Best summer camps for families in the USA
Frost Valley
The Frost Valley camp in Claryuville, New Your, Which was founded in 1901, is one of the oldest camps in the United States. It covers 6,000 acres in the Catskills. It offers a week-long family camp only in August that includes all the traditional activities. For living, you can choose from tents, cabins, Forssmann Castle (a restaurant), and the Strausss Center country house.
Medomak
This is a very small camp in Washington, Maine, and it can only hold 12 families at a time. Medomak is your classic summer camp, with cabin-style accommodations (食宿) that includes a bathroom and family-style meals that will be served in the camp’s farmhouse dining room. The camp covers 250 acres and includes a lake.
Takodah
Takodah, a camp in Richmond, New Hampshire, lets you choose your pace. You can fill your day with activities like pick-up games and swimming or just be relaxed to read a book. A favorite activity is a trip to Mount Monadnock. You will also stay in a family house and eat together in the dining room.
Camp Hanes
Camp Hanes is a camp in King, North Carolina, which offers family camping on weekends. It is a little primitive (原始的), and you will have to bring your own bedding where you stay, but it does have electricity and air conditioners. You will eat family-style meals with other camping families. And of course, you can gather around the campfire as a family in the evening.
1.What do we know about Frost Valley?
A.It opens to campers all the year around.
B.It has the longest history in America.
C.It limits the number of camping families.
D.It offers campers different kinds of living places.
2.What is the most popular activity in Takodah?
A.Supplying free meals. B.Climbing Mount Monadnock.
C.Reading what you like. D.Making a fire in the evening.
3.What should you do if you want to take part in Camp Hanes?
A.Prepare a flashlight. B.Be good at swimming.
C.Bring your own bedding. D.Wear comfortable shoes.
假定你是李华，你校学生会拟在寒假期间组织消防安全教育课程。请你以校学生会的名义用英语写一封信，号召同学积极参与，内容包括：
1.时间和地点；
2.课程内容；
3.课程的意义。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.文中不得出现真实校名和班级信息；
4.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入词数；
参考词汇：消防firefighting 紧急情况emergency
Dear fellow students,
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2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My classmates and I went to the Beijing Exhibition Hall to see the exhibition on China’s achievements in last Saturday.
The exhibition attracted thousand of people all over the country, so we had to wait for a long time to get in. Luckily, we met a docent(讲解员) who gave us a introduction of the development during these years. We listened attentive and were deeply impressed by the brilliant success of our County. When we step into the Hi-tech display section, our eyes were caught by the high-speed train model “Fuxing”. We were so amazing at it that we couldn't help take pictures all the time. After leaving, with the words “Chinese Dream” as a setting, we had a group photo to record the great moment.
The visit to the exhibition gives me greater faith in Chinese dream, that our personal dreams are closely related to.
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。
The game of basketball was created by Dr. Naismith, a Canadian who worked as a physical education1.(instruct) at a college. He noticed2.lack of interest in exercise among students during wintertime. The Canadian winters were very cold, so the students were3.(will) to do outdoor activities. Naismith determined that a fast-moving game4.(play) indoors would fill the empty after the baseball seasons had ended. In December of 1891,he5.(hang) two old baskets at either end of the gym, and with nine players on each side, organized the first basketball game. In less than a year, basketball was being played in6.the United States and Canada. Five years7.(late), a championship was held in New York City.8.that time, the team had already been reduced to seven, and five became standard in the 1897 season. When basketball first appeared in the 1904 Olympic Games, it9.(quick) spread throughout the world. In 1906, a metal ring10.(use) to replace the basket, but the name basketball has remained.
There was once a bridge which crossed a large river. During most of the_______ the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to_______through freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times each day, a train would come along and the bridge would be turned sideways across the river, allowing a train to cross it.
