Bus Tours in Washington DC
The Lights Night Tour in Washington DC
Duration: 3 hours $56.33
Highest-rated Night Tour in DC! The ONLY DC Night Tour where the Tour Guides HOP OFF with you at each stop and tell you about each monument and attraction. Hop aboard the The Lights Night Tour! The best time to take a tour of Washington DC is at night.
Best Mount Vernon & Arlington Cemetery Tour from Washington DC
Duration: 6 hours $78.96
See Arlington Cemetery, Old Town Alexandria and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate on this small group bus tour from Washington DC. Your tour guide will accompany you through Mount Vernon, telling you about all of the attractions there and the history of George Washington’s home on the Potomac River.
The Best Minibus Tour in Washington DC
Duration: 3 hours $46.92
See all the key attractions DC has to offer in a 3-hour format. You will learn all about the history and trivia that surrounds Washington and visit the major monuments and attractions DC has to offer.
Please Note: Rates for this tour vary by day of the week. When you choose your specific date on the availability calendar, the rates for that date will be displayed.
The Blossoms Tour in Washington DC
Duration:3 hours $56.99
BEST WAY to Experience the Cherry Blossoms! Each year from mid March to mid April, see the beautiful Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC and get great photos because you’ll be led to all the best spots by the best guides. The annual spring bloom in DC is a magical time and this tour promises to provide the very best tour opportunity for you!
1.Which tour would provide you with a sightseeing boat?
A. The Lights Night Tour
B. Best Mount Vernon & Arlington Cemetery Tour
C. The Best Minibus Tour
D. The Blossoms Tour
2.What is special about The Best Minibus Tour?
A. Its price is not fixed. B. The best time to take it is at night.
C. The tour guide accompanies you. D. You can get great photos of cherry.
3.Which date suits The Blossoms Tour most?
A. July 4 B. August 15
C. March 27 D. October 8
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Last summer，I was going to visit a friend in Hangzhou．I went to the station to buy ticket．After get it，I turned back pick up my bag from the floor．To my shock，I found it had gone．Luckily I had all my money in my pocket，but the only clothes I had was those I was wearing on．I felt quite uneasy．When I finally arrived at my friend home，she lent me several change of clothes．I was very happy that I can wear clean but beautiful clothes at last．
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Recently, educators and parents become concerned about the poor performance of boys in school. The so-called “boy crisis” in education refers 1. both their academic performance and their behavior. In both areas boys’ results are much 2. (bad) than girls’.
USA data shows that boys rank behind girls in almost all areas of schooling. They earn lower 3. (grade) overall in primary school and high school. They are behind girls in reading and writing, and 30 percent of them are in bottom quarter of standardized tests, 4.(compare) with 19 percent of girls.
Although the causes of the “boy crisis” are not 5. (full) understood, some experts believed that the same-sex classrooms and schools may help solve the problem. The idea is6.(remove) some of the distractions(分心) caused by the opposite sex, in order to improve students’ concentration and hopefully their grades. The first Chinese school to experiment with this idea 7. (be) Shanghai No.8 Middle School, 8.began “boys-only” classes in September, 2012. Although it is too early to tell if the reform has made 9.difference, its supporters argue that the results are 10. (promise).
In 1994 I was in the midst of a depression (抑郁症）. When I was depressed, I_________. One day I was clearing up the rooms and found a CD covered with_________. I wiped it off, put it in the__________and started washing dishes. A man’s voice, reading poetry,__________my house. The sound of the speaker’s voice and the words of the poems reached something deep inside me. I stopped and____
I began to take poems into my ________, not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the_______I learned many by heart. They became my therapy (治疗）and_________. Those poems made me wiser and healthier.
_______, in the fall of 2008, poetry_________me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my_________in a small, local fund (基金).Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: “The financial crisis_________our fund particularly hard. We' ve lost everything.”I stood there,__________.
Suddenly I heard a poem,_________, called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me______, for this exact moment, like the perfect helper_________on the scene at the instant of an accident. Kindness became my _____I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It reminded me that this was not a________, but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I______Kindness several times a week to carry me_______ the heart of what really matters to me.
1.A. ran B. slept C. cleaned D. sang
2.A. dust B. paper C. clothes D. bedding
3.A. drawer B. player C. washer D. fridge
4.A. swept B. occupied C. decorated D. filled
5.A. wept B. left C. laughed D. listened
6.A. home B. life C. class D. mind
7.A. tunes B. rhymes C. words D. CDs
8.A. medicine B. food C. assistance D. attention
9.A. Still B. Yet C. Then D. Soon
10.A. surprised B. impressed C. warned D. rescued
11.A. faith B. savings C. hope D. expenses
12.A. hit B. blew C. pushed D. pressed
13.A. fearless B. thankless C. breathless D. defenseless
14.A. by coincidence B. out of nowhere C. in the distance D. by accident
15.A. immediately B. sincerely C. casually D. personally
16.A. reading B. arriving C. walking D. escaping
17.A. homework B. religion C. prayer D. memory
18.A. mistake B. lesson C. comfort D. tragedy
19.A. reach for B. dream of C. refer to D. meet with
20.A. for B. with C. off D. into
Some people get pleasure from picnics and tours. Others like to discuss various topics and find pleasure in it. But the reading of books provides us with such pleasure as we do not get from any other activity.
Books are written by learned people. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings, but also what they observe and find in society.1.
If we are in a cheerful mood, our joy is increased by reading.2.They provide us with the best advice and guidance in our difficulties. Indeed, books are our best friends as they help us in our hour of need.
3.They entertain us in our spare moments. Good novels, books on poetry and short stories, give us great enjoyment. At times we become so absorbed in our books that we forget even our important arrangements. Loneliness is no trouble for a reader.
4.They give us sound moral advice. It is through the reading of books that we learn what to love and what to hate. The reading of good books develops and improves our character. It was the English author Bacon who said that reading makes a full man. No one can question the truth of this saying.
5.Some books are such that instead of doing any good, they do harm to the readers. So it is the reading of good books alone that presents us the greatest benefit.
A. Books keep us well-informed.
B. Books contain grains of wisdom.
C. When we are alone, books are our best friends.
D. Books enable us to know the best of the colorful world.
E. When we are in a depressed mood, books comfort our troubled minds.
F. But we cannot get full advantage from reading, if our choice is not good.
G. By reading books written by great thinkers, we come in contact with their minds.
