2 . Travelling can be a fun way to gain life experience, but what if you’re a student and don’t have enough money for a trip? Don’t worry. Here are some useful tips.

Save: This probably is the most important preparation for travelling. Cut expenses (花费) to fatten your wallet so you’ll have more choices about where to go and how to get there.

Plan ahead: Don’t wait until the last minute to plan your trip. Giving yourself several months to get ready can mean security and savings.

Do your homework: No matter where you go, research the places you will visit. Decide what to see. Travel books will provide information on the cheapest hotels and restaurants.

Plan sensibly: Write down how much you expect to spend on food and hotels. Stick to (坚持) your plan, or you may not have enough money to cover everything.

Travel in groups: Find someone who is interested in visiting the same places. By travelling with others you can share costs and experiences.

Work as you go: Need more money to support your trip? Look for work in the places you visit.

Go off the beaten path: Tourist cities may be expensive. You may want to rethink about your trip and go to a less known area. Smaller towns can have many interesting activities (活动) and sights.

Pack necessary things: The most important things to take are not always clothes. Remember to take along medicine in case you get sick and snacks in case you cannot find a cheap restaurant.

By planning sensibly, even students can enjoy their travel. Your travel experiences will be remembered for a lifetime.

1. Before your trip, the first thing you should do is________.

A．to make a plan of the route

B．to get information on the Internet

C．to save money by spending less

D．to buy tickets ahead of time

2. The writer advises you________.

A．not to share costs with other people

B．not to go to well-known places

C．not to visit dangerous places

D．to buy anything you want to buy

3. During your trip, ________.

A．you need more medicine than clothes

B．you should look for work all the way

C．you should remember to do your homework

D．you can gain valuable life experience

4. Which of the following can be used as the best title of the passage?

A．How to Plan Your Travel Wisely

B．Travel Can Be Great Fun

C．Different Kinds of Travel

D．How to Save Money

3 . 4-Day Classic Beijing Tour

The 4-day classic Beijing tour is designed for tourists who come to visit China for the first time. It covers the most popular and typical places in Beijing, fully displaying to you the scenery, culture, history, local lifestyles and features, food and drinks, business, etc.

Day 1: Arrival in Beijing

Your guide meets you at Beijing Capital International Airport, and helps you check in at your hotel.

Enjoy Beijing roast duck as well as welcome dinner.

Accommodation(住宿)∶Downtown Beijing.

Day 2: The Great Wall and the Summer Palace

Start your day at the most famous part of the (Great Wall, the Badaling Great Wall. Leave the downtown for the Great Wall at 8 am. Since it is a long drive to the Great Wall, have a break at the Beijing Bona Jade Museum on the way. Lunch will be enjoyed in a local restaurant. In the early afternoon, come back to the city and have a sightseeing tour of the Summer Palace.

Suggested activity: Beijing Opera shows (Liyuan Theatre, 19:30-20:30 every evening)

Accommodation: Downtown Beijing.

Day 3: Beijing city sighting and local experience

Your guide meets you at the hotel at 8 am and set out for the day’s touring: Tian’anmen Square and Forbidden City.

After visiting the two sites, have a break and get ready for lunch.

Hutong visit: see some traditional arts of the old Beijing, such as paper cutting and kite making, and visit a local family.

Accommodation: Downtown Beijing.

Day 4: Beijing Olympic sites

Visit the Olympic sites: the Bird’s Nest, the Water Cube and the Olympic Green, showing the fast developing modern China. Enjoy some free time after visiting the sites. After lunch, it is shopping time and then the tour is over.

1. Whom is this advertisement aimed at?

A．Tourists who come to visit China for the first time.

B．People who like touring.

C．Experts who study history and cities.

D．Kids who were born in other cities.

2. After arriving in Beijing, what would you enjoy as well as welcome dinner?

A．Noodles.

B．Chicken.

C．Beijing roast duck.

D．Bread.

3. If a tourist wants to enjoy Beijing Opera, what should he do?

A．Live and eat downtown in Beijing.

B．Go to Liyuan Theater from 19:30-20:30pm.

C．Visit the Summer Palace.

D．Go sighting in Beijing hutong.

4. On which day can tourists enjoy the Beijing Olympic sites?

A．Day 1.

B．Day 2.

C．Day 3.

D．Day 4.

4 . Wealth starts with a goal saving a dollar at a time. Call it the piggy bank strategy(策略). There are lessons in that time-honored coin-saving container.

