1 . What limits you from hiking more often? If not having a suitable hiking partner is keeping you out of the woods, why not take a look at the great hiking clubs across Canada?

Yukon Outdoors Club

Membership cost: $10 for a single membership

Description: The club organises day hikes, backpacking trips, mountain biking, and cross-country skiing trips for members to gain new skills and valuable information. The trips are open to everyone and range from easy to moderate to difficult.

UBC Varsity Outdoor Club

Membership cost: Students $40; non-UBC students $60

Description: The UBC Varsity Outdoor Club is a social group that hikes and rock climbs. Members lead trips, run skills workshops, and host presentations. Members can borrow equipment from the club. The UBC VOC has also constructed a few huts in the Coast Mountains.

Pender Harbor Hiking Group

Membership cost: Free

Description: The Pender Harbor Hiking Group offers a way for members to meet like-minded people and get fit. Hikes are scheduled two months in advance, so check the website regularly to find a hike that suits you! Hikes are usually one and a half to two hours long every Monday and Wednesday morning, but some full-day hikes are scheduled, depending on member interest.

Vernon Outdoors Club

Membership cost: A single membership is $25, and students pay $10. Children are free when they come with a registered family member.

Description: The Vernon Outdoors Club is an active group that enjoys hiking and cycling. Members are encouraged to share their activity ideas and interests. The group organises a Tuesday Activity each week.

1. If you want to learn some mountain biking skills, which club will you choose?

A．Vernon Outdoors Club

B．UBC Varsity Outdoor Club

C．Yukon Outdoors Club

D．Pender Harbor Hiking Group

2. What do we know about hikes organised by the Pender Harbor Hiking Group?

A．They are mostly held on weekends.

B．Their schedule is always emailed to the members.

C．More full-day hikes are offered than half-day hikes.

D．They are arranged two months ahead of time.

3. Mr. And Mrs. Smith, together with their three children, aged 4 and 6, the oldest is 15, intend to join the Vernon Outdoors Club. How much will they pay for the membership?

A．$50

B．$60

C．$75

D．$125

2 . One of the fundamental things we really love in cities is order. Order means balance, symmetry （对称）and repetition: the same thing happening again and again, and the left side matching the right side.

Order is one of the reasons why so many people love Paris. But most cities are a complete mess. When it's a mess, it seems like no one is in charge. And that's worrying. It's horrible when everything is jumbled up: a pitched roof next to a flat roof; 3 simple bare box next to a messy car park; high-rise towers that look as if they've been placed at random, like teeth in a yawning mouth.

We generally have a desire to straighten things out. And when we can't, it's frustrating. The same urge is there when we look at cities. Often, it's not skyscrapers that we mind in the city. It's skyscrapers that have been planted there without planning, like they are increasingly appearing in London, while New York or Chicago shows the ordered way that we love.

However, you have to keep something else in mind. Unreasonable order can be just as much of a problem. Too much regularity can be soul-destroying. Too much order feels rigid and alien. It can be indifferent, cold, severe, unkind, or even cruel. So the ideal we're seeking is variety and order.

This is the idea in a square in Tele in the Czech Republic, where every house is the same width and height. But within that ordered partem, every house has been allowed freedom at the level of form and color. We're perfectly in the middle between chaos and boringness here. And that's what humans adore.

So as a general rule: too much mess, and it's off-putting; but too much simple order, and it’s boring.

1. What does the underlined phrase "jumbled up” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Out of order.

B．Causing worries.

C．In good order.

D．At random.

2. Which of the following cities does the author dislike?

A．New York.

B．London.

C．Paris.

D．Tele.

3. What's the author's opinion about skyscrapers?

A．They should be made lower.	B．They       should have plants on top.
C．They should be well planned.	D．Their       numbers should be limited.

4. According to the author, an ideal city features                      .

A．balance and repetition	B．free       forms and rich colors
C．the same height and width	D．both       order and variety

3 . ____________________ should be no reason for treating one’s neighbors as strangers. （occupy）
工作繁忙不应该成为“对面不相识”的借口。

4 . When the survivor came to himself, he was eager to know _________________that saved him from the burning house. (be)
当生还者醒过来后，他急切的想知道到底是谁把他从燃烧的房子里救出来的。

5 . He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket __________________ that there were boats for South America. （find）
他身无分文的来到新奥尔良时，却发现那里没有开往南美洲的船了。

6 . Had he not broken the rules last week, he __________________ this week, which annoyed his mother. (fall)
要是上周他没有违反纪律，这周他就不会掉队，这让他妈妈很懊恼。

7 . The settlement is home to nearly 1,000 people, __________________ their village homes for a better life in the city.     （leave）
近千人在这一小社区居住，他们当中很多都是从农村老家来城市寻求更好的日子的。

8 . _______________ that China produces one third of the world’s cigarettes. (astonish)
令人震惊的是全世界三分之一的香烟是由中国生产的。

9 . By the time he was twelve years old, he __________________ a chemistry lab of his own.     (set)
他十二岁时，已经建立了自己的化学实验室。

10 . Not until we watched the Earth Day program on TV ______________________ much about global warming. (learn)
直到我们观看了地球日的电视节目，我们才了解了大量关于全球变暖的问题。