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【题目】New York is full of life in spring — whether you want to see ballet or flowers. The New York City Ballet season opens on Tuesday at the Lincoln Center. Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s flowers are in full bloom (怒放) at this time of year. But they are just a small part; New York has much more for you to see.

Art on tap

The Whitney Museum of American Art has settled into its new home. The building as well as its setting is exciting. Take the outdoor stairs rather than the lifts to enjoy views of the city. However, the art won’t be for everyone.

Their 2017 Biennial (exhibition) of contemporary American Art has just opened (until June 11). You can also see the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern at Brooklyn Museum (until July 23). From June 12, the Museum of Modern Art will mark the 150th anniversary of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth with an overview (综述) of his work.

Hey, big spenders

Treat yourself to The Lowell hotel on 28 East 63rd Street. It’s between Park and Madison Avenues and is only minutes from Central Park. The hotel will provide you with the best service. The staff are wonderful. At breakfast, waiters present their own home-made jam for guests to enjoy.

No wonder some of the guests have been staying for three years. The rooms come with fireplaces, which is rare in Manhattan. Rooms cost $830 (£662) per night. They have just opened the Majorelle restaurant, inspired by the gardens in Marrakesh.

Downtown

If you’re traveling in a group, try the Q&A Hotel, a great place from which to explore Wall Street, One World Observatory, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and Governors Island. Among them, Governors Island re-opens in May with a new experience. The apartments in the 66-storey building are large and come with kitchens. Cost: $239 (£191) a night.

1If you arrive in New York on June 15, you may miss _________.

A. the show at Brooklyn Museum

B. the activity in the Museum of Modern Art

C. the 2017 Biennial of contemporary American Art

D. the activities in the Whitney Museum of American Art

2What can we learn about The Lowell hotel from the text?

A. None of the rooms have fireplaces.

B. The staff there will offer good service to the guests.

C. It will cost about 600 dollars to stay there for a night.

D. It will take hours to get to Central Park from there.

3If you stay at the Q&A Hotel, _________.

A. you can easily pay a visit to Wall Street and Central Park

B. you will get a new experience in March and May

C. you can enjoy a large room and a beautiful garden

D. you can save much money compared to The Lowell hotel

4Where does this text probably come from?

A. A travel website.

B. A history book.

C. A science report.

D. A public service advertisement.

【答案】

1C

2B

3D

4A

【解析】本文内容主要介绍了一些出游信息和出游时的住宿建议。

1C细节理解题。根据文章Their 2017 Biennial (exhibition) of contemporary American Art has just opened (until June 11).可知American Art六月11号结束,如果六月15号去的话就会错过了,故选C。

2B细节理解题。根据文章The hotel will provide you with the best service. The staff are wonderful. At breakfast, waiters present their own home-made jam for guests to enjoy.可知旅店的员工会为顾客提供好的服务,故选B。

3D 细节理解题。对照文章Rooms cost $830 (£662) per night.Cost: $239 (£191) a night可知如果你住在the Q&A Hotel相比较the Lowell hotel可以节省很多花费,故选D。

4A推理判断题。根据文章内容主要介绍了一些出游信息和出游时的住宿建议,可以推测出应该是出自旅游网站,故选A。

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【题目】Speaking to Develop Self-confidence

Overcoming stage fright

Most people are nervous about public speaking. 1If you know that your topic is interesting, and that your material is well organized, you have already reduced a major worry.

Facial expressions

2During your speech, try to change your facial expressions to convey the emotions that you feel. Throughout your speech you need to use expressive facial expressions.

Eye contact

When you speak, you should look your audience straight in the eye. The idea is to give the impression that you are talking to each individual in your audience. If you have a large audience, try to look at people in the middle of the room, then slowly look to the right side of the room, then to the left side, then back to the center of the room. 3Otherwise, this will give the audience the idea that you are not interested in your topic or in them.

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Enthusiasm is being lively and showing your own personal concern for your subject and your audience. If you are truly interested in your topic, your delivery is certain to be enthusiastic and lively.

