1、阅读理解A Hampton Court Palace A magical history tour Inside and out, with the magnificent State Apartments of Henry VIII and William III. costume guides and 60 acres of spectacular riverside gardens including the famous maze Price Information: Adults 14.50, Children 17.25 (Aged 5-15) Opening Date All y
2、ear around except 24 - 26 Dec. Ghost Bus Tours There is something funny about this bus. You will find yourself seated in the heart of live ghost story. But that s not all, Take a ride to the dark side and a strange conductor tells some frightening stories as the mysterious bus reveals its own secret
3、s. You can also sec a sightseeing show with actors and on-board technical trickery. Price Information: Adults . 18. Children 12 (Aged 5 - 15) Opening Dates: All year around Kensington Palace Kensington Palace has been a royal home for over 300 years and parts of the palace remain a private residence
4、 for members of the Royal Family today. The magnificent Slate Apartments and the Fashion Rules Collection are open to the public. Price Information: Adults 12.50, Children 6.25 (Aged 5-15) Opening Dates: All year around except 24 26 Dec. Kew Gardens Visit the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London. A
5、UNESCO World Heritage site, these magnificent London gardens, glasshouses and galleries arc a living exhibit as well as an important historical heritage. See Kew Gardens bursting with color for its 250th anniversary. Price Information: Adults 13.90, Children under 17 for free!Opening Dates: All year
6、 around except 24-26 Dec. Canary Wharf Experience This round trip Thames RIB speed boat experience will be one never to forget. Get into character as famous Bond soundtracks play out from the unique on board sound system. Flex your muscles as the Thames RIB super-powered speedboats with 490 hp engin
7、es prepare to go turbo. Price Information: Adult 36.00, Children 122.00 ( under 15) Opening Dates; All year around 21 How much is the admission for a family of two grown-ups and a fifteen-year-old girl 10 visit the Royal Botanic Gardens? A. 36.25. B. 27.80. C. 31.20. D. 48.00. 22. What can you get f
8、rom the passage? A. The tourists can visit Ghost Bus Tours at any lime. B. The tourists can visit Hampton Court Palace at any time. C. The tourists can visit Kensington Palace at any time on December 25. D. The tourists can visit Kew Gardens at any time between Dec. 24 and 26. 23. Which one provides
9、 the most thrilling way to see London from the river? A. Kew Gardens. B. Kensington Palace. C. Hampton Court Palace.D. Canary Wharf Experience. 24. What is “Ghost Bus Tours intended to express?A. It shows that ghost stories are popular in London. B. It lets tourists know more about London s history.
10、 C. It lets tourists have more fun during their visits in London. D. It shows that there are a lot of unknown secrets in London. B Scientists have found we are more likely to die on our birthdays than any other day. Researchers who studied more than two million people over 40 years found a risk in d
11、eaths from heart attacks, strokes (中风）.falls and suicides on that day. William Shakespeare died on his birthday on April 23, 1616. The actress Ingrid Bergman also died on her birthday, in August, 1982. On average, people over the age of 60 wen 14 percent more likely to die on their birthdays. Heart
12、attacks rose 18.6 percent on birthdays and were higher for men than women while strokes were up 21.5 percent mostly in women. Dr. Vladeta Ajdacic of the University of Zurich said. Birthdays end in a dangerous way mare frequency than might be expected. He added that risk of birthday death rose as peo
13、ple got older. Canadian data also showed that strokes were more likely on birthdays, especially among patients with high blood pressure. There was a 34.9 percent rise in suicides. 28.5 percent rise in accidental deaths not related to cars, and a 44 percent rise in deaths from falls on birthdays. Psy
14、chologist Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, said, It seems to be a reliable finding. There are two cases one is the case that suggests you cat too much and you are getting over excited and that causes you to die. He said continuously, The other is a placebo (俺慰剂）effect
15、. You are knife-edged on death. And you kept yourself going until your birthday. You think That s it. Ive had enough. Im out of here. Dr. Lewis Halsey of the University of Roehampton said One interesting finding is that more suicides happen on birthdays. though only in men. Perhaps men are more like
16、ly to make a statement about their unhappiness when they think people will be taking more notice of them. The study is published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology. 25. Which of the following can properly be put at the beginning of Paragraph 1? A. Be happy on your birthday. B. Be ready to care fo
17、r others. C. Be cautious about what you eat. D. Be careful when blowing out candles. 26. Which of the following explanations for the birthday death is TRUE? A. More women tend to kill themselves on birthdays. B. Strokes rise on birthday in both men and women. C. Eating too much and getting much exci
18、tement make you die on birthday. D. Unhappiness gets you to be conscious of the importance of noticing others. 27. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean? A. You re soon dying.B. The knife is very dangerous. C. You have broken down. D. The edge of the knife is sharp. 28. Where is the
