Many people enjoy taking trips by themselves. Unluckily, they do not always have the best_________. Instead, people should consider group tours. Taking a group tour is a wise choice for people to __________themselves.
First, group tours plan travelers’ routes, so people don’t have to_______where they are going next or how they are getting there. They can just_______and enjoy their trip._______, my family once took a group tour to China. The travel agency (旅行社)_______everything for us. We just looked at the schedule the travel agency had_______and followed it. Thanks to the travel agency, we had a _______trip. This made things _______on my father since he didn’t have to worry about where we would go next and ________at night.
Another________of group tours is that they allow people to communicate with one another while traveling. Travelers are able to develop________with people they would never have met________they are traveling together for a number of days. As I know, my parents ________Russia on a group tour for their honeymoon (蜜月). They________another couple on that trip, and everyone had a great time together. Even after many years, they still________together from time to time. If my parents had traveled by themselves, it would have been________for them to get to know this couple.
In short, there is ________better than a group tour when traveling. Group tours schedule everything on the trip, and they give us the________to meet others and make friends with them. Group tours are the ________way to travel when taking a trip.
1.A.maps B.cars C.places D.vacations
2.A.help B.enjoy C.praise D.encourage
3.A.guess B.prove C.worry about D.talk about
4.A.relax B.stop C.walk D.show
5.A.In all B.So far C.As usual D.For example
6.A.made use of B.took care of C.ran out of D.caught sight of
7.A.provided B.found C.changed D.bought
8.A.short B.strange C.pleasant D.terrible
9.A.earlier B.easier C.slower D.worse
10.A.work B.practice C.stay D.perform
11.A.rule B.question C.purpose D.advantage
12.A.skills B.programs C.friendships D.treatments
13.A.because B.unless C.while D.although
14.A.1eft B.visited C.forgot D.missed
15.A.met B.invited C.followed D.recognized
16.A.dance B.learn C.cook D.travel
17.A.certain B.important C.impossible D.unnecessary
18.A.something B.nothing C.somebody D.nobody
19.A.gift B.hope C.method D.chance
20.A.best B.last C.only D.new
You walk into the classroom, look at that white piece of paper in front of you and are told you’ve got an hour and a half to do it. That can make anyone nervous, but here is the guide to stay calm.
Get a good night’s sleep the night before the test, and eat a healthy breakfast next day. 1. If you’re too tired, you won’t remember what you learnt the night before. Get to class a little earlier. If you get there early, you’ll make sure to get your favorite seat. 2.
Breathe. Before the test, breathe in through your nose deeply and slowly. 3. Repeat this several times. If you experience a sudden panic during the test, perform the exercise again.
Skip questions if necessary. 4. If you come across a difficult question, skip the question and move on. You can come back to it at the end of the test if you have time, and later questions may help you get the answer(s) to the one(s) you skipped.
5. Don’t panic if you notice other students writing very quickly or handing in their tests early. Tell yourself it’s just a test. Really, it is. No matter what happens, everything will be OK.
A.Avoid staying up the night before the exam.
B.Act like you are the only person in the room.
C.Don’t spend too much time on any one question.
D.If you believe you can do it, you will find you can!
E.A little exercise will help you remain calm during any stressful situation.
F.Then, hold your breath for 3-4 seconds and blow out slowly through your mouth.
G.You’ll not also feel more relaxed if you don’t get there in time or worse yet, late.
What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade（升级） and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.
1.We learn from the text that eBay provides people with__
A.a way of buying and selling goods
B.a website for them to upgrade
C.a place to exhibit their own photos
D.a chance to buy things at low prices
2.Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?
A.For fun
B.To make money
C.For gathering the engineers
D.To fulfill a task of his company
3.From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_
A.did not feel lonely
B.was always hopeful
C.did not think about the past
D.became more and more successful
4.How does eBay make money from its website7?
A.By bringing callers together.
B.By charging for each sale
C.By listing items online
D.By making e-photos.
Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.
One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.
But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished(惩罚), so he drank the poison to kill himself.
1.In the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much.
A.the rich man B.the servant
C.both A and B D.neither A and B
2.The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________.
A.he wanted to kill the cat
B.he wanted to kill the servant
C.there was in fact poison in the bottles
D.did not want the servant to drink his wine
3.In fact, _______ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.
A.nobody B.the servant C.the rich man D.cat
A student is learning to speak British English. He wonders (想知道): Can I communicate with Americans? Can they understand me? Learners of English often ask: What are the differences between British and American English? How important are these differences? Certainly! there are some differences between British and American English. „There are a few differences in grammar. For example, speakers of British English say “in hospital” and “Have you a pen?” Americans say “in the hospital!” and “Do you have a pen?”. Pronunciation is sometimes different. Americans usually sound theirs in words like “bird” and “hurt”. Speakers of British English do not sound theirs in these words. There are differences between British and American English in spelling and vocabulary. For example, “colour” and “honour” are British, “color” and honor” are American. These differences in grammar, pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary are not important, however. For the most part, British and American English are the same language.
1.American English and British English are different in ___ _____.
A.spelling B.pronunciation
C.grammar D.all of the above
2.What is not mentioned (提及) in the passage?
A.Whether there are differences between British English and American English.
B.Whether British English and American English are one language or two.
C.How the differences between British English and American English came about.
D.How important the differences are.
3.Most _____ say “Do you have a watch?”
A.British people B.Americans
C.children D.teachers
4.According to this passage, British people and Americans have _______ difficulty in understanding each other.
A.little B.much C.some D.great
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Last Christmas, I wanted to give the woman 1. cleans my apartment a nice gift in 2. (appreciate). Since I know she doesn’t have much money, I decided 3. (write) her a generous check so she could use it however she wanted. I put it in an attractive card with a photo of a cat and a dog on 4. (it) cover because she loves animals.
The card came with a nice message, and I also added a personal message in which I thanked her 5. her good services, wishing her the best for the coming year and for her dreams coming true.
6. (tear) of gratitude rolled down her face when she saw my message, before she even saw the check! She said, “You took the time to write me a personal message; now I feel really 7. (love). I’m going to save this card for 8. rest of my life!”
This reminds me that what people really want is to be acknowledged and appreciated, and to know that they matter. This is what’s really important when 9. (give) a gift. In this case it 10. (obvious) was not about the money, but about making a sincere heart connection.
