Summer Holiday Fun 2010 !

    The summer holidays are upon us again Here is our guide to summer holiday fun in Peterborough!

Peterborough Museum

    The Age of the Dinosaurs’is the museum’s main attraction this summer.Get up close to prehistoric creatures via some great hands—on exhibits! Watch out for monsters lurking around every ember! The museum is open from 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Saturday,and from 12:00pm to 4:00 pm on Sundays in August.

Call 01733 864663 for details

    Saxon Youth Club

    School holiday fun:Young people aged 13—19 will be able to produce their own music, compete in spots activities,or try their hand at cooking at Saxon Youth Club,Saxon Community Centre, Norman Road.Peterborough every Monday and Wednesday from 3:00pm.PLUS an aero ball tournament will take place on Thursday 12th August between 3:30pm and 6:30pm.

    Call 01 353 720274 for details

Houghton Mill   

    Alice through the Looking Class—a new production of the family favorite on Monday 30th.August.Bring rugs or chairs to sit on and a picnic if you wish to eat during the play.Gates open 5:30pro,performance 6:30pm—8:30pm.Tea room will be open until end of the interval.Adult £10.Child£7.Family £20.

Booking advisable on 0845 4505157.

Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey

    Farmland Gaines:From Wellie Wanging to Pretend Ploughing matches,come and join the Farmland Team.Collect your sporting stickers and create a colorful rosette that is fit for a winner!No need to book,just turn up between 12:00pm and 4:00pm on Thursday 19th August Suitable for children aged four and above,each child should be accompanied by an adult and all activities are included in the normal admission price Tickets Cost£7 per child.

For further information,call 01223 810080. 

If you are interested in cooking, you can go to          .

    A.Peterborough Museum               B.Houghton Mill

    C.Saxon Youth Club                        D.Farmland Museum

You want to watch the new play with your parents,so it will cost you           

    A.£7                     B.£17                   C.£27                      D.£20

Which of the following activities needs parents’company?

    A.Playing farmland games             B.Watching a new play.

C.Competing in spots activities.             D.Visiting the dinosaur exhibition.

If Tom comes to Peterborough for amusement on August 19,he will have      activities to choose from for himself.

A.one activity                               B.two activities       

C.three activities                             D.four activities

Every year, as Spring Festival draws near, most Chinese people will get excited to make preparation for the most important festival and make plan for the winter break. It is a little like Christmas in the United States, but there are some differences between the two festivals.
Both the major Chinese and the major Western holidays come during the cold season, and special food is expected. In western countries, cookies and cakes begin just after Thanksgiving in November and show up everywhere. Turkey, potatoes and other food come later. Similar thing happens in China. Entering lunar December, most families will make shopping plans for the coming big day and food is certainly one of the most important things to be considered. At the end of the month, both parents in each family will be very busy---the father is busy buying food while the mother is busy cooking.
A deeper similarity (相似处) is tradition. Christmas, as the letters “Christ” suggests, began as a holiday to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ. Many people pray (祈祷) on this day. In China, people living in cities or towns, though they don’t plan to sow seeds(播种) this month, still celebrate on the big day for farmers.
Followers of both holidays are also different from each other. While Chinese people travel to the homes of elder relatives, Americans usually call or send cards. Westerners prefer Christmas carols to fireworks. In Christmas, many family gifts come together instead of one by one, since adults may have only one day free to celebrate.
But the most curious difference is about students. Chinese students going home for Spring Festival sometimes report that they get bored by the end of vacation, yet American students seldom get bored around Christmas and western New Year.
Not everyone enjoys classic holiday traditions. Students in western countries may get upset, as too much homework, travel or bad family relations may destroy the short holiday season. In China, more and more college students choose to travel or work during the winter holiday instead of going home to stay with their families. It’s against the tradition but many people accept it.
【小题1】What does “the coming big day” (Paragraph 2) refer to?

A.ChristmasB.Thanksgiving Day
C.the New Year’s DayD.the Spring Festival
【小题2】The second and the third paragraphs mainly talk about ________.
A.the similarities between Christmas and the Spring Festival
B.the differences between Christmas and the Spring Festival
C.the preparations for Christmas and the Spring Festival
D.the history of Christmas and the Spring Festival
【小题3】What does the writer mainly want to tell us in this passage?
A.Food in different festivals.
B.Differences between two festivals.
C.Festivals in China and western countries.
D.Traditional celebrations in different countries.

A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a   36 , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it  37  from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles,   38 everywhere. I tried to use a broom, 39 with each sweep they just rolled across the kitchen.

For the next week, every time I was in the   40 , I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept   41  . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and  42  12 frozen peas hidden underneath.

At the time I found those few remaining  43 , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful  44  I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded  45  those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my   46  had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble   47  his new surroundings and the 48  of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.

When life gets you   49  , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never  50  , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be  51  , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas   52 , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them   53  you’ll start to feel whole again.

The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to   54 , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,  55  will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?

