So you're going to the royal wedding！Let's review a checklist of everything you'll need to know.
What to wear at the ceremony
Did you get your fascinator yet？That's a trick question because you probably don't even know what a fascinator is. Royal dress code etiquette（礼仪）states that women must wear hats for formal events，and fascinators are the preferred accessory（配饰）.These funny hats boast a large decorative design. If you haven't packed one，no worries. Simply glue a cabbage to the side of your head. No one will be the wiser，and you can always snack on your fascinator should the wedding ceremony drag on. Gentlemen are expected to wear morning coats and top hats. Royals will likely wear their military uniforms.
Meeting the royals
Men, when greeting the royals, a simple bow will do. Not so low that it looks as if you're examining the carpet for any medals they might have dropped. This is a slight neck bow. Women perform a curtsy. Simply put one leg behind the other, bend your knees, bow your head slightly -and fall over because you've never done this before.
Chatting up the queen
The first rule of talking to the queen: Don't talk. That is, unless spoken to. If she does start a conversation and you find you've run out of interesting stuff to discuss after "Hello," break the ice with a joke "Hey, why did the queen go to the dentist? To get her teeth crowned!"
Dining
Every meal begins and ends with the queen. You can't start eating until she starts，and you stop when she stops. The queen doesn't appear to be a large eater，so you should wolf down your food in case she push the plate away after a few bites，When dining，the royals hold knives in their right hand and forks in their left with the tines facing down. Should they spill（洒落）even a pea，they drop one spot in the royal line of succession.
1.What do women prefer for the royal wedding？
A.Morning coats. B.Military uniforms.
C.Hats with fascinators. D.Cabbages.
2.What behaviour is proper at the ceremony?
A.Performing a deep bow or curtsy.
B.Finishing the meal with the queen.
C.Chatting with the queen freely.
D.Dropping a pea while eating.
3.What is the main writing characteristic of the text?
A.Humorous. B.Serious.
C.Plain. D.Official
Translation
1.自上月以来， 校方收紧了对学生课堂考勤的监管。 (tighten)
2.从树后突然冒出来个行人， 吓得司机赶紧急刹车。 (emerge, frighten)
3.我警告他拔牙很可能会很疼但是也别无选择。(warn, likely)
4.1865年，贵族出生的罗伯特·李将军被任命为南方军总司令。 (origin, appoint)
5.中国大陆的投资环境比越南要好很多，这一切都归因于我们的依法治国。 (superior, owe)
Directions: Read the following passage and fill in the blanks to compete the summary. No more than seven words for each blank.
Sports can help you keep fit and get in touch with nature. However, whether you are on the mountains, in the waves, or on the grassland, you should be aware that your sport of choice might have great influence on the environment.
Some sports are resource-hungry. Golf, as you may know, eats up not only large areas of countryside, but also tons of water. Besides, all sorts of chemicals and huge amounts of energy are used to keep its courses in good condition. This causes major environmental effects. For example, in the dry regions of Portugal and Spain, golf is often held responsible for serious water shortage in some local areas.
There are many environment-friendly sports. Power walking is one of them that you could take up today. You don’t need any special equipment except a good pair of shoes; and you don’t have to worry about resources and your purse. Simple and free, power walking can also keep you fit. If you walk regularly, it will be good for your heart and bones. Experts say that 20 minutes of power walking daily can make you feel less anxious, sleep well and have better weight control.
Whatever sport you take up, you can make it greener by using environment-friendly equipment and buying products made from recycled materials. But the final goal should be “green gyms”. They are better replacements for traditional health clubs and modern sports centers. Members of green gyms play sports outdoors, in the countryside or other open spaces. There is no special requirement for you to start your membership. And best of all, it’s free.
The sport you choose may 1..Some sports are 2., like golf, which not only 3., but 4. as well, doing damage to environment; while others 5., like the power walking, which is 6.. Thus 7. you choose to do, use 8..
Directions: After reading the passage below. fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank
A few months 1. (early) Aunt Pat had bought a badly used piano for a few dollars and put it in the parlor, on the theory 2. every civilized house 3. have a piano in the parlor, though 4. she, Uncle Allen, nor Uncle Charlie played. I was standing on the sidewalk in the darkness 5. I heard piano music inside. Curious, because I’d never heard the piano played before, I went inside. Aunt Pat, Uncle Allen, Uncle Charlie, and Doris were sitting in the parlor, and my mother was at the piano wearing her dark suit and a small dark hat with a little veil that fell over her eyes, and she was playing “rock of Ages”.
