1 . For this year's Children' s Day on June 1, Deng Mo and his wife drove their son to the city of Suzhou, about 100 kilometers from Shanghai, where the family lives. Many parents similarly spent the weekend with their children, according to major online travel agency Ctrip(携程).Over 70 percent of parents traveling with children chose short-distance tours, and more than 80 percent took high-speed railways or drove.
Family-friendly tours account for up to 60 percent of domestic(国内的) and overseas travel, a China Tourism Academy survey says. More than 80 percent of respondents believe traveling with children can bring joy to the whole family, and 96 percent express interest in such tours.
Deng has previously taken his son to Japan and Thailand. "It wasn't easy to travel with a 3-year-old," Deng said. "He had a lot of luggage- more than we did.” During their vacation in Japan, for example, his son fell sick, and the parents had to stay in the hotel for a whole day. Still, Deng hopes such tours will broaden his boy' s horizons.
Many parents regard such trips as educational. Shanghai-based online travel agency Lvmama(驴妈妈旅游网）reports that bookings for tours involving museums increased by45 percent year-on-year(与去年同期数字相比）in the first four months of 2019.
Shanghai resident Ji Hongjuan enjoys taking her 12-year–old daughter, Wen Lan, to China' s historical sites and museums. In the past few years, they have visited such places as the Palace Museum, the Shanxi History Museum and the Nanjing Museum. “I usually ask my daughter to be my guide," Ji said. "She searches for information about where we will visit and takes me there, which I think is a great way to cultivate her curiosity."
China Tourism Academy head Dai Bin says the market has great potential. “Our surveys show many parents complain about destinations being too crowded during public holidays," he said. “Over 40 percent say they're looking for more quality travel products."
1. What did Deng Mo do on Children's Day this year?| A．He and his wife took their son to Shanghai for a short-distance tour. |
| B．He and his wife took high-speed railway to Suzhou for traveling. |
| C．He and his wife drove their son to Suzhou for traveling. |
| D．He and his wife took their son to Japan and Thailand. |
| A．Domestic travel accounts for a much larger proportion than overseas travel. |
| B．Family-friendly tours are becoming more and more popular in China. |
| C．Compared with domestic travel, more parents prefer. traveling abroad. |
| D．Children prefer overseas travel to domestic travel. |
| A．parents normally dislike making travel plans with their children |
| B．parents prefer their children to travel abroad as much as possible |
| C．parents want their children to be their guide while traveling abroad |
| D．parents regard family-friendly tours as educational |
| A．Develop. | B．Decline. | C．Defeat. | D．Deserve. |
| A．The overall situation is worsening and depressing. |
| B．It is promising but needs to be improved. |
| C．There is no room for further improvement. |
| D．It is full of uncertainty and with a high probability of failure. |
2 . Cheap Travel
You can pay a fortune to travel around the world. Or you can pay nothing at all. Here are some places you’ll never regret visiting that won’t cost you a dime.
British Museum, London (U. K. )
You need to go here to see the Egyptian mummies, the ancient Greek marbles and so many other treasures. It’s open every day, and unlike most other attractions in England that cost an arm and a leg, it’s completely free.
National Mall, Washington D. C. (U. S. A. )
You can walk a pathway from the Lincoln Memorial to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the Washington Monument with other sights in between. Do you know you can go up in the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument? Tickets are free, but pay a small fee to reserve them in advance to avoid being disappointed.
Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris (France)
This great treasure of the world simply can’t be missed. The great stained glass rose window alone is worth the visit. The Sunday Mass with Gregorian chant was like stepping back in time. Admission is free every day, but you’re welcome to leave a donation. There are also free tours a few times each week. You’ll pay extra for tours of the bell tower or the crypt.
Tips: Notre-Dame Cathedral was greatly damaged by a massive fire in April 2019. Please visit notredamedeparis. fr/en/ for more information regarding future visits to the cathedral.
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin and Mayo (Ireland)
Want to see bog bodies, gold ornaments, Viking artifacts and learn about rural Irish life? All four branches of this museum are free to visit, including museums devoted to archaeology, natural history, decorative arts & history and country life. The museum of country life in Turlough Park, Mayo, is devoted to Irish rural traditions, while the natural history museum is especially famous for its collection of insects.
