1 . Better China Trip aims to be a bridge for you in China. Whether you are here on business or simply for sightseeing, we offer you a city-to-city transportation, tour guide, and interpreter service. We can also try to assist you in answering any questions you might have with your business in China. For sightseers, we aim to ensure you see the highlights of any particular city or location you want to visit. You can either research your trip by yourself and bring us a preferred itinerary (旅行日程), or make use of our expert local knowledge to suggest one to you. You’d better discuss it with us before you start out; simply email or ring us up. You can also register your personal information, and book any service you need. The following are our services that you can order.
We have Beijing car rental, Beijing van (货车) rental, and Beijing driver services. Better China Trip provides car rental services in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Guilin, etc.
Services available:
1. Car, van and bus rental for business/shopping/sightseeing.
2. Translators and interpreters from Chinese to English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, etc.
3. Beijing airport transfers (pick-up and drop-off).
4. Hotel and air or train tickets booking.
5. Tour guides&services for the Great Wall, Tian’anmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Ming Tombs, etc.
6. Tickets booking for Kungfu shows, magic, Peking Opera, etc.
7. Health care: traditional Chinese massage (推拿), foot massage, body massage.
8. Experiencing local Beijing Hutong life by tricycle.
Contact us:
You can visit our website at: www.betterchinatrip.com.
Tel:010 84026538 (within China); 008610 84026538 (outside China);
Email: bctrip01@gmail.com
MSN (Microsoft service Network): bctrip01@gmail.com
1. Whom will Better China Trip serve mainly?| A．The citizens who live or work in Beijing. |
| B．Whoever has language difficulty in China. |
| C．Whoever travels or does business in China. |
| D．The athletes coming to Beijing for big games. |
| A．Before you start out. |
| B．When you arrive in Beijing. |
| C．When you have any trouble. |
| D．After you start your travel. |
| A．getting a passport to go abroad |
| B．tour guides who speak many languages |
| C．driving you to any place at any time |
| D．getting the tickets to a Kungfu show |
2 . The deadliest wildfire in California's history broke out on November 8, 2018. It burned for 17 days and consumed 153,336 acres. In all the fire cost $16.5 billion in damage, destroying nearly 19,000 buildings, living 50,000 homes and killing 85. The beauty of this beautifully named place was gone.
Shane Grammer works as a creative director for Disney's theme parks. When his childhood friend Shane Edwards posted pictures of his white chimney--- the only part of his house to survive---Grammer felt very sad, but didn't know how to help him. And then he had an idea. "I've got to paint that chimney," he told Inside Edition. "And it was an opportunity for me to express myself and be an artist." On December 31, Grammer spent three hours spray-painting a black -and-white image of a woman on the chimney---a reminder, perhaps, of the beauty of life, or even just of life itself.
Grammer posted the image on Instagram. And many viewers said that he had really brought beauty and hope. Suddenly, Grammer realized that what he had thought was that a purely artistic expression had morphed into something deeper, the nature of true art. “When the first mural(壁画) moved so many people in this community, I knew I had to come back up,” Grammer told KRCR- TV. Over a period of three months, he returned eight times, painting 17 portraits of victims and figures of the Bible on walls, pickups, and broken buildings. "There is hope," he explains. "There is beauty in the ashes.”
Grammer's work in Paradise has now become a movement. He has traveled to many places painting murals in dark places that badly needed some light, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico, for example. "I want to do something powerful and create art that moves people," he says.
That first painting, on the chimney in Paradise, survived only a few months -the bulldozer(推土机) is a cruel art critic. Grammer couldn't be more delighted. It means that the spirit of Paradise is rising again.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?| A．The cause of the fire. |
| B．The damage caused by the fire. |
| C．The economic loss which resulted from the fire. |
| D．The reason why the beautiful place was gone. |
| A．Broke out. | B．Launched out. |
| C．Moved into. | D．Turned into. |
| A．Some people disliked it. |
| B．Grammer wasn’t satisfied with it. |
| C．The town was under reconstruction. |
| D．The bulldozer knocked it down by accident. |
| A．Caring. | B．Casual. |
| C．Humorous. | D．Indifferent. |
| A．In a restaurant. | B．In a park. | C．In the street. |
| A．Have fun with friends. | B．Learn a language. | C．Watch a movie. |
1. 邀请Terry与你同游；
2. 你的旅游计划；
3. 邀请理由。
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Dear Terry,
How are you?
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Looking forward to your early reply.
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Mr. Smith used to be in prison for three years, which may make you think he is not a good man. But as
As a result, Mr. Smith received the punishment. He was arrested（逮捕）and
7 . If you ask most people what water tastes like, they’ll probably tell you that water has no taste and they may give you a funny look. But if you were a fruit fly, asking another fruit fly, that question might have a different answer.
To a fruit fly, water has a taste. Scientists want to know how the fruit fly knows water because this information may help in learning how other animals — or even individual cells — manage to use water in the right way. Water is important to life, but too much or too little can be deadly to a living creature. So by understanding how the fruit fly tastes water, researchers may learn more about other living things.
According to the new study, a protein(蛋白质)called PPK28 makes it possible for a fly to taste water. Proteins build cells and tissues, fight disease and carry messages between cells. It’s not surprising that a protein is responsible for the fruit fly’s ability to taste water.
The PPK28 protein is part of a larger family of similar proteins. One of these related proteins is used by mammals(哺乳动物)(including humans)to taste salt. Scientists have not found a protein that enables humans to “taste” water.
