The Quest Centre
Set in the wild Welsh countryside, the Quest Centre offers a wide range of activities for teenagers, from archery to rope climbing. Want to try something new? Why not take part in one of our special adventure activities?
MOUNTAIN BIKING
25th March—8th April, 10:00 a.m.—6:00 p.m.
Want to put your mountain bike to the test? Join our guide for a ride on the wild side. Cost: £15 per ride.
CLIMBING
1st—30th April, 10:00 a.m.—6:00 p.m.
Try out your mountain-climbing skills in the local countryside. Don’t worry! We won’t be doing anything dangerous: just short, safe climbs. Cost: £130 per person.
SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES
Daily, all year round, 10:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Equip yourself with basic survival skills by taking part in this special 1-day course absolutely free of charge. Learn survival techniques like how to light a fire, build a shelter, find food and water, and cook over a campfire.
ABSEILING AND ROPE CLIMBING
27th August, 10:00 a.m.—8:00 p.m.
If you’ve been dying to learn about abseiling and rope climbing, now is your chance! Ken Wallace, our professional coach, will teach you everything you need to know on this special 1-day course. Cost: £150 per person.
Please note:
Phone the number at the bottom of the page for an application form.
All activities are suitable for beginners.
20% DISCOUNT (折扣) for groups of 6 or more.
The Quest Centre: St Davids, Wales Telephone: (0800)34655
Kate and her family want to choose an activity during the May Day holiday, they can choose .
| A．climbing | B．survival techniques |
| C．mountain biking | D．abseiling and rope climbing |
If a group of 20 students go to the centre, ten of them want to take part in abseiling and rope climbing and the rest choose survival techniques, they have to pay .
| A．£3000 | B．£1500 | C．£2400 | D．£1200 |
“If you’ve been dying to learn about ….” Here “dying” perhaps means “ ”.
| A．冒险 | B．避免 | C．渴望 | D．同意 |
All students need to have good study habits(习惯). When you have good study habits, you learn things quickly. You also remember them easily.
Do you like to study in the living room? This is not a good place, because it is usually too noisy. You need to study in a quiet place , like your bedroom. A quiet place will help you only to think about one thing.
When you study , do not think about other things at the same time . Only think about your homework. If you do so, you will do your homework more quickly, and you will make fewer mistakes（错误）.
Good study habits are very important. If you do not have them, try to learn them. If yours are good, try to make them better.We may ________ if we study in the living room.
| A．do our homework quickly |
| B．make a lot of mistakes in our homework |
| C．remember words easily |
| D．spend little time doing much work |
It is right for us to ______ when we study .
| A．sing a song |
| B．watch TV |
| C．talk with somebody |
| D．only think about homework |
The writer tells us how to __________.
| A．study hard | B．remember new words |
| C．study well | D．use our heads |
According to (按照) the writer . which of the following can be a good study habit ?
| A．Reading English among a lot of people . |
| B．Thinking only about maths in a maths class. |
| C．Drawing pictures while listening to the teacher. |
| D．Thinking in Chinese while talking in English. |
If you go to visit London, you’ll see a lot of buses and cars on the road. You’ll also see many bikes because more people travel by bike. Why? There are many reasons. First, it is very cheap to buy a bike, and it is quick, too. You often need to wait for a bus for half an hour. When the bus comes, there are so many other buses and cars on the roads, so the bus moves very slowly.
I travel to work by bus for about four years. I often arrive at work late and feel tired. Then one day, a friend of mine says, “I go to work by bike. Why don’t we travel together?” “Because my bike is old, and there are so many buses and cars on the roads. I’ll feel frightened.” I answer. “Don’t be afraid, if you follow me and we ride slowly, you’ll be fine.” he says.
Later, I buy a new bike. We go slowly, but we arrive at work quickly. I spend 40 minutes going by bus, but only half an hour by bike! Now I love riding a bike. And I feel healthy. Many people think my idea is good and maybe you’ll see more bikes on the road in the future. I travel to work by bus for ________.
| A．one year | B．half a year |
| C．about four years | D．two years |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Buses, cars and bikes run on the roads in London. |
| B．We spend 40 minutes going by bike. |
| C．The bus moves slowly because there are so many people in it. |
| D．I begin to ride a bike to work because I have no bus to take. |
Maybe you will see more ________ on the roads in London.
| A．cars | B．buses | C．trains | D．bicycles |
| No |
Books |
Authors（作者） |
Price |
| 1 |
Fruits and Our Health |
P. H. Francis |
$17.50 |
| 2 |
Successful planting in the garden |
Mark Brown |
$19.77 |
| 3 |
A handbook for Taiwan’s National Parks |
Jackson Fisher |
$32.00 |
| 4 |
Modern American History |
Thomas Birdsall |
$11.53 |
| 5 |
Taking care of your rabbit |
Helen Piers |
$5.39 |
Kelly wants to visit Taiwan next month. She needs to buy ________.
| A．Fruits and Our Health |
| B．Successful planting in the garden |
| C．A handbook for Taiwan’s National Parks |
| D．Modern American History |
How much is Taking care of your rabbit?
| A．$19.77. | B．$17.50. | C．$11.53. | D．$5.39. |
Who is the author of Modern American History?
| A．Thomas Birdsall. | B．Mark Brown. |
| C．P. H. Francis. | D．Helen Piers. |
Do teenagers in small villages do chores at home? How about the teenagers in big cities? Here is a survey. We asked 4,000 teenagers in China several questions. Half of them come from big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The others are from small villages. We made a diagram of the result of our survey. Let’s have a look at it. We found out that teenagers from small villages do more chores than those from big cities. Maybe it is because they live a harder life. Our advice to parents in big cities is that parents should give their children some chores to do. Doing chores teaches teenagers to take care of themselves.
| Chores |
2000 teenagers in small villages |
2000 teenagers in big cities |
| Take out the trash |
1600 |
1000 |
| Sweep the floor |
1200 |
850 |
| Make the bed |
1400 |
750 |
| Do the dishes |
1100 |
600 |
| Fold the clothes |
900 |
1500 |
56. They surveyed ______ teenagers from small villages.
| A．1,000 | B．2,000 | C．3,000 | D．4,000 |
There are 1,000 teenagers from the cities who ______.
| A．take out the trash | B．do the dishes |
| C．make the bed | D．fold the clothes |
Fewer than ______ teenagers in big cities sweep the floor and make the bed.
| A．500 | B．1,000 | C．1,500 | D．2,000 |
The number of teenagers ____ in big cities is bigger than that in small villages.
| A．making the bed |
| B．taking out the trash |
| C．folding the clothes |
| D．doing the dishes |
Why did they make the survey?
| A．Because they don’t want teenagers in China to do chores at home. |
| B．Because they thought it’ll help teenagers to take good care of themselves to do chores at home. |
| C．Because they wanted to know if teenagers in China do chores at home. |
| D．Because they thought it’s not necessary for teenagers to look after themselves. |
For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.
Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him.
“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either.”
After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.
“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”
Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.Harry's hiccups lasted ____.
| A．a week | B．fourteen days |
| C．twenty-eight days | D．one month |
His hiccups started after he ____.
| A．drank a glass of water | B．went to hospital |
| C．ate an Indian meal | D．finished his homework |
His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.
| A．hiccupped for four seconds |
| B．held his breath |
| C．hiccupped at night |
| D．couldn't stop hiccupping |
His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.
| A．gave him some medicine |
| B．took an X-ray of his chest |
| C．gave him a shock |
| D．let him drink cold drinks |
What does “shock” in this passage mean？
| A．震惊 | B．休克 | C．喷嚏 | D．哈欠 |
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