Recreational pursuits() can be a part of everyday life, 365 days a year in Vancouver. We provide and maintain playgrounds, sports fields, ice rinks, fitness centers, indoor and outdoor pools, beaches, tennis courts, golf courses, skateboard parks and numerous other ways for any and all to participate. Knowledgeable staff work hard to provide leisure() activities suited to people of every age, culture and ability.
Recreation also means our 23 community() centers, serving all ages and supporting awide range of recreational, social and cultural pursuits. Programs include aerobics arts and many more. Community centers are cooperatively operated with people living nearby, making for good partnerships between city government and its residents.
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Arts and Culture
Benefits of Recreation
Community Centres
Recreation Programs
Recreation for All
Access Services
Adapted Programs
Childcare
Day Camps
Get out! Youth Initiative
Leisure Access Card program LAC)
Seniors Programs and Services
Youth Activities and Services
Forms and Schedules
Application Forms for Picnics and Events Leisure Guide 2008
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Basketball
Beaches
Fitness Centre
Football Fields
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Ice Rinks
Lacrosse
Lawn Bowling
Picnic Sites
Playgrounds
Playing Fields
Racquet/Squash Courts
Rugby Fields
Swimming Pools
Tennis Courts
Volleyball
Wading Pools & Water/Spray
1. This advertisement is intended for ____.
A. people living in nearby cities   B. 23 community centers
C. residents of Vancouver        D. the government of Vancouver
2. From Leisure Guide 2008, you may probably find information about ____.
A. arts and culture             B. recreation programs
C. plans and timetable of different activities   D. partnerships between city government and its residents
3. You will probably click _____ to help your grandparents find some leisure activities.
A. Seniors Programs and Services   B. Football Fields
C. Rugby Fields                 D. Adapted Programs

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1. 從Recreational pursuits() can be a part of everyday life, 365 days a year in Vancouver.可以看出
2. 從Forms and Schedules
Application Forms for Picnics and Events Leisure Guide 2008 可以看出
3. 針對(duì)your grandparents 所以選A, senior指老年人
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Several studies published in the past few weeks reflect on these questions. The findings provide comfort to poor families.
First, it appears that only the minority actually pay the "high price". A study by the US Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics found that 55 percent of college students last year received some forms of help--scholarships, loans(貸款)or jobs.
Other factors are also at work. The government has increased the size of its grants (補(bǔ)助金)to lower-income students. Grants, unlike loans, don't have to he repaid and are awarded only to college students who have not earned a bachelor's or professional degree.
At the same time, most colleges are spending more on undergraduate education than they are collecting in tuition fees. A study, which is part of the Williams College Project on the Economics of Higher Education, reaches the conclusion that on average colleges “subsidize (贊助)” their students. The results of these studies, however, leave unanswered the questions of whether educational costs are higher than they need to be. Some experts argue that much of the college cost results from educational competition for fame, students and facilities.
This puts upward pressure on tuition, hut many colleges feel that good fame will enable them to attract students even if they charge them more.
Therefore, until something important changes in the marketplace, costs seem likely to continue rising. And American families will continue to beat down the doors of the high price "college in the end.
小題1: From the fourth paragraph of the passage we can conclude that _______.
A.American families earn only a little money every year
B.American families pay little attention to education
C.American students often have to stop their studies
D.American colleges have different ways to help poor students
小題2: In the writer's opinion, for students from lower-income families, the best way is ________.
A.to find a good job and make money
B.to borrow money from the banks
C.to ask for grants
D.to borrow money from friends
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A.famous colleges only accept rich students.
B.famous colleges charge their students more money
C.the government spends little money on education
D.families often break the doors of colleges
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A.college fees rise too fast for poor families.
B.poor people should borrow money from banks
C.poor people don’t need to send their children to college
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What are my strengths?
1.Am I interested in liberal arts or science or business?
2.What kind of learning environment is best for me?
3.Would I be more comfortable in a small school or a large one?
4.Do I want to stay close to home or live far away?
5.Would I prefer to be in a city environment or a small college town?
6.Do I like being with people who are mostly like me or do I want to meet a different group?
Ask friends and older people who are in college about their schools and about other schools they’re familiar with. Talk to one of your teachers and go to college fairs when they visit your town.
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And remember: you’re not the only one making a decision. Schools are picking from a large pool of students. They want to know how excellent you are and what makes you stand out from everyone else. They will look at your school performance, test scores, and so on, so it’s important to devote time and effort to all these things.
