The four theme parks below offer the most thrilling(刺激的)rides and attractions in the world.

    Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Located(坐落)in Virginia, USA, this theme paprk has some of the highest-rated thrill rides in the world. The park’s famous roller coasters include Apollo’s Chariot, Alpengeist, Griffon, the Loch Ness Monster and Verbolten. The park also has thrilling water rides, rides for kids, other rides, shows, tours, animal exhibits and more. Divided into nine areas representing European countries, the park has won an award for the quality of its food.

Everland

One of the world’s most popular theme parks, Everland is located in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea. The park has 40 thrill rides, including a world-famous wooden roller coaster, and many other attractions such as an hunting ride, a zoo, indoor and outdoor water parks, shows and more.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

This Lancashire amusement park is one of the most visited theme parks in the United Kingdom. Among the park’s 125 rides and attractions are the tallest and faster roller coaster in the U. K., a classic wooden roller coaster, a steel tower ride, the biggest indoor dark ride in the world, a host of rides for kids and more.

PortAventura World

Located on Spain’s Costa Daurada, this park is divided into six themed areas. Five areas represent different locations including Polynesia, Mexico, the American West, China and the Mediterrancan. The sixth and newest area has a Sesame Street theme. The park has many rides and attractions suitable for visitors of all ages.

21. What did Busch Gardens win an award for?

   A. The highest thrill rides          B. Good quality of its food

   C. A Sesame Street theme area      D. A host of thrilling water rides

22. What will a visitor loving thrill and hunting rides probably choose?

   A. Busch Gardens Williamsburg     B. Everland

   C. Blackpool Pleasure Beach        D. PortAventura World

23. What is unique to Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

   A. It has a classic wooden roller coaster

   B. It has the fastest roller coaster in the world

   C. It has the biggest indoor dark ride in the world

   D. It has attractions suitable for visitors of all ages

24. Where is the theme park including a China area located in?

   A. Virginia           B. Yongin

   C. Lancashire         D. Costa Daurada

   I returned home the other night, tired. My husband asked me how my evening was, “Great.” I told him. I had spent 90 minutes in a gym with 10 Ping-Pong tables and all kinds of players, all playing a little ball over the net. By 9 pm, I was excited, tired, satisfied. I had beaten two young men half my age and lost battles against other competitors. To an observer, the night was common. To me, it was a lucky thing that I hadn’t expected.

   I had taken up Ping-Pong during college, and in my 30s took more advanced lessons. However, a serious accident hurt my leg, which made me unable to take exercise. Months later, I tried to play Ping-Pong but my leg pained for a week. I put the game out of my mind.

   When I was 53, one day my bad leg was working a little bit better. Could Ping-Pong be possible for me, now---in my condition, at my age? I tried to play Ping-Pong again

Ping-Pong is a sport which requires endurance(耐力). Players need quick foot work and upper body movements to return balls, requiring faster response time than tennis.

Playing Ping-Pong offers benefits for the brain. A study of 164 women aged 60 and older showed that Ping-Pong improved cognitive(认知)function more than dancing, walking or gymnastics. “The great thing about our sport is that it can be played by anyone,” said Jimmy Butler, a four-time national USA Table Tennis Association winner. “I see 90-year-olds and 10-year-olds.”

Years passed and my endurance improved. People started to praise my shots. I won a game. Then I won agin. These days, I feel wonderful, I believe this sport is the fountain (源泉)of youth.

25. What can we know about the author from the first paragraph?

   A. She was satisfied with herself that evening

   B. She felt disappointed when losing battles

   C. She lost battles against two young men

   D. She was the best player in the gym

26. What sport can improve cognitive function more effectively?

   A. Dancing         B. Walking     C. Ping-Pong      D. Gymnastics

27. What’s a big advantage about Ping-Pong sport according to Jimmy Butler?

   A. It is good for the brain

   B. It can be played by anyone

   C. It can build up people’s muscles

   D. It can improve people’s endurance

28. What’s the best title for the text?

   A. My Battle with My Illness

   B. A Life-changing Accident

   C. My Wonderful Evening Exercise

   D. Ping-Pong: the Fountain of Youth

   Don’t you just hate it when you have to take an important phone call and you’re surrounded by potential eavesdroppers(潜在偷听者)? You either have to whisper or go outside to keep the conversation private, which is not good. Now Hushme aims to fix this problem by muffling your voice and making you look like Bane in the film Batman.

