Take a day trip from Dover to Calais for just￡1.

    We've teamed up with P&O Ferries so you can enjoy a great day out in France with the family, sailing from Dover to Calais, plus, while on board, shop for lots of great bargains at reduced high street prices.

    While on board, forget the stress of the high street and shop in style with P&O Ferries. Not only can you save up to 50 percent on the UK high street prices but you’ll have plenty of choice of famous brand names such as Paul Smith, Dior, Hugo Boss, and Clinique, to name a few.

    Stock up (囤积) on champagne, wine, beer and spirits at low prices! Why not fill up the car and save up to 30% off UK beer, wine and spirits.

    If you really want to treat yourself, why not enjoy the first class dining experience－Mayfair's famous Langan’s Brasserie, free for passengers of P&O Ferries’ ships.

    Dover to Calais day trips

    Foot passenger from￡1－Travel as a foot passenger from Dover to Calais, for just ￡1 Sunday to Thursday or ￡1 on Fridays and Saturdays when booked online. There is a ￡1 more charge per person for booking by phone. Depart after 8:25 am and return before 9:00 pm the same day.

    Car afternoon trip from￡15－Depart after 12 noon and return before midnight the same day with a car and up to 9 people for￡15 when you book online here or￡20 when booked by phone.

    Car full day trip from￡18－Depart after 8:00 am and return before midnight the same day. This offer is for your car and up to 9 people from￡18 return when you book Online or￡23 by phone. A￡10 supplement applies for travel on Saturdays.

21. We can infer from the text that P&O Ferries may be ________.

  A. a famous department        B. a wine producer

  C. a big restaurant      D. a ship service company

22. Which of the following can be free?

  A. Products of famous brands.       B. UK beer, wine and spirits.

  C. Dinner of Langan’s Brasserie.      D. Use of cars during the trip.

23. The price for “foot passenger” on Saturday booked by phone is_______ per person.

  A. ￡1      B.￡2      C. ￡5       D. ￡6

24. What’s the main purpose of the text?

  A. To advertise a service.

  B. To tell the arrangement of a trip.

  C. To compare prices from different companies.

  D. To introduce a new company.

    With autumn on the horizon, the season’s first Oscar competitors are here. Already, the Hollywood Reporter has predicted that the often-snubbed(冷落的) Leonardo DiCaprio could win. Although before we  get swept up in predictions, it’s nice to remember that little gold men are not the reason we love the movies. They shouldn’t be the primary reason for acting in them either.

    Bill Murray knows this first hand. Murray was positioned to win his first-ever Oscar Academy Award for 2004’s “Lost in Translation”, but he lost it to Sean Penn. Years later, Murray explained how he took the defeat in stride(从容应对), and his words should act as a blueprint for anyone who has failed:

    “I went through it once before and it’s nice to get nominated and win some prizes. You get to go to dinners and tell little stories and so forth. Then you get to get dressed up. And then you get to be on TV, which is sweet. And you can either win or lose. Well you’re not supposed to say ‘lose’ when you talk about the Oscar. You are supposed to say ‘not chosen’. But I later realized that I had gotten a little caught up in the possibility of winning. So, shame on myself for getting caught in it. But I won a lot of the prizes for Lost in Translation. So I thought it didn’t seem unnatural to expect that I would be rewarded just one more time. So when it didn’t happen, I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of funny.’ But to get prizes is not why you work.”

   Murray isn’t alone in those feelings. No mention of actors without Oscars would be complete without recognition of Leonardo DiCaprio, who said, “I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.”

   Perhaps neither Murray nor DiCaprio will ever be introduced as an Academy Award-winning actor, but winning an Oscar for acting shouldn’t be the point. Here are some other amazing actors who never won an Oscar, even if you think they did: Julianne Moore, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Will Smith. And they have proved that countless times before.

25. We can learn about Bill Murray from the passage that_________.

   A.  he felt ashamed that he didn’t win the Oscar.

   B.  he never expected himself to win the Oscar.

   C.  he had already won many other awards before he failed in Oscar.

   D.  he is the first actor who had been predicted to win the Oscar but failed.

26. Leonard DiCaprio is motivated to act different roles because _________

   A.  he wants to win the Oscar.      B. he can cooperate with great people.

   B.  he wants others to take pride in him.    

D. he is not the only actor who hasn’t won the Oscar.

27. The underlined word “that” in the last paragraph refers to “_________”.

   A.  Neither Murray nor DiCaprio will won an Oscar.

   B.  Winning an Oscar for acting shouldn’t be the point.

   C.  Some amazing actors have never won an Oscar.

   D.  You think that some actors should have won an Oscar.

28. What is the writer’s attitude to Leonardo’s idea on winning an Oscar?

    A. Approving.        B. Critical     C. Indifferent.        D. Neutral.

   It’s generally believed that people act the way they do because of their personalities and attitudes. They recycle their garbage because they care about the environment. They pay $5 for a caramel brulée latte because they like expensive coffee drinks.

