Why not an island get-away?
Newfoundland
Price
From £1080 per person in June 2005
We went with:
Frontier Canada frontier-travel. Co. uk/Canada
About this trip
John Cabot had set sail looking for a new trade route for Asia, when he landed in Cape Bonavista. Clearly he felt this barren desolate landscape could provide this, so he claimed it for its potential and so began the rise of the British Empire.
Newfoundland is the most easterly point in North America and was Britain’s first overseas colony until 1949, when it became part of Canada. It’s roughly the size of England and Craig’s journey by camper van or RV (recreational vehicle) took in just a small part of the island called the Bonavista Peninsula.
First stop was the tiny fishing port of Keels to stock up for the journey ahead. There’s a long standing love affair between Newfoundlanders and cod. The seas off the Newfoundland coast were once the richest cod fishing grounds in the world, attracting fishermen from all over Europe. Many settled, establishing these coastal villages known locally as outports.
An hour’s drive down the coast is the town of Bonavista, where Craig met up with retired fisherman, Wilson Hayward. He told Craig how the landscape used to lie, and described the peculiarities of the language and accents in the area. There’s a different language in every bay.
1.The title “Why not an island get-away?” _________.
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A．invites people to take a holiday trip to Newfoundland |
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B．informs people that the island is moving away from where it used to be |
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C．tells people that they can buy the island at the price of £1080. |
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D．asks people to visit the website frontier-travel. co.uk/Canada |
2.From the context we can conclude that “Frontier Canada” is the name of _________.
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A．a tourist guide |
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B．a kind of fish found around the island |
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C．a tourist agency |
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D．someone who has already booked the trip |
3.When John Cabot first discovered Cape Bonavista he was actually on a voyage to find ____.
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A．North America |
B．Asia |
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C．South America |
D．the British Empire |
4.According to the passage Newfoundland is now part of _________.
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A．UK |
B．Canada |
C．Europe |
D．Bonavista |
5.In the past the Newfoundlanders mainly lived by _________.
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A．teaching languages |
B．making camper vans |
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C．looking after retired fishermen |
D．fishing cod |
At Yale University, enrollment in basic Chinese in 2005 grew rapidly, and for the first time professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of the Chinese language to start in second- or third-year Chinese language class, rather than basic Chinese.
The American interest in China is not just at the university level. In the 2006 school year, high-school students will be offered an Advanced Placement test, which is one of the national exams American students take for university admission, in Chinese. This is the first time Chinese is offered in the Advanced Placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subjects that high school students take.
What is surprising is that earlier last year, an organization that tracks university students surveyed high schools throughout America, asking if they planned to offer the language courses that prepare students for the language Advanced Placement test. They expected that only a hundred high schools, mostly in California, New York, and a few other places with large immigrant populations, would show interest in each of the new language programs. Although that was true for the courses in Italian, Russian and Japanese, it was not true for the Chinese language course. There were thousands of American high schools that indicated that they planned to build their Chinese programs to levels where students could take the Advanced Placement exam for Chinese language. The demand for courses in Chinese is rising so rapidly that it is rapidly overtaking all other foreign languages except Spanish.
1. According to the passage many freshmen at Yale University today .
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A．know enough basic Chinese |
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B．needn’t learn Chinese any more |
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C．take courses in the Chinese language |
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D．go to university to study Chinese |
2. For university entrance, the American high-school students .
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A．have to learn Chinese |
B．learn more than one foreign language. |
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C．take the Advanced Placement Test |
D．used to have a test in Chinese |
3. We can learn from the passage that .
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A．Chinese will overtake all foreign languages in American high schools |
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B．Americans will know more about China and its people |
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C．the U.S. government pays much attention to language studies |
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D．Chinese may take the place of English in American universities |
---I enjoy Chinese food very much!
---____________.
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A．Please taste quickly |
B．Have a lot, please |
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C．Help yourself |
D．Eat slowly while it is hot |
In modern times, people have to learn to ________ all kinds of pressure although they are leading a comfortable life.
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A．keep with |
B．stay with |
C．meet with |
D．live with |
There are many insects in the world that never do _______ harm to human beings.
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A．less |
B．the least |
C．a little |
D．the little |
_____ it is _____ you obtain, you should share _____ your parents your feelings.
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A．What, /, to |
B．Whichever, that, with |
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C．Whatever, that, with |
D．Which, /, to |