Any huge task seems easier when reduced to baby steps. If you wished to climb a 12,000-foot mountain, and could do it a day at a time, you would only have to climb 33 feet daily to reach the top in a year. If you want to take a really nice trip in 10 years for a special occasion, to collect the $15,000 cost, you have to save $3.93 a day. If you drop that into a piggy bank and then once a year put $1,434 in a savings account at 1% interest rate after-tax, you will have your trip money.

When I was a child, my parents gave me a piggy bank to teach me that, if I wanted something, I should save money to buy it. We associate piggy banks with children, but in many countries, the little containers are also popular with adults. Europeans see a piggy bank as a sign of good fortune and wealth. Around the world, many believe a gift of a piggy bank on New Year’s Day brings good luck and financial success. Ah, yes, but you have to put something in it.

Why is a pig used as a symbol of saving? Why not an elephant bank, which is bigger and holds more coins? In the Middle Ages, before modern banking and credit instruments, people saved money at home, a few coins at a time dropped into a jar or dish. Potters(制陶工) made these inexpensive containers from an orange-colored clay(黏土) called “pygg,” and folks saved coins in pygg jars. The Middle English word for pig was “pigge”. While the Saxons pronounced pygg, referring to the clay, as “pug”, eventually the two words changed into the same pronunciation, sounding the “i” as in pig or piggy. As the word became less associated with the orange clay and more with the animal, a clever potter fashioned a pygg jar in the shape of a pig, delighting children and adults. The piggy bank was born.

Originally you had to break the bank to get to the money, bringing in a sense of seriousness into savings. While piggy banks teach children the wisdom of saving, adults often need to relearn childhood lessons. Think about the things in life that require large amounts of money--- college education, weddings, cars, medical care, starting a business, buying a home, and fun stuff like great trips. So when you have money, take off the top 10%, put it aside, save and invest wisely.

1. What is the piggy bank strategy?

A．Paying 1% income tax at a time.

B．Setting a goal before making a travel plan.

C．Aiming high even when doing small things.

D．Putting aside a little money regularly for future use.

2. Why did the writer’s parents give him a piggy bank as a gift?

A．To delight him with the latest fashion.

B．To encourage him to climb mountains.

C．To help him form the habit of saving.

D．To teach him English pronunciation.

3. What does the underlined word “something”(Paragraph 3) most probably refer to?

A．Money	B．Gifts
C．Financial success	D．Good luck

5 . Around the world, 62 million girls are not in school. The White House's Let Girls Learn effort aims to change that.

At 13, Hawa Abdulai Yorke left her family's home, in Ghana, Africa, to live with an aunt who promised to send her to school. Instead, the aunt put Yorke to work as her maid. Determined to go to school, Yorke returned home and began selling water in a nearby city to raise money for her education. She did that for three years. What hurt most was that her father had the money to pay the school fees. But he chose to spend the money on a motorcycle.

Yorke's story is familiar to girls growing up in Ghana. There, a girl's place is in the home. Educating girls is considered a waste of money.

"It happens more than it should, where parents have money to send their girls to school but choose not to," says Ryan Roach, a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, where nearly 55% of girls are not enrolled in secondary school. "Cultural beliefs say education is not a wise investment".

The White House's Let Girls Learn is working to change this view of girls' education, in Ghana and in countries worldwide. First Lady Michelle Obama says parents have to be persuaded that girls' education is a better investment than marriage or household labor. A World Bank study backs that up. It shows that for every year of secondary-school education, a girl's earning power increases by 18%.

Today, Let Girls Learn works in 13 countries, and there are plans to expand the program. Recently, Let Girls Learn hosted a 24-hour event at which girls in different parts of Ghana joined Peace Corps volunteers, tech experts, and university students to brainstorm creative solutions for the barriers to girls' education. Yorke's team came up with an idea for an app that sends a recorded message to parents' phones from a Ghanian celebrity about the benefits of girls attending school.

Yorke, now 22, is about to finish high school. Thanks to Let Girls Learn, she plans to attend college and study computer science. She says working alongside women college students at the Let Girls Learn event strengthened her determination. "I'm focused on my books," says Yorke. "I know if I study hard, I, too, can go to the university and live a happy life."

1. What was the attitude of Yorke's aunt towards girls attending school?

A．She was against it.

B．She had no idea of it.

C．She was in favor of it.

D．She considered it hard work.

2. According to Ryan Roach, the reason for girls not receiving education is that ________.

A．they are too busy to go to school

B．their families are too poor to afford it

C．there are few secondary schools for girls

D．cultural beliefs prevent from attending school

3. What can we learn about Let Girls Learn?

A．It has spread all over the world.

B．It is a Ghana-based organization.

C．It aims to offer free education to girls.

