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Hotels in Canberra University House ANU Location: 1 Balmain Cres, 2601 Canberra, Australia Set within the ANU Campus, University House ANU offers rooms with a balcony, a flat-screen TV and a refrigerator. Located on site, Boffins Restaurant offers Asian-influenced, contemporary dishes and a wide selection of local and imported wines. The hotel is within 10 minutes' bus ride of Parliament House, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Library of Australia. Couples rate it 9. 4 points for a two person trip. Vibe Hotel Canberra Airport Location: 1 Rogan Street, 2609 Canberra, Australia Featuring free WiFi and a fitness centre, Vibe Hotel Canberra Airport offers spacious accommodation, situated at Canberra Airport. This hotel features picturesque views of Lake Burley Griffin and an on-site restaurant. Vibe Hotel Canberra Airport is conveniently located within 10 minutes' drive of Canberra 8 many attractions. Couples rate it 8.1 points for a two person trip. Southside Village Location: 250 Canberra Avenue, 2609 Canberra, Australia Set in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory region, Southside Village offers accommodation with free private parking. The holiday park offers a children's playground. After a day of hiking, cycling or fishing, guests can relax in the garden. Manuka Shopping Area is 2.8 km from Southside Village. The nearest airport is Canberra Airport, 7 km from the accommodation. Couples rate it 7. 3 points for a two-person trip. Forrest Hotel & Apartments Location:30 National Circuit. Forrest, 2603 Canberra, Australia Located in the quiet Canberra suburb of Forrest, this hotel is less than 10 minutes' drive from Parliament House and the National Gallery of Australia. Forrest Hotel & Apartments offers modern accommodation with free cable TV, 500 MB of free WiFi and free private parking. Couples rate it 6.7 points for a two person trip. 1.Which hotel may most couples like best? A.Southside Village. B.Vibe Hotel Canberra Airport. C.University House ANU. D.Forrest Hotel & Apartments. 2.Which location is best for passengers to catch early flights? A.1 Rogan Street, 2609 Canberra. B.1 Balmain Cres,2601 Canberra. C.250 Canberra Avenue, 2609 Canberra. D.30 National Circuit, Forrest, 2603 Canberra. 3.What do Southside Village and Forrest Hotel & Apartments have in common? A.They both offer free WiFi. B.They both offer free private parking. C.They both offer a children's playground. D.They are both within 10 minutes' drive from Parliament House.
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A year ago I lost my wonderful friend and colleague Rachael Bland. She died at the age of just 40, two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her death knocked me for six. I knew it was coming and we had talked about it—but nothing prepared me for actually not having her in my life every day. The thing was, while we only knew each other for a short period of time, she had a huge impact on me. When I got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, I made a whole new group of friends. Rachael was up there with the best of them. She understood exactly what I was going through, she shared my fears and was always there at 3 am to reassure me. She was my rock. After Rachael died, I had a nervous breakdown. I hit numerous brick walls in the weeks and months that followed. My cancer was progressing and I fell into a dark place. I pushed it away but ignored the terror of it all and inevitably it all came crashing down around me. Great Sorrow hit me when I least expected. Her death felt like a bad dream. The emotional bit aside, one of the things I found really hard was to actually accept she died. Rachael hoped that by starting the conversation around cancer, she could help other women avoid getting cancer too. It was her absolute determination and bravery at helping to break down taboos (禁忌) that will live on for generations to come. Rachael showed me how to live with cancer. Even in her darkest days she was determined to show that cancer didn’t get to take over. She helped remind me to get busy living with cancer rather than worry about dying of it. She was in the bottom of my heart forever. 1.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean? A.I was beaten six times. B.Her death gave me the strength. C.She was knocked down and died. D.Her death made me very shocked. 2.Why did the author hit the brick walls? A.She wanted to end up her life. B.She couldn’t stand the pain of cancer. C.She had been suffering from nightmares. D.She was too sorrowful to accept Rachael’s death. 3.What is Rachael’s wish? A.To help women fight against fear. B.To assess women’s conversational skills. C.To prevent other women from getting cancer. D.To inspire sick people to hope for their future. 4.Which of the following best describes Rachael? A.Optimistic. B.Weak. C.Humorous. D.Demanding.
