Airport Express
With the Airport Express, you are never far from town. There is a train every 10 minutes, ready to rush you between the airport and Hong Kong Station in the heart of the shopping and commercial district in about 24 minutes. Or travel to the Asia WorldExpo in just 1 minute from the airport.
Airport Express service hours
Mon.—Fri.: 5:50 a.m. to 1:15 a.m.
Sat.—Sun.: 5 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Tickets
There are three types of tickets for travelling to and from the airport: Single Journey Ticket, Round Trip Ticket and Same Day Return Ticket. Single Journey Ticket and Same Day Return Ticket are valid (有效的) on the day of issue. Round Trip Ticket is valid for 30 days from the day of issue. You can also use the Octopus Card for the Airport Express. (The Octopus Card is an electronic storedvalue ticket and it can be used on most public transport. The fare will be deducted from the storedvalue card each time, so you do not have to carry heavy coins. The card is valid for three years after value has been added.)
Travel tips
●Children under 3 travel for free.
●Passengers travelling on the Airport Express are now able to write emails and do online searches with WiFi service.
●For more information about the Airport Express, please visit www.hongkongairport.com or call 0085221818888.
1.What is good about the Octopus Card?
A.It saves money for its users. B.It is sold in every store.
C.Its validity is unlimited. D.It avoids its users carrying coins.
2.What can we know about the Airport Express?
A.Hong Kong Station is just 1 minute distance from the airport.
B.Single Journey Ticket is acceptable for 30 days.
C.Children are free of charge for tickets.
D.Passengers can surf the Internet in the Airport Express.
3.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To provide suggestions about the Airport Express.
B.To promote the Octopus Card.
C.To inform readers of the Airport Express.
D.To introduce the Airport Express schedule.
You’ve probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, vocal music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists (精神病医师) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.
But there’s a rapidly growing kind of professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a “life coach”. People who are at crossroads in their lives and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost are turning to them for help.
The idea that one person’s success story can change other people’s lives for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegie’s famous self-improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.
But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, sports, military service, or psychotherapy (心理疗法) to help others make critical life decisions.
They often give their approach a slogan, such as “energy coaching” or “fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.
Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one’s career and life outside work.
Lakhani’s Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful — including battered women and struggling single mothers.
But others in the so-called “helping professions” are not thrilled about the life-coaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick (华而不实的) promoters who mess with people’s lives can do more harm than good.
1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Working Yourself Happy
B.Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions
C.How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches
D.The Life-Coaching Movement
2.The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means “ ”.
A.the career counselor who teaches skills
B.the psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily life
C.the fitness coach who teaches us lessons
D.the specialist who helps us make important life decisions
3.The last paragraph is mainly about .
A.the introductions of life coach
B.the disagreements of life coach
C.the effects of life coach
D.the experiences of life coach
4.What is the author’s attitude towards life coaches?
A.Cautious. B.Approving.
C.Casual. D.Disapproving.
____________to medicine, Zhong Nanshan is respected by all.
A.Be devoted B.To devote C.Devoting D.Devoted
She turned up, _________ in pink.
A.dressed B.dressing C.to be dressed D.to dress
Do you have enough _______ all your daily expenses?
A.cover B.to cover C.covered D.covering
The problem ____________yesterday at the meeting was about pollution.
A.to discuss B.to be discussed C.discussed D.being discussed
