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HOLIDAY FUN AT THE POWERHOUSE

500 HARRIS STREET

ULTIMO ·TELEPHONE (02)9270111

Join in the holiday fun at the powerhouse this month linked to our new exhibition, Evolution & Revolution: Chinese dress 1700s to now．DON’T FORGET our other special event, the Club Med Circus School which is part of the Circus（马戏团）！150 years of circus in Australia exhibition experience!

◆Chinese Folk Dancing: Colorful Chinese dance and musical performances by The Chinese Folk Dancing School of Sydney．Dances include: the Golden and the Chinese drum dance．A feature will be the Qin dynasty Emperor’s count dance．Also included is a show of face painting for Beijing opera performances．

Sunday June29 and Wednesday July2 in the Turbine Hall, at 11:30 a．m．& 1:30 p．m．

◆Australian Chinese Children’s Arts Theatre: Well known children’s play experts from Shanghai lead this dynamic youth group．Performances include Chinese fairy tales and plays．

Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July in the Turbine Hall, at 11:30 a．m．& 1:30 p．m．

◆Chinese Youth League: A traditional performing arts group featuring performance highlights such as Red scarf and Spring flower dances, and a musician playing Er Hu．

Sunday 6 to Tuesday 8 July in the Turbine Hall．11:30 a．m．to 1:30 p．m．

◆Kids Activity: Make a Paper Horse: Young children make a paper horse cut out．(The horse is a frequent theme in Chinese painting, including a kind of advancement．) Suitable for ages 82 years．

Sunday 28 June to Tuesday 8 July in the Turbine Hall．12:00 p．m．to 1:00 p．m．

◆Club Med Circus School: Learn circus skills, including the trapeze, trampolining and magic．Note only for children over 5．There are 40 places available in each 1 hour session and these must be booked at the front desk, level 4, on the day．

Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 July at 11:30 a．m．& 1:00 p．m．

Enjoy unlimited free visits and many other benefits by becoming a Family member of the Powerhouse．Our family memberships cover two adults and all children under the age of 16 years at the one address．

All this for as little as $50．00 a year! Call (02)92170600 for more details．

1.When can you watch the Chinese drum dance?

A．On July 2． B．On July 3．

C．On July 6． D．On July 8．

2.To learn the magic tricks, you can go to ____________．

A．Kids Activity．

B．Chinese Youth League．

C．Club Med Circus School．

D．Children’s Arts Theatre．

3.What is required if you want to enjoy free visits to the Museum?

A．Calling (02)92170600．

B．Gaining family membership．

C．Coming for the holiday fun．

D．Paying Powerline $50．00 a year．

4.What is the main purpose of the text?

A．To attract visitors．

B．To present schedules．

C．To report the performances．

D．To teach kids Chinese arts．

Oseola McCarty spent more than 75 years washing and ironing other people’s clothes．As a laundrywoman, she was paid only a few dollars each time．Certainly nobody would consider her rich, so they were all amazed when Miss McCarty decided to donate $ 150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi．

The money was in fact her life savings．She could save such a large amount of money because she lived a very simple life．She never learned to drive, and when she wanted to go somewhere, she just walked．She never flew to anywhere till the donation，and in 50 years she had been out of the South only once．The house in which she lived was also a rather modest one her last uncle left her．Only after she became known in America did she begin to travel all over the country．Since then, she had been the subject of many interviews and articles and was even invited to the White House．

Her donation was for students who clearly needed financial help．She herself left school in the sixth grade and had never married or had children．She said to the reporters that the idea of helping somebody’s child go to college gave her much pleasure．

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用约120个词就Miss McCarty的捐助谈谈你的想法，内容包括：

（1）你如何看待她的捐助行为；

你认为她的捐助对受惠学生有哪些影响；

（3）如果你自己要捐助，你会选择哪个群体并陈述理由。

[写作要求]

1．作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子。

2．作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。

Oseola McCarty was a laundrywoman for more than 75 years．She earned a few dollars each time．But she donated $150,000 which was her life savings to help the students who needed financial help．

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I don’t think she will come to the meeting on time, ______?

A．do I B．do you

C．will she D．won’t she

When I got off the crowded bus, I found my pocket _____ and the disk in it with the important documents gone.

A. stolen B. missing

C. lost D. picked

What is your daughter doing now?

She is on the phone, ________with one of her schoolmates.

A. to chat B. chatting

C. chatted D. being chatted

It’s much easier to make friends ____ you have similar interests.

A. unless B. when

C. even though D. so that

PART THREE READING PREHENSION （共15小题；每小题 2分，满分30分）

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

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With school out and hot weather in, it’s not unusual for youngsters to gather around the refrigerator or the television rather than take part in active play. Such habits may be relaxing but can wreck a healthy lifestyle, say specialists at Texas Children’s Hospital.

“For some kids, the state of feeling bored triggers（引发）eating,” says Jennifer Thomas, a doctor at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. “A child can pick up 5 to 10 pounds over the course of a summer, so it’s important to recognize the difference between boredom（无聊）and hunger.”

