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Jackson Language School
Summer Opening and Closing Time
The Jackson Language School is open each day except Sunday. There is an English Corner also available from 6 pm－9 pm at the Bellevue Hall across from the school.
Class Size
Classes have a minimum of 10 students and a maximum of 16 students in one class. Classes are equipped with earphones and an electronically controlled listening.
Teachers
Teachers are all experienced and have a minimum of 2 years' experience and at least a certificate in teaching English as a second language. They are all available for tutoring if you need it.
Location
The school is located 15 minutes from central London at 34 Inverleith Row, next to the Marks and Spencer shopping centre. It is near a bus stop and only a 5minute walk from the tube.
Attendance
Students on student visas are expected to attend regularly. Students who are absent more than 60% of the time will be reported to the Student Office. Moreover, if students attend less than 80%, they will not be able to get a certificate from Jackson Language School. It is also required by the Student Office for a visa extension.
Home Stay
You are able to stay with a British family if you request so. Jackson has a home stay program that matches students with families according to their own requirements and needs. While generally no problems occur, students may move from a home stay household if he or she gives a 2week written notice to the home stay family school.
Language Policy
As the course is an immersion (沉浸式) program, students are expected to speak English the entire time they are at the school. If they speak any language other than English at the school, they may be asked to leave the school for a day.
1.If you attend more than 80% of your classes, ________.
A．you will be likely to get a certificate
B．you will not obtain a visa extension
C．you may be reported to the Student Office
D．you may not be able to get a certificate
2.The students are expected to speak English ________.
A．part of the time while at the school
B．the entire time they are at the school
C．no matter when they want to
D．when they are in a home stay family
3.At Jackson Language School, ________.
A．you can't move out of a home stay family
B．you can't take part in an English Corner
C．you can turn to a teacher when you need to be tutored
D．you can study in a class less than 10 students
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SENTENCESLIKETHIS? Every one of us gets so used to punctuation marks that not many of us give them a second thought. Actually, the ancient Greeks wrote this way. The lack of punctuation marks probably didn't bother good readers, though. As they read, they just put pauses where they fit best. Also at this time, sentences switched directions. A sentence read from left to right. The next one read right to left, and then left to right again, etc. The ancient Romans sometimes punctuated like this: They·put·something·that·can·separate·words·in·a·sentence. The word punctuation actually comes from this idea and the Latin word puncture, which means a dot.
When the 5th century arrived, there were just two punctuation marks: spaces and points. The spaces separated words while the points showed pauses in reading. Then in the 13th century, a printer named Aldus Manutius tried to standardize punctuation. He always used a period for a complete stop at the end of a sentence. He used a slash (/) to indicate a short pause. Over time, that slash was shortened and curled, and it became the modern comma (逗号)．
Since that time, other marks have enlarged the punctuation family. The exclamation mark (感叹号) comes from the Latin word io. It means “exclamation of joy”. The question mark originally started out as the Latin word questio, meaning question. Eventually, scholars put it at the end of a sentence to show a question.
Punctuation even keeps changing nowadays. New marks are coming into existence, and old punctuation marks are used in new ways. Take for example the “interrobang”. This 1962 invention combines the question mark and exclamation mark for times when writers want both. For example, “She did what！？” or “How much did you pay for that dress！？” Obviously, the interrobang is not widely used or recognized yet, but its invention shows that English is not yet finished with its punctuation.
1.From the first paragraph, we can know that ________.
A．good readers had trouble reading without punctuation marks
B．a sentence always read from left to right in ancient Greece
C．the ancient Greeks switched the direction of punctuation marks
D．the use of punctuation marks can date back to ancient times
2.The passage is developed by ________.
A．time B．space
C．comparison D．importance
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A．ancient Romans didn't use any punctuation marks
B．exclamation and question marks came from Latin
C．spaces and slashes were already used before the 5thcentury
D．Aldus Manutius first started to use commas
4.What can be concluded from the last paragraph?
A．The combination of two marks will not work.
B．It takes time for people to accept new punctuation marks.
C．Old punctuation marks need to be standardized.
D．Punctuation marks are still changing today.
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Some people make you feel comfortable when they are around. You spend an hour with them and feel as if you have known them half your life. 1.
Here are several skills that good talkers have. If you follow the skills, they'll help you put people at their ease, and make friends with them quickly.
First of all, good talkers ask questions. _2. One wellknown businesswoman says, “At business lunches, I always ask people what they did that morning. It's a common question, but it will get things going.” From there you can move on to other matters — sometimes to really personal questions. 3. Second, once good talkers have asked questions, they listen to the answers. This point seems clear, but it isn't. Your questions should have a point and help to tell what sort of person you are talking to. And to find out, you really have to listen carefully and attentively.
