Sightseeing Tours in Germany

Germany has a variety of cities each with its own characteristics, from the busy city of Berlin, to the ancient city of Cologne, to the Bavarian capital of Munich.Thankfully, these major German cities offer sightseeing tours that offer the opportunity to better explore the surrounding regions and the country’s most historic sites.

Berlin on Bike

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Berlin on Bike takes visitors through the German capital via five bicycle tours, all with guides.Regular tours include the Wall Tour and Berlin’s Best, with stops at some of the city’s most famous landmarks, such as the Reichstag and the Berlin Wall.Specialty tours include the East Unplugged, which explores what life was like in East Berlin under Communist rule.The cost of the tour includes

the bike and helmet rental, and tourists may choose to continue renting their bikes once the tour has ended.

berlinonbike.de/english/index.php

Munich City Sightseeing Tour

The Munich City Sightseeing Tour transports travelers throughout the city via an open-air, double-decker bus.Passengers can hop on and off at various stops throughout the day.This tour includes stops at such sites as the Munich central train station, the 1972 Olympic Stadium Park, Munich’s opera house and Karlsplatz, the gate to the historic city.The bus features a narrated tour guide and offers an English-language option.

raileurope.com/activities/munich-city-sightseeing-tour/index.html

Nice City Tours-Cologne

Nice City Tours offers three tours of Cologne, available to private or business groups in a variety of languages.The Old Town Tour runs for two hours and includes a guided tour of the Cologne Cathedral and some of the city’s old squares.The Brewery Pub Tour explores some of the city’s most beloved breweries and pubs, and details the history behind Kolsch, Cologne’s resident beer.Finally, the Old Town and Rhine Tour begins by visiting some of old town’s most historic sites and ends with a ride down the Rhine River.

nicecitytours.com/tours.htm

68.The similarity of the three tours lies in that they all include ________.

     A.bus tours  B.English service        C.three routes           D.guide’s service

69.If you take a great interest in beer, which tour might be suitable for you?

       A.The Wall Tour         B.The Brewery Pub Tour

       C.The Old Town Tour  D.The Munich City Sightseeing Tour

70.Where can you probably see this passage?

     A.In a textbook          B.On a website          

       C.In an encyclopedia   D.In a journal

C

Susan Sontag(1933—2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything—to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s,publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review,she appeared as the symbol of American culture life,trying hard to follow every new development in literature,film and art. With great effort and serious judgment,Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

  Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords(格言),but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name,she explained what was then a little—known set of difficult understandings,through which she could not have been more famous.“Notes on Camp”,she wrote,represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’ ”.

    By conviction(信念)she was a sensualist(感觉论者),but by nature she was a moralist(伦理学者),and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s,it was the latter side of her that came forward. In “Illness as Metaphor”—published in 1978,after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities(被压抑的性格),a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact,re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

    In America,her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California,won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless,all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.

    “Sometimes,” she once said,“I feel that,in the end,all I am really defending…is the idea of seriousness,of true seriousness.”And in the end,she made us take it seriously too.

64.The underlined sentence in paragraph l means Sontag ____________.

    A.was a symbol of American cultural life

    B.developed world literature,film and art

    C.published many essays about world culture

    D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture

65.She first won her name through____________.

    A.her story of a Polish actress

    B.her book Illness as Metaphor

    C.publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review

    D.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

66.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon____________.

    A.a tireless,all-purpose cultural view

    B.her lifelong watchword: seriousness

    C.publishing books on morals

    D.enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

67.From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s,we can learn that _____.

    A.she was more a moralist than a sensualist

    B.she was more a sensualist than a moralist

    C.she believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness

    D.she would like to re-examine old positions

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第四部分 写作 (共两节,满分35分)

第一节 任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上。

China's College Entrance Examination (CEE)in 1977 and 1978 changed the fate of a group of Chinese people with large age differences and from all walks of life. Thirty years later, some of them anxiously wait outside exam spots, praying for good luck for their only child.

The Chinese describe the CEE, or gaokao in Chinese, as "thousands of troops on a single--log bridge" because of the limited number of places at universities. For students in the countryside, the tough exams may be their only opportunity to escape the hardship of country life.

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Education and the China Youth Daily showed 89.6 percent of those people felt their fate was changed by the exam. Among those who said their fate was "totally changed", 69.1 percent came from the countryside and only 30.9 percent were from cities. Some Chinese think too much emphasis is placed on having a university diploma (文凭). It is believed that a person will not find a proper job without a college certificate, and that there are increasingly fewer jobs even for college graduates.

Although the CEE is still a major means of selecting people for higher education after 30 years of development, the society has gradually adjusted its standard, A lot of people think that the CEE needs reforming, but these reforms will have to be gradual. While debates over the exam continue, more people believe it is the only open, fair and just way of talent selection.

College Entrance Exam Shapes

Introduction

The fate of a group of Chinese people with a large (76)       

in their age and from all walks of life was changed by the CEE

in 1977 and 1978.

(77) ______

of the CEE

About eighty-nine percent of those people felt the exam changed

their (78) ________.

The CEE means more to those who come from the (79)       areas.

Different

opinions on

the CEE

It is descried as " thousands of troops on a single-log bridge" because

the number of places at universities is (80) _______.

Some Chinese think we (81)         having a university

diploma too much.

A lot of people think that the CEE needs to be (82) ________.

We should carry out the reforms (83) _______.

Conclusion

People continue (84)        over the exam,

It is believed to be the only open, fair and just way of (85) _______

talented people.

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