Summer Courses 2009San Diego Seaside College ...

Summer Courses 2009

San Diego Seaside College is offering one and two-weelc English summer courses for high school students from all over the world who want to improve their English. Classes are offered at five levels, from basic to advanced. Students will be tested when they arrive and placed in the level appropriate to their language ability. Each class has a maximum of 14 students.

Tuition Fees(学费)

One-week Course (July 26—August 1) : $310

Two-week Course (July 26—August 8 ) : $ 620

The full payment must be received before the beginning of the courses.

Accommodations(食宿)

We provide housing, including breakfast & dinner, 7 days a week.

Single room : $ 250 per week

Twin room: $160 per person, per week You should reserve your accommodations before May 15 and all the accommodation fees must be paid in full before June 15.

How to Apply

Fill out an application form and send it to us at esc@sdc. edu.

Come to our college this summer and make yourself shine at English.

1.The aim of the courses is to help the high school students_____.

A. learn English

B. attend college

C. visit some high schools

D. travel to other countries

2.What are the tuition fees for the One-week Course?

A. $160.　　 B. $250.

C. $310.　　 D. $620.

3.If you want to apply for the course, you should___________.

A. choose a college　　 B. reserve a hotel room

C. check with the teachers　　 D. fill out a form and email it

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The best kept secret in San Diego is waiting to offer you a delightful getaway—without leaving town.

Less than three years ago, the Parisi Hotel was just an office building above the shops on the corner of Prospect Street. Now, that valuable space is an intimate luxury hotel with several rooms overlooking　 the ocean. You'll be amazed when you enter from the corner and ascend the curving staircase to the second­floor lobby.　 It will take you into a different world.

What　 will　 you find when you enter the large contemporary lobby is a hand some and peaceful space that was designed with a hint of Tuscany in its modern Mediterranean style. The lobby has a large fire place with comfortable sofas in warm neutral colors surrounding it. You'll feel relaxed just sitting there—with its skylight overhead letting in the morning sun.　 All the rooms are more like suites (套间), with　 large　 comfortable　 beds,　 beautiful baths and stylish custom­designed furnishings and art throughout.

The Parisi Hotel is the perfect place for seniors because it's quiet and restful—with only 20 rooms.　 You won't find many hotels like this in the center of a tourist town.

The shops are all around you.　 Likewise for some of the city's best restaurants, you will never have to take your car out of the garage during your stay.　 And, by the way, the underground parking lot at the Parisi Hotel is free for hotel guests.

Once you stay at this little gem (珍品),　 you'll want to return again and again. I know we do. It's a perfect place for seniors.

Rates　 for　 standard　 suites　 begin　 at $ 275. You can call the hotel for reservation at (858)454­1513. The Parisi Hotel is located at 1111 Prospect St.　 right across from La Valencia.

1.What does the underlined word “ascend” in Para.2 mean?

A. Find.　　 B. Change.

C. Use.　　 D. Climb.

2.When you enter the lobby, you will find that ________.

A. it is decorated　 with　 Mediterranean furniture

B. the walls are painted in bright colors

C. a large fireplace is burning all the time

D. sunlight comes through the window in the roof

3.The Parisi Hotel is perfect for old people because ________.

A. all the rooms are like suites with beautiful ocean view

B. it can give them the sense of peace

C. it is convenient for them to go shopping

D. it has stylish custom­designed furnishings and art throughout

4.According to the passage，________.

A. the price of the suites in the Parisi Hotel varies

B. the Parisi Hotel has furniture specially designed for old people

C. the Parisi Hotel is located in a secret place in San Diego

D. you must make a reservation before entering the hotel

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.How many beaches are in the San Diego area?

A. Seven.　　 B. Fifteen.　　 C. More than one hundred.

2.What can you find at Scripps Pier?

A. Many surfers.　　 B. A statue of dolphin.　　 C. A marine science university.

3.Where are the rides?

A. At Mission Beach.　　 B. At Coronado Beach.　　 C. At Black’s Beach.

4.What is true about Imperial Beach?

A. It’s next to Mexico.

B. It’s the best beach for diving.

C. It’s one of the top ten beaches in San Diego.

高二英语长对话中等难度题查看答案及解析

One warm May day, two eighteen – year – old students from San Francisco State College decided to cool off with a swim at Bakers’ Beach. The two students were named Robert Kogler and Shirley O’Neill. They headed out to sea for a distance of 50 meters. Robert was in front.

“Suddenly, I heard him scream,” Shirley recalls. “I looked round and saw this great grey thing going up in the air. The water seemed to be alive.”

Robert screamed again. “It’s a shark! Get out of here!”

An eye – witness, Army Sergeant Leo P. Day was on guard at the nearby army post. He saw exactly what happened next. “I could see this boy struggling with the shark in the water,” he said. “The sea was red with blood. He was shouting and signaling someone to go back, go back. Then I saw the girl. She was swimming towards him. She completely ignored his warning.”

