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The following are a few cities with cheap attractions or restaurants in California, the US.

Cathedral City 

The Indian Oven in the city will give you a high-quality dining experience. It’s a restaurant with traditional Indian dishes. All of the lunch specials are $5.95 and are served from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. The windows of the restaurants give you the beautiful views of desert mountain scenes. You need to call 92234(760)770-3918 to book a table.

Palm Desert 

Palm Desert, a city in Riverside County, has a number of free desert hiking trails(小径). They are named after famous Western Hollywood cowboys. The trails are fun to hike on. At some points they go up very high and you can get a bird’s-eye view of the surrounding desert cities. The paths are dusty, so bring some good hiking boots and hats. Do bring some water and your phone. It’s great for an afternoon hike after 2 pm. Call 92260(760)340-0574 or 92253(760)564-4712 to learn more.

Lake Cahuilla 

Away from the busy streets of the city of Palm Springs, Lake Cahuilla is a great recreational(娱乐的) area you can visit in La Quinta. It is at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains. It costs $3.00 for per person to enter the area, but a half for kids under 7. The activities include: camping, fishing, bicycling, and horseback riding. If you want to save on rooms, you can stay in an RV. Call 92278(760)664-7215 and you’ll learn something else.

1.The desert hiking trails__________.

A. are named after some famous people

B. reach the top of some high mountains.

C. provide visitors with free water and food.

D. have attracted many well-known cowboys.

2. If you want to know more about the restaurants in Lake Cahuilla, you can call __________.

A. 92260(760)340-0574 B. 92278(760)664-7215

C. 92234(760)770-3918 D. 92253(760)564-4712

3.We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. the Indian Oven must be a well-known restaurant in India.

B. kids enjoy the hiking trails in Palm Desert at half price.

C. Palm Desert has been badly polluted by human activities.

D. staying in an RV costs less than staying in a hotel room.

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Adult single cash fare £ 5.00

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1.You can get an Oyster card at the following places EXCEPT_____

A.at a post office B.at an Oyster Ticket stop

C.on the website D.at a Tube station

2.If a person with an Oyster card takes the 7 o’clock Tube from Central London to Heathrow for a week (no public holiday in between),he should pay_____.

A.£ 18.90 B.£ 29.40 C.£ 26.40 D.£ 21.90

3.The passage is probably taken from a_______

A.journal B.travel brochure C.textbook D.novel

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。

Wrong Reasons for Going to College

A college education can be priceless. __1.___ If any of these following factors had a big influence on your decision, you’re probably right to second-guess yourself.

◆Because someone else expects it from you.

Perhaps you come from a family where everyone goes to college. Or maybe, you’re the kid that everyone is proud to believe will be the first to get there. ___2._____. It’s become so much a part of the air you breathe that you’ve never stopped to consider whether you want to go or whether you’re ready to go.

◆Because all your friends are going.

In only a few weeks’ time, the whole friend group will be scattered to a half dozen different colleges in a half dozen different places. ____3.___Friends would wonder what’s wrong with you. Some would take it as a betrayal of the dreams you’ve dreamed together and the plans you’ve made.

◆____4.___

It’s been tough to find even a summer job. You don’t have an alternative plan. Everyone else is doing it . You think you might as well go to school. That is the lamest of reasons to spend $20,000 or more in the next year.

◆Because you are afraid you’ll regret it if you don’t go.

Your uncle tells you that his one regret in life is that he didn’t go to college. Others tell you that they could have gone so much farther in their career if only they had a college education. _____5.___ So this is not a persuasive reason for you to go to college.

A. Not to go would be set yourself apart.

B. Because you don’t know what else to do.

C. That’s much too fine.

D. It seems that for years everyone has just assumed that of course you’ll go.

E. Everyone seems more excited than you are.

F. But maybe in your heart you know that you are going for the wrong reasons.

G. Whatever the story is, there are always people who regret decisions they’ve made.

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The phone call came one cool winter day. I was that my father was seriously ill.

It had been long since I’d seen my father. Ever since his from my mom, my father had lived alone in a small trailer(房车) in California, 500 miles away from me. The real between us seemed so much greater. I was in no hurry to that, but somehow I heard myself to the owner of the trailer to be there the next day.

The whole drive down, flashed through my mind. I remembered my father, the proud Marine. He made sure the first song I was the Marine Hymn(《美国海军陆战队队歌》). He tore off the Christmas all the decorations the rest of us had and rehung them so there was the same space between them. But we didn’t need to those military orders, as we were not soldiers. I remembered the battles he had with my mother. I remembered hoping to hear my father say . once, “I love you, Patty,” only to have him at me, “You can’t do anything right!”

And now here I was standing outside his trailer, trying to my courage to face him one more time. I knocked on the door, my hand and my whole body . NO answer. Slowly I opened the door. I took a few inside and stopped, too shocked to believe my eyes.

My father was sitting on his sofa, looking confused and crying. This wasn’t the man I hand known growing up. He seemed broken.

A sense of overtook me, and I knew what I had to do. He would be my father forever. Without , I went back inside and packed up all of my father’s things. I would take him to my home-our home.

1.A. reminded B. convinced C. informed D. warned

2.A. divorce B. difference C. absence D. result

3. A. difficulty B. distance C. challenge D. pain

4. A. destroy B. distance C. increase D. change

5.A. announce B. explain C. promise D. apologize

6.A. memories B. doubts C. signs D. messages

7.A. performed B. learned C. admired D. composed

8.A. box B. gift C. tree D. cake

9.A. taken up B. made up C. rang up D. put up

10.A. uniquely B. exactly C. properly D. specially

11.A. master B. obey C. admit D. recite

12.A. eventually B. suddenly C. clearly D. regularly

13.A. just B. always C. seldom D. ever

14.A. point B. look C. laugh D. improve

15.A. show B. gather C. support D. improve

16.A. softening B. relaxing C. aching D. shaking

17.A. steps B. measures C. turns D. jumps

18.A. selfish B. angry C. mild D. strange

19.A. sorrow B. fear C. pride D. anger

20.A. effort B. pity C. hesitation D. rest

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