An E-ticket ride is an especially thrilling amusement park ride. The term now can refer to anything extraordinary. What distinguishes this from any other ride is the level of detail, technology, and entertainment value.
From 1955-1982, the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, sold individual ride tickets with admission to the park. In 1972, simple rides like the King Arthur Carousel took A-tickets, while Alice In Wonderland was B-tickets. C and D-ticket rides were a bit more advanced, including Peter Pan’s Flight, and Flight to the Moon. The biggest, best, and newest rides in the park were reserved for the 85 cent E-ticket. In the 1970s, this list included Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Haunted Mansion.
One interesting thing about the tickets is that Disney officials consistently referred to them as coupons, while guests insisted they should be called tickets. In 1982, the tickets — or coupons — were phased out of the Disneyland world, as the park introduced a pay-one-price admission.
As a replacement of sorts for the ticketing system, Disney introduced the FASTPASS® for some of the rides. Generally, the FASTPASS® is used on the most popular rides. Rumors often circulate to suggest that Disneyland is planning to stop using this system in favor of VIP tickets, outraging some fans.
From 1997-2004, the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida offered an experience called E-ride Nights. This popular, although costly, extra allowed ticket-holding visitors to stay in the park three hours after closing and ride some of the most popular attractions.
Today, although the tickets no longer officially exist, Disney fans still classify rides by their ticket status. In the 2007 announcement of expansions to the California Adventure Park, at least two new E-ticket attractions were announced, the Little Mermaid ride and a test-track racing ride based on the Pixar movie Cars. Recent criticisms of the re-opened Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage suggest that some fans think the ride has been downgraded to a D-ticket from its former glory.
In popular culture, the phrase has been used to refer to an extraordinary experience. American astronaut Sally Ride famously referred to riding the space shuttle as an E-ticket experience. The phrase has appeared in several movies. Fans of the Disney parks have also produced a ride-based fan magazine called The “E” Ticket since 1986. Although the term no longer applies to the Disney method of ride admission, it is still consistently popular as a popular phrase.
What Is an E-Ticket Ride?
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71It is divided into two types: short term memory and long term memory. Short term memory helps the brain to remember the information from a few seconds to a few minutes, for example, searching a phone number in the phone directory. This type of information is not stored for a long time, and slips from the brain.72
73There is no exact definition of brain exercises. The key to brain exercises is to stimulate(刺激) the gray cells of our mind. For example, trying out different problem solving exercises can be a good practice for improving the analytical skills of brain. 74If you regularly exercise it, you will develop a good body, or else you will have an unfit body, and thus, our brain needs exercises regularly. Here are some memory improvement tips for adults:
●Regular exercises help to keep away diseases that are harmful to the memory. Besides, regular exercising improves the feeling of well-being and improves blood circulation to the brain.
●Don't be stressed, as stress holds back the ability of the mind to concentrate. A stress-free mind will collect and store more information that a stressed mind, so avoid being over-stressed. But in modern times people have great pressure from work and life. 75. Sleep is necessary for keeping the mind and body fit and the side effects of lack of sleep include a lack of concentration.
| A．Ask your doctors for advice on memory. |
| B．Developing good sleeping habits helps a lot. |
| C．The memory is just like our body in some way. |
| D．Memory is the remembering of any information taken in by the brain. |
E.Not all people have the power to recite so many things at a time.
F.Long term memory, on the other hand, is the memory where we make conscious efforts to keep the information for a long time.
G.Brain exercises are one of the simplest ways of improving memory power.
