Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.
What to Expect
The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week.You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.
Accommodation Zones
Homestays are located in London mainly in Zones 2, 3 and 4 of the transport system.Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential(居住的). Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowded area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground.
Meal Plans Available
◇ Continental Breakfast
◇ Breakfast and Dinner
◇ Breakfast, Packed Lunch and Dinner
It's important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast.Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal (谷物类食品), bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee.
Friends
If you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your host's permission.You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.
SelfCatering Accommodation in Private Homes
Accommodation on a roomonly basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the longstay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practise English at home quite as much.
1.The passage is probably written for ________.
A. hosts willing to receive foreign students
B. foreigners hoping to build British culture
C. travelers planning to visit families in London
D. English learners applying to live in English homes
2.Which of the following will the host provide?
A. Room cleaning. B. Medical care.
C. Free transport. D. Physical training.
3.According to the passage, what does Continental Breakfast include?
A. Dessert and coffee. B. Fruit and vegetables.
C. Bread and fruit juice. D. Cereal and cold meat.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. He was famous because of the books he wrote for children. They combine funny words, pictures, and social opinion.
Dr Seuss wrote his first book for children in 1937. It is called And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street. A number of publishers refused to publish it. They said it was too different. A friend finally published it. Soon other successful books followed. Over the years, he wrote more than forty children’s books. They were fun to read. Yet his books sometimes dealt with serious subjects.
By the middle 1940s, Dr Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful writers of children’s books. He had a strong desire to help children. In 1954, Life magazine published a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children’s books weren’t interesting. Dr Seuss decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read.
In 1957, Dr Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 225 words to write the book. This was about the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read.
The story is about a cat who tries to entertain two children on a rainy day while their mother is away from home. The cat is not like normal cats. It talks. The book was an immediate success. It was an interesting story and was easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today many adults say it is still one of the stories they like best.
1.What’s the best title for this passage?
A. Some of Dr Seuss’ books for children.
B. What are Dr Seuss’s books mainly about?
C. Dr Seuss — a famous writer of children’s books.
D. Why are Dr Seuss’ books different?
2.How did Dr Seuss help children according to Paragraph 3?
A. By asking others to help them in magazines.
B. By writing interesting and simple books.
C. By changing his old books into simpler ones.
D. By giving them books for free.
3.Adults most probably think that Dr Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat is _________
A. interesting B. serious
C. difficult D. boring
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Do dogs understand us?
Be careful what you say around your dog. It might understand more than you think.
A border collie named Rico recognizes the names of about 200 objects, say researchers in Germany. The dog also appears to be able to learn new words as easily as a 3-year-old child. Its word-learning skills are as good as those of a parrot or chimp.
In one experiment, the researchers took all 200 items that Rico is supposed to know and divided them into 20 groups of 10 objects. Then the owner told the dog to go and fetch one of the items and bring it back. In four tests, Rico got 37 out of 40 commands right. As the dog couldn't see anyone to get clues, the scientists believe Rico must understand the meanings of certain words.
In another experiment, the scientists took one toy that Rico had never seen before and put it in a room with seven toys whose names the dog already knew. The owner then told Rico to fetch the object, using a word the dog had never heard before.
The correct object was chosen in seven out of l0 tests, suggesting that the dog had worked out the answer by process of elimination (排除法). A month later, Rico remembered half of the new names, which is even more impressive.
Rico is thought to be smarter than the average dog. For one thing, Rico is a border collie, a breed (品种) known for its mental abilities. In addition, the 9-year-old dog has been trained to fetch toys by their names since the age of nine months.
It's hard to know if all dogs understand at least some of the words we say. Even if they do, they can't talk back. Still, it wouldn't hurt to sweet-talk your dog every now and then. You might just get a big, wet kiss in return!
1.From paragraph 2 we know that __ .
A. animals are as clever as human beings
B. dogs are smarter than parrots and chimps
C. chimps have very good word-learning skills
D. dogs have similar 'learning abilities as 3-year-old children
2.Both experiments show that .
A. Rico is smart enough to get all commands right
B. Rico can recognize different things including toys
C. Rico has developed the ability of learning mathematics
D. Rico won't forget the names of objects once recognizing them
3.Which of the following statements is true?
A. The purpose of the experiments is to show the border collie's mental abilities.
B. Rico has a better memory partly because of its proper early training.
C. The border collie is world-famous for recognizing objects.
D. Rico is born to understand its owner's commands.
4.What’s the meaning of the underlined word in the fourth paragraph?
A. convey sth. to . B. take sth. away .
C. deliver sth. from . D. bring sth. back.
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Muzak
The next time you go into a bank, a store, or a supermarket, stop and listen. What do you hear? 1.. It's similar to the music you listen to, but it's not exactly the same. That's because this music was especially designed to relax you, or to give you extra energy. Sometimes you don't even realize the music is playing, but you react to the music anyway.
Quiet background music used to be called "elevator (电梯) music" because we often heard it in elevators. But lately we hear it in more and more places, and it has a new name "Muzak". About one-third of the people in America listen to "Muzak" every day. The music plays for 15 minutes at a time, with short pauses in between. It is always more lively between ten and eleven in the morning, and between three and four in the afternoon, when people are more tired. 2..
