Here is some information for you if you want to make a visit to Xi’an.
| Admission Fee: |
CNY150 (March 1 - end of November) CNY120 (December 1 - end of February) The fare is for the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Site Park Through Ticket including the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Lishan Garden and shuttle buses inside the scenic area. |
| Guide Services: |
The exhibits are so well explained in both Chinese and English. However, visitors can also enjoy the guide services. It costs around CNY 100 to hire a guide. |
| Ticket Selling Hours: |
Sell tickets from 08:30 to 17:00 (March 16-Nov.15), stop check-in at 18:35; Sell tickets from 08:30 to 16:30 (Nov.16-March 15), stop check-in at 18:05 |
| Transportation: |
From Xi’an Xianyang International Airport: Visitors can take Airport Shuttle Line 2 to Xi’an Railway Station. The bus departs every hour from 10:15 to 19:15 at 1F of T2 and the ticket costs CNY 25. Visitors can also hire a taxi from the airport and the fare is about CNY 200. From downtown Xi’an: Take tourism bus No.306 from the east square of Xi’an Railway Station or 307 from the south gate of Tang Paradise. The whole journey takes about one hour. The bus fare is CNY7 per person. |
| Getting Around: |
Battery-powered motor vehicles and ancient-style carriages are available for visitors to tour around the mausoleum. 30 free shuttle buses are traveling between the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses for tourists’ convenience. One can take them by showing the entrance ticket. |
| Recommended Time for a Visit: |
The museum is crowded in the morning because there are too many group visitors. Therefore, independent visitors may visit the museum in the early afternoon to avoid the crowds. However, they should not miss the last bus that returns from the museum to Xi’an at 19:00. |
A couple who want to visit the Museum in January should pay at least _______.
| A．CNY 120 | B．CNY 150 | C．CNY 240 | D．CNY 300 |
It can be learned from the passage that _______.
| A．guide services are free of charge |
| B．there are more visitors in the morning |
| C．most guides speak in more than two languages |
| D．visitors can get around by free motor cars |
Which of the following is false according to the passage?
| A．Visitors with through tickets cannot take free shuttle buses. |
| B．The last bus returns from the Museum at 19:00. |
| C．Visitors had better enter the Museum with a ticket in the early afternoon. |
| D．Bus No. 307 starts from the south of Xi’an Railway Station. |
The passage is written to_______.
| A．introduce the history of Xi’an |
| B．give some detailed information to visitors to Xi’an |
| C．recommend transportation to tour around Xi’an |
| D．offer the guide services in Xi’an |
Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out（退学）. But he was full of new ideas.
After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in his life.
Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.
In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name “Apple” just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden.
His Apple Computer was so successful that Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.
He often said, “I live in order to change the world, there aren’t any other reasons. The only way to have a great achievement is to love your own career. If you can’t find your favorite career, go on looking for it and never give up.”
This is Steven Jobs, though he is dead, his spirit and achievements still influence our lives.Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he ________.
| A．never did his lessons | B．dropped out |
| C．always made troubles with his schoolmates | D．he was full of new ideas |
Why did Steven Jobs go to India?
| A．Because he wanted to be a video game designer. |
| B．Because he wanted to get some new ideas. |
| C．Because he wanted to make a new type of computer. |
| D．Because he wanted to have a happy summer. |
Steven Jobs was famous for his ________ all over the world.
| A．new ideas | B．Apple Computer | C．video games | D．saying |
From this passage we know Steven Jobs ________.
| A．didn’t finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates |
| B．liked traveling in India and California |
| C．liked trying new things and making his new ideas come true |
| D．thought he had many reasons to live in the world |
Which of the following sentences is NOT true according to this passage?
| A．The only way to have a great achievement is to love your career. |
| B．The name “Apple” helped Jobs to remember a happy summer in an apple tree garden. |
| C．If you can’t find the career you love, give it up and try another one. |
| D．People remember Jobs because of his achievements. |
In England, afternoon tea is the most informal (非正式) meal of a day. It is taken between four and five. If you are a friend of the family, you may come for tea at any time. Very often it is not taken at a table. The members of the family and visitors take the tea in the sitting room. Each person has a cup and saucer (茶盘), a spoon (调羹) and a small plate for bread and butter (黄油) and cakes. By the way, do not help yourself to cakes first, bread and butter first, and then cake. Do remember: Though you can eat as much as you want, do not put more than（超过） one piece of bread or cake on your plate each time.In England, afternoon tea is usually taken
A. between breakfast and lunch B. in the middle of a day
C. early in the afternoon D late in the afternoonA real English afternoon tea has .
| A．tea only | B．both tea and food |
| C．tea, food and vegetables | D．the same things as other meals |
If you want to have afternoon tea in a friend's home, .
| A．you must send a message before you go |
| B．you must take food with you |
| C．you must go only when he asks you to |
| D．you may put only one piece of bread or cake on your plate each time |
Help yourself to .
