Summer Holiday Fun 2010 !

    The summer holidays are upon us again. Here is our guide to summer holiday fun in Peterborough!

Peterborough Museum

    The Age of the Dinosaurs is the museum’s main attraction this summer. Get up close to prehistoric creatures via some great hands—on exhibits! Watch out for monsters lurking around every ember! The museum is open from 10: 00am to 5: 00pm Monday to Saturday, and from 12: 00pm to 4: 00 pm on Sundays in August.

Call 01733 864663 for details

Saxon Youth Club

    School holiday fun: Young people aged 13-19 will be able to produce their own music, compete in spots activities, or try their hand at cooking at Saxon Youth Club，Saxon Community Centre, Norman Road. Peterborough every Monday and Wednesday from 3: 00pm. Moreover, an aero ball tournament will take place on Thursday 12th August between 3: 30pm and 6: 30pm.

    Call 0135 3720274 for details

Houghton Mill   

    Alice through the Looking Class—a new production of the family favorite on Monday 30th August. Bring rugs or chairs to sit on and a picnic if you wish to eat during the play. Gates open 5: 30pm, performance 6: 30pm—8: 30pm. Tea room will be open until end of the interval. Adult ￡10. Child￡7. Family ￡20.

Booking advisable on 0845 4505157.

Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey

    Farmland Games: From Wellie Wading to Pretend Ploughing matches, come and join the Farmland Team. Collect your sporting stickers and create a colorful rosette that is fit for a winner！No need to book, just turn up between 12: 00pm and 4: 00pm on Thursday 19th August. Suitable for children aged four and above, each child should be accompanied by an adult and all activities are included in the normal admission price Tickets Cost￡7 per child.

    For further information, call 01223 810080.

1.If you are interested in cooking, you can go to______.

   A. Peterborough Museum               B. Houghton Mill

   C. Saxon Youth Club              D. Farmland Museum

2.You want to watch the new play with your parents, so it will cost you______.

   A. ￡7          B. ￡17          C. ￡27             D. ￡20

3.Which of the following activities needs parents’ company?

   A. Playing farmland games            B. Watching a new play．

   C. Competing in spots activities．       D. Visiting the dinosaur exhibition．

4.If Tom comes to Peterborough for amusement on August 19, he will have ______activities to choose from for himself.

A. one activity    B. two activities    C. three activities     D. four activities

Advice to “sleep on it” could be well founded, scientists say. After a good night’s sleep, a problem, which couldn’t be solved the night before, can often seem more manageable, although the evidence until now has been anecdotal (个人体验的). But researchers, at the University of Luebek in Germany, have designed an experiment that shows a good night’s sleep can improve insight (顿悟) and problem-solving.

    “If you have some newly-got memories in your brain, sleep acts on these memories and restructures (重新组织) them, and as a result, after sleep, the insight into problem which you could not solve before increases,” said Dr Jan Born, a neuroscientist (神经科学家), at the university.

To test the theory, they taught volunteers two simple rules to help them turn a string of (一连串) numbers into a new order. There was also a third, hidden rule, which could help them increase their speed in solving the problem. The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups: Half were allowed to sleep after the training, while the rest were forced to stay awake. Dr Jan Born and his team noticed that the group that had slept after the training were twice as likely to figure out (想出) the third rule as the other group.

“Sleep helped,” Born said in a telephone interview. “The important thing is that you have to have a memory representation (描绘，表现) of the problem you want to solve in your brain and then you sleep, so it can act on the problem.” But Born admitted that he and his team don’t know how restructuring of memories occurs or what governs it.

Pierre Maquet and Perrine Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium said the experimental evidence supports the anecdotal suggestions that sleep can help develop creative thinking. Although the role of sleep in human creativity will still be a mystery, the research gives people good reason to fully respect their periods of sleep, they added.

1.The underlined phrase “sleep on it” in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.

A. to delay deciding something until the next day   

B. to get as much sleep as possible

   C. to go on sleeping without being disturbed       

D. to sleep till after the time you usually get up in the morning

2.Jan Born and his team carried out the experiment through ______.

   A. comparison       B. interview         C. survey       D. imagination

3.It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. people should sleep so long as they have time   

B. sleep is the only way to solve hard problems

   C. people have various periods of sleep     

D. people know how sleep reconstructs memories

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

   A. How Sleep Works                       B. Sleep Helps Solve Problems   

   C. No Evidence, But Well Founded         D. Born’s Discovery On Sleep

根据对话内容，从对话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。

—Lovely day, isn't it?

—Mm, yes,   1.And it's supposed to get warmer.

—Yes, that's true. You know, though, I'm always a little worried to see winter go.

—   2.

—Well, I love skating. In fact, I used to teach skating for a living.

—Oh? That sounds interesting.   3.

—I work at Bank of America. How about you?

—   4.

—Here?

—No, I'm from Chicago. I'm just visiting here for the wedding.

—Oh, I see.

—By the way,   5.I'm Helen Keller.

—Nice to meet you. My name is John Smith.

