This course is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their typing. The course is not common. You are tested in the first class, and begin practising at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.
Course fee: $125 Materials: $25
Two hours for each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks.
This course is taught by a number of professional business education teachers who have successfully taught typing course before.
UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can or can’t do and how to use them.
Course fee：$75 Jan 4,7,11,14,18 Wed.&Sat. 9:00---11:30 a.m. Equipment fee:$10
David is a professor of Computer Science at Beijing University. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer field.
STOP SMOKING
Do you want to stop smoking? Have you ever tried and failed? Now is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-course will help you do it.
Course fee：$30 Jan 2,9,16,23 Mon 2:00---5:00 p.m.
Dr. John is a practicing psychologist who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking.If you choose the UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS course, you will have
classes_______.
| A．twice | B．three times | C．four times | D．five times |
Mr. Black works every morning and evening, but he wants to take part in one of the three
courses. Your suggestion is __________.
| A．TYPING | B．UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS |
| C．STOP SMOKING | D．all the courses |
If you want to learn about computers, and at the same time you want to improve your
typing, you will pay ______________.
| A．$75 | B．$150 | C．$115 | D．$235 |
The special difference between the TYPING course and the other two is that __________.
| A．people with different skill levels pay differently. |
| B．you will take a test in the first class for level decision |
| C．you will pay the fee before practicing typing. |
| D．you will pay less money for your study. |
Walking
If you want to get healthy or stay healthy, there is one easy activity for you - walking. You may think that simply taking a walk is not enough to make a big difference. You may think that you need to do something like running to stay healthy. Well, a new study says that is not true. It finds out that walking may be as good for us as running.
Running is a high-impact ( 高强度的 ) activity and can be hard on the body. So, many people cannot run. Walking seems to have all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages of running.
Dr Russell Pate is a professor of exercise science at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He says, "Walking is one of the easiest and safest exercises a person can do. You do not need to learn a lot to get results."
Walking needs no special skills or equipment . You can do it anywhere. It fits easily into your daily schedule ( 日程表 ). You can walk at work. You can walk if you want to go shopping. You can take the stairs instead of the lift.
Walking is a great exercise for beginners. If you are out of shape or getting back into shape after an illness or accident, walking is perfect. You can do a little at a time, or as we like to say, take baby steps.
62. The new study shows that ________.
| A． | running is better than walking |
B． | walking is the best way of exercising |
| C． | walking and running are not good enough |
D． | walking is as good as running |
63. Dr Russell Pate says walking is one of the easiest and safest exercises because ________.
| A． | walking is a high-impact activity and can be easy on the body |
| B． | walking needs no skills |
| C． | walking needs no special skills or equipment |
| D． | walking has more advantages than running |
and we can do it anywhere64. What does the underlined word "equipment" in Paragraph 5 mean in Chinese?
| A． | 器材 |
B． | 食宿 |
C． | 机会 |
D． | 阶段 |
65. Which one is TRUE according to this passage?
| A． | Walking is not good for a beginner. |
| B． | Walking seems to have all of the advantages of running. |
| C． | You'd better drive when you want to go shopping. |
| D． | Walking does harm to all people after an illness or accident. |
66. What is the writer's purpose of writing this passage?
| A． | To tell people that they shouldn't walk more. |
B． | To tell people that walking is a waste of time. |
| C． | To tell people that they should walk more. |
D． | To tell people that they don't need to run any more. |
| The 8th Inter-School Musical Show! The school is hosting the 8th Inter-School Musical Show for Grades 9-11 on December 19 at Harrington Center, Bank Road at 9 am. All students are welcome to try out for the show at the audition ( 试演 ), which will be held on December 8 at 9 am in the school's Central Hall. For more information, please email Mr. Black, the secretary of the Music Club, at black123@126.com . North Hill Field Day! Grades 7-9: 9:30-11:30 am Grades 10-12: 1:40-3:40 pm Dear parents, On Friday, December 11, we will be holding our North Hill Field Day. It will be a day of laughs and lots of fun. Be sure to tell your children to bring cameras and take pictures. The purpose of the day is for our school to get together for an enjoyable two-hour activity. There won't be any competitions among the students. The real reward ( 奖励 ) will be happiness and the feeling of participation ( 参与 ). |
57. Where should you go if you want to try out for the show at the audition?
| A． | North Hill. |
B． | Harrington Center. |
C． | The Music Club. |
D． | The school's Central Hall. |
58. What does Mr. Black do?
| A． | A teacher. |
B． | A secretary. |
C． | A director. |
D． | A manager. |
59. North Hill Field Day will be held on _______.
| A． | December 8 |
B． | December 9 |
C． | December 11 |
D． | December 19 |
60. What should students take with them to take part in North Hill Field Day?
| A． | Cameras. |
B． | Sunglasses. |
C． | Notebooks. |
D． | Lunches. |
61. The purpose of North Hill Field Day is to _______.
| A． | take part in the speaking competition |
B． | hand in a report of the trip |
| C． | join a club after the trip |
D． | make the students enjoy the trip together |
Have your mom or grandma ever made embroidered （刺绣的） clothes for you? People in the past often embroidered on handkerchiefs（手帕）, bed covers and dresses. Girls would embroider on a sachet （香囊）as a gift for their lovers.
