Travel can be fun, but when you have to move in a disability, getting from point A to point B can become frustrating. Airlines know this and do their part to make air travel as comfortable as they can for every passenger.

Here are some tips and information on what major airlines do for travelers who need extra support when flying.

United

When flying with United, call the airline's disability desk (1-800-228-2744) 48 hours in advance of travel if you'll be traveling with an assistive device so they can ensure your device can be used in-flight. Any special needs you have should be mentioned when you make your reservation so the airline staff can do their best to help you. This includes the need for assistance getting to your gate, boarding, getting to your seat, deplaning or connecting.

Delta

Depending on the type and age of the aircraft, accessible features of Delta's aircraft include movable armrests of seats, wheelchair space, on-board wheelchairs and, on larger airplanes, wheelchair-accessible washrooms. Depending on the aircraft, they also provide seats with a movable aisle armrest for passengers needing to transfer from a boarding wheelchair to their own seat more easily.

US Airways

When traveling with US Airways, if you have a mobility disability and need special seating, call 800-428-4322 at least 24 hours before your scheduled departure to ensure your needs are met. Besides seats with movable armrests, the airline also provides seats with more legroom for passengers with a immobilized leg. The airline can also provide an on-board wheelchair but let them know 48 hours in advance if you need one.

Southwest

If you're flying with Southwest and you need a wheelchair at the airport, or need other special assistance, it's best to inform the airline in advance, or as soon as you arrive at the airport so your requests can be fulfilled as quickly as possible. On each aircraft, a small wheelchair that can fit down the aircraft aisle is available at every gate and can be used if you need help getting into your seat.

1.Who is this passage intended for?

A. Those who has a disability.    B. Travelers who have difficulty in moving.

C. Travelers who become sick on the plane.    D. Travelers who are poor in health.

2.Which airline could be the best choice for someone with a leg that can’t bend?

A. United    B. Delta

C. US Airways    D. Southwest.

3.You are most likely to find this passage________.

A. on the internet    B. at the airport

C. on the plane    D. in the newspaper

I was selfish as a teenager. I usually spent my time thinking about myself and taking care of my own needs. I let my older brother do most of the work around the house until he left for college. I let my Mom and Dad worry about our bills and problems while I read books, played, and lost myself in my own imagination. This didn’t change even when I went to college either. I studied hard but only to make my own life better. Even when I started to explore my faith and spirituality, it was only to increase my own happiness.

I married after graduation and decided to start a family. Of course, I had no idea what hard knocks reality had in store for my selfish soul. Soon I found myself unemployed, deeply in debt, and with a new baby on the way. I found out that life has little sympathy for spoiled people. In fact, all of the struggles I was going through were beating the selfishness slowly out of me.

Still, I didn’t give up on happiness. I knew that there must be a way to find it. I finally realized, however, that it had to include more than just my own needs, wants, and desires. The answer began to make itself clear one night shortly after my baby boy was born. I got a bottle and held him in my arms. As I was feeding him I looked down and saw his big, innocent, trusting eyes. I smiled and talked to him. Then he smiled and I could feel my heart growing, expanding with love. I felt such peace and joy. At that moment I had a hint of the truth: it is by growing our hearts with love that we find our happiness.

Carolyn Arends wrote: "The more people you let into your heart, the bigger your heart gets. The more love you get, the more love you have to give. It just keeps growing." So, keep loving, keep living and keep caring. Keep growing your heart today, tomorrow, and always.

1.What do we know about the author from the first paragraph?

A. He often helped his brother with housework.

B. He studied hard for his family.

C. He put his own needs above others’.

D. He was concerned about his family.

2.What did the author realize after he suffered in life?

A. Spoiled people can’t survive the hardship of life.

B. Life is cruel to spoiled people.

C. Spoiled people are never happy in life.

D. Selfishness is helpful.

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A. The author loved kids.

B. The author often fed his baby.

C. The author realized the importance of happiness.

D. When caring for his baby, the author got inspired.

4.Which can be the best title of the passage?

