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King's College Summer School is an annual( 每年的) training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King's College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year's summer school will be from July 25 to August 15.
More information is as follows:
Application (申请) date
l Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2017.
l Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16, 2017.
l Foreign students should send their applications before July 10, 2017. |
Courses
l English Language
Spoken English: 22 hours
Reading and Writing: 10 hours
l American History: 16 hours
l American Culture: 16 hours |
Steps
l A letter of self-introduction
l A letter of recommendation(推荐)
﹡ The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information. |
Cost
l Daily lessons: $200
l Sports and activities: $100
l Travels: $200
l Hotel service: $400
﹡You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city. |
Please write to: Thompson, Sanders
1026 King' s Street
New York, NY 10016, USA
E-mail: KC-Summer-School@ yahoo, com |
24. You can most probably read the text in ________.
A. a newspaper B. a travel guide C. a textbook D. a telephone book
25. Which of the following is true about King' s College Summer School?
A. Only top students can take part in the program.
B. King' s College Summer School is run every two years.
C. Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program.
D. Only the teachers of King' s College give courses.
26. If you are to live with your relatives in New York, you will have to pay the school _______. A. $200 B. $400 C. $500 D. $900
27. What information can you get from the text?
A. The program will last two months.
B. You can write to Thompson only in English.
C. As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14, 2007.
D. You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone.
C
Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. A greenhorn is someone who has no experience. who is new to a situation. But in the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose home had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds. A person, with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space, It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play Othello." It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. Green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.
In most places in the world, a green light is a signal to move ahead. A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech, a green light means approval to continue with a project.
28 . How many expressions including "green" are mentioned in the passage?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
29. What does "a greenhorn" mean now?
A. A person who has rich job experience.
B. A soldier who has not yet any experience in battle.
C. A young cow or ox whose horns have not yet developed.
D. A person who is a green hand without any experience.
30. Which expression can be used if your friend is good at growing plants?
A. A green thumb. B. A green light. C. A greenhorn D. The green-eyed monster.
31. What will make you suffer from the green-eyed monster?
A. You meet a frightening creature. B. You watch the play "Othello";
C. Your have a trouble D. You get a pay raise.
D
Music for Humans and Humpback Whales
As researchers conclude in Science, the love of music is not only a universal feature of the human species, but is also deeply fixed in complex structures of the human brain, and is far more ancient than previously suspected.
In the articles that discuss the field of bio-musicology, the study of the biological basis for the creation and appreciation of music, researchers present various evidence to, show that music-making is at once an original human "business", and an art form with skillful performers throughout the animal kingdom.
The new reports stress that humans hold no copyright on sound wisdom, and that a number of nonhuman animals produce what can rightly be called music, rather than random sound. Recent in-depth analyses of the songs sung by humpback whales show that, even when their organ would allow them to do otherwise, the animals
converge on the same choices relating to sounds and beauty, and accept the same laws of song composition as those preferred by human musicians, and human ears, everywhere.
For example, male humpback whales, who spend six months of each year doing little else but singing, use rhythms (节奏) similar to those found in human music and musical phrases of similar length—a few seconds. Whales are able to make sounds over a range of at least seven octaves (八度音阶), yet they tend to move on through a song in beautiful musical intervals, rather than moving forwards madly. They mix the sounds like drums and pure tones in a ratio (比例) which agrees with that heard in much western music. They also use a favorite technique of human singers, the so-called A-B-A form, in which a theme is stated, then developed, and then returned to in slightly revised form.
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