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Tricks to Finding the Cheapest Flights
Travel can be a lifesaver. The right vacation at the right time can refresh your body and mind. But ticket prices are sharply on the rise, many have written off travel as too expensive. However, with a few tricks and a little research, there are still lots of great deals to be had on airline tickets.
Early Bird Gets the Deal. Travel experts say that there are certain times of day when more deals are available. Airfares can change three times a day as airlines adjust their prices to fill up flights. Early morning is when the fares tend to be lowest, but it is a good idea to check every five hours to track prices as they change throughout the day. Also, it’s a good idea to check again at 5 pm when the airlines are trying hardest to fill empty seats.
What Wouldn’t a Business Traveler Do? Most business travelers fly on Mondays and Fridays, so Tuesday and Wednesday are the best days. Airlines will usually lower their prices on these days to aggressively try and fill empty seats.
Avoid the Crowds. Fly to popular places at unpopular times. The slowest time of the year for travel is in the Fall between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Again, to try and fill more empty seats, the airlines will lower prices to get people to fly during this time of the year.
Right Place, “Wrong” Time? By flying to popular destinations at unpopular times, you can secure the best prices from travel companies and airlines. Here’s where flexibility in your planning can pay off. Going to the airline websites and planning your vacation around the best ticket prices offered can result in a fun, cost-effective vacation and maybe widen your horizons to a place you might never have considered before.
Package Deals. Many times the best deals on airfare can be found as part of a package rate. Most travel sites have package rates available and they are definitely worth a look. Often times, the entire package (hotel, airfare, rental car, meals, tours ect) is cheaper than just the plane ticket on another site. These deals are especially good on last minute bookings.
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2.When may the airfares be the lowest of the day? (回答词数2个)
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3.When do business travelers usually fly? (回答词数2~4个)
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4.How can you find the cheapest flight tickets if you plan to travel to popular places? (回答词数3个)
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5.What does the entire package include? (回答词数不超过8个)
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根据中文补全句子，并将答案写在相应位置。
1.我不仅听说过那位女艺术家，我还亲自采访过她。
Not only ________________ the young woman artist, but I also interviewed her in person.
2.寻找答案，请查阅书的最后一页。
Please ________________ the last page of the book for answers.
3.她对自己过去一年所做的一切非常满意。
She ________________ what she has done in the past year.
4.虽然计算机有很多优势，但替代不了人。
Computers ________________ people though they have many advantages.
5.吉姆将在春节期间来中国，为的是更多地了解中国的传统文化。
Jim will come to China during the Spring Festival ________________ Chinese traditional culture.
6.多亏有你们的帮忙，那位受伤的司机被及时送到医院。
________________, the injured driver was able to be sent to hospital and treated in time.
7.别在太阳下晒太久，你会被晒伤。
________________ for too long. You'll get burnt.
请根据句意，选择方框中的单词，用其正确的形式填入下面的句子的空白处，并将答案写在相应位置。
absorb, intend, accuse, approach, amuse, conclude, thorough |
1.This dictionary is __________ for senior high students.
2.It’s too cold for children to play outside today, so they have to __________ themselves indoors.
3.Tony __________ Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek!
4.Once my neighbour next door __________ me of playing the piano too loudly in my room.
5.Having been __________ cleaned, the garden looked more beautiful than ever before.
6.It seems reasonable to __________ that people’s behaviour is influenced by what they see on TV.
7.He was so __________ in reading a novel that he didn’t notice his teacher coming up to him.
The Beagle Brigade
When returning to the United States from a trip abroad, passengers will have their baggage inspected at U.S. airports by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beagle Brigade, a team of beagles and their human partners. Working with their human partners, the beagles search for agricultural products carrying diseases and pests which are likely to infect American agriculture.
An orange or apple, for example, might harbor a Mediterranean fruit fly. Ham could carry a disease such as cholera. These and other pests could do harm to farmers’ crops. “Once we introduce something that is not part of the environment, there may not be any controls for it in the environment,” notes USDA’s Lisa Davis at the National Dog Detector Training Center in Orlando, Florida. “The best thing for us to do is to prevent it from coming across the border and spreading.”
When a beagle smells food smells, it signals its partner by sitting there. The human partners then investigate. When the dog is right--which happens 90 percent of the time—it gets something to eat.
“The dog is not out there working,” explains Davis. “It’s out there playing. It’s a game to the dog.” The partners give the beagles plenty of food and loving. They make sure they get first-class medical attention, too. When the dogs finally retire after 9 to 11 years, the USDA finds caring homes for them. It’s a dog’s life indeed!
Their people partners work and study somewhat harder. As specialized quarantine(检疫) officers, most hold degrees in the biological sciences or related sciences.
