Here’ s a roundup of several theme parks for you to explore.
Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey
Admission $ 81. 99 for general admission (54 inches or taller)；less than 54 inches tall, $ 50. 99； 2 and younger free (at the gate)
Info 732-928-2000, six flags.com/ greatadventure
Billed as the second largest theme park in the world, Six Flags' 510 acres bursts with bucket-list roller coasters, including the 45-story tall Kingda Ka and El Toro voted the world's best coaster by Amusement Today,
Hersheypark, Pennsylvania
Admission $ 68. 95 ages 9 to 54；$ 46. 95 ages 3 to 8 and 55 to 69 ；$ 31. 95 ages 70 plus；2 and younger free
Info 717-534-3900, hersheypark.com
More than 70 rides in Hershey's 121-acre park include the Laff Trakk, an indoor spinning glow coaster with fun house, the wooden Comet Coaster and the Skyrush roller coaster.
Playland Park, New York
Admission $ 30；$ 20 for children under 48 inches tall；free for 2 and under
Info 914-813-7000, playlandpark, org
The Westchester County-owned and -operated Playland, located off 1-95 Exit 19, features more than 50 rides, Kiddyland and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Rye Playland is a trip with seven original attractions still going strong since the park's first day in 1928, including the 3,400-foot wooden Dragon Coaster. Fireworks shows are held on Fridays in July and August.
Dutch Wonderland, Pennsylvania
Admission $ 45. 99 for general admission ages 3 to 59；$ 39. 99 ages 60 to 69；$ 30. 99 ages 70 and up；under 2 free
Info 866-386-2839, dutchwonderland. com
The wonders in this amusement park include more than 30 rides, live entertainment and the Duke's Lagoon water play area. All attractions are suitable for families with kids.
1.Which will be the best choice for a visitor interested in swimming and fireworks?
A.Six Flags Great Adventure . B.Hersheypark .
C.Playland Park . D.Dutch Wonderland.
2.How much will a couple aged 60 pay to visit Hersheypark?
A.$ 137. 9. B.$ 93. 9.
C.$ 63. 9. D.$ 61. 98.
3.What do the four theme parks have in common?
A.They're all closed on Monday.
B.They all have water play areas
C.They're all located in the same state .
D.They're all suitable for the whole family .
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A woman from the United Arab Emirates has regained consciousness after spending 27 years in a vegetative state (植物人状态). Munira Abdulla was aged 32 when she suffered a brain injury after the car she was riding in was hit by a bus in 1991. Her son Omar revealed her fantastic recovery in an interview with The National.
He described how the accident occurred when he was four years old and needed to be brought home from kindergarten. Ms Abdulla's brother-in-law drove her to school to collect Omar and the family were driving home, with mother and child in the back seat, when they were hit by the bus. As the bus hit, Ms Abdulla threw herself around her son to protect him from the impact. While she suffered a severe head injury, he escaped with just a bruise. Omar described how his mother was left untreated for hours because the family were unable to call for help and there was little traffic, before she was transferred to a clinic in London.
There, doctors diagnosed a vegetative state, meaning she was completely unresponsive but able to feel pain. She was transferred back to the UAE and put on a breathing machine and a feeding tube to keep her alive, spending the next few decades hooked up to machines. But in April 2017, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, heard of her case and gave her family a fund for treatment. Ms Abdula was flown to Germany where she underwent surgeries to repair her muscles while being given medication to improve her sleep patterns.
Around a year later she began making strange sounds, and within three days she called out to Omar using his name, "It was her! She was calling my name, I was flying with joy；for years I have dreamed of this moment, and my name was the first word she said," he said.
1.How old was Ms Abdulla when she came to life?
A.27. B.28
C.32. D.59.
2.What can be inferred from paragraph 2?
A.People there lacked skills of first aid.
B.Omar’s uncle suffered a slight injury.
C.The traffic accident happened at a quiet place.
D.Ms Abdulla forgot the emergency phone number.
3.Why was Ms Abdulla sent to Germany?
A.To receive free treatment.
B.To recognize her son's voice.
C.To meet Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed.
D.To have operations and improve her condition.
4.What's the text mainly about？
A.Every mother's child is an angel.
B.Children are what the mothers are.
C.A mother wakes up from unconsciousness.
D.An accident makes a mother in a vegetative state speak.
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For the first time, a generation of children is going through adolescence with smartphones ever-present. Jean Twenge , a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, has a name for these young people born between 1995 and 2012："iGen". She says, “Members of this generation are physically safer than those who came before them. They drink less they learn to drive later. " "But psychologically," she argues, "they far more easily get hurt. It's not an overstatement to describe iGen as being on the edge of the worst mental health crisis in decades.''