Because children may be adjusting（适应）to lack of routine, adding some structure to their daily schedules can help. “For example, instead of letting kids eat while they watch television, permit eating only in the kitchen with the television turned off,” says Thomas. “This way can help determine if they are really hungry or just bored.”

If hunger causes a snack attack, nutritious snacks should be available（可得到的）and easy to reach, says Thomas. She suggests two or more servings of fruit and three or more servings of vegetables as a reasonable（合情理的）daily goal. Thomas says, “Fresh or frozen fruit is better than fruit juice. Fresh or frozen vegetables are better because canned vegetables usually contain salt.”

In general, kids should avoid snacks with high sugar content, says Thomas. “More importantly, if a sugary snack takes the place of healthier food, the child is not getting the nutrition he or she needs. High-fat food tends to make a child feel worried, while eating foods that are naturally lower in fat will make it easier for kids to feel more energetic and stay on the go.”

1.What can help to stop children from eating because of boredom?

A. Giving them a daily schedule.

B. Giving them a lot of snacks.

C. Preventing them from watching TV.

D. Making them eat a lot of fruits.

2.What kind of snacks should we give children?

A. Fruit juice.

B. Frozen fruit.

C. Canned vegetables.

D. Snacks rich in sugar.

3.Foods that are naturally lower in fat are necessary for children because _______.

A. they help children lose weight

B. they help children get necessary nutrition

C. they stop children from getting bored

D. they make children active and energetic

4.We can infer from the text that _______.

A. it’s hard to tell the difference between boredom and hunger

B. children may get bored for lack of routine in summer

C. we should limit children’s eating while they’re watching TV

D. nutritious snacks should be available at any time

5.The underlined word “wreck” in Paragraph 1 probably means“_______”.

A. improve B. change C. ruin D. include

请根据下面的提示，写一篇短文，介绍一位你最崇拜的偶像。

字数要求：120词左右。

1. Who do you admire (钦佩，欣赏) most?

2. What does / did he / she do?

3. Something interesting / moving you know about him / her.

4. What should you learn from him / her?

They are the little sweeties who look pretty cute in a photo，or when sleeping——but a lot less appealing at 30，000 ft，crying loudly in the seat fight next to you．

According to a new survey，almost seven in ten Britons dislike flying with babies so much that they would like to see child-free areas introduced on planes．As for long-distance flights where people want to sleep，almost one in four British travelers believes that no-kid-zones should be fixed as required sections．

The survey was conducted by bookings website LateDeals．co．uk，with 1，108 UK consumers questioned as to what they hate most about air travel．

And our dislike of noisy children and babies on planes runs deep．it seems．

More than a third of us—35 per cent—would pay extra to travel on a childless service．

Long-distance passengers would be prepared to pay an additional ￡63 to the cost of a return ticket if it meant adults only on board．And on short-distance flights，an extra ￡28 on the price of a return fare would be considered good value if it guaranteed an absence of angry babies in the middle of the economy-class aisle(走道)．

However，screaming babies are not the only source of annoyance for British travellers．In fact，according to the research on the most annoying types of airline passengers，a crying baby ranks as only the fourth．Over half of those surveyed—58 percent—selected ‘drunk travellers’ as their pet peeves．People with‘bad personal hygiene(卫生)’and travellers who kick the back of the seat in front were also near the top of the list，causing anger to 48 and 47 per cent of us respectively(分别地)．

Crying babies came in at fourth on the list，a pet peeve for 43 per cent of those surveyed．

1.Britons dislike flying with babies because they_________．

A．make too much noise

B．get angry easily

C．sleep right next to them

D．stay in the economy-class aisle

2.How many British travellers surveyed would like to have no-kid-zones on planes?

A．About 35％． B．About 43％．

C．About 70％． D．About 58％．

3.What kind of passengers is most disliked by British airline travellers?

A．The crying babies on a flight．

B．People with bad personal hygiene．

C．Those who have drunk too much alcohol．

D．Those who kick the back of the seat in front

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Lionel Messi，a player from the South American country of Argentina, 1. (be)the greatest soccer player alive today．At a young age，he 2. (move)to Spain and now plays professionally for the Barcelona soccer club．Messi started playing soccer at 3. age of 5 for a small soccer team 4. (own)by his father．Even as a young boy,he did very well．But when he was 11 years old, he found out he had a sickness which would prevent him5. growing much taller. There was a way to help him grow more，6. his parents did not have enough money to pay for his medical needs．So，they looked around for a Soccer club 7. would be able to do this for them．The clubs in Argentina couldn’t help him，but the famous Barcelona club in Spain offered 8.(accept)Messi on the junior team and pay for the bills．The Messi family 9. (happy)took the offer and moved to Spain．In the Barcelona soccer club，Messi was one of the best 10. (player) through his teen years．With his incredible talent，Messi has surprised the world．