1 . San Francisco Fire Engine Tours

San Francisco Winery Tour
Running: February 1st through April 30th

This delicious tour goes through the city on its way to Treasure Island where we will stop at the famous Winery SF. Here you can enjoy 4 pours of some of the best wine San Francisco has to offer.(Included in tickets price)

Departing from the Cannery: Tour times upon request.
Duration(时长): 2 hours
Price: $90
Back to the Fifties Tour
Running: August 16th through August 31st

This tour transports you back in time to one of San Francisco’s most fantastic periods, the 1950s! Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream.

Departing from the Cannery: 5:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Duration: 2 hours
Price: $90
Spooky Halloween Tour
Running: October 10th through October 31st

Join us for a ride through the historical Presidio district. Authentic fire gear(服装) is provided for your warmth as our entertainers take you to some of the most thrilling parts of San Francisco.

Departing from the Cannery: 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Price: Available upon request
Holiday Lights Tour
Running: December 6th through December 23rd

This attractive tour takes you to some of San Francisco’s most cheerful holiday scenes. Authentic fire gear is provided for your warmth as you get into the holiday spirit.

Departing from the Cannery: 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Advance reservations required.
1. Which of the tours is available in March?

A．San Francisco Winery Tour.	B．Back to the Fifties Tour.
C．Spooky Hallowen Tour.	D．Holiday Lights Tour.

2. What can tourists do on Back to the Fifties Tours?

A．Go to Treasure Island.	B．Enjoy the holiday scenes.
C．Have free ice cream.	D．Visit the Presidio district.

3. What are tourists required to do to go on Holiday Lights Tour?

A．Take some drinks.	B．Set off early in the morning.
C．Wear warm clothes.	D．Make reservations in advance.

2 .     1    One of the best things you can possibly do is to start your own club. It’s great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels there’s never anything to do during the school holidays.

The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club.     2    Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.

Next you need some friends to be in your club with you.     3    All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you.

    4    You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That’ll keep you busy for ages.

At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!

Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you can spend a lot of time making them.     5    Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.

So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you’ll think of loads of more interesting things to do!

A．That’s easy.

B．Enjoy your own club!

C．Invite a designer to join you.

D．What are you interested in?

E．Summer vacation is just coming.

F．Then you need to pick a name for your club.

G．Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.

3 . Jack London, one of America's famous writers, was born in California in 1876. During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would become the background for his writing.

London loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland, California, public library. He studied in the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed for only six months. He thought Berkeley was "not lively enough" and wanted to do something more exciting.

London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had making a living. He worked as a sailor, farmer, factory employee, railroad worker, and gold prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.

London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he bought a small sailboat. Later he sailed to Japan. Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1897, he headed for Alaska. He didn't find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his imagination. London made the miners laugh with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many more colorful stories.

London decided to live a full, exciting life. He once said, "I would rather be a superb meteor(流星) than a sleepy and permanent(永恒的) planet.”Each day, he pushed himself. Once London decided that he was going to be a writer, nothing could stop him. His goal was to write at least one thousand words every day. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London's energy and his talent for telling wonderful stories each time they open one of his novels.

1. Why was Jack London able to write on many topics?

A．He pushed himself to reach goals.

B．He had a great number of experiences and jobs.

C．He was drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush.

D．He was the best-selling and highest-paid author.

2. What prevented Jack London from finishing college?

A．That he sailed to Japan.

B．That he traveled to Alaska in 1897.

C．That he spent much of his time writing.

D．That he was not interested in college life enough.

3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph shows that Jack London ________.

A．was expert at the stars	B．aimed high and wanted to succeed
C．was interested in life	D．faced a choice between life and death

4. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A．To tell London was the "best writer".

B．To describe life during the Klondike Gold Rush.

C．To provide information on Jack's life.

D．To introduce books written by Jack London.

4 . 假如你是李华，想成为英国某培训机构的一名教汉语的志愿者。请你用英语写一封申请信，内容包括：1．成为志愿者能介绍中国的文化；2．自己的优势。
注意：1．词数100词左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文流畅连贯；
3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam,   
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely

Li Hua

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to the challenge of her new A-level course .But unlike her school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term     1     (rest). Instead, she is earning $6,500 a day as     2     model in New York.