A. Loving Others , a Way to Happiness

B. The Elder One Grows, the More He Gets.

C. Help Others , Help Oneself

D. Keep Growing to Live a Happy Life

假定你是李华。英国交换生Lucy 发现红色在中国使用很广泛，她想更多地了解我国对红色的使用情况。请根据提出给她写一封信，内容包括：

1.我们对红色的理解 2.经常使用红色的场合3.不宜使用红色的场合

注意：1.词数100左右2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯3.信的开头和结尾已为你写好。

Dear Lucy,

I’m Li Hua _______________________________________________________________________________

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Yours,

Li Hua

单词拼写，每空一词

1.As an ordinary person, my idea may never be measured or _______(欣赏)。

2.She has _____(射杀) the wolf wounded.

3._______(承认) that you can’t remember someone’s name can actually make people relaxed.

4.have kept a collection of ____（纪念品）of my holidays for a beautiful memory.

5.Don’t drink drinks _____(含有) alcohol.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I have never been to a cooking school. I learned cooking from my mother because she was really interesting in teaching me how to cook. The main reason for this was because my mother didn’t know how to cook something when she got married.

My grandmother never allowed her stay in the kitchen. At the age of 25, my mother started cooking, it was very hard for her. Therefore, she had to take a few cooking class to prepare our meals. After having that experience, she has decided to teach me how to cook.

I remember I always help my mother when I was with her in the kitchen enjoy cooking. Nowadays, I am thank for that experience.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

All the customers who went to the new supermarket had one strong wish to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay 1. her shopping, for the notice inside the entrance 2.(say), “Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This may be your lucky day!”

For several weeks, Mrs. Edwards hoped to be one of the lucky 3. (housewife) like many of her friends. She never gave up hope. Cupboards in her kitchen 4. (fill) with things that she didn’t need at all. She dreamed of the day 5. the manager of the supermarket would say to her with a smile, “ Madam, this is your lucky day. Everything in your basket is free.”

One Friday afternoon, after she had finished shopping and had taken it to her car, she found that she 6. (forget) to buy some sugar. She rushed 7. to the supermarket, got the sugar and went towards the cash desk. As she did 8., she saw the manager of the supermarket come up to her and said, “ 9. (congratulate)! You are the 10. (lucky) among all the customers this week and everything in your basket is free!”

Long long ago, there was a small village．This village had a ___ tradition．At the beginning of every year, any boy who had reached the age of majority (成年) was given land and money to build a home．The boy had to _____his home before winter．If his home failed to endure the cold weather in winter, the villagers could not______ him in any way．

One ___, Paul and Marc reached their majority．They ____ their land and money and decided to search nearby villages for ideas on building their homes．In each village, they found the nicest ______and talked to the owners．Each owner gladly offered _____．

After Marc saw several homes, he _____the best ideas and went back to his own land．Paul, ____, continued collecting more ideas．Soon he had so many great ideas that he began to ____ some of them．But he always believed he could find even better ideas in the next village．

Marc began building his home．He had several false starts, ____  his home gradually rose from his land．By fall, Marc had finished his home．It wasn't perfect，but it was strong and he could ____it later. Paul enjoyed all the beautiful homes and____with home owners．The first snow came and Paul, realizing he was running out of time, _____back to his land．He built the best home he could in the time he had, but it was___．The first winter storm destroyed his home and he froze to_____．The villagers mourned for him．

Marc____  the winter．Each year, Marc searched for other good ideas he could use to make his own home look better．He became a leader in the village, _____a family, and lived a happy, content life．

We all build and improve our own mental homes．It’s _____ and fun for us to search for ideas from other mental home owners, but we only improve our own mental home if we actually  ___ the best ideas．

1.A. strange    B. hopeful    C. literary    D. cultural

2.A. find    B. make    C. complete    D. buy

3.A. help    B. encourage    C. scold    D. persuade

4.A. winter    B. summer    C. autumn    D. spring

5.A. exchanged    B. received    C. recognized    D. advice

6.A. girls    B. jobs    C. houses    D. presents

7.A. rooms    B. drinks    C. attention    D. advice

8.A. expected    B. gathered    C. created    D. understood

9.A. similarly    B. finally    C. however    D. furthermore

10.A. forget    B. believe    C. replace    D. doubt

11.A. because    B. although    C. but    D. so

12.A. repair    B. rebuild    C. sell    D. improve

13.A. conversations    B. achievements    C. struggles    D. arguments

14.A. drove    B. rushed    C. flew    D. moved

15.A. weak    B. funny    C. small    D. amazing

16.A. blindness    B. death    C. sadness    D. illness

17.A. experienced    B. loved    C. survived    D. spent

18.A. brought    B. earned    C. contacted    D. raised

19.A. slow    B. easy    C. dangerous    D. special

20.A. realize    B. bring    C. collect    D. apply

Many students have to live with roommates while going to school or university. Having a roommate can be one of the best experiences, or easily one of the worst. 1.