In the experiment, Cameron and his team compared normal fruit flies with fruit flies whose taste cells had been disabled. The fruit flies were given a special chemical that would glow(发光) when the fly used the PPK28 protein. Then the scientists led the flies to water. When the normal flies tasted the water, the PPK28 protein lit up — showing that it was in use.
The fruit fly in particular is so interesting that some scientists are hard at work creating a complete map of the fruit fly brain. This map will show all of a fly’s neurons and help scientists understand how the neurons(神经元)work together.
1. How do most people feel when asked the taste of water?| A．Disagreeable. | B．Frightened. | C．Disappointed. | D．Strange. |
| A．To know more about other creatures. | B．To decrease the number of the fruit fly. |
| C．To manage to use water correctly. | D．To describe the taste of water. |
| A．It enables the fruit fly to taste water. | B．The fruit fly can’t live without it. |
| C．It can make humans taste salt. | D．The fruit fly uses it to avoid illnesses. |
| A．Creating maps of human brains. | B．Telling more information about cells. |
| C．Studying the fruit fly’s neuron systems. | D．Making the PPK28 protein. |
8 . King’s College Summer School
King’s College Summer School is an annual(一年一度的)training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King’s College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year’s summer school will be from July 25 to August 15.
More information is as follows:
| Application date Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2015. Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16, 2015. Foreign students should send their applications before July 10, 2015. | Courses English Language Spoken English: 22 hours Reading and Writing: 10 hours American History: 16 hours American Culture: 16 hours |
| Steps A letter of self-introduction A letter of recommendation The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information. | Cost Daily lessons: $200 Sports and activities: $100 Travels: $200 Hotel service: $400 You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city. |
| Please write to: Thompson, Sanders 1026 King’s Street New York, NY 10016, USA E-mail: KC-Summer-School@ yahoo.com | |
| A．a travel guide | B．a textbook |
| C．a telephone book | D．a newspaper |
| A．Only top students can take part in the program. |
| B．King’s College Summer School is run every other year. |
| C．Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program. |
| D．Only the teachers of King’s College give courses. |
| A．$200 | B．$400 |
| C．$500 | D．$900 |
9 . How the land has changed, not only down on the ground but from way out in space.There are many latest pictures produced by the sharp eyes of a government satellite known as Landsat 7.
Darrel Williams works on the NASA Landsat 7 Project.“We can see the conditions shortly after the eruption, when just a huge area was totally deforested, burned off.Now, 15 years after the fact, we can see light, pinkish view, which says vegetation is growing back.It’s starting to reforest.” he says.
Twenty-seven years of pictures have tracked the loss of rain forests in South America, as well as the clear-cutting of forests in the US Northwest.
Darrel Williams says, “Clearcut areas show up quite readily, and it shows we need to look at what’s going on in our own backyard, as far as deforestation.”
Landsat satellites have watched from space as glaciers have shrunk more than four miles over the past decade or so.This is a computer-animated view of Glacier Bay, Alaska, based on new pictures from Landsat 7.
Floyd and Irene show the heavy deposits of silt and farm runoff in coastal waters.“And these show the increasing summer temperatures around Atlanta, Georgia”, scientists say, “ the condition is related to the loss of trees.”
Darrel Williams says, “It’s the most unique record of its type.It’s like having a family photo album of anywhere on the globe.And if you don’t think you’ve changed over time, just look at your pictures of the last 20 to 25 years.”
Now, as Landsat 7 begins its work as the last in a series of earth observers, NASA readies an even more sophisticated satellite, Terra, due to be launched Thursday. Once it’s working, Terra is expected to take the vital signs of the globe, including ocean temperatures, energy loss, and even the state of the atmosphere, every day.
1. Which of the following statements about the changes that Landsat 7 shows is NOT true?| A．Changes are shown by a government satellite called Landsat 7. |
| B．Land has changed on the ground and in space. |
| C．An eruption caused only a small part of the forest to lose all of its trees. |
| D．Vegetation is finally growing again after fifteen years. |
| A．for twenty-seven years, pictures have been taken from ground |
| B．rain forests have been lost in South America |
| C．northwest forests in Atlanta have been clear-cut |
| D．the US needn’t look at deforestation |
| A．Easy. | B．Complicated. | C．Expressive. | D．Important. |
10 . People need to relax and enjoy themselves. One way they can have a good time is to watch a baseball game or another sports event. Even thousands of years ago, groups of people gathered to watch skilled athletes(运动员).
Over 2,000 years ago in Greece, some days in the year were festival days. These were holidays when people stopped their work and enjoyed themselves. During festivals, people liked to watch athletes take part in races and other games.
The most important festival was held every four years at the town of Olympia. It was held in honor of the Greek god Zeus. For five days, athletes from all corners of Greece took part in the Olympic Games.
At the Olympic Games, people could watch athletes run, jump and so on. They could also watch exciting races, which included a relay race between two teams in which a lighted torch(火炬) was passed from runner to runner.
The Olympic Games were thought to be so important that cities throughout Greece which were at war with one another had to stop fighting. During the time, people were allowed to travel to the Games safely.
Thousands of people came to the Olympic Games from cities in Greece and from its colonies(殖民地) in Africa, Asia, and Italy. They met as friends to cheer their favorite athletes and to enjoy themselves.
1. What did people do at the Olympic Games?| A．They fought for their freedom. | B．They just talked to friends. |
| C．They cheered good athletes. | D．They tried to find friends. |
| A．Greek cities. | B．Africa and Asia. | C．Italy. | D．All of the above. |
| A．couldn’t go to other cities freely | B．could see what each other do |
| C．win the right to join in the Olympics. | D．respect the Greek god Zeus |
| A．Greece at war | B．Together for the Olympic Games |
| C．Stop fighting | D．Greek people |
