From cheap family rooms to child discounts and personalised kids menus, London's best family hotels have many ways to make it a memorable stay. Browse (浏览) our favourite budget hotels for families in London at hotels.london.com and get ready for your family stay.
Luna&Simone Hotel
Ideally situated a short stroll from Victoria coach, it offers a welcoming bed and breakfast accommodation with a child-friendly focus. This charming family-run hotel offers affordable family rooms just minutes away from Buckingham Palace, St James's Park and the musicals at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.
Nightly rate: £136. 50 per room
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7834 5897
Travelodge London Docklands
It has everything you need for a good night's sleep, offering great value rooms close to the river Thames, with fast rail connections to the city centre. To accommodate families, there are family rooms, which come equipped with a sofa bed and can sleep up to two adults and two children under 16.
Nightly rate: £29.00 per room
Telephone: 0871 9846192
Generator Hostel London
Generator is part of Europe's fastest growing hostel brand and offers stylish accommodation. The single, twin and family rooms as well as larger dorms (female-only) cater to a range of travellers. A late checkout at 5 p. m. is possible at weekends, so you can make the best of your time in London.
Nightly rate: £33 per room
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7388 7666
Holiday Inn London Kensington Forum
Book a family-friendly room and enjoy a cheap but comfortable stay in one of London's most fascinating areas, within walking distance of Harrods, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Albert Hall. Children under 18 stay free in a family room, and under-12s also eat for free from a healthy and affordable kids menu.
Nightly rate: £119.00 per room
Telephone: 0870 4009100
1.Which number had you better call if your family visit Buckingham Palace?
A.+44 (0)20 7834 5897. B.0871 9846192.
C.+44 (0)20 7388 7666. D.0870 4009100.
2.What is the unique advantage of Generator Hostel London?
A.The cheap family rooms. B.The easy access to the city centre.
C.The late checkout at weekends. D.The safety measures for female visitors.
3.Where is the text probably from?
A.A hotel poster. B.A travel website.
C.A travel journal. D.A science magazine.
假如你是李华。某英文报社正在举行主题未“周日关闭智能手机”的活动，你很感兴趣。请你用英文给此报社发一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 表明愿意参加活动，并给出原因；
2. 关闭手机后，你准备在本周日安排哪些活动；
3. 表示会向同学们介绍此项活动。
注意：
1. 词数100--120；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am pleased to learn about your appeal to spend a Sunday without using smartphones.
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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（^），并在其下面写出改加的词。
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。
Patience is of great important in our daily life. Once I waited a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes past, but no bus came. Both upset and annoyed, I decided to walk on feet. But no sooner had I left than the bus had arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minute, I would have caught it. If I chose to take a next bus, I would have to wait for other 30 minutes. Only then did I realize my problem. Be impatient will probably waste all the effort what we have put in. Now whenever I am about to losing my patience, I will think of this experience.
A Game of Light and Shade
It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to _______ him.
I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was _______ to see the attendant (工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and _______ the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs _________ to the hallway.
“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some _______, but he didn’t answer.
“Not the _______ certainly,” I said. “Perhaps he wants to _______.”
I bought a ticket and _______ up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I _______. A third of the way up the tower, I heard his ________. I slowed down and followed him at a little ________. He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps ________. As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.
At last, after ten minutes, I ________ him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know ________ you came up.”
He smiled. “Coming up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun ________ into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the ________ —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is ________, but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no ________ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”
The blind man seemed quite ________ just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life ________ they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.