Follow these five tips to avoid the common mistakes that make good roommate relationships worse.

Talk things out. 2. If something happens, sit down with your roommates and have a face-to-face conversation. Complaining about your roommates behind their backs creates nothing but awkward situations and general unhappiness.

3. Some roommates become the best of friends, and some don’t. Don’t put pressure on yourself or your roommate to reach this level, especially when you first meet. Remember, you are trying to make a new friend, not scare your roommate away. And if your roommate doesn’t end up being your best friend, there is no need to worry about it.

Clean up after yourself. Or at least, keep your mess on your side. 4. But being considerate with where you put your own stuff will help you avoid the arguments.

Ask before you take. This applies to food, clothes, supplies and anything else that you don’t own. 5. Even if you both agree to share everything you should still ask.

A. Don’t expect to be best friends.

B. Communication is of vital importance.

C. You don’t need to keep the room clean and organized all the time.

D. Rooms can be really easy for a mess to pile up.

E. If you want to have a good relationship with your roommate, it all starts with you.

F. Not all roommates can become your best friends.

G. Show your roommate that you have respect for his or her belongings.

Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri(MU) researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient.

“To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density(密度)”，said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. “The radioisotope(放射性同位素) battery can provide power density that is much lighter than chemical batteries.”

Kwon and his research team have been working on building a small nuclear battery, presently the size and thickness of a penny, intended to power various micro / nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS). Although nuclear batteries can cause concerns, Kwon said they are safe.

“People hear the word ‘nuclear’ and think of something very dangerous,” he said, “However, nuclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety of devices, such as pace-makers, space satellites and underwater systems.”

His new idea is not only in the battery’s size, but also in its semiconductor(半导体). Kwon’s battery uses a liquid semiconductor rather than a solid semiconductor.

“The key part of using a radioactive battery is that when you harvest the energy, part of the radiation energy can damage the lattice structure(晶体结构) of the solid semiconductor,” Kwon said, “By using a liquid semiconductor, we believe we can minimize that problem.”

Together with J. David Robertson, chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor, Kwon is working to build and test the battery. In the future, they hope to increase the battery’s power, shrink its size and try with various other materials. Kwon said that battery could be thinner than the thickness of human hair.

1.Which of the following is true of Jae Kwon?

A. He teaches chemistry at MU.

B. He developed a chemical battery.

C. He is working on a nuclear energy source.

D. He made a breakthrough in computer engineering.

2.Jae Kwon gave examples in Paragraph 4_________.

A. to show chemical batteries are widely applied.

B. to indicate nuclear batteries can be safely used.

C. to describe a nuclear-powered system.

D. to introduce various energy sources.

3.Liquid semiconductor is used to _________.

A. get rid of the radioactive waste    B. test the power of nuclear batteries.

C. decrease the size of nuclear batteries    D. reduce the damage to lattice structure.

Christopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病), Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that weren't bad enough, he had no health insurance.

After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he'd better find a way to fight back. He left Canton, Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar , and created diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones—a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.

Jason Swencki’s son, Kody, was diagnosed with type diabetes at six. Father and son visit the online children's forums(论坛) together most evenings. "Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over," says Swencki, one of the site's volunteers. "They know what he's going through, so he doesn't feel alone."

Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages.

These days, Thomas's main focus is his charity（慈善机构）, Fight It, which provides medicines and supplies to people—225 to date—who can't afford a diabetic's huge expenses. Fight-it.org has raised about $23,000—in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.

Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while still doing his full-time job waiting tables. "Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure," says Bentley Gubar,  one of Rockstar's original members. "But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now."

1.Which of the following is true of Christopher Thomas?

A. He needs to go to the doctor every day.    B. He studies the leading cause of diabetes

C. He has a positive attitude to this disease.    D. He encourages diabetics by writing articles.

2.Diabeitcrockstar.com was created for _________.

A. diabetics to communicate    B. volunteers to find jobs

C. children to amuse themselves    D. rock stars to share resources.

3.According to the text, Kody ______.

A. feel lonely because of his illness    B. benefits from diabeticrockstar.com

C. helps create the online kid’s forums    D. writes children’s stories online