If you listen to Muzak carefully, you will probably recognize the names of many of the songs. Some musicians or songwriters don't want their songs to be used as Muzak, but others are happy when their songs are chosen. Why? 3..
Music is often played in public places because it is designed to make people feel less lonely when they are in an airport or a hotel. It has been proven that Muzak doeswhat it is designed to do. Tired office workers suddenly have more energy when they hear the pleasant sound of Muzak in the background. 4.. Supermarket shoppers buy 38 percent more groceries.
5.. They say it's boring to hear the same songs all the time. But other people enjoy hearing Muzak in public places. They say it helps them relax and feel calm. One way or another, Muzak affects everyone. Some farmers even say their cows give more milk when they hear Muzak!
A. Some people don't like Muzak.
B. The music gives them extra energy.
C. Music is playing in the background.
D. Factory workers produce 13 percent more.
E. Muzak tends to help people understand music better.
F. They get as much as $4 million a year if their songs are used.
G. Muzak is played in most of the big supermarkets in the world.
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I grew up poor—living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was ______ and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still ______ a dream.
My dream was to be a(n) _____. When I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and ______ anything that moved on the field. I was also ______:My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me ______ to believe in myself. He ______ me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular ______ with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—money for a new bike, new clothes and the ______ of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realised I would have to _______up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was ______ as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,”he said. “Your ______ days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head ______, trying to think of the ______ that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his ______ in me. “How much are you going to make at this job, son?” he asked.“3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied. “Well,” he asked,“is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?” That simple question made ______ for me the difference between ______ something right now and having a ______. I decided myself to play sports that summer and ______ the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was ______ a $20,000 contract. At last, I bought my mother the house of my dream!
1.A. happy B. polite C. shy D. honest
2.A. live B. afford C. make D. need
3.A. athlete B. musician C. businessman D. artist
4.A. kick B. play C. pass D. hit
5.A. fight B. popular C. lucky D. confident
6.A. how B. why C. when D. whether
7.A. gave B. taught C. brought D. asked
8.A. accident B. matter C. problem D. experience
9.A. aim B. idea C. start D. purpose
10.A. keep B. end C. give D. pick
11.A. mad B. mournful C. frightened D. shameful
12.A. living B. playing C. working D. learning
13.A. moving B. nodding C. shaking D. hanging
14.A. answers B. excuses C. words D. ways
15.A. sadness B. regret C. hopelessness D. disappointment
16.A. direct B. clear C. straight D. bare
17.A. wanting B. changing C. dreaming D. enjoying
18.A. wish B. goal C. score D. desire
19.A. by B. for C. over D. within
20.A. paid B. got C. offered D. presented
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单词拼写
1.The scholarship ______ (支持) me when I was in college.
2.When a boy reaches manhood, he should ______ (表现) like a man.
3.On one side, the ______ (争论) is that this is about human rights.
4.But the WHO officials are now ______ (扩展) it to as many as six other African countries.
5.He said he was not ______ (满意) with the quality of the products.
6.I ______ (遗憾) to say that I can’t help you this time.
7.Their ______ (反应) to the joke is laugh.
8.______ (因此), the art has lost the most important part of its taste.
9.She spent years ______ (观察) and recording their daily activities.
10.He then ______ (滑动) along the line, and got safely to dry land at last._
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语法填空在括号内填入所给词的正确形式，或填入一个适当的词，使文章意思完整。
Yuan Longping was born in 1930. 1. he graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953, he has devoted his life to 2. (find) ways to grow more and more rice. As a young man, he saw the great need for 3. (increase) the rice output. At that time, hunger was 4. serious problem in many parts of the countryside. Yuan Longping searched 5. a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce about 56 million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, 6., nearly two hundred million tons of rice 7. (produce). These increased harvests mean that 22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in the world. Yuan Longping is now circulating his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other 8. (little) developed countries to increase their rice harvests. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle 9. (rid) the world of hunger. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests 10. (two) as large as before.
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文中共有10处错误, 每句最多有两处。
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。错误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（＼）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：每处错误及其修改仅限一词；只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Our clothes are a thing can affect our moods. Wear colorful clothes shows and affects our feelings. When we’re sadly, we will wear dark clothes. So when happy, we often choose to wear brightly-colored clothes. Our choice of color shows what we are feeling. Suppose we are felt sad, if we wear black we may begin to feel worse. However, if we wear green, red and yellow we may feel good. Orange makes us more happier, white makes we helpful, and so on. So remember, if you are not feeling your best, you can try out some clothes of different colors. If one color has not effect on your feelings, maybe another will.
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Jane Goodall, 1934年出生于英国。她是著名的动物学家(zoologist)。毕业于剑桥Cambridge University)大学。
从小就梦想在自然环境中研究动物。1960年来到非洲研究猩猩。
取得成就：
1) 在Joan Goodall 之前，没有人完全了解猩猩的行为;
2) 保护并尊重黑猩猩，反对用于实验和娱乐。帮助建立动物自然栖息地。
3) 得到许多荣誉。
注意： 词数不少于120。
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