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Madame Tussauds—London Welcome to Madame Tussauds—a 125-year-old museum loved by visitors for its life-like waxworks of famous folk from the past and present, plus interactive exhibits. The following are three ticket options we’d like to recommend to you. Option 1: All Inclusive Open Dated Ticket Why not treat your friends and family to our All Inclusive Tickets? Ticket is valid for one visit with all of the following fantastic features: * Valid for one year from date of purchase—perfect for a gift! * Priority Access admission in true celebrity style. * Your very own hand made of wax (蜡). With your ticket you can enjoy the heroic new experience in three floors of multisensory fun featuring a mix of interactive themed areas, realistic wax figures and an ALL NEW Marvel Super Heroes 4D film adventure.
Option 2: Late Saver 50% off If you book online in advance and arrive at Madame Tussauds later in the day, your tickets can cost as little as £14.00. That’s 50% off the standard on-the-day price! The last admission into Madame Tussauds is 5:30 pm in off-peak periods and 6 pm in peak periods. This gives you loads of time to fully enjoy the attraction. This ticket is available for online purchase only. Tickets are subject to availability at all times and only a limited amount are available each day, so be quick!
Option 3: Top 3 London Attractions Combine your visit to Madame Tussauds with a flight on the World famous London Eye and SEA LIFE London Aquarium, and save 25% on your adult and child tickets, or 33% on your family ticket when you book your tickets at least the day in advance!
Please note: Child ages are 4—15. Under 4s are free. A family ticket consists of 2 adults and 2 children, or 1 adult and 3 children. Please note: Your combined ticket only gives priority admission to Madame Tussauds and Sea Life London Aquarium—all others are general queue flights. For more ticket options, please visit our website at: www.madame-tussauds.com |
1.With an All Inclusive Ticket, you can do all of the following EXCEPT that ______.
A.you will have priority access to Madame Tussauds |
B.you will have a chance of having your hand made in wax |
C.you can visit Madame Tussauds as many times as you like |
D.you can see a 4D film in the cinema of Madame Tussauds |
2.Mr. and Mrs. Johnson want to join in the Top 3 Attractions trip with their children, one is 15and the other 3. How much should they pay if they book the tickets in advance online?
A.£129.5. |
B.£146. |
C.£164. |
D.£97.82. |
3. If you book a ticket for Top 3 London Attractions, ______.
A.you can always enjoy a price 33% off |
B.a visit to the World famous London Eye will be free |
C.Madame Tussauds will be included in priority admission |
D.you will be given priority to enter at least three attractions |
Be aware of those who use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can create a false impression. For example, someone might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!” This guy’s a winner, right? Maybe, or maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred tickets, and only one was winner. He’s really a big loser! He didn’t say anything that was false, but he omitted important information on purpose. That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest.
Untrustworthy candidates in political campaigns often use this tactic. Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents runs an advertisement, saying “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!” That’s true. However an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs.”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s against the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples(粉刺).” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
【小题1】Which statement is true according to the article?
A.Whenever people tell the truth, they may lie |
B.You cannot trust lottery agent. |
C.All governors help their states. |
D.The truth can be used in dishonest ways. |
A.to think carefully about what they read and hear |
B.to vote for female candidates |
C.not to believe advertisements of any kind |
D.not to trust any politician |
A.to make her a liar | B.to beat her in the campaign |
C.to get jobs in the government | D.to detect her lie |
In their book Time to Eat the Dog : The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, Robort and Breanda Vale say keeping a medium-sized dog has the same ecological impact as driving 10,000 km a year in a 4.6 liter Land Cruiser.
“We ‘re not actually saying it is time to eat the dog .We are just saying that we need to think about and know the ecological impact of some of the things we do and that we take for granted.”
Constructing and driving the jeep for a year requires 0.41hectares of land ,while growing and manufacturing a dog’s food takes about 0.84 hectares or 1.1hectares in the case of a large dog such as a German shepherd.
Convincing flesh-eating cats and dogs to go vegetarian for the sake of the planet is a non-starter,
The Vales say .Instead they recommend keeping greener, smaller, and more sustainable pets ,such as goldfish, chickens or rabbits.
The book ‘s playful title, and serious suggestion that pet animals may be usefully recycled, by being eaten by their owners or turned into pet food when they die ,may not appeal to animal fans .
Annoying as the idea may be, the question is valid given the planet’s growing population and limited resources, Robert vale said.
“Issues about sustainability are increasingly becoming things that are going to require us to make choices which are as difficult as eating your dog . It’s not just about changing your light bulbs or taking a cloth bag to the supermarket,” he said
It about much more challenging and difficult issues, he added . Once you see where cats and dogs fit in your overall balance of things , you might decide to have the cat but not also to have two cars and three bathrooms and be a meat eater yourself.
