2 . I’d spend every summer vacation with my parents when I was a kid. They used to spend two to four weeks each year travelling. And because we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel, camping was the only way. By the time I left home at 18, I’d visited every province in Canada. As I look back at my camping memories, the one in Battle Harbor stands out most.

It takes a long time to drive to Newfoundland from Ontario, especially when you’ve got six people packed into a minivan. When we arrived on the island, it was raining heavily every day. Therefore, we kept driving north, hoping to avoid it. We jumped onto a ferry (渡船) to Labrador and moved our way up the coast of this less-populated region.

The scenery in Labrador is sublime. You can see long white sand beaches along the Atlantic coast that look inviting, but the water is extremely cold. While standing at the top of a lighthouse, my dad said, “This will be the new Caribbean once global warming hits.”

We soon discovered Battle Harbor, a historic fishing village. In the mid-1800s it had a population of 350 and was considered the unofficial capital of Labrador. When I was there in 2003, it was more like a ghost town, with some broken fish-drying shelves left, reminding me that fishing trade was common. I clearly remember feeling the furthest from anything that I’ve ever felt. Multiple ferry rides and 600 miles separated me from the nearest major city of St. John’s, which is still considered a remote relative to the rest of Canada,

If you’re curious about Labrador, I highly recommend a 2013 film called The Grand Seduction. It’s a delightful comedy about a small fishing village called Tickle Head that’s struggling to figure out its future.

1. What happened when the author’s family reached Newfoundland?

A．They missed several ferries.	B．They met with the rain.
C．They found no place to camp.	D．They ran out of petrol.

2. What does the underlined word “sublime” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Plentiful.

B．Enjoyable.

C．Precious.

D．Attractive.

3. What can we learn about Battle Harbor from the text?

A．It’s a deserted town.	B．It’s a good place for campers.
C．It’s a close town to America.	D．It’s separated from major cities.

4. Why does the author recommend the 2013 film in the end?

A．To show his concern about a village.	B．To satisfy the readers’ curiosity about camping.
C．To promote the popularity of the film.	D．To help the readers know Labrador better.

3 . Have you ever looked at a beautiful little house in London and thought “it must be so amazing to live there.”But for the people who actually do live in those homes, social media photography has changed what it means to live in a picturesque place.

Alice Johnston is a resident of Noting Hill, the London neighbourhood famous for colorfully- painted row houses and for being a Hollywood movie set. There can be a dark side to living inside it. She has witnessed all kinds of crazy behavior for the perfect snapshot (快照). Johnston was once woken up at 6 a.m, on Easter Sunday by French teenagers taking pictures outside. Another time she was changing when an elderly man took a picture of her windows. Although the shutters (百叶窗) were closed at the time, she was shocked by the experience.

When private homes become tourist attractions, conflicts can occur. In Hong Kong, the Monster Building became a huge selfie spot after it was featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, A sign in English and Chinese put up by building residents reads “This is a private estate. All kinds of activities are not allowed, including but not limited to photographing, gatherings, use of drones (无人机) and yelling. We shall not take responsibility for personal injury caused by any accident. ”However, many visitors ignore the signs, and a quick scan of Instagram shows plenty of recent images taken there.

A pale-pink house near where Johnston lives has become such a popular photo site that the residents have given up on trying to keep people away. Instead, they’ve put up a donation box asking people to contribute money to charity in exchange for taking a photo.

1. What is probably the dark side to living in Notting Hill?

A．Small crowds of tourists.	B．Too much photographing.
C．Damage done to row houses.	D．Crazy behaviour of movie fans.

2. What was the Monster Building sign used for?

A．Asking tourists to be respectful.	B．Giving tips for taking images.
C．Clearing responsibilities for injuries.	D．Stopping tourists entering the building.

3. What did the residents in Johnston’s neighborhood do with the situation?

A．Put up more signs.	B．Drive people away.
C．Encourage tourist to donate.	D．Ask for fees for photographing.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．How to take photos while traveling.

B．When home becomes a tourist attraction.

C．Where to look for the perfect snapshot.

D．Why it is important to be a responsible tourist.

4 . Choose from great starter ideas or create your own vacations as you add activities and lodging (住 宿) in Nashville.

Grand Ole Opry Vacation Package

Nashville is the place to be for country music fans. The city offers so many museums and tours to keep you busy. With this package, you can have the convenience of bundling! Stay for three nights in your choice of over 85 hotels, visit the Grand Ole Opry, and attend the Grand Legends Bus Tour. This is a chance you don’t want to miss.

Romantic Getaways & Honeymoon Package

Looking for a romantic getaway with your significant other? With this vacation package, you can stay in Nashville for two nights and experience stress-free activities with a personal chauffeur! Take a carriage tour around the city where you are able to relax and take a break from your day-to-day life.