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In today's world, most workers are highly specialized, but this specialization can come at a cost——especially for those on the wrong team. New research by Harvard's Growth Lab uncovers the importance of teams and coworkers when it comes to one's productivity, earning potential, and stays of employment. The research analyzed administrative data on the 9 million inhabitants of Sweden. It found that to earn high wages and returns on education, workers must find coworkers who complement, but not substitute them. The research offers a tool to assess the right and wrong coworkers in fields of expertise. The right coworkers are those with sills you lack, yet needed to complete a team. The wrong coworkers are those who have the same skill set as you and eventually lower your value to the employer. For example, those with a degree in architecture are best assisted by workers with engineering, construction, or surveying degrees, and negatively impacted by those with landscape or interior design degrees. “We tend to think of sills as something personal that individuals can market to a company, ” said Frank Neffke, Growth Lab Research Director “However, this vision of sills is too simplistic. One person's sills connect to another person's sills, etc. ,and the better these connections are, the more productive workers will be, and the more they will earn” Neffke adds that the benefits of working with complementary coworkers are not the same for all workers. Those with higher levels of education seem to benefit much more from working in complementary teams than workers with lower levels. Over the past 20 years, workers with college degrees or higher have been increasingly able to find better matching coworkers. Complementary also drives careers. The research shows that people tend to stay longer in organizations with many complementary workers and tend to leave those with many workers who substitute them. These results hold true for up to 20 years of one's career. The research also supports several well-known facts, such as cities and large firms pay higher wages. Workers are more likely to find better fitting teams in cities, and large firms often allow workers to specialize. 1.Which group of workers can make up the best team? A.Those who can substitute each other. B.Those who come from the same place. C.Those who are expert in the same field. D.Those who have the complementary sill 2.Who may be the best complementary coworker for an architect? A.A landscaper. B.A house agent. C.A constructor. D.Another architect. 3.Employers think more of their staff’s________. A.dependence relationship B.struggling spirit C.physical quality D.educational level 4.What can be the best title of the text? A.What workers your employer need most B.How coworkers impact the value of your skills C.How coworkers get higher wages and a long-term job D.How complementarity improves your mental potential
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Food companies engineer junk food to make it addictive. They label their products to make them seem much healthier than they are. Their advertisements target children. All of this is according to a news report read recently by students in a Texas middle school. They were taking part in an experiment run by the University of Chicago and the University of Texas. “I don't understand how this is even legal, ” said a girl who took part in the study. Researchers had students learn about food-industry advertising strategies. They wanted to know if learning about them would change how kids feel about junk food. All over the world, kids are eating more foods that are high in salt, sugar, and fat. That is partly the result of clever ads that make junk food irresistible. Christopher J. Bryan led the study. He says that when kids question the motives behind junk food ads, they feel like they're fighting injustice. The reward is knowing they are doing the right thing. Junk food has been linked to health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes，But in 2018，food companies spent nearly $9 billion TV ads selling unhealthy fare. Companies use varying strategies. An ad with cartoon characters may make chips seen fun to eat. A professional athlete enjoying a sugary drink may make it look cool. Advertisers know that if kids want a product, they'll annoy their parents to buy it. Even parents don't notice the power of ads. By the time they are adults they have been used to junk-food advertising. They just don't see it. In the Texas study, Bryan had students view ads on iPad. Their job was to write or draw on the screen, to make each ad's message true. For example, a McDonald's ad showed a Big Mac (巨无霸) and the words “The thing you want when you order salad. ” To the end of the sentence, a student added “should be salad”. Three months after analyzing ads, students were still choosing healthier snacks: milk instead of sugary juices, fruit over cookies. Kids are becoming conscious of themselves as agents in the world. They see a chance to make the world a better place. 1.What is the purpose of the experiment? A.To survey what snacks children like best. B.To guide children against unhealthy food. C.To find ways to make junk food healthy. D.To teach children how to pick out legal food. 2.How do children feel about junk food advertisements after the experiment? A.Cool. B.Legal. C.Funny. D.Misleading. 3.Why are parents unaware of the harm of junk food advertisements? A.Parents have never seen such junk food advertisements. B.Advertisements have blinded them since they were young. C.The food industry has special advertising strategies for parents. D.Parents have to agree with their children about the junk food. 4.How did students conduct the experiment? A.By correcting unreal advertisements. B.By offering suggestions to food industry. C.By making up their own advertisements. D.By studying food industry advertising strategies.
