1 . Ithaa Undersea Restaurant
Country: Maldives
Telephone: ＋960 668 0629
Eat with the fishes at the world’s first and only all-glass underwater restaurant. Placed 5 meters below the surface of the Indian Ocean, the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant has 180-degree views of sea-fish. Once inside, you can enjoy delicious European dishes, such as caviar, prawn tartare, and reef lobster.
La Gruta Restaurant
Country: Mexico
Telephone: ＋52 55 5202 2775
Placed just behind the Pyramid of the Sun (太阳金字塔), La Gruta Restaurant serves traditional Mexican meals in a mysterious cave. After the challenge of climbing the pyramid, reward (奖赏) yourself with tacos, barbacoa, or fajitas. You’ll be following in some famous footsteps — everyone from Mexican artist Frida Kahlo to Queen Elizabeth has spent time here.
The Rock Restaurant
Country: Tanzania
Telephone: ＋255 776 591 360
The Rock Restaurant is just off the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean. Reached by boat at high tide (潮水) and by foot at low, this place is positively made for taking photos. In the 12-table dining room, you can have seafood with local touches, such as fish carpaccio with coconut sauce and potato gnocchi served with prawns.
Labasin Waterfalls Restaurant
Country: Philippines
Telephone: ＋632 521 0830
Hope you don’t mind getting your feet wet. At the Labasin Waterfalls Restaurant, bamboo picnic tables are set in a pool at the base of an artificial (人工的) waterfall. Diners have traditional Philippine food with fish, rice, barbecued chicken, and bananas, as water from the falls gently courses throughout the space. No shoes allowed. All rows will get wet.
1. In which restaurant can you eat European dishes?| A．La Gruta Restaurant. | B．The Rock Restaurant. |
| C．Ithaa Undersea Restaurant. | D．Labasin Waterfalls Restaurant. |
| A．＋960 668 0629. | B．＋52 55 5202 2775. |
| C．＋255 776 591 360. | D．＋632 521 0830. |
| A．It serves Mexican food. |
| B．It can only be reached by boat. |
| C．It once hosted Queen Elizabeth. |
| D．It has requirements about what you wear. |
2 . According to a recent survey carried out by The Economist (经济学家) magazine, Ireland is by far and away the best country in the world to live in.
Once Ireland joined the EU in 1973, the base for economic growth started to be put into place. The 1990s saw the economic growth finally arrive-a total change in Ireland’s economic fortunes was born. The country experienced year-on-year growth of almost ten per cent and now has the fourth-highest GDP per head in the world — a massive 36.5 thousand dollars per person. Coupled with this has been a huge drop in unemployment (失业率) from 20 per cent15 years ago to around four per cent today, all of which has meant Dublin’s newspapers now come with larger job sections and the country is looking to import up to 300 thousand new workers in the next few years.
In many ways, Ireland is the perfect advertisement (广告) for the policies of the IMF and the World Bank as it is one of the few economies that has opened itself up to free trade, foreign investment (投资) and unregulated business activity, cut welfare (福利) spending and checked wage (工资) increases and yet still managed to grow rapidly.
1. When did Ireland join the EU?| A．In 1990. | B．In 1973. | C．In 1991. | D．In 1974. |
| A．Business activity is regulated in Ireland. |
| B．Dublin’s newspapers now come with smaller job sections. |
| C．Ireland is the bad advertisement for the policies of the IMF. |
| D．Ireland will import up to 300 thousand new workers in the future. |
| A．Free trade. | B．The advertisement. |
| C．The World Bank. | D．Ireland. |
| A．Technology. | B．Education. | C．Economy. | D．Nature. |
1. Why does Nina need to go to the dentist’s?
| A．To fill a bad tooth. | B．To have a tooth pulled. | C．To get her teeth cleaned. |
| A．In an hour. | B．In half an hour. | C．In fifteen minutes. |
| A．On foot. | B．By car. | C．By bus. |
| A．How Linda found the movie yesterday. |
| B．What movie Linda watched last night. |
| C．Why Linda went to the cinema yesterday. |
A long time ago, people lived happily under the rule of a king. The people of the kingdom were very happy as they led a very happy life with wealth and no misfortunes.
