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With

over

2.4

million

visitors

every

year,

Cinque

Terre

is

one

of

the

most-visited

regions

in

Italy.

Cinque Terre is

truly

special.

The

five

candy- colored

fishing

villages

of

Riomaggiore,

Manarola,

Comiglia,

Vemazza,

and

Monterosso

al

Mare

are

built

into

cliffs

over

the

clean

and

brightly-shining

Ligurian

Sea.

Whether

you're

visiting the region for a few

days or a few weeks, these are

the experiences you

should

add

to your trip pleasure.

★Ta

ke a scenic hike.

It's easy to visit each of

the

attractive

villages

on

foot.

The most popular hike is the

coastal path Sentiero Azzuro.

It links all five villages and

offers

extremely

beautiful

scenery

of

the

sea,

architecture and vineyards(

葡

萄园

).

It

takes

about

six

hours

to

go

across,

with

short

breaks,

but most people are going to

stop in the villages for food

and swimming.

★Eat seafood

in a cone(锥

形

).

Dessert

lovers

might

think

that Italian ice-cream is the

best thing to be served in a

cone but make room for seafood

cones as well. Thanks to its

coastal

location,

Cinque

Terre

is

full

of

seafood

restaurants.

★Get on a boat.

If

the

weather

cooperates,

take

the

time

to

get

out

on

the

water. The villages look very

beautiful

from

a

boat.

The

cheapest and easiest way is to

jump on the public ferry from

one

of

the

villages

to

the

next,

but

these

boats

are

often

crowded.

It's

far

more

relaxing

to

take

a

private

cruise,

which

departs

from

the

docks

in

Riomaggiore,

Manarola,

Vemazza,

and Monterosso al Mare.

★Take the

train.

Cinque

Terre's

train

system

is

one

of

the

most

scenic

in

Europe.

The

high- speed

train

runs through each of the five

villages

every

20

minutes

or

so.

And the whole line is directly

on the coast, offering lovely

views of the Ligurian Sea and

rocky cliffs.

21. What is special about

the

five

candy-colored

fishing

villages?

A.

Their

special

location.

C. Their delicious foods.

22.

What

is

the

favorite

food

for

the

hikers

in

the

five

villages?

A. Italian noodles

C. Italian wines.

23.

What

is

the

best

way

to

enjoy

the

beautiful

scenery

and

delicious food?

A. Taking a private ferry

to the villages.

B.

Walking

with

short

breaks on the coast.

C.

Taking

a

scenic

hike

along the coastal path.

D.

Taking

the

train

running

through the villages.

B

I.M.

Pei,

the

Chinese- American,

who

was

regarded

as

one

of

the

last

great

modernist

architects,

has died at the age of 102.

Although he worked mostly

in the United States, Pei will

always

be

remembered

for

a

B. Their long history.

European

project:

His

D. Their friendly villagers.

redevelopment

of

the

Louvre

B. Italian

D. Seafood

Museum

in

Paris

in

the

1980s.

He

gave

us

the

glass

and

metal

pyramid in the

main

courtyard,

along

with

three

smaller

pyramids

and

a

vast

subterranean

(

地下的

)

addition

to the museum entrance.

Pei was the first foreign

architect

to

work

on

the

Louvre

in

its

long

history,

and

initially

his

designs

were

fiercely

opposed.

But

in

the

end,

the

French

—

and

everyone

else

—

were won over. Winning

the

fifth

Pritzker

Architecture Prize in

1983,

he

was thought as giving the 20th

century

“some

of

its

most

beautiful

inside

spaces

and

outside

forms

…

His

talent

and

skill in the use of materials

approach

the

level

of

poetry

.”

After

studying

architecture

at

the

Massachusetts

Institute

of

Technology

and

Harvard,

Pei

set

up

his

own

architectural

practice in New York in 1955.

Designing

the

John

F.

Kennedy

Presidential

Library

&

Museum in

1964 established him

as

a

name.

His

East

Building

of

the National Gallery of Art in

Washington

in

1978

changed

people’s

ide

as

of

a

museum.

The site was an odd trapezoid

(

梯形) shape. Pei’s solution

was

to

cut

it

in

two.

The

resulting

building

was

dramatic, light

and elegant

—

one

of

the

first

crowd-pleasing

cathedrals of modern art.

Though

known

as

a

modernist,

and

notable

for

his

forms

based

on

arrangements

of

simple

geometric (

几何的

) shapes, he

once urged Chinese architects

to

look

more

to

their

architectural

tradition

rather

than

designing

in

a

western

style.

In

person,

I.M.

Pei

was

good-humored,

charming

and

unusually modest. His working

process was evolutionary, but

innovation (

创新

)

was never an

intended goal.

“Stylistic

originality

is

not my purpose,” he said. “I

want

to

find

the

originality

in

the

time,

the

place

and

the

problem.”

24.

What

can

we

learn

about

the result of redevelopment of

the Louvre Museum?

A.

It

was

criticized

by

the

French.

B. It was a success.

C.

It

made

the

Louvre

Museum looks strange.

D. It changed the function

of the Louvre Museum.

25. What can we learn from

the

underlined

sentence

in

paragraph 3?

A.

He

is

a

master

in

applying materials.

B.

He

is

skilled

in

writing

poems.

C.

He

often

combines

poetry

and construction.

D.

He

gets

inspiration

from

poetry in designing.

