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What is a hurricane?

You may already know that hurricanes are storms that can cause devastating (毁灭性的) waves, wind, and rain. They happen during “Hurricane Season,” which is from June 1st until November 30th in the Atlantic Ocean and from May 15th until November 30th in the Pacific Ocean.

Types of Hurricanes

There are five types of hurricanes, which are based on wind speeds. The categories help people know how much damage a hurricane may cause because the greater the wind speed, the more dangerous the storm. For example, a Category 5 hurricane has winds over 155 miles per hour, which are strong enough to destroy the buildings along the shorelines completely.

Hurricane Dangers

When a hurricane happens together with heavy rainfall, there can be a devastating flood. The centre of a hurricane is called the eye. While most of a hurricane has dangerously strong winds, the eye is actually a calm area in the storm. When the eye of a hurricane passes over land, people might think that it’s over, but before long the wind and rain increase again as the second part of the hurricane moves through.

Hurricane Safety Tips

There is no way to stop a hurricane or make it change direction, so if you ever find yourself in the path of a hurricane, be sure to remember the following safety tips.

Be sure you have a radio, batteries, fresh drinking water, and enough food.

Tell neighbours, friends, and family members your emergency plans. Tell them where you’ll go if you need to leave your home.

If you live near the ocean, leave your home and travel to a safe place. You could stay with a friend or a family member, in a hotel/motel, or in an emergency shelter area.

Stay inside during the storm. You could be seriously injured if you go outside.

Hurricanes

Characteristics

☆Hurricanes happen during “Hurricane Season”, 1. about 6 months in the Atlantic Ocean and 6.5 months in the Pacific Ocean.

☆Devastating waves, wind, and rain are usually the 2. of hurricanes.

Categories

☆Hurricanes have been 3. into five categories by scientists, based on wind speeds.

☆A Category 5 hurricane can destroy all the 4. along the shorelines.

5.

☆A hurricane which comes together with heavy rainfall, may 6. to a terrible flood.

☆The eye is the 7. part of a hurricane. Soon after it passes,the wind and rain increase again.

Safety Tips

☆It’s 8. to stop a hurricane or change its direction.

☆If finding yourself in the path of a hurricane, you should remember to 9. the safety tips.

☆Stay inside during the storm, 10. you could be seriously injured.

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Students who get tired of looking at the four walls of a classroom might like to take the nature course being offered by Carvel College again this summer. Groups of about a dozen students each, led by an experienced guide, will go on ten-day camping trips to the mountains to study the plants and animals that grow and live there.

Students carry their own things, which includes sleeping bags, warm clothing, food and water, and other useful tools. And what do the students do all day? Well, as soon as the sun comes up, they eat breakfast and start climbing up the mountain trail to the next campground, which is five to ten miles away. As the students take notes, the guide points out different plants and animals alongside the trail. The climb is usually over by early afternoon, so the group spends the rest of the day resting or swimming in a mountain lake. Before dinner each night, they all come together and discuss the day’s activities.

At the end of the course, the students write reports using the information they have collected. But they don’t mind at all. What they do mind is leaving the beauty of the wilderness and the good friends they’ve made to return to their normal lives in the city.

1.What can the course offer to the students?

A. Better grades in tests.

B. Free vacations in mountains.

C. A different learning experience.

D. Better chance to study in Carvel College.

2.How far does a student have to walk throughout the course?

A. About five to ten miles.

B. About two hundred miles.

C. About fifty to one hundred miles.

D. About sixty to one hundred and twenty miles

3.What do the students have to do before dinner?

A. Wash themselves up in a mountain lake.

B. Attend classes by the experienced guide.

C. Write about what they see along the trail.

D. Review what they learn through discussion.

4.What can we tell about the course?

A. They will change campgrounds everyday.

B. The students have to learn all by themselves.

C. Pens and books will be useless in the course.

D. Carvel College will provide everything for the students.

5.From the last paragraph we know the students are_______.

A. serious with the final report

B. unwilling to go back to the city

C. looking forward to returning home

D. too tired to stay in the course any longer

If you are reading a novel for school rather than just for fun, you need to get _______. Here are some pieces of advice.

First, make notes. Write notes_______pencil in the book, but also write separate notes on a small piece of paper. _______ characters. What do they do in the novel? What do they want? Everything that we are told about a character can help us to _______ them, from their appearance to the kind of food they eat.

It is also a great help to be able to tell yourself the story _________ you have read it. So, the _______ of the story and the plot (情节) are important. You'd better make a quick note of _______ happens in each part when you read. This will help you to bring the things you have noticed about characters, background, language and so on together.

_______, themes. These are ideas that the novel shows. Perhaps love is a major theme, or justice (公正), or redemption (救赎). _______ that you know the themes of the novel and what the author is saying about them.

What's more, novels are made up of language. ________ use language in a special way to make their novels work. They may use metaphors (比喻), invent symbols, or show a character's personality through their speech styles.

1.A. organized B. interested C. stressed D. fixed

2.A. with B. use C. in D. by

3.A. Have pity on B. Get along with C. Pay attention to D. Take care of

4.A. attract B. understand C. discuss D. examine

5.A. after B. before C. if D. unless

6.A. order B. time C. place D. influence

7.A. how B. what C. why D. where

8.A. Finally B. However C. Next D. For example

9.A. Show off B. Turn out C. Think of D. Make sure

10.A. Students B. Teachers C. Readers D. Writers

World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to e1.people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of the reading.

Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of students can buy books of special price, much l2.than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year since 1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Premier Wen Jiabao does lots of reading t3.he’s very busy. On World Book Day 2009, he called on people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time reading. “Books can’t change the world, but people can change the world by changing t4.through reading,” he said.

Reading can benefit (有益于) people in many ways. Reading helps us become more knowledgable and more intelligent. Reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and t5.. Reading p6.us with information about other culture and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that are u7. to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we become. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language l8.English. We all know that we can’t learn everything at school, for example, the ways English people are speaking and

w9.today.

“Reading makes a full man.” Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to form the

h10.of reading every day.

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