There lived in South Carolina a young woman named Eliza Lucas. Her father was governor of one of the islands of the West Indies. Miss Lucas often got seeds (种子) from her father, and then she planted them in South Carolina.

Once, her father sent her some seeds of the indigo plant. She planted some of these in March, but a frost (霜冻) came and killed all plants. However, she decided to plant some more seeds in April. These grew very well until a cutworm found them and ate her plants. Once more Miss Lucas planted some of the seeds. This time the plants grew very well. She wrote to her father about it. He sent her a man who knew how to get the indigo out of the plant.

However, the man tried not to show Miss Lucas how to make the indigo. He did not want the people in the South Carolina to learn how to make. He was afraid his own people would not get so much money for their indigo if other people made it as well. So he destroyed the indigo on purpose. But Miss Lucas watched him closely. She worked out how the indigo could be made. Some of her father’s land in South Carolina was now planted with indigo plant.

Then Miss Lucas got married, and became Mrs. Pinckney. Her father gave her all the indigo growing on his land in South Carolina. It was all saved for seed. Some of the seed Mrs. Pinckney gave to her friends. Some of it her husband sowed (播种). It all grew and was made into that blue dye (染料) that we call indigo. In a few years, South Carolina was producing more than a million pounds of indigo every year.

24. The indigo plant died at first because of ___________.

A. a frost        B. a cutworm         C. heavy rain       D. strong sunlight

25. The man Miss Lucas’s father sent her ___________.

A. knew little about planting seeds          B. was not as helpful as she expected

C. helped her a lot in making the indigo      D. made a lot of money in South Carolina

26. What might be people’s attitude toward Eliza Lucas in South Carolina?

A. They were afraid of her.        B. They were thankful to her.

C. They were doubtful of her.       D. They were worried about her.

27. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Eliza Lucas learned to plant seeds.

B. Eliza Lucas became Mrs. Pinckney.

C. Eliza Lucas introduced indigo to South Carolina.

D. Eliza Lucas got her father’s land in South Carolina.

     Windsor Castle is      61      largest inhabited castle in England and is one of the    62     ( home) of the Queen and her family. It     63     (begin) over 900 years ago by King William Conqueror,    64     his army had defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings in 1066. It has a very good defensive position as it is high on a hill,    65     ( overlook) the River Thames and only one day’s march from London. It has some very     66     ( impress) state apartments   67     are open for the public to view. It has an    68     (enjoy) scene and is beyond   69   (describe). With is    70     (extreme) beautiful building, more and more visitors are attracted to it every year.

 Throughout the world, the majority of the employers are planning to cut down on wages_______ the economic crisis. 

  A. with respect to         B. in defense of   C. by means of     D. in reaction to

Telepathy (心灵感应) is the ability to communicate without the use of the five senses. It's an instinct (本能) which can be woken up in times of emergency or need. When we feel that something is happening or about to happen by instinct，we're using resources within the unconscious (潜意识的) mind. When the resources of two persons' unconscious minds link together into the same frequency (频率)，we call it telepathy.

We can either send or receive telepathy. If you know who is calling before you answer the ringing phone，you are probably a good receiver. If you think of a person and he/she calls you，you are most likely to be better at sending.

You can easily put your ability to the test. Thinking of somebody and wish him or her to contact you. Be patient. The other person may not be a good receiver，but they should contact you much earlier than would normally be expected. Or whenever the phone rings，try ‘feeling’ who is contacting you. Don't guess，but try to feel it with your mind. However，if neither of these works for you，that doesn't mean that you have no ability of telepathy. As mentioned earlier，telepathy is most likely to turn up in case of emergency.

Telepathy dreams often contain telepathic messages. Two people may both dream of the other and find that their dreams have a clear connection. These people are probably linking to each other's unconscious mind.

Telepathy & relationship. The more people spend time together，the more likely they are to be able to link up to the other's mind，especially when separated. There are two reasons for this. One is that they understand the other's mind through time spent together；the other is that there is usually a strong desire to communicate. A mother will often sense that her child is in danger. This is due to the child's eagerly wanting his or her mother，knowing that this is the person who would always want to be there for them，and the mother's deep desire to protect her child from harm.

8. Telepathy happens when one ________.

A．has a similar dream with another person.                           B．is good at guessing

C．wants to call his/her best friend                                         D．doesn't know a stranger

9. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The more people separate，the more likely that telepathy will occur in their life.

