There are two ways to save money traveling. The first way is to get the best deals on the specific things you want. There is a limitation to this type of approach (途径，方法) though. If you find the lowest price on the best hotel in Honolulu at the height of the season, you will save money, but still have a very expensive vacation. Trying to get exactly what you want will generally be an expensive proposition, in travel and in life.

The other approach is to be a true opportunist. This will be difficult for some of you, and entirely unacceptable to others. Nonetheless (尽管如此)，the travelers who get to travel the most, go to the widest variety of places, learn the most and do the most, are the opportunists. This will be true until you are so wealthy that you have no monetary (货币的；钱的)limits.

The first time I went to Ecuador, I went there because it was cheap. If it wasn’t, I would have had a great time—somewhere else. The trip lasted a month, and cost $1045, which included airfare and even the $130 fee for a guide to take me to the top or glacier (冰川) covered Mount Chimborazo.

I cut the cost by taking a bus from my home in Michigan to Miami, and back again when I returned from Ecuador. The round-trip ticket cost $158. The round-trip flight to Quito from Miami was only $256, because it was a courier (信使，通讯员) flight, which meant I signed for some luggage(car parts), and  could only take carry-on luggage.

Never did I feel deprived, or bored. I had a great time, eating wherever it was cheap and clean, doing all sorts of inexpensive, but interesting things, and traveling across the country to climb Chimborazo. I also met and fell in love with my wife Ana.

Being an opportunist means you’ll have just as much variety, and probably almost everything you want—eventually. You just have to stop trying to get exactly what you want exactly when you want it. If the guide that took me up Chimborazo hadn’t dropped his price from $200 to $130, I would have spent $2 for a bus and gone hiking on EI Altar, another great Andean mountain. That would have left me with enough money for several other minor adventures.

1.The underlined phrase “the best deals” in the first paragraph probably refers to ______.

2.The return tickets from his hometown to Quito cost the author ______.

3.The last paragraph was to tell us how to ______.

4.It’s suggested that the author _____.

5.Which of the following can serve as the best title of the passage?

单词拼写（每空1分，共10题，满分10分）

1.I wonder if it is_______________（方便）for you to help me with my problem?

2.We are now better _________（意识）of the environmental effect on what we buy.

3.I would___________（感激）it if you would turn the music down..

4.He stood there ,b___________ with the shopkeeper.

5.Which driver was to b___________ for the accident? .

6.His father e___________500 workers on the farm.

7.The boy p____________ to be sleeping when his mother came in.

8.He takes a positive _____________（态度）to this disease.

9.May I e___________ seats with you?.

10.It is the __________（风俗）in that country for women to marry young.

语法填空（每小题1分，共5题，满分5分）

1.The number of children who have lost parents due to AIDS__________ _________（expect） to rise to over 26 million in 2011.

2.-Have you moved into your new flat?

-No, I haven’t. It________ _________ __________ （decorate）at present.

3.Listen ! Do you hear someone__________（call） for help?

4.Mrs White showed her students some old maps__________（borrow）from the library.

5.With Father’s Day around the corner, I have taken some money out of the bank ____ _______（ buy） presents for my dad.

翻译(用所学短语填空)（每小题1分，共5题，满分5分）

1.幸运的是，在交易失败前我退出了

Luckily, I________ ________ before the deal turned bad.

2.我们得把休假日期推迟，直到你好些为止。

We’ll have to ______ _______going on vacation until you’re better.

3.红梅在白雪的映衬下很醒目。

Red plums _______ _______ against the white snow.

4.我肯定会习惯这项艰苦工作的。

I am sure I’ll _______ ______ _______the hard work.

5.我可以把这本书借给你，只要你不把它弄脏

You may borrow this book ______ ______ ______you keep it clean.。

假如你是校学生会主席，为了更好地保护环境，你代表学生会向全校学生发出倡议。请根据以下内容，写一份倡议书：

1 保护环境是我们的职责。

2 我们要养成环保的习惯：(1)尽量步行上学或骑自行车上学 (2) 不随地扔垃圾

(3) 节约用水  (4）……

3 发出环保的号召。

注意：1 词数：120左右  2 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

Dear friends，

As we can see, the environment around us is getting worse and worse._________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

Thank you!

The Students’ Union

—Would you like to watch the movie with me tonight?

—        ，but I have too much homework to do. 

       In 1636, Harvard（哈佛大学）is one of the most famous universities in the United States.

Not a single song    at yesterday’s party.

I feel it is your husband who _______ for the spoiled child.

______ 3,000 words, I also learned how to use basic grammar after being trained here.