The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has thousands of objects on display, including the 1903 Wright Flyer, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, and a lunar rock you can touch. In addition to our exhibition galleries, you may want to visit the Albert Einstein Planetarium, Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater, and the Public Observatory on the east end. There are many things to do at the Museum in DC. We offer daily tours and educational activities for both children and adults. We also have scheduled lectures and events throughout the year.
Hours & Admission: Open every day except December 25. Admission is free.
Regular hours: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
Extended Hours: 10:00 am to 7:30 pm
December 26— 30, 2015
March 30—April 20, 2016
Fridays and Saturdays, April 24—May 16, 2016
May 17—September 7, 2015
VISITING TIPS:
Limit the Number of Bags: All visitors are screened through metal detectors upon entry. The fewer items you bring inside the Museum, the faster your entry. Before you visit, please review the list of prohibited items, which include pocket knives and tripods(三脚架). Visitors carrying prohibited items will not be allowed inside the museum, so please leave them at home or in your car.
No food and Drink: Only bottled water is permitted in the Museum. You may only consume food and other drinks in the Food Court, not in the Museum. Groups who bring food are encouraged to picnic on the National Mall.
Please Take Photos: You are welcome to take photos for personal use. However, tripods and monopods(单脚架) are not permitted without approval.]
First Aid: The Museum has a First Aid office and a nurse on duty. Please contact the nearest security officer or the Welcome Center for assistance.
Visit the Welcome Center: At our Welcome Center in the South Lobby, staff and volunteers can answer any questions you have during your visit.
Phone: 202-633-2214
E-mail: NASM-VisitorServices@si. edu
1.According to the passage, the National Air and Space Museum is a museum _____.
A. where only adults can take part in some educational activities
B. everyone can pay a visit to without buying tickets
C. where one can touch anything he likes
D. everyone can visit without time limits all the year round
2. If the Greens plan to visit the Museum at 6:00 pm, it is accessible on ______.
A. July 6, 2016 B. March 1, 2016
C. December 24, 2015 D. September 15, 2016
3.What are the visitors allowed to take into the museum?
A. pocket knives B. tripods
C. bottled water D. monopods
4.A visitor to the museum can _____.
A. eat and drink in the Museum or in the Food Court
B. take photos with tripods for personal use
C. bring fewer bags to go through metal detectors
D. get some medical treatment if he suddenly falls ill
5.The purpose of this passage is to ______.
A. make an advertisement for the museum
B. attract people to explore the universe
C. encourage adults to bring their children there
D. show what is on display in the museum
Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool child. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.
The two-year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.
Shayne Piasta, an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, was an author of the study. She says most preschool teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read story-books in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text. “If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.” But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.
More than 300 children aged four and five were observed in classrooms. They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program called Project STAR— Sit Together and Read. The project is based in Ohio State. It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to preschool children in their classrooms.
There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger. They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the organization of the print-- for instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.
1.What do we know about the ways preschool children are usually taught?
A. Preference is given to the shape of the letters and the organization of the print.
B. More attention is paid to the picture, with words and letters being ignored.
C. The focus of the teaching is on bringing them up to be good readers.
D. Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.
2.Shayne Piasta suggested that preschool teachers should _______.
A. read storybooks regularly in class.
B. learn to manage their class well
C. often discuss the printed words and letters
D. search for a better method of reading
3.The children who joined in Project STAR were _________.
A. very poor in their reading
B. mostly cleverer than others
C. especially good at language skills
D. worried about reading problems
4.Which of the following is TRUE about the study on language skills of preschool children?
A. Many teachers want to change their way of teaching preschool children.
B. Attention of the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.
C. Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.
D. Project STAR aims to research into the results of reading books to preschool children in the classroom.
5.The last paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A. why we should discuss the meaning of the print
B. the shape of the letter is the focus of teaching
C. how we can teach children about print
D. English words are usually written from left to right
Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a booklover or merely go there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower.
Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become absorbed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment—without buying a book, of course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the unavoidable greeting: "Can I help you, sir?" You needn't buy anything you don't want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire considerately and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.
You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest bestselling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing--something which had only slightly interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.
1.The underlined phrase "dust jacket" means ________.
A. a kind of clothes B. a paper cover of a book
C. a dusty book D. a title of a book
2.You may spend too much time in a bookshop because________.
A. the dust jackets are very attractive
B. you start reading one of the books
C. it is raining outside
D. you have to make sure you won't buy a dull book as a present
3.It can be learned from the text that an assistant should offer you help _______.
A. as soon as you have entered the shop
B. just before you finish browsing
C. only when you have finished reading
D. when he leads you to a particular section
4.The author implies that it is very easy to enter a bookshop and buy ______.
A. a book on ancient coins
B. a best-selling novel on brass-rubbing
C.a book that only vaguely interests you
D. a book that unexpectedly fascinates you
5. The best title for this passage may be________.
A. The Attraction of Bookshops
B. How to Spend Your Time
C. Bookshops and Their Assistants
D. How to Select Books
完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1--20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳的选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
Some people are just born to be failures. That’s the way some adults look at ______ kids. Maybe you've heard the saying, “A bird with a ______ wing will never fly as high.” I'm sure that T. J. Ware was made to ______ this way almost every day. At high school, T. J. was the best-known troublemaker in his town. He was a silent boy, didn’t answer questions and often ______ .
I met T. J. for the first time at an activity aimed at getting students more involved in community charity. When I ______, the community leaders ______ me that T.J. had the longest arrest（拘留） record in the history of town. Actually, I wasn’t the first to hear about T.J.’s darker side as the first words of ______ .
At the start of the activity, T. J. was just ______ outside the circle of students, against the back wall, with a(n) ______ look on his face. He didn’t readily join the discussion groups, and didn’t seem to have much to say. But gradually, the interactive games ______ him in. T. J. shared his great thoughts on ______ . The other students ______ his ideas and were impressed with his passion for helping those in need. ______ , they elected T. J. co-chairman of the group.
After the activity, T. J. started showing up at school and being active in class, which none of his teachers expected. More ______ , two weeks later, T. J. led a group of 70 students in a drive to collect ______ . They collected a school______ : 2,854 cans of food in just two hours, (the shortest time in the history of town) enough to take care of ______ families in the area for 75 days.
T. J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs ______ . Once it has ______ , it can fly higher than the rest. Now T. J. is ______ quite nicely as a chairman of a nationwide charity organization.
1.A. failed B. troublesome C. annoyed D. worried
2.A. single B. faulty C. burden D. broken
3.A. think B. walk C. feel D. struggle
4.A. fought B. drove C. challenged D. laughed
5.A. looked up B. stood up C. finished up D. turned up
6.A. warned B. suggested C. reminded D. reached
7.A.explanation B. communication C. introduction D.instruction
8.A. standing B. laughing C. hiding D. wandering
9.A. worried B. interested C. indifferent D. puzzled
10.A. allowed B. showed C. drew D. put
11.A. games B. concerns C. school D. charity
12.A. ignored B. welcomed C. doubted D. misunderstood
13.A. However B. Besides C. Anyway D. Therefore
14.A. importantly B. surprisingly C. luckily D. popularly
15.A. money B. rubbish C. cans D. food
16.A. restaurant B. record C. yard D. term
17.A. needy B. lonely C. friendly D. likely
18.A. persuading B. mending C. observing D. teaching
19.A. healed B. noticed C. appeared D. changed
20.A. behaving B. growing C. flying D. achieving
--- John’s report has been approved by the chief editor.
---_______. He devoted so much.
A. Without doubt B. No wonder
C. It all depends D. A real scoop
It is vital that you _________the next question depending on what the person says while communicating.
A. prepare B. prepare for C. prepared D. must prepare
