Live Music---Late Night Jazz

Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet(号手). He is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t want to get much sleep.

PLACE: The Jazz Club DATES: 15---23 June

PRICE: ¥100-150 TIME: 10 p.m. till late! TEL: 4668736

Scottish Dancing

Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from England will be given.

PLACE: Jack Stein’s DATES: 10-20 May

PRICE: ¥150 TIME: 7-10 p.m. TEL: 4021877

Shows---Anhui Museum

There are 12,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history.

PLACE: Anhui Museum DATES: 1Mar-30 Jun

PRICE: ¥130 TIME: Mon-Fri 9a.m-5p.m. Saturday 9a.m.-9p.m.

TEL: 4886888

Your pen friend is coming from Australia to your city for a holiday. You send him this E-mail to tell him something about the hotels.

SUN HOTEL

Dates Prices(a night)

1Oct-31Dec ¥168

1Jan-31Mar ¥148

1Apr-30Apr(closed) ……

1May-31May ¥188

1Jun-30Sep ¥208

TEL: 4686788 E-mail: Li Hong@163.com.

ROSE HOTEL

Prices(a night)

¥198

¥178

……

¥218

¥248

1.If you want to watch dancing, you can call______.

A. 4668736 B. 4021877 C. 4886888 D. 4686788

2.You can’t see the whole of Chinese history at____ in April in Anhui Museum.

A. 3p.m. on Sunday

B. 11:30a.m. from Monday to Friday

C. 10a.m. on Saturday

D. 4p.m. on Thursday

3. You can enjoy ______ at Jack Stein’s.

A. American Jazz

B. Scottish dancing

C. 12,000 pieces on show

D. yourself all night

4.Sun Hotel and Rose Hotel are open for______ months of the year.

A. twelve B. ten C. eleven D. nine

5.You have ¥148, and you can ______ in May.

A. watch Scottish dancing

B. go to Anhui Museum

C. listen to Jazz

D. stay in Sun Hotel for a night

A Famous Writer

In her speech to Harvard students in 2008, J.K.Rowling said, “…seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.”She went on to say that “by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.”

It might surprise some readers to know which period of her life J.K.Rowling was talking about here. She is talking about her life when she was writing the first novel of the Harry Potter books. The idea came to her during a train ride in 1990. In December that year, her mother died. The next few years were difficult for her. In 1993, her first but short marriage ended. She didn’t have much money and life was not easy. As she said in that same speech, “That period of my life was a dark one and I had no idea that there was going to be…a kind of fairytale resolution.”

As we all know now, the Harry Potter books went on to become extremely successful and also made her very rich. So where does think this success came from? She thinks it is a direct result of her early failures. As she went on to say, “Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that really mattered to me… I was set free. ”

Her Harry Potter series was completed with its final book in 2007. The books have become a very successful film series and three years after the final book was published, a Harry Potter theme park opened in the United States. She has written other books related to the Harry Potter series and her first book for adults was published in 2012. She has also remarried and now has three children.

1.Did J.K.Rowling give a speech to Harvard students in 2008?

2.When did J.K.Rowling’s first but short marriage end?

3.Where did J.K.Rowling think her success came from?

4.How many children does J.K.Rowling have now?

5.Why is J.K.Rowling famous?

完形填空

先通读短文,掌握其大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案

No One Words But My Own

The classroom was full of those of us who wanted to work on the school newspaper. I didn’t write a lot. but working on the paper sounded like fun. I the idea of being a reporter, interviewing my friends, and covering middle school events.

To be chosen, we had to turn in an example of our . I wrote an article about the joys of summer, and showed it to my father, a talent poet. He read it and frowned(皱眉).

"It’s okay." my father said, taking out a pencil "But how about changing this sentence to ..." And as a result, he rewrote the whole piece — without me, for I never said anything to him.

No surprise—his version(版本)was . He had a gift for language. It was so much better than my piece that I turned in his version instead of mine.

"Welcome to the Dundee School News," my teacher said to me. But before I could be about the news, he added, "Based on that excellent article you wrote about summer, I expect you to write a personal opinion article every week for the second page of the paper."I was so surprised! I was unable to write at that level, but I couldn’t tell the to the teacher, and I couldn’t ask my father for help, either. That term working on the paper was really painful. And my teacher clearly expressed his .

"Can’t you write something more like the first piece you wrote?"he said, each time I turned in my article.

I couldn’t, because at that age, I didn’t have my father’s ability and experience as a writer. Week after week, I tried hard, but my writing never the level of the first article.

At last, to my total shame, another student took my place. I that my father rewrote my first article himself, instead of simply trying to help me to improve it. But in my heart I knew it was my fault(错误) because I allowed him to do it. Later, I did become a successful writer on my own. Looking back, I realized that the pain and shame of that school experience had a side. It taught me to depend on myself and be myself. So every day, I try to use my own words, find my own style and be my own best self. It feels great.

1.A. gave B. shared C. liked D. welcomed

2. A. report B. writing C. homework D. newspaper

3.A. help B. stop C. allow D. praise

4.A. different B. common C. popular D. wonderful

5.A. excited B. worried C. nervous D. confident

6.A. truth B. excuse C. feeling D. answer

7.A. honesty B. patience C. hope D. disappointment

8.A. set B. reached C. raised D. changed

9.A. agreed B. realized C. remembered D. complained

10.A. magic B. serious C. bright D. strange

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