Asia has many wild places. The following national parks are among the most famous in Asia. People come to visit them from near and far in order to appreciate the unique qualities of the land and everything on it. Have you ever visited any of these Asian national parks?
Jiuzhai Valley National Park, China
The extraordinarily beautiful park is famous for its fascinating blue-green lakes, waterfalls and its unique wildlife. Located in the Minshan Mountain, Sichuan Province, it is a breathtaking park because of its scenery and it is also home to nine Tibetan villages, over 220 bird species as well as a number of endangered animals and plants, such as giant pandas, Sichuan golden monkeys and numerous orchids. This park was also declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992.
Khao Sok(考索)National Park, Thailand
This extraordinary park is several miles away from Phuket(普吉岛), yet its remoteness(遥远)prevents it from being visited. Even so, it is well worth a visit as scientists have noted that is rainforest stretches are not only longer than those of the Amazon, but also more divers(多样化的). Animals like tigers, Asian elephants, and macaaues make their home here. Everyone who visits the park, however, seems to want to have a look at the amazing Rafflesia, one of the strangest flowering plants on earth; it smells like smelly meat when it blooms.
Nikko(日高)National Park, Japan
It is lovely to visit this park all the year round with its waterfalls and picturesque Lake Chuzenji. And it is especially worth visiting in autumn when the leaves change from green to deep red and orange. Set with UNESCO protected shrines(神坛)and temples, the park is a unique mixture of natural and man-made attractions. With various routes perfect for adventurous hikers, a visit to the Nikko National Park is not to be missed.
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1.What does the underlined word “orchids” probably refer to?
A. Wild animals. B. Endangered flowers.
C. Rare monkeys. D. Tibetan buildings.
2.Compared with Amazon, Khao Sok National Park has______.
A. stranger flower plants
B. More animals
C. more varieties of rainforests
D. more visitors
3.If you’re an adventurous hiker, which park would you probably choose to visit?
A. Jiuzhai Valley National park.
B. Khao Sok National Park.
C. Nikko National Park.
D. Zhangjiajie National Park.
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You may have experienced the frustration(挫败感)of being slapped with a parking fine(罚款)or finding your car held firmly in the place after leaving it parked precariously(不安全的) for a couple of minutes. But now a high-tech car sticker that's designed to be stuck to a car’s windscreen, could help motorists avoid such a situation by allowing a traffic warden（管理员）to get in touch with them.
The TowStop sticker sends a text message to a driver when it is touched by a traffic warden, to allow motorists to send a reply and give them time to move their car immediately. It’s designed to save drivers time and money by giving them a chance to move their car instead of having it towed(拖) away but relies on the good will of traffic wardens. Frankfurt-based IT consultant(顾问), Daniel Kalliontzis, came up with the idea and is raising funds on Indiegogo to put his €54 (£43) sticker into production.
Car owners can buy the sticker and place it inside their car's windscreen, having set it up with important information, such as their phone number. The message will ask them to move their car immediately .The driver could then type a reply for the warden using their smartphone, which will appear on the sticker's screen. They may choose to write something along the lines of back in two minutes in a bid to avoid a fine.
The smart sticker system will rely on the good will of traffic wardens and critically, a German law. The law states: An officer has to choose the most efficient and inexpensive way for the car owner to remove the vehicle. It could be cheaper for the authorities to contact the driver than to tow his car.
1.What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To arouse readers’ interest in the new invention.
B. To tell readers some ways of parking cars.
C. To show drivers how to avoid parking fine.
D. To disclose(揭示)how traffic wardens fine drivers.
2.Daniel Kalliontzis came up with the idea of the slicker so that______.
A. traffic can be smooth
B. drivers can avoid being fined
C. cars can be put in safe places
D. laws can be carried out
3.If traffic warden wants to send a text message to the driver, he should_______.
A. slap the windscreen B. strike the wheel
C. use a smartphone D. touch the sticker
4.From the passage we know that________.
A. a German traffic warden is required to remind car owners to move their cars
B. the TowStop sticker will cost drivers much time and money
C. not many drivers will mind being fined
D. car owners must buy the stickers by law
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People who are worried about bad breath often reach for a toothbrush or a gun. But in the future, personal breath monitoring may include far more than fresh breath.
In face, breath is so rich in chemical compounds that fully understanding it has proved challenging. Each breath contains gases like carbon dioxide, the volatile(挥发性的)remains of recent snacks, medicines and even compounds taken in from things like carpeting or various kinds of air pollution. But breath detectors(检测器) can sort out these substances with increasing sensitivity(敏感性)。
Scientists are building electronic sniffers that examine the exhaled(呼气)air for signs of cancer, asthma(哮喘), and other diseases.
