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Landover,Wales,UK

Language and Music for Life (LMFL)—Founded in 1997,Language and Music for Life offers unique 2-week summer music and language courses. LMFL provides quality one-to-one training in a wide range of instruments & voice tuition to highly-motivated musicians of all ages.

Study programs & classes include: 2 weeks with Musical Masterclasses: Composition,Violin,Piano,Recorder,Guitar,

Classical Singing...

Saint-Raphael,France

France Langue & Culture ( FLC)—Experience a fun,educational language holiday for all the family this summer! FLC is the most family-friendly language school providing French summer classes for teens & young children.

Study programs & classes include: 1-4 Week Sessions ● Children's Summer Camps for children (ages 4-12) ● Courses for teenagers (ages 13-17),with homestay accommodation by French host families.

Quebec City,Quebec,Canada

Edu-Inter Summer Language School (EI)—EI offers summer French programs for children & teenagers (ages 10-17) and adults (18+). Quebec City is the only major city in Canada that offers a 100% French-speaking environment,making it the ideal location for learning and practicing French.

Study programs & classes include: 2 weeks' Summer French Programs: For Children & Teenagers (ages 10-17)● French & Cooking ● French & Dance ● French & Horse Riding ● French & Music...                                                           

Cambridge,England,UK

Reach Cambridge-Academic Camps (RC)—RC offers UK & international high school students the opportunity to gain an invaluable academic experience through a summer course in one of the top educational facilities in the world.We provide unique and academic programs for students (ages 14-18).

Study programs & classes include: 2 & 3-week Summer Camps ● Chemistry& Medical Sciences ●Computer Science & Math ● Economics ● ESL ● History&Politics ●Law...

21.Why is Quebec the ideal location for learning and practicing French?

A.It offers summer French programs.                          B.It is the only major city in Canada.

C.It has a Summer French Language School.                    D.It has an absolute French-speaking atmosphere.

22.If a boy is 18 and loves computer science,which summer camp suits him best?

A.LMFL.                             B.FLC.                               C.EI.                                   D.RC.

23.It can be learned from the' passage that       .

A.RC helps kids improve their horse-riding skills         B.kids can enjoy individual guidance at LMFL

C.kids can stay at French host families at EI               D.FLC was founded in 1997 in France

Although Paris is often considered the city of romance,close to a million adults who call it home are single. Many single people say that France’s capital is one of the most difficult places to meet people.The complaints of this lonely group have inspired a new phenomenon known as "supermarket dating".At Galerie Lafayette Gourmet, singles can shop for more than just the items on their grocery list.They can look for someone who has blue eyes, brown hair,and is 1.8 meters tall,or whatever may be on their romantic shopping list.

At this Paris location,single people of all ages can schedule their shopping for Thursday nights between 6:30 and 9:00 p.m.When they walk through the door,they pick up a purple basket to advise that they are looking for love. They try to arrive early because the baskets disappear quickly,and then they have to wait in line for their turn to wander the store aisles.

With purple baskets in hand,shoppers can consider their romantic options while they pick out their groceries. When they are ready to pay,they can go to the checkout line for singles who want to chat.

Most of the people who look for love in the supermarket are skeptical of Internet dating.They know that it is easy to embellish（美化）one’s appearance or to lie about one’s age over the Internet.The supermarket,on the other hand,is considered a safe and casual environment in which to meet a potential match.In addition,what one finds in another’s grocery basket can say a thing or two about that person’s character or intentions.Buying pet food can be a man’s way of showing a potential match that he has a sensitive side.Women who fill their baskets with low-fat food show their healthy style of living.These days it’s possible to find much more than food at a grocery store.

24.What do many single people in Pairs complain about?

A.The difficulty in finding a match.                           B.The idea of supermarket dating.

C.The items on their grocery list.                                    D.The inconvenience in shopping.

25.Which of the following can be inferred in the second paragraph?

A.The dating supermarket is located in Paris.             B.The dating supermarket is open only on Thursday evenings.

C.Only single people can shop in the supermarket.     D.The dating supermarket has very good business.

26.How do love shoppers meet one another?

A.They schedule their meeting in advance.                 B.They go through a special checkout.

C.They pick out their groceries with great care.          D.They dial the phone numbers on their shopping items.

27.Why do the people prefer the supermarket dating to Internet dating?

A.The supermarket dating is more convenient.            B.The supermarket dating is more fun.

C.The supermarket dating is more trustworthy.          D.The supermarket dating is more economical.

Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men,in which he looked millions of years ahead.He told of different men and of strange civilizations,broken up by long "dark ages" in between.In his view,what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men.In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.

However,most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted.Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years.But the next hundred?The next thousand?The next million?That's much more difficult.

When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago,how could they even begin to picture modern life?Yet to men of 50,000 years from now,we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us.Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels,or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words,which I have just made up,have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of.

