Holiday News
Vacancies (空位) now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, friendly home-from-home lies near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome.
Reduced prices for low season.
The Snowdonia Center
The Snowdonia Center for young mountain climbers has a mountain 1068.The beginners’ costs are ￡57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment is included except walking shoes, which can be hired at a low cost.
You must be in good health and prepared to go through a period of body exercises. This could be the beginning of a lifetime of lifetime of mountain climbing adventure.
The World Sea Trip of a Lifetime
Our World Sea Trip of 2008 will be unlike any holiday you have ever been on before. Instead of one hotel after another, with all its packing and unpacking waiting and traveling, you just go to bed in one country and wake up in another.
On board the ship, you will be well taken care of. Every meal will be first-class and every cabin like your home.
During the trip, you can rest on deck(甲板), enjoy yourself in the games rooms and in the evening dance to our musical team and watch our wonderful play.
You will visit all the places most people only dream about – from Acapulco and Hawaii to Tokyo and Hong Kong.
For a few thousand pounds, all you’ve ever hoped for can be yours.
1.What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?
A．Choose the holiday in Devon.
B．Go to the Snowdonia Centre
C．Join the World Sea Trip of 2008
D．Visit Acapulco and Hawaii
2.In what way is the Snowdonia Centre different from the other two holidays?
A．It provides chances of family gatherings.
B．It provides customers with good food.
C．It offers a sport lesson.
D．It offers comfortable room.
3.What is special about the World Sea Trip of 2008?
A．You can have free meals on deck every day.
B．You can sleep on a ship and tour many places.
C．You will have chances to watch and act in a play.
D．You have to do your own packing and unpacking.
4.How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A．5. B．6. C．7. D．8.
5.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the pas sage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A．f-c-e-a-b-d B．b-e-a-f-c-d C．f-d-e-c-b-a D．b-f-c-d-e-a
6.We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald .
A．had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B．was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C．would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D．helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
7.passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about .
A．Zelda’s personal life
B．Zelda’s illness and treatment
C．Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D．Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项
For most of the day construction worker Sidney Smith and his brother – in – law Joseph Chambers had been 1along the banks of Lake Waco with little 2. Chambers suggested they go home, but Smith 3that there were still several hours of daylight 4and there was one other place they might try a bit longer before 5.
Smith drove his pickup（小货车）a couple of miles along the 6road to get to the other side of the lake. This road, in the truest sense, was a path wagging in the heavy 7area. Even with the sun still high in the cloudless sky, the 8of trees formed a leafy 9over the road and it suddenly seemed 10in the evening.
“A guy could get lost and nobody would ever find him,” said Chambers.
Smith smiled, “We’re 11there.” He said. A few seconds later, the smile was 12from his face.
“What the hell is that?”
He braked to a stop. Less than twenty feet away was what appeared to be a 13.
For several minutes the two men sat in the pickup 14to decide whether they had happened to 15someone’s bad practical joke or something far more serious. Smith with his brother-in-law got out of the pickup and 16walked towards that thing some distance before them.
It was a young man who was already dead. They had got to tell 17. Back into the pickup, Smith backed the pickup down the road 18he could turn around, then 19back. With the dead young man still on his mind, Smith felt as if he was going to be sick. God, how he 20they had given up fishing and gone home early.
1.A．playing B．boating C．fishing D．walking
2.A．failure B．success C．disappointment D．interest
3.A．quarreled B．argued C．reasoned D．shouted
4.A．remaining B．staying C．keeping D．leaving
5.A．starting off B．running out C．sending away D．giving up
6.A．winding B．widening C．leading D．blocking
7.A．grassed B．wooded C．iced D．snowed
8.A．trunks B．shadow C．shade D．shape
9.A．hat B．umbrella C．sheet D．overcoat
10.A．foggy B．late C．early D．rainy
11.A．almost B．already C．only D．fairly
12.A．escaped B．lost C．gone D．missed
13.A．body B．trap C．pile D．stream
14.A．talking B．hoping C．wanting D．trying
15.A．come across B．turn out C．bring about D．make up
16.A．loudly B．quietly C．quickly D．slowly
17.A．everybody B．somebody C．anybody D．nobody
18.A．until B．before C．after D．when
19.A．turned B．ran C．headed D．walked
20.A．expected B．hoped C．wished D．prayed
--- The weather has been very hot and dry.
--- Yes. If it had rained even a drop, things would be much better now! And my vegetables
then.
A．wouldn’t die B．didn’t die
C．hadn’t died D．wouldn’t have died
--- The research is difficult. Who do you think can do the job?
--- my students have a try?
A．Will B．Shall C．Must D．May
It is in the very village, Mary was born 35 years ago, she will build her first school, inspires everyone to help her.
A．where; that; which B．that; that; that
C．that; when; which D．where; when; that
His reactions are no one can match him.
A．so that B．such C．such that D．so
