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Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students
for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have
something to worry about.
Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study,
cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough
practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living
in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with
their "host parents", and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host
family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family
type of living at a low cost.
The advantages, however, have not prevented host families form worrying. On one hand, some host families
are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now generally single
and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family accommodation is
communication practice. One the other hand, students" expectations have risen. They are becoming more
demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-
economic groups in their own countries.
To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of service.
They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private bathroom,
and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They are also providing students with structured family
activities.
It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.
答案
4. Communicating with hosts. 5. Cost of living 6. WorriesProblems
7. Rise in expectations 8. EffortsMeasures. 9. Bettering living conditions.
10. Conclusion
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front of our computers and be 1 logged in (登录) Crave mentions how NECSoft Biode Logon system uses
face recognition technology to log you on to Windows, rather than using a 2 . All you need is a webcam
and your pretty face to 3 your PC. No more 4 , confusing passwords to remember or change every few
months.
After doing a little research, I found this type of 5 already available to consumers via a relatively 6
application called FaceCode. The 7 requires the use of a webcam to recognize and log PC users into their
systems. You can add as many 8 as you want, provided they each have a Windows account. If the
system 9 to recognize your 10 , you can recall the Windows user name and password by using a hot-key
combination.
| ( )1. A. automatically ( )2. A. face ( )3. A. access ( )4. A. simple ( )5. A. computer ( )6. A. independent ( )7. A. account ( )8. A. users ( )9. A. begins ( )10. A. account | B. personally B. password B. connect B. complicated B. technology B. infrequent B. consumer B. passwords B. tries B. name | C. correctly C. software C. recognize C. special C. password C. inexpensive C. designer C. systems C. fails C. password | D. occasionally D. system D. remember D. useful D. application D. instant D. software D. computers D. stops D. face |
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| How should one invest a sum of money in these clays of inflation (通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques. I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. "The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people"s wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves." Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of clay according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout tire time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings. However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour-glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, any serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past. Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in air antique clock and perhaps make a future profit? | |||
| 1. According to the passage, collecting antique clocks _____. | |||
| A. can hardly keep the value of your savings B. will cost much of your savings C. may increase your wealth D. needs your bravery | |||
| 2. By quoting (引用) the remark of a being from another planet, the author intends to _____. | |||
| A. suggest human beings are controlled by a clock B. describe why clocks can rule the planet Earth C. tell readers what clocks look like D. compare chicks to human beings | |||
| 3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to measure the time? | |||
| A. Counting the beating of one"s own heart. B. Making use of candles, sand and water. C. Observing shadows cast by the sun. D. Keeping slaves busy day and night. | |||
| 4. The underlined phrase stately homes in paragraph 4 means _____. | |||
| A. state-owned houses B. houses in very good condition C. grand houses open to the public D. houses where statesmen meet regularly | |||
| 5. The purpose of the passage is _____. | |||
| A. to introduce the culture of antique clocks B. to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks C. to compare different ways to make a future profit D. to explain convenient and reliable ways of telling time | |||
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| All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain it all times clean and tidy. You could turn your back for a moment in my mother"s house, leave a half-written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged," as she explained. My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother"s house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused (疑惑的), she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end table. Now she knows better. These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有……的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find that every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered. Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week. | |||
| 1. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother? | |||
| A. She enjoyed removing others" drinks. B. She became more and more forgetful. C. She preferred to do everything by herself. D. She wanted to keep her house in good order. | |||
| 2. My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother a house because _____. | |||
| A. she had already finished them B. my mother had taken them away C. she forgot where she had left them D. someone in my family was holding them | |||
| 3. The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _____. | |||
| A. is happy to clean windows B. loves to clean used windows C. is fond of clean used windows D. likes clean windows as my mother did | |||
| 4. This passage mainly tells us that _____. | |||
| A. my mother often made us confused B. my family members had a poor memory C. my mother helped us to form a good habit D. ray wife was surprised when she visited my mother | |||
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| It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately,such moments are usually not obvious (明显的) to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain place, no one will be wiser. When such moments occur, don"t worry about them. Just continue if nothing happened. Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn"t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther Kings famous speech-"I have a Dream", you may notice that he stumbles (结巴) over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don"t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication (交流). They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice- skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker"s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker"s attractiveness by making him more human. As you work on your speech, don"t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely. | |||
| 1. The underlined part in the first paragraph means chat no one will _____. | |||
| A. be smarter than you B. notice your mistakes C. do better than you D. know what you are talking about | |||
| 2. You don"t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because _____. | |||
| A. your attention is on the content B. you don"t fully understand the speech C. you don"t know what the speaker plans to say D. you find the way of speech-making more important | |||
| 3. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. | |||
| A. giving a speech is like giving a performance B. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be had C. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be | |||
| 4. What would be the best title for the passage? | |||
| A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker B. how to Make a Perfect Speech C. Don"t Expect a Perfect Speech D. Don"t Expect Mistakes in a Speech | |||
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| Our "Mommy and Me" time began two years ago. My next-door neighbor and fellow mother, Christie, and I were out in our front yards, watching seven children of age 6 and under ride their bikes up and down. "I wish I could take one of my children out alone," said Christie. Then we worked out a plan: When Christie takes one of her children out, I"ll watch her other three. And when she watches two of mine, I"ll take someone out. The children were extremely quick to accept the idea of "Mommy and Me" time. Christie"s daughter, McKenzie, went first. When she returned, the other children showered her with tons of questions. McKenzie was smiling broadly. Christie looked refreshed and happy. "She"s like a different child when there"s no one else around," Christie shared with me quickly. With her mother all to herself, McKenzie didn"t have to make an effort to gain attention. Just as Christie had noticed changes in McKenzie, I also discovered something different in each of my children during our alone times. For example, I am always surprised when my daughter, who is seldom close to me, holds my hand frequently. My stuttering (口吃的) son, Tom, doesn"t stutter once during our activities since he doesn"t have to struggle for a chance to speak. And the other son, Sam, who"s always a follower when around other children shines as a leader during our times together. The "Mommy and Me" time allows us to be simply alone and away with each child-talking, sharing, and laughing, which has been the biggest gain. Every child deserves (应得到) to be an only child at least once in a while. | |||
| 1. What is the text mainly about? | |||
| A. The experience of the only child being with mother. B. The advantage of spending time with one child at a time. C. The happy life of two families. D. The basic needs of children. | |||
| 2. Right after McKenzie came back, the other children were _____. | |||
| A. happy B. curious C. regretful D. friendly | |||
| 3. What is one of the changes the author finds in her children? | |||
| A. The daughter acts like a leader. B. Sam holds her hand more often. C. The boys become better followers. D. Tom has less difficulty in speaking. | |||
| 4. The author seems to believe that _____. | |||
| A. having brothers and sisters is fun B. it"s tiring to look after three children C. every child needs parents" full attention D. parents should watch others" children |