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Attractions

Do you：

◆Love the National Park, value it and hope to safeguard its future?

◆Wish to see the beautiful landscape of the Park protected?

◆Like to enjoy peaceful, informal recreation within the Park?

Aims

The Friends organization aims are to help protect and improve the Pembroke shire Coast National Park for all to enjoy. We are a voluntary organization and registered charity without financial links to the National Park Authority.

Activities

We encourage everyone to enjoy the National Park through regular talks and visits to interesting places in the Park with expert guides.

We keep an eye on planning applications, Park Authority policies and threats to the National Park such as massive leisure complexes. We work with like?minded organizations such as the Campaign for National Parks to make our voice more effective. We help children to understand the National Park by sponsoring publications such as an adventure booklet and projects in local schools.

Benefits

◆Guided visits to places of interest which may not always be available to the general public.

◆All members receive our regular News and Views.

◆Talks by experts in their fields on current issues.

◆A discount is available on Friends items for sale.

◆Satisfaction of participation in work parties, for those willing and able to be involved. If interested, please complete the Application Form at www. fpnp.org. uk.

1.Which of the following is discouraged by the Friends organization?

A. To build massive complexes for public amusement.

B. To prevent possible damages to the National Park.

C. To help protect and improve the Park for all to enjoy.

D. To sponsor publications and projects in local schools.

2.One of the benefits for members of Friends is to ________.

A. have Friends' goods free of charge

B. visit any place not open to the public

C. take part in work parties if they want to

D. give talks in their fields on current issues

3.The purpose of this poster is to invite more people to ______.

A. raise money for the Friends organization

B. join the Friends organization and be members of it

C. work as managers for Pembrokeshire National Park

D. enjoy the landscape of Pembroke shire National Park

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Here’s an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.

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There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.

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A. telling the truth to the clerk

B. offering advice to the clerk

C. asking the clerk to be more attentive

D. reminding the clerk of the charged item

4. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

A. How to Live Truthfully

B. Importance of Peacefulness

C. Ways of Gaining Self-respect

D. Happiness through Honorable Action

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C．be less healthy both physically and mentally

D．change wild places and creatures for the better

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C．show his concern about children’s lack of experience in nature

D．inspire children to keep the sense of wonder about things around

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A. the best they could afford

B. right for their social position

C. for showing off

D. rather small

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B. it was too old to work well

C. it was too expensive to possess

D. it was too cheap

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A. He was very unhappy. B. He didn't believe it.

C. He was delighted. D. He had mixed feelings.

4.We can know from the passage that _______ .

A. Children who can go to Eton are very famous

B. Children can go to Eton if they will

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C

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Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can’t make it. They are lazy, and perhaps not too bright. So researchers were surprised when they asked more than 450 kids who quit school about why they left.

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“As these dropouts look back, they realize they’ve made a mistake. And anything that sort of gives these people an extra push to stick it out and see it through to the end, is probably helpful measure.”

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1.Most high school students drop out of school because_______.

A. they have failing grades

B. they take no interest in classes

C. they are mistreated

D. they are lazy and not intelligent

2.According to the passage, which state has a law requiring school attendance until they graduate?

A. New Hampshire

B. Utah

C. New Mexico

D. The District of Columbia

3.The underlined words“stick it out”probably means“________”.

A. complete schooling

B. solve the problem

C. love having classes

D. believe in themselves

4.In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to________.

A. analyze the reason why students quit school

B. suggest raising the compulsory attendance age

C. raise awareness of reforming high school education

D. wish to make laws to guarantee no dropout

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Once seeing their time in terms of money, people often grow stingy with the former to maximize the latter. Workers who are paid by the hour volunteer less of their time and tend to feel more upset when they are not working.

The relationship between time, money and anxiety is something Gary Becker noticed in America's post-war boom years. "If anything, time is used more carefully today than a century ago," he noted in 1965. He found that when people are paid more to work, they tend to work longer hours, because working becomes a more profitable use of time. So the rising value of work time puts pressure on all time. Leisure time starts to seem more stressful, as people are forced to use it wisely or not at all.

1.Women's time in unpaid work has fallen partly because ______.

A. men's ability to support a family has been improved

B. men's involvement in housework has increased

C. women's leisure time was taken up by heavy housework

D. women become more skilled at household equipment

2.From the second paragraph, we learn that ______.

A. labor hours were recorded with a clock

B. people haven't realized the value of time

C. more work hours bring in more money

D. The rise of incomes makes time less valuable

3.The underlined phrase grow stingy with can probably be replaced by "______".

A. refuses to delay

B. intend to kill

C. try to accumulate

D. hesitate to spend

4.According to Gary Becker, what causes people feel anxious about time?

A. The wrong way of time being spent.

B. People's willingness to work hard.

C. The increasing value of work time.

D. More and more leisure time.

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