Castle Rock, Colorado, is in the Front Range between Denver and Colorado Springs. The town was first settled in the 1870s and named for the rock formation on its western edge. More than 5,400 acres of open space, 250 acres of parks and 57 miles of trails surround the town. Castle Rock offers many activities throughout the year.
Douglas County Fairgrounds
The Douglas County holds a rodeo every August. Many activities are held in the city during the rodeo, including 4-H exhibits, animal shows and the farm yard, a hands-on educational area providing information about animals and agriculture. Local singing and dancing acts perform on the Community Stage. Carnival rides and games ensure that children have fun.
Town Recreation
Activities Castle Rock Recreation Center features 84,000 square feet of fun, including a leisure pool complete with water slides, spa and lazy river. Rent one of the meeting rooms and host your child’s birthday party. Introduce your child to cooking basics through classes such as Little Chefs, Holiday Cooking Arts, Just Desserts and Iron Chefs. Discounts with membership cards.
Metzler Ranch Park
Metzler Ranch Park features many outdoor activities for children. Kids can join a youth baseball or softball league, ride a bike along the paved path or swing and climb on the playground equipment. Bring your child’s in-line skates and glide along one of two in-line hockey rinks or try out skills at the lighted skate park. Discounts book online.
Theatre of Dreams
Theatre of Dreams is a 72-scat theater that presents magic and illusion entertainment. Two professional magicians founded the theater. Children especially enjoy the family-oriented shows. The facility can be rented for special events such as birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. Reserve in advance.
1.Which of the following offers ice sport?
A.Town Recreation. B.Metzler Ranch Park.
C.Theatre of Dreams. D.Douglas County Fairgrounds.
2.What do Town Recreation and Theatre of Dreams have in common?
A.They have various classes for kids. B.They offer discounts for the members.
C.They provide service for special events. D.They are not open to kids unaccompanied.
3.Who would most probably be interested in Castle Rock?
A.College graduates. B.Retired citizens.
C.Newly-married couples. D.Parents with kids.
假设你是晨光中学的学生李津。你校将与英语友好校举办一场在线会议，探讨如何利用网络学习英语，请你根据以下提示写一篇发言稿。
(1) 介绍你是如何利用网络学英语的(至少2点)；
(2) 简单谈谈你对利用网络学习英语的看法；
(3) 请友好校的学生分享他们的经验。
注意：80-100词；已给出的开头和结尾不计入总词数。
词汇：网上学习：online study
Good morning, dear friends. My name is Li Jin. I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about how I learn English on the Internet.
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Thank you.
It’s been said that life turns on small things. Sometimes it’s hard to see how small choices can change your life. But when put together over time, the little things can make the biggest difference.
The theme of Success for Teens is “Little Things Matter”. The book helps teens identify small,positive choices they can make in their lives to help them reach their goals. Lots of teens don’t realize how the little choices in their lives can have lasting effects. Often they focus on the bigger events, such as a major exam, a big game or competition, or choosing a college. The little things, however, can go unnoticed unless your teen understands how important they can be.
The little things that lead to success are mostly easy to do. Help your teen identify a few areas in everyday life where he or she can make small, positive choices. It might be as simple as getting up on time, prioritizing(按重要性排列) their schoolwork, putting in an extra 10 minutes of practice or using some spare time to help someone else.
Nineteen-year-old Kyle Freas used to be on his school baseball team and would play every day after school. When the season was over, he had an empty three hours a day, so he started spending one third of such extra time daily looking for ways to help other kids. Over the past few years, his project has raised thousands of dollars to help abused, homeless and sick children. Kyle spent just a little time each day doing something that ended up benefiting a lot of kids. The important thing to understand is that Kyle made the small and positive decisions necessary for success. Make sure your child understands that even though the results of the positive choices may not be seen right away, they are building on each other and taking him or her on a path that will lead to success.
1.What does the underlined part “turns on” in the first paragraph mean?
A.takes away B.depends on
C.sets aside D.puts out
2.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that .
