What does traveling mean? Visit, enjoy and discover.
Every year hundreds and thousands of people come to the UK. And London, the capital city, is usually their first stop. What can they see? What can they experience!
Getting around in London is not difficult. There is the underground train, the oldest in the world, or the traditional double-decker bus. A boat trip along the River Thames takes you to the Tower of London.
Going around the city center on foot is easy. The maps in the streets will show you what is around you in five-minute walk. You can get a great view of the city from 135 meters up on a huge wheel, the London Eye. Look across the river and you will see the Houses of Parliament and the famous clock tower, Big Ben.
There are over 240 museums in the capital, but the two most popular are in South Kensington and cost nothing to get into. In the Natural History Museum, the key word is Big. Next to it is the Science Museum. It has those great British inventions, the history of flight and exploration (探索) of space.
【小题1】For many tourists, London is their ______ stop when they are traveling in the UK.

A．first

B．second

C．third

D．lost

【小题2】Going around the City center on foot is easy because ______.

A．Big Ben is across the river	B．the maps in the streets will help you
C．it take only five minutes	D．you can gets great view of the city

【小题3】The Natural History Museum is next to ______.

A．Big Ben	B．the Tower of London
C．London Eye	D．the Science Museum

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  Li Keren，the Senior 2 boy from Dongguan High School，Guangdong Province，is a fairly famous writer in his school．Every day，thousands of people visit his blog and read his stories about school life．And also his book has come out．

  A blog was originally a website that followed headlines(标题)and articles from other websites．They were kept by volunteers and focused on(聚焦)a certain topic.

  The word “blog”，is short for“weblog”．  It first came out in 1997 and by 1999 had been seen throughout newspapers and magazines．By 2004,”blog"，“blogging",” blogger”had become popular and part of modem culture．

  There are many kinds of blogs in the cyber (网络)world. News blogs，for example，have developed into major information sources(来源)in recent years similar to newspapers，radio and TV. Bloggers focus on different kinds of topics from war in Iraq to oil prices．The latest information is updated(更新)every second. The results of survey have shown that news blogs are able to have a competition with TV and newspapers for news reporting.

As blogging becomes more and more popular，many teenagers are starting their own. There’re many websites，such as www. Blogchina.com， www. blogen．com， where you can create your own blog. You can Just have a try.

What is a blog?

                                                                                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station. Each time when Spring Festival comes, buying tickets of train trip would be very hard. And things seem to be getting worse and worse, although we have greatly increased the mileage of railway network and speeded up trains. Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family. Many people become angry with the Ministry (部)of Railways.

They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station(火车站)Instead, they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers (票贩) at much higher price.

The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计)that about 188 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak (高峰) period surrounding the 2009 Spring Festival holiday. The number of travelers will be 8％ higher than that of 2008. This problem even drew the President Hu Jintao’s attention. He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways, asking him to take action to improve passenger convenience. Afterward, officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station.

1. Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station, and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers_________.

     A. expensively       B. happily    C. dangerously    D. hardly

2. How many people took the train trip during the peak period surrounding the 2008 Spring Festival holiday?

     A. About 203 million．            B. About 188 million．

C. About 180 million．            D. About 174 million．

3.What does the passage mainly tell us?

     A. People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival．

     B. It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival．

     C. President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem．

     D. The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem．

 

April 20th is an ordinary day in 2013, it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened again in Sichuan province, China. The earthquake was terrible. We can’t describe the scene what we saw with any words. Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers. They longed to have families to continue their lives. I am sympathetic to their fate! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it. For example, there are many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!

What an unbelievable thing it is! Their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans! However, they must keep fighting against the death. Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever. Sadness, hopelessness and different kinds of danger spread out here and there!

But, fortunately, love is around us: the Communist Party helps us, the army helps us, the people all over the world help us. They offer us money, goods, love and so on ! With the help of such a large love, we will overcome the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future!

1.Many people keeping living without food or water because ____________.

A . they were very strong.         B. they could fight against the fate and longed to live on.

C. they were not hurt.            D. they lost fathers and mothers.

2.The meaning of fortunately in third paragraph is ___________.

A .good             B. unbelievable        C. luckily      D. wonderful.

3.The underlined word “They” in the first paragraph refers to___________.

A. the children who survived

B. the parents who survived

C. the children who survived but lost parents

D. the parents who survived but lost children

4.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A. An Earthquake.   B. Unbelievable thing.  C. Beautiful future.    D. Love in disaster.

 

Tokyo, March 11, 2011

People left their houses near Sendai, northern Japan on March 11th. A man and child look out over destroyed homes after a tsunami(海啸) and earthquake. Nuclear crises(核危机) in Japan’s power plants(核电站).

Could it have been worse?

More than a minute before the earth under their feet began to shake, many millions of Japanese people got cell phone alerts; TV networks interrupted (打断,中断) their broadcasts and turned to the latest announcement of Japanese government; loud speakers started suddenly to warn people of the coming tsunami; bullet trains came to a stop. The earthquake on March 11 was the first test of the nation’s earthquake early-warning technology (地震预警技术). However, in the fight of Man vs Nature, Nature won again. Hundreds, if not thousands of people, lost their lives in Japan. Scientists believe it is the fifth-strongest quake in the world since 1900 and the most powerful on record ever to hit Japan.

Lin tells of calm survivors

When the office began to shake, his friends were calm and still working. But the shaking became stronger. People shouted at him: “Run out of the building, now!” This was Lin Jia’s first experience of an earthquake. Lin, 26, has been in Japan for three months, working as a software engineer in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Lin stayed with others in a bus station all afternoon. Buildings were shaken by a series(系列) of aftershocks. He was nervous, but the people around him were so calm and organized that he gradually (逐渐) calmed down.

1. What does the underlined word “alert” mean?

A. 闹钟          B. 警报             C. 短信            D. 铃声

2. How many ways of earthquake early-warning are mentioned in the passage?

A. 2             B. 3                 C. 4               D. 5

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Lin Jia has never met with an earthquake in Japan.

B. There have been five earthquakes in Japan since 1900.

C. The earthquake is the most powerful on record ever to hit Japan.

D. The local government warned people of the coming earthquake in some ways.

4. What is the most important after an earthquake according to the article?

A. Keep away from the nuclear power plants.

B. Running out of the building. 

C. Keep calm and organized.    

D. Get the cell phone alerts

5. Where does this article probably come from?

A. a newspaper      B. an advertisement     C. a diary          D. a novel