I live with my grandmother in a Beijing yard house. One day last year, I was surprised to see a big foreigner coming out of the house next door to ours. He was very tall with short brown hair and a pair of glasses.

The first time I saw him, I was too shy to speak to him. “My English is too poor!” I thought. My grandmother told me that he had just moved into our yard. “I don’t like it!” she said. “Foreigners aren’t like us. Maybe he’ll play loud music and parties every night! I’m sure he’s going to cause trouble.”

Several days later, I met the foreigner as I was walking home after work. “Hello!” he said (in Chinese!). “My name’s Tony. I’ve just moved into the house next door to yours.” While I was wondering what to say, he continued, “There’s a nice bar down the road. Why don’t you and your family come and have dinner with me?” “Bars are bad places,” said my grandmother when I told her, but we decided to go.

The bar was not at all what I had expected. It was in a beautiful little yard house, with several large bookshelves and pictures of Tibet on the walls. Several Chinese people and foreigners were sitting drinking or reading books. I noticed that some of the foreigners were speaking Chinese in a low voice to each other! “Oh, what a civilized place!” my grandmother exclaimed.

The bar served special “hutong pizzas”. As we ate, Tony told us about himself-he is an English expert in environment. He always likes to be quiet. My grandmother said to me, “He really seems like a very nice young man.”

1.When the writer first saw the foreigners, she______.

A. was frightened to him

B. wanted to practice English with him

C. felt too shy to speak to him

D. hoped to invite the foreigner to the bar

2.From the sentence “Bar are bad places”, we can know that the grandmother______.

A. was very excited B. didn’t go to the bar

C. didn’t like bars D. was angry with Tony

3.What’s the meaning of the word “civilized” in the passage?

A. 文明的 B. 喧闹的 C. 野蛮的 D. 讨厌的

4.Which of the following sentence is Not true?

A. Tony made a lot of noise every night.

B. Tony was an English expert in environment.

C. There were some foreigners speaking Chinese in the bar.

D. The grandmother thought Tony might cause some trouble.

5.The best title for this story is______.

A. A Bar in Tibet

B. A Foreigner in Beijing

C. Bars are Bad Places

D. Foreigners Like Bars

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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.

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