题目内容
The Outdoor Centre
Opening times
Water sports: 10 a.m. — 6 p.m.
Play Park: 10 a.m. — 5:30 p.m.
Windsurfing — One-day course
Beginner windsurfing courses are offered on Saturdays and Sundays when the weather is good enough. Learning to windsurf is a lot of fun. The excitement when you sail across the water for the first time is not easily forgotten. Boards with small sails are available for beginners.
Course fee: £32 for adults; £16 for children under 16 (this includes all equipment)
One-day adventure course
This is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Come and try sailing, climbing, surfing and archery(箭术). This course is intended to introduce outdoor activities to adults in a fun and leisurely (休闲的) manner. You do not need to be very fit or to have previous(以前的) experience with the activities. All you need is to be interested.
Course fee: £22.50
Play Park
The Play Park is suitable for children from two to ten years of age. It is one of the best of its type in the country. It has sand and water playgrounds, slides, large pool balls, a play castle and much, much more. Next year the center will open Play Palace and Play Ship.
Summer adventure holidays
Sailing, Climbing, Windsurfing, Fun Games
Fee: £50 for adults; £30 for children under 16
Statement:
Safety is of primary importance at the Outdoor Center. All staff members are fully trained in first aid, and qualified to teach the activities on offer. We also make sure that all children only take part in activities that are suitable for their ages and physical abilities. For this programme children must be able to swim 25 metres and be in good physical health.
- 1.
If Mr. Brown and his two sons (ages 12 and 14) go to learn windsurfing, how much will they pay?
- A.£32.
- B.£48.
- C.£64.
- D.£80.
- A.
- 2.
One must be in good physical condition if he wants to take part in _______.
- A.Windsurfing — One-day course
- B.One-day adventure course
- C.Play Park
- D.Summer adventure holidays
- A.
- 3.
Of the four programs, which one is open only on weekends?
- A.Windsurfing — One-day course
- B.One-day adventure course
- C.Play Park
- D.Summer adventure holidays
- A.
- 4.
From the passage we can see that One-day adventure course _______.
- A.costs more than the other activities
- B.is the most dangerous of all
- C.is not open to children
- D.requires some experience
- A.
1.推理题,由第十行£32 for adults;£16 for children under 16可知选C
2.推理题,由倒数第九行Summer adventure holidays
Sailing, Climbing, Windsurfing, Fun Games可知选D
3.细节题,由第六行Beginner windsurfing courses are offered on Saturdays and Sundays when the weather is good enough.可知选A
4.细节题,由十五行This course is intended to introduce outdoor activities to adults in a fun and leisurely (休闲的) manner.可知选C
Lightning flashed through the darkness over Sibson’s bedroom skylight(天窗).Sibson was shaken by a clap of thunder ____21___ he knew what was happening. The storm had moved directly _____22____ his two-story wooden house. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping.
Sibson rushed down the stairs barefoot to 23 ; he opened the door to the basement(地下室), and flames 24 out. Sibson ran back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom. “I felt 25 because the room had a separate outdoor stairway,” he explains.
But the phone didn’t work, and when he tried to go down the outdoor stairway, he was 26 by a wall of flames. Sibson realized he was trapped(困住).
Sibson’s house was three kilometers 27 the main road and was so well hidden by trees that he knew calling for help would be 28 .
Up a hill nearby lived Sibson’s neighbor, Huggons. He was lying in bed when something like a smoke alarm 29 his ears. He jumped out of bed, took his 30 and flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the 31 . That was when he saw the rolling heavy smoke.
Huggons dialed 911, and the operator warned him not to 32 the house. But Huggons said, “There is no way I am going to listen to Sibson 33 and die in that fire.”
“Anyone there?” Huggons called out. Then he heard “Help! I’m trapped!” coming from the second floor balcony(阳台). He entered the house, but soon had to run back to catch his 34 .
After one more 35 inside the house, Huggons gave up and 36 around back.
The wind parted the smoke just 37 for him to catch sight of Sibson. But there was no way to get to him. He 38 the flashlight into the woods and noticed a ladder. He took it over to the balcony and 39 Sibson down just as the second floor of the house fell off.
Sibson is still 40 when he tells the story. “ I was alone that night,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Huggons.”
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Kindergarten outside? Yes, indeed. It’s part of a growing worldwide trend toward outdoor education. The schools are called forest kindergartens.
The numbers are small so far in the U.S., but the idea is well established in Europe, with schools in Scotland, England, and Switzerland. By far the most such schools are in Germany, which has more than 400 forest kindergartens.
Some schools feature several hours of outdoor schooling. This is certainly the case with the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs. Children there will be venturing out on the nearby Hemlock Trail to learn more about the natural world. Some lessons are focused on nature; others are academic topics delivered in a natural setting. In all cases, students are active-not sitting at desks or on mats on the floor but walking, running, jumping, solving problems like how to get the mud off the bottoms of their shoes before their parents find out.
Seriously, the focus is on activity at these schools. Studies have shown that children’s immune systems actually get stronger after all of the outdoor activity, and that graduates of forest kindergartens show a higher ability to learn when they progress through their academic careers.
Other schools are all outdoors, all the time. This is the case with the Cedar Song Nature School, on Vashon Island, Washington. Students at this school spend their whole three–hour day outdoors, in a private five-acre forest, doing all kinds of physical activities.
At these forest kindergartens, students learn science by observing and doing it, learn math by applying it to the natural world around them, learn letters and words by putting them together using sights and sounds. These students learn how to get along with one another, individually and in a group. They also develop healthy levels of self-confidence.
Nowadays many children become obese(肥胖的) because of sedentary(久坐的) activities like watching television and playing video games. These outdoor schools give children chances to learn just as much, if not more, from opening their eyes to the real world around them.
【小题1】What do we know about forest kindergartens?
A.The first one was created in England. | B.They are very popular in Germany. |
C.There are 400 all over the world. | D.Their number is huge in the U.S. |
A.Kids learn more than those at ordinary kindergartens. |
B.Students go outside when weather permits. |
C.They value activity very much. |
D.They are situated in forests. |
A.the subjects | B.the activities |
C.the outdoor time | D.the teaching methods |
A.Get close to nature | B.A new trend of education |
C.Forest kindergartens are popular | D.Outdoor education benefits kids a lot |