Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely－a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “creative voice”.
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book talks about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.
1.What can we know about Cisneros in her childhood?
A. Her brothers disliked her.
B. She felt herself a nobody.
C. She was too shy to go to school.
D. She did not meet any good teachers.
2.The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to ________.
A. run away from her family B. develop her writing style
C. make a lot of friends D. search for a husband
3.According to Cisneros, what was the key factor in her success?
A. Her childhood experience.
B. Her training in the Workshop.
C. Her feeling of being different.
D. Her early years in college.
4.What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A. It enjoys great popularity among students.
B. It is a book of poetry written by Cisneros.
C. It wasn’t a success as it was written in Spanish.
D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.
In Africa, Christmas Day begins with groups of carolers (欢唱颂歌的人) walking to and from through the village, along the roadway, by the houses of the missionaries (传教士), singing the lovely carols known to the world around. Often people may be awakened by a group of carolers beginning to gather at the house of worship(敬神活动). They return home to make final preparations as to the clothes one must wear and also as to their offering for the Christmas service.
The most important part of their Christmas worship service is the love offering. This is the gift in honor of Jesus. At about 8 or 9 o’clock everyone goes to the celebration of the birthday of Jesus. Everyone who attends the service goes forward to lay down their gift upon the raised platform near the Communion table. No one will attend the service without giving a gift.
Christmas in South Africa is a summer holiday. There is no snow, but it has many flowers, many beautiful varieties of wild flowers being in their full pride.
In Ghana, most churches show the coming of Christmas by decorating the church and homes beginning with the first week in Advent, four weeks before Christmas. This season happens to be the time of cocoa harvest, so it is a time of wealth. Everyone returns home from wherever they might be such as farms or mines.
In Africa, it is the traditional dinner of turkey, roast beef, mince pies, or suckling pig, yellow rice with raisins, vegetables, and plum pudding, crackers. In the afternoon, families go out into the country and usually there are games or bathing in the warm sunshine, and then home in the cool of the evening. Boxing Day is also a proclaimed (正式宣布的) public holiday usually spent in the open air. It falls on December 26 and is a day of real relaxation.
1.The purpose of this text is to ________.
A. persuade us to have a holiday in Africa
B. describe some important holidays in Africa
C. tell us how people celebrate Christmas in Africa
D. introduce to us when Christmas came into being
2.What is the most important part of Christmas worship service?
A. One must sing a carol on the platform.
B. One must appear in fantastic clothes.
C. Food is shared among carolers.
D. Everyone carries a gift to the scene.
3.If you visit South Africa on Christmas Day, you’ll find _____________.
A. the church and homes are being decorated
B. there are flowers all over the country
C. everyone returns home to harvest cocoa
D. it is snowing heavily everywhere
4.The correct time order of the following festivals should be __________.
A. Christmas→ Boxing Day→Advent
B. Boxing Day→ Christmas→Advent
C. Christmas→ Advent→Boxing Day
D. Advent→Christmas→Boxing Day
Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition & Tour is a unique international resource to explore Shakespeare’s work. Open all year round, it gives you an opportunity to learn more about the most famous playwright, Shakespeare, and helps you seek to further the experience and international understanding of him.
Group Visits to the Exhibition & Tour
Opening Hours
Theatre Tours: Monday - Sunday 9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition: Monday - Sunday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Groups of 15 people or more are required to pre-book their visit, and each group will have its own guide for free. To make a reservation, please fill in a Group Request Form and return it to us via email.
Exhibition and Tour Prices
Adult: $15.00
Senior (60+): $13.50
Student (with valid ID): $11.50
Child (5-15): $ 8.00
Complimentary: Every 16th person free
Getting here
Shakespeare’s Globe 21 New Globe Walk, London SEl9DT, UK
Visitors are advised to arrive by public transport or by taxi. There is a car park on Thames Exchange on the north side of Southwark Bridge (open 24 hours, seven days a week). Cabs may be found all year round on Southwark Bridge. It may also be possible to pick one up from outside the entrance hall on New Globe Walk.
Where to eat
Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe serves modern British seasonal food for dinner, afternoon tea or drinks in our beautiful bar and restaurant set over two floors, available for pre- and post-theatre dining.
Swan Restaurant
Monday- Friday: 12 noon - 2:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.- 10:30 p.m.
Saturday: 12 noon- 3:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 12 noon- 9: 00 p.m.
1.When can you pay a visit to the exhibition?
A. Friday at 12:00 p.m. B. Monday at 8: 00 a.m.
C. Saturday at 5: 30 p.m. D. Sunday at 7: 00 p.m.
2.If a group of 20 children visit the Exhibition & Tour, what is required for them to do?
A. They need to hire a guide themselves.
B. They must be accompanied by an adult.
C. They have to pay $160 for tickets in total.
D. They need to email for a reservation in advance.
3.What can we know about Swan Restaurant?
A. Afternoon tea is not served on Sunday.
B. It serves traditional seasonal food for diners.
C. It is closed from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on workdays.
D. It serves three meals, drinks and afternoon tea.
假定你是李华，今年暑假你将参加“英国名校两周游”夏令营，计划7月份在伦敦逗留三天（7月13至15日），并住在Wellington Hotel。你想与去年在你家接待过的英国学生 Charlie见面，请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 简单介绍伦敦的行程；
2. 希望见面并商量见面的时间和地点。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Charlie,
How time flies! It has been almost a year since your last visit. ______________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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。
I’m Li Hua, a senior three student in our school. Last Monday I received three America students. We had a wonderful time. And I tasted the pleased feeling of friendship.
In the afternoon, after divided into two groups, we began to work for the coming English speech contest. Just as I was wondering what to do next, I saw a familiar figure passed by our classroom. It was my English teacher, I wondered that he would say, He said that it was a competition that everyone would like to take part in it. He added that I was pretty fluent with English, but I needed to arrange my time good.
In the evening, at about half past ten, we finished working. I don’t know the result, but I’m sure without our help, winning the championship will be the effort.
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。
China has developed a technology that is able to transform desert lands into available soil. The technology1.(develop) several years ago by researchers at Chongqing Jiaotong University, They invented a paste (黏合剂)2.(make) of a material found in plant cell walls that, when mixed3.sand, is able to keep water, nutrients and air.
According to CGTN (中国国际电视台), Chinese scientists have achieved success in growing crops in areas with bad conditions caused by lack of rain and4.(extreme) hot temperatures. One particular area is in a desert in North China’s Inner Mongolia. Over 70 kinds of crops are growing there. Many are not planted by humans but they just grow5.(they), And the costs of artificial materials and machines for transforming sand into soil is much6.(low) compared with regular methods. Now, nearly 500 acres of sand is being turned into farms producing corn,7.(tomato) and sunflowers. A reforestation (重造森林) project is also currently in progress,8.is set to reforest 50% of desert land in three years.
Researchers are looking into expanding their project this fall, with9.plan to transform another 500 acres of desert. In the next few years, the scientists are10.(confidence) that they can turn over 30,000 acres more into rich ground.
