6、Camp memories last forever! We make sure they are unforgettable!

Shadow Ridge Summer Camps offer so many exciting things for campers to do. Unlike other camp programs that include horses as a small part of their program, at Shadow Ridge horses ARE the program! We are 100%horse from stable(马厩)management, nature walks, and track rides to bedroom furnishings.

Horses help us achieve many of our aims. Girls can learn to develop responsibility, self-confidence and personal connections in their lives while having fun. Using horses as a wonderful tool for education, our camps offer an interesting place for growth and learning.

Imagine each girl having her very own horse to spend time with and a best friend to love and take care of. Each camper is responsible for a horse for the week. Our riding program provides a lot of riding and lesson time. Campers will learn how to take care of the horse and the tack(马具), as well as how to ride. Days are filled with horse-related activities to strengthen the connection between each girl and horse, as the girls learn to work safely around the horses.

At Shadow Ridge we try to create a loving, caring family atmosphere for our campers. We have “The Bunkhouse”(4 girls), the“ Wranglers Roost”(4 girls), and “The Hideout”(2 girls)in our comfortable 177-year-old farm house. All meals are home cooked, offering delicious and healthy food for the hungry rider.

Our excellent activities create personalized memories of your child's vacation, Each child will receive a camp T-shirt and a photo album(usually 300-500 pictures)of their stay at camp.

Our camps are offered during June, July and August 2007, for small groups of girls aged 13-16 years, not only from Canada but also other parts of the world.

We will send you full program descriptions at your request.

1. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To attract people to the camps.                     B. To talk about camping experiences.

C. To describe the programs of the camps.        D. To explain the aims of the camps.

2. What do we know about the camp　programs at Shadow Ridge?

A. Campers are required to wear camp T-shirts.

B. Horses play a central role in the activities.

C. Campers learn to cook food for themselves.

D. Horse lessons are offered all the year round.

3. The programs at Shadow Ridge mainly aim to help people . __________

A. understand horses better                       B. enjoy a family atmosphere

C. have fun above other things                   D. achieve an educational purpose

4. The passage is written mainly for           .

A. horse riders      B. teenage girls             C. Canadian parents      D. international travelers

5、Dear all,

Please read Professor Hume's email about his next lecture on Rosa Parks.

Susan Miller

Secretary

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Dear Susan,

Please forward this message to students of my history class.

Besides the life story of Rosa Parks in the textbook, the students are also required to read the passage below and some related stories that can be borrowed from the school library.

Ted Hume

The early experiences of Rosa Parks(1913-2005), long known as the “mother of the civil rights movement, ”were not different from those of many African-Americans at that time. The black woman, however, turned the course of American history in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. “By sitting down, ”remarked John Lewis, “she was standing up for all Americans. ”

Among the numerous awards Parks received in her life were the Presidential Medal of Freedom(1996)and the Congressional Gold Medal(1999).

Parks died on Oct. 24, 2005. At St. Paul A. M. E. Church in Montgomery, a large crowd including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice celebrated her life. Rice said she and others, who grew up when the political activities of Parks held public attention, might not have realized her impact(影响)on their lives, “but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here as Secretary of State. ”

After her casket(灵柩)was placed at the Capitol, U. S. President Bush, members of Congress and ordinary Americans paid their respects. In American history Parks is the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol, a very high regard usually reserved for Presidents of the United States.

1. What is the main purpose of Susan’s email?

A. To make arrangements for Professor Hume's class.

B. To introduce to the students Rosa Parks.

C. To help the students organize a lecture.

D. To answer Professor Hume's last email.

2. What does the underlined word “forward” mean?

A. Explain.            B. Send.               C. Take.                      D. Read.

3. The political impact of Rosa Parks lies in the fact that she          .

A. helped Condoleezza Rice achieve political success

B. joined the civil rights movement at a young age

C. made racial equality a common value in American society

D. set a good example in her early life for other black Americans

4. How was Rosa Parks treated after her death?

A. She was named “mother of the civil rights movement. ”

B. She was received by President Bush at the Capitol.

C. She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

D. She was honored to lie in state at the Capitol.

4、The African elephant, the largest land animal remaining on earth , is of great importance to African ecosystem(生态系统). Unlike other animals, the African elephant is to a great extent the builder of its environment. As a big plant-eater, it largely shapes the forest-and-savanna(大草原)surroundings in which it lives, therefore setting the terms of existence for millions of other animals that live in its habitat(栖息地).

It is the elephant's great desire for food that makes it a disturber of the environment and an important builder of its habitat. In its continuous search for the 300 pounds of plants it must have every day, it kills small trees and underbushes, and pulls branches off big trees. This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover part of the African savannas. In these open spaces are numerous plants in various stages of growth that attract a variety of other plant-eaters.

Take the rain forests for example. In their natural state, the spreading branches overhead shut out sunlight and prevent the growth of plants on the forest floor. By pulling down trees and eating plants, elephants make open spaces, allowing new plants to grow on the forest floor. In such situations, the forests become suitable for large hoofed plant-eaters to move around and for small plant-eaters to get their food as well.

