International Book Club
Have you ever thought of joining a book club and buying new books through the post? Here at the International Book Club, we already have many members buying books from us by mail.
Immediate benefits:
●As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members' book list, to the value of $6 in total (plus postage and packing). By doing this, you will save pounds on the publishers prices.
●Tick the box on your form to order a free watch.
●If you reply within seven days, we will send you another free gift carefully chosen from our book list by our staff.
●Order a DVD from the many on offer in our list, at half the recommended retail price.
●When you've joined：
As a member, you'll enjoy savings of between 30% and 50% off the publisher's price on every book you buy, and what's more, they'll come straight to your door. Your free club magazine arrives once a month, to keep you up-to-date with the latest best-sellers. This means that every year we offer over 1,000 books to choose from. On the Internet, you can find all our titles for the year on our exclusive members' website.
Being a member：
All we are asking you to do while you are a member is to choose four books during your first year. After that, you can decide on the number of books you wish to take.
In each of our monthly club magazines, our experienced staff choose a Club Choice book — a work of fiction or a reference title which they feel is particularly worth buying, and which is offered at an extra-special price. However, if you do not want this book, just say so in the space provided on the form. We will always send the book if we do not receive this.
So, return your application form today, but hurry — it's not every day we can make you an offer like this. To apply to become a member, all you need to do is simply fill in the enclosed form and return it in the postage-paid envelope supplied.
Before you know it, your books will be with you. Please don't send any money now, as we will send you your bill with the books. And remember, you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. You should then either return the books or send your payment.
1.Which of the following doesn't belong to the benefits of being a club member?
A．Get a gift for nothing.
B．Order a free watch.
C．Get four books for free in the first year.
D．Order a DVD at a low price.
2.Every month the club provides a free club magazine in order to ________.
A．let readers know the number of books to be sold
B．attract more and more readers to join the club
C．make readers know the club's development
D．keep readers well informed of recent best-selling books
3.If a book is worth $100, how much will a member probably save if he buys one?
A．$20.B．$70.C．$60.D．$40.
4.After you get your books, you should ________.
A．express your idea in the space provided in the book
B．choose whether to keep them or not after you read them carefully
C．decide whether to keep them or not within a certain period of time
D．send money to the club at once
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The human body can ________ itself to changes of temperature slowly.
A. advocate B. attain C. adjust D. arise
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The Regional Director of the National Heritage Conservation Commission (国家遗产保护委员会) Kagosi Mwamulowe said the Barotse Plains is unique and it deserves to be on the list of the World Heritage Sites.
Mr. Mwamulowe said the Barotse Plains deserves to be included on the World Heritage List because it has a rich cultural heritage which includes the burial sites of former kings.
The Director said he hoped that the landscape would be declared as a heritage site next year in June. He also said it was important to protect Zambia’s unique culture for education and entertainment.
Chief Natural Heritage Officer Muyumbwa Ndiyoi said there will be a lot of benefits when the Barotse Landscape is declared a World Heritage Site because it will attract many tourists and business investments will increase.
Mr. Ndiyoi said the site will also benefit young people as knowledge will be passed down from generation to generation.
He was reacting to a question from Nalolo District Labour Officer Jason Ngoma who wanted to know how the people of Western Province will benefit once the Barotse Landscape is declared a World Heritage Site.
And University of Zambia Lecturer Charles Namate said there is a need for the site to be included on the World Heritage List because 50 years after its independence Zambia only has one heritage site, which is the Victoria Falls.
Lecturer Namate said the Barotse Landscape was facing a lot of environmental degradation (恶化), and that’s why there is a need to recognize the value of its landscape and the memories of dead kings.
The National Heritage Conservation Commission together with the Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs are in Western Province to hold meetings with Heads of Government Departments. The Commission also held closed-door meetings with the Litunga Lubosi Imwiko II of the Barotse Royal Establishment.
1.What do we know about the Barotse Plains?
