1 . Welcome to Holker Hall & Gardens
Visitor InformationHow to Get to Holker
By Car: Follow brown signs an A590 from JB6, M6. Approximate travel times: Windermere-20 minutes, Kendal-25 minutes, Lancaster-45 minutes, Manchester-1 hour 30 minutes.
By Rail: The nearest station is Cark-in-Cartmel with trains to Carnforth, Lancaster Preston for connections to major cities & airports.
Opening TimesSunday-Friday (closed on Saturday)11:00 am-4:00pm,30 March-2nd November.
Admission ChargesHall & Gardens | Gardens | |
Adults: | £12.00 | £8.00 |
Groups | £9 | £5.5 |
Producers: Market 13th April
Join us to taste a variety of fresh local food and drinks. Meet the producers and get some excellent recipe ideas.
Holker Garden Festival 30th May
The event celebrate its 22nd anniversary with a great show of the very best of gardening, making it one of the most popular events in gardening.
National Garden Day 28th August
Holker once again opens is gardens in aid of the disadvantaged. For just a small donation you can take a tour with our garden guide.
Winter Market 8th November
This is an event for all the family. Wander among a variety of shops selling gifs while enjoying a live music show and nice street entertainment.
1. How long does it probably take a tourist to drive to Holker from Manchester?A.20 minutes. | B.25 minutes. |
C.45 minutes. | D.90 minutes. |
A.£12.00. | B.£9.00. |
C.£8.0 | D.£5.50 |
A.Producers’ Market. | B.Holker Garden Festival. |
C.National Garden Day. | D.Winter Market. |
1.建议Tom参加的活动项目及推荐理由;
2.对该活动项目的介绍;
3.参加该活动项目的建议。
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2.邮件开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
I am writing to give you my recommendation on your activity on Chinese Culture Day.
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Yours,
Li Hua
3 . The fact that touch can be highly influential in successful sales has led researchers to call the phenomenon the Midas Touch, named after King Midas in Greek mythology (神话) who was said to turn everything he touched into gold.
While touching a product is clearly not going to make it golden, it can make the person connect so strongly with the item that they take psychological ownership of it. This means that the consumer is much more likely to purchase it as they feel as if it already belongs to them. Partially, this will be caused by the emotions that they experience when they engage in interaction, as there is a close relationship in our brains between touch and emotions.
In a world where online shopping is almost unavoidable, and people can’t touch what they buy, it begs the question of how touch can work in consuming.
The reality is that many consumers have a high need for touch, and when they can’t touch, they become upset and often feel dissatisfied. This will, at least partially, contribute to the high online return rates, as people don’t feel satisfied with the products when they arrive.
Presenting shoppers (直播带货者) with visually-based concrete signs can help overcome the lack of touch. For example, if the goods are clearly described, it helps the purchaser know the product more accurately. However, such descriptions only work if they are specific.
Furthermore, using moving imagery, such as a brief film of a model moving around in a clothing item, also helps with touch-related visualization (形象化) as it becomes a mental understanding of touch. Actual textures (质地) of products can also help provide signs for what the products are like.
In fact, it appears that concrete input is primarily processed subconsciously, meaning that it is not something you can necessarily ask consumers about, as they simply don’t know that it affects them. Thus, the examples mentioned here are the kind of research findings that online sellers should take note of. With some creative input, they can be used to create more satisfied customers when touch is absent.
1. What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?A.To inform people of a story. | B.To introduce the subject. |
C.To provide the background. | D.To give a definition. |
A.Touching and consuming. | B.The process of touching. |
C.Brains and emotion. | D.The problem of selling. |
A.Products’ arriving late. | B.Customers’ thinking little of products. |
C.Products’ not meeting the requirements. | D.Customers’ no describing products. |
A.By knowing specific descriptions visually. | B.By making brief films of moving models. |
C.By making notes of the research findings. | D.By asking consumers something necessary. |
4 . Zibo city in Shandong has unexpectedly become famous on Chinese social media since late February for its local barbecue specialty, and this trend continues as the local government takes the opportunity to promote tourism and spending.
The latest promotion gives visitors free admission to 10 scenic spots in the city with their train tickets as long as their final destination is Zibo. This move followed another on March 31 under which the Jinan bureau of China Railway added a weekend special round-trip “barbecue tour” train between Jinan.
Passengers who get on the train are greeted by a banner reading “Welcome to the Special BBQ Train”at the entrance of the train. Many also took videos and posted them on social media, drawing more visitors.
Barbecue is popular in China, and Zibo’s barbecue has its own local features: it’s made on a stove, and is served with flatbread and dressings. The food is 70-80 percent cooked before it is brought to the table, where diners can finish cooking it on their own stoves. Diners are served with flatbreads, scallions and other dressings at the table so they are able to assemble their own barbecue parcels, in much the same way Peking Duck is eaten.
The barbecue suddenly became famous after a group of college students shot videos of themselves enjoying a meal in Zibo and posted them on social media in late February. Since then, many people, mostly young, have come to the city from all over the country to try the dish.