Sarah     3     (tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel, earning a million dollars in the next year. Her father Peter, 44, wants her to give up school to model full-time. But Sarah,     4     has taken part in shows along with top models, wants    5     (prove) that she has brains as well as beauty. She is determined to carry on with her    6     (educate).

She has turned down several    7     (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans to take a year off to model full-time before going to university to get a degree    8     engineering or architecture.

Sarah says, "My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school    9     (come) first. I don't want to get too absorbed in modeling. It is    10     (certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more."

6 . How to Learn English in High School

If you are a high school student, or will be going into high school soon, it is important to know English so you can take full advantage of your education. Learning this language is a challenge.    1    

Take part in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. Most high schools and middle schools offer ESL classes for free.    2    Not only does it provide a professional teacher to help you with your English learning, but you will be able to communicate with other students and help each other along your English learning journey.

Speak with native English speakers as often as possible.    3    Although having a conversation in English may seem frightening when you first begin learning, getting over that fear and having conversations in English will help to speed up your learning process.

    4    Read your favorite books in English, watch English television programs and movies, and listen to English music. The more you put yourself in English environment, the better you will understand the language as well as the culture of the English-speaking countries.

Record yourself speaking English,    5    So it's better to record yourself，play back the recording and take notes of what you need to improve. When you record yourself, you can read a paragraph from a book newspaper, or high school textbook written in English.

A．This class is an important resource.

B．Make all forms of activities a learning experience.

C．Before you know it, you'll be reading English aloud.

D．Do the best you can to keep the conversation flowing.

E．You probably won’t catch your mistakes while you’re speaking.

F．But with a few ways，you can learn English easily in high school.

G．A useful way to learn a language is chatting with native speakers.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Have you ever heard of Li Ziqi? She is     1     famous vlogger (视频博主) living in a village in Sichuan, China. Her videos     2     (be) popular among people around the world.

In her videos, Li makes everything, from paper     3     cloth, dresses and even a sofa, with her own hands.

Professor Li Jinzhao from Beijing Foreign Studies University spoke     4     (high) of her videos. She     5     (think) the videos were pleasing to the eye of her audience. “It is really     6     (relax) to watch her making things,” she added.

Many people want to know     7     Li Ziqi is so popular. Professor Li explained that people felt anxious about the world and they wanted to live a quiet and     8     (nature) life.

“What Li shows in her videos     9     (provide) an interesting and creative way     10     (look) at ordinary life in villages. We should learn from her positive attitude towards life,” Professor Li said.

8 . Most people can't wait for spring to arrive. It means flowers and warmer weather, all welcome changes from the dark winter days. Now we know that spring is arriving sooner in the Northern Hemisphere   (北半球）than it was in the past, thanks to a study published in Scientific Reports.

For example, Los Angeles may experience spring only a day earlier than it did 10 years ago, but further north, in Seattle or Chicago, spring will arrive four days earlier. If you lived in the Arctic, spring could arrive 16 days earlier than it used to.

To determine how springtime is starting earlier, researchers looked at temperature records and 743 earlier studies over 86 years. These studies were about various biological indicators of spring, including birds migrating, plants flowering and amphibians（两栖动物）sounding their mating calls. Researchers then studied these data to see if they were occurring earlier. The result showed that not only is spring making itself known sooner but it's warmer, too.

Before you go out in a happy springtime hike, spring arriving sooner isn't so good. The livelihood of migratory birds, for instance, may be concerned.

“The food that birds rely on when they move to the north might not be reliable if the beginning of spring at these higher latitudes（维度）is expanded by future warming." said Eric Post. He is a fellow of the John Muir Institute and a polar ecologist.

Animals relying on Arctic sea ice, like polar bears, probably aren't crazy about things warming up sooner, either, because it impacts on their ability to hunt. Spring's early arrival could cause disorder in the delicate balance of various ecosystems~~not to mention how soon you'll need to buy allergy medicine.

