Wouldn’t you want to travel more often without breaking the bank? If you are interested, read on to find out how you can do simple things to save money next time you go on vacation.
Airfares
Plan in advance and visit discount websites to see if there are better deals. If you are planning to stay in two countries and an airline makes you change planes on those countries anyway, you might be in luck. Check pricing on the flights to see if you can stay a few days at the country of the flight change instead of changing planes right away since airlines often let you do that for the same price.
Accommodations
Sometimes the smaller towns close to where you are going have hotels that are much less expensive. If you don’t mind the 15-minute ride, you might just save a large amount of money. Home exchanges are pretty cool and popular especially in Europe. If you are of the adventure type, this could be exciting and refreshing. Sometimes smaller hotel chains are willing to give you free upgrades or even free nights. If you are staying at a destination for at least a few days, consider a vacation home instead of hotels. They are often more comfortable and your cost will probably be cheaper.
Eating
Figure out where you will be and eat before you actually go out. Avoid breakfast from the hotels because chances are good that the breakfast from the hotel is expensive and isn’t great. It probably pays to walk out the front door in the morning and find a local cafe. You might just discover the local favorite unexpectedly. Want a breakfast that costs nothing? Ask for some bread to-go at the restaurant the night before. In addition, fancy lunches are often much less expensive than dinners. If you eat a big lunch and a light dinner, it’s also healthier.
1.What kind of travelers will choose a vocation home?
A. Those who dislike small hotel chains.
B. Those who want an adventure trip.
C. Those who plan to live in one place for a few days.
D. Those who don’t mind long-distance trips.
2.To save money on eating, you are expected to ________.
A. eat more for dinner than lunch
B. have three meals in the hotels
C. buy bread from restaurants
D. try a local cafe for breakfast
3.The text is mainly about ________.
A. trips in different countries
B. tips on economical travel
C. dos and don’ts during a trip
D. arrangements for a package holiday
阅读下面短文，然后用60个单词左右概括短文的要点。
Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.
In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out.
Though the belief in the advantage of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War Ⅱ. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea; clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt, however, gone too far?
Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist (免疫学家), encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some reason.
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假如你是Sandy Smith，你的笔友Li Hua给你写了一封信，内容如下：
Dear Sandy,
I’m writing this letter to ask for help. I will visit England soon, but I know little about the culture of England. Please give me a hand.
I’m looking forward to hearing from your reply soon.
Yours,
Li Hua
请给Li Hua回一封信，要点如下：
1．交通和气候注意事项（适应靠左行走或驾驶的交通规则，出门带伞）；
2．公共场合的注意事项（保持安静等）；
3．和英国人交往的注意事项(尊重隐私等)。
注意：
1．词数：80左右，信的格式、开头和结尾已写好，不计入总词数；
2．可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Li Hua,
It is a great chance to visit England. _______________________________________
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Have a good time.
Yours sincerely,
Sandy Smith
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Nowadays, it is common that more and more high school students open their own micro-blogs on the Internet. For one thing, it can provide a colorful platform to show their talent. For 1. , it is a useful way to release their pressure. And all these make it more and more popular with high school students. 2. , many parents and teachers hold a different view. They think that managing one’s micro blog will take a lot of time and energy, 3. should be used to study.
In my view, I am greatly in favor 【小4】 this activity. Today the Internet is playing 4. important and essential role in our life. Therefore as high school students, we need to learn to make use of this 5. (value) tool to communicate and display ourselves. What’s more, opening microblogs need various abilities such 6. writing, designing , being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog. As a result, we will improve ourselves while 7. (organize) our microblogs.
In fact, microblog 8. (oneself) is of little harm. It is your attitude towards it 9. matters. We should take the advantages and avoid some bad effects.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town．Most of the ________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie．He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his ________.
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, ________ anything that needed to be done．He became a close friend of mine, ________ he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my ________． Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was ________. I didn’t have the ________ to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might ________ me he had died.
Several ________ later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face．When I ________ who it was, my eyes filled with tears．He was ________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. With an uncertain look ________ his face, he replied yes．I ________ how I knew him and that I had spent many days talking with him in the hospital．His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever ________.
He began to tell me that ________ he lay there comatose(昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could ________ me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie ________ believed that it was my voice and ________ that had kept him alive．
Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with ________ every day．I know that I made a(n) ________ between his life and his death．
1.A. timeB. energyC. effortD. money
2.A. interestsB. requestsC. conditionsD. opinions
3.A. talking aboutB. looking afterC. pointing outD. helping with
4.A. so thatB. even thoughC. soon afterD. as if
5.A. handB. headC. noseD. arm
6.A. killedB. lostC. goneD. changed
7.A. energyB. chanceC. courageD. time
8.A. cheatB. tellC. remindD. warn
9.A. daysB. weeksC. monthsD. years
10.A. recognizedB. wonderedC. heardD. asked
11.A. wellB. aliveC. happyD. alone
12.A. atB. onC. behindD. in
13.A. apologizedB. rememberedC. explainedD. admitted
14.A. dreamedB. seenC. wantedD. received
15.A. becauseB. ifC. unlessD. although
16.A. noticeB. feelC. imagineD. watch
17.A. hardlyB. quicklyC. firmlyD. nearly
18.A. humorB. dutyC. touchD. success
19.A. sorrowB. excitementC. regretD. joy
20.A. effortB. wishC. differenceD. decision
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Be an inventor
The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it’s true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth.
Wrong idea number 1: 1.
Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come from something that already exists. 2.
Wrong idea number 2: Inventors are born, not made.
There are a lot of factors that make invention possible. Take Mozart, for example. He was born with a special talent for music. 3. His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was in kindergarten.
4. Very successful creators don’t give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question!”
Wrong idea number 3: Inventors are always old people.
5. Here is an example of a young inventor: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was 15, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.
A. Everyday things can give people lots of ideas.
B. An invention has to be something completely new.
C. But other factors were also important for his creativity.
D. As a young man, George Nissen invented the trampoline (蹦床).
E. Don't believe that you can’t invent something when you are young.
F. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “99% hard work and 1% inspiration”!
G. The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds.