    It’s undeniable that behavior comes from our inner dispositions(性情),but in many instances we also draw inferences about who we are, as suggested by the social psychologist Daryl Bern, by observing our own behavior. We can be strangers to ourselves. If we knew our own minds, why would we need to guess what our preferences are from our behavior? If our minds were an open book, we would know exactly how much we care about the environment or like lattes. Actually, we often need to look to our behavior to figure out who we are.

    Moreover, we don’t just use our behavior to learn about our particular types of character—we infer characters that weren’t there before. Our behavior is often shaped by little pressures around us, which we fail to recognize. Maybe we recycle because our wives and neighbors would disapprove if we didn’t. Maybe we buy lattes in order to impress the people around us. We should not believe that we always behave as a result of some inner disposition.

Whatever pressures there can be or inferences one can make, people become what they do, though it may not be in compliance(符合)with their true desires. Therefore, we should all bear in mind Kurt Vonnegut’s advice: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

29. According to the passage, personalities and attitudes are commonly believed to______.

    A. determine one’s behavior      B. reflect one’s taste

    C. influence one’s surroundings     D. result from one’s habits

30. Which of the following would Daryl Bern most probably agree with?

    A. A kind person will offer his seat to the old.

    B. One buys latte out of true love of coffee.

    C. One recycles plastics to protect the environment.

    D. The return of a wallet can indicate one’s honesty.

31. What can be inferred from the underlined sentence in the passage?

A. We fail to realize our inner dispositions.    

B. We can be influenced by outside pressures.

C. Our behavior is the result of our true desires. 

D. Our characters can shape our social relationships.

32. What does the author mainly discuss in the passage?

    A. Personalities and attitudes.      B. Preferences and habits.

    C. Behavior and personalities.     D. Attitudes and preferences.

    Gravitational waves are the ripples(波纹) in the pond of space time. The gravity of large objects warps space and time, or “space time” as physicists call it, the way a bowling ball changes the shape of a trampoline(蹦床) as it rolls around on it. Smaller objects will move differently as a result — like marbles spiraling(盘旋) toward a bowling-ball-sized dent(凹迹) in a trampoline instead of sitting on a flat surface.

    Scientists announced that they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging(兼并) of two black holes in deep space. The detection was regarded as a victory for a controversial, delicately crafted, billion-dollar physics experiment and as confirmation of a key prediction of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

    There is no obvious, immediate consequence of this physics experiment, but the scientists say this opens a new window on the universe. Until now, astronomy has been almost exclusively a visual enterprise: Scientists have relied on light, visible and otherwise, to observe the cosmos.

    But now gravitational waves can be used as well. They could potentially take a census of black-hole mergers, spot the collisions of ultra-dense neutron stars(中子星), probe the inner dynamics of exploding stars and discover theoretical “cosmic strings” left over from the big bang.

    These waves will be particularly useful for studying black holes (the existence of which was first implied by Einstein’s theory) and other dark objects, because they’ll give scientists a bright beacon to search for even when objects don’t emit actual light. Mapping the abundance of black holes and frequency of their mergers could get a lot easier.

    Since they pass through matter without interacting with it, gravitational waves would come to Earth carrying undistorted information about their origin. They could also improve methods for estimating the distances to other galaxies.

    It will also start a new era of astronomy in which gravitational waves are tools for studying the most mysterious and exotic objects in the universe.

33. According to the passage, which of the following is true about the experiment of gravitational waves?

   A.  It is a success and was approved of by all.

   B.  It is well designed though time and money consuming.

   C.  It proves that black holes do give out gravitational waves.

   D.  It proves one of the key predictions of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity right.

34. Why is gravitational waves important?

   A.  Because scientists have relied on light, visible and otherwise, to observe the cosmos.

   B.  Because they have been used to discover facts about the inner dynamics of exploding stars.

   C.  Because they could make it possible to probe objects in total darkness even when they don’t give   out light.

   D.  Because mapping the abundance of black holes and frequency of their mergers could be impossible    without them.

35. The underlined word “undistorted” in paragraph 6 probably mean _______

   A.  Unrelated.      B. Unfamiliar.      C. Unchanged.     D. Unreal.

    It’s natural to greet friends with a smile and a wave.    36    But what happens if your face and body send mixed messages? Would someone be more likely to believe the look on your face or the way you hold your body?

    Scientists have recently tackled these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your face, she might not believe what she sees if your body language doesn’t match the feeling that your face shows.

   37    Previously, they had found that the tone of a person’s voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to believe a person who says in a flat voice, “I’m so excited.”

    When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston showed people a number of pictures of isolated(孤立的)faces and isolated bodies (with faces blurred out(模糊的)) that showed anger or fear.    38___

    An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrow and a slightly open mouth.    39    A scared body had arms forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.

    These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention to the face, body language subtly(微妙地) influences which emotion they read.

    40    If you want to be understood, it helps to avoid sending mixed messages.

A. Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists.

B. So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel.

C. Scientists feel new to study the mixed message that confuses people.

D. An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight.

E. Body language can sometimes be misunderstood in different culture backgrounds.

F. When you do this, your face and body work together to show your friends that you’re happy to see them.

G. They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared bodies