—Do you like the place of interest?—On the co...

—Do you like the place of interest?

—On the contrary, it’s the　　　　 place that I want to visit．

A. worst　 　　　　　　 　 B. last

C. best　　 　　　　　　　 D. latest

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If you’re on the hunt for something new and interesting to read, you have plenty of places to go. This week, we’re looking at four of the best book recommendation sites, services, or groups, based on your nominations(提名).

GoodReads

GoodReads is more than just a book recommendation site, although it excels at helping you find new books to read based on the ones you enjoy. You can build a virtual “shelf” of books you own or have already read, share your progress with the books you’re currently reading, rate the books you’ve read, leave reviews, and connect with other readers.

BookBub

While BookBub isn’t strictly a book recommendation service, it does bring you super-low-cost books based on your interests every day. The service is free, and when you sign up, you tell BookBub what kinds of books you like to read. From there, you’ll get an email from BookBub every day with book deals for that day. When we say “deal,” we mean it—many of BookBub’s titles are free entirely, $0.99, or just a couple of bucks.

LibraryThing

LibraryThing has been around for a long time and is still a great user-powered book ratings, review, and recommendation site. The service calls itself the world’s largest book club, and that’s a lot like the overall feel. Once you sign up, you’ll be encouraged to start adding books you’ve read and leave reviews for them. Behind its book ratings and reviews though, LibraryThing is a powerful tool to catalog and organize your entire book collection.

Olmenta

If you’re not interested in registering for accounts, adding your own books, or any of that hassle(麻烦), Olmenta can suggest some solid titles to you based on general popularity and the citation of the people behind the site. It’s a simple list of book covers that the service thinks you should read, and a few genres you can click on if you’re looking for something specific, like business, fiction, children’s, theatre, poetry, or nonfiction, among others.

1.Which of the following two book recommendation sites ask you to rate and leave reviews?

A. Goodreads and BookBub　　 B. BookBub and LibraryThing

C. LibraryThing and Olmenta　　 D. Goodreads and LibraryThing

2.Which book recommendation site can help you get super-low-cost books?

A. GoodReads　　 B. BookBub

C. LibraryThing　　 D. Olmenta

3.If you turn to Olmenta, you __________________.

A. need to pay more　　 B. need to add your own book

C. don’t need to sign up　　 D. don’t need to look for something specific

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---You seem to show interest in cooking.　　　　 --- What? _____, I’m getting tired of it.

A. On the contrary　　 B. To the contrary

C. On the other hand　　 D. To the other hand

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—You seem to show interest in cooking.

—What?_________,　 I’m getting tired of it.

A. On the contrary     B. To the contrary　 C. On the other hand　　 D. To the other hand

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--- Do you like this part of the town, the so-called desired area?

---On the contrary, it’s the ______ area that I want to visit in town.

A. best        B. first             C. last             D. least

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Places of Interest in Wales

Conway: On the north Wales coast, Conway is where you’ll find the world’s smallest house, as well as a much larger “house”, Conway Castle, which was built in the 13th century.

Anglesey: This beautiful island is joined to the rest of north Wales by a road bridge and a railway bridge, and it’s just a short drive from Conway. Here you can visit the village of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll which has the strangest name in Europe. Don’t miss the station. The sign runs the complete length of the platform! Also on Anglesey is Beaumaris Castle, which was started in the 13th century and to this day remains unfinished.

Snowdonia: Just a couple of hours’ drive from Beaumaris is the Snowdonia mountain range, which takes its name from the highest mountain in Wales, Mount Snowdon. From there, visit the famous Swallow Falls at nearby Betwsy-Coed.

Portmeirion: In 1925 Clough, Williams-Ellis bought an attractive piece of Welsh land for less than ￡5,000. He then set out to show the world how a naturally beautiful castle could be built without being damaged and spent the next 50 years building the town of Portmeirion with a style of Italy.

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1.What do we know about Anglesey?

A.It is far from Conway.

B.It lies in the south of Wales.

C.It can be reached by train.

D.It has the smallest house in the world.

2.What can visitors get from the brochures?

A.Introduction of the climate in Wales.

B.Characteristics of buildings in Wales.

C.Detailed information about people in Wales.

D.Information about adventure activities.

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He doesn’t have interest in cooking．__________, he’s getting tired of it．

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He doesn’t have interest in cooking．__________, he’s getting tired of it．

A．On the contrary                                   B．On the one hand

C．On the other hand                                                                D．On the whole

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Do you like somewhere a little bit different to the usual types of places you find on the high street? I do，so I’m glad to see new ones popping up(冒出)everywhere in London.