D．It has got support from Michelle Obama.

4. What's Yorke's next plan?

A．To further her studies.

B．To join in Let Girls Learn.

C．To write some books for girls.

D．To get a computer-related job.

6 . When it's five o'clock, people leave their office. The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time. They leave when the clock tells them they're done.

These days, the time is everywhere, not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers. That may be a bad thing,particularly at work.New research shows that clock-based.work schedules hinder (阻碍) morale and creativity.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours. For example: a meeting from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.,research from 10 a.m. to noon, etc. On the other hand, task - timers have a list of things they want to accomplish. They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities-from project planning, holiday. shopping,to yoga-by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under "clock time" vs "task time". They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives. Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive. They tend to enjoy the moment when something good is happening,and seize opportunities that come up.

The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture. Smart companies, they believe, will try to bake more task-based planning into their strategies.

This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time. While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity. It'll make those tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

1. What does the author think of time displayed everywhere?

A．It makes everybody time-conscious.

B．It is a convenience for work and life.

C．It may have a negative effect on creative work.

D．It clearly indicates the fast pace of modern life.

2. How do people usually go about their work according to the author?

A．They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

B．They give priority to the most urgent task on hand.

C．They set a time limit for each specific task.

D．They accomplish their tasks one by one.

3. What did Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier find in their experiments about clock timers?

A．They seize opportunities as they come up.

B．They always get their work done in time.

C．They have more control over their lives.

D．They tend to be more productive.

4. What do the researchers say about today's business culture?

A．It does not support the strategies adopted by smart companies.

B．It does not attach enough importance to task - based practice.

C．It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers' lives.

D．It aims to bring employees' potential and creativity into full play.

5. What do the researchers suggest?

A．Performing creative jobs tends to make workers happier.

B．It is important to keep a balance between work and life.

C．Task-based timing is preferred for doing creative work.

D．A scientific standard should be adopted in job evaluation.

7 . Practice self-control by setting goals and sticking to them

Make your goals specific and long-term. Psychology studies have shown that abstract (抽象的), big-picture thinking leads to self-control. Instead of focusing on the moment, look toward bigger goals like success in school or sports.    1    

●Write down you goals and hang them up where you can see them regularly.    2    

●Make behavioral goals too. Commit to behaving yourself in public and not having any unintended outbursts.

●    3    Get straight A's, keep practicing guitar until you're comfortable enough to play a gig, or exercise four times a week. Stick to your goals seriously.

●When you are to break a promise or a goal, take a deep breath and think about why you set the goal in the first place. That long term commitment is more important than your momentary impulse (冲动).

●Make sure your goals are specific.    4    

●Try setting up a punishment and reward system for yourself.    5    Likewise, if you decide to skip a workout, make up for it by working out twice as long the next day. Practices like these will lead to control over your desires and actions.

●Make specific long-term goals with specific short-term ways to achieve them.

A．Keep your goals positive.

B．Remind yourself of your goals regularly.

C．General goals are much easier to forget about.

D．Focusing on the future will help you behave in the present.

E．Move up to harder goals like making the starting basketball team.

F．If you go a week sticking to a strict diet, give yourself a "cheat day."

G．Stick with your goals and soon you'll be in total control of your thoughts and actions.

8 . Instead of leaving behind money as a big inheritance(遗产),people prefer to choose to create travel trust funds(基金) for their children. Ten kinds of travel trust funds have been set up since over 15 years ago.

More and more people thought that travel trust funds should be a part of their inheritances. Some people, who stored travel trust funds in the bank, did so to make sure their children could come back at any time. For example, at the time they studied or took courses in other countries. And there are also other trust funds to encourage travel with a charity(慈善) aim. For example, those funds would be given to volunteers who would work in Africa.

Now, let’s look at Mrs Liebman’s case. Her father worried that with two daughters living in Israel and one son in the US, the cost of plane tickets might prevent his children from visiting one another. At a family dinner in 2000, her father decided to create a travel fund which he would pay up to $800 every year. Four years later, he died and so far the money has been used by his kids for family parties. The amount was raised over the years to keep up with the rising cost of air travel. Most recently, Mrs Liebman, her husband and their three children flew from Israel to the US for a wedding and received a check to pay for their flights.

For Mrs Liebman, the money from her father has had a very positive influence. In the past dozen years, her brother’s and sister’s families have more chances to get together to enjoy their happy life. “There has been a new level of connection made. It’s really a good way to leave kids some kinds of travel trust funds when parents go away.” She said.