A.dealing with big events is the most important in one’s life
B.little choices seldom have lasting effects on one’s life
C.teens should try to focus their attention on big choices
D.many teens fail to realize the importance of little choices
3.Which of the following words can be used to describe Kyle Freas?
A.Kind-hearted. B.Creative.
C.Naughty. D.Self-confident.
4.The writer mainly discussed the relationship between .
A.little choices and big choices B.teens’ goals and their actions
C.positive and negative decisions D.small positive choices and success
5.The text is most probably written for .
A.teenagers B.parents
C.pupils D.teachers
At Blossom End Railroad Station, 22-year-old Stanley Vine sat, waiting for his new employer. The surrounding green fields were so unlike the muddy landscape of war-torn France. After four horrible years as an army private (列兵) fighting in Europe, Stanley had returned to England in February 1946. Armed now with some savings and with no prospects for a job in England, he answered a newspaper ad for farm help in Canada. Two months later he was on his way.
When the old car rumbled toward the tiny station, Stanley rose to his feet, trying to make the most of his five foot, four inch frame. The farmer, Alphonse Lapine, shook his head and complained, “You’re a skinny thing.” On the way to his dairy farm, Alphonse explained that he had a wife and seven kids. “Money’s tight. You’ll get room and board. You’ll get up at dawn for milking, and then help me around the farm until evening milking time again. Ten dollars a week. Sundays off.” Stanley nodded. He had never been on a farm before, but he took the job.
From the beginning Stanley was treated horribly by the whole family. They made fun of the way he dressed and talked. The humourless farmer frequently lost his temper, criticizing Stanley for the slightest mistake. The oldest son, 13-year-old Armand, constantly played nasty tricks on him. But the kind-hearted Stanley never responded.
Stanley never became part of the Lapine family. After work, they ignored him. He spent his nights alone in a tiny bedroom. However, each evening before retiring, he lovingly cared for the farmer’s horses, eagerly awaiting him at the field gate. He called them his gentle giants.
Early one November morning Alphonse Lapine discovered that Stanley had disappeared, after only six months as his farmhand. In fact no one in the community ever heard of him again. That is, until one evening, almost 20 years later, when Armand, opened an American sports magazine and came across a shocking headline, “Millionaire jockey, Stanley Vine, ex-British soldier and 5-time horse riding champion, began life in North America as a farmhand in Canada.”
1.Stanley Vine decided to go to Canada because ________.
A.he wanted to escape from war-torn France
B.he wanted to serve in the Canadian army
C.he couldn’t find a job in England
D.he loved working as a farmhand
2.Which of the following is True according to the passage?
A.Stanley joined the French army when he was 18 years old.
B.On the farm Stanley had to milk the cows 14 times a week.
C.The Lapine family were rich but cruel to Stanley.
D.Stanley read about the job offer in a newspaper.
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A.When Stanley first met his employer, he tried to impress him but failed.
B.Stanley had never worked on a farm, so he made a lot of mistakes.
C.Stanley’s weekly salary was not enough for him to live on.
D.Stanley left the farm by train, without telling anyone why he did so.
4.What did Stanley like doing after work each day?
A.Hitch-hiking to different towns. B.Caring for the farmer’s horses.
C.Wandering around the farm alone. D.Preparing meals on the farm.
5.Why was Armand so astonished when he read about Stanley in the magazine?
A.He didn’t know Stanley had been a British soldier.
B.He had no idea Stanley had always been a wealthy man.
C.He didn’t know his father paid Stanley so little money.
D.He didn’t expect Stanley to become such a success.
If a business wants to sell its products internationally, it had better do some market research first. This is a lesson that some large American corporations have learned in the hard way.
What’s in the name?
Sometimes the problem is the name. When General Motors introduced its Chevy Nova into Latin America, it overlooked the fact that Nova in Spanish means “It doesn’t go”. Sure enough, the Chevy Nova never went anywhere in Latin America.
Translation problems
Sometimes it is the slogan that doesn’t work. No company knows this better than Pepsi-Cola, with its “Come alive with Pepsi!” campaign. The campaign was so successful in the United States that Pepsi translated its slogan literally (按字面意思的) for its international campaign. As it turned out, the translations were not quite right. Pepsi was begging Germans to “Come out of the grave” and telling the Chinese that “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.”
