We have designed all our bank cards to make your life easier.
How to use your NatWest Servicecard
As a Switch card, it lets you pay for all sorts of goods and services, whenever you see the Switch logo. The money comes straight out of your account, so you can spend as much as you like as long as you have enough money (or an agreed overdraft(透支) to cover it. It is also a cheque guarantee(担保) card for up to the amount shown on the card. And it gives you free access to your money from over 31,000 cash machines across the UK.
How to use your NatWest Chshcard
You can use your Cashcard as a Sulo card to pay for goods and services wherever you see the Solo logo. It can also give you access to your account and your cash from over 31,000 cash machines nationwide. You can spend or withdraw(提取) what you have in your account, or as much as your agreed overdraft limit.
Using your card abroad
You can also use your Servicecard and Cashcard when you’re abroad. You can withdraw cash at cash machines and pay for goods and services wherever you see the Cirrus or Maestro logo displayed.
We take a commission charge(手续费) of 2.25% of each cash withdrawal you make (up to ￡4) and a commission charge of 75 pence every time you use Maestro to pay for goods or services. We also apply a foreign-exchange transaction fee of 2.65%.
How to use your NatWest Credit Card
With your credit card you can do the following:
＊ Pay for goods and services and enjoy up to 56 days’ interest-free credit.
＊ Pay in over 24 million shops worldwide that display the Maestrocard or Visa logos.
＊ Collect one AIR MILE for every ￡20 of spending that appears on your statement(结算单).
(This does not include foreign currency or traveler’s cheques bought, interest and other charges.)
1.If you carry the Servicecard or the Cashcard, _______.
A. you can use it to guarantee things as you wish
B. you can draw your money from cash machines conveniently
C. you can spend as much money as you like without a limit
D. you have to pay some extra money when you pay for services in the UK
2.If you withdraw ￡200 from a cash machine abroad, you will be charged ______.
A. ￡4 B. ￡4.5
C. ￡5.25 D. ￡5.3
3.Which of the following is TRUE about using your NatWest Credit Card?
A. You have to pay back with interest within 56 days.
B. You will be charged some interest beyond two months.
C. You can use the card in any shop across the world.
D. You will gain one air mile if you spend ￡20 on traveller’s cheques.
4.The purpose of the passage is to show you how to ______.
A. play your cards right B. use your cards abroad
C. draw cash with your cards D. pay for goods with your cards
William Berloni, 59, is Broadway's dog expert, training and managing dogs for musicals and plays that need a well-behaved dog. He also works on movies and TV shows with all kinds of animals, including cats, pigs, sheep, snakes and rats. His retired (退役的) actors, including 30 dogs that have acted in shows such as “Annie” and “Oliver!” live with him and his wife on a farm in Connecticut.
Berloni's main playmates as a kid were his dog, cat and rabbit, but he says he never thought he would become a professional (职业的) animal trainer. He wanted to be an actor. But while working as an assistant for the pre-Broadway production of “Annie” in 1976, he was given the job of finding a dog to play Sandy.
Berloni visited an animal shelter (收容所), where lost dogs and other pets are kept until they are adopted (收养). Shelters take in a lot of animals — so many that some shelters kill pets that aren't quickly adopted. “I didn't know that animals were killed,” says Berloni, who ended up adopting a dog on the day it was supposed to be put down.
The dog, which Berloni named Sandy, turned out to be a perfect fit for the show after a little training. The pair learned from each other, with Berloni becoming better and better as a trainer. Sandy starred in almost all of the show's 2,377 Broadway performances and enjoyed retirement on Berloni's farm when the production's first Broadway run ended in 1983.
Since then, Berloni has made a point of finding all his dogs at shelters. Nessa is one of his
dogs who plays Toto in “The Wizard of Oz”. After about a year of working together, Berloni and
Nessa are like old friends. She's happy to lie on his leg, even when she's not performing. Nessa gets prizes in return for performing, but “Love is the big motivator (动力),” Berloni says.
1.What do we know about Berloni?
A. He was once a Broadway actor.
B. He is good at dealing with animals.
C. He keeps all kinds of animals on his farm.
D. He wanted to be an animal trainer when he was a child.
2.The underlined phrase “put down” in paragraph 3 can most probably be replaced by_____.
A. rescued out B. moved down
C. kept in D. made dead
3.In Berloni's opinion, he builds a good relationship with his dogs mainly because of _____.
A. his professional training B. the dogs' good state
C. his great care D. the big prizes
It was the night before the composition was due. As I looked at the list of ________, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti(意大利面条)” caught my eye. The word “spaghetti” ________the memory of an evening at Uncle Alien’s in Belleville ________all of us were seated around the table and Aunt Pat ________ spaghetti for supper. Spaghetti was an foreign ________in those days. Never had I eaten spaghetti, and ________ of the grown-ups had enough experience to be________it. What laughing ________ we had about the________respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to mouth. ________, I wanted to write about that, but I wanted to put it down ________ for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle, my composition teacher. ________him, I would write something else.
When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no time left to write a ________ composition for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morning ________ to hand in my work. Two days passed before Mr. Fleagle returned the ________ papers. He said, “Now, class, I want to read you a composition, ‘The Art of Eating Spaghetti’. ”
My words! He was reading my words out ________ to the whole class. ________ laughed, then the whole class was laughing with open-hearted enjoyment. I did my best not to show________, but what I was feeling was pure happiness, ________ my words had the power to make people________.