On several streets, lines can be seen outside barbecue restaurants, which stretch for more than 100 meters on the weekend.
“Zibo barbecue is bringing more and more people to the city, and the local government needs to think about how to promote the city as a whole, its culture and tourism, as well as its living and business environment,” said Sun Xiaorong, an expert of tourism marketing and promotion. The trend will eventually end if the local government doesn’t take proper follow-up measures, he added.
1. What does paragraph 1 mainly talk about?A.Zibo city’s snacks. |
B.Zibo city’s places of interest. |
C.The reasons why Zibo is famous recently. |
D.The challenges Zibo meets with at present. |
A.It is usually paired with flatbread and dressings. |
B.It is as delicious as Peking Duck. |
C.It is totally toasted by the cook on the stove. |
D.It is very cheap and various. |
A.Young people’s dreams. |
B.Local government’s measures. |
C.Barbecue restaurants in Zibo city. |
D.Some college students’ promotion. |
A.Objective. | B.Negative. |
C.Curious | D.Doubtful. |
Herman Travis, 55, lives in Holly Courts, a low-income neighborhood in San Francisco and he has not so many
“However, only after they
“Do you think it is worth doing such kinds of things?” He nodded his head, saying, “I think so. ” He’s so kind and warm, always
What he does always appeals
It might be a small thing that Travis is doing so, but he does that with big love. It’s
6 . Zacharish Fike has an unusual hobby.He finds many old military(军队的)medals for
His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli,
Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally reached her, the woman
The Piccolis were Italian immigrants and raised the children in Watertown. Corrado, a translator for the Army during WWII, was
Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t realized the medal was
As a child, Adeline couldn’t understand why the medal was so
Zac recently returned another lost medal to a family in Alabama. Since he first
A.sale | B.safety | C.research | D.entertainment |
A.soldiers | B.opponents | C.collectors | D.translators |
A.buys | B.sells | C.displays | D.returns |
A.examined | B.found | C.seized | D.hidden |
A.produced | B.designed | C.destroyed | D.earned |
A.right away | B.now and then | C.in short | D.at no time |
A.charged | B.flooded | C.equipped | D.connected |
A.impatiently | B.gently | C.professionally | D.enthusiastically |
A.Therefore | B.Otherwise | C.Instead | D.However |
A.hung up | B.sped up | C.caught up | D.turned up |
A.planned | B.noticed | C.handled | D.recorded |
A.wandered | B.hesitated | C.apologized | D.battled |
A.rejected | B.meant | C.minded | D.appreciated |
A.warned | B.ignored | C.criticized | D.killed |
A.missing | B.valuable | C.respectable | D.elegant |
A.tradition | B.model | C.treasure | D.event |
A.powerful | B.beneficial | C.precious | D.painful |
A.necessary | B.meaningful | C.heavy | D.inexpensive |
A.hangs | B.separates | C.recovers | D.shines |
A.decorated | B.reunited | C.mended | D.submitted |
Nowadays, our classrooms, neighborhoods and communities become
How we respond to this diversity will decide not only our future as a person but also our future as a society. As Maya Angelou said, “In diversity there is beauty and
The opposite of tolerance is closed-mindedness. Arguments, fights and wars
8 . Get involved with our research
Some of our research projects depend on how generous people like you are. Whether it’s using your home PC, taking part in a medical experiment or simply volunteering your time for a study, you may be able to help some of the creative projects which make the University of Oxford a world leader in research. Watch this space for ways in which you could get involved.
Seeking poor sleepers for sleeplessness research
Trouble sleeping? We are looking for poor sleepers between the ages of 18 and 65. The activity will involve spending overnights in the sleep laboratory at Oxford, testing your sleep/wake cycle, and completing the tasks on the computer. If you are interested, please contact the research team at sleeplessness@ndcn.ox.ac.uk.
Volunteers with lazy eye (弱视) wanted
We are looking for volunteers aged 18-45 with a history of lazy eye to take part in our brain scanning (扫描) study, You will also be asked questions about your medical history to check if you are suitable for an MRI (核磁共振) scan. Call 01865 223622 for more information.
Oxford Vaccine (疫苗) Group
The Oxford Vaccine Group is an independent medical experiment group. OVG works towards the goal of developing new and improved vaccines for the prevention of infection in adults and children. To get more information, please see the OVG website.
Oxford experimental lab for the Social Sciences
The Oxford Internet Institute, together with the Business School, needs some people to participate in computer-based experiments involving online surfing behavior as well as something about economy and politics. We treat our subjects well, there are no special skills required and you don’t have to come to the lab in person. Contact us at socialscience.study@ox.ac.uk for more information.
1. How can you get more information about the project “Volunteers with lazy eye wanted”?A.By calling 01865 223622. |
B.By seeing the OVG website. |
C.By surfing the website: sleeplessness@ndcn.ox.ac.uk. |
D.By referring to the website: socialscience.study@ox.ac.uk. |
①Have your brain scanned.
②Finish the tasks on the computer.
③Have your sleep/wake cycle tested.
④Spend overnights in the sleep laboratory.