Today's teens are just not spending as much time with their friends face-to-face where they can really read each others' emotions and get that social support. And we know from lots of research that spending time with other people in person is one of the best predictors for psychological well-being and one of the best protections against having mental health issues. They're more likely than young people just 5 or 10 years ago to say that they're anxious, and that they have symptoms of depression.
How much of a factor is parenting? “Parenting is playing a role. Many parents are worried about their teens driving, and going out with their friends and drinking. Yet parents are often not worrying about their teens who stay at home on their phones all the time. But they should be worried about that. I think parents are worried about the wrong thing," Professor Twenge remarked.
She proposes several helpful solutions, "The first is just awareness that spending a lot of time on the phone is not harmless and that if you're spending a lot of time on the phone, then it may take away time from activities that might be more beneficial for psychological well being, like spending time with people in person. And then for parents, I think it is a good idea to defer giving your child a smartphone as long as you can.”
1.What does iGen refer to according to the text?
A.Generation with high intelligence.
B.Generation in information age.
C.Physically strong generation.
D.Psychologically healthy generation.
2.How can today's teens avoid mental health crisis?
A.By making more friends online.
B.By seeing psychologists frequently.
C.By reading others' emotions constantly.
D.By communicating with friends face to face.
3.What should parents concern according to Professor Twenge?
A.Their teens' chatting with classmates.
B.Their teens' poor school performance.
C.Their teens' addiction to smart phones.
D.Their teens' staying out with their friends.
4.Which can best replace the underlined word “defer" in the last paragraph?
A.Put off. B.Approve of.
C.Think of. D.Insist on.
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Air pollution is the world's top killer, a new global air quality index revealed last year. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), 4. 2 million people die each year from outdoor air pollution, and 91 percent of the world's population lives in a place that exceeds the WHO's guideline limits. With that in mind, Imperial College London has teamed up with biochemical tech startup Arborea to test out its biosolar leaf technology, while also demonstrating how sustainable solutions can address the vital environmental and social issues of today in real-world conditions.
So, what is a biosolar leaf and how does it work? The secret is algae(海藻). Arborea researchers developed a cultivation(培养)system that allows microscopic plants like microalgae to grow on large solar panel-like structures that can be installed on land, buildings, and anywhere with a roof in a built-up city to improve the surrounding air quality. Inspired by the natural process of photosynthesis(光合作用)，the biosolar panels allow the microorganisms to absorb CO2 from the surrounding area and generate breathable oxygen back out again. And they help produce a nutritious, sustainable plant protein with tiny environmental impact—— Arborea's other focus——at the same time. "When I founded Arborea? my goal was to cope with climate change while addressing the critical issues related to the food system," Arborea founder and CEO Julian Melchiorri said. "This pilot plant will produce sustainable healthy food additives while purifying the air, producing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide from the surrounding environment.”
Melchiorri has already had some success with his astonishing project, the world's first living bionic chandelier(仿生吊灯)，which uses the same technology. The light of the chandelier stimulates photosynthesis of the microorganisms on the leaf-shaped modules, absorbing the CO2 inside and releasing oxygen back into the room. The chandelier currently holds pride of place in London's Victoria and Albert Museum's permanent collection.
1.Why did the Imperial College London cooperate with Arborea?
A.To study the reason for air pollution in London.
B.To search for the new sustainable energy.
C.To trial the new technology of Arborea.
D.To settle the social issues.
2.What can be learned about the biosolar leaf?
A.It functions just like solar panels.
B.It imitates the natural process of photosynthesis.
C.It is aimed at producing sustainable healthy food.
D.It has been applied in large amounts in our daily life.
3.What is the best title for the text?
A.London's pride—the chandelier
B.The secret of algae found recently
C.An astonishing project benefiting Londoners a lot
D.World's first biosolar leaf to take on air pollution
4.Which column of a web page is the text probably taken from?
A.Environment and marine biology. B.Society and development.
C.Science and technology. D.Bionic design and modern life
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Living in a culture that is different from your own can be both an exciting and challenging experience. You have to learn different cultural practices and try to adapt to them.
1.. They talk about topics such as ages, income or marital status, which Americans think are annoying.
In China, elders are traditionally treated with enormous respect and dignity while the young are cherished and nurtured. In America, the goal of the family is to encourage independence, particularly that of the children. 2.
Chinese people have different meanings to define friends.3.. Friendship means lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other whatever help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends and drinking friends.
As is well known, Chinese like to save.4.. It is different in the USA, where far fewer families are saving money for emergencies and education than Chinese people.
