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.
A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the finding of a study of Dutchmen in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least an ounce of salt water fish per day compared to those who never ate fish.
The Dutch research is one of three human studies that give strong scientific support to the long-held belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart. Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000 deaths occurring from heart attacks each year. But previous research has shown that the level of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans do. There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption average more than 3 ounces.
For 20 years, the Dutch study followed 852 middle-aged men, 20 percent of whom ate no fish. At the start of the study, average fish consumption was about two-thirds of an ounce each day, with more men eating lean fish than fatty fish.
During the next two decades, 78 of the men died from heart disease. The fewest deaths were among the group who regularly ate fish, even at levels far lower than those of the Japanese or Eskimos. This relationship was true regardless of other factors such as age, high blood pressure, or blood cholesterol levels.The passage is mainly about ________.
| A．the high incidence of heart disease in some countries |
| B．the changes in people’s diet |
| C．the daily fish consumption of people in different culture |
| D．the effect of fish eating on people’s health |
We can infer from the passage that there are fewer heart disease deaths ________.
| A．in the countries of the yellow-skin race |
| B．in the countries with high consumption of fish |
| C．in the countries with good production of fish |
| D．in highly-developed countries |
The underlined part “This relationship” may refer to the connection between ________ and the level of heart disease.
| A．regular fish-eating | B．the kind of fish eaten |
| C．the amount of fish eaten | D．people of different areas |
In which section of a newspaper can we read this passage?
| A．Ads. | B．Movies. | C．Health and Diet. | D．Briefs. |
As we get older, most of us worry about grey hair, wrinkles and maintaining a youthful body. But people often don’t realize the voice needs looking after. Here, Mr. Rubin, a voice expert, reveals how to keep your voice youthful.
Drink more fluid and avoid spicy food
You need water for the vocal cords(声带) to vibrate(振动) well. The body must be kept hydrated enough to make the vocal cords operate well. Drinking 1.5 liters of water a day at intervals of 15 minutes is very important. Mr. Rubin advises avoiding foods with an annoying effect on the stomach, such as onions, chili, fizzy drinks and chocolate.
Rest the throat and talk regularly
The vocal cords can be scared if you use your voice during a bad cough. If you have a case of laryngitis(喉炎) with a cold, you should rest your voice for a day or two, and seek medical advice.
Simply staying sociable and using your voice is very important. “As older people get less mobile, they can become socially isolated and speak less.” says Mr. Rubin. “The elderly need to communicate with people more. By using the vocal cords, they enable the ageing process to slow down. ”
Improve your posture
Good posture is essential to keeping the voice young, so we’d better stand properly. Exercise helps you take deeper breaths as it means there is better airflow through the voice box, producing a stronger tone.
Sing in the shower
This is one of the best ways to preserve your voice, as it keeps the larynx muscles strong while the steam lubricates(使润滑) the voice box. “Singing is gymnastics for the voice,” says Mr. Rubin. Joining a choir is one of the best ways to preserve a youthful tone.Mr. Rubin gives us advice on ________.
| A．ways to keep us from aging |
| B．ways to talk with other people |
| C．ways to keep our voice youthful |
| D．prevention of diseases caused by talking too much |
Which of the following statements is TRUE in the opinion of Mr. Rubin?
| A．We should stand properly to keep our voice youthful. |
| B．Professional singers’ voices tend to age quickly. |
| C．The steam can do great harm to the voice. |
| D．Taking more onions can keep us healthy. |
To protect the voice, the old people should.
| A．get less mobile | B．communicate with others more |
| C．avoid using the voice | D．lie in bed more |
What can we learn from the text?
| A．Most people have realized the importance of protecting voice. |
| B．It’s hard to keep the vocal cords strong through exercise. |
| C．Singing in the shower is among the best ways to keep our voice youthful. |
| D．Shouting now and then benefits our vocal cords. |
I love it at night. It’s peaceful. And when it cools down I sometimes do some ironing. I don’t really care for it. I work full-time and am too busy for most housework. I remember the old woman who taught me to iron(熨烫). I was about 15 and somehow got a live-in job taking care of a woman who had been an able-bodied, healthy woman until the accident that caused her to be paralyzed.
The woman had an electric wheelchair. She could move her head and arms but not her hands or fingers. She had this clamp（夹子）attached to her arm and I’d have to open it and put a cup or a pencil in it and then she could move it. She would tell me how to do things. She would instruct me in great detail on the correct way to do things. Her home was perfect and beautiful. She would follow me around in her electric wheelchair to make sure I did everything exactly right. I’m sure she had been a perfect homemaker. She would have me fold everything, including socks and pillow cases. I would complain silently and wish terrible things on her. She taught me the right way to make the bed and tuck the corners. I know sometimes she’d get frustrated and impatient with me. I knew she wanted to grab it and do it herself. But she never yelled or scolded. Only she insisted I do it right. I didn’t like it much, but I did it.
