Attractions in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Island
The site of the original British settlement and the main focus of most tourists. Most of Hong Kong’s highest skyscrapers and the financial center can be found here. Overall, Hong Kong Island is more modern and wealthy and dramatically less dirty than the other areas of Hong Kong. The Peak is the tallest point on the island, with the best views and highest real estate values in the world.
Kowloon
The peninsula to the north of Hong Kong Island, with great views of the island. It offers a chaotic mix of malls, street markets, and residential houses. It has a great view of Hong Kong Island. With over 2.1 million people living in an area of less than 47 square kilometres, Kowloon is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Kowloon includes TsimShaTsui, the location of many budget hotels and MongKok, a shopping district.
New Territorics
Named by British officials when leased from the Chinese government in 1898, the New Territories contain a curious mix of small farms, villages, industrial installations, mountainous country parks and towns that have the size of populations in some cities.
Lantau Island
A large island west of Hong Kong Island. You will not find many peaceful villages, but once you get over the stray dogs and the ramshackle buildings you will find beautiful mountains and beaches. The airport, Disneyland, and the Ngong Ping cable car are located here.
Outlying Islands
Well-known weekend destinations for the locals, the Outlying Islands are most of the islands surrounding Hong Kong Island. Highlights include Lamma, well known for its seafood and Cheung Chau, a small island that used to be a pirates’ den (贼窝), but now attracts seafood aficionados, windsurfers and sunbathing day trippers.
1.Where should you go if you want to have seafood?
A. Kowloon.
B. New Territories.
C. Lantau Island.
D. Outlying Islands.
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. New Territories has towns with a large population.
B. Kowloon has many expensive hotels and a shopping district.
C. Lantau Island has most of the islands surrounding Hong Kong Island.
D. Hong Kong Island has the highest skyscraper of Hong Kong.
3.Where can this article probably be found?
A. A story book.
B. A news report.
C. A travel guide.
D. A science magazine.
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截止时间：本周五下午5点；
征集部门：学生会，campusactively@163.com；
颁奖时间和地点：3月23日上午9点，报告厅。
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Last week I noticed Jack coughing on our math class. See this, I offered to take him to a clinic. There the doctor asked Jack how he had coughed sometimes for long time. Jack nodded his head immediate. The doctor then wrote a prescription with instruction on how to take the Chinese medicine. When Jack tasted the medicine, he almost brings it up. I comforted him with an old saying “Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth”. Jack managed to swallow them unwillingly. But when he had recovered three days later, he felt amazing at the effect of the Chinese medicine.
Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman who always dreamed of becoming rich. He wished to become a millionaire, and 1. did his wife. He had heard from some old men before that several ships 2. (load) with diamonds and gold 3. (sink) in the nearby seashore. Because of this, for a long time he kept searching that whole area 4. this treasure. One day, while he was sitting on the boat daydreaming, he suddenly felt that the fishing rod 5. (weigh) down by a heavy object. He 6. (excite) pulled hard at it, and 7. he saw made him exclaim, “Wow! A big, shiny gold chain!” He pulled hard at the gold chain to get it into the boat, but 8. seemed to be no end to it. His boat started to get over-loaded and the sea water filled his boat. However, he had begun dreaming of a big house, a big piece of land and buying horses and 9. (ox)... He kept pulling in the chain 10. the boat kept sinking. The boat was finally submerged and he struggled to stay afloat. Unfortunately his feet were entangled in the gold chain and he drowned.
A few days ago I was sitting in a Thai restaurant enjoying a meal when I got on a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to for a long time. In my enthusiasm and ______ I talked slightly louder than usual voice and in Spanish, my mother tongue.
A few minutes into the ______, the Indy sitting at the beside mine got up, seemingly ______, and asked the restaurant staff to a table as far away as possible from the man who wouldn’t ______ his phone.
I sank in my mw out of ______. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to go over and ______. Before getting up I looked around to see where she was,______, at the table furthest away from me.