1. What does the underlined part “an arm and a leg” mean in the second paragraph?| A．A large amount of money. | B．A short period of time. |
| C．Walking on your own. | D．Observing the exhibits. |
| A．The Lincoln Memorial. | B．The top of the Washington Monument. |
| C．The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. | D．Notre-Dame Cathedral. |
| A．Leave a donation. | B．Set off at a certain time. |
| C．Pay an extra fee for the tour. | D．Make reservations in advance. |
| A．the British Museum | B．the National Mall |
| C．Notre-Dame Cathedral | D．the National Museum of Ireland |
| A．Collect some special insects. |
| B．See the Egyptian mummies and the ancient Greek marbles. |
| C．Get more information about the local rural customs. |
| D．Enjoy some historical stories. |
3 . Future history books might record that we were robbed of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we fail to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s—eye view of the world—— or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train, you are moving so quickly that you do not see the countryside clearly. Car drivers are forever thinking about going on and on; they never want to stop. Is it the great motorways, that attract them, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song, “I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.” You mention the place names in the world like EI Dorado, Kabul and someone is sure to say “I’ve been there” meaning “I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.”
When you travel at high speed, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other places. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend (中止) all experience; the present stops being a reality: you might just as well be dead.
The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical tiredness. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.
1. The underlined words “get in your way” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by ________| A．prevent you from going out of the plane halfway | B．expand your range of vision |
| C．block your sights | D．make your travel continue |
| A．They fail to see the scenery with their hearts. |
| B．They make full use of their eyes. |
| C．They get a good view of the landscape. |
| D．They are eager to see everything on the way. |
| A．Because we change our aims all the time. |
| B．Because we cannot enjoy the experience we have had. |
| C．Because we are looking forward to the future life. |
| D．Because we are eager to go to another place. |
| A．To go hiking in the mountain. |
| B．To travel at high speed. |
| C．To travel by car or train. |
| D．To go around the world. |
| A．Different Travelers | B．True Traveling |
| C．Ways of Traveling | D．The Use of Eyes |
4 . Going on a road trip? The St. Louis Arch, Statue of Liberty and Golden Gate Bridge are common great tourist sites. But if you prefer offbeat places, check out the following roadside attractions.
World's Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria, Ind.
In 1977, Michael Carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere. Starting with a baseball as center, he painted layer（层）after layer of paint day after day, year after year. The ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds, with more than 24,000 coats of paint, which is recognized by Guinness World Records. Visitors can paint the ball themselves and become part of history.
Mount Horeb Mustard Museum
Mount Horeb, Wis.
It's heaven for hotdog lovers! This museum says that it has to have the world's largest collection of prepared mustard（芥末）. Its more than 4,100 bottles of spices（香料）come from 60 nations, including Turkey and China.
Visitors learn the history of mustard, from how it's made to how it's advertised and sold. The museum's creator, Burry Levenson, loves mustard so much that he even puts it on ice cream!
The Museum of Dirt
Boston, Mass.
The museum is the idea of Glenn Johnson. In the labeled（贴有标签的）glass bottles are such treasures as dirt from the Great Wall of China, as well as sand from a desert in Sandi Arabia and Omaha Beach in France. Best of all, the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap: It's free.
Paper House
Rockport, Mass.
Swedish immigrant（移民）Ellis Stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922, when he started to build a two-room house almost completely out of newspaper. At the time, people didn't give much—if any—thought to recycling paper. In fact, "recycling" wasn't even a word yet. The house is framed（以……做框架）with wood, but the walls are made of 215 layers of newspaper. In all, he used about 100,000 newspapers.
1. What can the underlined word "offbeat" in the first paragraph best be replaced by?| A．Great. | B．Foreign. | C．Unusual. | D．Public. |
| A．World's Largest Ball of Paint. | B．The Museum of Dirt. |
| C．Mount Horeb Mustard Museum. | D．Paper House. |
| A．He loves ice cream especially. |
| B．He started the mustard museum. |
| C．He shows his great love for hotdog. |
| D．He travels around the world to collect mustard. |
| A．Visit free of charge. | B．Play with sand. |
| C．Collect glass bottles. | D．Appreciate the Great Wall. |
| A．Michael Carmichael | B．Burry Levenson. |
| C．Glenn Johnson. | D．Ellis Stenman. |
1. What is the passage mainly about?
| A．Shopping | B．Traveling | C．Food. |
| A．A small village | B．A post office | C．A local hotel |
| A．Many beautiful hats are on sale |
| B．People do shopping by boat. |
| C．The fruit is quite cheap. |
| A．Soll in Austria | B．Bangkok in Thailand | C．Kauai in Hawaii. |
6 . When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation. I suggested that they should stay at “bed and breakfast” houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
“We didn’t stay at “bed and breakfast” houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays”, because the Spanish word for “holidays” is “vacaciones”. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said “VACANCIES”, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said “NO VACANCIES”, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word “DIVERSION” means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word “DIVERSION” on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hole.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris, when someone offered me some more coffee, I said “Thank you” in French. I meant that I would like some more. However, to my surprise, the coffeepot was taken away! Later I found out that “Thank you” in French means “No, thank you.”
