King’s College Summer School
King’s College Summer School is an annual(每年的) training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King’s College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year’s summer school will be from July 25 to August 15.
More information is as follows:
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Application (申请) date ●Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2009. ●Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16, 2009. ●Foreign students should send their applications before July 10, 2009. |
Courses ●English Language Spoken English: 22 hours Reading and Writing: 10 hours ●American History: 16 hours ●American Culture: 16 hours |
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Steps ●A letter of self-introduction ●A letter of recommendation(推荐) ﹡ The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information. |
Cost ●Daily lessons: $200 ●Sports and activities: $100 ●Travels: $200 ●Hotel service: $400 ﹡You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city. |
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Please write to: Thompson, Sanders 1026 King’ s Street New York, NY 10016, USA E-mail: KC-Summer-School@ yahoo, com |
1.You can most probably read the text in ________.
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A．a newspaper |
B．a travel guide |
C．a textbook |
D．a telephone book |
2. Which of the following is true about King’ s College Summer School?
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A．Only top students can take part in the program. |
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B．King’ s College Summer School is run every other year. |
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C．Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program. |
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D．Only the teachers of King’ s College give courses. |
3.If you are to live with your relatives in New York, you will have to pay the school _______.
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A．$200 |
B．$400 |
C．$500 |
D．$900 |
4.What information can you get from the text?
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A．The program will last two months. |
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B．You can write to Thompson only in English. |
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C．As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14, 2009. |
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D．You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone. |
Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际) with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree attacked in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---a signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make them less tasty.
Communication, of course, doesn’t need to be in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn’t trees have ways of sending message?
1. It can be concluded from the passage that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that ______.
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A．are lying on the ground |
B．have an unpleasant taste |
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C．bees don’t like |
D．have an unfamiliar shape |
2.According to the passage, the willow tree was able to communicate with other trees by ______.
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A．waving its branches |
B．giving off a special smell |
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C．dropping its leaves |
D．changing the colour of its trunk |
3.According to this passage, bees communicate by ______.
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A．making special movement |
B．touching one another |
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C．smelling one another |
D．making unusual sound |
Bears and humans often meet in National Parks. Although campers and hikers are warned not to feed the bears, many people ignore these warnings and feed the beasts anyway. When bears are used to people’s food, problems soon arise.
Bears like to eat a large variety of things, both meat and vegetable. Without human assistance, bears live nicely on roots, twigs, leaves of trees, insects and small animals. With people around, the bears’ tastes quickly expand to include sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, and anything else they can temp humans into giving up.
Bears often develop clever strategies for getting people to let go their food supplies. More often than not, an unsuspecting hiker has taken off his or her pack for a rest only to have a bear charge out of the woods, grab the pack and quickly disappear into the underbrush with it. Hanging the pack on a tree branch won’t help. Bears have been known to climb up, jump off, and catch the pack on the way down. One mother bear stretched up with her baby on her shoulders to reach a pack stored on a pole. Many bears threaten people into giving up their supplies. Although a bear is unlikely to attack a person and would probably run away if screamed at, few people are willing to do so. Most people drop the pack and run the other way. This, of course, delights the bear. In some places, the Park Service installed some metal barrels with lids to help campers keep their supplies safe from bears. Although the bears were unable to open these containers, the effort was less than successful. Most campers, unable to tell the metal drums from rubbish cans, never used them for the intended purpose.
1.Feeding bears on people’s food .
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A．brings the people a lot of fun |
B．can cause problems |
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C．often causes injuries and deaths |
D．helps bears survive |
2.If people had never fed bears, the bears .
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A．might be satisfied with what they had originally |
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B．would have starved long before |
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C．wouldn’t have enough food supply |
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D．would have hunted for other kind of food |
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
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A．If fed on sandwiches and hot dogs, the bears would no longer eat roots, twigs and insects . |
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B．It’s likely that bears would hurt people if the people didn’t give up their food. |
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C．Most people would frighten away the bears that would temp their food. |
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D．Seeing a pack, the bear would quickly snatch it and run away with it. |
4.Bear-proof containers didn’t work because .
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A．bears were clever enough to get the food in them |
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B．they were left open in the open air |
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C．people were not sure of their use |
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D．they were once used as rubbish cans |
For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people’s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.
“I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope (听诊器) and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it’s easy to take people in,” he said.
One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her.
“He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection,” she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn’t think there was anything wrong. “I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn’t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”
Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was. “ shocked and horrified” that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.
“I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists(精神科医生)who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.
1.York was proud of the fact that ___________.
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A．a surgeon let him watch an operation. |
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B．he could perform some duties of a doctor. |
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C．he had cheated doctors for so long |
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D．people thought he could become a real doctor |
2.York learned how to behave like a doctor by __________.
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A．watching other doctors work |
B．talking to doctors and nurses |
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C．getting some training and experience |
D．observing doctors while he was a patient |
3.Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?
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A．She had swallowed something and almost died. |
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B．She had to have and emergency operation. |
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C．She had been injured in a road accident. |
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D．She had lost consciousness while driving. |
4.The judge’s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _________.
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A．pretended to be a psychiatrist |
B．tried to get away from prison |
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C．was proud of what he had done |
D．studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist |
No one in the United States could forget the sorrowful story, April 14th, 1865 36 Abraham Lincoln was murdered.
The night after a very busy 37 , the President and his wife went to Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C where a new play was to be put on.
Near the theatre 38 a 25-year-old unsuccessful actor named John Wilkes Booth, who was strongly against the North though he hadn’t fought 39 the South himself. As the play 40 after a moment of rest, Booth came into the theatre. He walked slowly and quietly 41 the door through which he could see the President’s 42. He looked 43 carefully so as to find the guards 44 task was to protect the President from the enemy. To his joy, there was none of 45 and nobody noticed him. He reached the door quickly and began to get hold of the gun 46 in his pocket.
It was quiet in the theatre and everyone 47 his eyes on the stage. Suddenly a terrible sound of 48 broke in on the play. It surprised everyone and soon they looked 49 where the sound had just come .Smoke was seen coming out of the President’s box, where the 50 had enjoyed the play. Right away the theatre was full of shouting and excited people. Soldiers hurried in to _51 the building, but it was too 52 ! The murderer had already 53 from the box onto the stage, from which then he hurriedly ran out of the theatre and soon disappeared in the 54_.
The news came that Lincoln, whom the people had 55 to love as an inspiring leader and a wise, warm-hearted, honest man, was short in the chest and died early the next morning.
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--- Have you gone over what the teacher taught in class?
--- Not yet.
--- Better remember: ________.
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A．Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched |
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B．A bird in hand is worth two in the bush |
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C．Strike while the iron is hot |
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D．All roads lead to Rome |