Once, the king decided to go visiting historical places and pilgrim (朝圣者) centres at distant places. He decided to travel on foot to interact with his people.
People of distant places were very happy to have a conversation with their king. They were proud that their king had a kind heart.
After several weeks of travel, the king returned to the palace. He was quite happy that he had visited many pilgrim centres and seen his people leading a happy life.
However, he had one regret. He had great pain in his feet as it was his first trip on foot covering a long distance. He complained to his ministers that the roads weren’t comfortable and that they were very stony. He could not stand the pain. He said that he was very worried about the people who had to walk along those roads as it would be painful for them, too!
Considering all this, he ordered his servants to cover the roads in the whole country with leather (皮革) so that the people of his kingdom could walk comfortably.
The king’s ministers were surprised to hear his order as it would mean that thousands of cows would have to be killed in order to get a large quantity of leather. And it would also cost a huge amount of money.
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Finally, a wise man from the ministry came to the king and said that he had another idea.
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7 . The walking, park-touring, and dancing robots made by Boston Dynamics have been darlings of the internet for years, as they danced from labs to Softbank and most recently Hyundai, while owners tried to figure out how to get them off the dance floor and into the factory. Michael Graham Richard showed the family of robots doing all kinds of things a few years ago, but this new video that starts off with two Atlas robots is just amazing. It's designed to assist emergency rescue (紧急救援) workers in search-and-rescue operations, performing tasks such as shutting off gas, opening doors, and operating powered equipment in environments where humans cannot survive.
But Atlas has never really been out of the lab. In fact, very few of Boston Dynamics robots have been used for work. But after they were bought by Japanese investor Softbank in 2017, they had to go out and get a real job, and Spot, who also dances in the video is the first commercial offering. There are about 400 of them out in the field now. You can buy one for $75,000 and use it as a platform for many different functions (功能), from checking for gas leaks to working for bomb groups, although that did not work out too well. But with that robotic arm option, it looks like it might be able to bring you coffee.
The last robot to join the dance party was Handle, which looked less impressive because of its use of wheels instead of legs. Now that it has been sold to a real manufacturing company, we can probably expect Hyundai to pay off the money to make real working, instead of dancing robots.
1. Why are Atlas robots amazing?| A．They can protect the environment. | B．They can do dangerous work. |
| C．They can walk into factories. | D．They can dance very well. |
| A．It just exists in the video. | B．It is developed by Softbank. |
| C．It is the first one to go into market. | D．Its single function makes it less attractive. |
| A．It has two flat feet. | B．It moves by wheels. |
| C．It can't bring you coffee. | D．It assists emergency rescue. |
| A．Develop new robots. | B．Pay off Hyundai's debts. |
| C．Make people entertained. | D．Do some practical jobs. |
8 . TRAVEL PERU
Lake Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful scenery as you spend a day driving to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
A short flight takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day travelling by boat to your accommodation in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
Machu Picchu Tour
This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. Then, you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the prefect fit of the stones.
So come and experience what Peru has to offer. For more brochures about Peru, contact us at tourinfo@travelperu.org.
1. Where can visitors enjoy Spanish culture?| A．At the Uros homes. | B．At the capital of the Inca Empire. |
| C．Near the Andes. | D．In the city of Machu Picchu. |
| A．Lake Titicaca Tour. | B．Cusco Tour. |
| C．Amazon Rainforest Tour. | D．Machu Picchu Tour. |
| A．To record Peru’s long history and culture. | B．To invite more people to visit a website. |
| C．To try to attract more visitors to Peru. | D．To sell more brochures to visitors. |
9 . Why can’t you remember being a baby? Will that trip to Dreamworld be wasted on your toddler (学步的幼儿)? Scientists explain how the brain changes from infancy (婴儿期) through to early childhood, and what this means for your child’s memories.
