A factory tour this summer! Here are some great ones to consider. | |
The Jelly Belly Bean Company Fairfield, CA At this working factory, guests can watch the process of making this famous candy. Have lunch at the Visitor Center Café, where you can order a jelly bean-shaped pizza or hamburger! It is located an hour north of San Francisco. There’s no admission charge for the 40-minute walking tour. Tours are given most days from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, but come during a weekday to see the candy making in process. | Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Museum Louisville, KY See how each bat is carefully carved out at this family-favorite factory tour. Tour visitors leave with a miniature bat souvenir and personalized bats can be ordered when you arrive and picked up before you leave. Adult tickets are $9. Child tickets are $4. Ages five and under are free. It opens at 9:00 am Mondays through Saturdays. Check the website for specific days and times. |
E-One Fire Truck Factory Ocala, FL Take this walking tour of a plant in Florida and see for yourself the technology and skill required to build these emergency vehicles. Tours are offered Monday to Friday, at 9:00 am and 11:00 am. Prices are $8 for adults and $6 for children. Kids under 6 are not permitted on the tour for safety reasons. Reservations are required for all tours. Please call 352-861-3524 to schedule a tour. Firefighters can tour for free! | Crayola Crayon Company Easton, PA No, this isn’t the actual place where the waxy rainbows are made. But it’s an even-better visitor center where families can not only see how crayons are made, but can explore and use various Crayola art tools and products. Kids can use the latest Crayola products to create masterpieces on site. The visitor center is open most days from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. The online calendar shows special hours, themes, and daily activities. Tickets are $9.50 each. |
1.Which of the following is true about the Jelly Belly Bean Company?
A. Three meals are prepared for you. B. It is open every day.
C. You have to spend some money visiting it. D. It lies north of San Francisco.
2.If a five-year-old boy and his parents visit Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Museum, they have to pay ______.
A. $22 B. $17
C. $18 D. $13
3.The factory tour this summer involves ______.
A. politics, economics, science and culture
B. diet, sports, traffic and art
C. history, literature, education and custom
D. health, invention, astronomy and car
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Dear fellows,
Not only adults but also we students often feel stressing because we have too much homework to do, and we are very busy study every day, we don’t have our own time to do that we are interested in. We are very tried and asleep all day, because we should learn to deal with it. What should we do next relax?
From the result of the survey, I think doing sports with classmate is a good way to relax. Because it’s good for our health and it can make us relaxed. I also have three ways to relax us. First, we can listen to music. Second, we can go to the movies with our parents in weekends. Don’t study at home all the weekend. Third we feel tired, we can think about something interested.
It is obvious that various festivals are times of happiness, fun and excitement, not of sadness. They have many origins.
Some are 1. (religion) and some are seasonal. Easter is 2. important festival for Christians all over the world. People are thankful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over. Some festivals 3. (hold) to honor or satisfy and please the dead. In Japan the festival is called Obon. They have lamps on and play music 4. they think this will help the dead back to earth. The Dragon Boat Festival 5. (honor) the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan. Columbus Day is in memory of the 6. (arrive) of Columbus in the New World. India honors Mohandas Gandhi who helped gain 7. (India) independence from Britain. And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones 8. look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring, such as the Lunar New Year, 9. which people get together to eat, drink and have fun with each other.
No matter 10. the reason is, festivals are always times for feasts with lots to eat, special and often new clothing to wear and generally lots of fun.
The night fell heavy in the heights of the mountains and the man could not see anything. All was black. The moon and the stars were ______ by the clouds. As he was climbing only a few feet away from the top of the mountain, he suddenly ______ and fell into the air, falling at great ______. He could only see black spots as he went down, and the ______ sensation（感觉）of being pulled by gravity grew more and more ______ .
He ______ falling, and in the moments of great ______ ,it came to his mind all the good and bad ______ of his life. He was thinking now about how ______ death was getting ______ all of a sudden he felt the rope tied to his waist pull him very hard. His body was hanging in the air. ______ the rope was holding him and in that moment of ______ he could do nothing but ______ : “Help me! Help me! God” Suddenly a deep voice coming from the sky answered, “What do you want me to do?”“Save me, God.”
“Do you really think I can save you?”
“Of course! I ______ you can.”
“Then ______ the rope tied to your waist.”
There was a moment of silence and the man decide to ______ the rope with all his strength.
The next day people found the climber dead and ______ , hid body hanging from rope, his hands holding tight to it. Only one foot away from the ______ .
And we? How ______ we are to the rope tied to our waist? Sometimes we always tied to what we take as the only ______ .maybe we should have a try to let ourselves go.
1.A. covered B. filled C. broken D. polluted
2.A. stood B. slipped C. stopped D. risked
3.A. length B. speed C. depth D. width
4.A. length B. sensitive C. terrible D. confusing
5.A. energetic B. distant C. regular D. powerful
6.A. sank B. observed C. heard D. kept
7.A. excitement B. peace C. terror D. calmness
8.A. experience B. dreams C. disadvantages D. crossroads
9.A. close B. opposite C. fierce D. long
10.A. as B. because C. when D. after
11.A. But B. Only C. Nowhere D. Actually
12.A. patience B. appreciation C. excitement D. stillness
13.A. figure B. scream C. recognize D. present
14.A. wish B. suggest C. believe D. order
15.A. cut B. occupy C. brake D. handle
16.A. pull up B. back out C. take off D. hold onto
17.A. frozen B. calm C. exhausted D. reliable
18.A. top B. heaven C. ground D. attached
19.A. addicted B. attracted C. adopted D. destination
20.A. route B. dependence C. goal D. intelligence
The Science of Risk-Seeking
Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weight the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth taking. 1. Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us. Why? Experts say it may have to do with how our brain work.
The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans. Risk-taking were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring. 2. As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.
So why aren’t we all jumping out of airplanes then? Well, even 200,000 years ago, too much risk-taking could get one killed. A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types. As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today. So maybe you love car racing, or maybe you hate it.3.
No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientist say that willingness to take risk increases during your teenage years.4. To help you do that, your brain increases your hunger for new experience. New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.
5., for the risk-seeker a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.
As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we’ll continue to hit mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.
A. It all depends on your character.
B. Those are the risks you should jump to take.
C. Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.
D. Thus, these well-equipped people survived because they were the fittest.
E. This is when you start to move away from your family and into the bigger world.
F. However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weight risks and rewards.
G. New brain research suggests our brains work differently when we face a nervous situation.
