TYPING
This course is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their typing.
The course is not common. You are tested in the first class and begin practicing at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours.
Bring your own paper.
Course fee:$125 Materials:$25
Two hours each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks. This course is taught by a number of qualified business education teachers who have successfully taught typing courses before.
UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can't do and how to use them.
Course fee:$ 75 Jan 4,7,11,14,18, Wed.& Sat.9~11:30 a.m. Equipment fee:S10
David is Professor of Computer Science at Beijing University. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer field.
STOP SMOKING
Do you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop and failed? Now is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.
Course fee: $ 30 Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23 Mon. 2～5 p. m.
Dr John is a practicing psychologist who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking.
1.How long will the STOP SMOKING course last?
A.For four weeks. B.For three hours. C.For a week. D.For twelve weeks.
2.If you want to learn about computer and the same time you want to improve your typing, now much will you pay for it?
A.$200 B.$150 C.$235 D.$180
3.What’s the special difference between the TYPING course and the other two?
A.It takes less time. B.You will pay less money.
C.You will take a rest after a course. D.People with different skills levels may learn at different speed.
More than 95 percent of people in the world have phones, today, according to the United Nations. People use _______to make phone calls and send messages to communicate with others. Now we _______ write letters. But a TV show, Letters Alive(《见字如面》),is_______back this old habit.
Letters Alive gets its _______ from a UK program with a similar name. They have something in common. The shows both invite famous actors and actresses, _______ there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, it is just one person reading a letter. Since it has been on in December, Letters Alive has been _______praised.
The letters were written by people from different_______in history. For example, once they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her brother who is younger than her in 1941.
The letter shows that Xiao Hong _______ her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.
“Every letter opens_______world for us” said Guan Zhengwen, the director of the TV show.
It seems that we can __________the real lives and feelings of the writers. __________, many people said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today’s TV.
Apart from letters alive, some other __________TV shows have also been accepted by Chinese audiences. They __________ Chinese Poetry Conference《中国诗词大会》, a classical Chinese poetry competition, and Readers, a program that__________people to read poems and articles they like or wrote. “This means that our audiences not only looking for entertainment like gossip(八卦)and eye catching games,” reported China Daily. Cultural __________and true feelings are the keys to winning praise.
1.A.computers B.TVs C.radios D.phones
2.A.often B.always C.hardly D.never
3.A.returning B.getting C.bringing D.taking
4.A.idea B.book C.letter D.news
5.A.and B.but C.because D.or
6.A.wildly B.carefully C.clearly D.widely
7.A.grades B.times C.classes D.families
8.A.thought B.treated C.missed D.praised
9.A.the other B.other C.others D.another
10.A.make B.pass C.experience D.get
11.A.Anyway B.But C.Otherwise D.So
12.A.traditional B.cultural C.fashionable D.humorous
13.A.include B.have C.say D.report
14.A.invite B.inviting C.invited D.invites
15.A.price B.cost C.values D.worth
— I love the Internet. I’ve come to know many friends on the net.
— _____. Few of them would become your real friends.
A.I can’t agree more B.I’m pleased to know that C.Never mind D.That’s not the case
— Need I finish my homework today, Mum?
— _____. You will be busy and have no time to it tomorrow.
A.Yes, you need B.Yes, you must C.Yes, you have to D.No, you needn’t
—Lily, I know you’re confident about getting that job, but remember “_______”. So why not send your application forms to a few more companies?
—Sounds good.
A.don’t put your eggs in one basket B.the early bird catches the worm
C.actions speak louder than words D.something is better than nothing
Life is about waiting for the right moment_____, because everyone is in his own TIME ZONE.
A.acting B.to act C.act D.acts
