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Higher hotel prices, airline capacity（容量） cuts and rising travel demand mean travelers will have to work harder to find a good deal in 2013. But there are plenty of online tools to help keep your vacation expenses in check. Here are some websites to help you save money on air tickets this year.
Looking for sales on a specific routs, or just want to go somewhere cheap? AirfareWatchdog. com searches for deals computers tend to miss, like promotion codes airlines include in e-mail advertisements. It also finds sales from Allegiant and Southwest, which typically aren’t listed on major airfare（机票）search engines. You can sign up for specific fare notifications（通告）or a list of all the cheap round-trip fares from your local airport.
Where can you go for $500 or less? Kayak.com/explore will show you where you can go for a vacation for a particular price .You can narrow your search by month, region, flight length, weather or activity. Clicking on a price reveals dates the fare is available.
If you already know where you want to go, use itasoftware.com to find the cheapest dates to fly. To purchase, you must go to the airline’s website or online agencies like Travelocity.
To figure out whether to buy that plan ticket now or wait, go to Bing.com/travel. Its Price Predictor can determine how likely a fare is to rise or fall during the next seven says from more than 250 cities in the Unites States to top domestic destinations and major airports in Europe. The site claims that its predictions are about75 percent accurate and save customers more than $50 on average for a round trip.
After you’ve booked your tickets at an airline site, enter your flight information at Yapta.com to track the price so you don’t miss out on savings if the price drops.
The underlined phrase “in check” in Paragraph 1 can be best replaced by“______”。

A．above limit	B．under control
C．beyond expectaion	D．in danger

We can infer from the passage that Allegiant is probably__________.

A．an airline company

B．a well-known travel destination

C．a travel agency for cheap vacations

D．a search tool for low-cost air tickets

If you’ve chosen a vacation destination, which website should you visit to choose the cheapest dates for air tickets?

A．Airfare Watchdog.com	B．kayak.com/explore
C．Itasoftware.com	D．Yapta.com

Who are the intended readers of the passage?

A．Travel agency owners

B．Advertising company bosses

C．Hotel managers hoping to attract customers

D．Holidaymakers looking for cheap air tickets

What can we know about the website Bing.com/travel from the passage?

A．Its predictions are always accurate

B．Its predictions focus on European airports

C．Its predictions are about how air tickets will vary in a week

D．Its predictions help customers save over $50 for a single trip

There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee, the students would be in fear, because he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the exam room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.
The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK.
Then the professor asked about the cure for illness, and the student, too, answered just as right.
“Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?”
“A full spoon”, answered the student.
“Now you may go out and wait for what you can get.”, said the professor. At the same time, the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. “ A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr Professor, I’ve make a mistake! A full spoon is too much for a patient. He can take only five drops.”
“I’m sorry, sir.” Said the professor coldly, “But it’s too late. Your patient has died.
The students were afraid of the professor because_________.

A．their answers seldom satisfied him

B．their answers often astonished him

C．they often angered and disappointed him

D．he often misunderstood them and give them bad markers

The student’s description of the illness was _____.

A．not correct	B．accepted
C．completely discouraging	D．not satisfied

Before he left the room the student was almost sure that ______.

A．he had made a mistake

B．his last answer was satisfying

C．he had passed the exam, and the only thing was to wait for the mark

D．he had not done well in the exam.

Which of the following is Not true?

A．Since one spoon is less than five drops, the patient will be all right soon if he takes only one full spoon at a time.

B．The doctor will be in trouble if he’s given the patient a full spoon.

C．The patient will be in danger if he’s taken as much as a full spoon.

D．If the patient wants to remain safe, he should take no more than five drops at a time.

Which guess is the most reasonable from the passage?

A．The student must have passed the exam.

B．The professor must have been very pleased and given the student a good mark.

C．The student must have been very happy when he heard, “Your patient has died.”

D．The students may not have passed the exam.

Cheating can happen in a lot of different ways. When people cheat, it’s not fair to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true winners of a game.
Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next test--unless the person cheats again.
Some people lose respect for the cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good grade. And , if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.
Some kids cheat because they are busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they cannot pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good idea.
If you were sick or upset about something the night before and couldn’t study, it would be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don’t have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to balance swimming and school. A kid who thinks cheating is the only way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so they can find some solutions together. Talking about these problems and working them out will be better than cheating.
The author thinks when kids cheat in class, _________.

A．it is unfair to other people

B．it does harm to their health

C．teachers should punish them

D．teachers shouldn’t stop them art once

Some students like cheating mainly because______.

A．the material in the test is very difficult

B．they want to do better than the others

C．cheating can make hard things seem very easy

D．they have little time to study their lessons

The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.

A．cheating isn’t a good idea

B．why kids cheat in the test

C．some kids can’t pass the test without cheating

D．some kids don’t spend the time studying

In the passage those cheaters are advised to _____.

A．spend more time on school than sports

B．talk with the teacher or parents.

C．try hard to be intelligent rather than lazy

D．ask their classmates for good methods of study

You can not see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes. Some of the things you see give off light of their own. The sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light. Such things are luminous. Most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. They are simply reflecting light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. The moon, for example, does not give off any light of its own. It is non-luminous. You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of it reflects in our direction. So moon light is only second hand sunlight.
When you look at a book, it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from where you are so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book even with your eyes wide open.
Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all. Light reaches us from the moon, which is about 380 000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a second.
You can see the book because_______.

A．your eyes are close to it

B．it reflects some of the sunlight

C．it has light of its own

D．your eyesight can get to it

The underlined word “luminous” means_______.

A．visible	B．all colors
C．giving off light	D．sunlight

________ have light of their own.

A．The sun and the moon

B．The stars and the earth

C．The sun and the stars

D．The moon and the earth

Which of the following is true?

A．All the things you can see give off light.

B．Light from the book is much shorter than that from the moon.

C．The moment you open your eyes the light from the book travels to your eyes.

D．Light travels so fast that there is no time for you to read.

Mr. Harris used to work in Dover, but then he changed his work, and he and his wife moved to another town. They did not have many friends there, but they soon met a lot of interesting people, and after a few weeks, they often went to dinner or to parties at other people’s houses.
Then Mrs. Harris said to her husband, “We’ve been to a lot of other people’s houses, and now we must invite them to our house, mustn’t we?”
“Yes, certainly,” answered her husband, “A big party will be the easiest thing, won’t it? Then we can start to invite people to dinner in small numbers next month.”
So Mrs. Harris said, “Yes, I’ll invite all our friends here to a big party on 5th December.”
“How many will that be?” Mr. Harris asked. “Don’t invite too many.”
Mrs. Harris was beginning to write the invitations when her husband saw that she was writing, “Party: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.”
“That isn’t very nice, is it?” he said. “You’re telling our guests that they must go at 8:30.” So Mrs. Harris just wrote “Party: 6:30 p.m.”
A lot of guests came, and they all had a good time, so they did not go home at 8:30. In fact they were still there at mid-night when the door bell rang and a policeman arrived. He said, “You must stop making a noise, because someone has complained(抱怨).”
Mr. Harris said he did not want to quarrel with the policeman, so everyone went home. They were sorry to have to go.
When Mr. and Mrs. Harris were alone again, she said to him. “That was a surprise, wasn’t it? Who complained about the noise?”
“I did,” Mr Harris answered in a tired voice.
Why did Mr. Harris and his wife move to another town?

A．They wanted to make some new friends.

B．Mr. Harris changed his work.

C．They wanted to meet a lot of interesting people.

D．They enjoyed going to parties and visiting other people’s houses.

What made Mr. and Mrs. Harris hold a party at their house?

A．It was easy to hold a big party at home.

B．They could ask people to dinner in small numbers.

C．They had gone to other people’s parties many times.

D．They liked making friends with others.

When did the party end that evening?

A．At about 8:30.

B．When the policeman talked with Mr. Harris on the phone.

C．About twelve o’clock..

D．When someone telephoned the police station.

Why did Mr. Harris telephoned the policeman about the noise?

A．Because someone rang his door bell many times at mid-night.

B．He did not want his friends to stay late that night.

C．His friends had a good time that night and also feel tired.

D．Because he hated the noise.