Guided Walking Week April 2016

Dates: April 30th-May 7th 2016

Location: Abdet, Costa Blanca

A week of guided walking in the mountains around Abdet. Highlights include the climbing of Valencia’s highest summit (Sierra de Aitana), traveling completely around the impressive Puig Campana, and several explorations in the Sierra de Aitana. Ancient trails lead through spectacular canyons(峡谷) to abandoned settlements situated high in the mountains. You will discover the snow trader routes which lead from the incredible snow holes high in the mountains down to the villages and towns on the coast. These years, golden eagles have made a return to this area, and you may also see other animals—wild goats, foxes, wild pigs and red squirrels.

As part of the week you are invited to help clear some local walking paths. This involves clearing collapsed walls and rocks, cutting back fallen trees. This is of course optional and is just for half a day, it’s actually great fun!

Price:$499

Includes:

Accommodation in the beautiful mountain village of Abdet

All food-good home cooking

Beer, wine, soft drinks

Snacks and post walk treats

Packed lunches & drinks(except café/bar visits)

Expert guiding

Photos/Videos of your days in the mountains

Airport pick-up/return $25 each way(fly to Alicante)

Single room supplement $75

To book or get further information, please contact info@abdet.com.

1. What will you find during the guided walking?

A. Climbing Sierra de Aitana is the most exciting

B. Ancient trails have changed into highways.

C. The environment in Abdet is getting better.

D. Traders live in incredible snow holes.

2. What may you enjoy if you pay $499?

A. Packed lunches including bar visits.

B. Good home cooking breakfast only.

C. Bus stop pick-up/return each way.

D. Pictures and professional guiding

3.What do the details presented in the ad suggest?

A. Clearing walking paths is a must

B. People can book the walking online.

C. Accommodation conditions are tough.

D. The walking ends on April 30th 2016

It was a hot, humid day, and my brother Walt and I had decided that the only way to survive it would be to go swimming in a deep swimming hole across Mr.Blickez’s pasture(牧场) and through some woods.

The only problem with our plan was that this pasture was guarded by a huge, mean Hereford bull. Mr.Blickez had told us that Elsie was the meanest bull in the township, maybe even the county, and we believed him. But the hotter it got, the more we thought there was something fishy about his claim. For one thing, we remembered Mr.Blickez liked telling tall tales; for another, Elsie seemed like an odd name for a bull.

Finally, I talked Mom into asking permission for us to walk through the pasture, but then another problem surfaced. Mom said she would talk to Mr.Blickez if we would take our cousin Joanie along with us. Joanie was almost two years older than me and a head taller. If her teasing ever got around my grade school, it would be all over for me. In fact, I still had a headache from a quarrel with her that morning. “I’m not going swimming with that dumb girl cousin.” I told my mom.

“Either Joanie goes with, or you stay home alone,” Mom said in her serious tone. I gave in and we set out. On our way across the pasture, Walt yelled suddenly. Elsie had approached him quietly and was licking(舔) his back. Joanie and I dove under the wire fence, but while I was on the ground I looked up and saw that Elsie wasn’t a big mean bull after all. She was going to keep licking my brother’s back as long as he stood still.

We had many good days growing up and visiting our secret swimming hole guarded by the so-called “big mean bull”. And as it turned out, for a girl cousin, Joanie hasn’t been too bad. She’s been one of my best friends over the years.

1.What’s the meaning of the underline word “fishy” in Paragraph 2?

A. Funny. B. Interesting.

C. Doubtful. D. Believable.

2.What’s the second problem the author has to face?

A. His mother insisted on his cousin going with him.

B. His cousin made jokes on him in his grade school.

C. He quarreled with his cousin and had a headache.

D. His mother failed to ask permission for him.

3.What does the author think of Elsie in the end?

A. Aggressive. B. Unkind.

C. Bad-tempered. D. Friendly.

4. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. The bull guarding Mr.Blickez’s farm.

B. The story of visiting the swimming hole.

C. How friendly the so-called mean bull was.

D. How the author changed his attitude to Joanie.

Last year my summer holiday was spoiled by my bringing along a modern convenience that was too convenient for my own good: the iPad. Instead of looking at nature, I checked my e-mail. Instead of paddling a small boat, I followed my Twitter feed（推特简讯）. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading four newspapers each morning. I was behaving as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation, but my head wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something different: withdrawal from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, since I’m bad at self-control. But I was determined. I started by giving the iPad to my wife.

The cellphone signal at our house was worse than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration （沮丧）. I was trapped, forced to go through with my plan. Largely breaking away from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio—and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

This experience has had a happy ending. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation struggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was I, not the iPad, that was the problem. I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “I don’t need it,” I said.

However, as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I continue when I’m back at work?

There are times when the need to know what’s being said right now is great. I have no intention of giving up my convenience completely. But I hope to resist the temptation to check my e-mail every five minutes, which leads to checking my Twitter feed and a website or two.

