Parkside
Pick Your Own
Fancy some fresh fruit and vegetables? At Parkside Farm we grow a wide variety of delicious summer fruits and high-quality vegetables for you to come and pick your own. Why not pay us a visit?
About us
Our family has been farming at Parkside Farm since 1938. Although we no longer keep fields of wheat and other crops. We started growing strawberries for Pick Your Own back in 1979. Since then, we have made the Pick Your Own area larger and we now grow about 20 different crops.
Opening times
The season starts in late June, but opening hours are variable the first week. Please ring our message line to check. From July onwards, we are open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 9 am to 5:30 pm (last entry 5 pm). Opening hours are variable on Sundays. Mondays CLOSED.
Crop calendar
Some crops may be in limited supply at certain times, so always ring the message line for daily updates before setting out.
Strawberries: early June to mid-October Blackcurrants: early July to mid-August
Raspberries: mid-June to mid-August Redcurrants: mid-July to mid-August
Blackberries: mid-July to mid-October Plums: mid-July to early September
Prices
There is a minimum charge of ￡3 for each adult or child who enters the Pick Your Own area. This means that every person has to spend at least ￡3 on Pick-Your-Own fruits or they will charged this amount when they leave.
Strawberries: ￡4.49/kg Blackcurrants: ￡4.79/kg Raspberries: ￡6.39/kg
Redcurrants: ￡4.79/kg Blackberries: ￡5.39/kg Plums: ￡ 2.99/kg
Find us
Parkside Farm is in the Enfield of London, north of the city centre.
For more information , please call our message line on 020 8367 2035 or check our website: www.parksidefarmpyo.co.uk.
1.What do we learn about Parkside Farm from the text?
A. It sells fruit and vegetables online.
B. It doesn’t open on Mondays.
C. It’s situated in the south of London.
D. It has a small Pick Your Own area.
2.If a family of three buy 1 kg of strawberries and 1 kg of plums on the farm, they should pay_______.
A. ￡6 B. ￡7.48
C. ￡9 D. ￡16.48
3.What is the main purpose of the text?
A. To instruct people how to grow crops.
B. To tell readers how to pick fruits.
C. To advise people to grow crops
D. To attract visitors to pick fruits
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注意：
1. 词数100左右，
2. 为使行文连贯，可以适当增加内容；
3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。
Dear Dickon,
______________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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.每处错误及其修改均限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
There are bound to be question marks over our future, so we often think of future. We often wonder that the world will like a hundred years’ time.
Think of space. Perhaps a permanent station on the moon will have been set up. Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as tourist. Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed, permitted long journeys through the solar system. When that time come, people will be taking holidays in space and visiting another planets. Great progress will have been made in medicine, too.
Pollution have been controlled in a hundred years’ time.
All the world will have been developed—even Antarctica. We will have used up many of the earth’s land to build our cities, therefore floating the cities will have been built. The Japanese have already plans in this kind. And there will be cities under the sea.
A few months after1.(return) to the U.S. from Germany, I2.(take) part in a college course in French. Since I had learned to speak German well in Germany, I thought it might be interesting3.(begin) studying another language.4.the first class, a teacher asked us to do a pronunciation exercise, in which he would say a word5.two in French, and each student would do6.(they) best to copy. When my turn came, he7.(keep) having me say8.(many) words, and I finally asked him why. “I find it great9. (funny),” he explained. “In 25 years of teaching at school, it’s the first time I have heard10.American speak French with a German accent.”
I grew up in a small town. My father________chickens and ran a construction company. I was________10 years old when my dad gave me the__________of feeding the chickens and________up the stable（笼子）. He believed it was
____for me to have those jobs to_________responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club_________the Natchbill Palace, I washed__________and cooked from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and then ______to sing until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn’t long before I became known________a singing cook.
I had been rejected so many times by record__________that it was hard not to be discouraged. One night, a
______executive(主管) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was_______, we sat down and talked and after she left, I said to__________it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received a phone call—Waner Brothers_________ to sign me to a record deal._________after, I release(发行) my first record in June 1986. It_________over 2 million copies.
My best efforts had gone into every job I’ve ever held. It was the_________of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my________filled me with pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known_________.
1.A. had B. used C. devoted D. raised
2.A. still B. down C. only D. inside
3.A. pleasure B. sorrow C. happiness D. responsibility
4.A. keeping B. watching C. cleaning D. looking
5.A. healthy B. important C. initial D. humorous
6.A. learn B. grasp C. gain D. govern
7.A. seen B. run C. called D. found
8.A. clothes B. tables C. chairs D. dishes
9.A. jumped up B. flew over C. went on D. observed at
10.A. so B. such C. very D. as
11.A. companies B. shops C. factories D. clubs
12.A. man B. woman C. boy D. manager
13.A. over B. on C. towards D. forward
14.A. herself B. myself C. yourself D. himself
15.A. made B. did C. wanted D. refused
16.A. Long B. Early C. Sometimes D. Soon
17.A. bought B. stuck C. sold D. simplified
18.A. step B. road C. phenomenon D. sense
19.A. best B. better C. good D. well
20.A. recorder B. singer C. writer D. dancer
Sheila Green was married 12 years ago.1.When her youngest child reached school age, she decided to go back to work.2.Her salary could make a difference between a financial struggle and a secure financial situation for her family. Sheila also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a homemaker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home.
However, Sheila was worried about her children’s adjustment to this new situation. She arranged for them to go to stay with a woman nearby after school each afternoon.3.While a problem seemed to appear between Sheila and her husband Sandy. When Sheila was at home all day, she was able to clean the house, go grocery shopping, wash the clothes, take care of the children and cook two or three meals each day.4.
Now the same things need to be done, but Sheila has only evenings and early mornings to do them.5. Sandy is accustomed to sitting down and reading a paper of watching TV until dinners is ready. This is exactly what Sheila feels like doing, but someone has to fix dinner and Sandy expects it to be Sheila. Sheila is becoming very angry at Sandy’s feels that everything should be the same as it was before Sheila went back to work.
A. They seemed to be happy with the arrangement.
B. Sheila thought that she should contribute to the household finances.
C. Her oldest child studies in a school near her home.
D. Both Sheila and Sandy are tired when they arrive home at 6 p.m.
E. She has three children and lives in a suburb outside Columbus, Ohio.
F. Sheila does not only work in a company, but also the housework.
G. She was very busy, of course, but she succeeded in getting everything done.