Today I can iron pretty well. I know where to start on a shirt, the right way to do the collar and sleeves. Now that I think about it, I don’t think she is an old lady. I think she might have been about my age now. Anyway, when I iron, I think of her and silently thank her for all the things I learned. From the passage we can infer that the writer of the passage now is ________.
| A．a housewife | B．a full-time worker |
| C．a clothes maker | D．a college student |
The writer used to take care of the lady because ______.
| A．she wanted to earn some money while sleeping and eating there |
| B．she wanted to learn how to do housework |
| C．she was a relative of the disabled woman |
| D．she had to do something in return to the lady for her kindness |
When the lady taught the writer how to do housework, the little girl was ______.
| A．careful to learn | B．eager to learn |
| C．forced to learn | D．unwilling to learn |
What’s the writer’s attitude towards the lady now?
| A．Sympathetic. | B．Fearful. | C．Thankful. | D．Hateful. |
Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact with them. Their values—this can't be repeated too often—are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with decaying food covered by small worms (蠕虫), and an old person lying alone in bed, taking no notice of the worms. But is it interfering (妨碍) with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old.
Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you stop treating the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by pursuing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try, on the principle that while there's life, there's hope.
When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun.It is implied in Paragraph 1 that______.
| A．very old people enjoy living with their relatives |
| B．social services have nothing to do with very old people |
| C．very old people would like to live alone so that they can have more personal freedom. |
| D．very old people are able to keep their rooms very clean |
Some social workers think that______.
| A．health and safety are more important than personal freedom |
| B．personal freedom is more important than health and safety |
| C．old people should keep their rooms clean |
| D．one should not take the risk of dealing with old people |
In the author's opinion, ______.
| A．the human body can't be compared to a car |
| B．the older a person, the more care he needs |
| C．too much emphasis has been put on old people's values |
| D．it is easy to provide spare parts for old people |
The author thinks that______.
| A．medical decisions for old people should be left to the doctors |
| B．old people can enjoy a happy life only if they are very rich |
| C．the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is doubtful |
| D．it is always morally right to treat old people and push off death |
Humankind has tried to improve its standard of living since the very beginning of civilization. Back then, as well as today, providing food and security was the basic task for a person. However, nowadays the range of required goods has expanded significantly. People feel the need for not only some primary things, such as a piece of bread and a roof over their heads, but also for various facilities and luxuries. Providing humanity with these things is connected to the use of natural resources, which requires energy. In turn, the common sources of energy we use today cause pollution, so economic growth is almost unavoidably associated with environmental damage.
Economic growth is the increase in numbers of goods and services produced over time by an economy, and it is calculated in terms of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Before growth is calculated, inflation (通货膨胀)is adjusted in order to take into account its misleading effect on the price of goods and services. Economic growth can also be explained as the increase in expected output, which results from an increase in actual output, or total demand.
There are certain aspects of economic growth which affect the environment. The first of these is the fact that in order to produce more goods and products, at a faster rate, the construction of large industrial plants is required. These plants produce a lot of waste, leading to the pollution of water and the atmosphere, which may cause negative long term health effects to nearby populations of animals, or people. They also lead to global warming.
Industrial manufacturing leads to the constantly increasing energy consumption. The traditional energy sources, which are commonly used nowadays, are considered to be the greatest polluters to the environment. There also exist so-called eco-friendly sources of energy. They are sometimes preferred but replacing the traditional sources with them also requires time, during which people have to make some sacrifices to support these undertakings.
In order to produce economically practical energy, a sometimes significant transformation of the natural site is often inevitable. This is expensive and, has harmful effects on the environment. Application of wind energy would block airflows’ natural speed which is the reason for their decrease in strength, after crossing the windmill. Consequently, the pressure balance that is brought about by this current will be affected, and it is important to remember that the environment and weather conditions are directly affected by atmospheric pressure.
For these reasons, bringing about economic growth without any resulting environmental damage, whatsoever, is impossible.What does the passage mainly talk about?
| A． Pollution caused by plant construction. |
| B． Effects of windmills on the environment. |
| C． Economic growth and human civilization. |
| D． Economic growth and environmental damage. |
What does the underlined word “They” in the third paragraph refer to?
| A．Goods and products | B．The industrial plants |
| C． Water and atmosphere | D．Negative health effects |
According to the passage, the author holds the opinion that ______.
| A． economic growth should be calculated in terms of GDP |
| B． use of natural resources causes no damage to the environment |
| C． industrial manufacturing may cause damage to the environment |
| D． a windmill is a perfect way to produce economically practical energy |
Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
