.	B．To show how to spend money correctly.
C．To explain money is so important for us.	D．To provide some ways to buy happiness.

【推荐2】Dear students, I am glad to deliver a speech about space as a space scientist.

In 2003, China sent its first astronaut, Yang Liwei, 12 other Chinese astronauts have “reached for the stars”. Shenzhou XIII spacecraft took off in October and carried 3 astronauts to the space. Among them, Wang has even drawn worldwide attention. She is known to us because she will become the first Chinese woman to take a spacewalk. Because of this, you start to wonder what you should do so as to become astronauts like these great men. Actually it is never easy to be an astronaut.

Health is important

To be an astronaut, you need to be very healthy. You’d better not have any small problems. For example, a decayed tooth（龋齿）could get worse in space and bring trouble to astronauts.

Become stronger with hard training

In China, you must be a great pilot first and fly more than 600 hours without accidents. And then you might start difficult training after becoming a backup（预备的）astronaut. For example, you have to wear a 200-kilogram suit and do tasks underwater for six or seven hours without eating or going to the toilet. This is like doing tasks during a spacewalk.

Learn science

Knowledge is important as well. Astronauts must learn different subjects including math, English, physics. So they can do with emergencies（紧急情况）and do scientific experiments in space.

However, it’s possible that backup astronauts can never go to space. During the Shenzhou XIII mission, only three astronauts could go into space. But there are another 13 backup astronauts. They are also heroes of this great space program.

1. Up to now, how many Chinese astronauts have been into space?

A．12.

B．13.

C．25.

D．26.

2. Which of the word can replace（替换）the underlined word in Paragraph 2?

A．painted

B．brought

C．made

D．caught

3. What training should an astronaut take?

A．Flying an airplane for about 600 days.

B．Playing sports for 200 hours per week.

C．Wearing a special suit and doing tasks underwater.

D．Practicing spacewalks for around 6 hours every day.

4. What can we infer according to the passage?

A．Astronauts can solve every emergency.

B．If you are healthy, you can go into space.

C．Astronauts don’t care about small healthy problem.

D．Backup astronauts might not go into space in the end.

5. What is this passage mainly about?

A．It is hard to become an astronaut.

B．Astronauts can stay healthy in space.

C．Astronauts should take different training.

D．The subjects are easy for astronauts to learn.