_4. If someone sticks to one topic, you can take it as a fact that he's really interested in it. Real listening also means not just listening to words, but to tones of voice. If the voice sounds dull, then, it's time for you to change the subject.
Finally, good talkers know well how to deal with the occasion of parting. If you're saying goodbye, you may give him a firm handshake and say, “I've really enjoyed meeting you.” 5. Let people know what you feel, and they may walk away feeling as if they've known you half their life.
A．Real listening at least means some things.
B．You can become a popular person.
C．Almost anyone, no matter how shy he is, will answer a question.
D．And how he answers will let you know how far you can go.
E．If you want to see that person again, don't keep it a secret.
F．It's polite to listen to others with a smile.
G．These people have something in common.
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The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tilman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how a diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized (工业化), population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tilman says overweight people are at greater risk of noninfectious diseases like diabetes (糖尿病) and heart disease.
Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20year period. And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.
And, a diet bad for human beings is also bad for the environment. As the world's population grows, more forests and tropical (热带的) areas will become farmlands for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.
Mr. Tilman calls the link between the diet, the environment and human health, “a trilemma” — a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.
1.According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from ________.
A．transportation B．developing countries
C．agriculture D．developed countries
2.David Tilman believes that ________.
A．the diet, the environment and human health are closely connected
B．the Western diet is the only choice as the nation industrializes
C．people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease
D．traditional diets are more balanced than the Western diet
3.We can infer from the passage that ________.
A．Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases
B．overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases
C．the examined information comes from developing countries
D．industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet
4.The main purpose of the passage is to ________.
A．call on us to protect the environment
B．warn us of the danger of the Western diet
C．remind us of the importance of health
D．advise us to have a balanced diet
语法填空
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut. As the barber began to work, they started chatting. They talked 1. so many things and various subjects. When they 2. (final) touched on the subject of God, the barber said：“I don't believe that God exists.”
“Why do you say that？” asked the customer.
“Well, you just have to go out in 3. street to prove that. Tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there 4. be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine5.(love) a God who would allow all of these things to happen.”
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an 6._ (argue). After everything 7.(do) and just after he left the barber's, he saw a man in the street with long dirty hair. The customer entered the barber's again and said：“You know what？8. do not exist.”
“How can you say that？” asked the surprised barber.“I am here, and I am a barber. And I just _9._ (work) on you！”
“No！” the customer said.“Barbers don't exist because _10._ they did, there would be no people with long dirty hair, like that man outside.”
完形填空
It is a timeproven fact that smile is a language. It is a universal language ___ by the people of every nation, and the commonest way to show our ____ will perfectly without saying anything.
One day I was shopping in a small town in California. It was my misfortune to be ____ by a clerk who seemed most ____ and not at all concerned about my intended ____. I bought nothing, and walked ___ out of the store. My anger ____ with each step. Outside, standing at the corner, was a young man in his early twenties. His expressive eyes met and held mine, and in the next instant a beautiful, amazing ____ covered his face. I gave in ____. The power of that shining smile ____ away all my anger, and I found the muscles in my own face happily ____. “Beautiful day, isn't it？” I said. Then, suddenly something inside me sent me turning back. “I really owe you a ____，” I said softly. His smile deepened, but he made no ____ to answer. A Mexican woman nearby stepped ____ and said, “Carlos can't speak English，” she volunteered. “Shall I tell him something？” At that moment I felt changed. Carlos' smile had made a big person of me. “Yes，” my ____ was enthusiastic and sincere. “Tell him ‘Thank you！’” “Thank you？” The woman seemed slightly ____. “Just tell him that，” I insisted. “Surely, he'll understand.”
What a smile! Although I have ____ seen that young man again, I'll never forget the ____ he taught me. From then on, I became smileconscious. I practice it ____， anywhere and everywhere, with everybody. This action on my part would always draw a goodnatured smile ____.
1.A.learned B．known C．understood D．done
2.A.warm B．good C．cold D．fresh
3.A.treated B．entertained C．greeted D．served
4.A.amazed B．warmhearted C．unfriendly D．confused
5.A.purchase B．question C．things D．complaint
6.A.quietly B．angrily C．suddenly D．recently
7.A.grew B．changed C．disappeared D．went
8.A.expression B．look C．feeling D．smile
9.A.proudly B．happily C．immediately D．luckily
10.A.threw B．went C．put D．drove
11.A.flying B．satisfying C．responding D．singing
12.A.gratitude B．debt C．smile D．chance
13.A.idea B．attempt C．mind D．energy
14.A.forward B．backward C．upward D．downward
15.A.speech B．attitude C．reply D．question
16.A.worried B．upset C．delighted D．puzzled
17.A.yet B．never C．though D．still
18.A.action B．lesson C．word D．song
19.A.diligently B．aimlessly C．randomly D．hurriedly
20.A.in charge B．in relief C．in favor D．in return