Varying speaking rate

Your words should not be too fast or too slow. If you speak too slowly you will bore your audience. If you speak too rapidly will be difficult to understand. Adapt your rate to the content of your speech. For example, if you explaining complex information, slow down. 5

A. Inspiring your audience

B. Speaking with enthusiasm

C. If you are happy or enthusiastic, you should speed up.

D. Don’t look at the floor, the ceiling or out the window.

E. The best way to cope with nervousness is to really well prepared.

F. Smiling before you start your speech shows that you are not nervous.

G. If you are nervous, take a few steps to your right or left while speaking.

【题目】When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is short-sighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our characters and values. It give us identity as a society.

Music provides a kind of perception(感知) that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive(情感的) meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.

The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries and our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.

Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be humans. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love. So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.

1According to Paragraph 1, students ________.

A. regard music as a way of entertainment

B. disagree with their parents on education

C. view music as an overlooked subject

D. prefer the arts to science

2In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to ________.

A. compare it with rock music

B. show music identifies a society

C. introduce American musical traditions

D. prove music influences people's lifestyles

3Which can explain how the sun rises and sets?

A. Music. B. Science.

C. The arts. D. Technology.

4What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Music education deserves more attention.

B. Music should be of top education priority.

C. Music is an effective communication tool.

D. Music education makes students more imaginative.

【题目】1 Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. 2. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us develop more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

There is another difficult point for us Chinese to understand. 3. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous (慷慨)with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. 4. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. 5. We will find ourselves treated hospitably(好客).

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

A.Americans don’t show their politeness if it requires a great deal of time.

B.Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

C.Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D.Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

E.We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends.

F.If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship.

G.America is a mobile society.

【题目】According to a team of researchers, an animals’ ability to perceive(感知)time is linked to their pace of life.

“Our results lend support to the importance of time perception in animals where the ability to perceive time in a very short time may be the difference between life and death for fast moving creatures.” commented lead author Kevin Healy from Trinity College Dublin.

The study was done with a variety of animals using a phenomenon based on the maximum speed of flashes of light an individual can see before the light source is seen as constant. Dogs, for example, have eyes with a refresh rate higher than humans.

One example of this phenomenon at work, the authors say, is the housefly and its ability to avoid being hit. The research showed flies “observe motion in a shorter time than our own eyes can achieve,” which allows them to avoid being hit.

Professor Graeme Ruxton of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, who worked jointly on the research project, said in a statement, “Having eyes that send updates to the brain at much higher frequencies than our eyes do is of no value if the brain cannot process that information equally quickly. Thus, this work highlights the impressive abilities of even the smallest animal brains. Flies might not be deep thinkers, but they can make good decisions very quickly. ”

In comparison, the tiger beetle (虎甲虫)runs faster than its eyes can keep up, basically becoming blind, which requires it to stop periodically to re-evaluate its prey’s (猎物)position.

Our results suggest that time perception offers an as yet unstudied dimension along which animals can specialize and there is considerable range to study this system in more detail.

1What is the research mentioned in the passage mainly about?

A. Pace of life of animals. B. Time perception of animals.

C. Lifetime of small animals. D. Impressive abilities of animals.

2What does Kevin Healy’s comment mean in Para. 2?

A. The ability of animals to perceive time depends on their high moving speed.

B. The survival of fast moving animals relies on their ability to perceive time.

C. Animals with quicker pace of life have better perception of time.

D. Animals with poor ability of time perception have a shorter life.

3Why can houseflies avoid being hit?

A. They can think very deeply before they act.

B. They can fly much faster than their eyes can keep up.

C. They can process the information as quickly as they receive it.

D. They can send information to brain more quickly than to their eyes.

4What will a tiger beetle have to do to catch a moving prey?

A. Try to run as fast as it can.

B. Prevent itself from becoming blind.

C. Slow down to gain its time perception.

D. Stop occasionally to spot the prey again.

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