【小题1】. The authors gave their book the playful title to .
A make it amusing B create a vivid image
C show writing skills D arouse people’s concern
【小题2】. In Paragraph 3 the writer mainly wants to tell us .
A the amount of consumed land B the neglected ecological impact
C some familiar examples D some actual figures
【小题3】. What does “sustainability” mean according to the passage?
A Going vegetarian B Raising cats and dogs
C Using a cloth bag D Keeping a greener life
【小题4】. Who may not the idea of “recycling” pet animal?
A Manufactures B Drivers C Animal fans D The authorities
【小题5】. What do the authors thing of living a sustainable life?
A Challenging B Inspiring C Inviting D Touching
Dec. 24, 1848
Dear Johnston,
Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to satisfy now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well again,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some fault in your behavior. What that fault is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler(游手好闲). I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any other day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.
This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.
You are now in need of some ready money; and what I suggest is, that you shall go to work hard, for somebody who will give you money for it.
Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home-prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or to pay back any debt you owe. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.
Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $ 70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed(抵押) me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession-Nonsense! If you can’t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight time eighty dollars to you.
Affectionately
Your brother
A. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.
A. show his concern for him B. recommend him to save money
C. decline his request and motivate him D. introduce him a new job
What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?
A. He was very lazy. B. He wasted time a lot.
C. He couldn’t get much from work. D. He disliked working.
In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.
A. keep himself from getting into trouble B. go to work hard for somebody
C. manage well the things at home D. keep the children out of the idle habit
If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.
A. reward him with labor B. pay off his debt
C. hire him at 10 dollars a month D. give him another dollar
In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.
A. take away his place in Heaven B. deed Lincoln the land
C. live without the land D. do good work every day
The malls were filled with people seeking gifts for their loved ones. Some of the malls remained open around the clock, partly to satisfy our needs to buy gifts.
Behind the materialistic aspect of shopping for gifts lies the idea of caring, being attentive to the desires of special people in our lives. However, to use a well-worn play on words: it is our presence, not our presents, that truly counts. Many of us, unfortunately, can be so inattentive, even in the presence of our loved ones, that we might as well not be there at all.
Attention is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other. Companies around the globe spend billions every year on advertising to catch our attention for just a short moment at a time. Whole industries – media, entertainment, education – rely on the precious gift of our attention for their continued existence. A baby lacking attention for a long time is likely to he psychologically unhealthy.
In earlier times, both diet and attention could be left unregulated without major cause for concern. There were natural checks and balances: limited availability of food meant few got fat, for example. Similarly, in bygone times we might have spent a few hours communicating with the village storyteller, today, watching an entire TV series, while speaking to nobody, is common. In traditional societies, with smaller population, everyone would get a fair deal of attention. On many issues we might go to see Grandma or Grandpa; now we have Google and Wikipedia.
“She just wants attention.” people tend to think little of those doing things simply for attention. But the truth is that human beings need attention, and giving attention to each other is, to a large extent, what human civilization is based upon. This perhaps explains the runaway success(一举成功)of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. While we use such sites for “micro blogging”, “idea voicing” and “status updates” – the reality is that we are often doing no more or less than fulfilling our basic human drive for attention exchange.
I friend you, you friend me, I retweet you, you retweet me. The charming case with which we can now get and give attention is why many people appear overly attached to their smartphones. It is also a vicious(恶性)circle. As ever more people are busy exchanging attention online, there is increasingly less attention to be paid in the real world, which forces more people to seek their attention exchange online, or else risk attention-starvation.
The very nature of attention exchange is being rapidly transformed, and there is a danger that some of us will develop unhealthy practices. Just as eating red meat every day is a bad idea, so it is with too much attention exchange. The biological consequences of our technological advancement in food production are highly visible; heart disease, diabetes and obesity. The consequences of our transformed attention exchanges will be psychological and social, and so may take longer to identify, but they will be equally damaging.
Face-to-face attention is becoming rarer, and therefore more valuable. In a sense it is priceless. And it is a gift that can be given all-year-round.
【小题1】In the first two paragraphs the author .
A.offers advice to attention givers | B.analyses the present problems |
C.states the necessity of presents | D.puts forward his point of view |
A.obtain information | B.give attention to others |
C.voice their opinions | D.notice and get noticed |
A.limited availability of food | B.natural checks and balances |
C.a much smaller population | D.the guidance from old people |
A.More people will risk attention-starvation in future. |
B.The nature of attention exchange is rarely changed. |
C.Technological advancement contributes to all diseases. |
D.Transformed attention exchanges do harm to society. |
A.advocate more focus on real life attention |
B.analyze the necessity of attention giving |
C.give practical tips on attention exchange |
D.recommend some social networking sites |
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