San Francisco Fire Engine Tours
San Francisco Winery Tour
Running: February 1st through April 30th
This delicious tour goes through the city on its way to Treasure Island where we will stop at the famous Winery SF. Here you can enjoy 4 pours of some of the best wine San Francisco has to offer. (Included in tickets price)
Departing from the Cannery: Tell time upon request
Duration(时长)：2 hours
Price: $90
Back to the Fifties Tour
Running: August 16th through August 31st
This tour transports you back in time to one of San Francisco’s most fantastic periods, the 1950s! Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream.
Departing from the Cannery: 5:00pm and 7:00pm
Duration: 2 hours
Price: $90
Spooky Halloween Tour
Running: October 10th through October 31st
Join us for a ride through the historical Presidio district. Authentic fire gear （消防服）is provided for your warmth as our entertainers take you to some of the most thrilling parts of San Francisco.
Departing from the Cannery: 6:30pm and 8:30pm
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Price: Available upon request
Holiday Lights Tour
Running: December 6th through December 23rd
This attractive tour takes you to some of San Francisco’s most cheerful holiday scenes. Authentic fire gear is provided for your warmth as you get into the holiday spirit.
Departing from the Cannery: 7:00pm and 9:00pm
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Advance reservations required.
1.What can tourists do on Back to the Fifties Tours?
A. Go to Treasure Island. B. Have free ice cream.
C. Enjoy the holiday scenes. D. Visit the Presidio district.
2.Which of the tours is available in March?
A. San Francisco Winery Tour. B. Back to the Fifties Tour.
C. Spooky Halloween Tour. D. Holiday Lights Tour.
3.When will you have to be at the Cannery if you want to take Spooky Halloween Tour?
A. No later than 5:00pm B. No later than 7:00pm
C. No later than 8:30pm D. No later than 9:00pm
4.What are tourists required to do to go on Holiday Lights Tour?
A. Take some drinks. B. Make reservations ahead of time.
C. Wear warm clothes. D. Set off early in the morning.
Scientists have always been interested in the high level of organization in ant societies. American researchers have watched ants build life-saving rafts(筏子) to keep afloat during floods. They also have documented how ant colonies choose their next queen — the female whose job is to produce eggs rather than seek food for others.
New technology is helping to improve researchers’ understanding of the insects. But there is still a lot to be learned. Fire ants living in Brazilian forests are perfectly at home in an environment where flooding is common. To save themselves, the insects connect their legs together and create floating rafts. Some ant rafts can be up to 20 centimeters wide.
David Hu, who is a mechanical engineer with the Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, says, “If you have 100 ants, which means 600 legs, 99 percent of those legs will be connected to a neighbor. So they’re very, very good at maintaining this network.”
David Hu and other Georgia Tech researchers want to study ants and the secret of their engineering. They freeze ant rafts and then look at them with the help of computed technology, or CT, images. The pictures show that larger ants serve in central positions to which smaller ants hold. The larger ants form pockets of air that keep the insects afloat.
Scientists say small robots or materials that can change shape could be programmed in a similar way, working towards a shared goal.
Researchers at North Carolina State University are also studying ants. They examined how Indian jumping ants choose the leader of the colony when they lose their top female or queen.
1.The duty of the queen ants is to_____.
A. seek food B. keep organized
C. lay eggs D. keep guard
2.The author takes fire ants as an example to tell us _____.
A. how ants seek food perfectly B. How ants save themselves from floods
C. how ants communicate D. How ants connect their legs together
3.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Ants know the way to form a harmonious society.
B. The Georgia Tech researchers first discovered Indian jumping ants.
C. All the worker ants in the colony are physically larger.
D. Small and shaped-changeable things might work just like ants do.
I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes’ nap time before class couldn’t hurt, I thought.
Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating quickly trying to find the cause of the noise. My young professor was looking back at me with a mischievous, boyish smile on his face. He had intentionally dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto my desk. “Good morning!” he said, still smiling. “I’m glad to see everyone is awake. Now let’s get started.”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. Instead, it was from the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he taught with were contagious (有感染力的). I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well! What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love! Don’t sleepwalk your way through life then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is too short not to live it well.
1.What did the author want to do just before his first class of the day?
A. Take a short sleep. B. Talk with his friends.
C. Get his eyes examined. D. Stay away from the class.
2.The underlined word “mischievous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.
A. curious B. naughty
C. sensitive D. dishonest
3.What else did the author learn that day?
A. Students should not sleep in class but respect their teachers.
B. Everyone should love his job and sleepwalk his way through life.
C. People from all walks of life should do their jobs with wisdom and love.
D. Life is too limited to make your work an expression of your love.
4.What can be inferred from this passage?
A. The professor often kept his students sharp by using a textbook alarm.
B. The author left the two-hour period not only wide awake, but a little smarter.
C. The author was attracted by the professor’s great wisdom and enthusiasm.
D. Though the author was frightened awake, he was not clear-headed in the class.
共享单车（sharing bikes）的出现，为大家带来了方便．同时，也反映出一些问题．例如，随意停放，影响行人通行；故意破坏车辆，造成维护成本增加，并影响他人正常使用，等等．请针对此现象，写一封倡议书，号召大家文明用车．
要点提示：
1、共享单车的好处；
2、使用过程中出规的问题；
3、如何做到文明用车．
写作要求：
1、文章要涵盖上述要点，并适当增加细节．
2、字数：不少于100字．
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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短文．短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处．错误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（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词．
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．
One day，a young man，whom couldn’t get back home，came into my office to ask for help．He said his mother was disabled．His phone had stolen with his wallet and he hadn’t contacted her for the past two days．However，his job was assessing housing applications，not provide money for travel．I asked him to wait outside unless I finished my work．After work I drove him all the way home．We arrive at his mother’s house at 10：30p．m..She was in a wheelchair and she answered a door．I saw tears in her eye as she thanked for me．I just hoped that if my son experienced nothing similar，someone would be nicely enough to bring him home to me．
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式，答案写在答题卡上．
A mouse，because of an1. （luck） chance，made close friends with an evil frog．One day，2.frog played a trick on the mouse by3. （tie） a foot of the mouse to his own．At first，both of them joined together and the frog4. （lead） his friend toward the pool in which he lived，and didn’t stop5. he reached the side of the water．Then the frog suddenly jumped into the water and the mouse was pulled in with6. （he）．The frog enjoyed the water and swam in it around，happily crying7.if he had done a great deed．The unhappy mouse died soon in the water，and his dead body floated around on the surface， 8.（fasten） to the foot of the frog．A hawk saw the dead mouse，suddenly flew down towards it，caught it and flew away．The frog，still tied to the leg of the mouse，was also carried off as a9.（prison），and it10.（eat） by the hawk．Harm hatch，harm catch．
