OUR BUSES CAN MAKE YOUR HOLIDAYS

East Bus --- maybe the best choice on your visit to the famous places of interest in Beijing.

Sit back, relax and see all there is to see, with no need to worry about driving, finding a parking place or leaving your car with no one to watch it.

   We have lots of buses taking you to visit Tian’anmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven Park, the Olympic Center and the Great Wall. The whole tour will take you three days.

   Chinese ＆ English speaking guides.

   Booking by phone four days in advance(预先）.

   Tour price: ¥580.00 per person (half price for children under 1.2m tall ), including the ticket price, breakfast and lunch.

   For more information, please phone Yong’an Tourism Company at 010-23368688/23368689.

   Add: 356 Chaoyang Road, Beijing.

   Open 7 days a week. 8:00-16:00.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

1.When they visit the places of the interest on an East Bus, the visitors _____.

A. need to watch their cars    

B. have to worry about the driving

C. have to find places to park the bus   

D. can sit back and relax themselves

2.From the advertisement, we can see that East Bus is a kind of _______.

A. tourist bus        B. village bus   

C. airport bus        D. school bus

3._________ on an East Bus can speak two languages.

A. The guide        B. The driver   

C. The visitors      D. The children

4.Children under 1.2m tall need to pay ________ for the trip.

A. 230 yuan   B. 290 yuan   C. 320 yuan   D. 460 yuan

5.Which of the following is not true?

A. The tour price includes six meals.  

B. Visitors can see six places within three days.

C. Visitors must go to the company to book the tickets.

D. The office hour of the company is eight hours a day

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Where in the world can you take an hour’s train ride, and pass a forest, a London street, a scene from the Wild West, and a burning building that never burns down? There’s only one place, and that’s Hollywood, in California. The scenes you see from the tourist train are film sets（布景） in the Universal Studios, one of the oldest and largest movie companies(公司) in the USA.

A visit to Universal Studios brings back memories of great days of Hollywood, the films and the stars. But they are only memories. Hollywood isn’t quite the same as it used to be. Costs have gone up and confidence has gone down. Movie-makers are afraid to spend their money on expensive new ideas. Instead, they repeat old ones.

The film industry is changing fast. Teenagers still go out to the movies. The theatre is a good place to meet friends away from home. But older people mostly stay home to watch series, like Dynasty have become as important to Hollywood as expensive movies. These “soap opera”, as they are called, show rich, powerful families living in beautiful homes and wearing beautiful clothes. But the actors and actresses are nearly all middle-aged, like many of the people who watch them.

Though it is soap operas that are keeping the film-makers of Hollywood in Business, big films are still being made in America. But more and more of them are made outside Hollywood. New York is the most important new center, but there are many others as well. Movie-makers have realized that they don’t need Hollywood any more. Modern cameras and real houses instead of expensively made copies in a studio. Other states, especially Florida and Texas, are working hard to take the film business away from California. They are offering better working conditions and lower cost.

But Hollywood is fighting back. The state of California is trying hard to keep its best-known industry.

1.From the passage, we know Universal Studios is ______.

2.The movie industry in California isn’t as successful as before because ______.

3.Which of the following seems to be a threat（威胁）to Hollywood？

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根据短文内容，从下面方框中的七个选项中，选择五个还原到文章中，使短文意思通顺，结构完整（每小题目2分）

 Liu Qian is one of China's top magicians(魔术师). He is also the only one who has been invited to perform in Las Vegas and Hollywood, two of the best magic show places in the United States. 1.__________The things he uses are all usual things we can find in our daily life, but how can he make it?

"I did my best to find the rips (漏洞)of his shows, but  couldn't find out any. 2.________.

Born in 1976 in Taiwan, Liu Qian found himself interested in a magic toy in a shop when be was 7 years old. 3.___________ His hard work made him very famous at the age of  12, when he won Taiwan's Youth Magic Contest.” 4._______ It encouraged me to do better and better,” Lin Qian said.

Liu Qian is strict with himself . He tries many ways to improve his skills . He said, 5._______We go to streets to do magic for people . We have to deal with unexpected situations（不可预知的情况）. Therefore , it helps improve our performing skills greatly .”

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