| A．He used to perform a lot on TV. |
| B．He used to sing at the subway station. |
| C．He used the Internet to draw people’s attention. |
I think that we should ban advertisements for any unhealthy
3 . Make Yourself at Home at These B&Bs
The District of Columbia has plenty of hotels and Airbnbs.But there are still traditional bed and breakfasts around.We have found some interesting ones.
Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inns
“Akwaaba” means welcome in Twi,a Ghanaian language.Guests at 1708 16th St NW start their day with a breakfast based on guests’ requests.Each of the eight units is named for an African American writer.The Langston Hughes room,$210 to $250 a night in the fall,is the most popular.The nearly 300-square-foot room is as powerful as a Hughes poem,with rich coffee colors,a king-size bed,and wood furniture.Check the website for prices.It’s best to book about two weeks in advance through the website.
Chester A.Arthur House
The Chester A.Arthur House at 13th and P Street NW is a history lover’s delight.The 1883 home was built for an Undersecretary of the Treasury in President Arthur’s administration.Owner Donald Smith,a historical fiction writer and former journalist,can provide background on the house and everything in it.A room—there are four—is $135 to $205 a night.The room has a high-quality leather queen-size bed.The bathroom has imported Italian tiles (瓷砖),and an original Victorian sliding door.Book at the website.
Malolo Bed and Breakfast
Malolo at 5213 B St SE is the city’s first B&B east of the Anacostia River.Malolo has four bedrooms at $189 to $283 a night this season.Co-founder and chef (厨师) George Lopez decorated each of the rooms in a tropical (热带的) style.The house also has spa-like bathrooms.Lopez prepares breakfast at guests’ requests.There’s an additional fee.Malolo requires at least a two-night stay and offers free parking.Book at the website.
1. Which of the following about Akwaaba is NOT true?| A．It has eight units. |
| B．Its units are named for an African American writer. |
| C．It can cost $200 a night in the fall. |
| D．It’s best to book about two weeks in advance. |
| A． It has 13 rooms. |
| B．It is owned by an official. |
| C．It is tastefully decorated. |
| D．It has two single beds in each bedroom. |
| A．Paying for street parking. | B．Staying at least two nights. |
| C．Checking out before 12 am. | D．Booking two weeks in advance. |
4 . Global Works provides international travel programs that help teens learn about the world.
Costa Rica: Wild Adventure
This service program brings you into a wildlife reserve, where you will do some voluntary work to help protect local animals. After an overnight white-water rafting (漂流) trip you get to work on sea turtle (海龟) protection projects on Costa Rican beaches!
GRADES: 9-12 DAYS: 21 DESTINATION: Costa Rica FOCUS: Wildlife Protection
AVG.GROUP SIZE: 18 Students/3 Staff
Fiji Islands: Sunny Service and Island Immersion (沉浸)
Looking for an unforgettable travel program? Join our Fijian family! Experience Fijian life firsthand and contribute to service projects that bring us to the heart of the local community. In this teen volunteer program, you will have a chance to play with the local kids and teach them English!
GRADES: 9-12 DAYS:17 DESTINATION: Fiji Islands FOCUS: Working with Children
AVG.GROUP SIZE: 16 Students /2 Staff
Puerto Rico:Hurricane Relief
This is a hands-on service trip focused on hurricane relief and disaster prevention efforts. Home repair work is the heart of this program. The projects we work on will help families and communities to deal with a future hurricane.
GRADES: 9-12 DAYS: 8 DESTINATION: Puerto Rico, United States
FOCUS: Building Services
AVG.GROUP SIZE:18 Students /3 Staff
France: French Immersion
Want more than just a standard France teen travel program?This French adventure has it all! From the Palais de Versailles to the French Alps, your journey introduces you to some of Frances most attractive sites and stories.
GRADES: 9-12. DAYS: 21 DESTINATION: France FOCUS: French Immersion
AVG.GROUP SIZE: 18 Students /3 Staff
1. What will you do if you are accepted into the travel program in Costa Rica?
| A．Rebuild homes for local families. |
| B．Enter a local swimming competition. |
| C．Help protect local animals. |
| D．Teach local kids English. |
| A．Costa Rica: Wild Adventure. |
| B．Fiji Islands: Sunny Service and Island Immersion. |
| C．Puerto Rico: Hurricane Relief. |
| D．France: French Immersion. |
| A．target grades | B．destination | C．group size | D．focus |
5 . Some students prefer a part-time job after class to earn some money and improve themselves. Here are some good companies:
·A Burger Shop
It is the best hamburger shop in the west of America. Regarded as one of the best employers, it offers flexible working hours and the highest part-time salaries. Above all, the company treats its employees the way they would like to be treated: like family. However, there is no discount offered to its employees.
Position: selling assistant (experience required)
·A Coffee Shop
It has been at the forefront (前沿) of the United States’ coffee revolution. Working hours are flexible. Fit twenty hours of work into your week. There is also a 30% discount and a free pound of coffee or box of tea every week.