Shirley reached Robert, and tried to take his hand.

“When I pulled, all I could see was his arm, handing by a thread,” she said.

So she put her arm about Robert’s back, and started to swim towards the shore. She kept praying “Don't’ let it attack again!” That journey to the shore seemed to last for hours. At last, as they neared the shore, a fisherman threw them a line, and pulled them both the rest of the way.

The young man had lost a lot of blood, and died two and a half hours later. From the teeth marks, experts identified the attacker as a Great White Shark.

For what Sergeant Day called “the greatest exhibition of bravery I have ever seen,” the President of the US gave Shirley a medal for bravery.

1.When Robert was attacked by a shark Shirley ________?         .

A．was swimming in the sea

B．was watching him on the shore

C．was on guard at the nearby army post

D．was shouting and struggling with a shark, too

2.Choose the right time order of the following events in the story.

a. Army Sergeant saw the girl swimming to the boy.

b. Shirley saw a great grey thing.

c. They headed out to sea.

d. Robert died.

e. A fisherman threw them a line.

f. He saw a boy struggling with a shark.

A．b, c, e, d, f, a        B．c, a, f, d, e, b C．b, c, f, a, d, e    D．c, b, f, a, e, d

3.We can learn from the passage that ______.         .

A．the two students were brave and considerate

B．the fisherman was adventurous and helpful

C．the experts didn’t do much research on sharks

D．the Sergeant cared too much about his own life

4. Which of the following is true?

A．The President of the US gave Shirley a medal for bravery.

B．They were swimming in a lake.

C．There is no eye – witness.

D．Shirley saved Robert’s life.

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What’s the destination of the trip?

A. Vancouver.　　 B. San Diego.　　 C. San Francisco.

2.How many days did the total trip last?

A. 42.　　 B. 40.　　 C. 36.

3.What transport did the man mostly use?

A. Train.　　 B. Bus.　　 C. Bicycle.

4.What’s the last question about?

A. The repair shops.　　 B. The tools to take.　　 C. The cost of the trip.

高二英语长对话困难题查看答案及解析

Diego Maradona is always considered as a ___ figure. On the one hand, he is one of the greatest football star looked up to by youngsters in the history. On the other hand, he is always a troublemaker.

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Travel can be stressful, so it is not unusual for airports to offer a room for relaxation. 1. San Francisco Airport has taken 2. idea one step further, offering a yoga room for passengers in need of a good stretch before their flights.

With blue walls and rule of silence, the room in Terminal 2 3. (design) at the suggestions of a passenger during an open meeting. Airport yoga lovers are directed to the room 4. the usual means — a picture, one 5. features a figure 6.(seat) in a full lotus position.

Airport director, John L. Martin, called the room, which opened last week, “another leap forward in providing our travelers with the opportunity and space to relax and reduce pressure on 7. own terms.”

The architects set the lights low and warm, and constructed a floating wall 8. (symbolize) “a light spirit and enlightened mind”

Yoga teacher, Tamal Dodge said, “How amazing it will be to stretch out 9. you get on a plane for a 12-hour flight! You are now given the opportunity to 10. (real) relax and prepare your body for something as tiring as sitting in an airplane scat for hours on end.”

高二英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Researchers at San Diego Zoo have been studying what has been described as the “secret language” of elephants. They have been monitoring（监测） communications between animals that cannot be heard by human ears.

The elephant’s call will be familiar to most people, but the animals also give out growls (低吼). Their growls, however, are only partly audible (听得见的); two-thirds of the call is at frequencies that are too low to be picked up by our hearing. To learn more about the inaudible part of the growl, the team attached (附在……上面) a microphone sensitive to these low frequencies and a GPS tracking system to eight of the zoo’s female elephants. The researchers could then relate the noises the animals were making to what they were doing. Matt Anderson, who led the project, told BBC News, “We’re excited to learn how they interact and contact with one another.”

The team has already learned that pregnant females use this low frequency communication to announce to the rest of their long gestation (妊娠期) of over two years, in the last 12 days we see the low part of the growl, which we can’t hear. This we believe is to announce to the rest of the herd that the baby is upcoming,” said Dr Anderson.

The researchers believe that this also warns the elephants to look out for coming danger. “You may think that a baby calf of about 300 pounds would not be as open to predation (捕食) as other species,” he says. “But packs of hyenas (袋狼) are a big threat in the wild.”

Female elephants are only in season for around four days every four years and these calls can be heard by males more than two miles away.

1.Why some elephants’ call is called “secret language”?

A．Because it can’t be heard by human ears.

B．Because it can only be heard by female elephants.

C．Because people don’t know its meanings.

D．Because people haven’t studied it completely.

