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A factory tour this summer! Here are some great ones to consider.

The Jelly Belly Bean Company

Fairfield, CA

At this working factory, guests can watch the process of making this famous candy. Have lunch at the Visitor Center Café, where you can order a jelly bean-shaped pizza or hamburger! It is located an hour north of San Francisco. There’s no admission charge for the 40-minute walking tour. Tours are given most days from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, but come during a weekday to see the candy making in process.

Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Museum

Louisville, KY

See how each bat is carefully carved out at this family-favorite factory tour. Tour visitors leave with a miniature bat souvenir and personalized bats can be ordered when you arrive and picked up before you leave. Adult tickets are $9. Child tickets are $4. Ages five and under are free. It opens at 9:00 am Mondays through Saturdays. Check the website for specific days and times.

E-One Fire Truck Factory

Ocala, FL

Take this walking tour of a plant in Florida and see for yourself the technology and skill required to build these emergency vehicles. Tours are offered Monday to Friday, at 9:00 am and 11:00 am. Prices are $8 for adults and $6 for children. Kids under 6 are not permitted on the tour for safety reasons. Reservations are required for all tours. Please call 352-861-3524 to schedule a tour. Firefighters can tour for free!

Crayola Crayon Company

Easton, PA

No, this isn’t the actual place where the waxy rainbows are made. But it’s an even-better visitor center where families can not only see how crayons are made, but can explore and use various Crayola art tools and products. Kids can use the latest Crayola products to create masterpieces on site. The visitor center is open most days from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. The online calendar shows special hours, themes, and daily activities. Tickets are $9.50 each.

1Which of the following is true about the Jelly Belly Bean Company?

A. Three meals are prepared for you. B. It is open every day.

C. You have to spend some money visiting it. D. It lies north of San Francisco.

2If a five-year-old boy and his parents visit Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Museum, they have to pay ______.

A. $22 B. $17

C. $18 D. $13

3The factory tour this summer involves ______.

A. politics, economics, science and culture

B. diet, sports, traffic and art

C. history, literature, education and custom

D. health, invention, astronomy and car

【题目】In June 2013 a five-year-old boy, Toby, was walking home from school thinking about the long summer ahead. Money was tight that year and Toby’s parents had told him they would not be able to afford a holiday.

Instead of dreaming about foreign travel, he had been reading a book, Letter to New Zealand, where the author explains what happens in an envelope’s journey from England to the other side of the world. As they neared their house, Toby asked his mum, Sabine, if he could write a letter to New Zealand. After a few more steps he was struck by an even better idea. “Can I write a letter to every country in the world?”

Sabine says she often wonders what would have happened if she had replied differently that day. “It was just one of those typical questions that five-year-olds have,” she says. If he had asked me in the evening when I was tired, I might have refused. But as parents you realize there’s a lot of power in just allowing kids to have a go. Also, it seemed a nice way to do some armchair exploration. So I told him” Let’s see how far you get.”

The answer was very far indeed. Toby has since written and posted letters to all 193 UN mumber states, as well as numerous other bad-conditioned areas with comforting ones.

To date he has written 681 letters- the best of which have been selected to appear in a new book called Dear World, How Are You?- although so productive is Toby’ pen that the number will have risen by the time you read this.

“Writing these letters has made me realize that the world isn’t actually all that big,” he says with a grin.

In the future, part of him would like to be a musical director to turn his beloved Star Wars into a ballet. Of course, he also hopes to travel the globe in person to see some of the countries where his letters have ended up.

“We’re so lucky to have this wonderful world, and I hope we can live on planet Earth in peace.”

【1】 Why did Toby want to write letters to other countries?

A. He was good at writing.

B. He was eager to go abroad.

C. He got inspired by a book.

D. He wanted others to help his family.

【2】From Toby’s mother’s words, we know that at first____.

A. she thought her son’s idea was of no value

B. she got tired of her son’s request

C. she believed her son would succeed

D. she thought she should give her son a try

【3】What’s the influence of writing letters to Toby?

A. He has traveled to 193 UN number states.

B. He understands more about the world.

C. He becomes productive in writing stories.

D. He has to put his letters into a book.

【4】How can we describe Toby?

A. Clever and persistent.

B. Ambitious and kind-hearted.

C. Hardworking and humorous.

D. Brave and strong-willed.

【题目】USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by A1 Neuharth in 1982 with the goal of providing a national newspaper in the US market, where generally only a single local newspaper was available. The paper has the widest circulation(发行量)of any newspaper in the United States, averaging over 2.25 million copies every weekday. It was the first color newspaper in the United States.

The newspaper was also among the first newspapers to use satellites to send the edition of the newspaper to different locations across the country for printing and distributing in those regional markets. This allowed the paper to include the most recent news and sports scores in each edition.

Each edition of the newspaper consists of four sections: News, Money, Sports and Life. On Fridays, tow life sections are included: the regular life for movies subtitled Weekend, which features television, films and trends, and a travel supplement called Destinations & Diversions. Each section is denoted(表示)by a certain color to different sections, which is seen in a box on the top-left corner of the first page, with News being blue(section A), Money with green (section B), red for Sportd (section C), and purple for life (section D). USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the respective(各自的)section with exception to the cover story. The cover story is a longer story that requires a jump (readers must turn to another page in the paper in the paper to complete the story, usually the very next page, page 2 of that section).

Starting in February 2008, the newspaper added a magazine supplement(增刊)called Open Air, appearing several times a year.

1It can be inferred from the first paragraph that USA Today____.

A. Developed from a famous America local newspaper

B. Was founded to cover world stories

C. Was among the first color newspapers in the world

D. Does not print on Saturdays or Sundays

2Which of the following is TRUE about USA Today?

A. It uses satellites to print color copy.

B. It is the cheapest daily newspaper in the United States.

C. It offers readers the latest news.

D. It is the first international newspaper in the United States.

3Mr. Watts wants to get the most recent travel information. He will turn to____.

A. Section A B. section B

C. section C D. section D

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