Position: assistant coffee taster (experience required)
·A Foods Market
It is the world’s largest natural and organic food selling company. With its focus on organic ingredients, the market is all about health. Working hours are free. Benefits include paid time off and a 20% discount so you can eat like a king or at least like a top chef in training. There are also training courses on health and food every week.
Position: secretary
·A Clothes Store
It is a Wisconsin-based clothes store that focuses on casual comfort and warmth for the great outdoors. Employees (even part-time employees) have the chance to go to a company-owned entertainment centre and get a 25% discount on theme parks and movies, and an invitation to the yearly company picnic. Besides, for part-time employees, they can come to work anytime they like as long as they work for 4 hours a day.
Position: salesperson
1. Which company offers its employees the best discount?| A．A Burger Shop. | B．A Coffee Shop. |
| C．A Clothes Store | D．A Foods Market. |
| A．To explain what the best part-time job is. |
| B．To persuade students to take part-time jobs. |
| C．To introduce some part-time job opportunities. |
| D．To compare different kinds of part-time jobs. |
| A．Related experience is required. |
| B．Training courses are offered. |
| C．Working hours are flexible. |
| D．Employees can get high salaries. |
6 . Video producer and musician Justin Scholar enjoyed his fantastic moment weeks ago when he spotted his latest work playing on a huge electronic screen at New York’s Times Square.
“It’s sort of the American dream to see your name up in lights,” says the 25-year-old New Jersey native.“I’d never really cared about my name being that big, but going to New York and seeing the big screens, you always wonder if your work is going to make it up there.”
The video that helps Scholar fulfill his “American dream” was shot and produced in China, where Scholar is living and working as a media company owner. Scholar took his first Chinese class in high school seven years ago and made his first trip to Shanghai in 2015 through a study-abroad program when he was a student in New York University. The film and TV major changed his focus from technical art to traditional arts during his study in Shanghai, spending most of the time learning ink-and-wash painting, calligraphy and the guzheng, a traditional Chinese musical instrument. He also fell in love with the city, where he ate a lot of authentic xiaolongbao, or steamed meat buns, and felt safe walking on the streets at 3 am.
Shanghai impresses Scholar as an efficient, modern city calling for greater business prosperity with foreign participation, so he returned two years later, when his career at home was already booming after making commercials for big names such as Coca-Cola and Jaguar.
Thanks to a combination of luck and talent, he achieved the goal soon with a Chinese friend as his business partner, and the company has already produced some 15 videos for pop icons, fashionistas, and art museums in merely six months. The video that plays at Times Square, a tourism promotional film for southwest China’s Chongqing city, is the company’s first project contracted(签合同) by a local government in China.
1. What did Scholar study in Shanghai?| A．TV media. |
| B．Technical art. |
| C．Traditional arts. |
| D．The Chinese language. |
| A．To change to a new topic for writing. |
| B．To make a conclusion of the first 2 paragraphs. |
| C．To dive deeper into the previous topic. |
| D．To add the background information of the video. |
| A．It was shot at Times Square. |
| B．It showed attractions of Chongqing. |
| C．It was shot in the year 2015. |
| D．it showed his college life in Shanghai. |
| A．China opens up new routes to international tourists. |
| B．Shanghai attracts an increasing number of foreigners. |
| C．An American dream unexpectedly comes true with the great video. |
| D．A young American brings Chinese tourist video to Times Square. |
7 . Using Google’s unique digital technology, the stories of some English Heritage Sites around the country — from Tintagel Castle in Cornwall to Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall — are brought to life and shared by way of the Google Arts & Culture platform.
 Stonehenge Skyscape | The English Heritage’s Stonehenge Skyscape enables people around the world to experience the skies above the stone circle, and learn about movements of the sun, moon and planets. Experience live and special sunrise over Stonehenge, see the journey of the stars and the moon from within the stone circle and learn more about the design of Stonehenge and how its builders may have understood their place in the universe. |
 Osborne House, the Isle of Wight | Take a 360⁃degree video tour of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s palatial (富丽堂皇的) holiday home on the Isle of Wight in the company of English Heritage director Michael Hunter, including the Italian terraces (露台) with views over the Solent, which reminded Prince Albert of the Bay of Naples, and the Indian-inspired Durbar Room, designed to show Queen Victoria’s position as Empress of India. |
 Audley End House and Gardens, Essex | Explore the story of one of the greatest houses of early 17th-century England deep in the heart of the Essex countryside, and fly over the great formal gardens designed by Capability Brown. |
 Tintagel Castle, Cornwall | Explore this medieval (中世纪的) castle set high on Cornwall’s north coast. Linked with the legend of King Arthur, for centuries this impressive castle has inspired the imaginations of writers and artists. Discover the early medieval history of a distant outpost (偏远村镇) trading objects from Spain, North Africa and Turkey. |
| A．Stonehenge Skyscape. |
| B．Osborne House, the Isle of Wight. |
| C．Audley End House and Gardens, Essex. |
| D．Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. |
| A．Both were built for their kings. |
| B．Both were built in the same age. |
| C．Both are related to previous rulers. |
| D．Both were palatial holiday homes for the rulers. |
| A．Language. | B．Education. | C．Geography. | D．Culture. |
8 . Best Online Art Classes
Sparketh
Sparketh is an online learning program that focuses on self-paced art classes for 6- to 18-year-olds. Classes can be searched by skill level, as well as by subject and course type. Then, students can choose from general art, drawing, painting and baking classes. Membership costs about $25 a month, and you can get a 20% discount (折扣) a month if it’s paid for a year at a time.
