Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs.

AVOID BIG EVNENTS big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the cost of accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival(19 Oct.) cost ￡118.15.

If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoid—or you're looking for a big event to pass your time­check out sites such as Whatsonwhen.com, which allow you to search for events in the UK by city, date and category.

STAY AWAY FROM THE STATION If traveling to your destination by train, you may want to find a good base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.

Don't be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge's Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was ￡95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its covent Garden hotel was ￡75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just ￡62.95.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really central hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a self­catering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example is the historic O'Neill Flat on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, available for ￡420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults.

GET ON A BIKE London's ‘Boris bikes’ have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your own pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs.

Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around ￡1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or ￡5 per day)．

56．The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events may________．

A．help travelers pass time

B．a(chǎn)ttract lots of travelers to the UK

C．a(chǎn)llow travelers to make flexible plans

D．cause travelers to pay more for accommodation

57．“Farringdon” in Paragraph 5 is most probably ________．

A．a(chǎn) hotel away from the train station

B．the tube line to Covent Garden

C．a(chǎn)n ideal holiday desinationo

D．the name of a travel agency

58．The passage shows that the O'Neill Flat ________．

A．lies on the ground floor

B．is located in central London

C．provides cooking facilities for tourists

D．costs over ￡100 on average per day in late September

59．Cardiff's program allows a free bike for a maximum period of ________．

A．half an hour　　　　　　　 B．one hour

C．one hour and a half  D．tow  hours

60．The main purpose of the passage is ________．

A．to tell visitors how to book in advance

B．to supply visitors with hotel information

C．to show visitors the importance of self­help

D．to offer visitors some money­saving tips

Counterfeit ( 假的) medicines are a widespread problem in developing countries. Like other counterfeits, they look like real products. But counterfeit drugs may contain too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.

People do not get the medicine they need. And in some cases counterfeits cause death. Twenty children in Bangladesh died last year after being given acetaminophen(醋氨酚). The medications contained ingredients that looked, smelled and tasted like the real thing. The medicine was produced by a local drug company that used a dangerous substitute to save money.

The problem of counterfeit medicines is especially serious in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The W.H.O. estimates that up to thirty percent of medicines on sale in many of those countries are counterfeit. The problem is less widespread among industrialized countries. The W.H.O. says counterfeits make up less than one percent of the illegal drug market in countries like the United States, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand.

But the agency also says as much as fifty percent of the medicine sold on the Internet is counterfeit.

Much is being done to fight counterfeit drugs. Several companies are developing ways to make counterfeits easier to identify. And there are existing methods, like a machine that can quickly identify chemicals in pills to confirm if the pills are real. Other ideas include things like special tracking codes for drug packages. People could send a text message with the code and get a message back, which proves that what they bought is listed in a database. Some drug makers and other companies put three-dimensional images called holograms (全息圖)on their products as a security device.

1.Last year twenty children in Bangladesh died because of _____.

A．online medicines                       B．unreal drugs

C．a(chǎn)cetaminophen                         D．unclean water

2.We can draw a conclusion from the passage that______.

A．it is very cheap and convenient to buy medicines online.

B．medicine companies don’t pay much attention to counterfeit drugs.

C．more and more people will buy products online.

D．we had better not buy medicines online.

3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．It reveals the reasons why counterfeit drugs are widespread.

B．Some measures are being taken to fight counterfeit drugs.

C．Special tracking codes for drug packages are used to identify counterfeits.

D．It shows the danger of counterfeit drugs.

4.Which of the following country may have serious problems of counterfeit medicines?

A．Canada.           B．Japan.            C．New Zealand.       D．India.

 

 

    In 1837, the historian Carlyle made the first recorded use of the word "queue" (排隊(duì)). He spoke of the French and their "habit of standing in a queue". Forty years later Paris was the best place to wait in line.

    However, queuing became popular in Britain too. The Second World War was the golden age of queuing, and people joined any line in the hope that it was a queue for something to buy. This was the source of many Second World War jokes:

Shopkeeper to customer: Excuse me, miss, are you pregnant (懷孕的) ?

Customer:            Well, I wasn't when I joined the queue.

