Welcome To International Summer School
An enjoyable English language learning experience ── together with organized sports, activities and excursion(外出游学) program.
International Summer School runs 3 different summer school centers for boys and girls aged from 8-21 years in the South of England. Our schools are chosen for their location, accommodation and excellent sporting and art facilities.
International Summer School has grown increasingly popular and attracts high student numbers each summer. We have many students and staff who return each year. Our courses are personal and of high quality. Students can surely have an exciting and enjoyable experience while improving their English at the same time.
Bethany Centre is situated in the heart of Kent in the beautiful countryside, very close to the village of Goudhurst, with its old fashioned shops and cafes, and Marden with its direct train route to central London. The historic large town of Tunbridge Wells is only 15 minutes away. Gatwick and Heathrow airports are easily accessible, as are Eurostar International Stations at Ashford and Ebbsfleet.
Moira House is based in Eastbourne on the south coast of England in the much favored Meads area of the town, within walking distance of the seafront and town centre. Gatwick Airport is about half an hour's drive away and Heathrow around 40 minutes.
Eastbourne Centre is situated directly on the seafront and only a few minutes walk away from the main town centre, with its theatres, museums, art galleries, nightclubs, cafes, restaurants and good selection of indoor and outdoor shopping. Gatwick Airport is about half an hour's drive away and Heathrow around 20 minutes.
The aim of International Summer School is to create a lively and happy atmosphere that makes learning and international communication enjoyable. Young people can have fun, but also gain considerable skills in English. A full day in London is always included, as well as other places of cultural interest.
Students of all cultures are welcomed as our aim is to create a summer school which can truly be described as International.
When we return your child to you at the end of their stay, we hope they will feel enriched by their experience with us and will look forward to returning to meet friends made at International
Summer School the following year, as so many do.
Learning English should be fun ── at International Summer School it is fun! 60. If you want to experience traditional English culture, you’d better go to _____. A. Marden
B. Moira House
C. Goudhurst
D. Eastbourne Center
61. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
A. all the three centers have easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow airports B. the three centers are not very far from each other
C. students will spend most of the time taking part in organized activities D. learning English in International Summer School should be fun 62. The target readers of the passage are probably _____. A. teachers
B. children
C. parents C
Mountaineers have noted that as they climb, for example, up to the 12,633-foot Humphreys Peak in Arizona, plant life changes greatly. In the Sonoran Desert, one climbs into a pine forest at 7,000 feet and a treeless tundra(冻土带) on the top of the mountain. It may seem that plants at a given altitude are associated in what can be called \──groupings of species. The idea is that over time, plants that require particular climate and soil conditions come to live in the same places, and are frequently to be found together. Scientists study the history of plant life and build up a picture of how groups of plants have responded to climate changes and how ecosystems develop. But are these associations, which are real in the present, permanent? A great natural experiment took place on this planet between 25,000 and 10,000 years ago, when small changes in the earth’s orbit caused great sheets of ice to spread from poles. These glaciers(冰川) covered much of North America and Europe to depths of up to two miles, and then, as the climate warmed, they retreated. During this retreat, they left behind newly uncovered land for living things to occupy, and as those living things moved in they laid down a record we can read now. As the ice retreated and plants started to grow near a lake, they release pollen(花粉). Some would fall into the lake, sink to the bottom and mix with the sand. By drilling into the lake bottom it is possible to read the record of the plant life around the lake. The fossil record seems clear; there is little or no evidence that entire groups of plants moved north together. Things that
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lived together in the past don’t live together now, and things that live together now didn’t live together in the past. Each individual living things moved at its own pace. The fossil record seems to be telling us that we should be thinking about preserving species by giving them room to move about──to respond to environmental changes.
63. According to the passage, the movement of individual species of plants _____. A. occurs in groups
B. often depends upon the formation of lakes C. does not occur in groups
D. depends upon climate and soil conditions 64. All of the following are true EXCEPT _____.
A. The ice age occurred when there were small changes in the orbit of the earth
B. Fossil records seem to indicate that plants will be preserved if they have enough room to move C. Fossil records clearly show that entire groups of plants are unlikely to have moved together D. In the ice age glaciers covered the world to depths of up to two miles 65. The underlined word “which” refers to _____. A. the responses of plants to climate changes B. the current theories of ecosystems C. the development of ecosystems D. plant life changes
66. The second paragraph is intended to _____. A. support the main idea of the first paragraph B. answer the question raised in first paragraph
C. make suggestions about responding to environmental changes D. stress the importance of preserving species
D
When staring at the picture of Pilgrim in the bed of hospital, Grace had already decided what she was going to do. She knew they’d try and get her to ride him again, though she had only one leg left. But she wasn’t going to, ever. She would tell her parents to give him back to the people in Kentucky. She couldn’t bear the idea of selling him locally where she might come across him one
day being ridden by someone else. She would go and see him one more time, to say good-bye. But that was all.
Pilgrim came home for Christmas too, a week earlier than Grace, and no one at Cornell was sad to see the back of him. It was said that the wounds were healing well, the skin grafts(皮肤移植) over the cannon bone had taken and the nose bone repair looked better than they had ever dared to hope. None of these was lie. And none of them prepared Grace for what she was about to see.
\Robert, Grace’s father, said. \isn’t how he used to be. He’s been very disturbed by what happened.\for help. \’m not sure it’s a good idea for her to see him.\
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Robert looked at Annie for a decision. It seemed to Annie that they had already gone too far to turn back. She nodded. Then there was silence. The top door was opened slowly and Grace peered in with Annie and Robert standing behind her.
Then she gave a cry and turned away and Robert had to reach out quickly to stop her from falling.
\sobbing faded and was lost on the wind.
Three weeks later, Annie, Grace and Pilgrim were on the travel to Montana for a horse whisperer who was said could talk with horse. Grace had reacted to her mother’s plan much as Annie had predicted. She had screamed and shouted and said she wasn’t going, they couldn’t make her and that was that. Annie had told Robert on his own earlier and attacked every protest(抗议) he made.
\’t go on avoiding the issue,\’s her horse for God’s sake. She can’t just wash her hands of it.\
\’s been through.\
\’t helping her, it’s making it worse. You know how much she loved him. You saw how she was that day at the stables(马厩). \
He didn’t reply, just looked down and shook his head. Annie took his hand in hers.
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