1. We learn from the study published in Scientific Reports that.

A．spring comes earliest in Los Angeles

B．Los Angeles is further north than Seattle

C．spring comes 12 days earlier in Arctic than in Chicago

D．the further north a place lies, the sooner spring comes than before

2. Researchers made the discovery mainly by.

A．comparing related data available

B．conducting research and test

C．calculating the exact length of each spring

D．observing animal's behavior all year round

3. What do the last two paragraphs focus on?

A．Concerns over spring's early arrival.

B．Springtime emergence of creatures.

C．Early springtime's impacts on humans.

D．Disorder in the balance of ecosystems.

4. In which section of a magazine can we read this text?

A．Medical Report.	B．Survival Stories.
C．Scientific Discoveries.	D．Natural environment

9 . In an ancient folktale, a giant rock blocks the entrance to a care filled with treasure. A door appears only for those who speak a secret phrase aloud: “Open, sesame (芝麻)!”     1    

Passwords have changed ever since. Now they safeguard digital treasures, such as pictures, messages, and documents. But the reason why the phrases exist is still the same: to keep the wrong people out.     2     And when they can figure out a person’s password, they can access private information. This allows them to play practical jokes, such as posting that information online.     3    

There are passwords to avoid if you want to be safe online. The most popularly used password is 123456. This is the first guess hackers will make. They will then try to use public information about a potential target.     4     Hackers type this information into computer programs that can guess the target’s passwords.

One of the best ways kids can keep their information secure is by thinking up strong passwords. So how can you invent a password that’s easy for you to remember but hard for someone else to guess?     5     For example, a lyric from your favorite song, or the title of a book or movie. It’s best if the phrase is relevant to your life because you’ll be less likely to forget it. Then take the first letter or first couple of letters from each word in that phrase, and begin switching those letters to symbols or numbers. Use both uppercase and lowercase (大写和小写) letters to make the password even trickier to crack (破解).

A．You can think of a fun phrase.

B．This is an early example of a password.

C．This may include a date of birth or a pet’s name.

D．You will benefit from making your passwords stronger.

E．No wonder your information was stolen a couple of times.

F．In the digital world, these “wrong people” are called hackers.

G．Even worse, the hackers might use the information to commit crimes.

10 . One sixth of undergraduates (本科生) in   Beijing this year have registered at a driving school . The students, mostly from majors such as business management or international trade , will finish their driving courses within 20 days or so .
       Training costs have dropped to, 2,600yuan for students, according to the Haidian Driving School in Beijing. The price is not really low , but students will accept it , seeing it as an investment (投资) in their future. Familiarity with the operation of computers and fluent English are the basic skills graduating students need to find a job. But a driver’s permit has become another factor.

“In the job market, owning a driver’s permit sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness for a good position,” says Zhou Yang, an undergraduate at the China University of Political Science and Law.

Cars will become a necessary part of many people’s lives in the coming years, and it’s difficult to get a permit out of campus because of the pressures on working people’s time. “Having a full-time job after graduation offers limited time to learn to drive. We senior students have plenty of spare time, plenty of opportunities to learn.”

Xu Jian, an official at the driving school, said undergraduates were very able and serious, and could grasp in an hour what it took ordinary people four hours to learn. In this driving school, middle-aged people, young women and college students are the main customers.

To get a driver’s permit, a beginner is now required to have at least 86 hours’ practice before the final road test.
1. The undergraduates are learning to drive because         .

A．they like to drive cars

B．they need this skill to find a good job.

C．most of them will be able to buy cars in the future

D．they want to become full-time drivers after graduation

2. Which of the following is Xu Jian’s opinion of students learning to drive?

A．He decided it was a waste of money and time.

B．He thought they must learn it at school.

C．He thought they would spend three times more time.

D．He agreed that young people had an advantage in learning to drive.

3. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?

A．Students Learn to Drive

B．Welcome to Driving School

C．It’s Better to Learn to Drive at College

D．Students Pay Less to Learn to Drive Now