B．Telepathy occurs when people make use of their five senses.

C．Telepathy happens when people live far away and have no chance to see one another again.

D．One is better at sending than receiving telepathy if one receives a friend’s call as one wishes.

10. Which of the following belongs to telepathy?

A．Your action in your dream.

B．People's communication over the telephone.       

C．A mother's sense of her child being in danger.             

D．A couple's long separation.

11. Which one can be the title of the passage?

A．Receiving Telepathy                                                         B．Dream of telepathy

C．Telepathy: People’s Dream                                                D．Mind-to-Mind Contact

    Facial expressions carry meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example, in American culture the smile is in general an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman’s smile at a police officer does not carry the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also hide true feelings. It often causes confusion across cultures. For example, many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the wrong places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures, a smile is frequently used to cover painful feelings. Vietnamese people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.

Our faces show emotions, but we should not attempt to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as members of another culture, but it does not mean that they do not experience emotions. Rather, there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressiveness permitted. For example, in public and in formal situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions similarly.

It is difficult to conclude about Americans and facial expressiveness because of personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more facially expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotion are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the mistake of “reading” the other person incorrectly.

6.     The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that smile can ___.

    A. show friendliness to strangers       B. be used to hide true feelings

    C. be used in the wrong places        D. show personal habits

7.     What should we do before attempting to “read” people?

    A. Learn about their relations with others.

    B. Understand their cultural backgrounds.

    C. Find out about their past experience.

    D. Figure out what they will do next.

8.     What would be the best title for the test?

    A. Cultural Differences                B. Smiles and Relationships

    C. Facial Expressiveness                D. Habits and Emotions 

     61  (spend) too much time online can increase your risk of catching   62   cold or the flu，scientists have warned.

    Those with greater levels of Internet addiction are more likely to give in to illness   63  those who spend fewer hours online.

    Researchers believe the reason lies   64   the fact that people with an Internet addiction are more lonely，and as a result have   65   (weak) immune(免疫)systems.

    They said the lack of interaction with other people and less time ____66____(spend) outside exposing themselves to germs(细菌)played a role.

    Past studies also have    67   (find) people who spend more time online experience greater sleep problem,have   68  (bad) eating habits, do less exercise and tend to smoke and drink more alcohol.

    These   69  (behave) can harm their immune system and increase chances of getting diseases.

Professor Phil Read said, “We found that the impact of the Internet on people's health was independent of other factors，like depression，sleep problem，and loneliness， 70   are associated with  high levels of Internet use and also with poor health.

  Generations of children who sat through endless lessons of “chalk and talk” in front of a bossy teacher can take some relief. But the “chalk and talk” method helped them achieve better exam results. Modern classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but satisfaction is not the road to success in examinations, according to university researchers.

Their three-year study, monitoring the progress of 2000 teenagers, tried to measure the influence of the “boredom factor” in 17 selected schools in the north of England. The researchers also found that the old-fashioned approach of teachers ordering pupils about is still alive and producing results. Their conclusions were welcomed yesterday by educationists who were worried by the shift to less formal lessons.

The pupils in the latest study were asked to award teachers marks to measure how frequently they followed or ignored today’s fashion for “child-centered” education. A five-point scale was given to spot the teachers who always told them what they should know and what to write down. “It was significant and not anything you would get by chance or accident. Certainly, when you compare the pupils’ interest and attitude to school, there is a quite definite and highly significant difference,” one of the researchers said. But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the children did in examination. The sort of methods now frowned upon (不赞同) actually improve the final grades.

The researchers said, “There is nothing wrong with old-fashioned, didactic(说教性的) teaching in the fight place, even if it isn’t the flavor at the moment.” However, they insisted the best teachers had always mixed the two techniques to match the needs of pupils, although certain examinations forced some to concentrate more on dictation and learning by rote(死记硬背).

25. University researchers have discovered that _________.

A. modern teaching methods provide students with entertainment

B. students taught by modern techniques are happy and successful

C. traditional teaching methods help students get higher score

D. students like old teaching better than modern teaching at school

26. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that ____________.

