Monthly Talks at London Canal Museum
Our monthly talks start at 19:30 on the first Thursday of each month except August. Admission is at normal charges and you don’t need to book. They end around 21:00.
November 7th
The Canal Pioneers, by Chris Lewis. James Brindley is recognized as one of the leading early canal engineers. He was also a major player in training others in the art of canal planning and building. Chris Lewis will explain how Brindley made such a positive contribution to the education of that group of early “civil engineers”.
December 5th
Ice for the Metropolis, by Malcolm Tucker. Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for food preservation and catering, Malcolm will explain the history of importing natural ice and the technology of building ice wells, and how London’s ice trade grew.
February 6th
An Update on the Cotsword Canals, by Liz Payne. The Stroudwater Canal is moving towards reopening. The Thames and Severn Canal will take a little longer. We will have a report on the present state of play.
March 6th
Eyots and Aits-Thames Islands, by Miranda Vickers. The Thames had many islands. Miranda has undertaken a review of all of them. She will tell us about those of greatest interest.
Online bookings:www.canalmuseum.org.uk/book
More into:www.canalmuseum.org.uk/whatson
London Canal Museum
12-13 New Wharf Road, London NI 9RT
www.canalmuseum.org.uk www.canalmuseum.mobi
Tel:020 77130836
1.When is the talk on James Brindley?
A.February 6th. B.December 5th.
C.November 7th. D.March 6th.
2.What is the topic of the talk in February?
A.The Canal Pioneers. B.An Update on the Cotsword Canals
C.Eyots and Aits-Thames Islands D.Ice for the Metropolis
3.Who will give the talk on the islands in the Thames.
A.Miranda Vickers B.Malcolm Tucker
C.Chris Lewis D.Liz Payne
你校英语俱乐部将举办主题为“My Hero”的讨论活动。请你用英语写一篇发言稿,介绍你心中的英雄。要点包括：
1.他/她的职业；2.他/她可称为英雄的理由；3.你对英雄的理解。
注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 开头已为你写好。
Good afternoon, everyone._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you!
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（∧），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。
Last month I paid a visit the moon with my friend. Before we left, I was told the force of gravity would change three time on our journey. Then we took up. As we left the earth, I became very heavily. Gradually the weight lessen. When I was in space, it was disappeared. We floated weightlessly around in the cabin and I cheered up. When I was on the moon, I was surprising to find even walking needed a bit of practice now that gravity changed. The returning of the earth was very frightened. We were amazed to watch fire broke out on the outside of the ship.
Yesterday I took my boys through the drive thru at McDonald’s. It was a hot day and they wanted a nice cool ______. So I said yes.
As I ordered I remembered a_________I made to myself a year ago..
The promise is that every time I drive through the drive thru, I pay for the car________ me. I made this promise ________ I go through the drive thru about 4 times a year. So it’s an easy one to keep and up until yesterday, I have _______that promise.
As I drove around to pay the cashier the $ 6 for our ________I really did not want to pay for the car_____
behind me.
In my head I begun to_______ myself out of it.
“It’s OK Nicole; you don’t have to”.
“This isn’t a(n) ________time. You haven’t much money this week”.
“And what if it’s a $ 40 order or________!”
That’s when the other ________stepped into my head. It’s never my own. It’s the wise voice, saying, “It’s ___the
time that you do it! It’s _______and good when you’re happy and rich. But love and kindness doesn’t ________that way. It’s conditional and only given when it_______ you!”
So I _______ it. 1 asked the cashier to ________the car order behind me to my card. Thankfully it was only $2.95. Can you believe it?
_____, that isn’t the point. The point is that I did it. By doing it I _______someone’s day, and _______them that there’s love and kindness in this world.
1.A. partner B. treat C. spot D. card
2.A. bargain B. choice C. promise D. mistake
3.A. behind B. without C. except D. before
4.A. if B. unless C. though D. because
5.A. stood up B. carried out C. broke into D. made up
6.A. car B. form C. name D. order
7.A. pulling up B. breaking down C. setting off D. speeding up
8.A. fool B. cheat C. talk D. evaluate
9.A. enough B. good C. current D. bad
10.A. more B. none C. less D. fewer
11.A. noise B. excuse C. voice D. question
12.A. exactly B. frequently C. legally D. approximately
13.A. strange B. impossible C. hard D. easy
14.A. play B. begin C. work D. end
15.A. hurts B. suits C. moves D. finds
16.A. hated B. forgot C. educated D. did
17.A. supply B. attract C. add D. lend
18.A. Gently B. Anyway C. Usually D. So
19.A. brighten B. widen C. appreciate D. waste
20.A. agree B. remember C. warn D. remind
Imagine that you are in a remote village somewhere with no medical clinic. 1.Once the doctors get to you, they examine you and take blood samples, but they won't be able to help you until they take the samples back to the hospital to find out what is wrong.2. Thanks to engineer Andy Ozcan, many people may never be in this situation. He has invented an app that turns your mobile phone into a diagnostic(诊断的)tool.
Ozcan's invention is important because it is very accurate and easy to use. In many remote places, even if doctors have microscopes and other instruments to help them make diagnoses, there may still be other problems. Many doctors, for example, don’t have enough training to correctly interpret what they see.3.With Ozcan's mobile phone app, health workers can take a special photo of a blood sample and send it to a central computer at a hospital. The computer will then automatically interpret the photo and send a diagnosis back in a few minutes.
4.His technology only requires a mobile phone and an Internet connection. As more than four billion people already have cell phones, the cost of establishing the diagnostic system is fairly low.
By inventing a medical tool that uses existing technology---mobile phones---Ozcan has developed a medical tool that is both practical and economical. Therefore, it can be effectively almost anywhere.5.
A.Another reason that Ozcan's invention is important is that it is inexpensive.
B.Even though you may only have a simple infection (感染), you might die because of the delay.
C.People are trying to reduce the cost of this new medical tool.
D.Ozcan's simple, cost-effective tool might just save millions of lives around the world.
E.This tool has become much more popular all around the world.
F.You become very sick and must wait days until a mobile medical unit arrives to help.
G.As a result, they may diagnose illnesses incorrectly.
Astronomy is the oldest science known to man.Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about the heavens.But man was limited by what he could see with his eyes alone.
The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago.They could see the size，color，and brightness of stars.They could see their places in the sky.They watched the stars move as the seasons changed.But the Greeks had no tools to help them study the starry heavens.
Each new tool added to the files of astronomy；it helped man reach out into space.Until there were telescopes(望远镜)，man knew little about the moon.They did not know that the planet called Saturn(土星) has rings around it.Their sight was so limited that they could not see all the planets.In the early 1700s，people thought there were only six planets.
Before the spectroscope(分光镜)，man did not know what kind of gases are in the sun or other stars.Without the radio telescope(电波望远镜)we did not know that radio noises come from far out in space.
Today，astronomy is a growing science.We have learned more in the last fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.
1.The passage mainly tells us ________.
A.the spectroscope helps man know what kind of gases are in the sun and other stars
B.there are eight planets in space
C.there was much noise in space
D.science can’t grow fast without modern technology
2.Thousands of years ago，________.
A.man watched the stars with their eyes
B.telescopes helped man to study the stars
C.man knew nothing about the sky
D.man knew Saturn has rings around it
3.When the Greeks watched the stars，they knew all of the following except ________.
A.the color of the stars
B.the size of the stars
C.the movement of the stars
D.what the stars were made of
4.Man now knows ________.
A.the moon has rings around it
B.there are six planets
C.Saturn’s rings can be seen by human eyes
D.radio noises come from far out in space