A switchman sat in a small house on one side of the river where he_______the controls to turn the bridge and lock it into place as the train crossed. One evening_______the switchman was waiting for the last train of the day to come, he looked off into the distance and_______sight of the trainlights. He stepped to the control and_______until the train was within a prescribed(规定的) distance to turn the bridge into_______,but, to his horror, he found the locking control did not_______. If the bridge was not securely in position it would wobble(摇晃) back and forth at the ends, causing the train to jump the_______and go crashing into the river. This would be a passenger train with many people aboard. He____________across the bridge to the other side of the river where he would have to hold the lever(控制杆) back____________as the train crossed. He could hear the rumble(隆隆声) of the train now, and he took hold of the lever and____________backward to apply his____________to it, locking the bridge. He kept applying the pressure to keep the mechanism locked. Many lives depended on this man's strength.
Then, he heard a sound that made his blood run cold. “Daddy, where are you?” His four-year-old son was crossing the bridge to____________him. The man almost left his lever to run and seize his son and carry him to ____________ But he realized that he could not get back to the lever. Either the people on the train or his little son must die. He took a____________to make his decision.
The train sped safely and swiftly on its way, and no one aboard was even____________of the tiny broken body, thrown mercilessly into the river by the onrushing train. Nor did they notice the____________figure of the sobbing man, still holding tightly the locking lever____________after the train had passed. They did not see him walking home more slowly than he had ever walked: to tell his wife____________their son had brutally died.
1.A.times B.day C.year D.sides
2.A.run B.lift C.cover D.pass
3.A.kept B.collected C.held D.operated
4.A.as B.since C.if D.before
5.A.adjusted B.detected C.caught D.witnessed
6.A.greeted B.waited C.repaired D.locked
7.A.position B.quality C.gesture D.charge
8.A.fill B.move C.work D.request
9.A.river B.threat C.prediction D.track
10.A.flew B.hurried C.went D.crossed
11.A.instantly B.bitterly C.firmly D.impatiently
12.A.leaned B.lay C.sipped D.scratched
13.A.hand B.leg C.body D.weight
14.A.put off B.look for C.come across D.take up
15.A.safety B.home C.schedule D.attention
16.A.sniff B.content C.moment D.fright
17.A.known B.fond C.concerned D.aware
18.A.tired B.sorrowful C.merciful D.annoyed
19.A.long B.shortly C.just D.immediately
20.A.what B.when C.how D.who
Although books are still popular with teenagers, most of them spend more of their leisure time staring at their phone than reading a paperbook..1.Instead of publishing whole book at once, they produce very short chapters, which they send once a week to their readers by text message.
2.Many are written by high school or university students who are very familiar with the topics that teenagers are interested in. Common themes are love, tragedy and betrayal, and the stories often deal with difficult or controversial issues.
Twenty-one-year-old Rin wrote her novel over a six-month period in spare moments, often while commuting on the train.3.Her book sold 40000 copies and was number five in the Japanese bestseller list. Rin said that her mother had had no idea that she had been writing a novel and was therefore very surprised when she saw a book with her daughter's name on it
4.Chapters have no more than 200 words, and often just 50-100 words. Sentences are short and there are no descriptions of anything or anybody because there isn't space. The text mostly consists of dialogue and the language is direct, conveying a lot in a few words.
In 2009, a young Japanese writer called Takatsu, who lives in Canada, began writing the first English language cell phone novel, Secondhand Memories. Takatsu had read an English translation of Rin’s story and had been impressed by its simple and emotional language. It was a feature he deliberately copied when he started writing Secondhand Memories.5.He now believes that, in English, cell phone novels have a powerful and poetic identity of their own. Cell phone novels encourage young people to engage in fiction, even those who would not normally pick up a book. They could be described as ten novels for the 21st century.
A. Books are sometimes regarded as old-fashioned and difficult to read.
B. In response 10 this trend, some smart young authors have changed the way they write.
C. However, as the story progressed, the style gradually evolved into something different.
D. She typed out chapters on her phone and uploaded them onto a popular website for cell phone authors.
E. No money is made from cell phone novels unless they are published as books.
F. The style of cell phone novels has evolved to suit the medium.
G. Although the idea originated in Japan, cell phone novels have also appeared in the rest of world.