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A.in which aspect you are superior to others
B.what kind of people you’d like to meet
C.what kind of college environment you like
D.whether the college has an exchange-student program
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A.visit the schools when they have regular classes
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C.go to college fairs with your friends
D.discuss them with your teachers
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A.you can’t make the decision all by yourself
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A. likes to send e-mails                 B. likes to buy goods online
C. likes to pay for entertainment         D. likes the games sites
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A. it is more difficult for sales returns        B. people haven’t computers
C. people can’t have a look at the goods      D. goods bought online are of low quality
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They 5 _____ sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6 ____ came, right there in the living room. Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7 ____ her shoulder at once, startled(嚇一跳), 8_____. It was 9 _____.Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10_____ floor and blurted out(脫口而出), “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”
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“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.
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The father 14____, “What then would you 15____ as the cause of its fall?”
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“It won’t 16_____, girl. It sounds more 17_____ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you 18_____them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was 19_____ in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you 20____ it only this way?”
“Only this way,” the father said.
小題1:
A.ownerB.hostC.guestD.master
小題2:
A.friendsB.neighborsC.childrenD.guests
小題3:
A.knowingB.rememberingC.hearingD.thinking
小題4:
A.thermosB.cupC.lidD.tea
小題5:
A.enjoyedB.remained C.imaginedD.hated
小題6:
A.strangerB.hostC.crashD.noise
小題7:
A.a(chǎn)roundB.a(chǎn)tC.behindD.over
小題8:
A.staringB.watchingC.shoutingD.crying
小題9:
A.helpless B.exciting C.strangeD.terrible
小題10:
A.broken B.streamingC.dirtyD.flooded
小題11:
A.touchedB.used C.hitD.moved
小題12:
A.facedB.shadow C.reflectionD.a(chǎn)ction
小題13:
A.calm B.stillC.silentD.straight
小題14:
A.shoutedB.murmured C.laughedD.repeated
小題15:
A.tellB.makeC.a(chǎn)cceptD.give
小題16:
A.do B.helpC.goD.fit
小題17:
A.comfortable B.friendlyC.a(chǎn)cceptable D.a(chǎn)greeable
小題18:
A.defend B.supportC.discussD.a(chǎn)rgue
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A.kept B.shutC.worried D.lost
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American’s genius with high technology may have put men on the moon, but there is growing doubt about its ability to solve human problems closer to home.
In fact, a slight but significant change from purely technological solutions is already under way as scientists insist that answers to the world’s problems will not come from an attractive exhibition of electronics and machines. Instead, as they see it, solutions must develop from a better understanding of the humans that drive the system and from a fuller appreciation of the limits and potential(潛能) of the earth’s resources.
What this means is an increased emphasis on the life and earth sciences, on sociology, psychology, economics and even philosophy.
More and more of the best minds in science, particularly young researchers, are being drawn into these developing fields.
All this is not to say that technological creativity will not play a critical role in solving energy and food shortages, or that answers to environmental difficulties will not come from further advances in the same technologies that may have helped cause the problems.
Where the real challenge lies, in the view of the new generation of scientists, is in finding ways to produce goods and meet the world’s needs, using less of the raw materials that are becoming short.
小題1:Which of the following would the author probably agree with?
A.The environment crisis will not be solved unless we stop using virgin(原始)materials.
B.In scientific research, a higher priority(優(yōu)先)should be given to understanding all living systems.
C.Exploration of outer space will finally lead to an improvement on human living conditions.
D.U. S. high-technology companies are welcoming this new change in scientific research.
小題2:Which of the following best expresses the main idea?
A.a(chǎn) growing number of Americans are doubtful about what high technology can do in solving the world’s problems.
B.Many scientists are beginning to believe that the better understanding of human beings will play a more decisive role in solving the world’s problems.
C.More and more young scientists are trying their best to find new ways to solve the world’s problems.
D.Technological creativity will still play a very important part in solving the world’s problems.
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A.existing products be improved.
B.more complex machines and electronic equipment be designed.
C.ways be found to produce better goods using fewer raw materials.
D.a(chǎn)ny new invention and innovation be encouraged in technology
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C.environmental pollutionD.a(chǎn)ll of the above
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A.the development of present techniques cannot provide any answers to today’s problems.
B.a(chǎn)n increasing number of young scientists are taking a great interest in biological and social sciences.
C.many scientists have come to understand the limits of natural resources.
D.many scientists argue that high technology is something but not everything.

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We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests' coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom.
The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids.
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I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big "to do" over the younger one because she's the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions.
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I said, "What are you doing, my dear?"
She turned to me with a sad expression and said, "Mommy, why don't people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I 'm not pretty? Is that why they don't say nice things about me as much?"
I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging her to make her feel better.
Now, whenever I visit a friend's home, I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.
