◆The Big Cake Show comes to the WestPoint Arena in Exeter, England, March 21-22. Hopefully, cakes of all sizes will be on sale and on show. An impressive list of famous people sharing their great knowledge and skill includes Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood and Gregg Wallace. Tickets, from ￡12, are available online (bigcakeshow.com).
◆From January 17 to March 8, RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, England has some special guests to brighten the winter: beautiful butterflies. The Glasshouse introduces a group of butterflies from other countries feeding on fruit and the juice-rich plants of the Exotic Zone. Tickets for adults are ￡13.20, for children are ￡6.60. For a family with 2 adults and 2 children, they should pay ￡32.75 in total. For groups of more than 10 adults, each should pay ￡10.80 (rhs. org.uk/wisley).
◆The week-long London Wine Week starts from May 18. Buy a ￡5 wristband to qualify for a pocket-sized guidebook and discounted wine around the capital. Partnering with London' s best bars and restaurants, we will be organizing events such as master classes and meet-the -maker time, plus offering discounts to wristband wearers (londonwineweek.com).
◆The World Shakespeare Festival begins in April, with everything from foreign productions of Shakespearean plays at Shakespeare's Globe to Shakespearean plays at the Royal Opera House. Plays will run until the end of the year in London, Birmingham, Newcastle and Gateshead. And there' s a programme of events such as director talks and family workshops. Prices start from ￡60 (worldshakespearefestival.org. uk).
1.We can infer that Paul Hollywood is most likely to be ________.
A. a ticket dealerB. the cake show host
C. the event organizerD. a professional cook
2.If you want to buy wine at lower prices, you should ________.
A. buy a wristband first
B. pay ￡5 for a discount card
C. eat in the specific restaurants
D. obtain a guidebook
3.Which of the following activities lasts for the longest time?
A. The Big Cake Show.
B. The World Shakespeare Festival.
C. Butterflies in the Glasshouse.
D. The London Wine Week.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A Pennsylvania patrol (巡逻) officer rescued（营救）a German shepherd (牧羊犬) from a car accident in South Londonberry.
Since the rescue, a photo of patrol officer Nick Ague carrying the ________ that his fellow police officers posted to Facebook has got nearly 4,500 likes and tons of ________ comments(评论).
"Amazing people still do exist (存在)!” one user ________.
The act of heroism began on Aug. 11, when Ague heard on the radio that there had been a car ________ nearby, and that two dogs involved in the crash had fled (逃离) from the ________.
"I heard other people say they saw a German shepherd ________," Ague told ABC News.com. "Based on the location I could ________ the dog was heading west."
So Ague and a few fellow ________ set out to find the dog, who they later learned was named Mya. They flagged Mya down, ________ every time they stopped their patrol cars, she would run from them. They called Mya's ________, and when she arrived on the scene, Mya ________ stopped running. And then the dog wouldn't move at all.
That was when Ague realized something was ________. He quickly realized that it wasn't that the dog wouldn't move but ________ not move.
"The dog was not moving because the skin on her feet was hanging off ________ the distance she ran," Ague explained. "She ran two miles from the crash on hot asphalt (柏油).
"When I realized that's why she couldn't walk," he said, "the ________ thing I could think of doing was to pick her up."
So he ________ Mya up, who he said weighed around 75 pounds, and ________ her about 100 yards to her owner’s car.
Mya's owner, Megan Smith, said that Mya's feet were already healed(痊愈), and she was now walking ________.
Ague, who has a German shepherd of his own and described himself as "a real animal ________", said he never thought of doing anything besides ________ Mya.
1.A. manB. babyC. catD. dog
2.A. interestingB. admiringC. shortD. helpful
3.A. wroteB. arguedC. criedD. doubted
4.A. engineB. accidentC. driverD. park
5.A. roomB. zooC. sceneD. hospital
6.A. runningB. climbingC. swimmingD. sleeping
7.A. declareB. hopeC. imagineD. tell
8.A. doctorsB. officers
C. reportersD. operators
9.A. unlessB. sinceC. butD. though
10.A. ownerB. trainerC. sellerD. leader
11.A. nearlyB. reallyC. finallyD. secretly
12.A. stupidB. funnyC. simpleD. wrong
13.A. shouldB. mustC. mightD. could
14.A. in spite ofB. because of
C. in addition toD. instead of
15.A. lastB. otherC. sameD. only
16.A. liftedB. gaveC. dressedD. waked
17.A. carriedB. pulledC. pushedD. drove
18.A. carefullyB. normallyC. calmlyD. regularly
19.A. keeperB. researcherC. dealerD. lover
20.A. curingB. findingC. rescuingD. leaving
—Sorry, Sir. I can’t remember all the new words we learn every day.
—________. Practice more.
A. I’m afraid notB. It’s hard to say
C. You are not aloneD. All right
It is hard for us Chinese students to learn spoken English well in a family, in which ________ of the parents speaks the language.
A. noneB. neitherC. bothD. each
The company won the bid for the project by saying that it would do the cleaning up afterwards ________.
A. for freeB. in chargeC. in controlD. on average
He insisted that the problem discussed at the meeting ________ right away.
A. be carried out
B. was carried out
C. would be carried out
D. was to carry out