A. child-centered education promotes friendship among children

B. the research findings are not significant enough for a conclusion

C. those who show greater interest in school did better in exams

D. those not showing much interest in school may turn out to score higher in tests

27. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

A. The Examination-based Teaching

B. Rote Learning Was the Winner

C. The Problem of Child-centered Education

D. The Problem of the Traditional Method

In La Paz, there is a road which 61 (consider) the most dangerous road in the world.

Life is hard at high altitude and the mountains make 62 (communicate) difficult. 63

there is not much traffic, on average, one vehicle comes off the road every two weeks. The drop is so great 64 anyone inside the vehicle is lucky to survive. A man named Timoteo Apaza lived near this road. Once, he had an encounter 65 death while he 66 (drive) a lorry down the road. Fortunately, he survived. He realized that he was lucky to be 67 (live). Then, one night, he was called to help people out of a crashed bus at this road. This experience had a profound effect 68 him and finally made him decide to help others.

Now he had a(n) 69 (usual) job, working as a human traffic signal. Holding a large

round board which is red on one side and green on 70 other, he stands on the bend to direct the traffic without pay.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线〔\〕划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

 I was at a friend’s house to dinner recently. During dinner, I break a

beautiful cup by accident. It was my friend favorite birthday present. I wanted to pay

for it, so she refused. I insisted on buy a new one for her, but she wouldn’t let me. I

felt badly about it. After returning to home, I told this to my mother. My mother

suggested that I give my friend a special gift to make up for me. I knew she always

wanted a book Life of Pi, so I bought a copy for her and she was happy accept it.

Dog owners now have a little help understanding their angry friends. A new device called Bow-Lingual “translates” dog barks into English, Korea or Japanese.

Bow-Lingual’s Japanese inventors spent much time and money analyzing dog barks. They found that dog noises can be broken down into six different emotions: happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, assertion and desire. Part of the Bow-Lingual device hangs on the dog’s collar. The other part is a handle-held unit for the owner. When the dog barks, the unit displays translated phrases.

Some people have scoffed at Bow-Lingual. “Who would pay US $ 120 to read a dog’s mind?” they ask, but those who have purchased Bow-Lingual praise the device. Pet owner Keiko Egawa, of Japan, says it helps her empathize with her dog, Harry. “Before we go to the park, he always says he wants to play,” says Egawa, “and after a walk, he always says he is hungry. ”

Bow-Lingual is not yet available in Chinese. So you’d better keep studying Studio Classroom, or soon your dog may know more English than you do!

1. The writer of this passage is most likely to be _____.

A. an advertiser    B. a reporter         C. a dog owner      D. an expert on dog barks

2. What does “scoffed at” mean in the 3rd paragraph?

A. Doubted about.    B. Questioned at.     C. Laughed at.       D. Shouted at.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Bow-Lingual is a new device that enables dogs to talk in English, Korean or Japanese.

B. Dog owners now can understand their dogs better as they stay longer with them.

C. People who have used the Bow-Lingual say it helps them better understand their dogs.

D. Chinese dog owners need keep studying to know more English than their dogs.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. A little help for dog owners.         B. Dog barks and their different emotions.

C. Dogs that can talk.                 D. Bow-Lingual’s inventors.

   Parents and grandparents are understandably proud of the quick minds and impressive talents of their little ones.

But let me tell you about another  41  , perhaps even more  42  , found in a little girl named Skylar.

I received a letter from a grandmother who told me about her four-year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar  43  of Disneyland from TV, she  44  her pocket money in a piggy bank to  45  it someday. However, her parents  46  her with a trip when she was four, and didn’t even  47  her to use her own money!

When Skylar returned, it was Christmas time. She wanted to buy   48  with her savings. But she also learned from announcements on TV about a local homeless   49   called “The Road House”. She repeatedly asked her mother what “homeless” meant and why those children 50 coats and warm clothes. She couldn’t seem to get the homeless off her  51  .

Her mother took her to the store to buy presents.  52  buying for herself or her family, however, she  53  to buy a warm coat, socks and gloves for a little girl in the shelter. She also wanted to buy a doll, but when she  54  she didn’t have enough money, she  55  the doll.

When Skylar got home, she  56  one of her favorite dolls and put it into the box with the other items she bought that day. She could  57  wait for Christmas! Skylar was thinking about going to the shelter and giving her  58  gifts to a homeless child. She was much filled with joy at truly59 someone else.

