Below is a passages adapted from a website.
Tayka Hotel De Sal
Where: Tahua,
Bolivia 
How much: About $95 a night
Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt---including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.
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Green Magic Nature Resort
Where: Vythiri,
India 
How much: About $240 a night
Why it’s cool: Taking a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window---there is no glass!---you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy(罩蓬). Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast---the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.
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Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
Where: Cottonwood,
Idaho 
How much: $92 a night
Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side.You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft(阁楼)in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant (消防栓)outside.
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Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Where: Ayvali,
Turkey 
How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.
Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer. (Don’t worry---there is heat in winter.)
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Treebones Resort
Where: California,
America 
How much: $100 a night
Why it’s cool: You can sleep in a “room” any night, but how often do you get the chance to sleep in a yurt. What’s a yurt? Good question. Yurts are the name given to guest rooms at the Treebones Resort. These spaces provide all of the accessibility to nature you’d enjoy in a tent, but with all the comforts of a cabin. In one of sixteen yurts, you will doze off(打盹儿) while gazing at the stars that can be seen through a sky dome.
1.What is the main purpose of this passage?
A.To sell the hotels.
B.To attract guests.
C.To offer good service.
D.To get popular.
2.If you want to experience a thrilling life, you’d better go to ____________.
A.Treebones Resort
B.Gamirasu Cave Hotel
C.Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
D.Green Magic Nature Resort
3.Sweet Willy is the name of ____________.
A.a doghouse for the family pet
B.a thirty-foot-tall family dog
C.the building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
D.the guest rooms in Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
4.Which of the following words can best describe all the five hotels in the passage?
A.Unique. B.Ordinary. C.Costly. D.Natural.
It’s nearly noon on a Saturday and you can’t believe it: your teenager is still in bed, sleeping away. But before you wake him up---mumbling to yourself that you can’t believe what a lazybones he is---you should know that he probably needs all the zzzs he can get.
As much as nine hours of sleep a night, in fact. Furthermore, teens’ circadian rhythms (i.e., processes that occur once a day) mean that young people would rather stay up past midnight and rise after 9 a.m. The result? Many teens stay up late, drag themselves out of bed early for school and try to make up the sleep debt on the weekends---or in class!
“There’s a biological reason why teens stay up late and want to sleep late,” says Dr. Stan Kutcher, the Sun Life Chair of Adolescent Mental Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax. “Their natural sleep-wake cycle changes as part of the maturation process. And because of changes in their social activities, recovering from sleep debt is more problematic.”
Teens need extra sleep for several reasons. First, their brains are changing. “The brain is reorganizing itself, laying down new pathways. What we’re seeing is a relationship between brain redevelopment and an increased need for sleep,” says Kutcher. As well, growth hormones are released during sleep, so adequate sleep is crucial for adolescents’ physical development. In addition, everything adolescents have learned in school that day is being processed and locked into long-term memory during sleep. Sufficient sleep also plays a key role in overall physical health. The immune system, for example, needs deep sleep to become and remain robust(healthy).
Staying up late on school nights means that, on average, teens get between six and a half and seven hours of sleep a night---about two hours less than they need. As a result, many either doze off in class or have trouble concentrating. Some of the behavioural problems and irritability in teens can be linked directly to sleep deprivation(损失), Kutcher says.
Then there’s the breakfast issue. Dr. Carlyle Smith, a sleep researcher and a psychology professor at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., adds that many teens simply cannot tolerate food when they first wake up, so skipping breakfast becomes another factor in reduced alertness in class. The most obvious solution to the teen sleep problem is to have school start later in the day, but initiatives(积极性) toward this across the country have gone nowhere, Smith says, mainly because of costs and resistance from school boards and teachers.
So for now, just sympathize with your teens. Encourage them to go to bed, if not early, then at least at a regular time, so they won’t develop insomnia from erratic(不稳定的) schedules. Warn them not to have too many caffeinated drinks before bed. And don’t let sleeping away the weekend become an issue to fight over. Schedule family activities to take place later in the day on weekends and let them sleep in. “If you want your kids to grow and remember stuff, let them sleep,” says Smith. “It’s not laziness. Their brains are working really, really hard.”
