As soon as you land at London Heathrow airport, you will see it is easy for you to ride the subway or take a bus to your hotel. However, if you are planning on touring London, it would be the best idea for you to rent a car so that you can go wherever you wish to visit freely and you don’t have to run to catch a bus or a train. Remember that the trains in London are always very crowded. So a rental car is the easiest and most comfortable way to travel.

London has so many different attractions（旅游景点） to offer and the same is true for England itself. In London you can find Buckingham Palace, which you can also visit during summer time when the Queen of England goes to one of the castles（城堡）around the country. If you are interested in history and art, you can’t miss the National Gallery, which is right in front of Trafalgar Square. Not far from Trafalgar Square, there is the House of Parliament that faces the Thames River. If you wish to have a good view of London, then the best idea would be to take a ride on the London Eye, the tallest Ferris wheel（摩天轮）of Europe. The tour takes about half an hour so you can sit comfortably and take pictures of London from above.

London is not too far from other major cities and attractions in England. For example, a drive of only one hour and a half will take you to Cambridge and with even less time than that you can reach Stonehenge to see the stones that have been there for centuries.

1.According to the passage, the best way for you to tour London is ______________.

A．to take the subway                      B．to take buses

C．to take the train                        D．to rent a car

2.If you wish to take pictures of London from above, you’d better ______________.

A．pay a visit to the National Gallery

B．visit Buckingham Palace

C．take a ride on the London Eye

D．take a plane

3.Among these attractions, _____________ are in London.

①Buckingham Palace

②The London Eye

③Stonehenge

④Trafalgar Square

A．①②③           B．②③④           C．①②④           D．①③④

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．By visiting the National Gallery, you can learn much about history and art.

B．The House of Parliament lies by the Thames River.

C．Cambridge is just one and a half hours’ drive from London.

D．The stones in Stonehenge have been there for only a hundred years.

 

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Imagine a normal day: you go to work, return home, and maybe buy somethings on your way home.1.. For a large number of people, the answer to that question is zero.

Ever since the Industrial Revolution（工业革命）began, many changes have taken place in our world.2..

Want to buy a pair of shoes? An MP3 player? A book? It’s only a few clicks(点击) away. Need a computer? A gift? A tennis racket? Click. No need to even leave your house.3.And the quality of crops that are grown and harvested(收割) by computers is getting better.

You are probably booking (预定) your hotel room online. When can we choose our own rooms and get our keys by ourselves? We also hope that everything we want to buy at the supermarket will be ready for us when we arrive.4.Researchers have already designed a robot to correctly find your preferred beer and bring it to you.

Will human jobs be completely done by robots? We don’t know. But computers are doing more and more jobs for humans.

5.How many examples of ways of doing things does the author pick up to show the advantages of computers?

A. Five.  B. Four.  C. Six.  D. Three.

A. On the farm, machines are used, and more and more farm jobs can be done by machines.

B. In a factory, workers are busy making products.

C. Many jobs done by humans in the past are now being done by technology(技术) instead.

D. How many people do you have to talk with to do those everyday tasks?

E. In fact, a restaurant in China recently started using some robots to serve people.

 

 

 

In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice. Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes and telephone hot lines, too. Most telephone hot lines are completely anonymous---callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usually free, too, even if the calls are long distance(距离). Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are professionals with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems.

1.Today when people have problems, ________．

A．they can only ask their families for help

B．they can only get help from their friends

C．they can get help from telephone hot lines

D．they go to the advisers to get help

2.Callers          the hot line for the advice or the phone calls．

A．pay much                                                                     B．have to pay

C．don’t have to pay                                                        D．get money from

3.The advisers working at the hot line                ．

A．are usually professionals                                          B．have all taken a short class

C．can solve any problem                                              D．are not all paid

4.How do the hot line advisers work?

A．They do what the callers tell them to do．

B．They go to the callers to help them．

C．They give advice to the callers by phone．

D．They ask people to come to see him．

 

Almost every Chinese person can recite(背诵) the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work ”. But sadly, many of us don’t actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don’t waste food.

A CCTV program reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. Do we have too much food? Absolutely not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2011, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.

Chinese people are well-known for being friendly and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table. Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food?

1. Don’t order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.

2. Don’t leave any food in your bowls while having meals.

3. Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.

1.What’s the real meaning of the underlined sentence?

A．春种一粒粟，秋收万颗籽。              B．谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。

C．吏禄三百石，岁晏有余粮。              D．足蒸暑土气，背灼炎天光。

2.According to the UN report, how many hungry people were there in 2011?

A．6 million.          B．925 million.        C．200 million.        D．725 million.

3.What should we do to waste less food?

A．Order more food in a restaurant.

B．Every time you eat, leave some food in your bowls.

C．Take all the food you ordered home.

D．Don’t store too much food like vegetables and fruit.

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．A number of people have realized the importance of saving food.

B．The food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.

C．200 million children die of hunger every year.

D．Many Chinese feel that they lose face if guests have eaten all the food on the table.

5.What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．Don’t waste food.

B．Chinese people are friendly and generous.

C．We can’t die of hunger.

D．Every grain is grown by farmers.

 

When Mr. David retired（退休）， he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.

But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From room morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. David's garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said: "If you want to satisfy your curiosity(好奇心), come in and look around. Price; twenty dollars." Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. "I came here to retire, not to work as a guide." he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

1.Mr. David's house was ________that many tourists came to see it.

A．so small           B．so quiet           C．so interesting      D．so big

2.Mr. David put a notice on the window in order_______.

A．to drive the visitors away

B．to satisfy the visitors' curiosity

C．to let visitors come in and look around

D．to get some money out of the visitors

3.The notice made the visitors________.

A．more interested in his house              B．lose interest in his house

C．angry at the unfair price                  D．feel happy about the price

4.After Mr. David put up the notice________.

A．the visitors didn’t come any longer

B．fewer and fewer visitors came to see his house

C．more and more tourists came for a visit

D．no tourist would pay the money for a visit

5.At last Mr. David had to sell his house and move away because _____.

A．he did not like it at all

B．he could not work as a guide

C．he made enough money and wanted to buy a new expensive house

D．he could not live a quiet life in it