Travel in New York
Public transport
Traffic is quite convenient in New York. The bus is cheap and the subway is common. What’s more, you can take both the bus and the subway with the same transit card. If you have something urgent to do. You’d better take a taxi because that’s fast.
Hotels
There are a lot of hotels in New York. The Plaza Hotel is the best and the most expensive one. If you want to pay less for your stay, there are many smaller hotels. The YMCA near Central Park is suitable for young people.
Eating out
Restaurants provide good service in New York. You don’t have to eat at McDonald’s every day and you can try different kinds of food from many countries. You can also enjoy tasty Chinese food in Chinatown.
Shopping
Shopping in New York is fun. You can see big shops everywhere in this modern city. Stores are open seven days a week, but be careful when you look at the prices because you have to pay taxes on everything you buy. That means you have to pay an extra fee which in New York city is eight percent of the purchase price.
Places to visits
There are too many places to visit in New York—Times Square, the Empire State Building, and, the Statue of Liberty.
【小题1】If you decide to buy a book ＄10 in New York, you should pay a total of how much after tax?

Trudy’s class has a newspaper. The students write stories, articles and poems for it. Then one of them types their work into a computer and prints it out. The teacher puts up everything on the wall so that it looks like a large, open newspaper.

One day Trudy said to the teacher, “most newspapers have advertisements. Can we have our advertisements?

The teacher thought this was a good idea. She made Trudy the advertising manager and Trudy asked the other students to advertise in the newspaper. Here are some of the advertisements she received.

1.What is Tom willing to do?

2.What does Alan want to buy?

3.why will Sheila pay well for a Raiders’ concert ticket?

4.Who will Patricia see to get her lost ring?

5.What is the main idea of the passage?

It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.
So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed.
The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪ plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.
Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed.
British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪ say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪ would sacrifice a day’s pay(工资)for one more vacation day.
【小题1】____________ U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days.

A few years ago, David had the idea of selling CDs over the Internet. He started his work from his home. Now he sells over 500,000 CDs a year and has made himself into a millionaire(百万富翁), at the age of 24.

“I could see that this was the future of shopping,” says David. “Why should you pay $15 for a CD and spend the time and the money going into the shop? You know sometimes you have to find a place for your car too. You can have the same CD for half of the price by clicking on your computer. And we can find any CD you want and bring it to your door in 24 hours!”

David said this is the only beginning, “One day we’ll do our shopping over the Internet: it’s easier, quicker and cheaper. Shops and supermarkets will be the past.”

1.How has he become a millionaire?

A. By making new supermarkets. ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ?????????????

B. By making advertisements.

C. By selling ideas to others. ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ?????????????

D. By selling CDs on the Internet.

2.If you pay $15 for a CD in the shop, how much should you pay for it on the Internet?

A. $15. ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. $12. ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? C. $7.5. ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. $30.

3.By shopping on the Internet, you won’t ________.

A. spend any time or money ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. drive your car any more

C. click on your computer ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. get into the shop by yourself

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. More than half of the people like to shop on the Internet.?

B. Shops and supermarkets will be the past in the future.

C. Some people don’t like to go shopping over the Internet. ?????????????

D. It’s easier, quicker and more expensive to do our shopping over the net.