While some people can remember memories from as early as age two, as adults most of us rarely remember things that happen to us before the age of three, due to a phenomenon called “infantile amnesia (婴儿健忘症)”. Generally, we tend to have vague (模糊的) memories of events that occur between the ages of three and seven.
So why is it that we can’t remember being a baby, or a toddler? The answer lies in the way that our brain’s ability to store memories changes as we grow. At birth, a baby’s brain is only a quarter of its adult size, growing to three-quarters the size of an adult brain by age two. This increase correlates with a growth in the number of brain cells—called neurons (神经元)一and the connections between these cells.
A part of the brain that is important in forming memories is the hippocampus (海马体), says Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri, a researcher at the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland. “In the hippocampus, new neurons are constantly being created. In adulthood, new cells are still being produced, but the rate of production in the hippocampus slows down,” says Dr Jhaveri.
Neuroscientists believe that the rapid rate at which brain cells are being produced in childhood could be the cause of infantile amnesia. Because so many new neurons are being produced and form connections with each other in memory circuits (记忆电路), they might disturb existing networks of memories that have already formed.
But it turns out that a child’s ability to remember things for long periods of time improves gradually throughout childhood. For example, in studies in which young kids were taught to imitate an action, six-month-olds could remember what to do for 24 (but not 48) hours, while nine-month-olds could remember what to do one month (but not three months) later.
Despite this memory loss, childhood experiences have been found to influence adult behaviour years later, which suggests that traces of these memories could be stored somewhere in the brain that isn’t easy to access.
So while your kids might not recall their major milestones or be too young to remember a trip to Disneyland, positive experiences as toddlers or in infancy may continue to affect their behaviour long after they’ve forgotten them.
1. What can be inferred from paragraph 3?| A．Our brain’s ability to store memories remains unchanged as we grow. |
| B．The size of the child’s brain by age two is twice the size at birth. |
| C．The growth in the number of neurons will influence the size of the child’s brain. |
| D．Neurons have nothing to do with a person’s memory. |
| A．The rapid rate of brain cells being produced. |
| B．The existing networks of memories. |
| C．The way of our brain storing memories. |
| D．The memory circuits of our brain. |
| A．Childhood experiences will influence adult behaviour years later. |
| B．Traces of these memories could be stored somewhere in the brain. |
| C．A child’s ability to remember things improves gradually over time. |
| D．The younger a baby is, the better its memory is. |
| A．Subjective. | B．Objective. | C．Pessimistic. | D．Uncaring. |
10 . This week we drove over to spend some time with Aunt Carmeleta. We don’t see her
As always, it was
The first time my friend, Bill, met Carmeleta, he said, “She can’t be
I’ve been
Next month Carmeleta will be 89 years young. I say young because she never seems to
| A．formally | B．often | C．actually | D．completely |
| A．attend | B．celebrate | C．honour | D．repeat |
| A．awkward | B．possible | C．wonderful | D．obvious |
| A．teaching | B．hiking | C．agreeing | D．smiling |
| A．worried | B．comfortable | C．sad | D．responsible |
| A．real | B．old | C．beautiful | D．active |
| A．strong | B．loving | C．powerful | D．frightened |
| A．hopes | B．attracts | C．admires | D．believes |
| A．anxious | B．confusing | C．lucky | D．amazing |
| A．helped | B．controlled | C．fed | D．phoned |
| A．took responsibility for | B．lost contact with | C．sang praise for | D．spoke ill of |
| A．lecture | B．revise | C．guide | D．annoy |
| A．Change | B．Dislike | C．Accept | D．Leave |
| A．truth | B．improvement | C．source | D．survival |
| A．wait | B．work | C．view | D．age |