1.                A.drink          B.fruit           C.vegetable D.meat

 

2.                A.moved         B.walked         C.ran  D.slipped

 

3.                A.rubbed         B.rolled          C.grew D.existed

 

4.                A.but            B.and            C.although  D.so

 

5.                A.bedroom       B.living room      C.kitchen   D.storeroom

 

6.                A.getting up       B.turning up       C.taking up  D.using up

 

7.                A.found          B.ate            C.left  D.planted

 

8.                A.presents        B.cans           C.vegetables D.peas

 

9.                A.man           B.child           C.woman   D.boy

 

10.               A.of             B.for            C.with  D.in

 

11.               A.wife           B.life            C.son   D.friend

 

12.               A.turning to       B.leading to       C.adjusting to D.adding to

 

13.               A.thank          B.love           C.help  D.loss

 

14.               A.down          B.near           C.close D.wide

 

15.               A.get it          B.make it         C.take it D.leave it

 

16.               A.grew          B.bought         C.collected  D.frozen

 

17.               A.eventually      B.fortunately      C.properly   D.specially

 

18.               A.both           B.all             C.either D.each

 

19.               A.call on         B.put on         C.bring on   D.move on

 

20.               A.while          B.because        C.since D.or

 

 

Summer Holiday Fun 2010 !

    The summer holidays are upon us again Here is our guide to summer holiday fun in Peterborough!

Peterborough Museum

    The Age of the Dinosaurs’is the museum’s main attraction this summer.Get up close to prehistoric creatures via some great hands—on exhibits! Watch out for monsters lurking around every ember! The museum is open from 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Saturday,and from 12:00pm to 4:00 pm on Sundays in August.

Call 01733 864663 for details

    Saxon Youth Club

    School holiday fun:Young people aged 13—19 will be able to produce their own music, compete in spots activities,or try their hand at cooking at Saxon Youth Club,Saxon Community Centre, Norman Road.Peterborough every Monday and Wednesday from 3:00pm.PLUS an aero ball tournament will take place on Thursday 12th August between 3:30pm and 6:30pm.

    Call 01 353 720274 for details

Houghton Mill   

    Alice through the Looking Class—a new production of the family favorite on Monday 30th.August.Bring rugs or chairs to sit on and a picnic if you wish to eat during the play.Gates open 5:30pro,performance 6:30pm—8:30pm.Tea room will be open until end of the interval.Adult £10.Child£7.Family £20.

Booking advisable on 0845 4505157.

Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey

    Farmland Gaines:From Wellie Wanging to Pretend Ploughing matches,come and join the Farmland Team.Collect your sporting stickers and create a colorful rosette that is fit for a winner!No need to book,just turn up between 12:00pm and 4:00pm on Thursday 19th August Suitable for children aged four and above,each child should be accompanied by an adult and all activities are included in the normal admission price Tickets Cost£7 per child.

For further information,call 01223 810080. 

1.If you are interested in cooking, you can go to          .

    A.Peterborough Museum                  B.Houghton Mill

    C.Saxon Youth Club                                  D.Farmland Museum

2.You want to watch the new play with your parents,so it will cost you           

    A.£7                           B.£17                         C.£27                             D.£20

3.Which of the following activities needs parents’company?

    A.Playing farmland games                 B.Watching a new play.

C.Competing in spots activities.                  D.Visiting the dinosaur exhibition.

4.If Tom comes to Peterborough for amusement on August 19,he will have      activities to choose from for himself.

A.one activity                                        B.two activities        

C.three activities                                      D.four activities

 

As I got up today, I smelt fresh coffee. I woke up to   36   a cup of it with some biscuits on my bedside table. This reminded me of   37  , the old school and college days, when mom used to wake me up by serving a   38   cup of coffee. The taste is still so   39   in my memories.

A   40    thought hit me, “I was in bed, so who prepared this coffee for me? Is it a dream?”

I pinched(掐)myself, ouch… that hurt, which meant I was not   41  . I walked out of the room with the cup of coffee,   42   my roommate. I asked him whether he prepared that for me, and the answer was YES.

I was relaxed   43   somehow my heart wanted him to say NO, because I wanted to be in a   44   that my mom prepared it for me. The whole   45   reminded me of mom and I   46   her at that moment.

On my way to my office, I was thinking about those days when mom used to cook my   47  meal. I could not   48   any single day when I slept without food. But now, I no longer   49  the food mom cooked.

This very thought   50   tears to my eyes and I decided to call up mom. I reached the office and gave her a call.

The first thing she asked was, “Is everything all right?” I was   51  . And I thought, “How the time has   52  ”.

When I was with her, I used to call her after every hour when I was out with my friends. In those days she   53   asked me what was wrong, as she knew that it was my habit. My call at this point of the day to her meant that I was in   54  .

Time has changed, she is still the same, and it is   55   who have changed.

1.

A.find

B.drink

C.prepare

D.cook

 

2.

A.kitchen

B.comfort

C.warmth

D.home

 

3.

A.smelling

B.cooking

C.steaming

D.pouring

 

4.

A.deep

B.fresh

C.heavy

D.recent

 

5.

A.funny

B.possible

C.realistic

D.sudden

 

6.

A.thinking

B.working

C.dreaming

D.reacting

 

7.

A.in search of

B.in favor of

C.in place of

D.in case of

 

8.

A.and

B.but

C.or

D.so

 

9.

A.sense

B.relief

C.belief

D.state

 

10.

A.scene

B.incident

C.care

D.matter

 

11.

A.hated

B.expected

C.missed

D.questioned

 

12.

A.last

B.every

C.tasty

D.complete

 

13.

A.check

B.count

C.remember

D.cover

 

14.

A.pack

B.finish

C.imagine

D.enjoy

 

15.

A.brought

B.caused

C.pushed

D.raised

 

16.

A.careless

B.speechless

C.rootless

D.homeless

 

17.

A.influenced

B.passed

C.flied

D.changed

 

18.

A.never

B.still

C.often

D.almost

 

19.

A.peace

B.surprise

C.trouble

D.progress

 

20.

A.my roommate

B.she

C.the situation

D.I

 

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