I 6. (not know) she could play the piano. She wasn’t playing very well, I guess, because she stopped occasionally and had to start over again. She concentrated intensely on the music, and the others in the room sat absolutely silently. My mother was facing me but didn’t seem to see me. She seemed to be staring 7. me toward something 8. wasn’t there. All the happy excitement died in me at that moment. Looking at my mother, so 9. (isolate) from us all, I saw her for the first time as a person utterly alone.
Suddenly I realized I had been happy there. It had been six years 10. my mother had brought us to Uncle Allen and Aunt Pat to live for a few months until she could set up a home of our own. Now her youth had passed without a single triumph. She was in her fortieth year.
Gender Stereotypes Are Messing with Your Kid
Gender stereotypes are messing with your kid. It’s not just one movie. It’s not just one TV show. It’s constant exposure to the same dated concepts in the media over and over, starting before preschool and lasting a lifetime --- concepts like: Boys are smarter than girls: certain jobs are best for men and others for women; and even that girls are responsible for their own sexual assaults.
According to a recent report, which analyzed more than 150 articles, interviews, books, and other social-scientific research, gender stereotypes in moves and on TV shows are more than persistient.1. what make these messages stick --- and harder for parents to counteract – is that they’re timed for the precise moment in kids’ development when they’re most receptive to their influence.
Think of preschoolers who are just beginning to identify as boys or girls. The characters they see on TV often have an obvious masculine or feminine appearance, such as a superhero’s big muscles or a princess’ long hair. These characters also are often associated with specific traits---for example, being strong and brave or fearful and meek. 2. That “Strong and brave” superhero becomes aggressive and hostile. That “fearful and meek” princess becomes submissive and weak.
For young audiences who absorb ideas from the media on how to behave and what to become, these characterizations can lead to false assumptions and harmful conclusions. These oversimplified characterizations play out in many ways over and over. According to the report, a lifetime of viewing stereotypical media becomes so ingrained that it can ultimately affect kids’ career choices, self-worth, relationships, and ability to achieve their full potential.
And lots of parent are concerned about these issues, too. We polled nearly 1,000 parents across the country and found that they believe the media has a significant influence on their kids, from how girls should look and behave to how seeing violence can affect boys’ beliefs about themselves. 3.Because, let’s face it: exaggerating the differences entertained. It’s not what we really want our kids to emulate.
While there are movies and TV shows that defy gender stereotypes---and Hollywood is making some progress on this front --- you’re not going to be able to prevent your kids from seeing everything that sends the wrong message. And your kids probably like a lot of media that reinforces stereotypes. 4.When you actively role-model gender equality, speak out against stereotypes, and challenge outdated ideas, kids will hear that loud and clear.
A.Luckily, parents can assert control over the messages that Hollywood dishes out.
B.You have a lot of control over your kids’ media --- mostly when they’re little, but even as they grow.
C.Fortunately, the most powerful messages kids absorb are from you.
D.Ideally, self-segregate based on gender --- boys want to play with boys, and girls want to play with girls.
E.They’re incredibly effective at teaching kids what the culture expects of boys and girls.
F.Fast-forward to the tween and teen years, when characters begin to wrestle with relationships, life, and job prospects.
The most thoroughly studied intellectuals in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial American was “so much important attached to intellectual pursuits.” According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.
To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological（神学的）innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church --- important subjects that we may not neglect. But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture, adjusting to New would circumstances. The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity.
The early settlers of Massachusetts Bay included men of impressive education and influence in England. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston. These men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New English an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.
We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less will educated. While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope --- all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in Puritan churches.
Meanwhile, any settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New World for religion. “Our main end was to catch fish.”
1.The author notes that in the seventeenth-century New England______.
A.Puritan tradition dominated political life.
B.intellectual interests were encouraged.
C.Politics benefited much from intellectual endeavors.
D.intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment.
2.Which of the following meaning is closest to that of the underlined word in para.2?
A.a virtue B.an intelligent mind
C.a taste for fine arts D.a nice character
3.It is suggested in paragraph 2 that New Englanders __________.
A.experienced a comparatively peaceful early history.
B.brought with them the culture of the Old World
C.paid little attention to southern intellectual life
D.were obsessed with religious innovations
4.The early ministers and political leaders in Massachusetts Bay______.
A.were famous in the New World for their writings
B.gained increasing importance in religious affairs
C.abandoned high positions before coming to the New World
D.created a new intellectual atmosphere in New England
5.The story of John shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often_________.
A.influenced by superstitions
B.troubled with religious beliefs
C.puzzled by church sermons
D.frustrated with family earnings