“Perhaps it’s good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to have a beautiful 60  ,” says Nobel Laureate John Hash. “It is that one quality, above all else, that makes beautiful people.”

41. A. condition            B. advantage           C. quality          D. method

42. A. necessary        B. important           C. popular          D. ordinary

43. A. learned          B. spoke            C. thought          D. told

44. A. made             B. appealed         C. took            D. saved

45. A. honor            B. favor               C. visit                D. possess

46. A. disappointed         B. ashamed          C. appointed        D. surprised

47. A. let              B. require          C. allow            D. teach

48. A. services             B. gifts                C. clothes          D. tickets

49. A. shelter              B. family           C. village          D. town

50. A. sold                 B. wore            C. needed           D. liked

51. A. effect           B. mind             C. tendency         D. experience

52. A. Instead of       B. Apart from       C. Along with       D. In spite of

53. A. regretted            B. decided          C. adopted          D. pretended

54. A. reminded             B. promised         C. forgot           D. discovered

55. A. felt like            B. left behind     C. took away        D. wrote down

56. A. chose            B. kept                 C. lost                 D. watched

57. A. flexibly         B. calmly           C. desperately      D. hardly

58. A. exchanged        B. bought           C. selected         D. designed

59. A. helping          B. appreciating         C. admiring         D. believing

60. A. idea                 B. present          C. heart            D. wish

How do you improve your spelling? __36__Just as we learn spoken language by hearing lots of people speaking, we learn written language, including spelling, by reading what a lot of people write. Spelling is not about how a word sounds, it’s about how it looks on the page, which means you have to look at a lot of words on the page to learn the correct spelling about it.

 Make a list of your commonly misspelled words. __37__When you get a chance, look it up and put the correct spelling next to it.

__38__If you look it up more than once, add it to your personal list.

 Write! Write! Write! __39__When you look it up how to spell a word, write it down several times in a row and do it again a day or two later. __40__Write a blog, a journal, e-mails, a novel, anything that will keep you using words and pay special attention as you write to the words that come up wrong.

A.      There is no substitute(代替) for reading a lot.

B.      Put a mark next to every word you look up in the dictionary.

C.      Those of us who spell well have a hard time explaining it, too.

D.     Let others read your writings, and ask them to circle misspelled words.

E.      You’re trying to build up the motor memory of writing it correctly spelled.

F.      The only way to really learn a word is to use it, and that counts for spelling as much as for learning its meaning.

G.     When you catch yourself spelling the same word wrong over and over, write it down somewhere.

       It's well-known that meditation (冥想) has many benefits, but do you know how to practice it for a beginner?

Set a proper scene

Find a space for meditation. It should be private and quiet. Make sure the temperature is comfortable. Sit on a cushion (垫子) if the floor is uncomfortable. You may play soft music if you like.

______________

Take a moment to loosen up. Remember that the goal of meditation is to relax. Loosen your clothing, remove your shoes and have a good stretch. Do your best to ease any muscle tension that might keep you from achieving relaxation. Make an effort to relax your facial muscles.

Focus on your breath

Sit down in the space you've prepared. Close your eyes and breathe. Each time you breathe in, count "one". Each time you breathe out, count "one". The idea is to strengthen being in the moment - the last breath doesn't matter, and the next one doesn't matter; only this one matters

Feel your breath inflate (胀大) your lungs and push on your diaphragm (隔膜). Feel how sweet it is to inhale the fresh air. As you do this, your body will gradually begin to relax and all of your attention will be centered within your mind.

       Return to real life

Once you feel fully centered in your mind, allow yourself to gradually drift back to real life. Move your fingers and toes and slowly wake your body up. Open your eyes and remain there for a few minutes until your senses come back, and then slowly stand up.

Even if you can't make it fully into your mind, you still get some benefits from it. If you want to feel better, you just need to practice. Set about 10 minutes around the same time every day and repeat this exercise.

8. The text is about _______.

A. the best way to stay relaxed               B. tips on how to breathe slowly

C. the benefits of practicing meditation D. steps in practicing meditation for beginners

9. Which of the following can best fill in the blank?

A. Forget yourself.                                                    B. Avoid being disturbed.

C. Prepare yourself for it.                                      D. Pay attention to your-inner self

10. The underlined word "inhale" in the text can be replaced by "_______".

A. look for                        B. take in                    C. keep away                           D. think of

11. To gain greater benefits of meditation, beginners are advised to _______.

A. practice it in a daily basis                                         B. listen to some popular music

C. do some exercise in advance                                   D. spend a long time in practicing it

 Pressed from his parents, and ______ that he has wasted too much time, the boy is determined to stop playing video games.    A. realizing          B. realized                     C. to realize      D. being realized

Read the advertisements, and then choose the best answers.

