Now some women are spending a weekend at Mother’s Camp. There, husbands and children are not allowed. Why would a woman want to take a vacation without her family? Some women say they need time to be alone.
At Mother’s Camp a woman has room to herself. She can sleep, read or watch TV, and no one will bother her. No children will ask, ”Mom, what’s for dinner?” No husband will say, “Oh, dear, I can’t find any clean socks.” In fact almost 50% of women in the United States work outside the home. Many of them work full- time and then come home to a second job – taking care of their homes and families. These working women say one of their biggest problems is housework.
In the United States, working wives do about 75% of the housework. Many of their husbands say they want to help. But then they burn the rice or they can’t find the pans. They ask so many questions that their wives decide it is easier to do the job themselves.
Some women go to Mother’s Camp just to get a break from housework. For two days they don’t cook, they don’t clean, they don’t look after their children and husbands. What do they do? They enjoy warm, sunny weather, walking, swimming or boating in a clear blue lake and sing songs around the camp-fire. They relax away from home. They have a really wonderful vacation at Mother’s Camp. From this passage we can see ________ in the United States.
| A．women want to work outside the home |
| B．working wives do most of the housework |
| C．husbands do as much housework as their wives |
| D．women like being bothered by their families |
At Mother’s Camp, women can’t _______.
| A．watch TV | B．read newspapers |
| C．swim in the lake | D．bring their husbands and children |
Why would some mothers like to be alone? Because _________.
| A．they don’t like their husbands and children |
| B．they have to work full – time |
| C．they are too busy to relax themselves |
| D．they want a new life |
________ is one of the biggest trouble for working wives in the United States.
| A．Housework | B．Working outside the home |
| C．When to take a vacation | D．Looking after their children |
What’s the best title for this passage?
| A．Busy Working Mothers | B．Welcome to Mother’s Camp |
| C．Mothers Relax Away from Home | D．Mothers in the U.S. |
Woodland International Summer School
Our International Summer School has been designed to provide a complete British experience. Here pupils not only learn English but come face-to-face with history in some of Europe’s oldest cultural centres. They can also enjoy exciting activities.
About the 2013 Course
This course is designed for boys and girls from 10-16 years and provides a wonderful chance to experience life in a traditional British boarding(寄宿) school.
English Lessons
Our programme provides 24 hours of English teaching each week. Students study grammar, writing, speaking, listening, reading, and comprehension. They can practice their new skills while interviewing visitors and local people in the town of Woodland and villages around.
Excursions(远足) & Entertainment
Each week includes cultural and activity trips. In 2013 our excursion will be to:
12th July—Manchester
19th July—York
26th July—Edinburgh
2nd August—Liverpool
Dates & Price
| No. of Course |
Arrive |
Leave |
Course Fee |
| 1 |
Sunday 8/7 |
Saturday 21/7 |
￡1900 |
| 2 |
Sunday 8/7 |
Saturday 28/7 |
￡2850 |
| 3 |
Sunday 8/7 |
Saturday 4/8 |
￡3800 |
| 4 |
Sunday 15/7 |
Saturday 28/7 |
￡1900 |
| 5 |
Sunday 15/7 |
Saturday 4/8 |
￡2850 |
| 6 |
Sunday 22/7 |
Saturday 4/8 |
￡1900 |
Contact Us
Woodland School, Cumbria, LA10 5HG， UK
TEL: (+44)1-539-622-613(overseas) or 01539622613 (UK)
EMAIL: enquiries@woodlandsummerschool. OrgThe main purpose of the summer school is to help the students _____________.
| A．get used to boarding school life | B．improve their English skills |
| C．learn about the town of Woodland | D．develop their abilities to live |
If you want to visit Liverpool during the 2013 Course, you can’t attend _________.
| A．Course No. 3 | B．Course No. 4 | C．Course No. 5 | D．Course No. 6 |
This advertisement is used to attract children from 10-16 years ______________.
| A．in Britain | B．all over Europe |
| C．in Woodland | D．all over the world |
A person has been badly injured in a car accident. It is necessary to give him a transfusion (输血) because he has lost much blood in the accident. However, special care must be taken in selecting new blood for him. If the blood is too different from his own, the transfusion can kill him.
There are four basic blood groups: A, B, AB and O. A single test can tell us a person’s blood group. Everybody is born with one of these four blood groups. People’s blood group, like hair colour, is inherited (继承) from parents.
Because the substances contained in each group are different, transfusion must be given carefully. Basically, A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. O can be given to any other group, so it is often called the universal donor. On the contrary, AB is sometimes called the universal recipient (接受者). However, before being given the transfusion, patients usually receive only salt or plasma (血浆) until their blood can be matched as exactly as possible. In this way, it is possible to avoid any bad results of the transfusion.
