We offer five kinds of courses. Each course has been designed to help students according to their needs.

  Course 1: General English

  General English is designed to develop students’ basic communication skills in speaking and pronunciation, reading, writing, grammer and vocabulary. Tuesday to Friday: 9:00 am to 11:00 am, $ 288 per week.

  Academic English is for students who want to take the IELTS exam or for those who need to use Englishin a professional area. Monday to Friday: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, $320 per week.

  Course 3: High School ESL

  Why not make the most of your time studying in Australia with the help from TIES? We have High School ESL classes each week specially designed for international students. Tuesday to Friday: 8:00 am to 11:00 am, $25 per hour.

  Course 4: Night Classes

  Do you want to improve your English and get the best possible results in your GRE test? We have two night classes each week designed to meet your needs. Tuesday and Thursday evenings: 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm, $60 per day.

  Course 5: One on One

  If you are interested in some One on One lessons with TIES teachers, we can design a course to meet your needs. One on One lessons can improve your English language skills more quickly and help students who want to take TOEFL. Tuesday to Friday: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, $80 per hour.

21. If you are an English beginner, you’d better choose      .

A. Course 4         B. Course 3      C. Course 2       D. Course 1

22. How much will you pay if you spend two weeks taking the High School ESL course?

A. $600            B. $500         C. $300          D. $200

23. What can we learn from One on One according to the passage?

A. Its lessons are given in the morning

B. It’s more expensive than the other courses.

C. It’s especially designed for English beginners.

D. Its lessons are designed to only improve writing skills.

  I was twenty-two, and in Bolivia. I’d been to every other country in South America, and now I was set on getting into Chile, the last on the list.

  After several days, I reached the hills. It was cold, and even the distant mountains were clear. The days were lonely, but one evening I met Filomeno and his fellow teachers. They tried to persuade me not to go to Chile, saying it was a bad place, and that I would be killed. I didn’t believe them. I knew nothing of the current politics; I just wanted to go there.

  So I walked into the mountains, feeling excited, and came to a sign with the word “Chile” on it. A frightening soldier appeared, stuck a gun in my back, and pushed me down a slope to the police station. The police chief then told me, “There’s nothing for you here.” I explained that I had come to see this beautiful country. But he was annoyed.

24. What is the passage mainly about?

A. An adventure in Chile                        B. An exciting fight with soldiers in Chile

C.Why the author went to Chile                   D. How the author excaped from Chile

25. The author went to Chile to       ?

A. visit his friend Filomeno   B. complete his trip plans  C. risk his life   D. settle there forever

26. The underlined word “euphoric” in Paragraph 4 most probably means _____.

A. terrible          B. shamed       C. bored          D. excited

27. According to the last paragraph, the author lost his temper because      .

A. he was badly treated by the soldiers in Chile      B. it was his last chance to travel

C. he was prevented from entering Chile           D. his friends had stopped him from going to Chile

  How did the sea horse get its name? It’s not hard to guess. The top half of this fish looks like a small horse. But looking at the sea horse’s tail, you might think “sea monkey” is a better mame. Then there’s the sea horse’s pouch. “Sea kangaroo” might also be a good name for this fish.

Sea horses live in warm ocean waters all over the world. They keep safe from other fish by hiding in plants and grasses that grow under the sea. They can also change colors to match their surroundings. A sea horse remains in one place for hours at a time by winding its tail around a plant. It feeds on live food, such as small shrimp. For a fish that doesn’t move around much, the sea horse eats a lot --- in just one day, a sea horse can eat 3000 shrimp!

A sea horse keeps the same mate for its whole life, and it’s the male sea horse that gives birth to baby sea horse. How does this happen? Baby sea horses start out as eggs, which come from the female’s body. The male carries the eggs in its pouch for about three weeks until they hatch. Soon after the babies are born, the female gives her mate a new set of eggs.

Sadly, the number of sea horses is becoming smaller. Why is this happening? Some places where sea horses once lived have been filled in to make new land. Also, many sea horses are caught and sold as aquarium fish. This really is not a good idea because most sea horses don’t live long in aquariums. The best place for a sea horse is the ocean.

28. The sea horse got its name because of its      .

A. head         B. tail        C. skin       D. pouch

29. How does a sea horse keep safe from other fish?

A. It rolls up.                     B. It runs away quickly

C. It remains still                  D. It hides in plants and grasses

30. What soes a female sea horse do with her eggs?

A. She hatches them.               B. She hides them in sea grasses

C. She puts them in the male’s pouch  D. She carries them around.

A. like to move around                  B. feed on small sea animals

C. live in cold ocean waters              D. change colors with the temperature

English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words.

However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
  And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible; but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

32. According to the passage ______.
A. there should be egg in an eggplant       B. pineapples are the apples on the pine tree
C. boxing rings should be round           D. sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things
33. Which of the following is the correct plural?
A. Beeth.   B. Meese.    C. Geese.    D. Tooth.
34. Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?
A. A wise man and a wise guy.            B. Quite a lot and quite a few.
C..Overlook and oversee.                D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
35. The underlined words “wind up” in the last paragraph probably mean “______”.
A. blow    B. roll up      C. get hurt     D. finish

Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging emotion, unless you learn how to deal with it. They warn that anger can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer.

For years many doctors thought that repressing anger was more dangerous to a person’s health than expressing it. They said that when a person is angry, the brain releases the same hormones (荷尔蒙). They speed the heart rate, raise blood pressure, or sugar into the blood, etc. ___37___

Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. They believe that those who express anger violently may be more likely to develop heart disease, and that those who keep anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure.

_  38___ They say the first step is to admit that you are angry and to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide if the cause is serious enough to get angry about. If it is, they say, “___39___  Wait until your anger has cooled down and you are able to express yourself calmly and reasonably.”

Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry. ___40___

A. They said that laughter is much healthier than anger.

B. In general the person feels excited and ready to act

C. Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time.

D. Anger may cause you a cancer.

E. Expressing anger violently is more harmful than repressing it

F. Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger.

G. Do not express your anger while angry.