1 . With gas prices rising and airport security lines snaking longer than ever, why not book your next domestic vacation on a train? Compared to other alternatives, it’s comfortable and relaxing. Here is some advice on how to make a trip by rail as pleasant as possible.
Plan ahead. Most long-distance trains, especially the sleeping car accommodations, sell out very quickly.
Use a travel agent. Consider turning your travel plan over to a travel agent and letting him double-check all the details, make suggestions, and then handle the actual reservations. A good one can sometimes find you discounted tickets.
Bring a blanket. When you’re riding on trains, you won’t be provided with a blanket for free, even if your trip is an overnight one.
Arrive early. Most trains operate just once a day and some run only three times a week, so missing yours can be a disaster.
Have fun.
| A．Train trips aren’t for impatient types. |
| B．You’ll have views from both sides of the train. |
| C．The temperature on rail cars is often hard to control. |
| D．That’s particularly true during busy summer months. |
| E．You might have to wait longer than 24 hours to catch the next one. |
| F．Chances are the cost will be a lot less than the cost of one bedroom. |
| G．He may also book you in a sleeping car that’s right next to the diner. |
Pioneering underwater photographer David Doubilet is a master craftsman,
He believes that the photography has the power
They are looking at coral worldwide to see how it’s changed, and changing. “A lot of climatologists are thinking coral may be one of
3 . Tricks to keep fit
Do incline sit ups. Prop your legs up on the side of your bed and lie down on the floor so that your legs are above your head.
Add weights to your incline sit-up routine.
Run sprints. This is one of the best cardio (有氧运动) exercises for improving abs, because it forces you to take deep breaths and gives you a complete body workout.
Replace drinking alcohol and soda with drinking water, green tea and fruit juices. There are a lot of calories in alcohol and soft drinks.
| A．Eat healthy foods. |
| B．Lay a light weight across your chest. |
| C．Food helps to maintain and enhance relationships . |
| D．Start off running 20 yard sprints as fast as you can. |
| E．Increase your consumption of soluble (可溶的) fiber. |
| F．Slowly lift your back up off the floor and bring your head toward your knees. |
| G．Changing your drinking habits alone can decrease your calories by 25 percent. |
Pingyao Ancient City,
Pingyao was built up based on the cultural thoughts and architectural style of the Han nationality of China. To this day, the city walls and buildings have maintained
The shops lining South Street
Keeping the typical pattern of Ming and Qing
5 . I was sitting in my car at a stoplight intersection (信号灯交叉口) listening to the radio. I was
This was a long
The couple seemed to be doing their best to
In that moment, I
Creating our own
| A．hurt | B．lost | C．mad | D．angry |
| A．puzzling | B．hesitating | C．thinking | D．satisfying |
| A．warm | B．new | C．expensive | D．advanced |
| A．rainy | B．snowy | C．sunny | D．windy |
| A．light | B．time | C．journey | D．way |
| A．shameless | B．scared | C．uncomfortable | D．young |
| A．turned out | B．seemed | C．proved | D．suggested |
| A．hold | B．translate | C．reduce | D．keep |
| A．them | B．myself | C．himself | D．others |
| A．However | B．Therefore | C．Moreover | D．Besides |
| A．coat | B．life | C．meal. | D．joke |
| A．due to | B．result from | C．instead of | D．put away |
| A．notice | B．hear | C．smell | D．touch |
| A．action | B．shoes | C．clothes | D．house |
| A．remembered | B．realized | C．informed | D．recognized |
| A．predicted | B．dated | C．wandered | D．assumed |
| A．chance | B．power | C．right | D．tradition |
| A．happiness | B．future | C．success | D．confidence |
| A．finally | B．gradually | C．slowly | D．actually |
| A．belief | B．ability | C．situation | D．principle |
6 . The annual Dongyue Temple Fair of Mount Tai will be held during April 29-May 6 at Dai Temple in Tai’an. Here are some items visitors may love.
Performances
From April 29 to May 6, performances of martial arts (武术), traditional music, Chinese folk art forms and local operas will be put on stage. Visitors can lift their spirits by watching long boxing and nunchakus (双节棍) performances or listening to the music played by guqin, a seven-stringed zither, and the bamboo flute.
Folk-custom activities
Visitors to the temple fair can also enjoy themselves by admiring folk-custom activities held from April 29 to May 6.
There will be exhibitions of traditional handicrafts and paper cutting works that were collected and selected by non-governmental organizations. Performers will also show traditional Chinese costumes at a garden party.
Cultural activities
If the visitors want to enjoy the cultural atmosphere at the temple fair, they can get a close look at bamboo engraving art at Peitian Gate where more than 70 pieces of engraving art are exhibited from April 28 to May 22.
Trade activities
If people want to buy Mount Tai specialties, they won’t be disappointed, for trade shows will be held during the temple fair. Tea, tourism products, donkey-hide-gelatin, rare stones and root carvings will be showed and on sale.
1. How many days will bamboo engraving art be exhibited?| A．6. | B．8. |
| C．22. | D．25. |
| A．Martial arts. | B．Local opera. |
| C．Paper-cutting works. | D．Chinese paintings. |
| A．The products are for display only. |
| B．You can get to know many new products. |
| C．Visitors can purchase some local products on the shows. |
| D．Don’t buy products on show, or you will be disappointed. |
1. 时间安排；
2. 参观要求；
3. 观后感受。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8 . Mr. Buxton taught me Shakespeare in 10th grade. We were reading Macbeth. Mr. Buxton, who probably had better things to do, nonetheless agreed to meet one night to go over the text line by line. The first thing he did was point out the repetition of themes. For example, the reversals of things.