The so called pop-up shop is a temporary arrangement．In the aftermath(余波)of the financial crisis of 2008，many businesses had to shut down．Shops，warehouses and offices were left vacant when they stopped trading．Pop-up enterprisers occupied some of them quickly. For them the appeal of this temporary shopping concept is clear：they can start a business with much 1ower risk．The temporary nature of a pop-up shop gives the opportunity to test a product and develop a customer base，without being tied in to a long-term renting contract. Being small makes it much easier for pop-ups to expand if they are successful·

Pop-up shops first appeared in the UK in the early 2000s，with the economy booming. They were originally a way for small companies to rent retail space(零售场所)in great locations. This was while landlords who owned these spaces looked for permanent renters.

Pop-up shops can take a number of different forms．They might be temporary shops in the high street or a shopping centre．They might be simple market stalls(摊位). They could be based in some kind of transport，like a food truck．Or they could be run by people who visit different establishments，like travelling chefs who take over pub and restaurant kitchens temporarily．

According to a report by the Centre of Economic and Business Research，the pop-up industry was worth￡2.1bn and is expected to grow by 8.4％this year．Almost anything that can be on a high street can also be a pop-up．There have been pop-up shops，art galleries，theatres and restaurants among others．In an age of fast-changing habits，the pop-up idea might be here to stay．

1.What nature of the pop-up shops appeals many small companies?

A．Long-terra benefits．　　　 B．Lower prices.

C．Quick service．　　 　　　　　 D．Temporary shopping concept．

2.Pop-up shops first appeared mainly because__________.

A．the economy hadn’t recovered

B．the economy was doing well

C．shops couldn’t meet needs

D．enterprisers failed in their business

3.Which groups are the main people involved in setting up pop-up shops?

①enterprisers　 ②landlords ③travelling chefs ④truck drivers

A．①③　　 B．②④　　 C．①②　 D．③④

4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Pop-ups might be booming．

B．The pop-up idea is not promising．

C．The pop-up industry is growing slowly．

D．Pop-up shops are difficult to run．

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What’s the greenest place in America? If you answered something like the warm sunlight of Santa Barbara, you’d be wrong. The greenest place in America has almost no sign of nature— the buildings outnumber the trees— and the air isn’t all that great. What it has is density(密度)and efficiency— the twin qualities that finally define green in the global warming time. Applying those standards，the greenest place in America is New York City— particularly，the overcrowded，overpriced island of Manhattan, which produces 30％ less per-capita(人均)greenhouse gas than that of the nation．

It’s that density that makes Manhattan so green. Manhattan’s population density is 800 times the national average. Density comes with negatives，certainly— small living spaces，air pollution— but it also enables amazing efficiencies．Over 80％ of Manhattanites travel to work by public transport, by bike or on foot— compared to an average of about 8％ everywhere else in the country. Manhattan’s apartment buildings are far more energy-efficient than the houses in the suburbs.

What’s true of New York City is more or less true of other American urban areas, which explains why a growing part of the environmental movement now focuses on greening cities, hoping to attract more Americans back downtown. There’s an effort to make cities more sustainable(可持续的)，by improving public transport，reducing air pollution and upgrading energy efficiency. But even more important, it is quite urgent to change decades of government policies that have been in favor of the suburbs，with disastrous consequences for energy，the environment and the climate.

That’s exactly the difficult point. For all the high efficiency and convenience and richness of living in a city，there are disadvantages too．New York，for example，has some of the highest childhood asthma(哮喘)rates in the U.S.

So it’s welcome news that New York has continued to push its P1aNYC scheme, a long-term program to make the city greener and more sustainable over the next decades. Recently it announced an update to the plan that includes phasing out heavy heating oils in New York City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.

1.Manhattan is considered as the greenest place in America because of its__________

A．buildings and trees                    B．density and efficiency

C．sunlight and nature                    D．transport and population

2.We can infer from the passage that___________.

A．New Yorkers have urged the city government to carry out green policies

B．the public transport and living space are quite satisfactory in New York

C．life in the countryside is more comfortable and energy efficient than that in cities

D．the significance of making cities greener is gained in promoting energy efficiency

3.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to___________.

A．New York city                            B．PlaNYC scheme

C．Manhattan                                D．Santa Barbara

4.The underlined part “phasing out” in the last paragraph probably means___________.

A．rapidly promoting dealing with

B．widely suggesting researching on

C．gradually stopping using

D．immediately forbidding producing

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Manhattan the Greenest Place in America?

B．The Higher Density，the Greener City?

C．PlaNYC Scheme：New York City’s Future

D．Living in Cities Does Good to the Environment

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