⑤Answer questions about your surfing behavior.
A.③④⑤ | B.②③④ | C.②④⑤ | D.①④⑤ |
A.Medical history. |
B.Examining your eyes. |
C.Vaccines for prevention of infection. |
D.Finance and politics. |
9 . Scientists are excited by the rediscovery of the giant lacewing. It is an insect which looks like a cross between a fly and a moth. It has spotted wings with a span of roughly 50 millimeters, holding the wings over its body like a tent.
Giant lacewings have been around since the Jurassic era, a period of time about 150 to 200 million years ago. In the 1950s, scientists thought giant lacewings had disappeared from eastern North America. However, scientists recently confirmed that one had been spotted.
Michael Skvarla works for Penn State University, who is the director of its insect identification lab. Skvarla found the giant lacewing in 2012. He remembers it clearly, “I was walking into Walmart to get milk and I saw this huge insect on the side of the building,” Skvarla said. “I thought it looked interesting, so I put it in my hand and did the rest of my shopping with it between my fingers. I got home, mounted it and promptly forgot about it for almost a decade.”
Then, in late 2020, Skvarla was teaching biodiversity in a Zoom class during the pandemic lockdown. During the class, Skvarla showed his students microscopic images of the insect he had seen at Walmart. Together, they stared at the images. They studied the insect closely. Then, they realized that the insect had been wrongly labeled. Many scientists are stirred by this discovery. Now they have started wondering if there may be entire populations hiding out, which requires for further investigation.
And the causes of the supposed disappearance of the insect have long been a mystery. With a deeper research, there are some possible explanations. One is light pollution, which is the brightening of the night sky from man-made light sources such as street lights. Light pollution can disrupt the natural cycles of living things. Another cause could be the introduction of non-native insects such as ground beetles. They can cause harm to the environment. Ground beetles prey on giant lacewings. People’s stopping forest fires may also play a part in the disappearance of the lacewing. This is because giant lacewings need ecosystems that rely on natural fires.
1. What can we know about the appearance of the giant lacewing?A.It looks like a mix of a fly and a moth. |
B.Its body length is about 50 millimeters. |
C.Its wings are tiny and rough. |
D.Its body shape is like a tent. |
A.The researcher accurately recognized it at first sight. |
B.It was spotted at Walmart during the pandemic. |
C.It had been incorrectly labeled initially. |
D.Researchers closely studied the insect for nearly a decade. |
A.The lengthening of natural sunlight time. |
B.The increase in the number of native attackers. |
C.The frequent occurrence of forest fires. |
D.The biological rhythms were messed up by man-made light. |
A.A biology magazine. | B.A science fiction. |
C.A research plan. | D.A medical report. |
10 . People have different ways of dealing with a common cold. Some take over-the-counter(非处方的)medicines such as aspirin while others try popular home remedies(治疗)like herbal tea or chicken soup. Yet, here is the tough truth about the common cold: nothing really cures you of it.
So why do people sometimes believe that their remedies work? According to James Taylor, professor at the University of Washington, colds usually go away on their own in about a week, improving a little each day after symptoms peak, so it’s easy to believe it’s medicine rather than time that deserves the credit.
It still seems hard to believe that we can deal with more serious diseases yet we are powerless against something so common as a cold. Recently, scientists came closer to figuring out why. To understand it, you first need to know how antiviral(抗病毒的)drugs work. They attack the virus by attaching to and changing the surface structures of the virus. To do that, the drug must fit and lock into the virus like the right piece of a jigsaw(拼图), which means scientists have to identify the virus and build a 3D model to study its surface before they can design an antiviral drug that is effective enough.
The two cold viruses that scientists had long known about were rhinovirus(鼻病毒)A and B. But they didn’t find out about the existence of a third virus, rhinovirus C until 2006.All three of them contribute to the common cold, but drugs that work well against rhinovirus A and B have little effect when used against rhinovirus C.
“This explains most of the previous failures of drug trials against rhinoviruses,” study leader Professor Ann C. Palmenberg at the University of Wiscons in Madison, US, told Scienc Daily.
Now, more than 10 years after the discovery of rhinovirus C, scientists have finally built a highly detailed 3D model of the virus, showing that the surface of the virus is, as expected,different from that of other cold viruses.
With the model in hand, hopefully a real cure for a common cold is on its way. Soon, we may no longer have to waste our money on medicines that don’t really work.
1. Which of the following is NOT the way people usually deal with a common cold?A.Eating chicken soup. | B.Taking aspirin. |
C.Taking exercise. | D.Drinking herbal tea. |
A.To fit and lock into the cold virus. |
B.To exactly copy the cold viruses. |
C.To prevent colds from developing into serious diseases. |
D.To absorb different kinds of cold viruses at the same time. |
A.Why drugs for treating a common cold sometimes fail. |
B.Why the surfaces of different viruses are different. |
C.How to build a detailed 3D model of rhinovirus C. |
D.How we can effectively fight against rhinovirus C. |
A.Effective. | B.Fruitless. | C.Expensive. | D.Worthwhile. |