1.The word “zzzs” (Paragraph 1) most probably means __________.
A.food B.sleep C.energy D.blame
2.What causes teenagers to be less sleepy late at night and more sleepy early in the morning?
A.Caffeinated drinks.
B.Too much family activities.
C.Circadian rhythms.
D.Too much homework.
3.How many reason why teens need extra sleep are mentioned in Paragraph 4?
A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.
4.One of the reasons why many teenagers fail to have better performances in class is that __________.
A.teenagers go to bed early and sleep late
B.teenagers stay up late and get up late
C.teenagers participate in too many social activities at night
D.teenagers skip breakfast because of sleeping in
5.The author wrote this article to __________.
A.advise parents to let sleeping teenagers lie
B.explain why teenagers often sleep late
C.state schools should start late in the day
D.warn teenagers not to drink coffee before bed
Early this morning, I got up to make a batch of Rice Krispie treats(大米花糖) for my neighbor across the hall. She 21 greets me when we see each other, and her little boy, who’s now 4, won’t talk to me either.
Last Monday, she called the firefighters when a pan I’d forgotten on the stove caused my flat to 22 . I had gone for a walk, but when I came home the street in front of our apartment was 23 by a police car, a fire truck and an ambulance! 24 I saw them, I remembered the pan!
I felt safe knowing that 25 we don’t get along, my neighbor had done the right thing and didn’t blame me. Hence, the Rice Krispie treats.
Last Christmas, my neighbor revealed that she had been a little angry about me because of a(n) __26___ four years ago. I had apologized and asked if there was anything I could do to ___27___ our relationship, but she would not accept my 28 .
Her direct refusal really 29 me. After that, I decided I’d just leave her be—a relationship 30 two to work.
So, you see, I was really scared she was going to refuse my offer again, 31 me standing on her 32 holding my plate of treats. Then, I reminded myself of how good I had felt the day before when I’d done some random acts of ___33___ after telling myself: “ Feel the fear, and do it 34 !”
After placing the Rice Krispie treats on a beautiful plate, I opened my apartment door and met her in the hall way. I said:“I just wanted to tell you how 35 I am that you were paying attention on Monday.” I held the plate 36 her, explaining these were very sweet American treats and that she 37 try to see whether she and her family liked them. She took the plate and we talked a bit about 38 she’d become aware of the smoke in my flat before parting ways.
Back at home I 39 a “ happy dance”, because I had been kind even though I wasn’t sure it would be appreciated. I want to be able to be kind without expecting people to 40 in a certain way.
1. A.warmly B.occasionally C.barely D.frequently
2. A.go up B.smoke up C.burn up D.tear up
3. A.filled B.surrounded C.blocked D.taken
4. A.The instant B.For a minute C.That moment D.At that time
5. A.as though B.in case C.now that D.even though
6. A.affair B.incident C.deed D.event
7. A.improve B.build C.reunite D.establish
8. A.advice B.suggestion C.apology D.request
9. A.shocked B.saddened C.amused D.amazed
10. A.takes B.costs C.covers D.makes
11. A.having B.leaving C.keeping D.remaining
12. A.home B.hall C.apartment D.doorstep
13. A.kindness B.happiness C.politeness D.willingness
14. A.some way B.anyway C.somehow D.somewhat
15. A.kind B.safe C.happy D.grateful
16. A.at B.on C.towards D.over
17. A.could B.must C.would D.need
18. A.when B.what C.how D.where
19. A.performed B.learned C.did D.played
20. A.receive B.respond C.reflect D.realize
---- Hello, John. I haven’t seen you since we were at university.
---- ________. It’s been a long time.
A.That’s all right. B.All right. C.That’s right. D.Right enough.
I have kept that photo ______ I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of the happy days in New York.
A.which B.where C.whether D.when
Experts say walking is one of the best ways for a person to _______ healthy.
A.maintain B.stay C.live D.preserve
