Want to travel as cheaply as possible while enjoying the great scenery as much as you like?
Backpacking is the way. As the most popular traveling choice among young western people, backpacking allows you to travel at your own free will. Carrying a tent, sleeping bag and clothes, backpackers also need to pack an attitude that will help them deal with many mental and physical challenges.
It is a thrill to put our ability to test and challenge ourselves with sorts of difficulties we might come across. So, backpacking is something young people can hardly deny.
Young people in Europe often travel around by train. Now, with plane tickets dropping in price, more are traveling to distant countries, such as Australia and China. And some just travel within their own countries.
But no matter where a backpacker travels, planning in advance is important if he or she wants to enjoy the trip.
Clothing
In summer, light, waterproof clothes are best. Backpackers must remember to travel lightly and not pack too many clothes.
Medicine
There are many medicines, especially for summer, such as those for sunstroke, snake bites and mosquitoes. Others are useful in every season, such as those for common colds, poisoning and diarrhea.
Cards
Three types of cards are of great value for backpacks: student Identity Card, personal ID and a credit card.
A student ID card can be helpful for saving money. It often gets train tickets and entrance tickets for cheaper prices in many Western countries.
Personal ID card can, not only get you out of trouble with local police, but also prove useful in all sorts of other situations.
Carrying a credit card can be a safe way of carrying money, as cash can easily get lost, stolen or wet.
And of course, don’t forget to enjoy your trip!
1.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. Backpackers also need to be in high spirits when they want to travel.
B. Backpackers may also face dangerous situations.
C. Backpackers also need to talk with doctors about their traveling.
D. Backpackers need to make preparation for many kinds of difficulty in advance.
2.What does the underlined word “waterproof” mean?
A. Easy to wash.B. Not letting water go through. C. Washed without water.D. Used in water.
3.If you are stopped by a policeman in the street, you should show ______ to the police.
A. your student IDB. your credit card C. your personal IDD. your passport
4.What is of most advantage to backpackers?
A. They can travel very easily.
B. They won’t worry about where to live.
C. They can have the chance to take some adventures.
D. They can take some physical exercise.
5.What is the author’s purpose to write this passage?
A. To give some ideas about traveling.
B. To encourage the young to travel.
C. To tell people how to avoid something unpleasant.
D. To offer some useful advice for traveling.
He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the rescue workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave, carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.
But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Maria gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino, from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.
Now, using the teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the unknown child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. "They've taken care of him for 100 years."
1.The baby travelled on the Titanic with his_______.
A. mother B. parents C. aunt D. relatives
2.What is probably the boy's last name?
A. Schleiferi B. Eino. C. Magda. D. Panula.
3.Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on Nov. 5 _______.
A. 1912 B. 1954 C. 2012 D. 2004
4.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word recover?
A. uncover B. find C. bury D. gather
5.This text is mainly about how______________.
A. the unknown baby's body was taken from the north Atlantic
B. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia
C. people found out who the unknown baby was
D. people took care of the unknown baby for 100 years
My teenage son Karl refused to communicate with others after his father died. As a parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card during his junior year, it said that he had been 95 times from classes and had six grades for the year. At this rate he never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so that I got down on my knees and prayed for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything for my son. I'm at the end of my rope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you.”
I was at work when I got a phone call. A man himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has . It’ s out of my hands.” For a moment there was on the other end of the line. The headmaster said, “Thank you for your time, ” and hung up.
Karl’s next report card showed a marked in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I . “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really me how much I was hurting you. That's I knew I had to make you proud.”
1.A. confident B. wise C. single D. busy
2.A. arrived B. finished C. returned D. proved
3.A. naughty B. troublesome C. absent D. present
4.A. failing B. satisfying C. disappointing D. surprising
5.A. must B. need C. would D. should
6.A. convinced B. forced C. persuaded D. begged
7.A. powerless B. useless C. homeless D. meaningless
8.A. better B. worse C. less D. more
9.A. described B. regarded C. introduced D. explained
10.A. Before B. When C. After D. While
11.A. speaking B. pouring C. running D. putting
12.A. continuedB. operated C. affected D. worked
13.A. silence B. anger C. sadness D. surprise
14.A. painfully B. happily C. seriously D. jokingly
15.A. progress B. advance C. improvement D. encouragement
16.A. attended B. joined C. arranged D. organized
17.A. concerned B. disturbed C. embarrassed D. astonished
18.A. shook B. nodded C. smiled D. replied
19.A. beat B. hit C. frightened D. confused
20.A. when B. how C. why D. where
—You've got a cold, not the H7N9! Everything will turn out OK.
—______! I have been worrying about it for days.
A. What a reliefB. That's for sure C. How surprising D. I'm sorry to hear that
Mike apologized for _______ to inform her of the change in the working plan.
A. his being not able B. him not to be able C. his not being able D. him to be not able
It was Tom as well as two of his classmates that _______ invited to the party.
A. was B. were C. has D. have
