For the business traveler who is all about efficiency: Check out these hotels that will get you in and out with a minimum of trouble. When you are pressed for time on a business trip, nothing can infuriate you more than a slow hotel check-in process. On your next trip, try these hotels that offer a speedier check-in process.
1. Yotel New York
The self-service kiosks at this high-tech New York hotel work just like the ones you’d see at an airport. There are just five-steps to register and obtain your card key. There is even a robotic luggage bellboy. You tap in the number of bags you are carrying and sizes, then wait for a robot arm to swing down and store your luggage in a locker (say, for a day trip). This also speeds up the check-in process if the first thing you need to do, like me, is head to a series of meetings.
2. Marriott Detroit Airport
Another option for business travelers in a hurry: Marriott is rolling out its mobile check-in app to 325 hotels this year, including the Marriott Detroit Airport hotel. (I’ve tested the app itself but not for a real visit quite yet.) Here is the basic idea: you download the iphone or Android app. The night before, you can “check-in” virtually. When you arrive, you get an alert that the room is ready and your key, which is already tied to your reservation, is waiting for you at the desk.
3. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
I happened to stay at this hotel recently and liked how fast the kiosk check-in works. Like the Yotel, the kiosk asks you to insert your credit card, similar to an airport terminal. The whole process took about three minutes, when I left, I was equally impressed with the fast check-out. An agent meets you in the lobby with an ipad and asks for an email to use for a receipt. The big advantage: you never have to wait in line.
4. Radisson: LaCrosse
The Radisson is trying to make the kiosk process even faster, at a few select hotels like the Radisson Lacrosse in Wisconsin, you use a mobile app to register and then receive a barcode by email or text. When you get the kiosk, you scan the barcode to get your key without any other steps required. It’s super fast. You can find this new check-in system at the Radisson hotels in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Phoenix as well.
1.What does the word “infuriate” in paragraph 2 most mean?
A. annoy B. remind C. amuse D. impress
2.Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to check in?
A. Yotel New York and Marriott Detroit Airport.
B. Marriott Detroit Airport and Radisson: LaCrosse.
C. Marriott Detroit Airport. and Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.
D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis and Radisson: LaCrosse.
3.Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?
A. Yotel New York.
B. Marriott Detroit Airport.
C. Radisson: LaCrosse.
D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. At Yotel New York, a robot will help you with all the check-in process.
B. With its check-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a key.
C. The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast check-in.
D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis is close to an airport terminal.
Sally Donovan is cooking when a paper plane flies across the kitchen and lands at her feet. She picks it up, unfolds it and finds a child’s sketch (素描) of a tear-stained face with a speech bubble saying: “I’m sorry I was naughty—I’m a bad person.”
Sally, 42, draws a big smiley face on the back of the paper with “I love you, Rose, and we’re always going to look after you.” Then she folds it up and launches the plane back into the living room where her nine-year-old daughter is watching TV with brother Jamie, 13 and dad Rod, 40.
Jamie often makes pictures for his parents too—like the one showing a swift river with them on one side and him trapped on the other side.
It’s one of the many unusual ways that Sally and Rob have learned to communicate emotionally with their abused children in an astonishing eight-year journey of hope, healing and love.
Jamie was just four and half—sister Rose one when they were adopted by the Donovans in 2005. The youngsters had been taken from their natural mother and placed in foster care after a series of cruelty and neglect. They were left alone, hungry, and witnessed home violence on a regular basis.
Sally and Rob spent three years trying for a baby before deciding to adopt, and were well aware of the youngsters' poor background. But they were still unprepared for raising a child permanently scared by abuse or the lack of support on offer.
But now Sally has written a brilliant and heart-touching account of their family struggle in a book called “No Matter What”. Sally said: “These kids come to you with a story that what happened to them was their fault—because they are bad and unlovable. To show them they are loveable and none of it was their fault takes a lot of time. They both still say “I’m bad”. Jamie is less stuck on it now but whenever life deals him a knock, he will fall back into ‘that happened because I am stupid, I’m rubbish, I’m bad’.”
Sally’s book is humorous, heart-touching and so wildly honest that academics, charity bosses, parents and adoptees are praising it as a major contribution to child welfare work.
1.Sally and Rob adopted the two children mainly because ____.
A. they knew the children’s background very well
B. they wanted to help the children out of trouble
C. they couldn’t have children of their own
D. they couldn’t bear the cruelty done to the children
2.Why did the two adopted children still say “I’m bad” ?
A. They know clearly they are not lovable enough.
B. They often put the situation in an embarrassment.
C. What they suffered rooted deep in their minds.
D. They are honest of what they have done.
3.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Rose was a baby when adopted by Sally and Rob.
B. Sally has written a book about how to adopt children.
C. Jamie still blames himself for whatever happens to him.
D. There is still a long way to go for helping the children out.
书面表达
今年4月23日是第21个世界读书日，为参加学校将举行的读书分享活动，李华在某购书网站购买了一本英文版（English version）的The Old Man and the Sea. 请根据以下要点，替李华写一封投诉信。
问题：1. 收到的书是中文版的。
2. 预计三月底到达，结果四月八日才收到。
要求：退款或尽快寄一本英语版的过来；如果重寄一本，必须四月十五日前送达。
注意： 1、可适当增加细节, 使内容充实, 行文连贯。
2、词数100左右；开头已给出, 不计入总词数。
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧), 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线(__), 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。
On a Sunday morning, I got on a bus and found a seat near the back, and then I noticed a man seating in the front. He was pretended that a tiger toys was real and giving it a voice. He must be mentally disabled.
Behind him were other people to who he was trying to talk, but after some minutes he walked away and sat near me, looking annoyed.
I didn’t want to be laughed for talking to him but I didn’t feel like leaving him on his own either.
After a while I rise from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man but introduced myself. We had an amazingly conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very much happy the rest of the way home.
单词拼写
1.Recent years have w________ the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence.
2.The students are not allowed to leave school unless they get the a___________ of their head teacher.
3.Soldiers are trained to o______ orders without question.
4.Kids have a natural d__________ for knowledge.
5.Students are encouraged to p_________ in some social practice.
6.In the famous TV program I AM A SINGER, Hacken Lee was ______(伴奏) at the piano by LangLang in order to impress the audience.
7.Who ___________(受益) most from the new tax law?
8.The girls who laughed loudly suddenly became _______(意识到) of people looking at them.
9.The police are _________(敦促) anyone who saw the accident to contact them immediately.
10.__________(祝贺) on your successful performance!
语法填空,阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词的正确形式填空。
Last summer holiday, I took part in a teaching project and volunteered1.___________(teach) in a countryside primary school for two weeks.
When we arrived at the school, though shocked by the poor living conditions, we quickly adapted 2.___________ to the life there. My good friend Tom and I were in charge of the third year students, 3.____________(consist) of just 18 boys and girls. We not only taught them English and maths, but also organized some after-school 4.___________(activity) for them. Gradually, I found that many of the students were actually quite 65.__________(talent). But some had to leave school early, which is6.___________(large) because their families were under heavy financial pressure, and they had to find a job to support the family.
As well as giving lessons, we also helped set up a reading room in the school 7.____________ students hardly had any access8.___________ good reading materials except textbooks. With the help of school staff and students, we cleaned out an abandoned classroom. When we placed the books students and teachers in my high school 9.___________(donate) onto the shelves, I found the students were more than excited and 10.__________(dive) into reading there.
Two weeks quickly passed and we had to leave. I did not know how much we had actually taught them, but for me I learned a great deal—cherish what I possess and study harder.