1. The writer’s friends in Spain wanted to get advice about ________.| A．the chance of learning English | B．the way of going to England |
| C．the traffic rules in England | D．finding places to stay in England |
| A．it would be convenient for them to have dinner |
| B．it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels |
| C．they would be able to practise their English |
| D．there would be no problem about finding accommodation there |
| A．they misunderstood the signs outside the door |
| B．there were no such “bed and breakfast” houses in England |
| C．they found there were no free rooms there |
| D．people there were away on holiday |
| A．fall into a hole |
| B．have to take a different road |
| C．find that the road is stopped by lots of people |
| D．have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself |
| A．he doesn’t want any more coffee |
| B．he wants to show his amazement |
| C．he just wants to show his politeness |
| D．he wants to have some more coffee |
7 . The whale, as big as a locomotive (火车头), jumped out of the water, spinning (旋转) as though for joy, before jumping back under the waves. We watched silently in astonishment, never having been so close to such a huge, fast-moving creature. It seemed almost possible to count the small shellfish on the whale's skin.
In early December, gray whales, blue whales, and others had just started heading around the tip of Baja California, Mexico, moving as a community from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Cortez. It's in that protected waterway that pregnant whales give birth to their babies. Other whale babies, born the year before, could be seen sailing behind. All whale babies get two trips like this with their mom before they're ready to start having babies of their own and making the journey on their own.
We're in one of several small powerboats, sent out by ScubaCaribe, which carries on such tours in Cabo San Lucas, the whales seemed to be, at times, less than 100 feet from our boat when they rushed out of the water. At other times, they would get much closer and swim beside the boat.
“What if one lands on us?” a woman next to me wondered. Fernando Del Toro, the Destination Manager of ScubaCaribe said, “We haven't had any incidents (事件) of whales jumping over our boats as we always keep our distance. We're sure they themselves are probably careful not to crash into boats. Such an accident would probably also cause them much harm.”
“Everyone can enjoy this magical trip,” said Del Toro. “However, we do not recommend (推荐) it for kids under 5 years old,” he added.
Though conditions on the water vary, our trip was wonderful. Even when the boat sped up to catch up with the whales, there was little need to “hang on”, and some of us remained standing throughout most of the trip. Still, you may want to pack medicine for those who might get seasick while bouncing (颠簸行进) along the waves.
1. How does the author start the text?| A．By telling a story. | B．By asking questions. |
| C．By describing a scene. | D．By giving background information. |
| A．Proud. | B．Worried. | C．Amazed. | D．Discouraged. |
| A．A description of the author's journey. | B．A list of best places for whale-watching. |
| C．An introduction to the travelling of whales. | D．A suggestion on taking a whale-watching tour. |
| A．It is suitable for all ages. | B．It is much too dangerous. |
| C．It may cause serious damage to wildlife. | D．It should be done from a proper distance. |
| A．It was smooth. | B．It was exhausting. |
| C．It was destroyed by a storm. | D．It was terrible due to his seasickness. |
How are you? I saw you posted some wonderful photos of the coastline near your hometown. You’re really getting into your photography! Right now I’m taking a break to write you an email.
Remember you said you’d like to come over to the UK sometime this year? Well, I was thinking that this year you might like to come to the Edinburgh Festival with me in August. I’ve got an aunt with a flat in the city center who could put us up.
Do you know much about the festival? It’s very famous — the biggest, most popular arts festival in the world! There are lots of things going on — art exhibitions, concerts of all kinds, modern dance, a book festival, etc. The thing it’s most famous for is the newest and most exciting theatre. People come from all over the world and perform in their own languages.
In Scotland you have the best of both worlds: culture and wild land. After the festival, we could hire a car and go up to some of the islands off the west coast, like Skye. The weather can be changeable in August, but the landscape is beautiful, with empty beaches and rocky mountains. It’s the perfect place for you to take photos. Afterwards, we could head back to the east coast and visit my friend Rob in St. Andrews. It’s really pretty and Rob’s enjoyable to be with. You’d get on well with him.
