【正文】 s know of any allergies or dietary requirements as well as information about any medicines you take. Depending on the type of allergies and/ or dietary requirements, an extra charge may be made for providing special food. does Intensive Course differ from Standard Course? A. It is less effective. B. It focuses on speaking. C. It includes extra lesson. D. It gives you confidence. starting their programme, students are expected to _____. A. take a language test B. have an online interview C. prepare learning materials D. report their language levels the full package, the programme anizer is supposed to_____. A. inform students of their full flight details B. look after students throughout the programme C. offer students free sightseeing trips D. collect students’ luggage in advance B One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem inability to read. In the library, I found my way into the Children39。 第一部分 : 閱讀理解 （共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié) （共 15 小題 。 注意事項： 1．答卷前，考生務(wù)必分別將答題卷上的姓名、考試號用黑色字跡的簽字筆填寫，用 2B 鉛筆將考試號對應(yīng)的信息點涂黑。 汕頭市金山中學(xué) 20202017 年度高三 校模 英語 命題人： 王文貞 黃晴 本試卷共三部分，滿分 135 分（ 120）?？荚嚂r間 120 分鐘。 2．選擇題每小題選出答案后，用 2B 鉛筆把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目選項的答案信息點涂黑，如需改動，用橡皮擦干凈后，再選涂其他答案，答案 不能答在試卷上。 每小題 2分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下列短文 ， 從每題所給的四個選項 （ A、 B、 C 和 D） 中 ， 選出最佳選項 ， 并在答題 卡上將該項涂黑。s Room. I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal panion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never fot my beagle. There on the book39。s call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly wonderful and I was going to read them. I never told my mother about my miraculous（ 奇跡般地 ） experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words has held. author39。s holiday， time is running out . It is now close to four years since I last took a holiday. This is because I have e to the conclusion, over the course of my adult life, that I am not very good at it. You might say this sounds like saying you are not very good at drinking tea or listening to music. What could possibly be difficult about the natural act of putting your working life on hold for a couple of weeks and going somewhere to do nothing? I was a model holidaymaker as a kid． However， the problems started during my twenties． A trip to the south of France was ended after just two days， mainly because I had an urge to check my s． Similarly， my honeymoon was cut short by 48 hours—not because my wife and I weren’t enjoying ourselves， but because we were missing our cats． So what is my problem? On the surface， I’m probably a bit of a homebody． And I just find the pressure of being on holiday too severe： it always feels like having a gun held to my head and being forced to have fun． Somehow， packing a list of possessions and meeting a scheduled flight has none of the excitement of suddenly deciding to take a day off and driving somewhere for the fun of it． Thankfully， I’m not alone． This summer， most of my friends have decided not to have a break． And a recent survey proved the downside of holidays， with the results showing that nearly two thirds of people found that the calming effects of a holiday wore off within 24 hours， as stress levels returned to normal． And this year The Idler magazine published its Book of Awful Holidays． Here you will find a list of the five most ecologicallydamaging vacations it’s possible to take， along with 50 painful holiday experiences voted for on The Idler website． What interests me is what the concept of a “holiday” says about our lives． For me， the point of living is to have a life you enjoy for 52 weeks a year． The