   Hushme is a strange high-tech mask(口罩)that blocks the sound of the wearer’s voice so that people nearby can’t hear what is being said. It connects to your phone via Blucetooth and comes with a pair of earphones. When you get a private call, all you have to do is put the mask on and it will do the rest. The pair of thick pads over your mouth does a good job of muffling your voice, but to ensure nothing gets through. Hushme also has speakers that play a variety of sounds when you speak.

   The Hushme mask, which comes in a variety of colors, can be worn around the neck, like a regular pair of earphones, and attaches in front of your mouth thanks to a couple of very powerful magnets(磁铁). It’s not yet clear how comfortable speaking with this Bane-like mask over your mouth really is, or how effective its speech muffling ability is, so we know so far is that it makes you look strange. The sound choices for covering your voice currently include wind, ocean, rain, birds, monkey, but new ones could be added in the future.

   Advertised as the “world’s first voice mask for mobile phones’. Hushme was showed at CES. At the becoming of this year. Its makers plan to sell it by the end of this year. It will cost about $200.

29. Why does the author mention Bane in the first paragraph?

   A. To show what Hushme looks like

   B. To tell eavesdropping is impolite

   C. To encourage readers to buy Hushme

   D. To say Hushme will be popular in the future

30. What does the underlined word “muffling” in Paragraph 1 mean?

   A. Blocking          B. Recognizing       C. Changing           D. Remembering

31. What is certain about Hushme?

   A. Its popularity                B. Its appearance

   C. Its high standard for comfort    D. Its speech muffling ability

32. What can we know about Hushme?

   A. It can be bought in the market now

   B. Its price is neither too high nor too low

   C. Its speakers will be improved in the future

   D. Its makers are confident about its market sales

Traveling for business or pleasure can easily damage your health. It’s easy to fail into the trap of high caloric meals and little exercise.   33 

●Keep a dictionary on hand

If you are traveling somewhere with a different language, pack a dictionary and keep it close to help you negotiate(商议)the menu and make healthy food choices.  34   Look up the words that you don’t understand to help you learn about cooking methods and ingredients(材料)so that you can choose healthy food.

●  35  

The more you can research before your trip, the easier it will be to keep a healthy lifestyle while traveling. To stay on track with your food, try to find a nearby grocery store or healthy food store, look up a copule of well rated restaurants that offer some healthy choices, and try to stay somewhere with a fridge or kitchen.

●Walk every day.

Exploring your destination(目的地)on foot is an amazing way to take some exercise while traveling. Walk through the nature to enjoy its beautiful scenery, listen to the sound of nature and take some wonderful pictures.   36 

●Rent a bike.

Cover more ground while burning calories by renting a bike. Many major cities have bike-sharing programs, or you could contact a local bike store to ask about bike rentals.   37   If you have an open schedule, you could even research bike tours, which are a great way to cover a long distance in a short period of time.

A. Avoid junk food and deep fried food.

B. Research the food and store some upon arrival.

C. Take a bike map of the city, research day trips and get exploring.

D. If you are exercising while traveling, make sure to take in extra water.

E. Here are some healthy travel tips which will keep you in good health.

F. You can’t avoid deep fried food if you don’t know that they’re in there!

G. This is also a great way to find hidden attractions that aren’t in the travel guides.

   Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the plane all the way, they   66  （plan）to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought that they could cross the whole continent was   67   (excite).

   Canada is the second biggest country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city   68  (surround)by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall.

   That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their   69  (seat). Their next stop was Calgary,   __70  is famous for the Calgary Stampede. They know that cowboys come from all over the world  71  (compete)in the Stampede. Many cowboys have a gift  72  riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometers of the USA border and that Canada’s population is only  73  (slight)over thirty million, but now they   74  (amaze)to see such an empty country. Then they arrived in  75  urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes.