Shanghai Disney Resort will officially open and welcome its first guests on June 16, The Walt Disney Company and Shanghai Shendi Group announced early morning today.
“The resort will host a multi-day grand opening celebration, culminating in a spectacular welcoming ceremony for the resort’s first official guests.” The management of the resort said.
At the opening, it will include the Shanghai Disneyland, a theme park with six themed lands, two themed hotels, Disneytown, a huge shopping, dining and entertainment district and Wishing Star Park. It will also celebrate China’s rich heritage and cultural elements.
“Both shareholders and the board of directors agree this is the optimal time to welcome our first official guests to the resort,” said Philippe Gas, general manager of the resort.
Major construction of the resort is now complete and will be followed by extensive preparations to ensure the resort is fully operational and ready to greet millions of guests. The resort will continue to hire and train a new cast to join the current team of nearly 2,000 cast members and imaginers, according to the resort.
The theme park’s ticketing plan as well as other operational details of the resort will be announced at a later date.
Shanghai Disneyland, the resort’s theme park, will have six themed lands: Adventure Isle, Gardens of Imagination, Mickey Avenue, Tomorrow land, Treasure Cove and Fantasyland, with the Enchanted Storybook Castle, the largest castle in a Disney park.
Shanghai Disney Resort broke ground in 2011. The iconic castle topped off in May 2015.
1. What can be inferred from the passage?
| A．Shanghai Disney Resort will have some unique Chinese features. |
| B．The optimal time for the opening of the resort has not been decided. |
| C．The resort will employ 2,000 cast members and imaginers at most. |
| D．Millions of guests will visit Shanghai Disney Resort on the opening day. |
| A．The ticket prices of the theme park have been announced. |
| B．The whole construction of Shanghai Disney Resort has already been completed. |
| C．Extensive preparations will have to be made before the opening of the resort. |
| D．The iconic castle, Disneytown, topped off in May 2015. |
| A．Shanghai Disney Resort is the largest one in the world. |
| B．Shanghai Disney Resort is to open on June 16. |
| C．Shanghai Disney Resort has completed its main construction. |
| D．Shanghai Disney Resort will have six themed lands. |
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But you may be misguided because things don't turn out for the best. You may believe that when one door closes another one opens (for example, you may fail to obtain a new job; another chance will come around soon ). Wrong. When one door closes, another door slams ( 砰然关上 ) in your face. That’s bitter reality.
Now a book has been published which confirms what pessimists (悲观者) have suspected all along. It’s called The Positive Power of Defensive Pessimism. Its author argues that defensive pessimism can lead to positive results. Defensive pessimism is a strategy used to manage fear, anxiety and worry. Defensive pessimists prepare for the things by setting low outcomes for themselves. They carefully consider everything that may go wrong and plan for ways to handle these problems. And this gives them a sense of control. Lawrence Sanno, a psychology professor, says, “What's interesting about defensive pessimists is that they tend to be very successful people, so their low opinion of the situation's outcomes is not realistic. They use it to motivate themselves to perform better.”
So far, so good.
And “Don’t count your chickens until they hatch.” To have a confident and optimistic approach to life’s problems is good. But listen to what Woody Alien, the American comedian says ,” Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
There are pros and cons to being an optimist and a pessimist. Don’t feel bad if you see the glass half empty. You are a realist. But lighten up and hook up with someone who sees the same glass half full.
1. What’s the passage mainly about?
| A．The benefits of defensive pessimism. |
| B．How to become successful in life |
| C．The dangers of being too optimistic. |
| D．A book that has recently been published. |
| A．it’s not a dangerous thing to do |
| B．there is no real proof |
| C．the cost is not so high |
| D．it is quite simple to understand |
| A．Whatever will be, will be. |
| B．The glass is half full not half empty. |
| C．Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. |
| D．Every cloud has a silver lining. |
| A．an optimist | B．a realist |
| C．a defeatist | D．a scientist |
Birds, especially seagulls are very fond of locusts (蝗虫), but birds can’t easily catch locusts because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colour of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they have to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at night.
