Live Music－－Late Night Jazz

    Enjoy real American Jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t want to get much sleep.

Scottish Dancing

    Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from England will be given.

Shows－－Anhui Museum

    There are 12,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history.

    Your pen-friend is coming from Australia to your city for a holiday. You send him this E-mail to tell him something about the hotels.

    TEL: 4686788         E-MALL: Li Hong @ 163.com

  68. If you want to watch dancing, you can call ______.

    A. 4858749           B. 4983084   C. 4467834           D. 4686788

  69. You can see the whole of Chinese history at ______ in April in Anhui Museum.

    A. 3 p.m. every day       B. 9 p.m. from Monday to Friday

    C. 7 a.m. at weekend     D. 7 p.m. every day

 70. You can enjoy _______ at Jack Sein’s.

    A. American jazz          B. Scottish dancing

    C. 12,000 pieces on show    D. yourself all night

 71. SUN HOTEL and ROSE HOTEL are open for _______ months of the year.

    A. nine                  B. ten       C. eleven               D. twelve

HOLIDAY HOMES IN MALLORCA

　　Holiday houses in Mallorca sailing and fishing port-quiet even in summer season. Beautifully situated houses with sights of sea and mountains, yet near to shops and restaurants. Cars and bicycles for hire. Sailing and sports clubs nearby.

ITALY IN COMFORT

　　Luxury coach（ - carriage） trips of Italy, out of normal holiday season. 21days to visit five Italian cities starting from London 1st May, 1st September . The trips are guided by professor Martin Davis. Head of Italian Studies, London University. See the arts and culture of historic Italy.

KIBBUTZ HOLIDAYS IN ISRAEL（以色列）

　　Working holidays on a kibbutz（ co -operative farm） in Israel. All nationalities welcome for one to three months, if prepared to work morning with kibbutz members. Accommodation （住宿）, food and trips to historic sights all provided free - you pay only for the special low- cost return flight.

TWO WEEKS ON A CARIBBEAN ISLAND

　　Two- week holidays in the Hotel Splendid, on a lovely beach with golden sands and deep- blue sea. Tennis, golf, sailing and all water sports, trips around the island arranged. Near to town of Castries with lively evening entertainment - dancing.

　　1st November - 31st March = ￡ 720 per person

　　1st April - 30th October = ￡ 850 per person

　　Jack and his wife Mary, who have recently retired, want to see places of cultural and historic interest abroad, but Mary hates flying.

　　Peter and Maria, university students, want to travel as far as possible on little money, and would like to get to know a country by working there for three months with other young people.

　　Michael, a young computer programmer, has been working hard and needs a holiday to relax in winter. He would like to go somewhere warmer and sunny, where he can swim in the sea, and he enjoys sports and dancing.

　　Herry and Kate, both teachers, and their two sons, have to take their holiday during the school summer holidays. There must be plenty for the boys to do, although Harry and Kate just want to have beautiful scenery, good food and wine- and peace.

66. Michael would most probably go to ________ for his holiday.

　　A. Italy            B. Israel          C. Mallorca　           D. a Caribbean island

67. The most suitable place where Peter and Maria can enjoy their holiday would  be________

　 A. an Italian city　        　           B. a kibbutz in Israel

　 C. a Caribbean island　　　　           D. the port in Mallorca

68. The best holiday for Jack and Mary would be________.

　　A. the 21 - day coach trip of Italy

　　B. the 2 -week stay in the Hotel Splendid

　　C. the 14 -day trip around a Caribbean island

　　D. the working holidays for 1 -3 months on a kibbutz in Israel

69. Harry and Kate and their sons would like________.

　　A. a holiday working on a kibbutz in Israel

　　B. a holiday visiting cities by coach in Italy

　　C. a holiday house in the fishing port in Mallorca

　　D. a holiday hotel on a lovely beach on a Carribean Island

70. You can find this passage most probably in ________.

　　A. a school library　　　　　　　    B. a tourist agency

C. the post office　　　　　　　   D. the museum

Big Ben

　　Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a huge clock in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four faces. So，no matter where you stand，you can read the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is the size of a double decker（层）bus. The hands are about four meters long. It is about the size of two people standing on top of each other. If you go to London，you may want to visit the Houses of Parliament. There you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the Houses of Parliament. Maybe you will hear it as well as see it. The huge clock makes such a loud noise. “Ding dong，ding dong，”it goes every quarter of an hour.
　　The clock was named after a big man. He was Sir Benjamin Hall. This man did much building work in London many years ago.

