2 . Whistler Olympic Park, having hosted ski jumping, cross-country skiing and biathlon (冬季两项) for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, remains an active centre for competitors, the local community and visitors. Located a short drive south of Whistler, the park offers activities and programs all year-round.

Winter at Whistler Olympic Park

Discover Whistler Olympic Park through cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, biathlon and more.

Find yourself in the park’s fantastic landscape and discover its Olympic history.

Take a lesson such as ski jumping in the youth program.

Gather around the outdoor open fire or in the warm Day Lodge restaurant after a day out in the snow.

Summer at Whistler Olympic Park

Open daily for tours, self-guided activities and sightseeing from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

There is a small park access fee ($15/vehicle). This fee is for the benefit of local, national and international Nordic athletes for summer and winter training. Free park entry for 2020/2021 season pass holders and non-motorized vehicles.

Tours

Olympic Biathlon Tour

Feel like an Olympian with this hands-on introduction to biathlon! On your walk to the shooting range, learn about the park’s sports and history. It also provides the best angle for taking photos of the Olympic monuments.

Take aim and shoot a real gun! In a mini race, including walking and running, get your heart rate up, stay focused and take aim to hit the targets!

Tour Dates: Daily from June 28—September 1, 2020

Ages: 8 and up (under 19 with an accompanying adult)

Pricing: Adult $55, Youth $45

E-Bike & Biathlon Adventure Tour

The comfortable electric assist mountain bikes have wide wheels for a smooth ride, and an electric motor to help you climb hills with ease.

Visit the Olympic monuments and enjoy breathtaking viewpoints, such as the Top of the World lookout with views of Black Tusk and surrounding mountain ranges.

Test your skills at the biathlon range, shooting at Olympic targets.

Tour Dates: Daily from June 28—September 1, 2020

Ages: 10 and up (under 19 with an accompanying adult)

Pricing: $95 per person

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1. Which group of visitors can enjoy free park entry?

A．Season pass holders.	B．Children under age 8.
C．Locals from the community.	D．Teenagers with parents.

2. What can you do during the E-bike tour?

A．Ride a bike around the lake.

B．Gather around the open fire.

C．Visit the Olympic monuments.

D．Photograph monuments at the best angle.

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A．A sports and leisure centre.	B．Exciting sports adventures.
C．Year-round training programs.	D．History of an Olympic Park

3 . From virtual tours to e-learning tools, museums and art galleries have been sharing resources using digital platforms to continue to connect with the public, share collections and stories, and support those who are vulnerable（脆弱的）during closures and the COVID-19 crisis.

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is a family friendly museum in Hastings with a diverse collection of 97,000 objects of local history, fine a d decorative arts and natural sciences. To deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, we have launched a digital museum via the Twitter hashtag #HastingsDigitalMuseum as well as via out Facebook and Instagram pages.

The British Library

Over the past two years, our imaging specialists have been trying to digitise the globes, which form one of the most beautiful parts in the British Library’s vast maps collection. The virtual globes will be made available for up close interaction on the British Library’s website throughout 2020, with the first seven due for release on 26 March.

Art UK

Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the UK. Art UK is a charity, which features almost digitised 250,000 artworks available online. Through our work, we make art available for everyone--for enjoyment, learning and research. From May we will offer users the opportunity to create and share albums of artworks as well as”digital surrogate（替代的）exhibitions”.

Leeds Art Gallery Online

The displays at Leeds City Art Gallery have been selected by the staff to reflect the richness and variety of the collections. Established masterpieces are presented alongside lesser known works. It includes recent acquisitions and long term works from the collection. The collection is quite large--only a fraction（部分）is on display at any one time. When not on show, these may be seen by appointment at the Gallery.

1. Which is the most inviting to a geography lover?

A．Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.	B．The British Library.
C．Art UK.	D．Leeds Art Gallery Online.

2. What is special about Art UK?

A．It is an ideal museum for a family.

B．It has the largest collection of art works.

C．It is a non-profit art learning service.

D．It displays lesser known works besides famous ones.

3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To introduce virtual tours options.	B．To inform readers of art events.
C．To provide a cure for COVID-19.	D．To popularise art knowledge to readers.

4 . Britain’s first zero-carbon homes are being built—and they look like something from a science-fiction movie.

