Tayka Hotel De Sal
Where: Tahua, Bolivia
How much: About $95 a night
Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few
can claim．Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets)．The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat．Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries．When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.
Green Magic Nature Resort
Where: Vythiri, India
How much: About $240 a night
Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the
start of your adventure．As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy．Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read．You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.
Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
Where: Cottonwood, Idaho How much: $92 a night
Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet．Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly．Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side．You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft(阁楼）in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose．Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant (消防栓）outside.
Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Where: Ayvali, Turkey
How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.
Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash．But your stay will be much more modern．Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer．(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)
61．What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal? A．It is located on a prehistoric lake. B. It should be protected against the rain. C．Everything in the hotel is made of salt. D. You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel. 62．What is the similarity of the four hotels? A．Being expensive. B．Being comfortable. C．Being natural. D．Being unique. 63．What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?
A．The name of the hotel. B．The name of the hotel owner.
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C．The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B. D．The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.
64．Which of the hotels makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?
A．Tayka Hotel De Sal B．Green Magic Nature Resort C．Dog Bark Park Inn B&B D．Gamirasu Cave Hotel 65．What may be the purpose of the writer writing the passage?
A．To show his wide knowledge. B．To introduce some interesting hotels.
C．To develop business in tourism. D．To attract attention from the readers.
C
Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap(收获) an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny(命运),” the proverb says.
Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness.
As Horace Mann, the great educator, once said, “Habits are like a cable. We weave a wire of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.” I personally do not agree with the last part of his expression. I know habits can be learned and unlearned. But I also know it isn’t a quick fix. It contains a process and a matchless will.
Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed(呆住) as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. But to get there, those astronauts actually had to break out of the huge gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.
Habits, too, have huge gravity pull-more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply imbedded (嵌入) habitual tendencies such as delay, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness includes more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. “Lift off” takes a very hard effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.
Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may generally be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cohesiveness(凝聚力) and order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.
66. Which of the following is TRUE according to the proverb? A. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. B. A large part of virtue consists in good habits. C. Behavior depends on attitude. D. A good beginning makes a good ending.
67. The author doesn’t agree all Horace Mann said because ________. A. he was not quite sure about what the educator expressed B. he misunderstood the educator’s statements
C. he thought the educator concluded the result absolutely D. he had an opposite understanding about habits
68. What is the purpose of the author to give the example of lunar voyage of Apollo 11? A. To show people that everything is possible if taking efforts. B. To tell the heart-shaking experience of the voyage. C. To advise people to break out of the gravity pull in life. D. To state that good habits’ forming needs hard work.
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69. Lifting off the gravity pull of bad habits may _______.
A. cause some ill effects on your life B. cost you a lot of energy and efforts C. need everyone’s working together D. require others watching over 70. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph? A. The gravity pull of habit has two sides.
B. The gravity pull keeps everything in the world in order. C. The gravity pull of habit affects our lives effectively. D. The gravity pull of habit keeps us from what we will do.
D
Almost a decade ago, the federal government dropped $10 million for an Earth-monitoring satellite that never made it into space. Today it sits in a closet in Maryland. Cost to taxpayers for storing it: $1 million a year. And that's just what's hiding in one closet. Who knows what's in the rest of them?
Because we think the government should be held to at least the same standards as a publicly traded company, and because as taxpayers, we're America's shareholders, we performed an audit （财务检查）of sorts of the federal books. We're not economists, but we do have common sense. We tried to get help from Congressional staffers from both parties, as well as various watchdog groups and agencies. In the end, we found that the federal government wastes nearly $1 trillion every year.
That's roughly equal to the amount collected annually by the Internal Revenue Service in personal income taxes. Put another way, it's also equal to about one-third of the country's $2.9 trillion total annual budget. And reclaiming that lost trillion could help wipe out the country's annual budget deficit（赤字）, improve education, and provide health insurance for those who don't have it.
So how do you define \(GAO), a federal watchdog agency, calls it \most for their money.\piece of meat sitting in your refrigerator: If it smells rotten, it's waste. Our government regularly pays for products and services it never gets, wildly overpays companies to do things it could do more cheaply itself, loses money outright due to lax（不严格的）accounting and oversight, and spends money randomly on unnecessary programs.