68. Big Ben is ______________.
　 A. a double decker bus　B. a huge clock　C. the name of Ben    D. a building

69. The clock strikes every _______ of an hour.
　 A. ten minutes　  B. fifteen minutes　C. thirty minutes　 D. forty-five minutes

70. You can read the time of Big Ben _________.
　 A. at the top of the clock tower　　　 B. in the Houses of parliament　
　 C. on the hands of the huge clock　　 D. on the four faces of the clock

The following are some important sights in New York.

American Museum of Natural History

Four floors of exhibition halls here include the world-famous fossil halls with their skeletons of enormous dinosaurs and other creatures; the culture halls, representing a variety of indigenous peoples; and mammal, bird and reptile halls. The renovated Milstein hall of Ocean Life showcases the profusion of life in Earth’s “last frontier”. Also here: Rose Center for Earth and space, with Hayden Planetarium and exhibits on Earth and our universe.

Open: Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-17:45; Friday-Saturday: 10:00-20:45

Empire State Building

At 102 stories tall, the Empire State Building commands an inspiring view of Manhattan. Each year, over 3.5 million people come here for the view from the 86th-floor observatory, where they can take in the sights of the city from a glass-enclosed pavilion or the encircling open-air promenade.

Observatory Hours: 8:00am to midnight daily. Last elevators go up at 11:15pm. Open daily 365 days a year.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (One of the greatest museums in the world)

It is impossible to “do” the entire museum in one day or describe everything you can see here. Go to the museum & spend some time in the Great Hall where you will find all types of help in many languages for planning your visit. If you can, get a guide before your visit or look at their website where you can plan well & learn about their many special exhibitions & programs.

Fee: $12 adults, $7 students & seniors, under 12 with adult free.

Open: Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday. 9:30-17:15; Friday-Saturday, 9:30-20:45.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

MoMA houses an outstanding collection of American & European paintings & sculptures from late 19th C. to present. Innovative in its definition of “art”, it was a pioneer in exhibiting film, photography, and industrial design. Its retrospectives can draw record-breaking attendance. A happy place to take small children, as strollers are allowed.

Open: Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10:30-17:45; Friday, 10:30-20:15.

64. Varieties of ocean life are exhibited in ________.

A. American Museum of Natural History       B. Empire State Building

C. Metropolitan Museum of Art               D. Statue of liberty

65. You can visit Museum of Modern Art at the following time EXCEPT ________.

A. at 14:30 on Monday                      B. at 7:00 pm on Friday

C. at 10:40 on Wednesday                    D. at 12:00 on Sunday

66. Suppose you are a high school student, who is going to visit Metropolitan Museum of Art with your parents, your 70-year-old Grandpa and your 6-year-old younger brother, how much will you have to pay in total?

A. $42            B. $38         C. $45           D. $50

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There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.
That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But the problem is that some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.
The 5% mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.
Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. “There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” They will say. “You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”
This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.
And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.
Don’t guess! Look it up!
67. It is certain that the best way to learn new words is________.
A. to learn them by oneself                           
B. to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently
C. to guess them from the context
D. to get more separate meanings of each word^
68. The underlined word “them” in paragraph 2 refers to_______.
A. the 30,000 words                        B. English teachers
C. misunderstood words                  D. frequently used words
69. Which of the following is most likely NOT true?
A. Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.
B. Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.
C. How many words the writer got wrong are not known.
D. All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.
70. It can be inferred that_____________.
A. when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart.
B. We must use the words as often as possible in order to master them.
C. It’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context
D. Only dictionaries can help us learn language well.