I think a vacation is supposed to help you rest your brain to become more productive. Here I hope this one worked.

1. What do we know about the author’s last summer vacation?

A. He was determined to enjoy the beautiful view.

B. His iPad ruined his plan of finishing a great novel.

C. He hated himself for acting as if he were working on vacation.

D. He felt satisfied that he had stuck to his usual timetable.

2.What did the author do to keep away from the Internet this year?

A. He cut off his cellphone signal.

B. He handed his iPad to his wife.

C. He refused to cheat in his house.

D. He listened to the radio most of the time.

3. When back at work, the author will probably choose to ________.

A. keep control of when and how to use the Internet

B. continue to road more and more books

C. stay away from the Internet for ever

D. stop checking what is being said right now completely

4.What is the author’s opinion of a great vacation in the passage?

A. A vacation is having nothing to do but read all day.

B. A vacation proves that a life of pleasure is overvalued.

C. A vacation means a change of pace to make one more creative.

D. A vacation is a period of time to do whatever one wishes to.

Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.

I was attending a stand-up comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn’t only funny, it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.

The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren’t jealous of him.

In short, we don’t laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person’s emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.

1.What did the author find out after studying psychology?

A. Only good jokes make people laugh

B. Many factors lead to people laughing.

C. Funny things can make people laugh

D. Laughter can make people healthy.

2.Why did the audience laugh loud at the pedestrians?

A. They played a trick on the pedestrians.

B. The pedestrians behaved in a funny way.

C. They could feel the pedestrians’ happiness.

D. Their emotion was approved of by the show.

3.What does the underlined word “belittling” probably mean?

A. Annoy B. Blame

C. Look down on D. Make up to

4.Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

High school can be quite the stressful time for any student. There are numerous stresses to deal with and the pressure can be more intense as you enter your senior year. ____1.____ The answer is as follows.

______2._____ Adjust your approach to your specific situation. For instance, if you’re active in your community and your school and have a large family, you may feel depressed by having all these people involved in your life on a daily basis. ____3.____ You just may need a moment to be alone and collect your thoughts before moving on to the challenges that face you.

______4.______ If your stress persists and you can’t figure out a way to handle it, you may want to try speaking to your school counselor(顾问). If you don’t feel comfortable speaking to your counselor, try getting some other types of counseling.

Realize your limits, and plan around them. Don’t take on more than you can handle. If you take on too many things, you will be spread too thin and won’t be able to perform at your best in anything. ______5.____ You will definitely feel more at ease!

A．Seek professional counseling.

B．Why does the stress come into being?

C．Try thinking of alternative ways to deal with stress.

D．When you feel relieved, you can have a happier life.

E．Taking some time out to be alone may be the best way to handle such stress.

F．But how on earth can you reduce some of the stress?

G．Evaluate what tasks and activities are most important and leave others behind.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was eighteen, I couldn’t wait to get my first job, which meant I made the first step toward adulthood.

But it was difficult to get a work permit. One day I was dropped off by my parents at the _________ , where applicants took their physical tests for work permits. Although I had night blindness, my vision was clearer during the day, which helped me walk _________ by myself. Then the doctor began the _________ . He looked into my eyes with a bright light. “I suggest your parents take you to an eye specialist,” he said, “I _________ you have a retinal(视网膜) disease. If you do, you’ll never _________ a day in your life…”

My parents did take me to specialists. After much time and money spent seeking an _________ result, it was determined that I had an eye disease that slowly _________ a person of sight. But still, during daylight, I could walk without _________ . I could read, but not for hours. My eyes began to _________ and words slipped off the page when I read more than a few pages. However, no matter how tired my eyes became, I never gave up reading. I knew the _________ of great writers as well as the most popular music stars. Their words were powerful, which _________ me to try writing. Soon writing brought me a lot of _________ each time I completed a paper.

Then an important phone call from an editor changed my life. An article I _________ appeared in a local newspaper. The newspaper, to my _________, continued to print my work. Next, a book series published several of my essays. I got interested in writing and _________ up with each acceptance. On the pages, readers never knew of my blindness _________ I chose to present it. For me, finding my voice through writing gave me the pride and satisfaction I _________ so many years ago. Now, I have numerous essays and articles in _________.

Should I be thanking that misguided doctor? By falsely predicting that I could never work a day, he fueled my _________ into success. He set the bar too _________ and focused on what I wouldn’t be able to do. Yet I proved what I could do.

1.A. station B. company C. clinic D. lab

2.A. silently B. proudly C. suddenly D. easily

3.A. operation B. treatment C. examination D. argument

4.A. suspect B. acknowledge C. confirm D. advocate

5.A. rest B. work C. live D. sleep

6.A. urgent B. obvious C. accurate D. ordinary

7.A. reminds B. robs C. warns D. informs

8.A. assistance B. medicine C. allowance D. balance

9.A. dance B. shine C. widen D. tear

10.A. houses B. habits C. names D. addresses

11.A. asked B. permitted C. forced D. encouraged

12.A. pleasure B. worry C. trouble D. stress

13.A. admitted B. penned C. wanted D. described

14.A. shame B. admiration C. delight D. disappointment

15.A. gave B. lit C. came D. put

16.A. although B. after C. since D. unless

17.A. feared B. sought C. brought D. rejected

18.A. mind B. use C. time D. print

19.A. imagination B. personality C. motivation D. responsibility

20.A. low B. far C. long D. close

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

It is natural that young people are often 1. （comfort） when they are with their parents.