19、passage most likely to be taken from? A. A textbookB. A storybook. c. A magazine. D. An advertisement.CWe have got a lot of things from cur families. Maybe we have our fathers eyes or our grandmothers hair color. But there are other features of OUT personalities such as behaviors and viewpoints that
20、 we pick up by modeling our parents. Researchers at the university of Michigan believe there may be a specific viewpoint that we can thank our parents for the way we view work. The researchers referred to previous studies that identified three main ways of viewing work. First, there are job-oriented
21、 people, who tend to see their job as simply a way to make money. They look forward to clocking out (打卡下班) every day and pursuing fun activities outside the office. If you have a job-oriented father, you may view work this way. However, if you grow up close to your mother，you probably will not hold
22、this viewpoint. Second, there are career-oriented people who see their job as a place to find achievement and gain a sense of identity. These are the people who don t mind working overtime. In fact some people love their Jobs so much that they become workaholics. They are more comfortable in the off
23、ice than at home. According to the study, being close to a career-oriented father while growing up means there is a good chance you will share his viewpoint. Strangely, having a mother with this viewpoint seems to have little influence. Third, there are calling-oriented people who view their job as
24、a way 10 make a positive impact upon the world. They are more concerned with improving the world around them than earning a large salary. In the study, those who expressed a strong calling orientation came from homes where both parents were calling-oriented. This suggests that teenagers need the sup
25、port of both parents in order to have the confidence to put personal ideals first and career success second. 29. Which can best describe job-oriented people? A. They are eager to go to work every day. B. They seldom have fun doing after-work activities. C They don t spend lime talking to their child
26、ren. D. They view their job as only a way to cam money.30. What can be inferred from the third paragraph? A. The career-oriented people don I mind working extra home. B. The career-oriented people feel more comfortable at home. C. The career-oriented people are deeply affected by their mothers. D. T
27、he caner-oriented people think of their job as a resting place. 31, How an calling-oriented teenagers different from others according to the last paragraph? A. They don t need support from their parents. B. They are much eager to make big fortune. C. They value career success more than personal idea
28、ls. D. They desire to change the world for the better. 32. What kind of family may a calling-oriented teenager come from? A, The one where the father is calling-oriented. B. The one where the mother is calling-oriented, C. The one where both parents are calling-oriented. D. The one where all the mem
29、bers are calling-oriented. D Pew acts an as cruel as making fun of the lea fortunate, but many people do this because it makes them feel good to be better off or more successful than others. We are not to invent reasons for ignoring the poor. We are to respond to their needs whoever they are. The ho
30、meless have become invisible to us. We walk right by them without even looking at them, White then are many reasons why people in America are going to bed hungry and sleeping on the Streets, there is no real reason for them to be homeless and hungry. Why then are people so merciless toward those in
31、need? Maybe those rich people are completely abort of compassion. Maybe they believe that ill homeless people are worthless and lazy. Maybe they cant spend their time and money in looking at a homeless person, While it a true that some become homeless because of drugs and alcohol, many find themselv
32、es on the street because of job loss, company downsizing, illness, or some other injuries. The biggest reason for homelessness is the inability of households 10 pay for housing. Kevins company put him on a 30-day lay-off. On the twenty-eighth day, he was informed that he would not be returning to wo
33、rk at all. At the same time, he lost his father. Between not being able to find another job right away and dealing with his fathers death, Kevins life took a downward turn, he was getting the run-around from his company and benefits were hard to come by. Alcohol finally took over, and the streets be
34、came his home. You neednt worry, the homeless can be a bit cautious until they get to know you, but they were neither hostile nor violent as you see on TV or in the movies. They also tend to be quite intelligent, and have a very good understanding of how society really is. There is a kind of accepta
35、nce of their situation because they know，with few exceptions. no one is going to do much to help them. 33. What does the author seem to tell us in the first paragraph? A. It is cruel of us to laugh at thane in trouble. B. It is our responsibility to help those in trouble. C. Laughing at those in tro
36、uble can make us feel better. D. There are many reasons for us to ignore those in trouble. 34. Why is Kevins experience mentioned in the passage? A. To explain that people have no choice when they get homeless. B. To help people understand how some people become homeless. C. To make us know it easy
37、to get some help from the government. D. To explain that people will turn to alcohol when they feel excited. 35. What message does the author mainly tell us in the passage? A. The homeless should not be ignored and they deserve our can, B. The homeless should have their situation accepted by others.