Shu embroidery comes from Sichuan. It is the oldest kind of embroidery in China. People began to make it during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). They sold it to other countries along the South Silk Road.
Embroidery takes time. It might take as long as a whole day to finish just 10 cm. By the 1970s, Sichuan had as many as 5, 000 embroiderers. But since modern machines can make cheaper embroidery products today, fewer people are buying handmade Shu embroider products. Young people aren't learning the skill. To protect this skill, Shu embroidery was added to China's intangible cultural heritage （非物质文化遗产） list in 2006.
Meng Dezhi, a national-level inheritor（国家级传承人）of the skill, has been making Shu embroidery for 40 years. After her factory closed down in 2005, she didn't give up loving this form of art. So she decided to teach others to make Shu embroidery. The work is hard and the pay is low. Not many people want to learn it. But Meng wants to change that. She now teaches it in universities and communities.
Shu embroidery stands for（代表）thousands of years of Sichuan culture. We should try to save it.
76. Where does Shu embroidery come from?
77. How many embroiderers did Sichuan have by the 1970s?
78. Are many people buying handmade Shu embroidery products today?
79. How long has Meng Dezhi been making Shu embroidery?
80. What does Shu embroidery stand for?
There are about 1. 4 billion （十亿）people in China. WeChat is part of life for many Chinese. We use it to chat, send photos, pay for things, etc. It is playing a bigger role. But do you know who invented WeChat? The man behind it is Zhang Xiaolong. He is the vice president（副总裁） of Tencent and is called "Father of WeChat".
Zhang Xiaolong was born in Shaoyang, Hunan Province in 1969.
He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1994. While at university he had many hobbies, such as chess, tennis and bowling. His classmates said whatever he did, he could get quite good atit after trying hard for several years. He liked to sleep late, but that didn't mean he was lazy. He would keep working hard on something for many hours till midnight
Such a clever and hard-working man would surely succeed. In 1997, he created Foxmail and achieved success. He created WeChat in 2011, and it became a bigger success. It is so easy to use. _______. Because of it, Zhang has become rich and successful, but he always keeps a low profile（低调）. Few people know about him. He only lets his work speak for him. You may have a good understanding of him by using WeChat.
January 21, 2021 was the10th birthday of WeChat. It's said that Zhang Xiaolong is making his another 10-year plan for WeChat. Will he surprise us again? That's for sure.
46. If you forget to take money, you can______ by WeChat.
| A． | cook |
B． | chat |
C． | send photos |
D． | pay for things |
47. Zhang Xiaolong left his university ______.
| A． | in 1969 |
B． | in 1994 |
C． | in 1997 |
D． | in 2011 |
48. According to Zhang's classmates, he was ______ at university.
| A． | lazy |
B． | hard-working |
C． | relaxed |
D． | friendly |
49. Which of the following can be put in the ______in the third paragraph?
| A． | About one billion people use it now |
| B． | Few people find WeChat very interesting |
| C． | People never use WeChat in their daily life |
| D． | Someone likes using WeChat to do many things |
50. Which of the following is TRUE?
| A． | Zhang Xiaolong likes speaking for himself. |
| B． | People have used WeChat for less than ten years. |
| C． | WeChat is playing a bigger role in people's lives. |
| D． | Zhang Xiaolong can get good at something easily. |
Have you ever heard of "Who knows that each bowl of rice is the fruit of hard toil （苦工）?" It tells us not to waste food.
As we all know, every bit of food we eat comes from hard work. It's not easy to turn a seed（种子）into the food you can eat. Recently, to help students better understand this, the No. 4 Middle School in Huzhou, Zhejiang held an activity. Under the hot sun, hundreds of students went to a field to experience farming. With the help of others, they learned how to grow rice and pick vegetables. After the activity, they better understood how hard farming was.
Many countries are facing the food-shortage problem now. According to the UN, there are 820 million people living in hunger today. Our country used to face this problem, too. In the 1960s, because there wasn't much food, many people even died from hunger. In 1973, Yuan Longping and his team succeeded in the development of hybrid（杂交）rice. They made great progress in solving our food-shortage problem. Many scientists like Yuan are always going out of their way to solve this problem now.
When we waste food, we waste not only food but also resources（资源）for growing, transporting and cooking the food. These all take energy, time and water. Wasting food also creates greenhouse gas. So food waste is bad for the environment, too.
Please value what you're eating.
41. The poem tells us not to______.
| A． | throw food |
B． | waste food |
C． | pollute food |
D． | hate food |
42. Students from Huzhou______ on the farm.
| A． | sold seeds |
B． | grew vegetables |
| C． | understood each other |
D． | experienced farming |
43. Chinese people ______ in the 1960s.
| A． | had a hard life |
B． | died from illnesses |
| C． | had much food |
D． | ate a new kind of rice |
44. Saving food is______ for the environment.
| A． | good |
B． | bad |
C． | safe |
D． | meaningless |
45. The main idea of this passage is ______.
| A． | how we should save food |
| B． | why we should value food |
| C． | where we can experience farming |
| D． | how we should protect the environment |
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