The Weirdest Restaurants In The World
Regardless of the occasion, we all have our favorite restaurant to dine at, the fifth-generation Italian pizzeria in the corner, or the traditional diner that looks so run down yet serves delicious food. But just how weird can restaurants get? You’ll be amazed, so keep reading.
Ithaa, Maldives.
One of the most beautiful restaurants in the world, Ithaa is located fully under the sea and offers spectacular views to anyone brave enough to book a table. You can dine with fish all around you and enjoy a 180-degree panoramic (全景的) view. The menu is, as you might have guessed, seafood based.
O. Noir, Canada.
O. Noir in Canada is the first restaurant to introduce the concept of dining in the dark. The idea is that when our sense of sight is lost, others are heightened, so eating in the dark can only mean we’re more focused on the taste, smells and flavors than Instagram filters.
Duke’s Last Resort, US.
Duke's Last Resort is not a restaurant for sensitive people. Staff here get paid to be rude to the customers. Duke's Last Resort is famous for bad words, mocking customers and basically telling them they're cheap when they only order tap water.
The Shed, Dulwich.
One of the weirdest restaurants in the world is this one which doesn’t exist. How come? A journalist by the name of Oobah Butler decided to pull a gastronomic prank (美食恶作剧) and ended up having his fake restaurant ranked number one in London on TripAdvisor. A fried egg on a heel, a sponge covered in paint and some round-shaped power bleach powder are use some of the dishes that built The Shed’s high reputation.
1.Which restaurant can you go to if you want your experience to be all about the food?
A.Ithaa, Maldives.
B.O. Noir, Canada.
C.Duke’s Last Resort, US.
D.The Shed, Dulwich.
2.What is special about “The Shed”?
A.It is not a real restaurant.
B.It serves food in unique ways.
C.It serves really delicious food.
D.It is famous for its modern style.
3.Where is the text most likely from?
A.A menu.
B.A diary.
C.A novel.
D.A magazine.
假定你是某校高三学生李华，在最近几次英语考试中，书面表达部分得分较低。请给你的英国笔友Jim写封邮件，寻求他的帮助。
要点如下:
1. 自己的困难和困惑；
2. 希望得到帮助。
注意: 1. 字数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jim,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
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（Λ），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。
I like varieties of sports but basketball is my favorite. Taught how to play basketball from my father, I became very interesting in it. I had never stopped playing it ever since then. Basketball can bring me much pleasure and keep me excited, provide me with different kind of other benefits. For instance, as a team sport, basketball can train me how to cooperate with others. I often play basketball with your teammates every weekend improve my skills and prepare for basketball competitions. General speaking, basketball is such a fun that I hope all of us can enjoy the pleasure of playing basketball.
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。
Filled with more than 400 characters and over 1000 pages long, “The Story of the Stone", also known1. "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the2.（great）classical novels in Chinese literature. The story3.（detail）the rise and fall of the noble Jia family during the Ming Dynasty. The middle part of the book is all about a tragic（悲剧的）love triangle between4.main male character Jia Baoyu and his two cousins, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. The plot is so complex that it even has5.（it）own academic field, which is called Redology. The book itself6.（write）back in the 18th century and almost three hundred years later, it is still much loved by Chinese7.（reader）. The Dream of the Red Camber was so popular in China that in the 1980s, 8.（base）on the book, a multi-episode TV series was made and Daguanyuan or Grand View Garden, a major setting in the story, was built in Beijing for this purpose.
The garden is located nor far from the Forbidden City, on Beijing's9.（two）ring road. In the novel, this is10.Jia Baoyu and his female cousins lived. Ma Juntong is the director for this place, which is also the Beijing Redology Culture Museum.
Expect the unexpected
“Nothing is ever easy!” A couple of days ago, my grandfather was_________his favorite expression. The following day, as I completed my work, I_________a bee on the skylight（天窗）Though the skylight was particularly high, I thought_________the bee would take only five minutes. An hour later, the bee still remained. What had changed was that the room was messy and that I was_________from looking up into the sunlight. I didn't expect to waste an hour on an insect so_________. but by doing so, I understood what my grandfather meant.
It is not only time we tend to underestimate—we don't_________unexpected costs. We often imagine what work in our_________, but seldom consider negative things that could_________us. However, it is important to remember that things might not go as_________, which is normal. It is__________acceptable to feel challenged—even a simple task, because that is part of life.
If you accept that, life might seem more__________. In middle school, I thought high school might be easier because I could choose the__________I wanted to take. In high school, I thought__________might be easier because I would have a__________suited for myself. Yet each time, I was wrong and__________. After accepting school wouldn't be easy, I found myself with a more__________attitude.
Certainly, there should be preparations to take__________and time into consideration. It can help you__________your goals in a better way. However, there is no__________to blame ourselves when something stands in our path. Maybe we cannot see a bee coming our way, but we can give ourselves the__________time to catch it.
1.A.studying B.proving C.explaining D.teaching
2.A.felt B.saved C.spotted D.searched
3.A.moving B.removing C.keeping D.protecting
4.A.dizzy B.sick C.afraid D.pleased
5.A.lovely B.tiny C.busy D.dangerous
6.A.account for B.give up C.cut down D.improve on
7.A.life B.turn C.mind D.favor
8.A.affect B.inspire C.entertain D.cheat
9.A.known B.planned C.confirmed D.mentioned
10.A.rarely B.occasionally C.perfectly D.slightly
11.A.reasonable B.manageable C.unbearable D.changeable
12.A.measures B.books C.notes D.classes
13.A.college B.work C.life D.marriage
14.A.career B.dream C.experience D.schedule
15.A.delighted B.amazed C.disappointed D.frightened
16.A.objective B.conservative C.selfish D.positive
17.A.costs B.value C.worth D.prices
18.A.share B.set C.evaluate D.accomplish
19.A.possibility B.importance C.need D.way
20.A.limited B.extra C.equal D.precious
When you think of the Arctic, you imagine an icy land of pure white snow. Others imagine it as the last really clean place left on Earth. We have polluted the deepest oceans with plastic trash, 1.
German scientists have recently found microplastics in Arctic snow. 2.Sadly, the scientists found 1,800 pieces of microplastic per liter of snow.
How is plastic pollution reaching the Arctic? According to scientists. "It's apparent that the majority of the microplastics in the snow comes from the air." They fall off plastic objects and are moved by the wind, just like dust. 3.Finding these plastics in Arctic snow means that we may breathe them in. An even higher amount of microplastic was found in the snow around cities.
The high concentrations found in snow samples suggest microplastics, which contain rubber or chemicals used in synthetic fabrics（混合纤维）, may cause significant air pollution.
4.Scientists cannot answer this question for now, according to the world Health Organization. We do know that our bodies cannot take in "large" pieces of microplastics. However, if the plastics are small enough, they can find ways into our bodies and stay there for a long time. What's more, earlier studies have shown that microplastics may contribute to lung cancer risk, heightening the need to further assess the risks of taking them in, the study said.
Microplastics have also been found in rivers and oceans around the world. Previous research has found that they flow over long distances and into our oceans, damaging ecosystems along the way.5.The waste water then flows into rivers and out to sea, where they are eaten by sea animals. If people then eat these animals, it means that we're eating the plastic as well.
A.Are they bad for us?
B.and now it's the Arctic's turn.
C.so we should take action to protect the world.
D.They mix with ice in the air and fall to the ground as snow.
E.Microplastics are pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters.
F.They start in our water when we wash clothes with plastic fibers.
G.Is plastic pollution doing great damage to our global economy?