Driver Wanted 

1. Clean driving license   2 Must be of smart appearance.    3 Aged over 25.

Apply to：Capes Taxis, 17 Palace Road, Boston
Air Hostesses for International Flight Wanted
1. Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.
2. Height 1.6m to 1.75m.    3. Education to GCSE standard.
4 Two languages. Must be able to swim.
Apply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West HR37KK
Teachers Needed
 For private language school. Teaching experience unnecessary.
 Apply to: The Director of Studies, Instant Language Ltd, 279 Canal Street

1. What prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis?  

A. Fond of beer and wine.         B. Punished for speeding and wrong parking

C. Unable to speak a foreign language.      D. Not having college education.
2. Ben, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a college and can speak two foreign languages. Which job might be given to him?
 A. None of the three jobs mentioned above.  B. Working for Southern Airlines.
 C. Driving for Capes Taxis.                    D. Teaching at Instant Language Ltd.  
3. If Mary wants to work for Southern Airlines, she must _____.

 A. be over 25 years old                         B. look smart and beautiful 
  C. speak another language besides her own     D. have some similar working experience

People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the     61     and have made up their minds to     62     the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest(抗议) against heavy trucks which run     63     through the narrow High Street.

   "They not only make it     64     to sleep at night, but they are     65     damage to our houses and shops of historical interest." said John Norris, one of the protesters.

   "If we must have these noisy trucks on the roads," said Jean Lacey, a biology student, "Why don't they build a new road that goes     66     the town? Burlington isn't much more than a     67     village. Its streets were never     68     for heavy traffic." Harry Fields also studying     69     said they wanted to make as much     70     as possible to force the     71     to realize what everybody was having to     72    . "Most of them don't     73     here anyway," be said, "they come in for meetings, and the Town Hall is sound proof(隔音) so they probably don't     74     the noise all that much. It's high time they realized the     75    ."

   The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were     76     on their side, and even if they weren't they soon would be.

        I asked if they were     77     that the police might come to     78     them. "Not really," she said, "actually we are    79     bell-ringers. I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church. There is no     80     against practising."

        I left the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.

61.                    A. college          B. village          C. town D. church

62.                    A. change           B. repair           C. ring D. shake

63.                    A. now and thenB. day and night         C. up and down  D. over and over

64.                    A. terrible         B. difficult        C. uncomfortable    D. unpleasant

65.                    A. doing            B. raising          C. putting  D. producing

66.A. to               B. through          C. over             D. round

67.A. pretty           B. quiet            C. large            D. modern

68.A. tested           B. meant            C. kept             D. used

69.A. well             B. hard             C. biology          D. education

70.A. effort           B. time             C. trouble          D. noise

71.A. townspeople         B. other students      C. government officials    D. truck drivers

72.A. stand            B. accept           C. know             D. share

73.A. shop             B. live             C. come             D. study

74.A. notice           B. mention          C. fear             D. control

75.A. event            B. loss             C. action           D. problem

76.A. hardly           B. unwillingly      C. mostly           D. usually

77.A. surprised        B. afraid           C. pleased          D. determined

78.A. seize            B. fight            C. search           D. stop

79.A. proper           B. experienced      C. hopeful          D. serious

80.A. point            B. cause            C. need             D. law

Welcome to your future life!

You get up in the morning and look into the mirror. Your face is firm and young-looking. In 2035, medical technology is better than ever. Many people your age could live to be 150, so at 40, you’re not old at all. And your parents just had an anti-aging(抗衰老的) treatment. Now, all three of you look the same age!

You say to your shirt, “Turn red.” It changes from blue to red. In 2035, “smart clothes” contain particles(粒子) much smaller than the cells in your body. The particles can be programmed to change your clothes’ color or pattern.

  You walk into the kitchen. You pick up the milk, but a voice says, “You shouldn’t drink that!” Your fridge has read the chip (芯片) that contains information about the milk , and it knows the milk is old . In 2035, every article of food in the grocery store has such a chip.