So, why don’t you have a think about it and then get back to me? Take your time, there’s no rush.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Sophie
1. What is the best known activity at the Edinburgh Festival?| A．Modern dance. | B．Art exhibitions. |
| C．Performances of plays. | D．Different types of concerts. |
| A．Sophie’s aunt can allow them to live in her flat. | B．Sophie’s aunt will come and join them. |
| C．Mary promised to come to Edinburgh Festival. | D．Mary took many photos of Edinburgh Festival. |
| A．To invite her to visit Scotland. | B．To talk about her working plan. |
| C．To take a break from her heavy work. | D．To introduce the Edinburgh Festival. |
9 . Discover Chengdu
I have lost count of how many times I have been to Chengdu, Sichuan. When I learned that I would be going to the city again since I returned to China, I did not know which tourist attractions I wanted to visit,
The Chengdu Museum is located in the center of the city, and it only took a 20-minute subway journey to arrive there. The building was covered in glass and looked
The first exhibition I visited was one about Chinese shadow puppetry (皮影戏). In a performance, puppeteers used silhouettes (剪影) cast by figures made from leather (皮革) or paper to
The museum dedicated at least two floors of exhibitions to the history of Chengdu, but its history did not
It was
| A．before | B．unless | C．until | D．since |
| A．recognized | B．reacted | C．recommended | D．reminded |
| A．mature | B．modest | C．modern | D．medium |
| A．free of charge | B．out of date | C．up to date | D．in charge |
| A．leaving | B．entering | C．approaching | D．arriving |
| A．but | B．so | C．though | D．otherwise |
| A．convey | B．conduct | C．convince | D．construct |
| A．process | B．purpose | C．proposal | D．project |
| A．manners | B．materials | C．methods | D．means |
| A．shadows | B．statues | C．figures | D．stories |
| A．while | B．when | C．as | D．where |
| A．crowded | B．filled | C．equipped | D．furnished |
| A．interrupt | B．interest | C．interpret | D．interact |
| A．appealed to | B．occurred to | C．applied to | D．turned to |
| A．expectedly | B．exactly | C．extraordinarily | D．extremely |
| A．resource | B．origin | C．organization | D．object |
| A．refers to | B．relates to | C．reacts to | D．respond to |
| A．Beside | B．In addition | C．Except | D．Besides |
| A．significant | B．nice | C．necessary | D．ashamed |
| A．rather than | B．other than | C．regardless of | D．in spite of |
10 . Do you want to go to take a vacation in Northern Ireland? If you do, here are some places where you can go.
The Sperrins, County Derry and Tyrone
The Sperrins are Northern Ireland's largest mountains and also its least explored. Starting from Strabane in County Tyrone to the shores of Lough Neagh in the east, Northern Ireland＇s largest upland area is a designated （指定的）Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The Mournes, County Down
The wild scenery of the Mourne Mountains sweeps down to the sea. It is the place where C. S. Lewis found his fantastic winter-land ofNarnia come to shape in his mind, which inspired him to write The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.The Mourne Mountains in County Down are famous for a lot of things such as challenging peaks and clear lakes.
Dunluce Castle,County Antrim
The ruin of Dunluce Castle sees a long and amaz- ing history.The castle was first built on the amazing coastal cliffs （悬崖）of north County Antrim by the MacQuillan family around 1500. The earliest written record of the castle was in 1513. The amazing history of Dunluce is matched by tales of how the castle kitchens fell into the sea one stormy night in 1639.
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge,County Antrim
Connected to the cliffs by a rope bridge across the Atlantic Ocean,Carrick-a-Rede Island (home to a single building- a fisherman's small house) is the final destination. Suspended （悬空的）almost 100 ft （30m） above sea level， the rope bridge was first made by a fisherman 350 years ago.In 2016,Carrick-a-Rede welcomed the highest number of visitors ever to this exciting rope bridge experience.
1. Who would most probably be attracted to the Sperrins?| A．People loving local cultures. |
| B．People loving historic places. |
| C．People interested in natural views. |
| D．People interested in meeting new people. |
| A．disappointed | B．puzzled |
| C．frightened | D．inspired |
| A．It has a long and amazing history. |
| B．It has been repaired several times. |
| C．It sits below some fantastic coastal cliffs. |
| D．It's the earliest castle in Northern Ireland. |
| A．Visit a very old castle. |
| B．Walk on a rope in the sky. |
| C．Experience a very special bridge. |
| D．Pay visits to some fisherman's houses. |
| A．To encourage readers to take a vacation. |
| B．To explain the value of visiting Northern Ireland. |
| C．To compare some attractions in Northern Ireland. |
| D．To introduce some attractions in Northern Ireland. |