Downtown Nashville Vacation Package

The four-night Downtown Nashville Vacation Package includes activities that make sightseeing fun. Start with the Segway tour that includes several landmarks. Next, it is time for a trolley ride (观光 车 ) where you will witness the beauty of Nashville all lit up at night. Your trip also includes four nights of lodging so you will be able to rest comfortably during your time spent here.

Gaylord Opryland Resort Country Christmas

The Gaylord Opryland Resort County Christmas is stuffed full of holiday fun. It includes admission onto the Discover Nashville Inclusive Bus Tour as well as three nights of lodging at your choice of Nashville hotels.

1. What can you do if you take Grand Ole Opry Vacation Package?

A．Enjoy rock music.

B．Take a bus tour around Nashville.

C．Visit history museum.

D．Enjoy the country-themed atmosphere on vacation.

2. Which package will a man choose if he wants to enjoy the night scene in Nashville?

A．Romantic Getaways & Honeymoon Package.

B．Downtown Nashville Vacation Package.

C．Grand Ole Opry Vacation Package.

D．Gaylord Opryland Resort Country Christmas.

3. From which is the text probably taken?

A．A geography textbook.

B．A health magazine.

C．A travel brochure.

D．A research paper.

6 . Holidays matter. They are a chance to step away from everyday life and reconnect with the people we love; a time to relax, to be the real us, or indeed to be whoever we want to be. And once the sand has been washed from the toes, holidays can leave us with a suitcase of life-long happy memories.

Yet today in the UK at least 1.46 million families can’t afford a single day out together, let alone a holiday night away from home. Millions of British children this year won’t get to paddle (划船) in the sea, or build a sandcastle. Nothing to report when they return to school in September. No happy memories to help them improve their learning and behaviour.

That’s why the Family Holiday Association (FHA) exists. It is the only national charity that devotes itself to helping struggling families enjoy precious time together. Many are dealing with severe illness, poverty, disability, poor mental health and so on. They are referred to the Association. This work is often done by the professionals such as teachers, social workers, and doctors.

The Family Holiday Association was founded 43 years ago by Pat and Joan Laurance, who were unemployed with a young, sick child, living in a single room. A friend offered them a week in a flat on the Essex coast in return for cat-sitting. They fed the cat. They walked on the bench. They laughed and paddled.

And guess what? After a few days of enjoying fun they came home with new-found energy to face whatever life might throw at them. The Laurances determined that other struggling families should also gain the benefits of a simple holiday and the charity was born. Since then more than 120,000 parents and children have been able to enjoy a break happily, usually a few days by the British seaside.

1. What can we know from Paragraph 1?

A．Going to the beach is the best choice.

B．To be a real person makes him or her relaxed.

C．The writer thinks taking a holiday is important.

D．Taking holidays can leave people little memories.

2. What does the underlined word “they” refer to in Paragraph 3?

A．The Laurances.	B．The professionals.
C．Other charities.	D．Struggling families.

3. What made the Laurances found the FHA?

A．Their friend’s cat.	B．Their child’s illness.
C．Their experiences on a coast.	D．Their friend’s encouragement.

4. What is the writer’s opinion about holidays?

A．They are too costly for UK people.	B．They help build families’ relationships.
C．They can bring charities much money.	D．They are only needed by school children.

5. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Holidays Improve Kids’ Learning	B．British People Lack Holidays
C．Struggling Families Also Need Holidays	D．Holidays Matter to School Children

7 . Rumination（深思）is a sleep—blocker because it keeps your mind awakened, especially in bed, when it’s dark and quiet.     1     Your brain’s job is to strengthen information and build new synapses（突触）by digging up moments and memories from your day, even the things that upset you.

The best time to deal with worrying is during the day when you have important things to do and don’t have time to get caught up in mental cycles for hours and hours.     2    

Worry early.

Set aside 15 minutes during the mid—to late—afternoon just for yourself. Once the timer starts, give yourself the freedom to worry about one topic at a time. Think of it as a to—do list that you go through one by one, except what you’re checking off are topics you feel the most anxious about.

If you find yourself worrying during the day, tell yourself: “Look, I just need to put off this to the next emotional worry time.”     3     “I have this scheduled for tomorrow.” Do this two to three times a week until your rumination at night slowly starts to fade.

Practice helpful worrying.

On a piece of paper, create two columns labeled as “Problem” and “Solution”. Come up with a short list of current problems you’re dealing with. Focus in particular on what you’re likely to ruminate about tonight.

    4     Remember, the goal is to make out a plan for how to get started with actionable steps for tomorrow, or within the next few days. You are not solving it completely.

Then fold the paper up and put it next to your bed. Say to yourself, “I have a plan.”     5     It frees your mind from puzzling over them at night.

A．There’s no magic switch to completely turn off rumination.

B．Like eating, drinking and breathing, we need sleep to survive.

C．Make sure you don’t get distracted by anything or anyone else.