56.The underlined expression ' make a big "to do" over' (paragraph 4) means ______.
A.show much concern about              B.have a special effect on
C.list jobs to be done for                 D.do good things for
57.The guests praised Kelly for carrying coats upstairs because of her ______.
A.beautiful hair                         B.pretty clothes
C.lovely smile                          D.young age
58.Kristen felt sad and cried because ______.
A.the guest gave her more coats to carry
B.she didn't look as pretty as Kelly
C.the guests praised her sister more than her
D.her mother didn't introduce her to the guests
59.We can conclude from the passage that ______.
A.parents should pay more attention to the elder children
B.the younger children are usually more easily hurt
C.people usually like the younger children more
D.a(chǎn)dults should treat children equally
60.Which of the following saying is right?
A.Kristen and Kelly are not getting along with each other.
B.Kristen is older than Kelly.
C.The mother likes Kristen more than Kelly.
D.People usually talk more to Kelly than they do to Kristen.

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  It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.
I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!
Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.
Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun. I wasn’t really sure whether people said this,but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.
In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we’re meeting”. They couldn't say it to me, though; 1 refused to have one. So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message (either spoken or written)for them on their phone.Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!  
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A.it was a firm arrangement       B.it was an uncertain arrangement
C.the arrangement should be written as a diaryD.he prefers a pencil to a pen
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小題3:Which of the following has not been used as a verb, yet?
A.messageB.pageC.email D.mobile
小題4:The best title for this passage is____.
A.New Verbs from Old NounsB.The Development of the English language
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Happiness and sadness are states of being that define the way we view the world. It is often said that some people by nature have a sunny character. Now scientists may have discovered why.
Some people may be born for happiness, while others are genetically negative, scientists have suggested in a study published late February in a British journal.
Earlier research had already established that the gene known as 5-HTTLPR plays a key role in determining how the neurotransmitter (神經(jīng)傳遞素) serotonin (含于血液中的復(fù)合胺) works within the brain. Serotonin, a hormone (荷爾蒙), passes chemical messages between nerve cells. It has been closely linked to mood. Several anti-depressant (抗抑郁) drugs regulate serotonin levels. Scientists had also identified three variants (變體) of the gene. Two so-called "short" variants were linked to a higher risk of depression and suicide attempts. Unlike the two "short" variants, the "long" variant of 5-HTTLPR showed a clear dislike of negative images, such as fierce animals, and a clear liking for positive ones, such as flowers.
Researchers from the University of Essex in Britain, led by Elaine Fox, showed participants a series of images. The images were divided into three kinds: negative ones aimed at inspiring fear or stress such as a spider or person about to commit suicide, pleasant ones and neutral (中性的) ones. The participants who had the long variant of the 5-HTTLPR gene "showed a clear dislike of negative material alongside a careful attention for positive material," the researchers found. They paid close attention to the pretty pictures, and ignored the frightening ones. On the other hand, the short variant groups had the opposite reaction.
In January, the Australian government organized "happiness workshops", teaching government staff how to be happy. The department that held the "happiness workshops" said unhappy staff weren't productive staff. Australian political opposition parties have argued that the "happiness workshops" are probably a waste of money and couldn't increase productivity as intended. However, whether the workshop will have a happy or disappointing result, we will have to wait and see.
1. For the passage,by what means can we view the world?
A. Happiness and sadness.                                        B. Happiness and curiosity.
C. Sadness and amazement.                                      D. Disappointment and sadness.
2. What is most important in the role of deciding how the the neurotransmitter serotonin works within the brain?
A. The gene known as 5-HTTLPR.                            B. Three variants.
C. Neurotransmitter serotonin       .                                  D. A hormone.
3 Which of the following sentences is WRONG?
A. Serotonin, a hormone within the brain., passes chemical messages between nerve cells, which has been closely linked to mood.                                  
B. Scientists identified the two "short" variants, and the "long" variant of 5-HTTLPR which showed a clear hatred of negative images, such as fierce animals.     
C. Scientists identified three variants of the gene. Two so-called "long" variants were linked to a higher risk of depression and murder attempts.                        
D. In terms of researchers’ research, the images were divided into three kinds: negative ones, pleasant ones and neutral ones.  
4. Why did the Australian government organize “Happiness workshops”?
A. To enrich staff’s free life.                                
B. To teach staff the ways to be happy.
C. To prove the result of the researchers’ research.     
D. To test who weren’t productive staff.
5. What is the result of setting up “Happiness workshops” according to the last paragraph?
A. A waste of money.                                             
B. No effect on increasing productivity.
C. A disappointing result       .                                 
D. An uncertain result.

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