1.A.accept B.follow C.control D.visit
2.A.frightened B.disappointed C.surprised D.embarrassed
3.A.touching B.climbing C.hitting D.covering
4.A.pointing B.attaching C.contributing D.leading
5.A.respect B.doubt C.concern D.sympathy
6.A.view B.test C.prize D.trick
7.A.kick B.jump C.relax D.escape
8.A.struggled B.explored C.wandered D.hurried
9.A.promised B.examined C.imagined D.confirmed
10.A.steps B.words C.secrets D.cheers
11.A.standard B.distance C.expense D.intention
12.A.ahead B.around C.outside D.behind
13.A.recognized B.surrounded C.approached D.witnessed
14.A.why B.how C.when D.whether
15.A.knocks B.pours C.slides D.bursts
16.A.trend B.reaction C.change D.honor
17.A.light B.space C.mess D.shade
18.A.place B.signal C.object D.period
19.A.nervous B.content C.curious D.patient
20.A.unless B.because C.once D.although
If something that you’re doing doesn’t challenge you, then it doesn’t change you. We all need some normal stress in our lives, after all.1. So challenge the following limits:
1. Figure out what you’re scared of and do it continuously.
If you’re a salesman, and you’re scared of talking to people personally or over the phone now, instead of being scared and thinking you’ll fail, spend at least five minutes a day to pick up the phone and make a call.2. But don’t stop on the first try! Eventually, you can look at fear in the eye and say, “Go on. I’m not scared!”
2. Take a class for a hobby you’ve been wanting to develop
Make sure this hobby is not linked to your career; you have to relax and relieve your stress while performing this.3.Apart from helping you challenge yourself, taking a class for your hobby may also give you extra income.
3. Set aside at least nine minutes a day for physical exercise.
4.A simple 9-minute run around your neighborhood can do wonders for yourself. Exercise can not only help you maintain your regular weight, but also make you feel better about yourself.
4. Travel and allow yourself to be interested in new people.
Don’t just limit yourself to your fellow travelers—try to connect with the service staff. You never know what kind of people they’re going to be. Get out of your house or go online right now to book your class.5.
A.You should do it continuously.
B.Someone may hang up on you.
C.You don’t need to go to the gym.
D.Running in the gym may be a better choice.
E.Start to travel now and learn to challenge yourself.
F.Some examples might be cooking, sewing, painting and so on.
G.You can never see any improvement if you stick to your comfort zone.
Last week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared war on paper textbooks. “Over the next few years,” he said in a speech at the National Press Club, “textbooks should be abandoned.” In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multi-media websites.
Such technologies certainly have their place. But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology—good old paper—that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet. And while e-readers and multi-media websites may seem appealing, the idea of replacing an effective learning platform with a widely hyped (炒作) but still unproven one is extremely dangerous.
An expert on reading, Maryanne Wolf, has recently begun studying the effects of digital reading on learning, and so far the results are mixed. She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for students that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a Web-linked, e-learning environment and while it's true that the high-tech industry has sponsored substantial amounts of research on the potential benefits of Web-based learning, not enough time has passed for longitudinal(纵向的) studies to demonstrate the full effects.
In addition, digital-reading advocates claim that lightweight e-books benefit students' backs and save schools money. But the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem, and the shocking costs to outfit every student with an e-reader, provide technical support and pay for regular software updates promise to make the e-textbook a very pricey choice.
As both a teacher who uses paper textbooks and a student of urban history, I can't help but wonder what parallels exist between my own field and this sudden, wholesale abandonment of the technology of paper.
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Multi-media websites and good old paper are kinds of digital-learning technologies.
B.Digital learning technologies will replace the paper textbooks sooner or later.
C.E-readers and multi-media websites are learning methods that are proved effective.
D.A tried-and-true technology is paper textbooks, long used in educational system.
2.What is the drawback of paper textbooks according to the passage?
A.Their weight. B.Their price.
C.Their content. D.Their appearance.
3.What worries Maryanne Wolf is that ________.
A.paper learning can provide more potential benefits
B.students may not focus on learning by digital reading
C.digital reading can't provide potential benefits for users
D.the results of digital reading effects are understandable
4.What is the author's attitude towards digital-learning?
A.Disapproving. B.Supportive.
C.Positive. D.Objective.
