The Snowdonia Center The Snowdonia Center for young mountain climbers has a climbing lesson. The beginners’ costs are $57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment (设备) is included except walking shoes, which can be hired (租用) at a low cost. You must be in good health and prepared to go through body exercise. This could be the beginning of a lifetime of mountain climbing adventure (冒险).

 

Holiday News Vacations now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, friendly home-from-home hotel is near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome. Reduced prices are offered for low season.

 

The World Sea Trip of a Lifetime Our World Sea Trip of 2014 will be unlike any holiday that you have ever had before. You just go to bed in one country and wake up in another on the ship. But if you stay at one hotel after another as you traveled before, you’ll have to pack and unpack all your things, wait and travel during the tour. On the ship, you will be well taken care of. Every meal will be first-class and every cabin (房舱) will be like your home. During the trip, you can rest on deck (甲板), enjoy yourself in the game rooms and in the evening dance to our musical team and watch our wonderful play You will visit all the places most people only dream about---from Acapulco and Hawaii to Tokyo and Hong Kong. For a few thousand dollars, all the things can be yours.

小题1:What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?

A．Choose the holiday in Devon.

B．Go to the Snowdonia Center.

C．Join the World Sea Trip of 2014.

D．Visit Acapulco and Hawaii.

小题2:In what way is the Snowdonia Center different from the other two holidays?

A．It provides chances for families to get together.

B．It provides customers with good food.

C．It offers a climbing lesson.

D．It offers comfortable rooms.

小题3:What is the most special about the World Sea Trip of 2014?

A．You can have free meals on deck every day.

B．You can sleep on a ship and travel to many places.

C．You can dance to your own favourite music.

D．You have to pack and unpack your things.

You’re on the school bus. But as soon as you turn the corner, you find yourself at the end of a very long queue. It’s another traffic jam! It is stop-start for the rest of your journey. Meanwhile, at the same time in Antarctica(南极洲), snow covers the land. A group of emperor penguins crowd together to keep warm, using stop-and-go movements to protect themselves from the winds. Can you see the connection?
Emperor penguins move like cars in traffic jams to keep warm, that’s according to new research by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marina Research in Germany. A penguin only needs to move 2cm in any direction for its neighbor to do the same thing. These movements then flow(流动) through the whole group of penguins like a “traveling wave”.
These waves also help smaller crowds join bigger groups, keeping more and more of their friends warm. A single Antarctic “traffic jam” has thousands of penguins. Interestingly, the technology used for studying road traffic jams was used to study the penguins. This included studying time-lapse(延时) videos. Scientists also discovered that unlike on the road, these waves can be made by any penguin and in any direction.
With temperatures usually dropping below –50℃, and winds reaching speeds of up to 200km/h, these traveling waves are very important for penguins to keep warm.
These penguins can also teach us a lesson. In big groups, they learn to be orderly and patient, and to never crash into each other. These are skills we should all learn from them when we are on the road!
小题1:Emperor penguins get together to _____.

A．keep warm

B．play games

C．learn from each other

D．cross the road

小题2:In a traffic jam on the road, __________.

A．drivers can drive fast	B．drivers can drive carelessly
C．cars are not moving fast	D．cars will stop working

小题3:From the passage, we learn that a “traveling wave” _____.

A．is caused by a traffic jam on the road

B．is caused by the strong wind in Antarctica

C．is formed by the movement of the penguins

D．is made by just one or two penguins

小题4:If a penguin is in a group, it _____.

A．needs to move orderly	B．can move as fast as it likes
C．will not leave others behind	D．should move as slowly as it can

小题5:The last paragraph wants to tell us that _____.

A．penguins won’t move together if it is not very cold

B．traffic jams happen probably because people are impatient

C．penguins learn their skills from human beings

D．penguins are likely to crash into each other in a group

Before my first summer vacation at college, my roommate Ted asked me to work with him on his father’s farm in Argentina. The idea of spending two months in Argentina was exciting. But I was afraid of it. I had never been far from New England. What would it be like in a strange country? What about the language? The more I thought about it, the more the idea worried me.
In the end I turned down the invitation. As soon as Ted asked somebody else to go, I began kicking myself. I had turned down something I wanted to do because I was afraid, and had ended up feeling depressed (沮丧的) . That unhappy summer taught me a valuable lesson out of which I developed a rule for myself: do what makes you worried; don’t do what makes you depressed.
At the end of my senior year, I began to think about becoming a writer. But my professor was telling me to aim at teaching. I hesitated (犹豫). The idea of trying to live by writing was a lot scarier than spending a summer in Argentina. Back and forth I went, making my decision, unmaking it. Suddenly I realized that every time I gave up the idea of writing, that downhearted feeling went through me.
Giving up on what I really wanted to do depressed me. Right then I learned another lesson. To avoid that kind of depression meant having to bear a certain amount of worry and concern.
When I first began writing articles, I was frequently required to interview big names. Before each interview I would get anxieties (焦虑) in the mind and my hands would shake. One person I particularly admired was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed the very model of confidence. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright and had anxietyattacks. I went on doing those frightening interviews. Then I realized that I was even looking forward to the interviews. What had happened to those anxieties?
Well, in truth, the anxieties were still there, but there were fewer of them. I had benefited from a process of overcoming them. If you put an individual in an anxious situation often enough, he will eventually learn that there isn’t anything to be worried about. This brings me to a conclusion: you’ll never get rid of anxiety by avoiding the things that caused it. The point is that the new, the different, is definitely scary (可怕的). But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.
小题1:What does the phrase “turned down” mean in the second paragraph?

A．To say “No” to his roommate.	B．To say in a low voice.
C．To put away the invitation.	D．To take the invitation.

小题2:We can infer from the passage that the writer________.

A．finds it difficult to make decision

B．has found out what causes anxiety

C．was inspired (受启发的) by Duke Ellington’s stage fright

D．no longer feels anxious about new experiences

小题3:Which of the following opinions does the writer probably accept?

A．Hesitation leads to depression.

B．Anxiety can be a positive drive.

C．Avoiding anxiety reduces depression.

D．Depression is a signal that one is growing up.