San Diego Seaside College is offering one-week and two-week English summer courses for high school students from all over the world who want to improve their English. Classed are offered at five levels, from basic to advanced. Students will be tested when they arrive and placed in the level that matches to their languages to their language ability. Each class has no more than 14 students.

Tuition fees

One-week Courses (July 26-August 1): $310

Two-week Courses (July 26-August 8): $620

The full payment must be received before the beginning of the courses.

Accommodations

We provide housing, including breakfast and dinner, seven days a week.

Single Room: $250 per week

Twin Room: $160 per person, per week

You should reserveyour accommodations before May 15 and all the accommodation fees must be paid in full before June 15.

How to apply

Fill out an application form and sent it to us at esc@sdc.edu.

Come to our college this summer and make yourself shine at English.

1.The course are offered to help the high school students _________.

A. improve their English B. visit some high schools

C. choose college D. travel to other countries

2.If Linda and her sister want to take the course for a week, what are the tuition fees?

A. $160 B. $250 C. $310 D. $620

3.When must be the accommodation fees be paid?

A. Before May 15. B. Before June 15.

C. Before July 26. D. Before August 1

4.If you want to apply for the course, what should you do?

A. Choose a college. B. Call your teachers.

C. Reserve a hotel room. D. Fill out a form and send it by post.

D

Do you and your friends ever talk about your dreams with each other? If you do, you might have noticed something interesting – some of your friends seldom remember their dreams, but some can always describe their dreams so clearly that it seems like they’re describing things that really happened to them. What makes those people different?

The answer is simple. There are two different types of dreamers – low dream recallers(回忆者)and high dream recallers.

Low dream recallers usually remember their dreams only twice a month. But high dream recallers are able to remember them about five mornings a week. And a new study suggests that activity in a certain part of the brain could have something to do with it, reported The Huffington Post.

Perrine Ruby, a French researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, studied 41 people (21 high dream recallers and 20 low dream recallers) and recorded their brain activity.

She found that a part of the brain called the temporo-parietal junction (颞顶联合区) was more active in high dream recallers than in low dream recallers – both when they were sleeping and awake.

This brain area collects and processes(编程)information from the outside world. This means that high dream recallers know more about what’s happening around them. For example, when they are awake, they respond (对……有反应) more strongly to hearing their own names, and when they are sleeping, they are woken more easily by sounds and movements.

By closely studying people’s brain activities, Ruby found that high dream recallers have twice as much “wakefulness time” during sleep as low dream recallers do. And it is during these short times of wakefulness that the brain remembers dreams.

“The sleeping brain is not able to remember new information,” Ruby told The Washington Post. “It needs to wake up to be able to do that.”

This is not hard to understand. Just try to think of your own sleeping experiences. If you are worried during the night, you are more likely to remember your dreams, but if you sleep well, you will remember little in the morning, and this is because “you never get a chance to remember”, Robert Stickgold, a Harvard Medical School researcher, told The Washington Post.

1.According to the article, high dream recallers ______.

A. have very little brain activity during sleep

B. can remember their dreams clearly

C. don’t know how to describe their dreams

D. remember their dreams twice a week

2.Compared to high dream recallers, low dream recallers ______.

A. have higher sleep quality

B. have more sleepless nights

C. are more easily woken at night

D. respond faster when hearing their names

3.What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?

A. To show the advantages of being a low dream recaller.

B. To suggest what to do to become a low dream recaller.

C. To make readers interested in future studies.

D. To further explain Ruby’s research.

Most of us have ever imagined the life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise(天堂) where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you are free to sit around without any work. This is really a beautiful picture, isn’t it? However, the other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is awful. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes.

Perhaps there is some truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the chance to find out. We can only experience it in the story like the following.

Many years ago, two men spent five days on a coral island and they wished that they could stay there longer. They were driving a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink(下沉). They quickly put food, matches, and cans of beer into a rubber dinghy(救生筏) and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.

There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not seem to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and they thought they lived just like a king. Five days later, a tank passed by and saved them. However, they felt sorry that they had to leave.

1.What kind of life on the island was Not mentioned according to Paragraph 1?

A. A simple and good life. B. A sort of paradise life.

C. A terrible life. D. A common life.

2.What did the two men put into the small rubber dinghy?

A. Food, medicine and cans. B. Food, matches and medicine.

C. Food, beer and matches. D. Food, fish and cans.

3.In what order did the following events take place?

a.They collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.

b.They put necessary things into a small rubber dinghy.

c.They arrived at a tiny coral island.

d.Their boat began to sink.

e.They were saved by a tank.

A. d-b-a-c-e B. d-b-c-a-e C. c-a-d-b-e D. c-d-b-a-e

4.The underlined word “it” in the third paragraph means “ ”.

A. the boat B. the journey C. the picture D. the rubber dinghy

5.What can we know from the passage?

A. The two men were sacred because of no water.

B. The two men became the king on the island.

C. The two men would stay on the coral island forever.

D. The two men didn’t want to leave the coral island.

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