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 4 of the transport system. Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential(居住的). Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowded area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground.
Meal Plans Available
◇ Continental Breakfast
◇ Breakfast and Dinner
◇ Breakfast, Packed Lunch and 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 dessert, 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 (自助的)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. Accommodation in the city center is not provided.
C. Hosts dislike travelling to the city center.
D. The business center of London is in Zone 1.
4.Why do some people choose self-catering accommodation?
A. To enrich their knowledge of English.
B. To enjoy much more freedom.
C. To entertain friends as they like.
D. To experience a warmer family atmosphere.
书面表达
假定你是重庆第一中学校学生会主席李华，你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛，希望重庆大学外籍教师Brown女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写一封信。
注意： 1. 可适当增加细节，使结构完整 2. 词数120左右
词汇：学生会主席 president of Students’ Union
短文改错
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（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Dear friends,
It is real a good chance to have met all of you here. We have spent several precious weekends in English study in the English Club. Although we have been member for a short period of time, we have made a great progress. That is why we are all very active and the activities are not only enjoyable and also helpful. Besides, the foreign teachers here work hard and try his best to make the activities lively and interested. I am very pleased to say that all of us improved our spoken English greatly so far. I am looking forward to see all of you again in the near future!
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
Suppose you will go blind 3 days later? How would you spend those 3 precious days? What would you see before going into darkness forever?
I should want 1. (much) to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. I should want to see the people whose 2. (kind) and company have made my life worth 3. (live). First I should like to stare long4. the face of my teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and 5. (open) the outer world to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish 6. in my memory, but to study that face and from it find the evidence of the love and patience with 7. she accomplished the difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to act 8. (brave) in the face of difficulties, and that sympathy for all humankind 9. (show) to me so often.
Oh, those things above would be the things that I should see if I 10. (have) the power of sight for just 3 days!
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I learned to do wood work when I was very young.
I remember I made my first project—a small table when I was 9 years old. I was so _________ of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an) _________. It was absolutely beautiful and it had taken me six weeks to_________ it. I could hardly wait to give it to Mother Winters as a(an) _________ . She was the head mistress of our orphanage（孤儿院）, who was always kind but _________ with us.
As the tables were not dry from the clear coating(清漆), our woodworking teacher told us to wait a few days before taking them to our dormitories. But I was just so _________ and happy that I couldn’t wait I dashed out like a _________ , carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
When I reached the dormitory I placed the little table beside my bed. I was _________ it when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table. Running her hand _________it, she noticed that it was still wet.
“Were you _________ to bring this home?” she asked.
“No, ma’am,” I _________ with my head down.
She ordered me to throw the table out and so I did. After she left, I immediately opened the door to get it back. There was _________ stuck all over. I brushed and cried, but the dirt would not come off.
I hid the table in my closet and never _________ it. However, a year later during a cleaning-up, it was discovered. Painfully, I had to give the table to Mother Henderson, my houseparent, thinking that she would _________ it away.
Thirty years later at a reunion, I _________ that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. We talked cheerfully for long. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her _________ to get something important. I followed her _________ into a dark corner. She picked something up. _________ she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table.
Mother Henderson kept the little table that I had given up for lost so long ago.
Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of _________ to Mother Henderson, who kept the table for a young orphan who _________ it so much.
1.A. tired B. ashamed C. proud D. amused
2.A. award B. wonder C. record D. product
3.A. complete B. invent C. fix D. design
4.A. award B. souvenir C. prize D. gift
5.A. satisfied B. patient C. cruel D. strict
6.A. upset B. excited C. amazed D. confident
7.A. thief B. hero C. flash D. smog
8.A. admiring B. decorating C. drying D. hiding
9.A. across B. into C. above D. behind
10.A. determined B. embarrassed C. encouraged D. supposed
11.A. agreed B. sighed C. whispered D. argued
12.A. glue B. dirt C. paint D. wood
13.A. felt B. shook C. rented D. touched
14.A. put B. throw C. take D. give
15.A. remembered B. expected C. learned D. recommended
16.A. basement B. balcony C. bathroom D. bedroom
17.A. unwillingly B. curiously C. doubtfully D. worriedly
18.A. Before B. Since C. Until D. As
19.A. devotion B. concern C. appreciation D. regret
20.A. counted B. mattered C. valued D. minded
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Having bad feeling about world? “Cheer up.” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.” 1.
1 ) 2.
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, and better cars. 3. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we'll be.
2)Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour's light cost six hours' work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes' work to pay for. 4. Today it's half second.
3 )Let's not kill ourselves for climate change
5. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel (化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet (止血带) around our necks.
A. Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he's carefully weighed the evidence.
B. Overreaction to climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself.
C. Shopping fuels invention.
D. And, of course, we earn more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us.
E. In 1950 it was eight seconds.
F. It’s high time that we took immediate action to fight climate change.
G. Here's how he explains his views.