A. It has royal tombs.
B. It is being well protected.
C. It is not far from the Victoria Falls.
D. It’ll be listed as a World Heritage Site soon.
2.Mr. Ndiyoi believes that if the Barotse Plains is declared a World Heritage Site, ________.
A. it won’t benefit the people of Western Province
B. it will attract many foreign students and researchers
C. it will contribute to the local economic development
D. more people will start to learn about Zambia’s culture
3.In the text, Lecturer Namate expressed his concern about ________.
A. the future of the Barotse Plains
B. the development of Western Province
C. the development of tourism in Zambia
D. the environmental problems of the Barotse Plains
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. Zambia only has two World Heritage Sites.
B. The Barotse Landscape has been partly destroyed.
C. The Barotse Landscape issue is still being discussed.
D. Young people in Zambia don’t know about Barotse culture.
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Tu Youyou’s years’ of hard work ________ when she finally won the Nobel Prize.
A. went onB. ended upC. got throughD. paid off
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书面表达
你校将于2016年9月12号举行隆重的建校110周年的校庆活动。届时将会有来自国内外的一些校友前来参加。假设你是学生会主席，现要代表学生会起草一份书面通知，就参加此次活动做简要阐述。
内容包括：
1. 欢迎大家参加此次活动；
2. 活动时间：9月12号9：00~17：00
活动内容和地点：文艺节目（学校体育馆）
演讲、教学研讨会（教学楼）
3. 活动期间应该注意的事项（至少两项）。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 文中不可透露个人姓名和学校名称。
参考词汇：校友alumni
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EVERYONE’S talking about it in American high schools. Whether they are hip-hop fans or just students or just students or teachers who listen to good music of any genre(类型), they all have one thing in common: an obsession with Hamilton, a hip-hop musical about the forgotten founding father of the United States on the $10 bill. What makes this musical so different from all the other ones？
“Everybody is so excited about it.” Mark Madama, associate professor of musical theater at the University of Michigan, said, “It is something for the students. Hip-hop music is what they listen to when they are walking down the street and all of a sudden, now that is also the music that is in musical theater.”
The full title of the show is Hamilton: An American Musical, and it tells the stories of Alexander Hamilton’s life: from a homeless orphan to Washington’s right hand man(得力助手), from an unknown to war hero. The idea of a Broadway musical about a founding father with hip-hop music has gotten enough attention on its own.
One of the most amazing details of this phenomenon is that most of the students have never even seen it. Nazareth High School junior Maddy Schierl has never seen the show live but said she still relates to it deeply. “There is so much emotion in the music that I feel like I have experienced the show’s essence(本质)without even having to see it,” Schierl said.
Students and teachers are finding other ways to fall in love with Hamilton, whether they do it through listening to its music, watching short videos on YouTube or even studying it in the classroom. Katja Stonebraker, who teaches AP US history at Cary-Grove High School, described the musical as “ a teacher’s dream”, Stonebraker plans to use Hamilton more in the future because of the interesting perspective it tells Hamilton’s story from.
“ You see these old dead guys, and they are who you have to memorize and learn,” Stonebraker said,-But I think Hamilton makes history real and relatable.”
1.The underlined word “obsession” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. strong enthusiasm B. great respect
C. lack of interest D. total surprise
2.Hamilton is a musical that appeals to students because______.
A. its story is closely related to students’ lives today
B. it uses hip-hop, which is very popular among students
C. it has been specially designed to satisfy students’ tastes
D. it tells interesting stories from the life of a founding father of the US
3.The example of Maddy Schierl is used to ______.
A. prove that Hamilton is very popular among students
B give an example of people’s comments about Hamilton
C. explore the controversies behind Hamilton’s popularity
D. show that people can connect to Hamilton without seeing it
4.Which of the following statements would Stonebraker probably agree with?
A. Hamilton tells Hamilton’s story vividly and from a different viewpoint.
B. Hamilton is the best teaching material she has ever used
C. Every student will become more interested in history after seeing Hamilton.
D. There will be more musicals about historical figures in the future.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届河南洛阳一中高三上期周练英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Time for Kids (TFK) gets the great news on the coolest toys for 2014 at the 111th American International Toy Fair.