What worries scientists now is that the African elephant has become an endangered species. If the elephant disappears, scientists say, many other animals will also disappear from vast areas of forest and savanna, greatly changing and worsening the whole ecosystem.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Disappearance of African elephants.

B. Forests and savannas as habitats for African elephants.

C. The effect of African elephants' search for food.

D. The eating habit of African elephants.

2. What does the underlined phrase “setting the terms” most probably mean?

A. Fixing the time.                                    B. Worsening the state.

C. Improving the quality.                           D. Deciding the conditions.

3. What do we know about the open spaces in the passage?

A. They result from the destruction of rain forests.

B. They provide food mainly for African elephants.

C. They are home to many endangered animals.

D. They are attractive to plant-eating animals of different kinds.

4. The passage is developed mainly by               .

A. showing the effect and then explaining the causes

B. pointing out similarities and differences

C. describing the changes in space order

D. giving examples

3、Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

1. The underlined word “poetry” most probably means __________.

A. an object for artistic creation                        B. a　collection of poems

C. an unusual quality                                        D. a natural scene

2. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because               .

A. they are close in style to works in ancient times

B. they look like works by 19th-century painters

C. they draw attention to common things in life

D. they depend heavily on color photography

3. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?

A. It will not be found in future works of art.

B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D. It is lacking in modern works of art.

4. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A. They express people's curiosity about the past.

B. They make people interested in everyday experience.

C. They are considered important for variety in form.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

5. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. History of the arts.                               B. Basic questions of the arts.

C. New developments in the arts.                      D. Use of modern technology in the arts.

2、以下标有题号的每行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：请在答题卡上作答。

Last weekend we went mountain-climbing. Even the

Heavy rain in the morning could not prevent us go. Setting             1. ______

off very early, we went along an extreme narrow road, all                2. ______

in high spirits. On every side of the road were green fields                      3. ______

and some farm house. We could hear the sound of the                            4. ______

rain and our footsteps mixing with our laughter. At noon                   5. ______

we reached the top of the mountain. That surprised us                           6. ______

most there was the beauty of scenes. After having a short                7. ______

rest there and sharing with the food we had brought, we                  8. ______

started going down. It had rained even harder. We were                   9. ______

wet to the skin, and we still sang and laughed happily.                     10. ______

1、据报道，7岁的美国女孩Amy Bruce得知自己身患肺癌（lung cancer）后处于极度的痛苦之中，美国抗癌协会（ACS）决定，每当Amy收到一封慰问信，就给她增加3美分的治疗款。

       假如你是新华中学的学生李华，请你用英文给Amy写一封慰问信，主要内容包括：

l              自我介绍

l              得知的情况

l              表示鼓励

l              打算为她做什么

l              祝她早日康复

注意：

1.       信的格式已为你写好

2.       信中不得出现你的真实情况。

3.       词数100左右。

22、A Train Floating On Air

       A train that floats on air ? It’s not magic—it’s magnets ( 磁 ) . And it’s close to reality .

In Virginia USA the fall of 2002 a train with no wheels traveled on air and carried college students across their campus . In Japan , a whisper-quiet railway engine hovered and raced at 350 miles per hour using magnets and electricity as the power . And in China , a magnet train line linked Shanghai with nearby Pudong Airpot .

These trains use magnetic levitation ( 悬浮 ) technology , “ maglev ” for short , They use the same rules as the magnets you pick up at home or school : opposite poles of magnets attract each other , and like poles repel each other .

How does it work ?

Powerful magnets on the bottom of the train repel magnets on the track , which is actually just a magnet-filled guiding way . With a magnetic field of sufficient force , the train will go hovering on air , which seemed impossible to us in the past .

When an electrical current is sent through the track , the train moves . Turn the current backwards and the train slows down .

Maglev doesn’t rely on the friction (摩擦力) of wheels on track , so it can climb a much steeper hill than a traditional train . And it can travel easily in snow and ice , something that could bring normal trains to a screaming stop .

1．This passage is about _______

       A．maglve            B．magnets           C．levitation                 D．electricity

2．Which of the following is a repelling action ?

       A．             B．             C．                       D．

3．What can we learn from the text ?

       A．A magnet-filed guiding way is formed inside a maglev train .

B．Instead of electricity , magnets are used as the power of a maglev .

C．Maglev trains can climb hills with the help of magnet wheels .

D．Electric currents decide the movements of a maglev train .

4．What is the difference between a maglev train and an ordinary train ?

       A．A maglev train can climb mountains without power while an ordinary one can’t

B．A maglev train can travel in college campus while an ordinary train is not allowed

C．Travelling without a track , a maglev train is safer and smoother than an ordinary one

D．Floating on a track , a maglev train is faster , quieter than an ordinary railway train .

20、Of all the novels , I like this one _______ . It’s not worth reading at all.

A．most               B．best                 C．worst                            D．least