So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future?Here are two reasons.First,unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history,we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are.If we make the earth a poor place to live because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome,our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.

Second,by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future,we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves.For example,if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming,we can think of trying it now.So set you imagination free when you think about the future.

28.A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph      .

A.serves as a description of human history         B.serves an introduction to the discussion

C.shows a disagreement of view's                      D.shows the popularity of the book

29.The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that      .

A.human history is extremely long                      B.life has changed a great deal 

C.it is useless to plan for the next 50 years         D.it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future

30.Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to      .

A.tools used in farming                        B.ideas about modern life

C.unknown things in the future                         D. hunting skills in the Stone Age

31.According to the writer of the text,imagining the future will      .

A.benefit the present and future generations             B.enable us to better understand human history

C.help us to improve farming technology            D.make life worth living          

Brain-training software may be a waste of time.People who played "mind-boosting" games made the same modest cognitive gains as those who spent a similar amount of time surfing the web."It didn't really make any difference what people did,"says Adrian Owen of the Medical Research Council Cognition,who tested brain-training software on volunteers recruited through a BBC television program.

Owen and his colleagues asked 11,000 volunteers to take tests to measure their reasoning ability and verbal and spatial（空间的）memory.Participants then spent six weeks playing on one of two computer programs,or just surfing the web for pleasure.In one program,which imitates commercial brain-training software,the volunteers solved simple mathematics problems and puzzles that tested their memories.The other was designed specifically to boost cognitive abilities such as reasoning and planning.

After six weeks,the participants underwent a second round of cognitive tests.Both groups who played the games made modest improvements,yet so did the web surfers.Skills learned via the programs didn't transfer to the cognitive tests,even when they relied on similar abilities,says Owen.For instance,people who played a game in which they had to find a match for a briefly overturned card struggled at a similar test that used stars "hidden" in boxes,"Even when the tests were conceptually quite similar we didn't see any improvement,"says Owen.He concludes that brain-training software only makes people better at the specific tasks they have been practicing.

Yet Klingberg,who founded a cognitive-training firm called Cogmed,is indignant at the conclusion that all brain training is bunk.The participants in Owen's study didn't practice for long enough and there was no quality control over what practice people did,he says."Asking subjects to sit at home and do tests online,perhaps with the TV on or other distractions around,is likely to result in noisy data,"he says."This paper does in no way disprove that the brain is plastic or that cognitive functions can be improved by training."Owen counters that his team's research took place in settings similar to the ones people are likely to practice in."This is what people are doing.They're sitting at home on their computers doing brain training."

32.The purpose of Owen recruiting volunteers to do the first round of tests is      .

A.test their reasoning ability and verbal and spatial memory

B.support the BBC television program in his way

C.prove how much information participants can remember

D.detect differences among people in memorizing information

33.From the second round of cognitive tests,Owen concludes that      .

A.all participants have made much recognizable improvement dramatically

B.participants have developed reasoning ability to solve complicated problems

C.participants can make greater improvement in solving very similar problems

D.participants performed better in certain tasks they have practiced for a long time

34.What's the meaning of "indignant"?

A.Surprised.                       B.Agreeable.                      C.Mad.                        D.Dishonest.

35.What is the passage mainly about?

A.There is a debate about whether brain-training software is effective.

B.We should concentrate on brain-training software in our daily life.

C.Brain-training software is useless to most people.

D.It is important to improve reasoning ability and spatial memory.

Since the day of its birth,the United Nations has been the subject of much debate._36_Others think that it is too weak.We can better understand this debate if we learn more about the U.N. and its history.

The U.N. was started for two reasons.First,when the idea was born,people all over the world were tired of war. They felt that there must be peaceful answers to the world's problems._37_

The second reason was that modern science had developed new bombs and airplanes._38_National borders were beginning to lose their meaning.Science would develop even more dangerous weapons in the future.Only an international organization would be able to control modern science.  

Franklin D.Roosevelt,U.S. President at the time,believed that the Allies（同盟国）should plan for peace before the war ended.On December 1,1943,Roosevelt,Britain's Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union agreed to start an organization for world peace._39_

During the next year and a half,the idea of such an organization was debated around the world.Then came the big day.On.April 11,1945,the first international meeting of the United Nations took place in.San Francisco.The goal of the meeting was to write the U.N. Charter（宪章）.All of the fifty-one nations at the meeting had their own ideas to offer for the Charter._40_Every nation present voted for the Charter.No one voted against it.

A.After a long debate,a final Charter was agreed upon.

B.The U.N.Charter is a beautiful piece of writing.

C.They asked all countries,large and small,to join the organization.

D.Even the smallest,country on earth can have its voice heard.

E.They also felt that only an international organization could keep world peace.

F.These weapons made it almost impossible for a country to defend itself.

G.Some people attack the organization because they think it is too powerful.