There are 25 eco-friendly homes currently being built in Southmoor, near Abingdon, Oxon. Buyers are able to have the final say on floor layouts，kitchens and bathrooms. One three-bedroom home is on the market for￡801 ,000,with a custom build available to suit your own specification. These eco-friendly houses are powered entirely by electricity from solar panels around the houses. They also have advanced ventilation (通风) systems, making sure that temperatures inside the building don’t go beyond 25℃ for more than 10% of hours annually, as well as mini heat pumps to generate (产生) the heating and hot water on-site. Part of the cooling design includes avoiding east-or west-facing windows, and window shading.

And they’re in high demand. Ian Pritchett, of Ssassy Property, thinks the Government should do more to promote the construction of this type of housing. “Unfortunately, the Government relaxed the proposed 2016 zero-carbon targets after being lobbied(游说)by house builders,” Ian explained. “At present, the main house-building corporations control the land and only build at the rate they are sure will sell, keeping the UK’s housing shortage so that the normal rules of ‘supply and demand’ don’t apply. When there is a shortage of housing, buyers have to purchase what is available rather than what they might want.”

In any sensible society, we would expect the planning system to actively encourage zero-carbon houses，and he tough on anyone failing to deliver the necessary standard. Instead, we have a planning system that focuses on other aspects such as numbers of bedrooms, garden sizes, and parking places. These are important aspects, but they pale into insignificance compared to the catastrophic consequences of climate change.

1. What can a purchaser do before buying the type of housing?

A．Negotiate its price.	B．Choose where to build it.
C．Decide how the inside of it looks.	D．Design its ventilation.

2. How do people react to the zero-carbon homes?

A．Welcome.	B．Uncaring.
C．Skeptical.	D．Demanding.

3. What do house-building companies intend to do?

A．Balance the “supply and demand” of houses.

B．Purchase more land to stop climate change.

C．Build more houses powered by the sun.

D．Make it more difficult to buy houses.

4. What’s the author’s attitude to the Government’s planning system?

A．Satisfied.	B．Disapproving.
C．Worried.	D．Ambiguous.

5 . The Hotel Wake-up Call Gets Personal

Here’s a wake-up call: The hotel front desk will do one better than ringing your phone in the morning. They’ll send an actual human being to your room. Don’t worry. They won’t come in and kiss you good morning.     1    

Never mind that most travelers nowadays have smart phones with built-in alarm clocks.     2     Here are some examples. At the Wolcott Hotel, if a wake-up call is unanswered, they will send an employee to your door. At Las Ventanas al Paraiso, an employee shows up at your room to wake you up with tea, coffee and breakfast bread. At the Mandarin Oriental, a person rather than an automated system will call to wake you up.     3    

Hotels have always taken the wake-up call seriously.     4     If you don’t get your call within five minutes of the requested time, you won’t have to pay for your room. Travelers, too, still want to have an option of a wake-up call. A study of 285 guests at Crown Plaza found that 53% considered a wake-up call very important.

    5     In the late 1980s, hotels turned to automated systems. Then all you’d get was a ring and silence. In the ever-competitive race for loyal customers, however, many hotels are now getting creative with the wake-up call. Some hotels even have recordings of celebrity voices. And more hotels will go back to the old in-person system of wake up calls.

A．But they might bring you coffee.

B．If you don’t answer, you’ll get a wake-up knock.

C．Crown Plaza, for instance, has a wake-up call guarantee.

D．But the wake-up call became less personal over the years.

E．The hotel gets 15 to 30 requests for wake-up calls each day.

F．The human wake-up call is a way to personalize a guest's stay.

G．Some guests sleep through the call, while others turn their phone ringers off.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who designed the White House?

A．George Washington.

B．John Adams.

C．James Hoban.

2. Who were the first people to live in the White House?

A．John Adams and his wife.

B．George Washington and his wife.

C．The third president of the US and his wife.

3. How many rooms does the White House have?

A．123.

B．132.

C．232.

4. What's the speaker describing?

A．The history of the White House.

B．The structure of the White House.

C．Some presidents who have lived in the White House.

7 . What makes a building ugly? Everyone's got their own opinion, so it's hard to say. Now, let's take a look at some of the world's worst buildings.

The Torre Velasca

The Torre Velasca in Milan is in the centre of Milan(Italy). The tower, which went up in the 1950s, is about 100 metres tall. Its design is actually a modern representation(代表) of a traditional Lombard castle, where the lower parts were narrower than the upper parts.