38、 C. The homeless tend to be more intelligent than we can imagine. D. The homeless understand themselves and society belter than others.短文填空 7 选 5Why do we go to zoos? Millions of people around the world visit zoos each year, but the reason is hard to explain. 36 But the animals they see in zoos are
39、little like the toys, cartoons, and decorations that fill their homes. For such children, the encounter with real animals can be confusing, even upsetting. The great interest that children have in animals today might lead one to suppose that this has always been the case. 37 That was also when zoos
40、became an important pan of middle-class life. 38 They lived together with our ancestors in a shared natural environment. In the Industrial Era， the human domination of animals could be seen in the popularity of real-looking animal toys. Children rode rocking-horses that had realistic features, and t
41、hey slept with stuffed bears, tigers, and rabbits that looked and felt almost real. The Twentieth Century marked a further development the conversion of animals into people. 39 Parents and children had previously wanted animals that looked like animals. But now they want animals that look and act li
42、ke humans. They become part of the family. In a zoo they hope to see the living breathing versions of their character friends. They find instead unfamiliar creatures who cannot speak, smile, or interact with them. For this reason，a visit to the zoo can be disappointing for children today. 40 Encount
43、ering real animals reminds us forcefully of the boundary between imagination and reality. When we visit animals in a zoo, perhaps we will recall our true relationship not only to animals but to the entire world.A. Animals are the best friends of the human beings. B. Most of children are looking forw
44、ard to visiting zoos. c. But perhaps that disappointment is the best gift a zoo can offer. D. This was the age of Babar the Elephant. Hello Kitty, and the Lion King. E. Many of those visitors are children. whose lives are already surrounded by animals images. F. In prehistoric times. there had been
45、no zoos. as animals wen a real part of the human world. G. Yet. it was not until the Industrial Era that reproductions of animals became a regular part of childhood. 完形填空Love is a hot topic , but what is love? Here is a story. It took me a long time before I was able to fully understand my grandpare
46、nts love. They wrote the word “Shmily” in a surprising place for the other to find. 41 one of them discovered it, it was his/her turn to 42 it once more -in shoes. under pillows* even in toilet paper . Their way of life. rather than only a game, 43 their love, which not everyone is 44 enough to expe
47、rience. They 45 hands every chance they had, finished each others sentences and went to 46 together. But there was a dark 47 in my grandparents life. My grandmother bad breast cancer. It had first 48 ten years earlier. As usual, Grandpa was with her every 49 of the way. He comforted her in their 50
48、room, painted that color so she could always be 51, even when she was too sick to go outside. Now, it was even worse. but they Still went to church 52 . Grandma grew steadily 53 until finally, she could not 54 the house any more. For a while, Grandpa would go to church alone , praying to God 10 55 h
49、is wife out. Then one day Grandma was 56.57 was written in yellow on the ribbon of my grandmothers funeral bouquet (花束).As the crowd thinned and the last mourners 58 to leave. Grandpa stepped up, taking a shaky59, and began to sing to her. through his tears, the song came, 60Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma, for letting me see.S-h-m-I-l-y see how much I love you.41. A. Though B. As soon as C. Because D. As far as42. A, write B. place C. tell D. hide43. A. broke B. saved C. shook D. saw44. A. rich B. friendly C. lucky D. special45. A. touched B. held C. waved
