Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs.

AVOID BIG EVENTS Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the cost of accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival (19 Oct.) cost £169.15 at Booking.com. A week later, the same room cost £118.15.

If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoid—or you’re looking for a big event to pass your time—check out sites such as Whatsonwhen.com, which allow you to search for events in the UK by city, date and category.

STAYAWAY FROM THE STATION If traveling to your destination by train, you may want to find a good base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.

Don’t be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge’s Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was £95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was £75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just £62.95.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really central hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a self-catering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example is the historic O’Neill Flat on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, available for £420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults.

GET ON A BIKE London’s ‘Boris bikes’ have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your own pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs.

Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around £1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or £5 per day).

1.The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events may __________.

A. help travelers pass time

B. attract lots of travelers to the UK

C. allow travelers to make flexible plans

D.cause travelers to pay more for accommodation

2.“Farringdon” in Paragraph 5 is most probably __________.

A. a hotel away from the train station

B. the tube line to Covent Garden

C. an ideal holiday destination

D. the name of a travel agency

3.The passage shows that the O’Neill Flat __________.

A. lies on the ground floor

B. is located in central London

C. provides cooking facilities for tourists

D.costs over £100 on average per day in late September

4.Cardiff’s program allows a free bike for a maximum period of __________.

A. half an hour B. one hour

C. one hour and a half D. two hours

5.The main purpose of the passage is __________.

A. to tell visitors how to book in advance

B. to supply visitors with hotel information

C. to show visitors the importance of self-help

D. to offer visitors some money-saving tips

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閱讀理解。

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Eugene Cernan, Apollo 10’s pilot who heard the sounds first，also released a statement saying，“I don’t remember that incident excited me enough to take it seriously．It was probably just radio interference．Had we thought it was something other than that，we would have briefed everyone after the flight. We never gave it another thought.”

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1.Apollo 10’s mission was to ________.

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B．detect alien music in outer space

C．prepare for the landing on the moon

D．move around and observe the moon

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A．they were excited about the discovery

B．they reported to NASA

C．they were heading back to the lunar ground

D．they thought they might be of little importance

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A．the mission of Apollo 10 turned out to be unsuccessful

B．NASA made the TV series to clarify some space-related mysteries

C．Al Worden on Apollo 15 believes in aliens and logic

D．Michael Collins knew about the strange sounds before his flight

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A．A TV program was released about NASA’s unexplained files.

B．The music heard by Apollo astronauts could be radio interference.

C．NASA releases strange music heard by 1969 astronauts.

D．Apollo astronauts heard strange sounds from outer space.

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2.A. made B. washed C. moved D. fixed

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4.A. chance B. change C. duty D. need

5.A. sisters B. friends C. classmates D. brothers

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7.A. honest B. amazing C. innocent D. abnormal

8.A. Again B. Soon C. Finally D. Then

9.A. took B. produced C. invented D. sold

10.A. added B. improved C. ruined D. founded

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12.A. Satisfied B. terrified C. moved D. disappointed

13.A. and B. while C. but D. for

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16.A. seemed B. sounded C. figured out D. turned out

17.A. Admitted B. realized C. promised D. swore

18.A. make fun of B. take care of C. take off D. break down

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刪除：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

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Students today should do more reading. Indeed, the importance of reading can never be very stressed. First of all, reading, especial out-of-class reading, enrich our mind and broadens our horizons. Through reading, we learn what can’t be learnt in our classrooms. Beside, reading is also a way of relaxation. This is very refreshing to read a story before going to bed, or after a day of the study. There were many famous sayings about reading, like “Reading is to the mind that exercise is to the body.” Then how can we develop the habit of reading? In the first place, I believe we should start from an early age, then stick on it and never give up. Secondly, we should read what we are interested and also what is proper for us.

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I had worried myself sick over Simon’s mother coming to see me. I was a new teacher, and I gave an honest account of the students’ work. In Simon’s case, the grades were awfully low. He couldn’t read his own handwriting. But he was a bright student. He discussed adult subjects with nearly adult comprehension. His work in no way reflected his abilities.

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It taught me the most valuable lesson over the years of my teaching career, and I’m thankful that it came early and positively. A small kindness can indeed make a difference.

1.We can infer that when Simon’s mother entered the room, the writer felt _______.

A. satisfied B. nervous

C. happy D. surprised

2.Why did Simon’s mother come to visit her son’s teacher?

A. Because she worried about her son’s poor work.

B. Because she wanted to show her gratitude to the teacher.

C. Because Simon asked her to do so.

D. Because she wanted to know her son’s performance in the school.

3.What the teacher said in paragraph 3 is intended to _______.

A. encourage Jeanne to speak louder

B. encourage Simon to work hard

C. ask Jeanne to convince Simon

D. tell the students that Simon was expert on that.

4.The purpose of the passage is to ________.

A. tell the story of Simon

B. tell teachers how to be kind to students

C. advise the readers to be kind to others.

D. share a valuable lesson with readers.

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書面表達(dá)

假如你是一名高二年級的學(xué)生，你發(fā)現(xiàn)班上有些同學(xué)晚上學(xué)習(xí)到深夜。白天也不安排休息時間，但往往課堂上昏昏欲睡，有些同學(xué)飲食習(xí)慣不好，不吃早餐。請你寫篇發(fā)言稿，在班會上勸同學(xué)們合理安排作息時間，注意健康飲食，保證學(xué)習(xí)好、身體好.。

要求：1.字?jǐn)?shù)100字左右。 2.可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮，使講話完整通暢。

Dear classmates,

It’s a pleasure for me to have a chance to make a short speech today.

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Bringing up children is hard work, and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Harris has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long -term effects on the development of the personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood. Ms. Harris takes to hitting the assumption, which has dominated(支配) developmental psychology for almost half a century.

Ms. Harris's attack on the developmental psychologists’ "nurture" argument looks likely to reinforce(加強(qiáng)） doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, brought up in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children brought up in separate homes? Or that a pair of identical twins, brought up in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins brought up in different homes?

Difficult as it is to track the clear effects of parental upbringing, it may be harder to measure the exact influence of the peer(同齡人) group in childhood and adolescence. Ms. Harris points to how children from immigrant homes soon learn not to speak at school in the way their parents speak. But acquiring a language is surely a skill, rather than a characteristic of the sort developmental psychologists hunt for. Certainly it is different from growing up tensely or relaxed, or from learning to be honest or hard -working or generous. Easy though it may be to prove that parents have little impact on those qualities, it will be hard to prove that peers have vastly more.

Moreover, mum and dad surely cannot be ignored completely. Young adults may, as Ms. Harris argues, be keen to appear like their peers. But even in those early years, parents have the power to open doors: they may choose the peers with whom their young associate, and pick that influential neighborhood. Moreover, most people suspect that they come to resemble their parents more in middle age. So the balance of influences is probably complicated. Even if it turns out that the genes they pass on and the friends their children play with matter as much as affection, discipline and good example, parents are not completely off the hook

1.According to Ms. Harris,______.

A．parents are to blame for any bad behavior of their children

B．children's personality is largely shaped by their friends and neighbors

C．nature rather than nurture has a significant effect on children' s personality development

D．parents will affect greatly the children's life in the long run

2.The developmental psychologists think .

A. children are more influenced by their peers

B. identical twins raised in the same home are different in personality

C. twins raised in two separate families are different in personality

D. upbringing has a less significant effect on children’s personality development

3.According to Paragraph 3, we know that .

A. it is easier for children to gain a language at home

B. it is harder to follow the effects of parental upbringing

C. immigrant children avoid speaking the same way as their parents at school

D. it is proved that peers have a greater effect on children’s qualities

4.What does the author mean by saying parents are not completely off the look at the end of the passage？

A. Parents should control the situation.

B. Parents should give their way to children.

C. Parents should spend more time on children.

D. Parents should take on their responsibility.

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