    Today, according to research in America, we (in Britain) can spend up to 5 years of our lives確queuing- as compared to twelve months looking for things we have lost. But things may be changing. Many people no longer have the patience to stand in a queue. The law of the jungle (叢林) has begun to operate at bus stops, with people using their arms to push others out of the way.

    One way to make life easier is to introduce "queue management". Customers at supermarket cheese counters can now take a ticket with a number which appears on a screen when it is their turn. And while they wait for their number, they can do a bit of shopping.

    In some booking offices there is also a system telling customers how long they may have to wait before they are served.

    One of the latest technical progress is the use of an electronic scanner (電子識別器) which can read all the contents of your shopping basket or trolley in just a few seconds. If these become popular, queuing in supermarkets may become a thing of the past.

    But some people just like queuing. One man queued all night for Harrods famous January sale, and then returned home for breakfast at nine o' clock the next morning without going into the shop.

1 The joke in Paragraph 2  implies （暗示）that the young woman ______.

   A. has been waiting in the queue for a long time

   B. doesn't need to stand in the queue

   C. enjoys standing in the queue

   D. has stood in the wrong line

2. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

   A. The British spend more time queuing than looking for lost things.

   B. The Americans criticized the British for their way of queuing.

   C. The British are always patient when they wait in line.

   D. People queue only when they want to buy something.

3. The British try to solve the problem of queuing by all the following EXCEPT _____.

   A. making a law to prevent queuing

   B. telling the customers the waiting time

 C. using numbered tickets to put the customers in order

   D. checking the price of the goods customers buy with a scanner

4. We can infer （推論）from the passage that ______.

   A. queue management doesn’t work well    

B. there is still queuing in England

   C. we don't see much queuing in Paris       

D. the French like queuing more than the British

 

 

III. 閱讀理解 （ 共20 小題；每小題 2分，滿分40分）

Paragraph 1

Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds. (2) citrus(柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal(谷類), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.

Paragraph 2                                                                 

People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw(生的) or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

Paragraph 3

There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry.

The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?

A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages                         B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread

C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes                         D. beef, pork, fish, milk

2. It is important for people to eat _______.

A. three times a day                                                       B. dinner at twelve o’clock

C. cooked food all the day

D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day

3. People in different countries and different places of the world _______.

A. has the right kinds of food to eat                           B. cooks their food in the same way

C. has their meals at the same time                                   D. eat food in different ways

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.

B. There are too many people in the world.

C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.

5. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?

A. When people eat their lunch                                   B. What to do with the two problems

C. How to cook food in different ways                       D. Why people eat different kinds of food

 

Some researchers claim that people’s personalities can be classified by their blood types

If you have blood type O, you are a leader. When you see something you want , you strive to achieve your goal. You are passionate, loyal, and  self-confident, and you are often a trendsetter(標(biāo)新立異的人)。Your enthusiasm for projects and goals spreads to others who happily follow you. When you want something ,you may be ruthless(不留情面的)about getting it or blind to how your actions affect others .

Aother blood type A, is a social , “people” person . You like people and work well with them . Y ou are sensitive , patient , compassionate , and affectionate .You are a good peacekeeper because you want everyone to be happy .In a team situation , you resolve conflicts and keep things on a smooth course . Sometimes type As are stubborn and find it difficult to relax. They may also find it uncomfortable to do things alone.

People with type B blood are usually individualist who like to do things on their own . You may be creative and adaptable, and you usually say exactly what you mean . Also you can adapt to situations , you may choose to do so because of your strong independent streak. You may prefer working on your own to being part of a team .

The final blood is type AB . If you have AB blood , you are a natural entertainer. You draw people to you because of your charm and easy-going nature .ABs are usually calm and controlled , tactful(圓滑的) fair. On the downside ,though , they may take too long to make decisions. And they may procrastinate, putting off tasks until the last minute.

1.People with type O will do the following things except__________

A．manage businesses                      B．self-control

C．be considerate                         D．set the fasion

2.Which of the following is not the feature of type A?

A．Stubborn          B．Sensitive          C．reserved          D．Patient

3.The best profession for a type AB is __________

A．a(chǎn)thlete           B．peacekeeper       C．a(chǎn)ctor             D．country leader