About Convention Tours in New York
Convention Tours Unlimited, Inc. is a New York City tour operator and destination management company(dmc) that has been providing high-quality Group Tours & Event Services in New York since 1984. Our group services include:
Full Day Tours
A day on the Bay: An easy one-hour drive from Manhattan to Bay Shore, Long Island for a delight voyage on the Great South Bay and lunch abroad a boat.
West Point Tour & Lunch at Hotel Thayer: A visit to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York includes a docent-led tour including the military museum, monuments and landmarks at this historic site. Enjoy a buffet lunch at Hotel Thayer, a hotel overlooking the beautiful Hudson River.
A Visit to the Rocketfeller house in Historic Hudson River Valley: Kykuit is the wonderful country estate(庄园) of John D.Rockeyfeller with a six story stone house surrounded by terraced gardens and sculpture. Tour through the house filled with antiques and art; the barn housing automobiles and carriages; and the gardens including sculpture by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder and Picasso.
Hyde Park: A visit To The FDR Home & Museum & Lunch At The Culinary Institute of America: Enjoy the scenic ride to the Hudson River Valley home of Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt. A national historic site, this wonderful home holds memorabilia of the late president and his family. Visit the Eleanor Roosevelt Library and Museum. Enjoy a lunch at the Culinary Institute of America.
Please keep in mind:
Custom-Built: Tours designed to match interests; schedules, budgets.
Language Facile: Bi-lingual(双语) and multi-lingual Tour Guides available.
Picture-Perfect: Photography services available to preserve memories.
65. What is Convention Tours?
A. A tour management company engaged in high-quality group tours services.
B. A common travel agency
C. A special travel site.
D. A channel of a TV programme about travel.
66. These are the characters of full day tours below EXCEPT_______
A. the place you want to is most suitable for your interest
B. you can ask tour guides to take photos for you
C. more than one language can be available
D. if you don’t have enough money, you can borrow from the tour guides
67. Where could the above passage come from?
A From a New York newspaper B. From a government report
C. From a travel guidance D. From a pictorial magazine.
In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice.
Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes
and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers .Most hot lines are completely anonymous ,that is to say , callers do not have to say their names or telephone n
umbers. Most hot lines are usually free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls, even if the calls are long distance ones. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short training before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems
56. A hot line is a telephone line_________
A that is hot B through which people get advice
C whose number no one knows D through which callers take a short training
57. the underlined word“anonymous”in the passage means_________in Chinese.
A secret B well-known C exact D wonderful
58. When people call the hot line advisers, they_________
A often give their names and telephone numbers
B generally have to pay for the long distance calls
C usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice
D always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers
59. The advisers working at hot lines _________
A have all been trained for a short time
B are all volunteers
C have all received years of education
D are not all paid
60 The writer of the passage seems to think that_________
A hot lines help the callers a lot
B advisers will solve all of the callers’ problems
C people had better pay for the advice
D people will not get advice from their families or friends
Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO2 into glucose（葡萄糖）.Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow. The way plants turn water and CO2 into glucose is called photosynthesis (光合作用).That means “putting together with light .” A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is green. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis .The trees will rest, and live on the food they have stored during the summer. They begin to close their food-making factories. The green Chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. Then, we begin to see yellow and orange colours. A few of these colors stay in the leaves all the time. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green Chlorophyll.
Red and purple colors we see in leaves are made mostly in the autumn. In some trees, like maples, glucose is stored in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into red. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.
52 the underlined word“chlorophyll” in the first Para means_________in Chinese.
A叶绿素 B 氧气 C 胡萝卜素 D 蛋白质
53 The way _________is called photosynthesis.
A Plants get CO2 from the air B plants take water from the ground
C plants turn water and CO2 into glucose. D Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow.
54 The gas called carbon dioxide
is from the_________
A ground B roots C air D sunlight
55 Which of the following is not true?
| A．when autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter. |
| B．During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.’ |
| C．During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colors are kept in the leaves all the time. |
| D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer. |
American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs. They say reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung diseases later in life. Doctors in Boston studied 1,100 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mother smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.
Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of developing lung
cancer if their mothers smoked. The study also showed that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father’s smoking did not affect a child’s chance of developing lung cancer
49. Whose baby would have breathing diseases?
A.Mother who smokes cigarettes after their baby are born
B.Mother who smokes cigarettes before their baby ar
e born
C.Mother who don’t smoke at all
D.Mother whose mother smokes
50. Suppose John’s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary’ mother. According to this study, _________.
A. John is more likely to develop lung cancer B. Mary is more likely to develop lung cancer
C. Mary and John have the same chance to develop lung cancer
D. Neither John and Mary has the chance to develop lung cancer
51. This passage is to __________.
A. warn us of the danger of smoking before children.
B. warn people with breathing problems not to smoke.
C. warn us that mothers who smoke may affect their children’s health.
D. warn us that fathers who smoke may affect their children as mothers
Saturday, May 24
★ Star Wars Ⅱ
Bus leaves N flagpole at 5:45 pm. Return leaves immediately following the movie .Cost $15. Sign up on SWIS by noon on Thursday.
★BLOCK PARTY!
Bands, volleyball. Starts at 6:00 pm
★Grandin Cinema Presents ：Hearts in Atlantis
A single mother and her son change when a nice-looking stranger enters their life. Grandin , 7：00 pm.
★ NMH Theatre
Present a modern play by Don Nigro, Silverthome Theatre, 7:30 pm. Tickets are $2 for NMH students, teachers and staff and $4 f
or all others. Anyone wishing to book tickets should SWIS Jake kavanagh
Sunday, May 25
Trip to Six Flags Amusement Park! This trip includes the following two films and is only for those students not attending the chat. Cost $ 33. Sign up on SWIS or at the ticket office by noon on Thu
rsday.
★Dolben Cinema presents: Heroes and Heroines
Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by a hunter with a gun, who takes them along in his search for the world’s largest and deadliest snake. Dolben, 8: 00 pm.
★Grandin Cinema Presents: The Others
A woman who lives in a darkened old house 
with her two children becomes sure that there are ghosts in their house. Grandin, 8:00 pm.
45. According to the passage, NMH is a ________.
A company B church C school D travel office
46. How many movies will be on this weekend?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four
47. How much would an NMH teacher pay for the modern play by Don Nigro?
A $ 15 B $ 2 C $ 4 D $ 33
48. What can we learn from the passage?
A. All the weekend activities were organized by Jake Kavanagh.
B. Two of the movies mentioned in the ads are about social problems.
C. Those who go to the amusement park can book tickets on Sunday.
D. An NMH student inviting his parents to watch the play together should pay $10
IV. 阅读理解（共40分）
The clock struck eleven at night .The whole house was quiet. Everyone was
in bed except me .Under the strong light ,I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff they call“books”
I was going to have my examination the next day. “When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t answer. In fact I dared not.
The clock struck twelve. “Oh, dear!” I cried. “Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!”We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.
The clock struck one. I was quite desperate now .I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, “Oh, God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.
41. The underlined word “wretched” in Para 3 means _________.
A.Happy B Friendly C Hopeful D Unhappy
42. Going over his lessons that night didn’t help him because _________.
A. it was too late at night.
B. he was very tired.
C. he hadn’t studied hard before the exam.
D. his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open.
43. What do you suppose happened to the author the next day?
A. he failed in the exam
B. he passed the exam all by luck
C. he went to a church to pray again.
D. he was punished by his teacher.
44. The best title for the passage would be_________
A. Going over My Lessons
B. Working Far into the night.
C. A Slow Student
D. The Night before the Examination