D．Use this same technique if your worries pop up again at bedtime.

E．It turns out that you’ve already spent focused energy on these problems.

F．Here are two ways to stop ruminating at night and they only take 15 minutes to do.

G．Under “Solutions”, come up with the next one or two steps you could take to deal with each problem.

8 . Given the extremely unpleasant heatwaves of this summer, being green and good to the planet feels more urgent than ever. The actions of our governments and cities, who have the power to make a great dent in the climate crisis, are important.

Now, there are plenty of cities that are still failing to effectively take action in the climate emergency. But others are becoming successful quickly—like, for instance, the winners of two of the European Union’s most famous green cities awards: European Green Capital and European Green Leaf.

Both of the awards recognize not just what the green—stuffed cities have already achieved, but also what they’ve got planned for the future. There’s only one European Green Capital winner per year, while the yearly European Green Leaf recognizes the environmental achievements of two smaller EU cities.

And now the winners of those two awards have finally been announced. European Green Capital in 2024 will be Valencia in southern Spain, which defeated the Sardinian city of Cagliari in the final.

Valencia says proudly Turia park—the largest urban（城市的）park in Europe—has obviously increased its green infrastructure（基础设施）polices in recent years. As well as being Green Capital 2024, Valencia will take home £350,000 to put towards green policies. (2023’s winner is Tallinn, Estonia)

The Green Leaf award, meanwhile, has been won by the Danish city of Elsinore and Velenje, the fifth—largest city in Slovenia. The two winners of the Green Leaf will get £75,000 to fund local green efforts.

For the separate awards, each city had to present their ideas to a judging group. The winners were announced at a ceremony in Grenoble (this year’s European Green Capital) last week.

So even if you don’t care about EU medals. it’s very much worth visiting all these cities to find out all the cool stuff they’re doing to save the world, hit by hit.

1. What does the underlined word “dent” probably mean in Paragraph 1?

A．Progress.

B．Damage.

C．Ambition.

D．Effect.

2. How many green city award winners are mentioned in the passage?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

3. What must every city do to win the awards?

A．Build an urban park.	B．Donate to green efforts.
C．Predict weather accurately.	D．Demonstrate their ideas.

4. What does the author suggest doing in the end?

A．Being calm.	B．Cooling the world.
C．Paying attention to medals.	D．Calling at the green cities.

10 . Bhutan is one of the world’s most mysterious(神秘的)countries. Visiting it can be challenging, but there’s a new drive to finally cross it off the bucket list in 2022, as its breathtaking Trans Bhutan Trail(小径)will be reopening to travelers for the first time in 60 years.

According to the Bhutan Canada Foundation -the main donor to the restoration project — the 250-mile route connects nine districts, 28 local governments, one national park and 400 historic and cultural sites. Travelers who follow the entire trail route will cross 18 major bridges and climb 10,000 stairs. It will be possible to walk or mountain bike there.

“This is a community-based project in both its building and operation which will restore an ancient cultural treasure and provide a sustainable, net zero carbon experience in the country for travelers,” says Sam Blyth, chair of the Bhutan Canada Foundation. “The Trans Bhutan Trail also reflects the country’s philosophy of Gross National Happiness and will allow the children of Bhutan to walk in the footsteps of their ancestors.”

The trail’s westernmost point is the town of Haa, which is near the border with Tibet, China. The eastern most point is Trashigang, near the border of India’s Arunachal Pradesh state. According to a representative for the Bhutan Canada Foundation, an ambitious walker could cover the whole trail in about a month, but most tourists will likely enjoy shorter parts of the trail on three-, four-, or seven-day trips.

Due to its “high value, low impact” tourism strategy, Bhutan averaged just a few thousand visitors in atypical year before COVID-19 occurred. As part of its aim to avoid over tourism, the country charges a mandatory(强制的)$250 per day fee, which includes land transport, accommodations, food and guide service. The cost makes it somewhat prohibitive for many people to visit. And walkers to the Trans Bhutan Trail will have to apply for a permit. They can do this beginning in April.

1. What do we know about the Trans Bhutan Trail?

A．It connects several national parks.

B．It has been left unused for decades.

C．It has been maintained by the local governments.

D．It is more popular with mountain bikers than walkers.

2. What can we infer about the trail from Sam Blyth?

A．It allows children to reflect on themselves

B．It provides a community experience for travelers

C．It teaches people to learn from their happy ancestors.

D．It builds a connection between current and past generations.

3. What can walkers to the Trans Bhutan Trail do?

A．Choose from four types of short trips.

B．Collect ancient treasures along the way.

C．Explore Haa at the trail’s easternmost point.

D．Take a month-long trip to cover the whole trail.

4. What is Bhutan’s tourism strategy?

A．Putting profits first

B．Giving fines to badly-behaved visitors

C．Developing tourism without putting nature at risk

D．Offering tourists high-quality accommodations and food.