The Mirador Building

The Mirador Building in Madrid(Spain)was created by Dutch studio MVRDV and the Spanish architect(建筑师)Blanca Lleó.The building, which is a block of flats, opened in 2005. There is a large rectangular(矩形的)hole in the upper part of it, which is used by the neighbourhood as a meeting area and playground.

The Prague TV Tower

The Prague TV Tower is in Prague(the capital of the Czech Republic). It stands 216 metres high and looks a bit like a tall, thin space ship. Prague is famous for its architectural beauty, so when the tower was put up in 1985 by architect Vaclav Aulicky and engineer Jiri Kozak, many felt it didn't fit in.

The Longaberger Basket Company

The Longaberger Basket Company building is in Newark, Ohio(USA). The office block was opened in 1997 and looks like a very large basket. It's got seven floors and two handles(把手)at the top. The handles weigh about 150 tons. It may not be the ugliest building in the world but it's certainly one of the most unusual.

1. According to the text, the Torre Velasca________.

A．was created by Blanca Lleó	B．is similar to a Lombard castle
C．has a history of over 100 years	D．is taller than the Prague TV Tower

2. Which of the following buildings might be the Mirador Building?

A．	B．
C．	D．

3. When the Prague TV tower was put up，many people________.

A．thought little of it	B．liked it very much
C．felt that it might fall down easily	D．thought that it was totally useless

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does the woman meet the man?

A．To look at an apartment.

B．To deliver some furniture.

C．To have a meal together.

2. What does the woman like about the carpet?

A．Its color.

B．Its design.

C．Its quality.

3. What does the man say about the kitchen?

A．It's a good size.

B．It's newly painted.

C．It's adequately equipped.

4. What will the woman probably do next?

A．Go downtown.

B．Talk with her friend.

C．Make payment.

9 . You might think people all over the United States have Wi-Fi----wireless Internet service---and mobile phones. But there is no such service in Green Bank, West Virginia, a tiny town four hours from the U.S. capital, Washington D．C． Fewer than 150 people live in Green Bank, which has two churches, an elementary school and a public library. It is also home to the largest radio telescope in the world.

There is a ban on Wi-Fi in Green Bank, along with anything else that can create electromagnetic(电磁的)waves. Officials say the waves could disturb the signals the telescope receives.

For many Americans, a visit to Green Bank is a little like returning to the 1950s. To get there, you must read road signs---because there is no GPS service in the town. People can connect with the Internet through telephones, but wireless service is not allowed.

The observatory(天文台)is one of the largest employers in the area. The federal National Science Foundation(NSF) spends about ＄8.2 million a year to operate the observatory, telescope and educational center.

Jonah Bauserman is a technician. If he supposes there is signal that is not allowed in the zone, he drives to the house where the signal is coming from and checks it. But once a week, when the device is cleaned, some banned devices are allowed near it.

People in the town respect the work of the scientists. And they say they are happy to live without Wi-Fi and mobile phones. “You know, instead of sitting here on our phones and other devices we’re out fishing and hunting and going to each other’s houses.” Everyone knows each other and communication is almost always face-to-face.

1. What will you see when you pay a visit to Green Bank?

A．GPS service	B．road signs
C．cell phone towers	D．radio-controlled toys

2. What is Jonah Bauserman’s duty in his work?

A．Following signals from cell phones.	B．Cleaning the telescope once a week.
C．Listening for signals from outer space.	D．Protecting the telescope from being affected.

3. The telescope has brought         to the local people.

A．a healthier lifestyle	B．many job chances
C．great wealth	D．much difficulty in life

4. What may be the best title for this text?

A．The Largest Radio Telescope in the World

B．Good Relationships Between People in an American Town

C．An American Town Without Wi-Fi and Mobile Phones

D．An American town without Internet

10 . Color is fundamental in home design—something you’ll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you’ll love to live in. Do you want a room that’s full of life? Professional? Or are you just looking for a place to relax after a long day?     1    , color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel.

Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point.     2    , they can get a little complex. But good news is that there’re really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

    3    . They’re the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.

Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves.     4    . They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.

The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether you’re looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant.     5    .

A．While all of them are useful

B．Whatever you’re looking for

C．If you’re experimenting with a color

D．Small color choices are the ones we’re most familiar with

E．It’s not really a good idea to use too many small color pieces

F．So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first time

G．Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two major ways