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Have you ever gotten the feeling that a person you were friends with had a hidden schedule or simply couldn't care about your thoughts and opinions? Trying to tell the difference between someone who is genuine and someone who is faking (虚伪) it can be as confusing as trying to tell the difference between a work of art and a well-made copy.1. Read the advice of the following signs of fake people to determine which of your relationships is worth seriously investing in. They only respect those in positions of power. When it comes to respect, most would agree that everyone is deserving of this sentiment. Yet, fake people have a tendency to only respect people in power. Watch out for people who aren't respectful of everyone around them.2. 3. Only those who lack real quality feel the need to criticize others to keep up appearances. Sincere individuals would rather admire and praise others, while fakers may be quick to put others down in name of making themselves look better. They make promises they can't keep. A genuine person will do their best to live up to promises and commitments, but a fake person may talk the talk without walking the walk.4. They're only nice if there's something in it for them.5. In comparison, genuine people are just that genuine. They're nice and helpful no matter what circumstances. Keep an eye out for these signs of fake people and make room for more meaningful, genuine relationships in your life. A.If not, they may be faking it. B.They work hard to build any relationship. C.They put others down in order to look good. D.But thanks to some advice, the former doesn't have to be. E.In comparison, a genuine person knows when to let others shine. F.A fake person is one who only shows kindness when it benefits them. G.Fake people easily make commitments, but rarely follow through on them.
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I am what you would describe as introverts (内向的人). I can sit in absolute _______and write all day long. Thinking about going to a(n)_______event gives me endless anxiety. I always _______those who can bounce around the room, talking to anyone and everyone and _______making friends. That would never be me, and I _______ that fact. But that_______ twelve years ago. I was a busy mom of four and had just been diagnosed with depression. I _______ did want someone to talk to. I had never just gone up and _______myself to anyone before and wasn't sure I could, but I had a strong feeling I should_______. It took me two weeks to ________ myself into doing it. I headed over to a neighbor Jane and knocked on her door,________ she would think I was some sort of ________standing at her door, but I was quite ________when she answered with a big smile. I introduced myself. We stood there ________ our kids as well as the town and baseball. Before I knew it, an hour and a half had gone by. Talking to her was like talking to an old friend. There was no awkward silence, just a great________. We made plans to take the kids to the ________ after school. This was the ________ of hundreds of trips to that park. I am still quiet and________,but now I understand we need to try new things to discover the beautiful ________ the world can offer, like my ________ Jane. 1.A.despair B.pain C.silence D.comfort 2.A.social B.historical C.international D.political 3.A.hate B.admire C.tolerate D.ignore 4.A.luckily B.patiently C.hurriedly D.easily 5.A.refused B.enjoyed C.avoided D.accepted 6.A.continued B.changed C.happened D.remained 7.A.nearly B.rarely C.really D.probably 8.A.disturbed B.scolded C.introduced D.troubled 9.A.focus B.try C.engage D.suspend 10.A.urge B.force C.persuade D.trick 11.A.noticing B.admitting C.figuring D.deciding 12.A.fool B.angel C.criminal D.hero 13.A.relieved B.embarrassed C.resistant D.rigid 14.A.fighting against B.talking about C.caring for D.quarreling over 15.A.conversation B.discussion C.performance D.experiment 16.A.zoo B.camp C.cinema D.park 17.A.last B.best C.favourite D.first 18.A.elegant B.reserved C.modest D.thoughtful 19.A.purposes B.necessities C.tendencies D.possibilities 20.A.friend B.daughter C.teacher D.reader
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入１个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Hannah, 14, had a science fair project last year 1.detailed mathematical analyses of musical tones were performed. The project qualified her to become a finalist in 2. ninth annual Broadcom MASTERS competition. Hannah's project was 3. (impress). After all, it allowed the girl 4. (make) it through a screening process that knocked out at least 2,200 other applicants. Hannah 5. (play) the violin since she was eight. For her project, she asked a simple question: Does a high-cost violin produce 6. (good) music than an inexpensive one? To answer that, she turned to math, which she used to compare the tones 7. (produce) by different instruments. The teen recorded the same notes on her smart phone as she played on different violins. Computer software then switched those recorded 8. ( sound) into graphs. This is the same sort of software that scientists use to analyze the songs of birds and whales. Hannah used these graphs to assess each violin's overall sound quality. 9.average, each of the eight most expensive violins that Hannah tested cost more than $8,000. The cheapest 16 averaged just a bit more than $ 1,250 each. Maybe it's no surprise, but the costliest instruments tended to produce better tones, Hannah found. Yet some low cost instruments sounded 10.(near) as good as the pricey violins.
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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（A）,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：在错的词下画一横线，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只限一词； 2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。 I was exciting and nervous to start a new adventure abroad. Therefore, the excitement started to fade after small number of weeks. Homesickness started to be set in, But I started to change after meeting some new friends and have a good time with them. We shared our view on many things, ate together and visited new places as a group. I suppose we should never forgot how important it is to have good people in their life. They can make such a different. To travel and visit other places is one of the best things you can do in life. My advice from my experience are to travel and try new things whenever you get the opportunity.
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假定你是身在英国的交换生李华,学习之余你想在周末到当地一家咖啡馆兼职。请根据下面招聘广告写一封应聘信。
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