1. The second paragraph is written to tell us_________.

A．the different uses of travel trust funds	B．the tradition of the inheritance in the US
C．the advantages of travel trust funds	D．the form of Americans’ inheritance

2. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Mrs. Liebman comes from a rich and large family.

B．Money should be used to travel with families.

C．Mrs Liebman’s father supported the way of leaving money for his kids.

D．Mrs Liebman’s father expected there was a good relationship among his kids.

3. From the passage, we know Mrs Liebman__________.

A．left her children a lot of money to travel all over the world

B．worked in Africa as a volunteer before she got married

C．received money from the travel trust fund to visit her family members

D．went home every four years after her father died in 2,000

4. What might Mrs. Liebman probably do next?

A．Give away money for a charity aim.	B．Build travel trust funds for her parents.
C．Create some travel trust funds for her kids.	D．Make use of her free time to travel.

9 . At the beginning of the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci returned to Florence after almost two decades in the employ of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. Nearing 50, Leonardo was already famed for his scientific gift and artistic achievements. Combining practicality and observation, Leonardo applied the principle of sapere vedere (knowing how to see, in Latin) into as many areas of human enquiry as it led him.

Cesare Borgia, the ambitious son of Pope Alexander VI, became Leonardo’s financial supporter in 1502. One of the first tasks given to Leonardo was to create a map of the city of Imola, near Bologna. Borgia had taken control of the city in 1499. It was a key success for the young commander. Controlling the city would require understanding its geography and landmarks, and Borgia wanted the map from the finest mind of Leonardo in order to do that.

In the 16th century city maps tended to be symbolic and often symbolic, enlarging the size of religious buildings. Leonardo’s “Imola Plan” broke with this tradition, aiming to show the reality on the ground, and to provide a map that was of more practical use.

Leonardo applied a mapping technique developed by Florentine humanist Leon Battista Alberti, who suggested that a town should be mapped using polar coordinates (极坐标系). Starting with Alberti’s technique, Leonardo adapted it to record more accurate distances, proportions, and relationships between features.

The city’s public square was fixed in the middle of the grid (坐标方格). Historians believe that Leonardo collected data on the ground by starting at this central point and then using a compass (罗盘) and odometer (计程器) to measure streets and landmarks. Using geometry, he could then fill in the rest of the map.

Leonardo’s techniques gave rise to the first map that used data to accurately show a “flattened city” as it might be seen from above, what is called an ichnographic (平面图的) map today, perhaps the most familiar type of map used today. Leonardo’s measurements still hold up: According to historians, the “Imola Plan” can still be used to navigate the city five centuries later.

1. Why did Cesare Borgia ask Leonardo da Vinci to map Imola?

A．To rebuild it.	B．To rule it better.
C．To attack and take it.	D．To push mapping forward.

2. What can we infer about the city maps in the 16th century?

A．They were always of a large size.

B．They were often created by religious groups.

C．They gave special attention to certain landmarks.

D．They continued the tradition of showing reality.

3. From whom did Leonardo da Vinci get inspiration when carrying out the “Imola Plan”?

A．Cesare Borgia.	B．Ludovico Sforza.
C．Leon Battista Alberti.	D．Pope Alexander VI.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The popularity of ichnographic maps nowadays.

B．The expectation of the development of mapping.

C．The improvement of measures used to make maps.

D．The importance of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Imola Plan”.

10 . Traveling can be a fun way to gain life experiences, especially during Spring Break-a week-long school vacation in the United States. But what if you’re a student and don’t have enough money for a trip?     1    .

● Save: This probably is the most important preparation for traveling. Cut expenses to fatten your wallet so you’ll have more choices about where to go and how to get there.

●       2    : Don’t wait until the last minute to plan your trip. Tickets may cost more when bought on short notice. Giving yourself several months to get ready can mean security(安全) and saving.

● Plan sensibly: Write down how much you expect to spend for food and hotels. Stick to your plan or you may not have enough money to cover everything.

● Travel in groups:     3    . By traveling with others you can share costs and experiences.

● Pack necessary things: The most important things to take are not always clothes.     4    .

● Use the Internet: The net can help to save money. Some useful websites include www.Travelcity. com, www. bargainslowestfare.com and www. economic   travelcity. com.

By planning sensibly, even students can enjoy the travel.     5    .

A．Plan ahead

B．Take clothes along

C．Don’t worry. Here are some useful suggestions

D．Find someone who is interested in visiting the same place

E．Remember medicine in case you get sick and snacks in case you cannot find a cheap restaurant

F．Before the trip, the most important thing is to make the route(路线)

G．Your travel experiences will be remembered for a lifetime.