A picture is worth a thousand words
Other times, the problem involves packaging. A picture of a smiling baby has helped sell countless jars of Gerber baby food. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in African countries, the picture on the jar shows what the jar has in it, for many people there can’t read.
Twist of fate
Even culture and religious factors and pure coincidence can be involved. Thorn McAn shoes have a Thorn McAn “signature” inside. To people in Bangladesh, which is a Muslim country, this signature looked like Arabic script for the word Allah. In that country, feet are considered unclean, and Muslims felt the company was offending God’s name by having people walk on it.
1.From the text we learn that ________.
A.Chevy Nova was brought in Latin America
B.General Motors did the best market research of all companies
C.Pepsi still sold well in China owing to the translation problems
D.the “Come alive with Pepsi” campaign worked well in the US
2.What was Gerber’s problem?
A.A translation problem. B.Cultural factor.
C.Religious factor. D.The picture on the jar.
3.For what reason were Thorn McAn shoes turned down in Bangladesh?
A.They are not designed attractively.
B.Their advertisements are not persuasive.
C.A signature looking like the word Allah was in the shoes.
D.Problem for Thorn McAn was the company’s name.
4.The intended readers of the passage are ________.
A.product advertisers B.market researchers
C.managers of Sales Department D.businesses to promote products abroad
5.What does the text mainly tell us?
A.Lessons from some large corporations. B.How to make use of advertisements.
C.The importance of market research. D.The importance of packaging
Nick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with. I was hoping to have some ________ the summer before my busy senior year, but my mother asked me to do her a ________. One of her colleagues needed a full-time ________. “You planned to volunteer at the local hospital, why not volunteer to ________ Nick instead?” Then she told me that this six-year-old boy was not a ________ child.
Nick was a lovely little boy who suffered from many disorders. Normal day-care centers would not ________ him. As a baby, he had serious ear infections which left him with equilibrium（平衡）problems.
He couldn’t ________ or run properly. I was ________ if I was to take the job when my mother ________, “Don’t you want to be a nurse in the future? I doubt if you even have the ________.”
Then I told her I was ________ for the job.
The day started at 7:00 a.m. Nick was my wake-up call! With so much energy and very little ________, he was quite a mix.
At the park, when he saw all the other children play on the jungle gym and swings, the boy’s face ________up—How he wished he belonged to the group of his age! You would think it would be ________ to get a child to go down a slide. Believe me, it wasn’t! It took time, a lot of time. But with patience and support, Nick took one step up the slide each day. We worked together to face his ________ and gradually he got closer to taking the slide of his life.
Halfway through the summer, he ________ it to the top of the slide. With my arms holding him tightly, we flew down the slide! I waited for his ________. After realizing that he was safe and sound, he gave me a big ________ and asked, “May I go down again, alone?”
I had never been happier in my life when I saw this little child climb the ladder and enjoy what other children ________ for granted.
This ________ child taught me that being a nurse means respect, kindness and patience.
1.A.grade B.course C.project D.relaxation
2.A.service B.favour C.business D.trade
3.A.nurse B.waitress C.guard D.guide
4.A.protect B.assist C.attend D.comfort
5.A.normal B.naughty C.clever D.happy
6.A.admit B.receive C.accept D.adopt
7.A.speak B.play C.stand D.walk
8.A.hesitating B.wondering C.questioning D.asking
9.A.suggested B.argued C.challenged D.commented
10.A.energy B.courage C.faith D.time
11.A.eager B.sorry C.grateful D.ready
12.A.awareness B.balance C.knowledge D.appeal
13.A.delighted B.turned C.lighted D.shuts
14.A.demanding B.simple C.interesting D.flexible
15.A.fears B.worries C.chances D.happiness
16.A.climbed B.got C.managed D.made
17.A.laughter B.reaction C.answer D.greeting
18.A.kiss B.clap C.welcome D.surprise
19.A.play B.do C.take D.enjoy
20.A.miserable B.smart C.lucky D.special
