1 . When going out to dine with kids, you need to know the places where kids are not only welcomed, but really catered for. The following are some of the best family-friendly restaurants and cafés.
Flying Fox Café
It is located in a park in Mona Vale. Near the café is a fantastic fenced children's playground, famous for playground facilities including a bike track, walking tracks and a dog walking beach.
Business Hours:
Monday to Sunday: 9 am to 4 pm
The weather can sometimes influence the closing time. If you are unsure, please call 9986 0980.
Gladesville Bistro
Welcome to our revolutionary kid-friendly family bistro(小餐馆）－where your kids are welcome to play, draw, slip and slide. Our menu includes sandwiches and chips. Your children will receive a free cup of popcorn with every kid's meal purchased.
Business Hours:
Monday to Sunday: 11 am to 7 pm
Tel: 9816 4052
MUMU Grill
It offers the perfect family dinner. The children can eat and then play in the park opposite the restaurant. Children will be kept amused by the kids' menus, which feature coloring-in activities. Children are able to color in a picture of a cow with crayons.
Business Hours:
Monday to Friday: 4 pm to 6 pm
Saturday to Sunday: 3 pm to 7 pm
Tel: 9460 6877
Billy Lids
It is a unique environment where your child can play safely while you relax in the central cafe area. The indoor playground includes facilities for children up to 11years old. There are plenty of food options for the kids, including home-made sausage rolls.
Business Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9 am to 5 pm
Friday to Saturday: 9 am to 6 pm
Tel: 9916 0350
1. Where can your children enjoy popcorn for free?| A．At Flying Fox Café. | B．At Gladesville Bistro. |
| C．At MUMU Grill. | D．At Billy Lids. |
| A．Tuesday evening | B．Wednesday afternoon |
| C．Friday morning | D．Saturday afternoon |
| A．Gladesville Bistro only offers sausage rolls to parents and children. |
| B．The business hours of Billy Lids may be influenced by the weather. |
| C．Children could walk dogs in Flying Fox Café. |
| D．MUMU Grill offers playground facilities for children. |
| A．It’s well organized. |
| B．It is unsatisfactory. |
| C．It is satisfactory. |
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| A．which | B．who | C．what |
| A．either | B．all | C．both |
| A．have taken place | B．have been taken place | C．were taken place |
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7 . Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing them to change their tribe (部落). If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties. You can’t expect someone to change their mind if you take away their community too.
The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to combine them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.
The British philosopher Alain de Botton suggests that we simply share meals with those who disagree with us: “Sitting down at a table with a group of strangers has the incomparable and odd benefit of making it a little more difficult to hate them without punishment. Prejudice and conflict between groups of people from different nations or races feed off abstraction. However, during a meal, something about handing dishes around, unfolding napkins (餐巾纸) at the same moment, even asking a stranger to pass the salt makes us less likely to hold the belief that the outsiders who wear unusual clothes and speak in distinctive accents deserve to be sent home or attacked. For all the large-scale political solutions which have been proposed to ease racial or cultural conflict, there are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.”
Perhaps it is not difference, but distance that produces tribalism and unfriendliness. As proximity increases, so does understanding. I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s quote, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Facts don’t change our minds. Friendship does.
The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”
When we are in the moment, we can easily forget that the goal is to connect with the other side, cooperate with them, befriend them, and integrate them into our tribe. We are so caught up in winning that we forget about connecting. It’s easy to spend your energy labeling people rather than working with them.
The word “kind (family and relatives)” originated from the word “kin (old fashion of family and relatives).” When you are kind to someone, it means you are treating them like family. This, I think, is a good method for actually changing someone’s mind. Develop a friendship. Share a meal. Gift a book. Be kind first, be right later.
1. People are likely to change their mind when they ________.| A．change their beliefs | B．are made friends with |
| C．move to a new community | D．are given somewhere to go |
| A．pleases people with different beliefs or accents |
| B．makes people focus on eating rather than conflicts |
| C．brings benefits to the people having dinner together |
| D．promotes understanding and tolerance among people |
| A．Nearness. | B．Action. | C．Communication. | D．Politeness. |
| A．breaking down one’s reality is easy |
| B．kindness is more important than right |
| C．arguing and winning are not important |
| D．losing one’s identity is a painful process |
8 . As we slide even closer to Father's Day during these pandemic （流行病）times, I can’ t help but feel super privileged to tell you about one extraordinary dad. He's a dad so good that after he was done raising his own kids, he took to YouTube to do some more dadding to millions of complete and total strangers in need.
Rob Kenney's childhood had a theme that, sadly, is not at all uncommon for American kids: fatherlessness. His father left his family when he was just twelve years old, and statistics say that lines up with the experience of about 25% of kids today. Many lessons a dad would teach a kid, he just had to learn on his own. However, Kenney swore that his own kids would not have that experience, and after successfully raising two kids into two adults, he's branching out to help fatherless kids just like him in the coolest way possible.