There is a relationship between our blood groups and our nationalities. Among the Europeans, about 42 percent are blood group A while 45 percent are blood group O. The rarest is blood group AB. However, some American Indian groups are nearly 100 percent blood group O.Which of the following shows the correct relationship in blood transfusion? (→ =" giving" blood to)
Usually, before being given a transfusion, ________.
| A．a person needs to receive salt or plasma first |
| B．a person needs to have a good rest |
| C．a person needs to have a lot of food and water |
| D．a person needs to find the person with the same blood group as him |
The third most common blood type among the Europeans is _______.
| A．A | B．B | C．AB | D．O |
Which is NOT right according to the passage?
A. A person’s blood group depends on his parents.
B. There is only one kind of blood group in a person’s body.
C. About 13 percent of the Europeans have blood group AB.
D. Most of American Indians can be universal blood donors.Which is the best title for the passage?
| A．Blood transfusion | B．Blood groups |
| C．Car accidents | D．Blood group and nationalities |
Look at the center circles of Diagram (图) A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger?
Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact , they are exactly the same size.
Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase ? Or two faces?Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.
"What's happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?" You may wonder at what you see. Don't worry. Here is how it goes:
When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret (解读) the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it "Visual illusion" (视觉错误).
Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of illusions.The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B. That's because.
A. something is wrong with our eyes
B. the two circles are not the same size
C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way
D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the otherWhat's the right order according to the passage?
a. We look at things with our eyes. b. Our brains interpret the messages.
c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.
| A．adbc |
| B．cabd |
| C．acdb |
| D．bcad |
Movie makers make use of visual illusions to.
| A．help the actors look better |
| B．make the actors much braver |
| C．help the actors become stronger |
| D．make the actors seem different in size |
In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?___________
A.The second one.
B.The third one.
C.The fifth one.
D.The sixth one.The text is probably taken from.
| A．an advertisement |
| B．a science book |
| C．a movie magazine |
| D．a story book |
“I believe you’re the right person to write an advice column (专栏) for the students called Dear Amy!” Jenny, editor of the school newspaper, said to Andy, who finally agreed to accept the job if Jenny promised not to tell it to anyone else.
At first it wasn’t too bad. Most of the letters he received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then came a letter from a person named Joe.
“Dear Amy,” it began, “I’m in real trouble. I’ve wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents don’t even let me take music lessons. I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play. I’ve tried explaining, but they didn’t listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home? Maybe that will make my parents agree.” The letter signed “Joe”.
Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should he advise someone to run away from home? Probably not. But didn’t Joe have a right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard, but couldn’t think out a good answer. Andy couldn’t sleep. He just worried about poor Joe.
At a bar a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy’s maths class, sat down next to him and asked, “ What’s wrong with you? You look a little worried.”
“I guess I do,” said Andy.
“If you get a problem, why don’t you try writing to Dear Amy about it?” asked Eleanor.
Andy sighed. But Eleanor continued, “In fact, I guess Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn’t answered the phony letter I wrote her last week. You’d better read it — it may even make the most hard-hearted person cry! It was supposed to be from a songwriter named Joe.”Andy might be ______.
| A．an editor of the school newspaper |
| B．a songwriter |
| C．a maths teacher |
| D．a doctor in the school |
It’s clear that Dear Amy ______.
| A．helps students who want to run away from home |
| B．answers letters from the students |
| C．writes songs for the students |
| D．meets readers at a bar |
It seemed to be easy for Andy to do the job until _____.
| A．he changed his name |
| B．he received a letter signed “Joe” |
| C．he met Eleanor at a bar |
| D．his name was well-known |
In the letter Joe says that ______.
| A．his parents don’t know about music |
| B．his classmates don’t understand him |
| C．he would stay away from his parents |
| D．he would obey his parents |
The underlined word “phony” means “______”.
| A．unreal | B．boyish | C．popular | D．favourite |
The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren’t straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”
Marc’s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven’s CDs to him when she was pregnant . Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship.
At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings —sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.”The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from .
| A．China | B．France | C．Canada | D．the United States |
Marc played the piano at the age of for the first time.
| A．two | B．five | C．six | D．nine |
According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “” in Chinese.
| A．使……理解 | B．使……担心 |
| C．使……惊奇 | D．使……难过 |
At present Marc practices playing the piano .
| A．once a month | B．eight hours a day |
| C．in his free time | D．only on weekends |
What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that .
| A．he likes challenges | B．he doesn’t like challenges |
| C．he is afraid of challenges | D．he wants to be happy and famous. |