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All hotels redecorate regularly. However, very few do it as frequently as Sweden’s Icehotel. As the name indicates,the hotel that is located in the remote village of Jukkasjarvi, is built entirely from ice and,therefore,has to be rebuilt annually! The 26th version of Icehotel, which welcomed its first visitors on December 11th,features 69 rooms. To make them affordable for everyone, they range from expensive luxury suites to basic accommodations.

Among this year’s unique suite offerings is the“Elephant in the Room”,which features a massive 3-m tall sculpted African elephant overlooking an ice—framed bed. The“Counting Sheep”suite features frozen sheep that may help those who don’t sleep well get a good night’s rest. Though the atmosphere between the luxury suites and the budget rooms may differ,they are all subject to the bone-chilling-5℃ temperatures. To get a good night’s rest guests have to lie inside sleeping bags and keep their gloves and hats on. Though that seems a little uncomfortable,visitors say it is an experience like none other.

The hotel also features a beautifully crafted ice church where over 100 couples will get married this year and an Ice Bar that will serve drinks in ice glasses. Though dining options are limited to the hotel’s only restaurant,guests will have little to complain about with Michelin—trained chef Alexander Meier. To keep customers entertained,the hotel offers a variety of fun activities like snowshoeing,moose or snowmobile safaris,dog sledding,and even overnight wilderness camping.

The 26-year-·old tradition began accidentally in 1989 when locals organized an art exhibition to draw winter visitors to the remote village that lies 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. Among the many tourists was an adventurous group and they announced their intention of spending the night in the place where the exhibition was being held. That’s when the idea of building the icy accommodations dawned on the locals.

1.Why is Sweden’s Icehotel rebuilt every year?

A. It needs more rooms.

B. It is entirely built from ice.

C. It follows old traditions

D. It can be easily decorated.

2.What is unique about the hotel this year?

A. It opens earlier than ever before.

B. More expensive rooms are available.

C. Room prices are more affordable.

D. Some rooms have theme sculptures.

3.What can be inferred about the hotel in Paragraph 3?

A. Its service needs improving.

B. Its activities may be boring.

C. It tries to appeal to customers.

D. Its food is not delicious at a11.

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Parties and social gathering no longer excite us the same way they once did. This is not because of a lack of desire to socialize, but the mobile-phone.

At parties, more people are on their phones than on their drinks. According to a recent International Data Corporation Study, over half of all Americans have a smartphone and reach for it as soon as they wake up, keeping it in hand all day. In addition, too many people in society are using smartphones while driving and as a result, they get into car crashes. 34 percent of teenagers admit sending messages while driving, and they agree that sending messages is their number one driving interruption. People’s addiction(沉溺) to their smartphones is unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of themselves and others.

Just as drivers ignore the importance of focusing while on the road, many people also fail to recognize the importance of human communication. When with their friends, some people aimlessly check or send messages in front of a friend, which sends a message to that friend: the person I am texting is more important than you. In addition, relying on our smartphones to make friends does not give us the same advantage as being able to make new friendships in the real world. Face-to-face conversations will give us much stronger communication skills in the long run.

As many people risk their lives and the lives of people around them just to send a message or mindlessly check their messages, smartphones are in many ways more dangerous to people. The quality of this technology is preventing societal achievements and weakening the value of communication. Not only is the smartphone affecting our desire to communicate face to face, but it is also lowering society’s ability to communicate.

1. The purpose of the passage is to .

A. call for an end to use the smartphone while driving

B. tell us to pay attention to communication skills

C. express a concern about the overuse of the smartphone

D. advise us to be careful about the addiction to face-to-face communication.

2.The second paragraph is developed by .

A. giving examples B. time order.

C. comparing facts D. analyzing the effects

3.The author advises us to make new friends .

A. by using smartphones B. in a face-to-face way

C. in different ways D. by writing letters.

4.Over-dependence on the smartphone leads to the fact that .

A. parties and gathering limit their social circle.

B. people are more and more easy-going.

C. people’s communication skills are weakened.

D. face-to-face communication becomes more and more dangerous.

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Many students often say that they don't have “ enough time” to do all their schoolwork.

My _________ is often brief, “You have as much time as the president.” I usually carry on a bit about there being twenty-four hours in the day for _________ , and suggest that “not enough time” is not an _________ explanation of not getting something _________ .

_________ in graduate school, I tried to prove to one of my professors _________saying that I was working hard. His answer to me was, “That's irrelevant. _________ is important is the _________ of your work. ” Since then I have had time to think carefully about the _________ of “ hard worker” ,and I have come to some _________ — all relevant to the problem of how much time we have.

If you analyze the matter, you can identify two parts of the problem: There is, _________ , the matter of “ time” , which we can think of as _________ . Then there is the problem of “work” during that time. But, as my professor suggested, it's not how hard one works_________ the quality of the product that's important.

That led me to a new idea: the quality of the work. That _________ is perhaps best explained by a sign I once saw on the wall in someone's office: “Don't work harder. Work smarter. ”There are a lot of_________in that idea.

If you can't get more time, and few of us can, the only solution is to improve the quality of the work. That means thinking of _________ to get more out of the same time than we might otherwise get. That should lead us to an analysis of our working habits. Since “work” for students usually means “homework”, the expression “working” habits should be read as “ _________ habits”.

Then, as a smart student, you will _________ to improve those skills that you use in study, _________ reading and writing. If you learn to read better and write better, there are big benefits that _________ in all your studies.

1.A.question B.reply C.idea D.key

2.A. anything B.someone C.everyone D.nobody

3.A.acceptable B.strange C.surprising D.demanding

4.A.done B.worked C.found D.started

5.A.Since B.Just C.Once D.Ever

6.A. upon B.in C.on D.by

7.A.What B. That C.Whether D.If

8.A.quantity B.amount C.quality D.number

9.A.stick B.trick C.stage D.track

10.A.constructions B.contributions C.concentrations D.conclusions

11.A.as a result B.in fact C.of course D.as a whole

12.A.fixed B.devoted C.occupied D.advanced

13.A.so B. nor C.but D.and

14.A.decision B.concept C.explanation D.solution

15.A.results B.skills C. powers D.senses

16.A.forms B.fortune C.ways D.approaches

17.A.studying B.living C.thinking D.sleeping

18.A.seek B.request C.inquire D.demand

19.A.briefly B.chiefly C.actually D.occasionally

20.A.pay off B.turn down C.pay for D.turn over

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