2.By using a sensitive microphone and a GPS tracking system, the researchers wanted to find out.

A．where the elephants usually go

B．what the elephants’ growls really mean

C．how mother elephants raise baby calves

D．how elephants protect their babies.

3.A pregnant elephant uses inaudible growls to________.

A．show the location where she is staying

B．ask for help when she losses her way

C．scare away the enemy

D．let others know she will have a baby

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A．The elephants can speak like people.

B．The wild elephants’ ways to fight against enemies.

C．The “secret language” between elephants.

D．The special life of female elephants.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

For kids and many adults, a San Diego vacation means theme parks and other attractions. Before heading to a park, call or check its website for updated hours of operation; many parks have seasonal or holiday hours. Ticket prices listed here are for general admission, single-day use only.

Sea World San Diego

A 6-minute ride called Journey to Atlantis, which is to open in late May, tells the legend of the island nation. After the ride of Greek fishing boats, folks can visit a new exhibit of dolphins, which have not been on display at the park since 1998.

DETAILS: General admission is $46.95 for adults, $37.95 for children aged 3-9, free for children 2 and younger. 1-800-380-3230 or www.seaworld.

San Diego Zoo

There’s not much in the way of new attractions. The zoo has a baby panda, Mei Sheng. Nighttime Zoo, a program popular with families, starts June 26.

DETAILS: General admission is $21 for adults, $14 for children aged 3-11, free for children 2 and younger. 1-(619)-234-3153 or　 www.sandiegozoo,org.

Maritime (海的) Museum of San Diego

The HMS Surprise, the 18th-century British warship featured in the film Master and Commander, is on exhibit through Nov. 30.

DETAILS: The ship is in use for tours from 9 am to 8 pm daily. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and children aged 13-17, $5 for kids aged 6-12, and free for kids 5 and younger. 1-(619)-234-9153 or www.sdmaritime.org.

Old Town Trolley Tours

Visiting relatives or friends in San Diego? They can get a hometown pass and ride for free with your paid admission.

DETAILS: The main ticket booth (售票厅) is in Old Town at 4010 Twiggs. Hours are from 9 am to 5 pm, daily $25. www.historictours/sandiego.

1.The purpose of this passage is to _____.

A. warn　　 B. amuse　　 C. persuade　　 D. guide

2.If you want to enjoy the performance of dolphins, you should go to _____.

A. Sea World San Diego　　　　　　　　　 B. San Diego Zoo

C. Maritime Museum of San Diego　　　 D. Old Town Trolley Tours

3.If a couple visits San Diego Zoo with their children, one aged 3 and the other 2, the admission will be _____.

A. $ 35　　　 B. $ 49　　 C. $ 56　　 D. $ 70

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Rae Armantrout, who has been a poetry professor at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for two decades, has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for her most recent book, "Versed".

"I'm delighted and amazed at how much media recognition that the Pulitzer brings, as compared to even the National Book Critics Award, which I was also surprised and delighted to win," said Armantrout.

"For a long time, my writing has been just below the media radar, and to have this kind of attention, suddenly, with my 10th book, is really surprising."

Armantrout, a native Californian, received her bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley, where she studied with noted poet Denise Levertov, and her master's in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She is a founding member of Language Poets, a group in American poetry that analyzes the way language is used and raises questions to make the reader think.

In March, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Versed."

"This book has gotten more attention," Armantrout said, "but I don't feel as if it's better."

The first half of "Versed" focuses on the dark forces taking hold of the United States as it fought the war against Iraq. The second half looks at the dark forces casting a shadow over her own life after Armantrout was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.

Armantrout was shocked to learn she had won the Pulitzer but many of her colleagues were not. "Rae Armantrout is a unique voice in American poetry," said Seth Lerer, head of Arts and Humanities at UCSD.

"Versed", published by the Wesleyan University Press, did appear in a larger printing than her earlier works, which is about 2,700 copies. The new edition is scheduled to appear in May.

1.According to Rae Armantrout, __________

A．her 10th book is much better

B．her winning the Pulitzer is unexpected

C．the media is surprised at her works

D．she likes being recognized by her readers

2.Which of the following is true of Rae Armantrout?

A．She published a poetry textbook.

B．She used to teach Denise Levertov.

C．She started a poets' group with others.

D．She taught creative writing at UC Berkeley.

3.What can we learn about "Versed"?

A．It partly concerns the poet's own life.

B．It is mainly about the American army.

C．It is a book published two decades ago.

D．It consists of three parts.

4.Rae Armantrout's colleagues think that she __________.

A．should write more                      B．has a sweet voice

C．deserves the prize                      D．is a strange professor

5.What can we learn from the text?

A. "Versed" has been awarded twice.      B. Cancer made Armantrout stop writing.

C. Armantrout got her degrees at UCSD.      D. About 2,700 copies of "Versed" will be printed.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析