While money can’t technically buy happiness, it can buy you a mood-lifting, outlook-improving vacation. Haven’t made plan yet to skip town this winter? These money-saving travel tips can help you book the destination of your choice and enjoy you time there—without breaking the bank.
1.FLY THE COOP FAST
If you’re planning to set off for an adventure right away, try the GTFO(Get The Flight Out) app. It lists the cheapest round-trip flights departing from your local airport that day or by the next morning. At press time, airfare was down 12 percent from last August and round-trip tickets for domestic flights averaged $218.
2.SNAG A DISCOUNTED HOTEL ROOM
If Airbnb, an online service that provide apartment exchange, isn’t your style, reserve marked-down accommodations on Tingo, which lists almost all the rooms in more than 155,000 locations worldwide. After you book a price drop room, the site monitors rates until, typically, 24 to 48 hours before check-in. If the price drops, Tingo refunds you the difference.
3.LIVE IT UP LOCALLY
If you’re planning a staycation(宅度假) this winter, try an affordable escape close to home. The free app HotelTonight offers lodging(租住) deals in more than 100 U.S. and Canadian cities and regions, and has a location-based feature that gives extea saving on already discounted prices on spots closest to you. Same-day prices fall even lower after 6 P.M.
1.The GTFO app is most useful to those who .
A. Take a regular business trip B. Seek a last-minutes travel
C. can’t afford a comfortable travel D. Plan a short-distance flight
2.Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “marked-down” in Paragraph?
A. highlighted B. written
C. discounted D. scored
3.What can we infer about the app HotelTonight?
A. Only the U.S natives can use it B. Its deals include the whole America
C. Prices stay the same within a day D. Its services vary from place to place
4.What is the aim of the passage?
A. To persuade B. To inform
C. To describe D. To instruct
假定你是李华，现在你们学校打算请外教露西来担任你校寒假英语冬令营的口语老师。请你给露西写封邮件，内容包括：
1.时间：2017年1月10号到1月25号
2.授课内容：上午口语课，下午室外活动，如参观博物馆，游览公园等
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.参考词汇：英语冬令营 an English Winter Camp
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People always say the one who like smile will never lack of luck. Indeed, the smiling people are friendly and kindly. Because they like to give hands to other and people like to make friends with them, so people around them will help them with any doubt when the smiling people are in trouble. I have a friend which always has smile in his face. She seems to be never angry with others. All the guys like to talk to him and they are willed to help him. Keep the smiling face not only means the person has the good personality, but means the person has the positive attitude life.
It matters a lot if you don’t have your breakfast. In the United States, recently a test 1. (perform) by the scientists. People 2.different ages from 15 to 80 were included in the test. They were offered all sorts of breakfasts, but sometimes they didn’t get any breakfast. How 3. (good) their bodies worked was seen when they had eaten breakfasts. At last, the scientists got the results 4. (show) that the persons who ate breakfasts worked better. This fact appears 5.(be) especially true for the persons working with brains. It was commonly believed that not having breakfast was6.way of losing weight. Opposite to7. many people think, you may become so 8. (hunger) that you eat much for lunch, in 9.case, you are gaining weight. Therefore, you may lose more weight if you reduce your other 10. (meal).
I was fifteen years when Dad called my two younger brothers and me into the entertainment room of our house．I was ______! I thought we would play games or even see movies together! "Bring a notebook and something to write with," said my dad _______we reached the entertainment room．My brothers and I stopped dead in our tracks and _______ each other in horror! His request was unusual, and our excitement turned to_____．We_______that games or movies were not the reason we were called out．
As we went back for a notebook and pencil, we _______to think about the reason for this gathering．We thought family meeting was not _______because Mom was out shopping．In the entertainment room, we found three chairs ________a huge blackboard．Dad asked us to sit down．"I want your full______．We are going to have a weekly meeting every Saturday morning．That is ____ I've called you here," he said, sounding businesslike．"I'm going to teach you what I've learned about life．So take it___．"
For the next five years, rain or sunshine, in sickness or in health．Dad _______us once a week．He taught us on a variety of _______—manners, the importance of education, respect for others, home repairs, and the list went _______．We filled one notebook after another, which we all _______well．
As I came to my eighteenth birthday, the lessons became________lessons and then every other month, until they slowly drifted away．My brothers and I were older, and we had school activities, sports activities and job responsibilities that became very _______to manage．
It's been years now since we had those classes with Dad．We are________with careers （事业） and wives of our own．Very often, _____, one of us has a situation where we need help from Dad．At this time, we________take out our notebooks; we needn't call home．
1.A. surprised B. eager C. disappointed D. excited
2.A. unless B. before C. until D. since
3.A. stare at B. aim at C. seek for D. pay attention to
4.A. amazement B. sadness C. fear D. relief
5.A. decided B. appreciated C. hoped D. admitted
6.A. wanted B. continued C. refused D. forgot
7.A. convenient B. important C. interesting D. possible
8.A. turning to B. connecting with C. faced with D. making up
9.A. attention B. imagination C. attraction D. consideration
10.A. because B. when C. where D. why
11.A. seriously B. logically C. hopefully D. faithfully
12.A. protected B. helped C. taught D. joined
13.A. methods B. contents C. problems D. subjects
14.A. on B. with C. up D. by
15.A. used B. kept C. understood D. knew
16.A. weekly B. regular C. monthly D. informal
17.A. foolish B. difficult C. necessary D. unusual
18.A. grown B. familiar C. bored D. careful
19.A. instead B. therefore C. however D. besides
20.A. just B. seldom C. still D. hardly
Why Don’t Students Like School?
Most of the teachers I know entered the job because they loved school as children. 1. However, they are understandably discouraged when they find that some of their students don’t like school much, and that they, the teachers, have great difficulty inspiring them. Why is it difficult to make school enjoyable for students?
As a matter of fact , the brain is not designed for thinking. It’s designed to ask you not to have to think, because the brain is actually not very good at thinking. Thinking is slow and unreliable. 2.People like to solve problems, but they do not like to work on problems that cannot be solved. If schoolwork is always just a bit too difficult for a student, it should be no surprise that he doesn’t like school much.3.
What is the nature of being human? 4. Many people would answer that it is our ability to reason that makes us different—birds can fly, fish can swim, and humans can think . (By thinking I mean solving problems, reasoning, reading something complex, or doing any mental work that requires some effort.) Shakespeare thought highly of our cognitive(认知) ability in Hamlet: “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!” Some three hundred years later, however, Henry Ford came up with a quite different opinion, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people are interested in it.” They both had a point of view. Humans are good at certain types of reasoning, especially compared to other animals, but we hardly often exercise those abilities. 5.Thinking is not only painful, as Ford noted, it’s also slow and unreliable.
A. A cognitive scientist would add another point of view, “Humans don’t think very often because our brains are designed not for thought but for escaping from thought.”
B. What sets us apart from other species?
C. Of course you could make each decision with care and thought.
D. However, people enjoy thinking if it is successful.
E. Therefore, teachers should reconsider how they encourage their students to think, in order to make thinking enjoyable enough for students to go after.
F. If we are all so bad at thinking, how does anyone get through the day?
G. They want to help their students feel the same excitement and passion for learning that they felt.
