short days. This tour mixes outdoor tasks, and cultural learning to create an amazing journey. And did I mention Guizhou’s famous cuisine（佳肴）?
Quoted Price:U.S.$735/person Single room supplement:U.S.$135/person Tour C-Sanya Flight+Accommodation Group Package
The island resort of Sanya is famed for its long sandy beaches and crystal blue waters. Under swaying palms, holiday makers lay back and forget about the stresses of their everyday lives. Beyond the bars and restaurants of Sanya. Spiritual nourishment（营养品）can be found in Hainan’s many temples and much joy can be found in the wildlife reserves dotted around the island.
Quoted Price:U.S. $500/person
Tour D-Ancient China and Splendid East Private Tour
If you want to explore China’s remarkable history and discover the differences from city to city, then this tour is just right for you, from the greatest wonders of the world to classical Chinese gardens and water towns, numerous splendid scenes will definitely give you a good opportunity.
Quoted Price :U.S.$368/person 2-5 person:U.S. $289/person 25.Which tour will you choose if you want to know the history of China?
A.Tour A or B
B.Tour B or C
C.Tour C or D
D.Tour A or D
26.What has made Sanya well-known?
A.The bars and restaurants C.Spiritual nourishment.
B.Long beaches and clear waters D.The wildlife reserves
27.Where does this text probably come from?
A.A travel guide
B.A travel diary D.A press comment C
At any given time, there are thousands of pairs of shoes in the Share Your Soles storehouse in the South Side Pullman neighborhood. They come from churches, schools and men’s and women’s clubs all over the country.
There is seldom a shortage of shoes, said Director Mona Purdy, but she can’t always say the same for the money that will allow them to get where they’re needed. “Shoes are step one,” Purdy said. “But shoes don’t get boxed and shipped without money.” So, Purdy said, she is giving an
C.A business report
open invitation to the society to support the organization’s yearly fundraiser (资金筹集活动). It will take place this year on Thursday, Sept. 18, at Burnham Park Yacht Club, from 6 to 10 p.m.
Set up in 1999 by Purdy, Share Your Soles has given out more than two million pairs of new and gently used shoes to men, women and children in developing countries throughout the world. Purdy first learned of the crying need for shoes during a trip to Central America, where she saw children painting tar (沥青) on the bottom of their feet so they could run a race at a festival in their village. She later met a visiting American doctor who told her there would be less need for him to cut off the infected (被感染的) legs of the children in the area if they had shoes to wear. Since then, Purdy has started to help people with this basic need.
While many charities (慈善团体) may share the same work, Purdy said, Share Your Soles is different in its way of giving. She insists that receivers perform an act of kindness before they are able to choose a pair of shoes to wear.
Despite (尽管) working 90 hours a week, Purdy said, her love for Share Your Soles remains strong. “This is my life,” she said.
28. What is the main problem for Share Your Soles?
A. It is short of money.
B. It receives fewer shoes. D. It is little known by the public.
C. It has no place to store shoes.
29. According to the text, Share Your Soles _____.
A. was created by a group of church members C. opens from 6 to 10 p.m. every day
B. has helped a large number of people
D. is at Burnham Park Yacht Club
30. What did Purdy learn from the visiting American doctor?
A. A local tradition of painting tar on feet.
B. The serious effects of having no shoes.
C. The common diseases of poor children. D. An important festival in Central America. 31. Those who want to receive shoes from Share Your Soles should _____.
A. pay a little money C. be a charity worker
D
These days we mostly hear news about animals being endangered. So a conservation (保护) success story is certainly one to celebrate. Researchers have recently noted that Californian Blue Whales have been making a comeback!
B. be young children D. do a good thing first
Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on the earth. They have been on the list of endangered animals for a while now. Humans hunted blue whales more than 100 years ago, and the animals almost die out. It is only recently that some of their cousins are returning. It has been found that there are now about 2,200 Californian Blue Whales today — nearly 97% of the original (原先的) population, before humans started whaling.
Blue whales can live up to about 80 to 90 years. They are also one of the loudest animals on the earth. They make noises that other whales can hear, up to 100 miles away. They spend winters in warm waters to give birth and travel to the Arctic (北极的) seas during summer in search of food.
Long ago, there used to be plentiful blue whales in the oceans and numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Now, there are only 10,000 to 25,000 of them worldwide. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people would hunt whales for their organs (器官). Japan and Russia were among the best-known whaling nations. They hunted whales for food, clothing and other valuable products. Over-hunting caused the whale population to become smaller.
Conservation efforts of the last few years have certainly paid off. These include efforts to stop catches and increased monitoring of whales’ living places. Saving blue whales cannot be a local effort; it will need everybody around the world to come together. 32. Recently, Californian Blue Whales _____.
A. are increasing in number
B. are becoming endangered D. are a lot thinner than other whales
C. are being hunted by the locals 33. Paragraph 4 is mainly about _____.
A. the history of whaling
B. the value of blue whales
C. the difficulties of hunting blue whales
D. the reason why blue whales became endangered
34. Conservation work on whales in the past few years can best be described as _____.
A. easy C. successful
B. interesting D. late
35. The underlined word “plentiful” in the 4th paragraph means _______.
A. a lot of
B. a great deal of
E
C. a little
D. a few
The argan forest in Morocco, northwest Africa, is a very special place. The trees help to stop the spread of the desert. It takes between 40 to 60 years for an argan tree to become an adult. And scientists say that the tree may live for 200 to 400 years. But this long growing time can be a problem. When someone cuts down an argan tree, it takes a very long time for another one to grow and replace it.
The women in Morocco make a special product from the trees: argan oil. They gather the fruit from the ground. Then, they take the seeds (籽) out of the fruit. When these seeds dry, they pound them between two stones to remove the oil.
In the past, the women produced argan oil to use in cooking, on their skin, and to treat sicknesses. In the 1990s people in Europe began to learn about the special qualities of the oil, so the production of argan oil started to change. Many companies in the West moved to Morocco and used chemicals (化学物质) to get the oil out of the seeds, pushing out the native people and also making the argan forest suffering.
So the Moroccan government started to help fix this problem. First, they talked to UNESCO. In 1998, UNESCO recognized the argan forest as a special place that the world will protect. The second step was to encourage the women in Morocco to form cooperatives (合作社). And the European Union declared that argan oil must be produced by these cooperatives.
Today there are over 50 argan oil cooperatives run by women in Southwestern Morocco. These cooperatives not only give women a way to help support their families but also care for the existing forest and plant more argan trees. They make sure that the argan forest will exist for many more generations. Argan oil is more than just something to eat or rub on your skin. It is a product that makes a difference.
36. What’s good about the argan tree? A. It stops the soil from blowing away. C. It has a short growing time.
B. It can live in a very wet place. D. It doesn’t break easily.
37. Why did the Western companies go to Morocco? A. To learn from the Moroccan women. C. To trade with the natives.
B. To learn about the argan tree. D. To produce argan oil.
38. Why does argan oil make a difference? A. It helps the people in Morocco.
B. It helps the world get to know Africa.
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