They say that their parents don’t understand them. They often think that their parents are out of touch with modern ways, 2. they are too serious and too strict with their children, and that they seldom give their children a free hand.

Parents often find 3. difficult to win their children’s trust and they always forget how they themselves felt when young.

Young people like to act without much thinking. It is one of their ways to show that they have grown up and they can face any difficult situation. Adults worry 4. （much） easily. Most of them plan things ahead.

Young people make their parents angry with their 5. （choose） in clothes, in entertainment and in music. But they do not mean to cause any trouble: It just shows that they feel cut off 6. the adult’s world, and they have not yet been accepted into their world. That’s why young people want to make a new culture of 7. own. And if their parents do not like their music or entertainment or clothes or their way of speech, this will make the young people very happy.

Sometimes you are so proud of yourself that you do not want your parents to say “yes” to what you do. All you want is 8. （leave） alone and do what you like. It is natural enough, after 9. （be）a child for so many years, when you were completely under your parents’ control.

If you plan to control your life, you’d better win your parents. If your parents see that you have 10. high sense of responsibility, they will give you the right to do what you want to do.

短文改错

假段定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

As is often the case, when people are attending to meetings, having meals or waiting for buses, you can always find them addicting to their phones, completely ignoring others.

This is really a common phenomena in our life. The reason is why smart phones nowadays can be used for people to play mobile games and kept in touch with friends through QQ and WeChat. Therefore, too much exposure to phones are bad for people in terms of health. Moreover, people involved in phones fail to communicate well with these around them.

As far as I am concerned, people should wisely make use of their phones to help their work and study. Meanwhile, care much about their family and friends rather than mobile phones.

假如你是银川一中的李华，你在某英文论坛上看到一个帖子。澳大利亚中学生Martin想来中国旅游，你向他推荐了西安市，请根据以下提示写一封电子邮件。

内容包括：1.自我介绍；

2.推荐理由：历史悠久、景色优美、文化丰富、市民友好、小吃多样；

3.你的祝愿。

注意：1. 字数不少于100；

2. 适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。

Dear Martin,

I’m very glad to have read the post that you put on the English Forum.

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Yours,

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完形填空。

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Lose-Win is weak. It’s easy to get stepped on. It’s easy to be the nice guy. It’s easy to give in, all in the name of being a peacemaker.

A girl named Jenny once told me about her ______ in the world of Lose-Win during her eighth-grade year before she finally broke ______:

My ______ with my mom all started one day ______ she said to me sarcastically (讽刺地) “Wow, you’re surely lively today.” I ______ it so literally (字面地) that then and there I decided to close off from her and never ______ back to her. So every time she would say something ______ I disagreed with her I would just say. “Okay, ______ you want, Mom.” But it really got cold quickly. And my ______ began to build. One night I talked to my mom about the school homework and she said, “Oh, that’s ______” and then went back to mop the floor.

“Don’t you ever ______?” I thought. But I didn’t say anything and stormed off. She had no idea I was ______ upset. She would have been willing to talk to me had I ______ her how important it was to me.

At last I just blew up. “Mom, this has got to ______. You tell me everything you want me to do and I just do it because it’s ______ than if fighting. Well, I’m sick of it.” This all came as a ______ to her.

After my blow up, we felt like we were ______ all over in our relationship. But it’s getting better all the time. We discuss things now and I always ______ my feelings with her.

If you adopt Lose-Win as your basic ______ toward life, then people will wipe their dirty feet on you. You’ll also be ______ your true feelings deep inside. And that’s not healthy.

1.A. disappointment B. wanderings C. lessons D. helplessness

2.A. out B. down C. free D. up

3.A. problems B. relationship C. quarrels D. improvement

4.A. as B. since C. when D. before

5.A. treated B. took C. received D. regarded

6.A. fight B. struggle C. turn D. talk

7.A. as though B. only if C. which D. even if

8.A. however B. too much C. so much D. whatever

9.A. coldness B. hope C. disagreement D. anger

10.A. true B. impossible C. nice D. important

11.A. see B. care C. say D. listen

12.A. also B. still C. already D. even

13.A. warned B. told C. asked D. shown

14.A. end B. change C. last D. stop

15.A. worse B. more C. easier D. less

16.A. gift B. surprise C. pleasure D. harm

17.A. going B. thinking C. starting D. reviewing

18.A. improve B. have C. discuss D. share

19.A. attitude B. method C. way D. theory

20.A. hiding B. waking C. storing D. Hurting