【正文】 es starting from London 1st May, 1st September. The trips are guided by Professor Martin Davis, Head of Italian Studies, London University. See the arts and culture of historic Italy. KIBBUTZ HOLIDAYS IN ISRAEL Working holidays on a kibbutz (cooperative farm) in Israel. All nationalities wele for one to three months, if prepared to work morning with kibbutz members. Acmodation (住宿 ), food and trips to historic sights all provided free —you pay only for the special lowcost return flight. TWO WEEKS ON A CARIBBEAN ISLAND Twoweek holidays in the Hotel Splendid, on a lovely beach with golden sands, warm sunshine and deepblue sea. Tennis, golf, sailing and all water sports, trips around the island arranged. Near to town of Castries with lively evening entertainment —dancing. 1st November —31st March: 163。720 per person 1st April —30th October: 163。850 per person (PartⅡ ) Jack and his wife Mary, who have recently retired, want to see places of cultural and historic interest abroad, but Mary hates flying. Peter and Maria, university students, want to travel as far as possible on little money, and would like to get to know a country by working there for three months with other young people. Michael, a young puter programmer, has been working hard and needs a holiday to relax in winter. He would like to go somewhere warmer and sunny, where he can swim in the sea, and he enjoys sports and dancing. Harry and Kate, both teachers, and their two sons, have to take their holiday during the school summer holidays. There must be plenty for the boys to do, although Harry and Kate just want to have beautiful scenery, good food and wine —and peace. 25. Michael would most probably go to _________ for his holiday. A. Italy B. Israel C. Mallorca D. a Caribbean island 26. The most suitable place where Peter and Maria can enjoy their holiday would be _________. A. an Italian city B. a kibbutz in Israel C. a Caribbean island D. the port in Mallorca 27. The best holiday for Jack and Mary would be _________. A. the 21day coach trip of Italy B. the 2 week stay in the Hotel Splendid C. the 14day trip around a Caribbean island D. the working holidays for 13months on a kibbutz in Israel 28. You can find the passage in PartⅠ most probably in _________. A. a school library B. a tourist agency C. the post office D. the museum C Life is difficult. What do you think about life? Maybe most people say that life is difficult. But life is no longer difficult once we truly understand and accept it. Most people do not fully see this truth. Instead, they plain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon (強(qiáng)加于 ) them or their families, their class, or even their nation. What makes life difficult is that the process (過程 ) of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are unfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy. Yet, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt instruct.” It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to wele the pain of problems. 29. The writer probably used just one short sentence in the first paragraph to _________. A. show his opinion B. argue with readers C. give an example D. get readers’ attention 30. According to the passage we give school children difficult problems in order to _________. A. encourage them to solve problems B. teach them to fear the pain of solving problems C. help them learn to deal with pain D. teach them how to respect problems 31. The saying from Benjamin Franklin “Those things that hurt instruct.” suggests that _________. A. we do not learn from experience B. we do not learn when we are in pain C. pain teaches us important lessons D. the pain of problems is not wele 32. The passage mainly tells us that _________. A. we bee stronger by facing and solving the problems of life B. life is difficult because our problems bring us pain C. people like to plain about their problems D. everybody has problems D Worried about how many calories you will get in that piece of pizza, chocolate cake or bag of chips? A new iPhone application (應(yīng)用程序 ) MealSnap may help. Users just need to take a picture of the meal with the phone, and it will give a calorie readout almost immediately. MealSnap was developed by DailyBurn, a health social work that is meant to help its users lead healthier lifestyles. It has created several other health and dietrelated iPhone applications. The application gives users a quick reply. To do that, it matches the taken picture to a databank (數(shù)據(jù)庫 ) with the calorie information of nearly 500,000 kinds of food. Users then get the range of calories for the meal that is photographed. We started with something simple —an apple. A couple of minutes later, the application replied that it was an apple and between 64 and 96 calories. More impressive was the reply we received after sending a photo of a mixed salad bowl. MealSnap replied that the bowl contained “yellow rice with corn, boiled eggs and beans” and that the food was between 532 and 789 calories. Mr. Smith,