Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.
What to Expect
The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least Once a week. You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.
Accommodation Zones
Homestays are located in London mainly in Zones 2.3 and 4of the transport system. Most hosts do not live in the town center as much of central London is commercial and not residential. Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowed area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground.
Meal Plans Available
·Continental Breakfast
·Breakfast and Dinner
·Breakfast, Packed Dinner
It’s important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal, bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by desert, fruit and coffee.
Friends
If you wish to invite a friend over to visit,you must first ask your host’s permission. You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.
Self-Catering Accommodation in Private Homes
Accommodation on a room-only basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the long -stay student . However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practice English at home quite as much.
1.The passage is probably written for_______.
A. hosts willing to receive foreign students
B. foreigners hoping to build British culture
C. travelers planning to visit families in London
D. English learners applying to live in English homes
2.Which of the following will the host provide ?
A. Room cleaning. B. Medical care.
C. Free transport. D. physical training.
3.What can be inferred from Paragraph 3 ?
A. Zone 4 is more crowded than Zone 2.
B. The business centre of London is in Zone 1.
C. Hosts dislike travelling to the city centre.
D. Accommodation in the city center is not provided
4.Why do some people choose self-catering accommodation ?
A. To experience a warmer family atmosphere.
B. To enrich their knowledge of English.
C. To entertain friends as they like.
D. To enjoy much more freedom.
On May 23, 1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad, New Mexico. She hadn’t seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks. Stefania was in a research program, and the scientists in the program were studying body rhythms. In this experiment Stefania had spent 130days in a cave, 30 feet in depth.
During her time in the cave, Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice. Her living place had been very comfortable, but there had been nothing to tell her the time. She’d had no clocks or watches, no television or radio. There had been no natural light and the temperature had always been kept at 21℃.
The results were very interesting. Stefania had been in the cave for over four months, but she thought she had been there for only two. Her body clock had changed. She hadn’t kept to a 24-hour day, she had stayed awake for 20～25 hours and then had slept for 10 hours. She had eaten fewer meals and had lost 171bs in weight as a result! She had also become rather depressed.
How had she spent her time in the cave? As part of the experiment she’d done some physical and mental tests. She’d recorded her daily activities and the results of the tests on a computer. This computer had been specially programmed for the project. Whenever she was free, she’d played cards, read books and listened to music. She’d also learned French from tapes.
The experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature. For example， the pattern of day and night makes us wake up and go to sleep. However, people are affected in different ways. Some people wake up naturally at 5:00 a.m., but others don’t start to wake up till 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. This affects the whole daily rhythm. As a result the early risers are at their best in the late morning. The late risers, on the other hand, are tired during the day and only come to life in the afternoon or evening!
1.Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because ________.
A. she was asked to do research on mice
B. she wanted to experience loneliness
C. she was the subject of a study
D. she needed to record her life
2.What is a cause for the change of Stefania’s body clock?
A. Eating fewer meals. B. Having more hours of sheep.
C. Lacking physical exercise. D. Getting no natural light.
3.This passage mainly tells about ________.
A. an experiment and its result B. a woman living in the cave
C. a depressed woman D. a woman and two mice
你的美国笔友Mike听说你的外籍英语老师Mr.Smith很受学生欢迎，来信向你了解他的相关情况，并且很想到你们学校看一看。请根据以下内容，以李华的名义用英语向Mike介绍你的英语老师Mr.Smith:
1.工作努力，耐心热情，关心学生。
2.讲课生动有趣，学生对英语感兴趣，英语提高很大。
3.经常帮助英语有困难的学生并时常和学生一起进行体育活动。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已经给出，但不计入总词数。
Dear Mike,
I've just learned that you'd like me to introduce to you my favorite English teacher,Mr.Smith._______________
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Yours,
Li Hua
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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）直接划掉；
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。
According to a new report,more than one in five people are lived in extreme poverty around the globe. Therefore,China's continued economic growth has improved the lives of million of people.The poverty rate in the world's largest developing country had decreased by nearly three-quarters in the past six years.The report is made of a research company in the U.S.It says that the trend has resulted from the economic reforms in the country in last ten years.One reason for this soclo-economic success lies in the rapidly development of the country.Another reason is that why more and more people are moving from many poorer rural areas to look for better jobs in urban centers.The improvement of education but healthcare has also played an important part in help many people get out of poverty in China.
In the past, children walked and rode bikes to and from school and parents seldom worried about their safety.1.(fortunate),young people today are not free enough to walk and play outdoors2.many communities have been designed to be3.(convenience) for cars,not for children.
Our "Kids Walk-to-School" program aims to get children to walk and cycle to and from school in groups4.(accompany) by adults.This5.(give) kids a chance to be more physically active and learn more about their environment,and6.the same time,the program encourages people7.walking a safe and enjoyable part of everyone's lives.It is also great for anyone living in neighborhoods,and it can also be adapted for children of all8.(age),especially those9.live in neighborhoods further from the school10.those in neighborhoods without safe walking routes.
Winters are always long and cold in North China.The winter of2008 was especially tough in one southwestern city,______it became extremely cold and it was also a difficult time for me.What was worse,a(n)______injury happened to me and it might keep me in bed for several months, "Just in time for the Spring Festival," my mother said to me,sighing.But how could I feel the______when the snow was so heavy and I had months of painful physical_____ahead?
One day I was doing my housework______there was a tap against the window from a branch of the troublesome fruit tree.On hearing this,with my eyes closed,slowly,I began to recall the fall of 1995 when somebody placed a pipe from my pump next to the______.The earth was so wet that it______immediately with most of its bare roots upward.Seeing this,my mother______to pull it out,but I refused."How hard it's trying!" I said,______the direction of its strong holding of the earth."It is______of a chance to survive." With tools,we______dry soil around the tree and put up some supports into the ground,making it______upright.
Several months had passed before I could be______of it.Surprisingly,when spring returned,my "rescue______"
had grown some leaves and many______.In 2009 that little rescue stick had grown into a towering tree.What an unbelievable miracle of life!
The day before the Spring Festival,the______at the window was continuing,the more fierce wind,the ____
sound,as if to remind me to look up and appreciate its powerful life
That night I slept peacefully having a(n)______.In the dream some flowers were coming out______.The next morning I stood against the window._____the window was the tree bursting with life.Anyway,I had a wonderful Spring Festival that year.
1.A. that B. which C. when D. where
2.A. admirable B. slight C. terrible D. favorable
3.A. joy B. duty C. cold D. failure
4.A. exercise B. report C. treatment D. experiment
5.A. while B. when C. as D. that
6.A. window B. wall C. branch D. tree
7.A. fell down B. came out C. got out D. stood up
8.A. failed B. pretended C. decided D. continued
9.A. attaching to B. pointing to C. looking into D. watching over
10.A. confident B. proud C. certain D. worthy
11.A. placed B. turned C. needed D. threw
12.A. bend B. stand C. drop D. swing
13.A. worthy B. tired C. aware D. proud
14.A. stick B. tool C. pipe D. pump
15.A. roots B. flowers C. nuts D. stems
16.A. attacking B. striking C. tapping D. hitting
17.A. more B. most C. best D. better
18.A. dream B. walk C. re st D. idea
19.A. politely B. wildly C. passively D. shyly
20.A. On B. Besides C. Inside D. Outside