A. But what do you do now?

B. It's very cold.

C. It's really warm.

D. I guess I should introduce myself.

E. I'm on the radio station.

F. What' your name?

G. Really?

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

1.He lay on the sofa with a ______ (垫子) under his head.  

2.Please ______ (安排) for a taxi to pick me up at six.    

3.These birds are very rare and ______ (因此) protected by law.

4.Motorists should be badly ______ (惩罚) for dangerous driving.   

5.Tom is studying ______ (政治学) at university.           

6.They ______ (应用) the new technology to farming last year.  

7.I shall never forget the ______ (好意) of the nurse.     

8.Shanghai is easily ______ (能进入的) by road, rail, or air.  

9.Jeff is one of the excellent ______ (骑手).              

10.When ______ (聊天) on the MSN, many people use “88” for “bye-bye”.

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个(√)；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处如一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Charlie Lee, aged fifteen, and his sister Roseanne,            

earn their pocket money by washing his father’s car,           1._______

watering the plants, cleaning the balcony, and do               2._______

odd (临时的) jobs around a house. Their parents prefer giving   3._______

them money for doing jobs to buying them present.               4._______

Charlie and Roseanne usually receives about $25 for             5._______

each job. They often bargain their father over the pay              6._______

and the job to be done. Mrs. Lee said, “We were                    7._______

teaching them that the money doesn’t come out of               8._______

nowhere. It means more to them if they feel that they’ve       9._______

earned it but they better understand the value of things.       10._______

假设你是红星中学高二一班的学生李华，近日你班同学参加了世界自然基金会WWF组办的“我为哥本哈根减斤碳”活动，大家开始在日常生活中减少能源、纸张等的消耗。请根据以下要点，给某英文杂志写一篇以“Low–Carbon Living”为题的英文稿件，介绍你们参加此次活动第一天的具体做法和感受。

内容要点：

1．步行或骑车上学   2．放学后关灯、关电脑   3．纸张两面用   4．使用环保购物袋

注意：1．信的开头已为你写好。

2．词数100左右。

词汇：环保购物袋 environmentally friendly bags

Low–Carbon Living

Recently, my classmates and I participated in the activity of Low–Carbon Living organized by

the WWF. On the first day,                                                          

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Obtaining good health insurance while you are studying overseas is a real necessity to protect you from minor and catastrophic medical expenses that can wipe out not only your savings, but your dreams of an  1abroad.

There are often two different types of health insurance you can consider buying: international travel insurance and student insurance in the country where you will be   2. An international travel insurance policy is usually   3in your home country before you go abroad. It generally covers a wide variety of medical services, and you are often given a list of   4in the area where you will travel who may even speak your   5language. The   6might be that you aren’t reimbursed（赔偿）for your medical expenses immediately. In other words, you may have to pay all your medical expenses and then later submit your receipts to the insurance company.

On the other hand, getting student health insurance in the country where you will study might   7you to only pay a certain percentage of the medical cost at the time of service (commonly called a co-pay), and thus, you don’t have to have sufficient cash to pay the   8bill at once.

Whatever you decide, obtaining some form of health insurance is something you should plan

9you go overseas rather than waiting until you are sick   10major medical bills to pay off.

1.A．occupation       B．adventure      C．education      D．experience

2.A．living           B．going          C．coming         D．applying

3.A．made             B．received       C．adopted        D．purchased

4.A．services         B．agents         C．doctors        D．officials

5.A．mother           B．native         C．foreign        D．local

6.A．difficulty       B．benefit        C．advantage      D．drawback

7.A．encourage        B．enable         C．allow          D．require

8.A．remaining        B．separate       C．entire         D．rest

9.A．when             B．before         C．once           D．if

10.A．of              B．about          C．from           D．with

阅读下列短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为相应位置上。

Childhood is  1.time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he   2.(raise), looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much   3.having to do anything in return. But a child has his pains. He is not so free to do   4.he wishes to; he is again and again being told not to do something, or being punished   5.what he has wrongly done.

 When a young man starts to make his own living, he can no longer expect   6.to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room. if he spends most of his time  7.(play) about in the ways that he used to as a child, he will go  8.(hunger). And if he breaks the laws of society  9.he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If,   10., he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his position in society.

Now in his senior year in Bowdoin College, a small, elite liberal-arts（文科）college in Masine, Chen Yongfang has become such a devotee of the liberal-arts approach that he’s made it his mission to spread the word throughout China. He has coauthored a book called A True Liberal Arts Education, which essentially explains the little-known concept to Chinese students and their parents. Though there have been many books about how to get into Ivy League universities, “there was not a single book in China about the smaller liberal-arts colleges,” he says.

The book, which Chen wrote with friends Ye Lin and Wan Li, who also attend small U. S. colleges, touts（兜售）such benefits as intimate classes (the student-to-faculty ratio at Bowdoin is 9:1) and professors who focus on teaching rather than research. Chen, 23, explains that he was won over by Bowdoin’s commitment to nurturing skills for life, rather than simply for the workplace. “Liberal arts is abut fostering your identity,” he says. “They want to cultivate your mind.” He admits that liberal arts may be a hard sell in a country with an increasingly competitive job market. The book states bluntly that in the short term, a liberal-arts education won’t improve job prospects. “In China, employers are looking for someone who can come in and start working immediately when they graduate, not someone who still needs to be trained in practical skills,” Chen says.