Kenney has started a YouTube channel called “Dad, How Do I?" to show fatherless kids a variety of “how to' s" over the everyday tasks of living. From “how to tie a tie" to "how to shave your face" to "how to check your car's oil" , Kenney’s videos are readily understood, though almost entirely unedited.
In the past week, thanks to some viral posts on Twitter and Facebook by influencers, Kenney's channel has gone from a handful of subscribers to 1.97 million! It just goes to show you how much his " Practical 'Dadvice' for everyday tasks" is needed and appreciated by fatherless kids everywhere --- not to mention adults who just simply don ' t know how to do stuff. The viewers ' comments on Kenney's YouTube channel can move even the hard-hearted to tears.
1. What's the author's main purpose of writing the text?| A．To celebrate Father's Day. |
| B．To introduce a kind father. |
| C．To stress the major role fathers play. |
| D．To warn people against the pandemic. |
| A．To make a name for himself. |
| B．To set an example to his kids. |
| C．To direct parents to bring up their kids. |
| D．To teach fatherless kids to do everyday things. |
| A．Complex. | B．Well edited. |
| C．Slightly abstract. | D．Straightforward. |
| A．The popularity of his channel. |
| B．His thanks to enthusiastic posters. |
| C．The necessity of updating his videos. |
| D．His comments on hard-hearted viewers. |
9 . When I was a practice teacher in a middle school，the students in my class were always making
The evening before I would teach all by myself，I gave a piece of paper to everyone. I told them to write
I turned the cardboard case with the bottom(底部)towards the students，and told them calmly what each one had written on the paper. The students were surprised，
I told them the truth and they were
| A．progress | B．troubles | C．faces | D．efforts |
| A．something | B．nothing | C．all | D．them |
| A．methods | B．attitudes | C．feelings | D．interest |
| A．that | B．how | C．when | D．what |
| A．thought | B．seen | C．written | D．heard |
| A．would | B．needed | C．had to | D．might |
| A．with | B．for | C．to | D．as |
| A．after | B．when | C．until | D．now that |
| A．put | B．left | C．had | D．gave |
| A．knowing | B．believing | C．seeing | D．hearing |
| A．names | B．faces | C．characters | D．handwritings |
| A．frightened | B．angry | C．sad | D．amazed |
| A．corner | B．bottom | C．top | D．side |
| A．in | B．for | C．with | D．to |
| A．it | B．that | C．them | D．those |
| A．given | B．handed | C．passed | D．offered |
| A．expensive | B．useful | C．another | D．smelly |
| A．made | B．seen | C．found | D．looked |
| A．From then on | B．However | C．Though | D．So far |
| A．a lot of | B．a lot | C．partly | D．greatly |
10 . A fresh and gentle wind on your face, soft sand under your feet and blue waters as far as the eye can see. Is there any other Olympic sport that is played in such pleasant conditions as beach volleyball？
“I’ve gone to a lot of beautiful places, and met a lot of beautiful people. That wouldn’t have happened if I had been playing another sport.” said Randy Stoklos, America’s most famous beach volleyball player.
The sport began as a four-a-side game on beaches in Southern California in the 1920s. The first recorded two-man game took place there in 1930, and the first tournament (锦标赛) was held in Los Angeles 18 years later. The winners were awarded a case of Pepsi. In the 1950s, women started playing and the sport soon spread to Europe and South America. Yet at that time, beach volleyball was more an entertainment show than a sport, with beauty contests included. The Association of Volleyball Professionals was founded in 1983 and beach volleyball developed into a fast, athletic sport. Its world-wide popularity won beach volleyball a place at the 1996 Olympics in Atalanta, where 24 male teams and 16 female teams took part. At present, the US and Brazil are the best in the world at beach volleyball.
The game came to China in the early 1990s and there have been national tournaments since 1994. It became an official event at the Eighth National Games in 1997. China’s You Wenhui and Wang Lu finished ninth in the women’s beach volleyball world championships in Brazil.
1. The passage is mainly about ______.| A．the history of beach volleyball |
| B．how to play beach volleyball |
| C．the importance of beach volleyball |
| D．women’s beach volleyball in China |
| A．Beach volleyball was first played like other Olympic: sports. |
| B．Beach volleyball has always been an entertainment show rather than a sport. |
| C．Beach volleyball began on beaches in Souther California. |
| D．Women started playing beach volleyball in South America in 1945. |
| A．In 1948, | B．In 1996. | C．In 1950. | D．In 1997. |
| A．in 1996, beach volleyball became an official event in China |
| B．China’s beach volleyball team is the best in the world |
| C．China’s beach volleyball players won the first place in Brazil |
| D．beach volleyball came to China in the early 1990s |