1.A. topics B. articles C. books D. names
2.A. called for B. took in C. brought back D. took up
3.A. since B. when C. after D. where
4.A. cooked B. served C. got D. made
5.A. experience B. treat C. treatment D. way
6.A. none B. one C. earns D. neither
7.A. careful about B. interested in C. good at D. fond of
8.A. lessons B. sayings C. speeches D. arguments
9.A. officially B. naturally C. frequently D. socially
10.A. Roughly B. Probably C. Suddenly D. Fortunately
11.A. exactly B. simply C. directly D. gradually
12.A. As for B. Apart from C. instead of D. Thanks to
13.A. short B. proper C. satisfied D. long
14.A. only B. yet C. or D. but
15.A. written B. graded C. collected D. signed
16.A. loud B. instantly C. rapidly D. calmly
17.A. People B. I C. Nobody D. Somebody
18.A. shock B. anxiety C. pleasure D. face
19.A. while B. although C. for D. so
20.A. laugh B. satisfied C. think D. excited
阅读下面材料，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well tells the story of a farmer who grew awardwinning corn.Each year he won a blue ribbon.One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.
The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year？” The reporter asked.“Why，” said the farmer, “didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and carries it from field to field.If my neighbors grow bad corn, crosspollination(异花受粉) will slowly reduce the quality of my corn.If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life.His corn cannot improve unless his neighbors' corn also improves.The lesson for each of us is this: If we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
（写作内容）
1．突出：人与人之间本应和睦相处、互帮互助、共同进步；
2．以约30个词概括短文的要点；
3．以约120词发表你的看法，谈谈你的认识。
（写作要求）
1．作文中可以使用实例来支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容论述，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
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How to Study Smarter, Not Harder
Here are some of our favorite tips that will help any student study smarter, not harder：
Recite As You Study
Recitingsaying things out loud—should first take place as you read through each paragraph or section.Test yourself.This will help you to understand as well as learn faster because it is more active than reading or listening.It will also help you to notice your mistakes and the topics you have trouble understanding.
Study the Middle
The best time to review is soon after you've learned something.You are more likely to remember the material at the beginning and the end of the lesson, so make sure you focus on the middle when you review.
Take Fuller Notes
Notes should be in your own words, brief and clear.They should be tidy and easy to read.Writing notes will help you better than just underlining as you read, since it forces you to rewrite ideas in your own words.
Sleep on it
Study before going to bed, unless you are very tired.It's easier to remember material you've just learned after sleeping than after an equal period of daytime activity, because your brain continues to think even after you've fallen asleep.
Combing Memory and Understanding
There are two ways to remember：by memorizing and by understanding.Multiplication tables, telephone numbers, and math formulas are better learned by rote(死记硬背)while ideas are best learned by understanding.
The more ways you have to think about an idea, the more meaning it will have：the more meaningful the learning, the better you can remember it.Pay attention to similarities in ideas and concepts and then try to understand how they fit in with thing you already know.Never be satisfied with anything less than a completely clear understanding of what you are reading.If you are not able to follow the thought, go back to the place where you first got confused and try again.
Titles： Tips on ________in a smarter way
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The problem with students using Google is not that the search leader is unable to offer useful educational content. It's that finding that content using simple search terms is a difficult art to master. But some educational companies and organizations aim to make it easier to find useful educational content among the Web. They are forming a working group to come up with more detailed criteria(标准)that could eventually be added into the search lines for Google, Bing, and Yahoo !
The project was encouraged by a joint move by those major search engines to help users do more effective Websearches. The idea behind the new education corporation is to determine a common “framework” for narrowing search results for education content—by subject area，or source type，or content type, or any number of possible criteria. The goal is also to persuade publishers of educational content to use a matching set of tags(分类)to help the search engines sort out their content more easily.
Search engines are used by college students, but they were not designed for them. This has been a subject of much handwringing (绝望) among professors, who worry that students are not finding the most reliable content on the Internet even if more and more content providers of good fame—textbook publishers, scholars, universities and many others—have been putting useful academic resources on the open Web.
Michael Johnson, a member who will be serving on a working group devoted to developing the framework over the next six months or so, said “The project is aimed at benefiting the publishers of educational content as much as students. ”
1.What may annoy students using Google to help them?
A. They can't search useful educational content at home.
B. Google doesn't provide valuable educational content.
C. It's hard to find educational content in simple and effective ways.
D. There are so many students searching the same using Google now.
2.To improve Web searches for students the working group will ________.
A. demand the major search engines offer more content
B. train more students to surf safely on the Internet
C. ask students to use more kinds of search engines
D. link better standards to the major search engines
3.What may publishers of educational content help in the joint move?
A. They should produce less educational content with better quality.
B. They can set standard tags to match with searched contents.
C. They may develop better searching software.
D. They will provide more educational content.
4.From the third paragraph we can see ________.
A. not all content providers of good fame offer reliable content
B. textbook publishers shouldn't put resources on the open Web
C. college professors don't believe in content on the Internet
D. college students don't know how to use search engines
