The Best Time to Visit Sydney

If you prefer the cold to heat,especially if seeking to escape the northern summer,the best time to visit Sydney could be in the Australian winter from June 1 to August 31.

The Sydney winter isn’t really harsh and the weather’s generally pleasant.It’s great for touring the city on foot and for bushwalking.And the ski slopes are not too far away.

Holiday time

You get the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend in June and the school holidays in July.Aside from within those periods,accommodation costs in the city will generally be lower.

Winter weather

Expect generally cool conditions.The average temperature should range from around 8℃(46?) at night to 16℃(61?) in the daytime in mid?winter.Expect from 80mm to 131mm of rain in a month,with the most rain in June tapering into August.

Winter accommodation

Outside of the holiday periods,Sydney accommodation will usually be available and should be relatively cheaper.

Winter activities

·The weather’s fine for a walking tour of Sydney.Visit the Rocks,the Sydney Opera House,the Royal Botanic Gardens,Art Gallery of New South Wales,Australian Museum,Hyde Park,Chinatown,Darling Harbour.

·Go on a harbor cruise.At the very least,take a Sydney ferry and cross the harbor to Manly.

·Take a day trip north,south and west of Sydney.

·Spot the whales as they travel north in the whale migration season.

·Go bushwalking at the Royal National Park.

1.Considering weather and accommodation,the best time to visit Sydney is in .

A. June B. July

C. August D. December

2.Which of the following activities is NOT recommended in the passage?

A. Going skiing near Sydney.

B. Hunting whales in the Royal Botanic Gardens.

C. Touring Sydney on foot.

D. Bushwalking at the Royal National Park.

On the day of Chongyang Festival,one traditional activity is to climb mountains.However,mountains are not everywhere for people to climb.Therefore,for those people who live in flat regions far from any mountain,the problem is solved by going for a picnic and eating cakes.The Chinese word for cake is Gao,a homonym of the Chinese word for high.Mountains are high,so eating cakes can,by a stretch of the imagination,take the place of going for a climb.

The tradition of eating cakes in September is originated from the ancient times.Though the name of “Gao” started from the Six Dynasties,the cakes had already existed in Han Dynasty,which was called “Er”.in Chinese at that time.It is made of rice flour,which is classified into two types:paddy(水稻) rice flour and millet(粟米) rice flour.They are mixed together,which is named “Er”.In September,the millet is ripe.It is regarded as the food just in season,which is offered to ancestors as sacrifices.Chongyang Cake comes from the food just in season in September.That is why Chongyang Cake is recommended for offering sacrifices to ancestors on the day of Chongyang Festival.

In the Six Dynasties,cakes became the food for the season as the tradition Chongyang Festival is formed with the promotion of mountain?climbing activity.As the cakes appeared in different forms,Chongyang Cake was also called Hua (Colorful) Cake in the Ming & Qing Dynasties and became the food for the season in urban and rural areas.Hua Cake is divided into Unpolished Hua Cake,Refined Hua Cake and Gold Coin Hua Cake.Unpolished Hua Cake is marked with caraway (香菜) leaves,sandwiched with date,peach kernel (果仁) and other unpolished dry fruits.Refined Hua Cake is made in either two or three layers,with each sandwiched with refined glazed fruits,such as preserved apple,peach and apricot.

Title: 1. Cake

2.

·taking the place of going for a climb

·being offered as 3.

Eating time

In 4.

Related activities

(1)in mountain areas:climbing

mountains

(2)in 5. areas:

·going for a picnic

·eating 6.

7.

(1)Han Dynasty:called

8.

·paddy rice flour

·millet rice flour

(2) 9. Dynasties:called “Gao”

·Unpolished Hua Cake

·10. Hua Cake

·Gold Coin Hua Cake

Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ______ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished ______ a driving offence (犯规,犯法).

Then one day she nearly ______ her record. A police car ______ her, and the policemen in it saw her ______ a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed __ that she would be punished. ______ Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ______ old to drive a car, and that the ______ why she had not stopped at the red ______ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ______ old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge finished what he was _____, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ______ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she _______ a needle (针) with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had ______ done this, she took the thread (线) out of the needle again and handed _______ the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your ______. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the _______ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he still didn’t succeed. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was ______, and her record _____ unbroken.

1.A. which B. when C. that D. this

2.A. about B. on C. to D. for

3.A. kept B. won C. missed D. lost

4.A. watched B. saw C. followed D. stopped

5.A. race B. go C. run D. rush

6.A. sure B. indeed C. certain D. perhaps

7.A. Before B. While C. Until D. When

8.A. so B. very C. too D. quite

9.A. cause B. reason C. matter D. trouble

10.A. light B. lamp C. sign D. one

11.A. with B. because C. as D. of

12.A. speaking B. saying C. talking D. telling

13.A. holding B. getting C. carrying D. bringing

14.A. took B. brought C. fetched D. chose

15.A. angrily B. luckily C. successfully D. slowly

16.A. both B. all C. neither D. either

17.A. time B. turn C. chance D. job

18.A. thread B. glasses C. sewing D. needle

19.A. dismissed B. passed C. settled D. studied

20.A. was B. held C. seemed D. remained

The ninth week of SEAL training is referred to as Hell Week. It is on Wednesday of Hell Week that you paddle down to the mud flats (泥滩)and spend the next 15 hours trying to survive the freezing-cold mud, the howling wind and the increasing pressure from the instructors to quit. As the sun began to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having broken the rules, was ordered into the mud. The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible but our heads. The instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit—just five men and we could get out of the extreme cold.

Looking around the mud flat, it was apparent that some students were about to give up. It was still over eight hours till the sun came up--eight more hours of freezing cold. The chattering teeth and shivering moans (呻吟)of the trainees were so loud it was hard to hear anything. And then, one voice began to echo (回荡)through the night--one voice raised in song. The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three, and before long everyone in the class was singing. We knew that if one man could rise above the great suffering then others could as well. The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singing—but the singing went on. And somehow, the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little less bitter and the dawn not so far away.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world it is the power of hope. The power of one person, Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala, can change the world by giving people hope.

So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you're up to your neck in mud.

1.From the passage, we can see that being ordered into the mud was _____ .

A. the last part of the training

B. the most useful part of the training

C. the real test of the trainees' intelligence

D. the punishment for the training class

2.The training class' singing together ______ .

A. helped them to kill the time

B. encouraged them to fight their difficulty

C. inspired the instructors

D. kept them from falling into the mud

3.The writer described his SEAL training experience mainly to tell the readers _____ .

A. the power of a large crowd of people

B. the advantage of the training

C. the way to bring about changes

D. the reason to promote singing

4.In the last paragraph, the phrase "up to your neck in mud" most probably means ______ .

A. in an extremely difficult situation

B. in a hard training class

C. in terribly cold weather

D. in a lower social position

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