1 . On your journey, there are some healthy active transport options, for example cycling.

Active transport benefits

* It’s a convenient and practical way to incorporate (并入) regular exercise into your day.

* Cycling to your stop or station helps to reduce your carbon footprint.

* The cost of buying and maintaining a bicycle is around 1% of the cost of buying and maintaining a car.

* It provides an opportunity to socialize with people in your local community.

* Cycling provides commuters (通勤者) with economical and efficient access to public transport services. On average, 10 times more households are within cycling distance of public transport than they are within walking distance.

Taking your bike on the train

You can take your bike on the train on weekdays, except during the following peak times:

* 7 a.m.-9:30 a.m. towards the CBD (Central Business District);

* 3 p.m.-6:30 p. m. outwards from the CBD;

* at any time during weekends and public holidays.

Note: You can travel in the opposite direction during the specified peak times above.

To avoid travelling during peak times, you must complete your morning journey by 7 a.m. towards the CBD and afternoon journey by 3 p.m. outwards from the CBD.

During peak hours, bikes cannot be brought through Fortitude Valley, Central or Roma Street stations. If you travel with a bike during peak times, you may be asked to leave the train until peak time ends.

Bike storage facilities

Bike facilities offer greater flexibility as you can cycle to a station and securely park your bike before continuing your journey on public transport. Queensland Rail and the City of Gold Coast also offer a number of bicycle storage facilities across our network. You can book a bike locker by emailing us at bikelockerqueries@ translink. com. au.

1. What is mentioned about cycling in the text?

A．It is environmentally-friendly.	B．It is convenient to get around.
C．It is helpful to reduce your weight.	D．It is much faster than walking.

2. When can you take your bike on the train through Roma Street station?

A．7 a.m. on Christmas.	B．3 p.m. towards CBD.
C．6 p.m. during weekends.	D．4 p.m. outwards from CBD.

3. Where can we probably find the text?

A．A guide book.	B．A health journal.
C．A sports magazine.	D．A Travel website.

2 . Our mother earth is going through a very tough situation and we, the entire human race, are destroying our environment or unconsciously without even realizing its consequences. Now we have to act very smartly and plan something to sustain what we still have, getting all necessary support from nature to lead healthy lives.

Gardening is always an excellent and environmentally friendly idea. If you can go for sustainable gardening, then it will be even more useful for all. Gardening is a favorite hobby for many. It is time to channelize your hobby towards a more meaningful motivation.

When we do gardening we need to use different ingredients(材料) to grow plants. Some of them are natural resources like water, soil, sunshine, and many things like this. Using these resources smartly is a part of sustainable gardening. Some simple techniques include: use less water and organic things to grow plants; try to store rainwater so that you can use them for gardening; try using less energy to drive devices; avoid using plastics in any form while gardening; reuse the leaves from your garden to fertilize them. These are the basic sustainable measures. To do so we need to have proper knowledge about gardening and its requirements so that we can use proper resources without wasting any of them.

In today’s busy life we don’t get much time to spend on our environment. Gardening gives us a chance to do so. We can also have some pesticide-free(无农药的) and fresh food if we grow them in our garden. This is the right time to do some good to protect our own environment and gardening is one of the easiest ways. Do you want to start gardening, but you’re not sure how? Click here: http://www. gardenhowto. com.

1. What does the underlined word “channelize” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Cause.	B．Transform.
C．Direct.	D．Associate.

2. Which of the following belongs to a sustainable measure?

A．Using advanced electrical machines.

B．Avoiding fertilizers.

C．Watering plants with collected rainwater.

D．Clearing away the leaves.

3. What is the benefit of sustainable gardening?

A．It requires little water.	B．It needs no fertilizer.
C．It breaks up plastics.	D．It doesn't waste any resource.

4. Where is the passage probably taken from?

A．A newspaper.	B．The Internet.
C．A guidebook.	D．A science report.

3 . When Shakespeare was twenty-one, he went to London, a very interesting place, to try his fortune.

There was the famous London Bridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral, and palaces and markets and long streets full of shops.

Then, too, there were the daily crowds where could be seen people from all over the world. Knights, scholars and the highwayman (拦路强盗）or thieves, who had been infamous for their clever robberies, passed by each other.

Here, also, were noblemen dressed in gold, from Italy and Spain and France; slaves from Spanish America, sea captains and ministers, soldiers and servants—all held by chances or interests within the gray walls which circled London, and whose gates gave welcome to as strange a crowd as could be found in the world.

Into this curious crowd came Shakespeare, quick to see and eager to learn. And before long all these strange sights were as familiar to him as the faces of his own town’s residents. Each one told its story to him so plainly that, as before he had learned the secrets of the fields and woods, so now he learned men and men’s interests that make up the great world.

And he learned these lessons so well that when he came to write his plays, he made such use of them as no writer ever made before or since; for it is the use of this knowledge of the world, combined with his own genius, that makes Shakespeare the greatest dramatist that has ever lived.

1. What was London like in Shakespeare’s eyes when he first went there?

A．Dirty and small.	B．Strange and interesting.
C．Infamous and terrible.	D．Familiar and modern.

2. Which of the following best describes Shakespeare?

A．Shakespeare got inspiration to write from his hometown, London.

B．Shakespeare was eager to make friends with the noblemen in London.

C．Shakespeare was good at observing and learning from the daily life.

D．Shakespeare became the greatest dramatist owing to his own genius.

3. What does the word “one” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．Crowd.	B．Resident.
C．Face.	D．Sight.

4. The passage probably comes from______.

A．a poster	B．a textbook
C．an advertisement	D．an announcement

4 . Most rain forests lie close to the equator(赤道),where the climate is often mild and there are long hours of sunshine.The warmth of the land heats the air above,causing it to rise and tiny drops of water to fall as rain.The rainfall can reach at least 98 inches a year.This wet,warm world with plenty of sunlight is perfect for plants to grow,so the trees grow fast with green leaves all the year round.The trees themselves also have an effect on the climate.They gather water from the soil and pass it out into the air through their leaves.The wet air then forms clouds,which hang over the treetops like smoke.These clouds protect the forest from the daytime heat and night-time cold of nearby deserts,keeping temperatures fit for plant growth.
Rain forests slightly farther away from the equator remain just as warm,but they have a dry season of three months or more when little rain falls.Tree leaves fall during this dry season and new leaves grow when the wet season or monsoon(雨季) begins.Thus these areas are known as the “monsoon forest”.
Another type of rain forest grows on tropical mountains.It is often called the “cloud forest” because clouds often hang over the trees like fog.
The rain forest is the ideal place for the growth of many different trees.Most of them depend on animals to eat their fruits and spread their seeds.When the fruits are eaten,the seeds inside them go undamaged through animals’ stomachs and are passed out in their droppings.The seeds lying on the forest floor then grow into new trees.
1. The climate of the rain forests near the equator is _______.

A．mild,wet and windy	B．hot,rainy and foggy
C．hot,wet and cloudy	D．warm,wet and sunny

2. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A．tree leaves are green all the time in the monsoon forest

B．there is a dry season in the cloud forest on tropical mountains

C．clouds help the plants in the rain forest near the deserts to grow

D．the formation of climate in the rain forest has little to do with the trees

3. According to the passage,_______ play the most important role in the spreading of seeds.

A．animals

B．droppings

C．fruits

D．winds

4. This passage is most likely to be found in _______.

A．a travel guide	B．a story book
C．a technical report	D．a geography book