A.  Brightwood Park

Take you up to Westfield’s natural preserve for a short hike or to practice skipping stones in the large pond. You can look for deer and other woodland animals or go on a nature treasure hunt.

B.  Jewark Airport

The airport offers free tours covering the history of the airport, terminal operations, and emergency vehicles and equipment for groups of 15 to 30 persons. The tours are intended for students in grades three and above. See also Newark International Airport.

C.  Cheesequake State Park

The Cheesequake State Park features 1,284 acres of open fields, a hardwood forest, a variety of wildlife and about 200 species of birds. Activities include hiking, boating, canoeing, swimming and a variety of winter sports. An Interpretive Center provides live wildlife exhibits and environmental education programs, including nature walks.

D.  The Model Railroad Club

The Model Railroad Club is an activity of the Union County Park System. The Club is open to visitors every Saturday afternoon for viewing the model train displays. Every fall, the Club sponsors a Light and Sound show that will delight the model train lovers.

E.  Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

Learn about farming as it was done 100 years ago at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. There are weekend demonstrations on planting and harvesting crops as well as special programs held throughout the year. Some of these include wool cutting and carriage driving.

 

The people below are all looking for a place to spend a holiday. After the description of these people, there is information about five places (A―E). Decide which place would be most suitable for the person(s) mentioned in questions 66―70  and then mark the correct A―E on your answer sheet.

 

66._____  Mike, a young computer programmer, has been working hard and needs a holiday to relax in winter. He likes to get close to nature and enjoy water sports.

67._____  Peter and Kate and their two teenage sons, have to take their holidays outdoors. They would like to find a place where they can play games, such as looking for treasure.

68._____  Harry, a high school student, wants to travel on weekends, and would like to learn about materials to use when building a setting for the train set.

69._____  Maria, a primary school teacher, plans to take the whole class of 20 students for a holiday. The students will graduate this year, so she’d like to organize an activity without charge but it is instructive.

70._____  John, a young engineer in a modern car factory, enjoys an adventure journey once a year. This time, he would like to have journeys to the countryside, where he can try to learn about driving a horse and carriage.

Entire populations of American toads(蛤蟆)breed(繁殖)within the same few days at the same time each year, usually late April or early May. The toads hop to their breeding ponds after the ground has warmed and the first hard spring rain falls. To get there, many of the toads will cross roads that cut through their habitat. It will be a grand view of hopping toads as well as a disastrous killing by cars!

The toads are “slow in moving at that time of year―it’s still cool, they’ve been inactive―and they get killed” by cars when crossing roads, said Serrao, a naturalist. An April night five years ago, when Serrao went out to a country road to watch the moving of the toads, he counted 100 toads; 95 were hit by cars.

A similar story can be told for several other species of toads, frogs, crocodiles and turtles around the world.

The world’s amphibians are reducing, and road-killing is just one factor behind it. Other better-known causes of the decline include global warming, insecticides(杀虫剂), and the loss of wetlands.

Serrao says unless these animals get help crossing the road, their local populations will disappear.

Jackson, a biologist, said one way to help amphibians survive road crossings is to construct “amphibian tunnels” beneath the road. Jackson says tunnels should be a 0.6-meter-by-0.6-meter box, open at the top, and fitted with an iron grate(铁筛)to allow enough air and light into the tunnel. In addition, fences or walls should extend out from either side of a tunnel for about 30 meters, which guide amphibians toward the tunnels.

European countries have built amphibian tunnels for decades. Jackson led a team that installed the first such tunnel in America in 1987, which helped over 3/4 of the local amphibian population safely cross the road.

Jackson says that there are about a hundred amphibian tunnels in the US today, but many of them were not carefully designed and probably not working well because land developers wanted to save money.

 

62. When do American toads hop to breeding ponds?

A. Before the ground is warm.     

B. When the first heavy rain comes in spring.

C. After it is cool in sunny summer time.      

D. When it is early April.

63. Which is not the cause of the quick decline of the amphibian population?

A. The use of chemicals to kill insects.       B. The reduce of wetlands.

C. The development of car industry.          D. The green house effect of the earth.

64. Which of the following is true?

A. Toads are active when they begin their breeding migration.

B. A toad tunnel works effectively with a grate to let in air and light.

C. Amphibian tunnels were first built in America.

D. One hundred amphibian tunnels in the US work well

65. The passage is mainly about the protection of ________.

A. amphibians from road-killing    B. animal species from reducing

C. toads from breeding                D. toads, frogs, and turtles around the world

The Gloria Barron Prize honors American young people from 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in public service. Each year ten winners each receive $2,000 to support their higher education or their service work.

Ellie Wen, 18, was volunteering at a community center in Los Angeles. The center was set up to help immigrant families. She happened to meet adults in an EFL (English as a foreign language) class. “When I saw them struggling hard, I wondered how people in poor countries could learn English,” Ellie said.

So she started a Website, “Repeat After Us”, where people can listen to English and practice their accents. Volunteers have helped Ellie record more than 6,600 texts, including Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”.

Hard work pays off. There were so many times that Ellie was discouraged, but she stuck to it. The Website crashed early on, and all the recordings were lost. But volunteers worked together vigorously to start over, and the visitors returned to the site.    

   “Just follow your idea and know that the world is so kind. Even if you do have trouble, people will help you,” Ellie said.

   “I was really excited the first month, when we had 49 visitors,” she said. Now, more than 480,000 people from all over the world have visited the site. “I get e-mails from China, Egypt, India, and Brazil. They say, ‘Thank you so much for this resource, we’ve been waiting for it for so long!’” Ellie loves knowing she is helping so many people.

Gloria Barron Prize winners like Ellie are enthusiastic about the work they do. And they encourage others to join in if they see a need. Anybody can be negative, but it takes somebody brave to be positive. Are you the brave one?

 

58. Choose the right order of the following.

a. Ellie started a Website, Repeat After Us 

b. Ellie happened to meet adults in an EFL class.

c. All the recordings were lost.

d. Ellie became a Gloria Barron Prize winner.

e. More than 480,000 people from all over the world visited the site.

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

 

59. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The Gloria Barron Prize honors people showing leadership and courage.

B. Each year ten winners share US $2,000 to support their higher education.  

C. Ellie Wen was badly paid at a community center in Los Angeles.

D. People can practise their English via Ellie’s website.

60. The underlined pays off can be understood as “________”.

A. pays the full amount on a debt           B. brings good results

C. pays the wages due to employees         D. answers for

61. The writer mainly talks about ________ .

A. how to open up a website with the help of others

B. how to teach immigrant families English via Internet

C. the Gloria Barron Prize and the story of one of its winners.

D. young people who help others in various ways

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