26.

What’s

the

correct

order of

the following events?

a.

Design

the

John

F.

Kennedy

Presidential

Library

&

Museum.

b.

Study

architecture

at

the

Massachusetts

Institute

of

Technology and Harvard.

c.

Design

the

National

Gallery of Art.

d

Win

the

fifth

Pritzker

Architecture Prize.

A. abcd

B.

bacd

C. bcad

D.

dacd

27.

What

can

we

learn

about

I.M. Pei?

A.

Innovation

was

his

first

goal in design.

B.

He

was

talented

and

serious.

C.

He

preferred

western

style to the east.

D.

He

liked

simple

geometric shapes.

C

Scientists

in

Western

Australia claim to have made a

new

discovery

—

they

have

found

gold

in

the

leaves

and

twigs

of

trees.

The

researchers

believe

that

the

trees

suck

up

the

gold

from deep underground,

over

30

metres down. The

discovery

has

been described as the first of

its

kind

in

the

world.

Australian

gold

exploration

companies are pleased because

it

will

make

finding

gold

cheaper. Rather than drilling

deep holes to find gold, they

have more ways to examine tree

leaves and branches. There is

only a tiny amount of gold in

the leaves. It would take 500

trees

to

make

one

gold

ring.

The

gold is found using a special

X-ray

machine

owned

by

an

Australian government agency.

A

pure

X-ray

and

a

powerful

microscope scan the

leaves

and

branches.

The claim that this is the

first

time

that

gold

particles(

微

粒

)

have

been

found in

living material might

not

be

true,

though.

Ancient

Chinese wisdom understood the

connection between plants and

the

precious

stones

and

minerals

underneath

them.

They

used

plant

life

to

find

minerals

and

that

was

thousands

of

years

ago.

In

the

Zhou

Dynasty, it was written in a

book that a certain plant grew

only

near

deposits

of

gold.

Over

the

next

2,000

years,

Chinese

people

wrote

about

different plants and how they

grew,

showed

where

minerals

and

precious stones such as jade,

copper, lead, silver and gold

were.

Even more importantly, in

the 1,000s, Su Song described

how copper,

gold, silver, lead

and

tin

were

observed

and

taken

from

certain

plants.

These

were

amazing

scientific

discoveries.

Meanwhile, this knowledge was

unknown

in

the

rest

of

the

world

until

about

1,600.

This

was

when

a

British

man

realised

that oak trees grew larger and

greener

where

there

was

alum(

明

矾

)

in

the

ground.

Maybe

ancient

Chinese

has

more

knowledge

to

teach

modern

scientists.

28. What can we know from

Paragraph 1?

A. 500 dead trees can make

one gold ring.

B.

The

trees

can

absorb

the

gold from deep underground.

C.

Scientist

have

found

gold

30

meters

below

underground.

D.

The

companies

find

it

hard to find gold.

29. How do scientists find

gold in the leaves?

A. By observing the leaves

carefully.

B.

By

drilling deep holes.

C.

By

using

a

special

X-ray.

D.

By

referring to ancient books.

30.

Who

first

discovered

that

there

was

connection

between plants and minerals?

A.

Ancient

Chinese

people.

B. Su Song.

C.

Australian

scientists

D.

A

British man.

31. What is the purpose of

the last paragraph?

A. To introduce two great

scientists in ancient times.

B.

To

provide

more

evidence

to

support

the

writer’s

opinion.

C.

To

show

how

ancient

people

got

gold

from

certain

plants.

D.

To

prove

that

ancient

Chinese

has

more

knowledge

than

modern scientists.

D

The

Japanese

have

always

been

at

the

forefront

at

deploying

(

利

用

)

robots

to

perform

jobs

that

are

traditionally done by humans.

Over

the

past

year,

humanoid

robots have been seen helping

customers

at

the

Mitsubishi

Bank and even filling in for

human

science

communicators

at

museums. Therefore, it is not

surprising

to

hear

that

the

country

has

the

worlds

first

hotel

that

is

staffed

almost

entirely by the Androids!

The aptly (

巧妙地

) named

Henn-

na

(“strange”

in

Japanese)

Hotel

which

opened

its

doors

on

July

17

is

located

at Nagasaki’s Huis Ten Bosch

theme park. It is the idea of

Hideo

Sawada,

a

Japanese

businessman who is fascinated

by

the

possibility

of

replacing

humans with robots. His aim is

to have this futuristic hotel

be

run

mainly

by

the

intelligent humanoids.

Guests

checking-in

are

welcomed by a family friendly

English-speaking

robot

wearing

a bow tie and bell-hop (

侍者

)

hat. Though

experienced at his

job,

he

does

request

guests

not

to

ask

him

“a

difficult

question”

since

he

is

after

all,

“just

a

robot!”

Those

se

eking

a

more

“regular”

experience,

can

approach

the

human-like

Japanese-speaking

robot.

When

ready,

visitors

can

request the robot “porters”

to

help

carry

belongings

to

their room. Those that need to

stow

away

valuables

can

hand

them

to

a

helpful

robot

who

will

place

them

inside

an

individual

safe

box

in

exchange

for

a

small

fee.

A

one-foot- high

concierge

(

管

理

人

)

is

available

to

provide information about the

hotel’s

amenities

(便利设施

),

nearby

attractions,

and

even

order a taxi if needed.

So

how

much

does

it

cost

to