What Mr. Buxton didn’t tell me was what the play meant. He left the conclusions to me. The situation was much the same with my religious studies teacher in 11th grade, Mr. Flanders, who encouraged me to have my own relationship with the Gospels.
High school was followed by college, where I read Umberto Eco’s The Role of the Reader, in which it is said that the reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious (渴求的) and engaged reader. The open texts, Eco calls them. In college, I read some of the great Europeans and Latin Americans: Borges and Kafka, Genet and Beckett, Artaud, Proust-open texts all. I may not have known why Kafka’s Metamorphosis is about a guy who turns into a bug: but I knew that some said cockroach, and others, European dung beetle.
There are those critics, of course, who insist that there are right ways and wrong ways to read every book. No doubt they arrived at these beliefs through their own adventures in the stacks. And these are important questions for philosophers of every stripe. And yet I know only what joy and enthusiasm about reading have taught me, in bookstores new and used.
There is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.
Supposing the truth is not hard, fast, masculine, simple, direct? You could spend a lifetime thinking about this sentence ,and making it your own. In just this way, the freedom to see literature,history, truth unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.
1. When did the author begin to read Shakespeare’s work?.| A．In primary school. | B．In 11th grade. |
| C．In secondary school. | D．In college. |
| A．It w as written by the readers. |
| B．It is about a guy turning into a bug. |
| C．It insists that the reader completes the text. |
| D．Some great Europeans and Latin Americans wrote it together. |
| A．Being an excellent student. |
| B．Mr. Buxton’s teaching method. |
| C．The joy and enthusiasm from his reading. |
| D．His admiration for literature masters like Shakespeare. |
| A．He has a preference for the open texts. |
| B．Shakespeare is his favorite. |
| C．He is naturally talented in reading. |
| D．He is also a famous literary critic. |
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
That we all know, it’s of greatly importance to get into a good living habit. Here is some suggestions for good living habits .
Firstly, get enough sleep. Enough sleep can provide us good energy. It’s important for us to go to the bed early and get up early. Secondly, keep healthy eating habits. Good eating habits can help us balances nutrition. So we should eat more vegetables and little meat. Thirdly, do exercise more. Do sports every day can keep us active all day long, help us build up your body and reduce diseases.
Please pay attention to these points but keep a healthy body.
10 . Mr. Fang is now the owner of 36 greenhouses producing organic vegetables in the Gobi desert in Northwest China’s Gansu province. He is one of the beneficiaries of the Gobi Farming Program of Gansu province that is building rows of greenhouses in the desert to help transform local farming and alleviate poverty.
Grain production in Gansu is greatly affected by the climate and the output is unstable. Agricultural production there relies heavily on rivers, oases and groundwater irrigation. If traditional extensive agricultural production continued, it could gradually narrow the living space.
In 1995, a local entrepreneur ventured to use Israeli technologies to build greenhouses for vegetables growing in the desert. Such individual pilot projects encouraged the Gansu government to launch a provincial-level Gobi farming program in 2017 with a target to build up a controlled-environment agriculture of about 20,000 hectares by 2022. Some cities in the province, which include Fang’s village, have already been experimenting with Gobi farming for several years.
Despite the harsh environment, farming in the Gobi desert has its advantages: the extended amount of sunlight provides adequate energy for crops, a significant temperature difference between day and night helps crops accumulate nutrients and the Gobi’s hot and dry air means fewer pests and crop diseases. The Gobi greenhouses popping up in Gansu use drip and spray irrigation, which can cut water consumption by almost 50 percent compared to a normal farm. The greenhouses are also eco-friendly, as they use substrates for soilless cultivation recycled from rotten leaves, straw and cow and sheep feces.
With the greenhouses, Fang earns around 70,000 yuan annually. Data from Suzhou. district of Jiuquan showed the greenhouse program has helped bring an average revenue of about $ 72,300 per hectare to local farmers. Large scale greenhouse farming is an investment-intensive project and cannot be sustained only by government financial support. Therefore, the local government has been encouraging villagers such as Fang to take the lead to rent greenhouses or build their own.
It is not an easy task, and many villagers still want to wait and see. However, more and more are starting to join in,either to rum their own greenhouses or work as hired workers for greenhouse owners. Starting from managing four greenhouses in 2009, Fang now is also a partner of a greenhouse farming cooperative running 120 greenhouses.
The relatively low cost of large-scale land use in the Gobi desert have also encouraged large firms to start their Gobi farming pilot projects in Gansu. If the Gobi farming proves successful, it could provide experiences for countries in Central Asia linked with Gansu both by the ancient Silk Road as well as its modern version of the Belt and Road Initiative.
1. What affects grain production in Gansu most?| A．Money. | B．Sunlight. |
| C．Air | D．Water. |
| A．Change the local climate. |
| B．Make the local residents rich. |
| C．Protect the traditional agricultural production. |
| D．Help university students start their own business. |
| A．The harsh environment is good for crops . |
| B．At first, Fang only ran four greenhouses. |
| C．With the greenhouses, Fang earns around $ 70,000 annually. |
| D．Mr. Fang now owns 120 greenhouses producing organic vegetables. |
| A．The Belt and Road Initiative |
| B．A Great Adventurer — Mr. Fang |
| C．The Gobi Farming Program of Gansu |
| D．The Advantages of Farming in the Gobi Desert |