If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of colouring is to protect them. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usually invisible(can’t be seen) to the eyes of hunters, because they have the colour much like the bark（树皮）of trees.
An even more strange act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid is over, its enemies cannot find it, and it quickly swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all.
1. This passage mainly talks about _______.
| A．the change of colour in locusts |
| B．animals or pests can dye（染色）themselves different colours |
| C．how a certain sea fish protects itself |
| D．the protective colour of animals and pests |
| A．they change colors with the crops |
| B．they are dangerous to their enemies |
| C．they fly very fast |
| D．they are powerful enough |
| A．their enemies can easily find them and eat them |
| B．they have the habit of coming out in darkness |
| C．it’s easy for them to destroy plants in darkness |
| D．birds take their rests when night comes |
| A．it is the most powerful in the sea |
| B．no other fishes can swim as fast as it can |
| C．it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it |
| D．the liquid it sends out can kill its enemies |
5 . My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled (翻耕的) soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Dad pushing the tiller (耕作机) ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow com, and our favorite ― red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn’t get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after he died, I couldn’t even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the comer of my eye and I had to smile, It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
1. Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?| A．The garden was planted with colorful flowers. |
| B．The garden was just freshly tilled by his father. |
| C．He loved what his father grew in the garden. |
| D．He enjoyed being in the garden with his father. |
| A．devoted more to gardening |
| B．turned to other hobbies |
| C．stopped his gardening |
| D．focused on planting tomatoes |
| A．The author’s son took charge of it. |
| B．No plant grew in the garden at all. |
| C．The garden was almost deserted. |
| D．It brought the author a great harvest. |
| A．the author’s son played happily in the garden |
| B．the author’s son reminded him of his own father |
| C．the author’s son was very glad to help the author |
| D．the author’s son will continue gardening as well |
6 . There are probably no people on Earth who like to gossip as much as the British. If prying into (打探) other’s lives were an Olympic sport, then Team GB would surely take the gold medal.
And when the British can’t watch the lives of real people, they have another source of entertainment to fall back on — the soap opera. British soap operas are very different to US TV dramas. For one, they are normally longer running. The two most popular, Coronation Street and East-enders, have been running for 48 and 24 years respectively. Both are broadcast several times a week, so remarkably there have been more than 7,000 episodes of Coronation Street.
The most obvious difference is that, unlike US dramas, the British soap operas focus on the real world. There is little glamour (魅力), the stars are rarely rich, and they normally have boring jobs. Perhaps the appeal is that the lives of the characters often mirror the lives of the audience — but with some drama added. This means the viewer can relate to the characters and feel the pain and happiness they go through on the show.
Because these soap operas last for decades, the cast is ever changing. The shows rarely focus on one or two main characters. Like the real world, people come and go all the time. However, there are exceptions. Coronation Street’s William Roach, 76, has played the role of Ken Barlow since the very first episode of the show in 1960, and he is still a regular.
The choice of which soap opera you follow is often cultural: People from the north of British tend to watch Coronation Street as it is set in Manchester. People from the south generally prefer East-enders, which is set in the east of London. The show is generally considered grittier and is aimed at a younger audience.
