1 . Drawing for Fun

You will learn some basic techniques using soft pencils.These different types of paper are provided.

Just bring yourself and a willingness to “have a go”. This is a start-up day so people who have already attended courses should not apply.

Time: 1:00p.m.～3:00p.m.
Focus on Landscapes

This course is designed for students who are familiar with painting in watercolours (水彩), but are having difficulty with some techniques. We will discuss choice of materials, colour mixing and other areas that maybe raised.

The day will start with a demonstration, followed by a chance to paint outdoors. After a light lunch cooked in the studio, there will be a further practice session.

Time: 9:30a.m.～3:00p.m.
Find Your Voice

You may feel you can᾿t sing or you may be a good singer who wants to develop singing skills. You will be shown how to sing correctly and how to project your voice. You may attend this course more than once and each time you will have a wonderful experience. Everyone can sing and it᾿s great fun.

Time: 2:00p.m.～5:00p.m.
The Music Takeaway

Get some friends, family or co-workers together for your own music course in a place of your choice, which could be your front room, basement or workplace. We send two guitar teachers to lead a oneday course for you in the style of music you prefer, such as rock, country, funk or blues.

Time: 2:30p.m.～9:00p.m.
1. What’s the purpose of Focus on Landscapes?

A．Paint outdoors.

B．Discuss the painting materials.

C．Teach how to start watercolour-painting.

D．Improve the students’ painting techniques.

2. Which course can you attend repeatedly?

A．Drawing for Fun.

B．Find Your Voice

C．Focus on Landscapes.

D．The Music Takeaway.

3. Which allows you to decide where the course is held?

A．The Music Takeaway.	B．Drawing for Fun.
C．Find Your Voice.	D．Focus on Landscapes.

2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

Language Days at the United Nations seek to celebrate multilingualism (多语言) and cultural diversity as well as    1    (promote) equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization.

The date for the Chinese day was selected from Guyu, which is the    2    (six) of 24 solar terms (二十四节气) in the traditional East Asian calendars. In the Gregorian calendar (公历), it    3    (usual) begins around April 20.

Chinese was established as an official language of the United Nations in 1946. However, in early    4    (year), Chinese was not commonly used in the work of the United Nations.    5    situation was improved after the People’s Republic of China regained the lawful rights (权利) in the United Nations in 1971. In 1973, the General Assembly (联合国大会)    6    (include) Chinese as a working language,    7    was followed by the Security Council in 1974. More and more UN offices and staff members work with Chinese language.

In    8    (celebrate) of United Nations Chinese Language Day 2021, UNSRC Chinese Book Club is organizing three events under the theme “Highlighting Pictographs (象形文字)”. The three events focus    9    three types of pictographs    10    (associate) with three cultures and three UNESCO World Heritage sites. All three events will be conducted live.

5 . 假定你是李华，最近你校对“学生是否应该参加晨跑”一事开展讨论。学生们对此观点不一，有的支持，有的反对。请你给学生会主席写一封信，谈谈你的看法。
内容包括：1. 观点   2. 理由   3. 建议
注意：1. 词数80左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇： 晨跑   morning jogging / jog in the morning
Dear Chairman,
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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

Ms. Mary was over eighty,     1     she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact that she had never    2    (punish) for a driving mistake in her thirty­five years of driving,

Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the     3    (policeman) in it saw her pass a red light without     4     (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her     5     (serious) and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason why she had not stopped     6     red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished     7    he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing (缝纫包). Without saying a word, she     8    (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had successfully done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive     9     car well, and you have no doubts about your eyesight. ”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary was dismissed, and     10    (she) record remained unbroken.

7 . Only a few people in Toronto have the luck to live within walking distance from their workplace. For the rest of us, commuting(乘车上下班) is a rather unpleasant daily necessity.

So how do you avoid a traffic jam in Toronto?You can do it in the old way and listen to one of the radio stations that give regular updates about the traffic situation in Toronto’s streets. Seeing the big picture of Toronto’s traffic and knowing when and where heavy traffic occurs is a must. We prepared three short videos showing the overall traffic situation in Toronto from dawn to night. You can click them and watch.

Friday traffic in Toronto is quite fast in the early morning, with only a few hot spots showing up at the major junctions (交叉点) at 7：00 am. The morning traffic jam starts light at 7：30 and the traffic gradually slows down to reach a breaking point at 8：30. The roads are quite free afterwards, only Allen Road is likely to be jammed around lunchtime from 11：30 am to 12：00 noon. It comes as no surprise that Friday afternoon brings heavy traffic as early as 1：00 pm, mainly on the Don Valley Parkway. You won’t have a good time getting away from the city from 4：00 pm to 6：30 pm, as there is a good chance to get caught in a traffic jam. The traffic in Toronto is quite heavy on a Friday night. I hope you will have a nice Friday night in the city and a safe journey home this Friday!