What’s four days long, bigger than seven football fields, and filled with thousands of toys? It’s Toy Fair 2014!
Each year, hundreds of toy companies from across the country come together in New York City. All kinds of products are shown as a way to know what’s to come in the new year. This year’s trends include oversize toys. “In 2014, everything is really big and really out there,” says Adrienne Appell, a toy-trends expert.
Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere (西半球). Toy-store buyers go to the event to decide which toys they may want to sell during the holiday season. Members of the media, like TFK, go to the fair to report back on all the cool trends. Unfortunately, Toy Fair is not open to the public.
This year’s Toy Fair was the biggest in its 111-year history. More than 1,000 toy companies showed products from simple card games to high-tech robots. “Larger Than Life” was a Toy Fair favorite. This trend is all about big toys with a big play value.
Though it is all fun and games at Toy Fair, we saw lots of products making a push towards education, with STEAM. That stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This trend includes word games. And of course, we saw some super cool, high-tech games. “Technology is always going to influence toys,” says Appell. “This year we saw lots of 3D games, and robots.”
To know more information about the event, click here to watch the video.
1.What can we infer from Toy Fair 2014?
A. Toys are becoming more educational than fun.
B. Robots are great favorites of buyers.
C. Big toys will be popular this year.
D. Simple card games will disappear on the market.
2.What’s special about Toy Fair 2014?
A. It is the largest.
B. It is the longest.
C. It sells all of its toys.
D. It’s held in New York City.
3.What’s the best title for the text?
A. Kids love toys
B. Toy-stores in New York City
C. Technology changes toys
D. Time for toys
4.The text is taken from a(n) ________.
A. websiteB. newspaperC. magazineD. Textbook
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The USA
Well, imagine how my sister felt when she went off for the first time to New York for a business trip. After a few days she was still amazed at how friendly everyone was to her until she took a taxi back to her hotel one night. First she gave just the name of the hotel, but when asked she said the address too. Then she was asked how to get there, but of course she didn’t know. Imagine how frightened she was when the driver started shouting at her for not knowing the way.
The UK
A friend was in London for a conference. He took a taxi and there were no problems: the driver knew the way and was very cheerful. The problem started when he realized he had stupidly left his laptop on the back seat! He called the company up and, in a panic, went straightaway to their Lost and Found office. He was over the moon to find the laptop waiting for him, and then very surprised that it was one of 2,900 left in taxis over the past six months!
Tunisia
Well, my brother took a Mediterranean cruise(巡游) one summer and had a day in Tunis. He spent most of the afternoon in the Medina buying presents when he suddenly realized he’d completely lost track of time and there was only half an hour before the ship left the port. There had been loads of yellow taxis in the centre so he wasn’t too bothered until he stood on the pavement and waited for one to appear——and of course there wasn’t a single one in sight! Nothing! He questioned a passer-by who explained that the cost for the taxi ride goes up in the evening so the taxi drivers disappear until they can charge higher prices! Luckily for my brother the man then offered to give him a lift and he caught the boat on time!
1.What was the author’s sister’s trip by taxi in the US like?
A. Unpleasing and scary. B. Tiring but impressive.
C. Relaxing and exciting. D. Interesting but strange
2.The underlined part “over the moon” in Paragraph 2 can best be replaced by “________”.
A. very happy B. extremely sad
C. quite surprised D. pretty annoyed
3.Why couldn’t the author’s brother find a taxi in Tunis?
A. Because it was too late.
B. Because the weather was bad.
C. Because he didn’t know how to call a taxi.
D. Because the taxi drivers disappeared on purpose.
4.What do the three stories have in common?
A. They are all about taking a taxi.
B. They are all about business trips.
C. They are all about great services.
D. They are all about the author’s family.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届高三一轮复习新人教版必修2第1单元练习英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
The lady standing over there may be from the USA, _____ I guess has lost her way.
A. whom B. who
C. which D. where
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