The Kitchen Table Classroom
Offering classes and sources to kids, the Kitchen Table Classroom is an art and learning website created by a parent and art teacher. Users can choose projects from drawing, painting, paper arts, printmaking and 3D art. Many classes and activities are free, while others cost about $6 or more to download (下载) your works.
Nature’s Art Club
Classes are fit for all age groups and students who want to get training in both drawing and watercolor. Membership can be used by the whole family and costs about $15 a month or $120 a year. You can watch videos of some classes before deciding to go to the club.
The Art Studio NY
The Art Studio NY is a popular and well-known source of art classes in New York City. Live group lessons teach skills including drawing, painting, and mixed media art, and are fit for kids in kindergarten and first grade and for ages 5 to 13 and up. Kids’ courses cost about $99 to $480, depending on the age group and type of class.
1. How much would you spend on a one-year membership of Sparketh?| A．$50. | B．$150. |
| C．$240. | D．$300. |
| A．It offers free classes and activities. |
| B．It is designed for 6- to 18-year-olds. |
| C．Its classes are taught by famous artists. |
| D．Its classes mainly focus on drawing and watercolor. |
| A．Sparketh. |
| B．The Art Studio NY. |
| C．Nature’s Art Club. |
| D．The Kitchen Table Classroom. |
9 . Surrounded by a charming poplar forest in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a woman dressed in silk, dances under falling golden poplar leaves, looking like a “fairy” from myth(神话). This is a scene from a video that has caught the attention of Chinese netizens who have seen it as one of the most beautiful tourism promotions on social media.
This elegant lady is not an actress but the director of the Xayar County(县)Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism—Renaguli Reheman. Reheman recalled that the idea to introduce Xayar county’s plentiful tourism resources through short videos was inspired by another official in Zhaosu county in Xinjiang whose short video of him riding a horse in the snow successfully helped to promote local tourism.
Reheman said shooting the videos was not easy. Thinking that having her ride a camel would be a good fit for a desert tourism promotion, she decided to challenge herself by riding the tall animal even though she was afraid of falling off. While promoting a scenic(风景优美) highway near the poplar forest, Reheman spent two days learning to ride a motorcycle.
Reheman is just one of the many local officials who are promoting county tourism with fresh ideas and creative methods. This new tourism promotion model has brought local tourism industries to life and more officials are learning from it through the county.
1. What is the woman mentioned in Paragraph 1?| A．A local official. | B．An actress. |
| C．A photographer. | D．An environmentalist. |
| A．Caring and generous. | B．Brave and confident. |
| C．Creative and hardworking. | D．Humorous and kind. |
| A．From her friends. |
| B．From a tourist. |
| C．From a famous director. |
| D．From a video by another official. |
| A．Being a Star with the Short Video |
| B．Tourism Booming After the Promotion |
| C．A Great Idea Changing the Poplar Forest |
| D．A Xinjiang Local Official Promoting Local Tourism |
10 . Calling all poets! Time for Kids has a challenge for you: Write a rhyming poem and enter it in the TFK Poetry Contest. It must be a poem that does not copy another poet’s work.
How to enter: This contest begins at 12 pm on May 14 and ends at 12 pm on July 15. To enter online, visit our website and follow instructions to submit the following: (a)an original and previously unpublished poem; (b)the entrant’s first name only and email address; (c)a parent’s email address. Limit one entry per person or email account.
Judging: All entries will be judged by poet Kenn Nesbitt, based on the following criteria: creativity and originality (50%),use of language and rhyme (25%) and appropriateness to contest theme (25%). Winners will be notified by email during the month of August and must respond within five days.
Eligibility(资格): Open to legal citizens of the United States who are elementary school students and are 8 to 13 years old at the time of entry.
Prizes: Our judge will select four semi-finalists (半决赛选手),from which one winner and three finalists will be chosen. The winner will receive an online class taught by Kenn Nesbitt. All the semi-finalists will receive a signed copy of Bigfoot Is Missing, which is worth about $275. The semi-finalists’ poems will be published at our website.
1. How long will the poetry contest last?| A．One month. | B．Two months. |
| C．Three months. | D．Four months. |
| A．Whether the poem is novel. |
| B．Whether the poem is humorous. |
| C．Whether the poem is written in rhyme. |
| D．Whether the poem is suitable for the contest theme. |
| A．A $275 bonus. |
| B．An online class. |
| C．The position of the assistant editor. |
| D．A signed copy of Bigfoot Is Missing. |