How exactly does the federal government waste your hard-earned tax dollars? We've identified what we consider ten of the worst ways.
71．The underlined sentence in Paragraph1 really means .
A．there are many other closets
B．there are some other satellites
C．there is something else in the closets D．the waste may be quite amazing 72．Which of the following can best describe the feeling of the author?
A．Annoyed.
B．Calm.
C．Surprised.
D．Not concerned.
73．Which of the following statements may be right?
A．The country’s annual budget is usually decided by the public. B．The government failed in launching the satellite.
C．The government is only wasting money in space experiments.
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D．The amount collected annually in personal income taxes is equal to the country’s budget. 74．The best title for the passage would be .
A．Protecting Our Rights! B．Our Country Is In Danger!
C．The Government Is Wasting Our Tax Dollars! D．How to Prevent Government from Wasting Money! A．The government’s taking some steps to stop wasting taxes.
B．Presenting people’s feelings against the government’s wasting taxes. C．Giving suggestion to help the government solve the financial problem. D．Listing how the government is wasting taxes.
75．What might be talked about if the passage is continued?
第四部分 写作 （共二节 满分35 分） 第一节 阅读表达 （满分 10 分）
1. America is a country on the move．In unheard-of numbers, people of all ages are exercising their way to better health．According to the latest figures，59 percent of American adults exercise regularly—up 12 percent from just two years ago and more than double the figure of 25 years ago．Even non-exercisers believe they would be more attractive and confident if they were more active．
2. It is hard not to get the message.The virtues of physical fitness are shown on magazine covers, postage stamps, and television ads for everything from beauty soaps to travel book. Exercise as a part of daily life did not catch on until the late 1960s when research by military doctors began to show the health benefits of doing regular physical exercises. Growing publicity for races held in American cities helped fuel a strong interest in the ancient sport of running. Although Americans have also discovered other forms of exercise(such as walking and swimming),running_____________________________.
3. As the popularity of exercise continues to increase. so does scientific evidence of its health benefits．The key to fitness is exercising the major muscle group vigorously enough to approximately double the heart rate and keep it doubled for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Doing such physical exercises three times or more a week will produce considerable improvements in physical health in about three months.
76.What is the best title for the passage?（Please answer within 10 words．）
______________________________________________________________________________ 77.What kind of people are seeking for better health through exercising? (no more than 4 words)
______________________________________________________________________________ 78．Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to
complete the sentence．（Please answer within 10 words．）
______________________________________________________________________________ 79.What is the author’s purpose in writing the last paragraph?（Please answer within 10 words．）
______________________________________________________________________________ 80．What does the underlined word “it “(Line3,Paragraph3)probably refer to?( no more than 4 words)．
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__________________________________ ____________________________________________ 第二节 书面表达: (满分25分)
请根据以下提示，请结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
Many students may have had the experience of cheating in exam, which not only result in an unfair competition, but also have a bad effect on the habit of study, ruin the creativity and self-confidence of those students.
注意：1.无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语 2.除诗歌外，问题不限。
3.内容必须结合生活中的一个事例。 4.文中不得透露个人姓名及班级名称。 5.字数为120左右。
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76. Exercise, the Road to Health./ The Importance of Exercise. 77. Of all ages.
78. remains the most popular form of exercise /is still popular. 79. To show us how to exercise to improve our health. 80. The heart rate. 范文
Cheating in exams seems to be inevitable even though we all know it is dishonest. When having difficulty passing exams, those who don’t study hard or grasp what they have learnt tend to cheat in order to get high grades.
One of my classmates is just such a guy. When faced with exams, he tried to use different ways to cheat like passing small piece of paper with answers, referring to his books or copying other’s answers. As a result, he did get a better grade which was beyond his own ability. Gradually, he became increasingly dependent on other’s answers rather than think for himself. What’s more, he became less and less confident of dealing with difficult problems.
It’s obvious that cheating does harm to us. We should be honest and try to get good results by studying hard.
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