1. What is the main difference between American dramas and British soap operas?| A．American dramas are longer. |
| B．British soap operas are longer. |
| C．American dramas deal with dangerous things. |
| D．British soap operas deal with real people. |
| A．They can find their own life from the operas. |
| B．They can enjoy the operas in their free time. |
| C．They can watch the operas for many years. |
| D．They care about the fate of the characters in the operas. |
| A．plays |
| B．pages |
| C．issues |
| D．parts |
| A．the characters play the same role for a long time. |
| B．the characters in the play often change |
| C．people don’t know what will happen next |
| D．there is only one or two characters in them |
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1. The position of a(n)_______is a part-time job．
| A．florist |
| B．artist |
| C．preschool teacher |
| D．dental nurse |
| A．The ability to work well with other people． |
| B．Childcare experience． |
| C．The ability to start work in two weeks． |
| D．Cooking skills． |
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Landscape (风景) is another unchanging element of art．It can be found from ancient times through the17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists．In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice．Leslie sought out the same place where ThomasCole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before．Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees．In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background．He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom．
Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another．The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests．To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods．
Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant．Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience．Many and different are the faces ofart, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings．
1. The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ________ ．
| A．an object for artistic creation |
| B．an unusual quality |
| C．a collection of poems |
| D．a natural scene |
| A．they draw attention to common things in life |
| B．they look like works by 19th-century painters |
| C．they are close in style to works in ancient times |
| D．they depend heavily on color photography |
| A．It does not have a long-lasting standard |
| B．It will not be found in future works of art． |
| C．It is expressed in a fixed artistic form． |
| D．It is lacking in modern works of art． |
| A．History of the arts． |
| B．Use of modern technology in the arts． |
| C．Basic questions of the arts． |
| D．New developments in the arts． |
9 . Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.
I was attending a standup comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their heads off. The main reason why those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn't only funny, but it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.
The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren't jealous of him.
In short, we don't laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage you from making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person's emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.
1. What did the author find out after studying psychology?| A．Only good jokes make people laugh. |
| B．Many factors lead to people's laughing. |
| C．Funny things can make people laugh. |
| D．Laughter can make people healthy. |
| A．They played a trick on the pedestrians. |
| B．The pedestrians behaved in a funny way. |
| C．They could feel the pedestrians' happiness. |
| D．Their emotion was approved of by the show. |
| A．Annoy. | B．Blame. |
| C．Look down on. | D．Make up to. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
The only problem with our plan was that this pasture was guarded by a huge, mean Hereford bull. Mr.Blickez had told us that Elsie was the meanest bull in the township, maybe even the county, and we believed him. But the hotter it got, the more we thought there was something fishy about his claim. For one thing, we remembered Mr.Blickez liked telling tall tales; for another, Elsie seemed like an odd name for a bull.
Finally, I talked Mom into asking permission for us to walk through the pasture, but then another problem surfaced. Mom said she would talk to Mr.Blickez if we would take our cousin Joanie along with us. Joanie was almost two years older than me and a head taller. If her teasing ever got around my grade school, it would be all over for me. In fact, I still had a headache from a quarrel with her that morning. “I’m not going swimming with that dumb girl cousin.” I told my mom.
“Either Joanie goes with, or you stay home alone,” Mom said in her serious tone. I gave in and we set out. On our way across the pasture, Walt yelled suddenly. Elsie had approached him quietly and was licking(舔) his back. Joanie and I dove under the wire fence, but while I was on the ground I looked up and saw that Elsie wasn’t a big mean bull after all. She was going to keep licking my brother’s back as long as he stood still.
We had many good days growing up and visiting our secret swimming hole guarded by the so-called “big mean bull”. And as it turned out, for a girl cousin, Joanie hasn’t been too bad. She’s been one of my best friends over the years.
1. What’s the meaning of the underline word “fishy” in Paragraph 2?
| A．Funny. | B．Interesting. |
| C．Doubtful. | D．Believable. |
| A．His mother insisted on his cousin going with him. |
| B．His cousin made jokes on him in his grade school. |
| C．He quarreled with his cousin and had a headache. |
| D．His mother failed to ask permission for him. |
| A．Aggressive. | B．Unkind. |
| C．Bad-tempered. | D．Friendly. |
| A．The bull guarding Mr.Blickez’s farm. |
| B．The story of visiting the swimming hole. |
| C．How friendly the so-called mean bull was. |
| D．How the author changed his attitude to Joanie. |