  It’s time to go to work. In 2035, cars drive themselves. Just tell your “smart car” where to go. On the way, you can call a friend using your jacket sleeve(袖子). Such “smart technology” is all around you.

 So will all these things come true? “For new technology to succeed,” says scientist Andrew Zolli , “it has to be so much better that it replaces what we have already.” The Internet is one example --what will be the next?

4. We can learn from the text that in the future__________.

 A. clothes will be able to change their pattern         B. everyone will look the same

 C. red will be the most popular color             D. people will never get old 

5. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

 A. Food in the grocery store will carry electronic information.   

B. More drinks will be available for sale.

C. Milk will be harmful to health.       

D. Milk in the grocery store will stay fresh much longer.

6. What is the text mainly about?   

A. Food and clothing in 2035.              B. Medical treatments of the future. 

C. Future technology in everyday life.    D. The reason for the success of new technology.    

Nowadays, millions 　41　lonely singles are now going online instead.    　42　World Wide Web is quickly becoming the world’s most popular matchmaker(媒人).Singles are flocking(涌向) to the Internet　43　because their busy lifestyles leave them little time to look for a significant other. Using dating sites(约会网址) is quick and convenient. Many singles say the regular dating scene 　44　(just lead) them from one bad experience to 　45　and are ready to try something else. Dating sites also make 　46　easy to avoid someone 　47　you are not interested in. In the real world, 　48　, ignoring someone you don’t like can be difficult.

Despite all the advantages, online dating also presents its own set of problems. People aren’t always those who they declare to be in their online 　49　(describe). Safety is another concern. You are just 　50　(like) to find a criminal online as you are Mr. Or Miss Right.

He wrote a letter ______ explained what had happened in the accident.

       A. what          B. which        C. where              D. how

The English writer Samuel Johnson famously said, “You find no man who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.” More than two centuries have passed since Johnson’s age, but his words still ring true. Here, you’ll find the historic Tower of London and the Tate Modern both considered must-sees. Shakespeare’s sonnets（十四行诗） are still being uttered by actors. Londoners most certainly still look up to the royals, but they also rock out to Coldplay and Lily Allen. And while they still sip tea, they now drink Starbucks, too.

How to Save Money in London

Find the free attractions. Many of London’s top things to do, including the National Gallery, Hyde Park and the Portobello Road Market, are absolutely free to enjoy.

Ride the Tube. Taking taxis will add up quickly, so buy a pay-as-you-go Oyster Card and travel on London’s underground system, nicknamed the “Tube”.

Dine smart. Corridors like Brick Lane offer fantastic cultural food for bargain prices; fish and chip shops are a cheap standby and takeaway food costs less than dine-in.

London Culture & Customs

London is one of the fashion capitals of the world, and its residents tend to reflect that. Practically, pack an umbrella for the rainy days and a scarf for the cold ones. As for tipping, restaurants and cafes will usually add a 10-to-15-percent service charge to the bill. If a service charge is not allotted（指定）, it’s customary to tip the same (between 10 and 15 percent). If you’re drinking at a pub or wine bar, tipping is flexible. And in a taxicab, tip the driver to the nearest pound or about 10 percent of the cost.

London Dining

London used to be highly criticized for its heavy and common menu items. Now, London is considered as one of the most gourmet cities in the world. And with its melting pot of cultures, it’s not difficult to see why. London offers everything from modern British to Malaysian. For Indian food, we suggest visiting the curry houses on Brick Lane. If you want a real high tea experience, book reservations at the Ritz, at Fortnum & Mason, or at the Dorchester — but be sure to dress the part. Pub culture is still alive and well, so if you have a hankering for fried fish and salty chips (or French fries), you’ll still find them here. And for a quick bite, exchange a few pounds for a kebab, a quick sandwich or some to go sushi, which can be found in restaurants throughout the city.

5. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. Life in London is exciting but tiring.           

B. Londoners are traditional and fashion conscious.

C. Many well-known writers like to live in London.

D. Coffee is more popular with Londoners than tea.

6. The underlined word “hankering” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “________”.

A. desire                B. respect          C. preparation          D. talent

7. In which column of a newspaper can we find the passage?

A. Culture.              B. Travel.               C. Education.          D. Entertainment.