I noticed that the lady was ______ and staring out of the window. I ______ a tinge (气息) of sadness — perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. But I had ______ destroyed it minutes earlier.
Right then I ______ my plans for a conventional apologetic gesture. Seeing the Smile Cards in my wallet I took one out. On signing my restaurant bill I asked my server to ______ charge the lady’s meal to my credit card and hand her the Smile Card instead of her bill.
Did she take it the wrong way, I ______? Did she get confused? Did she refuse the anonymous (匿名的)______? And so on. I just waited and felt nervous to learn the ______. To my pleasant surprise, things ______ to be the best possible way.
The waiter approached me in a stream of ______, telling me, “In many times she had ______ there before, but we had never seen the old lady smile as she did upon ______ the Smite Card and the $ 0 check. She thanked me even though I ______ that someone else did the job.”
1.A. anger B. sorrow C. nervousness D. excitement
2.A. call B. restaurant C. discussion D. interview
3.A. informed B. cheered C. offended D. separated
4.A. get off B. get on C. get through D. get over
5.A. enthusiasm B. embarrassment C. disappointment D. satisfaction
6.A. donate B. cooperate C. apologize D. exchange
7.A. instead B. indeed C. again D. also
8.A. moved B. thankful C. proud D. alone
9.A. arranged B. ignored C. broke D. detected
10.A. obviously B. naturally C. pleasantly D. purposefully
11.A. prepared B. abandoned C. suggested D. enjoyed
12.A. partly B. eventually C. secretly D. formally
13.A. wondered B. discouraged C. expected D. continued
14.A. service B. point C. advice D. offer
15.A. approach B. outcome C. difference D. reason
16.A. turned out B. put out C. took out D. made out
17.A. pity B. doubt C. joy D. sorrow
18.A. quarreled B. worked C. smiled D. dined
19.A. selling B. receiving C. making D. wrapping
20.A. explained B. suspected C. argued D. complained
Two new studies suggest that modem running shoes could increase the risk of injuries to runners.
One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week. The runners were observed on a treadmill machine (跑步机). Sometimes they wore running shoes. Other times they ran barefoot.
Researchers from the JKM Technologies Company in Virginia, the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado did the study.
They found that running shoes create more stress that could damage knees, hips and ankle joints than running barefoot. They observed that the effect was even greater than the effect reported earlier for walking in high heels.
The study appeared in the official scientific journal of the American Academy of Physical Medicine.
The other study appeared in the journal Nature. It compared runners in the United States and Kenya. The researchers were from Harvard University in Massachusetts, Moi University in Kenya and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
They divided the runners into three groups. One group had always run shoeless. Another group had always run with shoes. And the third group had changed to shoeless running.
Runners who wear shoes usually come down heel first. That puts great force on the back of the foot. But the study found that barefoot runners generally land on the front or middle of their foot. That way they ease into their landing and avoid striking their heel.
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman led the study. He says the way most running shoes are designed may explain why those who wear them land on their heels. The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first. Also, the heel generally has thick material under it to soften landings.
But the researchers do not suggest that runners immediately start running barefoot. They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.
The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot. The findings have gotten a lot of attention. But the researchers say there are many problems in the way the press has reported in their paper. So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Website.
1.What can we learn from the passage?
A. The way that we run by landing on the front or middle of our foot could avoid damaging our heel.
B. We should start running barefoot in no time.
C. Running in modem running shoes could have more serious effects than running in high heels.
D. We won’t be injured if we run barefoot.
2.How many organizations are involved in the two studies?
A. Three. B. Four.
C. Five. D. Six.
3.How did the researchers do the two studies?
A. By practising. B. By comparing.
C. By questioning. D. By reasoning.
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Walking in high heels could have fewer serious effects than running barefoot.
B. Two new discoveries encourage people to run in high heels.
C. Running in shoes is partly good to runners.
D. Two new studies prove running without shoes is beneficial to runners in most cases.
