Flower Show—The Great Garden Festival
This year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show promises to be the best “Great Garden Festival”. Discover beautiful garden displays, practical gardening advice, great shopping, quality food and entertainment, each with its own distinctive theme and flavour. Hands-on help is all around, with experts to quiz and top nursery plantspeople sharing their skills on the show.
TICKET PRICES
As a member, you’ll enjoy priority show tickets, discounts and as well as days out at more than 150 gardens.
Time (Thursday 10 - Sunday 13 July) | Members’ Rates (In Advance) |
10am-7:30pm | ￡23.5 |
3pm-7:30pm | ￡15 |
Time (Thursday 10 - Sunday 13 July) | Public Rates (In Advance) |
10am-7:30pm | ￡30 |
3pm-7:30pm | ￡19 |
Time (Thursday 10 - Sunday 13 July) | On the Day Rates |
10am-7:30pm | ￡34 |
3pm-7:30pm | ￡21 |
Up to 2 children 16 and under go FREE with an accompanying adult.
HOW TO FIND US
By Rail
Hampton Court station is approximately 30 minutes from London Waterloo. Save money on your entry ticket when you travel with South West Trains.
By Launches
Arrive by boat with Launches to the flower show entrance. Shuttle trip from Hampton Court station just ￡2.50. The members departing from piers (码头) in Kingston save ￡2 on adult fare — please show membership card.
BY Road
Take the District Line to Richmond underground station, then the R68 bus Hampton Court.
Parking
We recommend parking at the showground which costs￡10 per day and is available at the Stud Gate car park on the A308 Hampton Court Road, and the Hampton Court ear park opposite Hampton Court Palace. Frequent courtesy buses will rin all day between this facility and Hampton Court station.
1.We can know from Paragraph 1 that ________.
A.the Flower Show is sure to be the best festival.
B.the visitors can taste delicious food with local flavour.
C.the Flower Show provides professional consulting service.
D.the visitors can leam how to garden and well their own plants.
2.How much is the public rate (in advance) for 11am on Thursday 10 July?
A.￡34. B.￡23.5. C.￡30. D.￡15.
3.Which means of transportation provides priority for the members?
A.By rail. B.By launches. C.By road. D.By car.
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友John想要加入他所在学校的中文俱乐部，但是他的中文不好，所以他不知道自己是否应该提出申请。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1.建议他申请；
2.给出理由；
3.表达期望。
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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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Last summer, a Romanian family moves into our neighborhood and a friend introduced me to them. They were a young couple with an 8-year-old daughter. Both parents worked and the girl were going to be on her own a lot of. She truly wanted to improve poor English. Therefore, I offered to look after her but teach her English during a summer holiday. To my delighted, she got on well with my daughter. What was surprised was that they became best friend. To be honest, I am really grateful for that I made up my mind to do for the girl during that summer.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Food waste is one of the greatest1.(challenge) of our time, and fruit and vegetables are2.(especial) problematic, as about 52% of them go bad before reaching consumers. But one Malaysian company has come up3.a simple solution(解决方案)to this problem-a tiny sticker that keeps fruit from going bad for up to weeks.
You’ve probably seen stickers on fruit before, but not like the ones4.(create)by the Malaysian company. Those common stickers are used only to provide consumers with information about the growers and how the fruit was grown, but Stixfresh has5.completely different purpose. It6.(contain) something special and all-natural that slows down the ripening(成熟)process, keeping the fruit fresh and juicy for much7.(long).
Stixfresh founder Zhafri Zainudin says that he thought of the idea for the stickers after visiting a friend8.ran a fruit store. The man was worried about losing money every day because of bad fruit, but he knew that there was no way to stop nature from taking9.(it) course. The Malaysian businessman worked with many universities10.(develop) and test his sticker.
At first, Stixfresh stickers were only used to lengthen the shelf-life of mangoes, but the company later worked on other fruit, like dragon fruit, star fruit, apples and pears.
Years ago when Sam was nine, a television advertisement caught his attention. Procter & Gamble started an advertisement campaign with “the Cheer Man”, a character who visited_________around the country. If he rang your doorbell and you had a box of Cheer or something like “Cheer” written on a piece of paper, you’d_________ten dollars.
Sam was_________that the Cheer Man would come to his home. Many parents considered his idea_________, but his mother helped him prepare for that_________.
Young Sam made a sign with the Cheer logo(标志) and_________it in his bedroom. When he was_________, he told his classmates his dream. They_________him, but his mother kept_________him to dream.
Time went by and the ad was not on____________.Sam stored the sign in his closet(壁橱)-but he____________believed the Cheer Man was coming.
The next summer when Sam was ten, he____________a neighborhood birthday party. While they were playing outside, they____________what sounded like someone shouting. As the noise got____________, they saw a car with a loudspeaker-and a man was yelling, “Cheer! Cheer! Cheer is here!”
Sam watched____________. The car was several blocks away, but he knew it was going to his house. Sam ran home, grabbed(抓住)his sign and____________outside holding it over his head. And just as he’d____________, the Cheer Man stopped in front of his house and said, “You get the ten dollars.”Sam’s joy was beyond____________.
Young Sam learned a valuable____________about believing in a dream He discovered that anything is possible. That knowledge paved the way for Sam Haskell’s____________as a television executive and producer in Hollywood.
1.A.classrooms B.companies C.surroundings D.neighborhoods
2.A.raise B.spend C.receive D.save
3.A.convinced B.pleased C.doubted D.accused
4.A.informal B.impossible C.unexpected D.unusual
5.A.visit B.advertisement C.wait D.party
6.A.hung B.threw C.hid D.spread
7.A.curious B.stressful C.ready D.puzzled
8.A.believed in B.relied on C.laughed at D.responded to
9.A.inviting B.encouraging C.forcing D.requiring
10.A.newspaper B.television C.radio D.book
11.A.only B.yet C.already D.still
12.A.changed B.ruined C.celebrated D.attended
13.A.ignored B.kept C.heard D.suggested
14.A.closer B.faster C.nicer D.better
15.A.peacefully B.excitedly C.sadly D.slowly
16.A.whispered B.begged C.climbed D.rushed
17.A.dreamed B.planned C.organized D.written
18.A.combination B.pace C.description D.manner
19.A.speech B.lesson C.experience D.conclusion
20.A.birth B.business C.gift D.future
A question commonly asked during a job interview is “What are your goals for the future?” This question is a good way for employers to determine if your career(事业)goals are a good fit for the company.1.So you should be careful to answer the question. Here are some tips for you.
Avoid discussing salary. Don’t focus on goals related to earnings, raises or bonuses. You should focus on the work you hope to achieve, rather than the money you want to make.2.However, you should never volunteer your target salary unasked.
3.Even though this question is about you, you should convey that you won’t abandon the employer anytime soon. Talk about how you’ll add value to the company through the achievement of your own goals. Also, convince the interviewer that working at this company will help you achieve your goals for a win-win situation.
Explain the action you’ll take.4.You should also explain the steps you will take to achieve them. For example, if you want to take on a management role, describe the steps you will take to become a manager.
Take time to practice. Practice answering questions about your career goals out loud, so you can be more comfortable during your interview.5.
Bear these tips in mind when answering the question during your job interview. Hopefully, you will get the job you want.
A.Focus on the employer.
B.It's fine to provide a salary range if asked.
C.Talk about what you have achieved in the past years.
D.Listing goals is not going to make for a strong answer.
E.The interviewer is interested in your specific goals instead of general ones.
F.Besides, it helps hiring managers make sure that you actually have some goals.
G.You can also review various job interview questions and answers to get fully prepared.