“There are clear signatures in the breath for liver(肝)disease, kidney(肾)disease and heart disease. Breath is a rich mixture that can reflect out state of health and disease.” said Dr. Raed Dweik, director of the Cleveland Clinic, adding “Breath analysis is the future of medical testing.”
He and his partners are testing a desktop system called BreathLink for use in rapid identification of diseases. The system is designed to work wherever there is an Internet connection. To use BreathLink, a person breathes into a long tube, and a breath sample is collected and analyzed within the system. Then it can detail chemical concentrations(浓度)of the breath in graphics. Dr. Raed Dweik said, “If you examine patients of asthma, you will find they have higher levels of nitric oxide(一氧化碳) in their exhaled air. It reflects their abnormal symptoms in the lungs.” His tests have reached 85 percent accuracy(精确度)so far in spotting people with some illness.
But some trained dogs, he pointed out, can sniff out cancer with 99 percent accuracy—although without the ability to identify particular compounds the way some detectors can.
“We are getting better and better,” he said. “But whether we will ever approach the accuracy of the dog—we don’t know.”
1.What is the breath detector used for?
A. To find what kind of disease a person has.
B. To identify substances from people’s breath.
C. To help a patient recover from disease.
D. To smell how bad the breath is.
2.In the fifth paragraph, what Dr. Raed Dwik said is meant to______.
A. show how he and his partners treated patients
B. tell why a person has asthma
C. show how sensitive the device is
D. show how to diagnose a patient of asthma
3.It can be inferred that_______
A. brushing teeth can improve one’s bad breath
B. there are leftovers like snacks and medicines in one’s breath
C. one can know exactly about his physical state through the breath
D. breath analysis can be helpful in medical diagnosis
4.What’s the author’s attitude towards the future of breath detectors?
A. Indifferent B. Positive
C. Doubtful. D. Critical.
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How to Graduate from College with a High GPA(Grade Point Average)
One Hour a Day
One of the most challenging things about college is time management. It’s not that you don’t have enough. In fact you usually have too much time, and as a result time gets wasted. If you take good notes in class, and spend one hour reviewing your notes every day before going to sleep, you will make use of the power of the subconscious(下意识)to absorb information and by the time exams come around you’ll know all the material on a subconscious level, and you don’t have to sit up the night before exams.
Select Easy Courses
The reason why selecting easy courses is powerful is that it allows you to start off your college career with an extremely high GPA. Good grades have less and less of an impact on your GPA later in your college career and raising your GPA becomes much more difficult. Selecting easy courses in the first term also leaves room for the occasional failure when coursework become more challenging.
Join (or Form) Study Groups
If you go to a large public school where classes often have 700 plus people, study groups are an extremely effective way to ensure good grades. Study groups are often led by older students who have taken the course and received A’s in that particular course. They also often provide you with resources such as practice tests, practice problems, and many others that might not be provided by professors.
Use Personal Development
I can honestly say I didn’t involve myself in personal development when I was in college. Looking back I realize that I suffered from low self-respect and a very unhealthy self-image. But, if I had combined personal development techniques with the three steps above, my college career would have turned out very differently.
If you have already started school, I recommend developing a strategy that applies these four ideas to your current schedule. If you haven’t started school yet, do some research on easier courses and what study groups might be available. If you follow through and commit to the four recommendations above, you’ll set yourself up for a very successful first term, and hopefully a very successful college career.
1.According to the passage, managing your time wisely leads to __________.
A. sitting up late before exams
B. spending less time each day
C. mastering what you learn in an easy way
D. benefiting from the notes
2.Group study is meant to let the students ___________.
A. study effectively
B. get along well with one another
C. practice solving problems
D. study independently
3.The winter attached least importance to ___________ when he was at college.
A. reviewing his lessons one hour a day
B. selecting easier courses to learn
C. involving a study group led by senior students
D. applying personal development techniques
4.From the passage we can infer that _____________.
A. every college student is to get a high GPA when graduated
B. personal development is that most important techniques of the 4 steps
C. the earlier you choose easy courses, the better performance you’ll have
D. the fist school year’s success plays an important role in your college career
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项有两项为多余选项。
1. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.
2. He decided to turn his little school into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the school house was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. 3. This was the first hostel (招待所).
Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other. When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their cards of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. 4.
Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. 5. For this reason, a few weeks spent “hostelling” can be just as useful a part of one’s education as classes in school.
A. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby.