1. By saying “commuting is a rather unpleasant daily necessity”, the writer refers to the fact that ________.

A．buses are usually very crowded

B．they have to travel a long way to work

C．they are often stuck in traffic jams

D．they usually cannot do anything on the way to work

2. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．What the traffic in Toronto is like for a typical Friday.

B．How to avoid heavy traffic on Fridays.

C．Why the traffic is terrible on Fridays.

D．What can we do when trapped in traffic jam.

3. In Toronto, on Fridays you are most likely to suffer heavy traffic ________.

A．from 6：30 am to 7：00 am	B．from 4：00 pm to 6：30 pm
C．from 10：30 am to 11：00 am	D．from 8：30 am to 9：30 am

4. Where is this passage taken from?

A．A TV program.	B．A radio program.
C．A travel booklet. .	D．A website

8 . Ada Lovelace was born on December 10th 1815. Ada’s mother and father (the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron) parted just weeks after she was born. Her mother feared her growing up with her father’s changeable nature. To stop this from happening, Ada was forced by her mother to learn science and mathematics which was unusual for women at the time. She was also punished if her work was not up to standard. However, she was greatly interested in mathematics and science and would perhaps have learned about them on her own.

Ada was partially disabled and as a result spent much time studying. Ada knew of her mother’s thought about keeping the creative side of her from germinating (萌芽) however, as Ada herself is known to have said, “If you can’t give me poetry at least give me poetical science.” Ada married at 19, to William King who was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838, at which point she became Lady Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, but was known as Ada Lovelace. Ada and King had a relatively happy marriage, with King even encouraging his wife’s love for numbers.

During her youth Ada was introduced to the Scot, Mary Somerville, who was known as the “Queen of 19th Century Science” and was the first woman to be accepted into the Royal Astronomical Society. It was through Mary Somerville that Ada first heard of Charles Babbage’s idea for a new calculating (计算) engine. Attracted by this idea, Ada began a period of letter-writing with him that would come to decide her professional life.

Ada met Babbage when she was around 17 and the two became close friends. Babbage was working on an “Analytical Engine”, something he was designing to deal with complex ( 复杂的) calculations. Ada was later asked to translate an article. She not only translated the article but added pages and pages of notes, calculations and innovations (创新). Her notes were published in 1843 and it turned out that what she had written was so original, it is now seen as the first comprehensive comment on what would become modern-day computer programming. Although impressive, Ada was not actually given credit for the article until 1848.

1. What happened to Ada in her childhood?

A．She was pushed to learn scientific knowledge.

B．She had to compare herself with other women.

C．She gave up learning because of her father’s nature.

D．She had no father any more.

2. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Ada thought poetry was boring.

B．Ada thought science was creative.

C．Ada was interested in both science and poetry.

D．Ada believed poetry was harder than science.

3. What decided Ada’s professional life?

A．Ada was introduced to the Scot, Mary Somerville.

B．Somerville’s suggestions.

C．Her husband’s encouragement.

D．Her communication with Babbage.

4. What did Ada do after she met Babbage?

A．She taught people how to program.

B．She invented an “Analytical Engine”.

C．She translated an article and developed it.

D．She praised Babbage’s achievements.

9 . Here are some works of writers who got famous by writing just one book.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

It was written in just 3 weeks and released in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine and it brought an enormous amount of reputation to the author instantly. After the publication of the novel, a huge popular anger erupted in society. People called it immoral and tried to ban it. But the book turned out to be the most successful novel of the playwright (剧作家) Oscar Wilde.

Winnie-the-Pooh

Alan Milne was quite a famous playwright before releasing the stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. But the success of the books became so famous that all of his other works went far into the shadows. Milne didn’t like that he was considered a children’s writer. As sad a sit might sound, his works for kids tuned out to be like Frankenstein’s monster the creature that swallowed its creator.

The Catcher in the Rye

In the 1940s, Salinger gained a reputation of a skillful novelist. However, the author faced real success after he released his novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1951. The book, written about a 17-year-old teenager, experienced popularity and earned the love of readers all around the world. Surprisingly, the author forbade any adaptations of the book into movies or theatrical performances.

Wuthering Heights

Unlike her sister, Charlotte, poet Emily Bronte only wrote one novel. It was published in 1847 and stayed almost unnoticed during the author’s life. The novel got universal recognition in the late 19th century and took a strong place in English literature. The novel has been screened many times in the 20th century.

1. What did Oscar Wilde and Alan Milne have in common?

A．They were playwrights.	B．They got famous for kids’ books.
C．They were not recognized at first.	D．Their works aroused people’s anger.

2. What can we know about The Catcher in the Rye?

A．It was Salinger’s only one novel.	B．It was written specially for teenagers.
C．It hasn’t been made into films or plays.	D．It enjoyed popularity mainly in the US.

3. Which of the following was its author’s first novel?

A．The Picture of Dorian Gray.

B．Winnie-the-Pooh.

C．The Catcher in the Rye.

D．Wuthering Heights.