根据括号里的中文提示，完成句子；每空填一个单词。
71. When she saw the poor dead cat, she ______ _______ _______.(禁不住哭了)
72.Though pandas eat vegetables sometimes, they mainly ______ ______ bamboo.(以…… 为主食)
73. The earthquake will ______ ______ a lot of diseases and homeless people.（导致）
74. It is ______ ______ _______ _______ arguing with him; he is always not reasonable.（浪费时间）
75. Don’t ______ ______ _______ your classmates. It is impolite.（取笑）
76. He didn’t steal anything. ______ ______ he is honest all the time.（事实上）
77. After eight years, the machine is still _____ ______ and in good condition.（在使用中）
78. Once you make a promise, you should ______ it ______.（实施）
79. We had reached the top of the mountain ______ _____ _____ sun rose.（到…… 时候）
80. You must keep calm when fires ______ ______ . （发生）
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____46____ . He had more money than he could ever spend, and he was admired and looked up
to by his community._____47_____ .He was not happy. All his life he had been pursuing happiness and struggling for happiness, but he had never been able to find it.
Then one day he heard about a hidden temple in Nepal that had a special room that contained the secret of happiness._____48_____ .After many years searching and countless hardships he arrived there. He was tired and penniless, but he knew that none of that mattered now because he had found the temple. He asked a wise, smiling monk(和尚)if he could enter the 
special room. The monk agreed and showed him to the stairs leading to the room._____49____ .He stared into the room with sunlight streaming through the window and saw what he had come so far to find. There hanging on the wall was the secret of happiness. The man looked at his reflection in the mirror and laughed.
___50___ .Happiness is a choice that we can make. Don’t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness then. Just look at the mirror and laugh. Let the happiness flow from your heart, mind, and soul until it fills your life and the lives of all around you.
| A．He immediately sold all that he owned and set out to find this hidden temple. The man found the secret of happiness at last. |
B．But he knew that somethi ng was missing in his life. |
| C．He climbed them with legs shaking with expectation and slowly opened the door. |
| D．There was once a very wealthy and successful man. |
E.It is time we all realized that we were the secret of our own happiness.
F.It was difficult to find the temple in Nepal.
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—Eric，let’s go and see Jenny after school. I’ll take today’s math test papers to her.
—Good. We can see how well she is getting on and tell her all the answers to the exercises.
—I don’t think we need to tell her all the answers. She won’t be impressed.
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—Well, she always likes dealing with math problems by herself.
—Is that so?62
—Don’t worry about that. I’m sure that she can work them out.63
—Well, that’s true, but have you thought about her absence from school all week because of her illness?
—Yes, I have.64
—She is always doing math exercises every time. What’s more, she often asks us what we are studying at school.
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So I am confident that she can do quite well without our help.
What makes you think so?
If I were you, I would tell her the answers.
After all, she is a very clever girl.
I agree that she is able to solve the problems, but she missed school.
But do you remember what she is doing every time we see her?
What if she has some difficulty doing these exercises?
Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Rest is critical to life and work and a positive attitude towards rest needs to be maintained, for enough rest is significant to our body and mind while a lack of adequate rest, as well as misleading attitudes to rest, will do great harm to our health.
Rest is vital to our ability to function at our best. Recent news stories report that scientists are learning surprising things about the importance of sleep. There is enough evidence suggesting that rest will refresh us, enabling our body and mind to work efficiently. Besides, rest is important for more than that; it is helpful in setting appropriate goals and deciding what goals to attain first. Those who are caught up in extremely busy lives lack the time to think about what they are doing and to make objective decisions, which blocks the maximization of their potential.
On the contrary, lack of adequate rest damages brain function, so much so that sleep experts have been able to measure drops in IQ in patients who are short of sleep. Other studies have presented a negative effect on body movements in sleep-wanting subjects. It should not, therefore, be a surprise that the California Highway Patrol has stated that sleep-wanting drivers are as great a threat to road safety as are drunk drivers.
However, rest is widely misunderstood by some people. Instead of sleep, they go to pubs and clubs and claim that this kind of entertaining is rest. For example, what they call social drinking or having a smoke with friends. Nowadays, the economy forces people to drink and gamble for the sake of the circles one moves in. This is what fools claim thoughtlessly that it’s restful. The truth is that rest means not using our labor both physically and mentally, even spiritually.
We need to rest correctly and sufficiently; otherwise, tiredness and illness will occur. Without sufficient rest, good work is impossible.Rest is critical; it is not an end in itself.