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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 outw

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.

( )1. If you decide to buy a book $10 in New York, you should pay a total of how much after tax?

A. $9.80 B. $9.20 C. $10.80 D. $10.20

( )2. “The Plaza Hotel” here is the name of a __________

A. house B. station C. city D. hotel

( )3. You can eat the delicious Chinese food ____________

A. at McDonald’s B. in Piaza C. in Chinatown. D. in YMCA

( )4.Which of the following is NOT in New York?

A. Central Park. B. The Empire State Building.

C. Times Square D. The White House.

( )5. How many types of transportation are mentioned in the passage?

A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four


阅读短文,根据短文内容,从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

When you get up in the morning, do you find it hard to choose what clothes to wear? If so,     1     , like what to do when you’re older.

Brave New Girls, written by an American author Jeannette Gadeberg, will help you make such choices. To make them, it says, you must be a “brave new girl”. A brave new girl is one who’s confident, healthy and happy. A brave new girl can realize her dreams.

     2     . Other people may tell you what to do, you can listen to them or not, it’s your business. You should only do what you would like.

If you always wear clothes like those of your favorite TV stars, for example, you should stop doing this. Instead,      3     .

The book also says that girls must start becoming more confident. If you’re confident, you’ll succeed in life. A good way to become confident is to realize that you are as clever as boys or you’re much cleverer than boys. Just look at their grades!

Today’s brave new girls will become tomorrow’s brave new women.

      4    

A. To be brave, you need to make decisions by yourself

B. If you want to become “brave”, you should look pretty and healthy

C. Only in this way can you achieve your dreams and become who you want to be

D. you should become your own star and wear the clothes you like

E. you probably need to help making the bigger choices in your life


完形填空,阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选择最佳选项。

I walked into the Huddle House Restaurant in Brunswick, Georgia and sat down at the table. I picked up the menu and was to order something for breakfast.

“Excuse me,”

I looked up and   1   a nice-looking woman standing before me.

“Is your name Roger?”   2   asked.

“Yes, ” I answered, feeling rather surprised as I had never seen her before.

“My name’s Barbara and my husband is Tony,” she said, pointing to a middle-aged man sitting alone at the table by the window. He was  3   and weak.

“Tony White, from Landon School in Jacksonville, Florida,” she added.

I looked at that man for a few seconds but I didn’t recognize him.

“I’m really sorry. The name doesn’t ring the bell,” I said.

She walked back, began   4   with her husband and once in a while I saw her turn around and look directly at me.

I ordered breakfast and a cup of   5  , sitting there, trying to remember who this Tony was. “I must know him,” I thought to myself. “He recognizes me for some reason.” I picked up the coffee cup. All of a sudden it came to me like a flash of lightning.

“Tony, the bully, the bad boy!” I could   6  believe my eyes. “My God! He’s so thin now. Not the big boy that I   7  from back in 1997.”

Everything came up to my mind. The time this   8   boy had made fun of my big ears in front of the girls in my class, and the time this big bully had pushed me against the walls in the hallway just to make himself   9  a big man to all other students.

“I am sorry, Roger,” Tony rolled by me in the wheelchair, being pushed by his wife, raising his thin, shaking hand. “I am so sorry for   10  that I did to you.”

“I’m…I’m er…” I didn’t know what to say to him.

After a few months, I received a letter from Barbara. Tony was  11 . Tony had been a fireman and had been seriously wounded in a task.

How I   12  for not saying something to him but I no longer had the chance! (378)

1. A. heard                    B. felt                  C. saw                  D. told

2. A. you                   B. we                    C. he                     D. she

3. A. fat                        B. strong               C. thin                   D. young

4. A. listening             B. talking               C. writing              D. playing

5. A. tea                       B. juice                  C. milk                  D. coffee

6. A. hardly                   B. really                 C. almost               D. always

7. A. protect                 B. remember          C. love                  D. miss

8. A. clever                   B. shy                   C. friendly             D. bad

9. A. look after              B. look like            C. look for             D. look at                    

10. A. everything           B. nothing              C. something         D. anything

11. A. healthy                B. famous              C. dead                 D. blind

12. A. congratulated       B. regretted           C. doubted             D. canceled          

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