B. People can stay in the hostel if they brought enough equipment with them.
C. For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe seldom left their cities to see the beauties of the countryside.
D. This card will permit them to stay in a hostel all over the world for very low prices.
E. In 1970, a young German school master had an idea which changed this situation.
F. One can learn a lot about other places, just by meeting people from those places
G. More and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We were standing at the top of church tower. “Look down, Elsa,” Father said. I gathered all my and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross (十字形) of twisting, turning streets to the square.
"See, my dear," Father said gently. "There is more than one way to the . Life is like that. If you can't get to the place where you want to go by one road, try ."
In the years that followed I often remembered the Father taught me. I knew where I wanted to in life. I wanted to be fashion designer. But on the way to my first small success I found the road .
That year I was busy getting ready to show my winter fashions. Then just 13 days before the the sewing girls were called out on strike. I found myself with one tailor and woman who was in charge of the sewing room! I was as gloomy as my models and salesgirls. “We’ll never it,” one of them cried.
Here, I thought, is the of all tests for Father’s advice. Where is the way this time? I wondered and worried. I was certain we would have to the presentation or else show the clothes unfinished. Then it to me. Why not show the unfinished clothes?
We worked hurriedly. And, exactly 13 days later, right time, the Schiaparelli showing .
What a showing it was! Some coats had no sleeves; others had only one. Many of our clothes were still in a(n) stage. They were only patterns made of heavy cotton cloth. But on these we simple pictures and pieces of material.
All in all, the showing was different. It was so different that it was a great success. Our showing caught the attention of the public, and for the clothes poured in.
Father’s wise words has guided me. There is more than one way to the square always.
1.A. courage B. interest C. information D. savings
2.A. leading B. coming C. getting D. falling
3.A. city B. square C. church D. village
4.A. other B. another C. this D. that
5.A. text B. material C. lesson D. class
6.A. rest B. relax C. come D. go
7.A. taken B. paved C. followed D. blocked
8.A. competition B. ceremony C. presentation D. introduction
9.A. left B. tired C. burdened D. connected
10.A. have B. lose C. make D. hit
11.A. text B. test C. tip D. example
12.A. in B. out C. up D. round
13.A. bring down B. bring forward C. call up D. call off
14.A. occurred B. belonged C. happened D. objected
15.A. in B. over C. on D. behind
16.A. took on B. took off C. took down D. took place
17.A. mature B. beautiful C. early D. late
18.A. took B. drew C. collected D. pinned
19.A. normal B. unusual C. beautiful D. common
20.A. orders B. designs C. patterns D. changes
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语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或所给单词的正确形式。
When I was starting my own business, I always those successful businessmen either offline 1. online about their experiences. The best advice I ever got was similar to this statement: You are 2. (respond) for you own experience.
Soon I realized that this is true for everything in life.
In my opinion, one of mistakes that we make as 3. (human) is to look up to someone as our “role model”. Although the concept of “role model” is good, 4. it can potentially lead to can be dangerous. We always try to convince 5. (we) that if we copy their success story then we will be naturally end 6. with the same success. This isn’t true at all. It’s their experience that made them what they are. You can’t repeat that. Once I 7.(open)a firm to make electronic devices, and I regarded Bill Gates as my role model. I had thought that years later I would be as successful as him. But the result was just contrary to my 8. (expect), and I failed. As time went on, I realized that different persons have different strong points, abilities and capabilities. So stop 9. (try) to copy others’ experiences, but build your own. Enjoy what life throws at you and make the 10. (well) out of it.
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短文改错
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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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。
Dear Mandy，
I'm not doing well in my lessons at school，especial in maths. My dad says I must try hard because he wants me go to university. He thinks I'm lazy，but it's not true. I work really hard，often study late into the night! I've tried to talk to my mother，but she always said I have to work as hard like my brother does. My brother doesn't study very hard，and he always gets excellent grades. It's not fair!
The only thing I like it is art. My teacher says I'm the best student she's had for year. When I told my dad，all he said was，“ You mustn’t waste your time in art. You must focus your mind on your lessons! ”
I'm feeling quite puzzling as to what to do now. Would you please help me out?
Thanks a lot!
Yours sincerely， Lisa
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书面表达
假如你是李华，你的美国网友Tom想要了解一下你所在学校的校园布局，请你根据自己的校园给他写一封e-mail，描述一下你的学校，并简单表达你对学校的情感。
注意:1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.不要提及学校名称；
4.开头语和结束语已经为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom，
How I miss you! I'd like to introduce the layout of my school to you.
Best wishes!
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