| A．cakes first | B．bread and butter first |
| C．either bread first or cake first | D．only one piece of bread or cakes . |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．People don't use the same spoon for afternoon tea. |
| B．Afternoon tea is often taken in the sitting room. |
| C．For afternoon tea, people use cups only. |
| D．Afternoon tea is often taken with bread and cakes. |
Smith was a landlord（地主）. He loved money very much and never gave anything to anybody. Soon he became rich. One day the weather was fine. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the sun was very warm. The landlord was walking along a river with his friends, when, all of a sudden, he slipped（滑倒） and fell into it. He cried, "Help! Help!" One of his friends held out his hand and said, "Give me your hand and I will pull（拉） you out." The landlord's head went under the water and then came up again, but he did not give his hand to his friends. Then another of his friends tried but the same thing happened. Just then a farmer came over and saw all this. He knew the landlord very well. He said to the others, "Let me try." He held out his hand and said to the landlord," Take my hand and I will pull you out." Hearing this, the landlord took the farmer's hand, and in a minute the farmer pulled the landlord out of the water. All the others got very surprised at this and asked the farmer, "Why did he give his hand to you but not to us?" The farmer said, “You don't know your friend very well, When you say 'give' to him, he does nothing, but when you say 'take', he takes." Smith was a ____.
| A．doctor | B．farmer | C．landlord | D．waiter |
Smith became very rich, because he ____ gave anything to anybody.
| A．always | B．never | C．often | D．sometimes |
One day Smith was walking along a ____ with his friends.
| A．river | B．park | C．street | D．lake |
The rich man held ____ his hand when he heard "Take my hand."
| A．in | B．into | C．down | D．out |
Who knew the rich man very well?
| A．his friends | B．his wife | C．the farmer | D．his children |
A young man once went to town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went to his room and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long. He went into the kitchen, and his mother and two sisters were doing some washing there. He said to them, “The new trousers are too long. They need cutting by two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.
But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went to her son’s room silently and cut the trousers by two inches. She came back without saying anything to her daughters. After supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s trousers. She went to his room and cut the trousers by two inches without saying anything to anyone. The younger sister went to the cinema. But when she came back, she also remembered her brother’s trousers. So she went to his room and cut them by two inches, too.The trousers were ______.
| A．too long | B．new | C．for the young man | D．A, B and C |
Why didn’t the young man’s mother and sisters answer him?
| A．Because they didn’t hear him clearly. |
| B．Because they thought others would do it for him |
| C．Because they didn’t want to do it for him. |
| D．Because they were busy at that time. |
What can we infer from the story?
| A．Maybe the young man didn’t try on the trousers when he bought them |
| B．The trousers are just right for the young man now. |
| C．His mother and sisters didn’t hear what the young man said. |
| D．The young’s mother and sisters didn’t want to help him. |
If the trousers were 197 inches at first, how long were they at last?
| A．191 inches | B．193 inches | C．195 inches | D．199 inches. |
Which one is true from the story?
| A．The young man’s mother and sisters want others to know what they did. |
| B．They young man would be very happy to see his trousers were short. |
| C．The young man had to throw the trousers away at last. |
| D．The young man would be very thankful to his mother and sisters. |
Do you still get free plastic bags（塑料袋） from the supermarket（超市）? Things will change soon.
To protect(保护) the environment, supermarkets in China will stop providing (提供) free plastic bags after June 1st. If you don't want to pay money to buy them, you'll have to bring your own shopping bag.
What kind of bags will be the best to bring? Students in Kunming Xinying Middle School have some good ideas.
Recently 54 students of the school held an activity in which they made their own environmentally-friendly shopping bags.
Most students used old clothes to make their bags. They painted pictures like the Olympic rings on them.
But Wang Shuncheng, a Junior 2 boy, chose a different material (材料). He made his bag with old newspaper. Is a newspaper bag strong enough to hold shopping? Wang says it is, "No problem. I put six bottles of water in the bag," he said. "It's strong enough!"
Chen Lisi, a girl, had a more traditional way to make her bag – she weaved (编织) a bamboo basket. It was not an easy job. With her grandfather's help, Chen spent a whole afternoon making it. She also weaved wool (毛线) flowers on the basket.
Making bags was not all the students did. They had another job: to persuade their parents and relatives to use environmentally-friendly shopping bags instead of plastic ones. The school will show the bags so that shops and stores can get inspiration (灵感) from the students' work.On June 2nd, if you don’t bring a shopping bag, ________ in the market.
| A．you can get free plastic bags |
| B．you’ll have to pay for the plastic bags |
| C．you can’t buy anything |
| D．you can’t use plastic bags |
From the passage, we can infer(推测) that ___________.
| A．Plastic bags will not come into our life any more. |
| B．When you go shopping after June 2nd, you have to bring a shopping bag. |
| C．Plastic bags are bad for the environment. |
| D．No one will use plastic bags after June 2nd. |
What does “persuade” in the last paragraph mean?
| A．劝说 | B．阻止 | C．保证 | D．反对 |
Supermarkets in China stop providing plastic bags because _________.
| A．they want to save money |
| B．markets want to make more money |
| C．plastic bags are very expensive |
| D．they want to protect the environment |
Which of the following is not right from the passage?
| A．People may use other material to make shopping bags. |
| B．The students’ work may bring inspiration to the supermarkets. |
| C．You can’t use plastic bags in supermarkets any more after June 1st. |
| D．The newspaper bag made by Wang Shuncheng seems strong. |