The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机)，The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity — roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meat tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme,”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk. US environmental website treehugger.com recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile (形象)."
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
1.What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?
A. To promote the hotel's green concept.
B. To make the city known to the world.
C. To attract people to the hotel restaurant.
D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.
2.How can a participant get a free meal?
A. By becoming a professional cyclist.
B. By cycling to produce some electricity.
C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle.
D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.
3.Who are most likely to enter for the programme?
A. The poor local people.
B. The environment activists.
C. Health-conscious hotel guests.
D．Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.
4.According to paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the world's ________.
A. best chain hotels
B. greenest natural environments
C. longest bike paths
D. highest rales of people cycling to work
Suddenly another thought went through Kate’s mind like an electric shock. An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later. If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream. “Someone must go to the station and warn the station-master，” Kate thought. But who was to go? She would have to go herself. There was no one else.
In wind and rain she started on her difficult way. Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the Des Moines River, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across Honey Creek. The storm had not washed this away, but there was no footpath across it. She would have to cross it by stepping from sleeper (枕木) to sleeper. With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below. If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, into the rapidly flowing stream.
At last — she never knew how long it had taken her — she felt solid ground under her feet. But there was no time to rest. She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left. Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives would be lost.
She did reach the station just as the train came into sight. Fortunately the station-master was standing outside. “The bridge is down! Stop the train! Oh, please stop it!” Kate shouted breathlessly.
The station-master went pale. He rushed into the station building and came back with a signal light. He waved the red light as the train came into the station. It was not a second too early.
1.What did Kate decide to do?
A. Stop the express train.
B. Check the signal light.
C. Meet the passengers.
D. Visit the station-master
2.Which of the following words best describes Kate’s journey?
A. Fruitless.B. Boring.C. Well-planned.D. Risky.
3.Why did the station-master turn pale?
A. He suddenly fell ill.
B. He realized the danger.
C- He discovered his mistake.
D. He became over-excited.
成语（Chinese idioms）是中国文化的重要组成部分，它能用简单的词语表达出丰富并且深刻的意义。假定你是李华，你的外国笔友James对中国成语很感兴趣，向你咨询有关中国成语的信息，请你写一份回信，包括如下内容：
1. 简单介绍成语；
2. 学习成语的益处；
3. 分享自己学习成语的感受和体会。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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I sincerely hope you can learn them well.
Yours,
Li Hua
Last night, when watched the annual Ten People Who Moved Chinese the Most in the CCTV, I learn some deeds of helping the poor children. It makes me have a firm belief what there are still many kind but generous people around us. It is common believed that many children in the remote mountainous areas of our country have few opportunity to receive education for various reasons. Now that we have the chance receive a good education, we should treasure them. As far as I’m concerned about, if we are friendly and help each other, we can live harmonious and happy life together.
Zhu De was born _1.__ December 1, 1886 to a poor farmer’s family in a town in Yilong County, a 2. (hill) and separate part of northern Sichuan Province. Of the fifteen 3. (child) born to the family, only eight survived. His Hakka(客家) family migrated from Hunan Province and Guangdong Province __ 4.__ Sichuan. _5. his family was poor, by pooling(合伙经营) resources, Zhu was chosen to be sent to a regional private school in 1892. At the age of nine, Zhu was adopted by his wealthy uncle, 6. political influence allowed him _7. (gain) access to Yunnan Military Academy. Later, he attained the rank of Xiucai in 1906, 8.__ (make) him qualified as a civil servant. He was admitted into a Sichuan high school around 1907, and graduated in 1908. Consequently, he returned to Yilong’s primary school as a gym 9.__ (instruct). He was an advocate(倡导者) of modern science and political teaching, rather than the strict classical education afforded by schools, so he 10. (dismiss) from his post and entered the Yunnan Military Academy in Kunming. There, he joined the Beiyang Army and the Tongmenghui secret political society.
A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful ________, and knowing her husband could ________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the ________, her husband told her how ________ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He ________ her a beautiful gift package. She opened it and ________ a Bible. ________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so ________ that she left him.
Many years passed and the lady was very ________ in business. She owned two large companies. She ________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to ________ him. But before she could, she ________ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions to her. She needed to come back and ________ things.
When she arrived at his house, sadness ________ her heart. She saw the still new ________, just as she had left it years before. With ________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring ________ from the Bible to the floor and a ________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LOVE U ALWAYS”.
________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the ________.
1.A. watchB. ringC. coatD. box
2.A. affordB. likeC. designD. guess
3.A. holidayB. performanceC. birthdayD. meeting
4.A. proudB. kindC. sorryD. brave
5.A. lentB. askedC. gaveD. moved
6.A. carriedB. foundC. missedD. held
7.A. PolitelyB. LightlyC. PatientlyD. Angrily
8.A. calmB. upsetC. gratefulD. careless
9.A. failingB. lonelyC. successfulD. poor
10.A. wonderedB. hopedC. realizedD. explained
11.A. visitB. understandC. catchD. help
12.A. passedB. wroteC. sentD. received
13.A. take care ofB. pay forC. look forD. give away
14.A. coveredB. brokeC. leftD. filled
15.A. carB. BibleC. letterD. table
16.A. smilesB. laughterC. tearsD. interests
17.A. hidB. droppedC. disappearedD. made
18.A. bookB. penC. flowerD. card
19.A. IfB. ButC. AlthoughD. So
20.A. handB. eyeC. faceD. heart
