If you plan on visiting to Fiji, you are probably looking for some fun things to do. Below are four unusual places.
The Poseidon Resort
The Poseidon resort is an underwater resort that gives visitors a beautiful view of sea life. This resort covers 255 acres. It’s covered and surrounded by a lagoon (咸水湖) that covers 5,000 acres and is about 90 feet under water, giving you a beautiful view of sea life right before your eyes. This resort even has a hotel for those who would prefer to have the unusual experience of sleeping and waking up to the beautiful scenery all around them.
The Sabeto Mud Pool
If you’re looking for something unusual to do, you can’t pass up the mud pool at Sabeto. It is located in a mountain range with a huge group of Geothermal (地热的) pools full of nice, warm mud. Getting down and into the mud in the pool is believed to have benefits for healthy skin. This is unusual, but adults and especially kids will love it.
Fire Walking
Fire walking in Fiji is believed to have originated on the island of Beau. Fire walking is when you walk on white-hot stones barefoot. To do this, you have to be mentally prepared for it. Trust me; there is a lot of preparation and strict rules that travelers follow in order to do this safely.
The Fiji Museum
The Fiji museum is unusual due to all the amazing artifacts you’ll see dating back 3,000-4,000 years. This museum has a certain attraction that makes it funny—a shoe. It’s been said that a man named Thomas Baker was eaten by the locals several centuries ago and the only thing left was his shoe. This unusual museum is a great idea if you bring the whole family to Fiji.
【小题1】Visitors who have the unusual experience of sleeping at the Poseidon resort can _________.

A．enjoy the excellent service in the hotel

B．open windows to see sea life swimming

C．see sea life around them in the room

D．only watch videos about sea life

【小题2】Why do adults like to get down into the mud pool?

A．To float on the warm mud

B．To make them strong

C．To play with the warm mud

D．To keep their skin healthy

【小题3】Which of the following things needs more courage and stricter rules?

A．Trying fire walking

B．Visiting the Poseidon resort

C．Getting into the Sabeto Mud Pool

D．Visiting the Fiji museum

【小题4】The underlined word “artifacts” in Paragraph 5 means__________.

A．historic things made by man

B．things invented not long ago

C．things that look very strange

D．useful things in people’s daily life

Experts do not really know when people began keeping fish as pets. But they say that people have been interested in fish for thousands of years. Some say the ancient Sumerians were the first civilization to keep fish in ponds more than four thousand years ago. The Chinese kept and studied carp and goldfish more than one thousand years ago. The ancient Romans kept eels as pets. And the Greek philosopher Aristotle made what is believed to be the first known study of sea life, including sharks and dolphins.
Keeping fish at home in small water tanks called aquariums is extremely popular today. And everyone seems to enjoy visiting huge public aquariums that have opened around the world.
By the middle of the eighteen hundreds, science had shown that plants, fish and other sea creatures could survive together under water. So it was no longer necessary to change the water in a tank for the fish to live there. This led to the building of the first public aquariums.
The first aquariums opened in London, England in 1853. in the next fifteen years, other aquariums opened in Europe and the United States. By 1928, there were about forty-five public aquariums.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been recognized as the first aquarium in the United States and it shows visitors the underwater life in the bay. The Georgia Aquarium opening in 2005 says it is the largest in the world. It has more than one hundred thousand sea animals in thirty million liters of water including two whale sharks---the world’s largest fish.
Another aquarium re-opened in 2005 in Camden, New Jersey. The Adventure Aquarium first opened in 1992. It spent about fifty million dollars expanding its building and improving its exhibits.
Aquariums provide the public with many chances to experience life under the sea. They can be found in most areas of the world. People might even want to start an aquarium at home and join the millions of people around the world who keep fish as pets.
【小题1】Which aquarium opened again after its rebuilding ?

A．The Monterey Bay Aquarium.	B．The Adventure Aquarium.
C．The Georgia Aquarium.	D．The first aquarium in London.

【小题2】Which of the following is NOT mentioned to have kept fish as pets?

A．The ancient Sumerians.

B．The ancient Romans.

C．The Chinese.

D．The ancient Indians.

【小题3】Which of the following is correct?

A．People were not interested in fish until the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

B．The Moneterey Bay Aquarium is regarded as the best aquarium in America.

C．Plants, fish and other sea creatures could not survive together under sea.

D．People have to change the water in a tank frequently for the fish to live there.

【小题4】 The passage is written mainly       .

A．to tell people the importance of keeping fish as pets

B．to explain why people want to visit aquariums

C．to let people know the development of the aquariums

D．to describe different aquariums

【小题5】What does the underlined word “aquariums” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Exhibition centres where people can watch and enjoy different species of fish.

B．Small boxes made of glass, where people keep fish in, usually at home.

C．Places which shows visitors the underwater life in the bay.

D．Places which provides the public with many chances to experience life under the sea.

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There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand, although you can’t hear it. It is sign language.

When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, “I want to be friendly”, but you are not using speech. You are using sign language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, “Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.”

Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language.

Many years ago, a French priest, Charles Michel de Epee, became interested in education for deaf people. He invented a finger alphabet (字母表). It is still in use. People can make the sign for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.

Today, in the United States, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen.

The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don’t spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together, it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to show a house. One finger in front of an actor’s mouth can mean quiet. You can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have conversations under water.

How many hand signs do you use every day?

63. Which of the following about sign language is TRUE?

A. It is a special language used in a few countries in the world.

B. It is a way to express one’s ideas without words.

C. It is only used by the deaf.             

D. It can be heard.

64. If you want to express the idea that “I am very friendly” to someone, you will ______.

A. raise your hand                          B. put one hand onto the other

C. smile to the person                     D. make a roof with your hands

65. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Hand signs instead of finger signs are used everyday.

B. There are schools, colleges and universities for the deaf in the USA.

C. The French priest Charles invented sign language. 

D. Even babies are using sign language.

66. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. an introduction to sign language      B. the importance of sign language

C. a famous priest in France            D. how to use sign language 

 

Experiments have proved that children can   1         (instruct) in swimming at a very early age. At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at   2     (hold) their breath under water even before they can walk.          3          (baby) of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water. It is not long   4        they are so accustomed to swimming   5         they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool. A game that is very popular with these young   6       (swim) is the underwater tricycle race. Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water. The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool. Many pedal their tricycles,  7      most of them prefer to push or drag them. Some children   8       cover the whole length of the pool   9        coming up for breath even once. Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell. Meanwhile, they should encourage     10         among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.

      

It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and/or heavy automobile traffic. Today, we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is actually worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution. Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creating a “greenhouse effect" - holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world's average temperature. If this view is correct and the world's temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be under water.

Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particulate (废气排往空中而形成的微粒、颗粒) matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth's temperature ─ a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely). Perhaps, if we are very lucky, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world's temperature will stay about the same as it is now.

As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution ______.

    A. caused widespread damage in the countryside

    B. affected the entire eastern half of the United States

    C. had damaging effects on health

    D. existed merely in urban and industrial areas

As far as the greenhouse effect is concerned, the author ______.

    A. shares the same view with the scientists

    B. is uncertain of its occurrence

    C. rejects it as being ungrounded

    D. thinks that it will destroy the world soon

The underlined word “offset" in Para. 2 could best be replaced by______.

    A. slip into    B. make up for  C. set up   D. catch up with

This passage is mainly concerned with ______.

    A. the greenhouse effect                B. the burning of fossil fuels

    C. the potential effect of air pollution    D. the possibility of a new ice age