How well does the Beagle Brigade do its job? “On the average,” notes Davis, “each year our 54 teams prevent around 75,000, restricted(限制的) items.” Since even one infected item could cause widespread destruction, that’s a great result for America’s agricultural environment.
1.The beagles at the airport in the USA are used to __________.
A. conduct the check on foreign passengers’ baggage
B. stop the local products from being taken abroad
C. help inspect the baggage brought from abroad
D. keep their people partners safe
2.What will the beagle do when it finds a possible food product?
A. Signal by sitting next to it.
B. Bark and run around it.
C. Draw it to its partner.
D. Play a game.
3.How is the last paragraph mainly developed?
A. By listing the restricted food.
B. By analyzing the result.
C. By providing the facts.
D. By using examples.
4.What is the author’s attitude towards the use of beagles?
A. Curious. B. Uninterested.
C. Doubtful. D. Positive.
David Cameron mistakenly left his eight-year-old daughter in a pub by herself when he drove off without her, as was reported last night.
The Prime Minister(首相)--who had been enjoying Sunday drinks with his family near Chequers--only realized his eldest daughter was missing when he arrived back at his official country house.
The Camerons had been drinking at the Plough Inn, in Cadsden, Buckinghamshire, with their three children and two other families. As they were to leave, Nancy went off to the toilet without telling them.
The Prime Minister was driven back to Chequers, which is two miles from the pub, with protection officers in one car. Mr Cameron thought that Nancy was in the car with his wife, while she thought that their daughter had jumped in with the Prime Minister.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister last night said he was worried when he realized what had happened. They later confirmed that Mr Cameron returned to the pub to pick up Nancy.
“Thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well,” the spokesman said. “The Prime Minister went down straight away to get her.”
When Mr Cameron arrived back at the pub, he found his daughter happily helping the owner of the pub. It is understood she had been left by herself for 15 minutes.
The spokesman refused to discuss whether Mr Cameron had drunk alcohol. “He had gone with friends at lunchtime, with a number of families with children, and they left in various different vehicles. As you know, the Prime Minister is a very busy man but he always tries to live as normal a life as possible with his family.” he said.
Last night a pub “insider” said: “You’d have thought that someone would have done a headcount or something.”
It’s not like you can look up David Cameron in the phonebook and then ring to say you’ve left your daughter behind. It’s frightening that the Prime Minister of Britain can forget something so important as his own daughter.
1.What can we learn about the Camerons?
A. Mr Cameron drove home alone.
B. Nancy was left at the pub by chance.
C. Mrs Cameron drove to see her friends.
D. The children went to the pub for a party.
2.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. The British can telephone the Camerons easily.
B. The Prime Minister has the design to live a normal life.
C. The Prime Minister’s drunk driving annoyed the public.
D. The British were shocked at the news about the Camerons.
3.Where is the passage probably taken from?
A. A story book. B. A biography.
C. A magazine. D. A newspaper.
When I was a kid, I was just like every other kid. As usual, I liked being with friends and having fun. But I didn’t like school much. I didn’t like the rule of learning, studying, memorizing, etc. Too much work. As I got into high school, things changed for me. I started reading a lot of books. Books taught me about life and helped me learn about the world. I read around 30 books during each senior year. I learned to love reading then.
Little did I know at that time that I would write books by myself. I’ve written 7 books since then. One book I wrote, Powerful Attitudes, was a huge success within a network marketing company in the USA.
When I was 17 years old, I took about a dozen guitar lessons. I fell in love with guitar music no matter if it is blues, rock, flamenco or classical. I’ve attended concerts and have heard some great guitarists through the years. Recently, I bought myself a piano and began to learn to play it. I’ve made great progress. My knowledge of music and playing guitar has helped me a lot in learning the piano.
Last week, I employed a Chinese teacher to teach me Chinese. I’ve learned about 200 words in my first week. I’m inspired and motivated to learn. In fact, I feel a bit obsessed, thinking of learning Chinese. It’s like a mountain I want to climb and conquer. I’m 56 years old and my love to learn it runs deep in my heart, mind and soul.
What I certainly learned while growing up is to love learning. I never want to stop learning. I never want to stop studying people, life, processes and new things. I think the openness of admitting what you don’t know, makes you a good learner. You never lie to yourself or to others about your knowledge and experience. I have the attitude that if I don’t know something, I will learn to know it.
1.What can we learn about the author from the passage?
A. He fell in love with reading when he was a child.
B. One of his books enjoyed a lot of success.
C. He began to love music recently.
D. He is good at Chinese.
2.What does the underlined word “obsessed” mean?
A. Absorbed. B. Satisfied.
C. Concerned. D. Difficult.
3.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Learning skills. B. Learning methods.
C. Learning attitudes. D. Learning experience.
