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relatives. C. For a teacher exchange program. 12. What plays an important part in American cooking? A. An electric cooker. B. A microwave oven. C. A rice cooker. 13. Which food is the most popular foreign food? A. The Indian food. B. The French food. C. The Chinese food. 聽(tīng)第 9 段材料,回答第 14 至 16小題。 17. What is Antarctica like? ,000 kilometers from the coast. B. A cold and lonely place. C. A big wall of ice. 18. Where do penguins live? A. Near the water. ,000 kilometers from the coast. C. In the mountains. 19. How do people go there? A. By spaceship. B. By car. C. By plane or by ship. 20. What do men in Antarctica do in spring? A. Study the rocks under the snow. B. Catch fish for food. C. Study animals. 第二部分:閱讀理解 (共 20 小題,每題 2分,滿分 40 分) 第一節(jié) :閱讀理解 (共 15小題;每小題 2分,滿分 30 分) 閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)( A、 B、 C 和 D)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 $250 for nonmembers How to do: Simply e to our center to get an application form (申請(qǐng)表 ). Send your pleted form on or before 11th July, 2020(Friday). Notes: 1. NO FREE LUNCHES ARE PROVIDED because of personal food differences. You may either bring a lunchbox or pay for lunch at our restaurants. 2. Both programs will start 1 DAY later if there is a warning of rainstorms. COME AND JOIN US NOW!! DON’ T MISS THE CHANCE!! 21. ______ can join the threeday summer program. A. A kid of 7 B. A boy of 14 C. A girl of 17 D. A man of 26 22. If there is a rainstorm on 14th July, program A will start on ______. A. Sunday B. Monday C. Tuesday D. Wednesday 23. Two members and one nonmember should pay ______ for the program. A. $690 B. $710 C. $730 D. $750 24. Free lunches aren’ t provided because ______. A. the lunches cost too much B. people have different tastes C. there are many restaurants D. they may bring lunchboxes B Tony Wheeler was born to travel. His father worked for an airline. For the first 16 years of his life. Wheeler and his family lived in many different countries. In the early 1970s, Tony met a young woman named Maureen. They soon married. Before getting jobs, Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a yearlong trip from England, through Asia, to Australia. On the trip, they visited places like Iran( 伊朗 ) , India and so on. When Tony and Maureen arrived in Australia, people asked many questions about their trip. To answer these questions, Wheeler wrote a book called Across Asia on the Cheap. The book told people about different countries39。s book also talked about places most tourists did not go. He also wrote about unusual things to see and do. The book was very popular. Tony and Maureen started a pany called lonely Pla. They continued traveling. They wrote books for each place they visited. Today, 800 people work for Lonely Pla. The pany has over 650 books. Tony Wheeler, the great traveler, still writes about travels to many places and will bring us more surprises. 25. Tony Wheeler and his wife ended the yearlong trip in _______. A. England B. Iran C. India D. Australia 26. Tony Wheeler wrote the book Across Asia on the Cheap to _______. A. make money for his next trip B. tell people about his new pany C. draw people39。s questions about his trip 27. How was the book Across Asia on the Cheap different from other travel books then? A. It was longer and more popular. B. It was the first travel book in the world. [來(lái)源 :Zx x m ] C. It talked about places most tourists did not go. D. It talked about a country39。 I was bored. Fortunately, my father realized this fairly early on and developed a new form of “discipline(原則) ” that produced immediate results and longterm positive effects. Looking back as an adult, my father’s method of making me read the encyclopedia (百科全書(shū) )whenever I did something wrong was the best thing he could have done. He would tell me a topic and say, “Learn about the aardvark(土豚) and I’m going to test you shortly after.” It was punishment in the sense that I was forced to stop whatever I was doing, but it also had a purpose in that it kept my mind occupied and presented the type of mental challenge I clearly lacke