The book, which received wide media coverage in China and now has a waiting list for its second print run, is certainly timely: it plays into a growing debate in China about what national universities should be teaching. The country needs a workforce with the skills and creativity to help move away from low-cost manufacturing and, in economic terms, move up the value chain. And some educators believe liberal-arts training is vital to help China deal with its increasingly complex new realities. Yet the well-known intellectual historian Xu Jilin believes that China’s rapid expansion of higher education has had a detrimental effect on curriculum as the country’s universities race to compete globally. “Education these days in like factory-farming chickens,” he says. “Universities all wan to get into international rakings—and most of these depend on research. They’re not interested in providing a unique education for our kids.”

1.According to Chen Yongfang, the benefits of attending liberal-arts colleges are the following EXCEPT        .

    A．closer relationship with tutors

    B．teachers more devoted to teaching

    C．practical skills for getting a job in China

    D．development in mind and life-long ability

2.It can be inferred from the passage that        .

    A．the teaching quality in big research universities not as good as small colleges

    B．it is more difficult for liberal-arts graduates to find a job because employers don’t believe that they can perform well

    C．literal-arts education is of little help to China’s economic development

    D．research universities received more Chinese applicants than smaller liberal-arts colleges

3.The word “detrimental” in Para.3 probably means “         .”

    A．instant        B．rewarding      C．damaging       D．obvious

4.According to Xu Jilin,         .

    A．the expansion of higher education has improved the competitive strength of China’s universities

    B．Chinese universities are providing the same courses as foreign universities

    C．many universities are not paying enough attention to teaching

    D．research should gain more attention in order to improve China’s universities’ rankings

5.This passage is most probably adapted from         .

    A．an article introducing liberal arts

    B．an article introducing the book A True Liberal Arts Education

    C．an article criticizing China’s higher education

    D．an advertisement for Bowdoin College

    So I’m driving the lovely and patient older daughter to work. At 7 a. m., she pushes the seat

warmer button as her new Honda zooms across L. A., the City of Padded Shoulders.

"Oh, look, I’m low on gas," she says.

First, we pick up her boss, then we pick up her other boss. They are all headed to Staples Center for some awards show. My daughter does something in public relations, I’m not sure what. But when this show comes along, she gets very busy.

"In the past two nights I’ve gotten, like, seven hours sleep," she notes, the implication being that I sleep all the time, which is pretty much true.

In Los Feliz, a dashboard light confirms that we are, indeed, low on fuel. This does not perturb my daughter.

"Don’t worry, we’ll get there," she says.

My daughter says nothing about getting back home, which is my job. I’ve just agreed to drop her off, so she can avoid traffic later. My task is simple, though now full of uncertainty.

I don’t know how I ended up dropping my daughter and her bosses off at 7 a.m. on a Sunday. I just know that J.D. Salinger may now be dead, but I still feel like Holden Caulfield -- at the mercy of too many yammering adults.

Now, I’ve had mixed luck with adults.

Apparently, my daughter’s job in PR is to keep everyone happy while telling the truth as much as possible. I sent her to college to study that. Now she is an expert.

"After you drop us off, you can get gas," my daughter assures me.

I have been her chauffeur for 26 years. By the time she was 3, I’d snapped her into a car seat some 14,000 times. I took her to seventh-grade dances, ski trips, college.

Even after all that, we continue to have a civil relationship, sort of a queen-mum-and-her-

driver sort of dynamic. When I screw up, she just raises her pretty chin and snorts. It’s very British.

By the way, my daughter now has a nicer car than I do, which is a sign she is doing well. Or, as with so many young people, she is up to her hoop earrings in consumer debt.

1.Which of the following statements in NOT true about the author’s daughter?

    A．She is fashionable.              B．She always tells the truth.

    C．She is doing well in her work.   D．She lives a fast-paced life.

2.The author’s tone suggests that         .

    A．he is feeling left behind when his daughter has grown up and begun adult life

    B．he is content with his grown daughter

    C．he does not like his daughter’s bosses

    D．he will not believe his daughter any more

3.It can be concluded from the passage that         .

    A．the author won’t have any difficulty in getting gas

    B．the daughter cares for her father a lot

    C．the author has done a lot to help his daughter get where she is 

    D．the British people have pretty chin and snort often

4.By referring to J. D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield, the author is most probably       .

    A．recalling his daughter’s childhood

    B．mentioning his family members who are now dead

    C．comparing his situation to a scene in a famous literary work

    D．telling a story about his daughter’s friends

5.What is the best title for this passage?

    A．A PR’s Busy Life

    B．Relationship Between Dad and Daughter

    C．A Loving Father

    D．Go Ahead and Fill Her up, Dad