5. If you achieve something in the US, it's because you are great. While in China, if you achieve something it's because the team, or family, or company is great. Everything you do gets attributed to the greater whole, while in America individual virtues are celebrated.
A.Just hanging out together from time to time is not friendship
B.American people put more emphasis on business and virtues
C.Chinese people value education and career more than Americans
D.Unlike Chinese, older Americans seldom live with their children
E.They are always conservative when they are planning to spend money
F.Basically China values the community and the US values the individual
G.Chinese people do not have the same concept of privacy as Americans do
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Lost & Found
That night, when I arrived at the door of my building, I noticed a man walking behind me. I thought he was a neighbor I hadn’t met. I did a _______ neighborly thing and held the door for him. But when I turned, he took away everything I had and ran away. I was _______. From then on, I looked over my _______, never fully at ease. It cost me my sense of trust in my _______.
A year passed, I got home one night and found an envelope under my door. Inside was a _______ weather-beaten driver’s license. I could _______ make it out because the address was nearly worn away. But the face on that _______ was mine. And the note in it said; Sarah Sweeney, if you still live here, call us at this _______.
Feeling _______, I walked up and down in my living room trying to think of ________ someone would contact (联系) me like this. If there’s a Mugger Playbook (抢劫犯剧本) this was the final long game! Now he’s checking my ________ to get more money?
But I called the number.
Then a(n) ________ voice of a little girl got on, “Hello! Are you Sarah Sweeney? My sister and I found your purse in the woods!”
I could ________ she was jumping up and down as she spoke. She and her younger sister carefully ________ bits of paper, pieced together the clues to find me and ________ my wallet and everything inside. I was completely ________. They were giving me a sense of relief.
I asked her, “How can I ________ you?”
“Hang on!” She pulled the phone away and ________ with her sister; then I heard “ICE CREAM!"
Twenty minutes later, I was at their door. I ________ a box of ice cream. And these two little girls gave my wallet and a renewed sense of ________.
1.A. meaningful B. smart C. polite D. necessary
2.A. robbed B. cheated C. suspected D. caught
3.A. head B. shoulder C. door D. neck
4.A. colleagues B. friends C. neighbors D. family
5.A. rotted B. new C. useful D. cheap
6.A. easily B. merely C. probably D. hardly
7.A. envelope B. license C. wallet D. note
8.A. point B. time C. number D. place
9.A. worried B. sad C. satisfied D. disappointed
10.A. why B. whether C. how D. when
11.A. room B. wallet C. address D. account
12.A. angry B. sweet C. rough D. cold
13.A. see B. notice C. understand D. tell
14.A. replaced B. unfolded C. counted D. selected
15.A. return B. check C. repair D. clean
16.A. confused B. lost C. discouraged D. moved
17.A. treat B. find C. reward D. inform
18.A. discussed B. agreed C. argued D. competed
19.A. contributed to B. handed over C. paid for D. packed up
20.A. loss B. duty C. trust D. direction
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
I am the director of an organization in India. Without putting our hands out and1.(ask) for money from people, we give clothes, warm2.(blanket), medicine, and educational support to poor kids. Most of the time, we as a family suffer with wants and needs, but the smile we bring in the face of suffering is rewarding.
Recently, a lady in a village had a very seriously wounded foot due to injuries. The foot3.(infect) and the doctor proposed immediate surgery4.(cut) off the foot. Her husband and her four young children,5.were in school，were helpless. It might be in the middle of the night
6.I collected money from my 89-year-old mother, my daughter, and from my uncle. I added to this donation and went to the woman's house 15 kilometers away from our campus.
We handed over the donation for the7.(operate). The doctor changed his mind overnight and, 8. next day, he decided to dress the deep wound every other day for three months. The treatment continued and finally the deep, bloody wound9.(be) healed. We congratulated10. her recovery and the family of the woman is now doing well. We are so happy.
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短文改错
I'd like to share with you my progresses on study these three years. To be honest, I was not so good at my study when I came to high school, often feel tired out and at loss. Sometimes, I was even on the point of giving up. Therefore , things began to change when my teachers and my classmates came to encourage myself one day in Grade Two. It was for their encouragement and my own thinking that resulted in my achievements in study final.
Though I am still not a top student now I have found myself filled with greatly confidence to face any difficult and challenge. There is no doubt that I am bound to fighting for my dream to the end in the coming months!
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假定你是李华,你的英国笔友Mike发来邮件说他对中国的传统节日很感兴趣。请你回一 封邮件，向他介绍你喜欢的中秋节，内容包括：
1. 中国人如何庆祝中秋节；
2. 你喜欢这个节日的原因。
Dear Mike,
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.Yours,
Li Hua
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