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Welcome to Holker Ha ll & Gardens
Visitor
Information
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By Car
：
Follow
brown signs an A590 from JB6, imale travel times:
Windermere-20
minutes,
Kendal-25
minutes,
Lancaster-45
minutes,
Manchester-I
hour
30
minutes.
By Rail: The nearest stati
on is Cark-in-Cartmel with trains to Carnforth,
Lancaster Preston for connections to
major cities & airports.
Opening Times
Sunday-Friday (closed on Saturday)11:00
am-4:00pm,30 March-2nd November.
Admission Charges
Hall & Gardens
Gardens
Adults:
?12.00 ?8.00
Groups ?9 ?5.5
Producers: Market 13th
April
Join
us
to
taste a
variety
of
fresh
local
food
and
drinks.
Meet
the
producers
and
get
some excellent recipe ideas.
Holker Garden Festival 30th
May
The event
celebrate its 22nd anniversary with a great show
of the very best of
gardening, making
it one of the most popular events in gardening.
National Garden
Day 28th August
Holker once again opens is gardens in
aid of the disadvantaged. For just a small
donation you can take a tour with our
garden guide.
Winter Market 8th November
英语
This
is
an
event for
all
the
family.
Wander
among
a
variety
of
shops
selling
gifs
while enjoying a live music show a nd
nice street entertainment.
long does it probably take a tourist
to drive to Holker from Manchester?
A. 20minutes.
B. 25 minutes.
C. 45 minutes.
D. 90 minutes.
much should a member of a tour group
pay to visit to Hall & Cardens?
A. ?l2.00.B.
B. 19.00.
C. A8.0
D. 45.50
event will you
go to if you want to see a live music show?
A. Producers'
Market.
B. Holker Garden
Festival.
C.
National Garden Day.
D.
Winter Market.
B
Cities usually have a good
reason for being where they are, like a nearby
port
or
river.
People
settle
in
these
places
because
they
are
easy
to
get
to
and
naturally
suited
to
communications
and
trade.
New
York
City,
for
example,
is
near
a
large
harbour
at the mouth of the Hudson River. Over
300 years its population grew gradually from
800
people
to
8
million.
But
not
all
cities
develop
slowly
over
a
long
period
of
time.
Boom towns grow from nothing almost
overnight.
In 1896, Dawson,
Canada, was unmapped
wilderness(
荒野
).
But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two
years later, it was
one of the largest
cities in the West, with a population of 30,000.
Dawson
did
not
have
any
of
the
natural
conveniences
of
cities
like
London
or
Paris.
People went there for gold. They
travelled over snow-covered mountains and sailed
hundreds of miles up icy rivers. The
path to Dawson was covered with thirty feet of
wet snow that could fall without
warming. An avalanche(
雪崩
)
once closed the path,
killing 63
people. For many who made it to Dawson, however,
the rewards were worth
the
difficult
trip.
Of
the
first
20,000
people
who
dug
for
gold,
4,000
got
rich.
About
100 of these stayed
rich men for the rest of their lives.
But no matter how
rich they were,
Dawson was
never
comfortable.
Necessities
like
food
and
wood
were
very
expensive.
But
soon,
the
gold
that
Dawson
depended
on
had
all
been
found.
The
city
was
crowded
with
disappointed
people
with
no
interest
in
settling
down,
and
when
they
heard
there
were
new
gold
discoveries
in
Alaska,
they
left
Dawson
City
as
quickly
as
they
had
come.
Today,
people
still
come
and go
—
to
see
where
the
Canadian gold rush happened. Tourism
is
now the
chief
industry of Dawson City
—
its
present
population is 762.
英语
24.
What attracted the early settlers to New York
City?
A. Its
business culture.
B. Its
small population.
C. Its geographical position.
D. Its favourable climate.
25. What do we
know about those who first dug for gold in Dawson?
A. Two-thirds
of them stayed there.
B. One out of five people got rich.
C. Almost
everyone gave up.
D. Half
of them died.
26. What was the main reason for many
people to leave Dawson?
A. They found the city too crowded.
B. They wanted
to try their luck elsewhere.
C. They were unable to
stand the winter.
D. They were short of food.
27. What is the text mainly
about?
A. The
rise and fall of a city.
B.
The gold rush in Canada.
C. Journeys into the wilderness.
D. Tourism in Dawson.
C
While famous foreign architects are
invited to lead the designs of landmark
buildings
in
China
such
as
the
new
CCTV
tower
and
the
National
Center
for
the
Performing
Arts, many
excellent Chinese architects are making great
efforts to take the center
stage.
Their
efforts
have
been
proven
fruitful.
Wang
Shu,
a
49-year-old
Chinese
architect,
won the 2012
Pritzker Architecture Prize
—
which is often referred to
as the Nobel
Prize in architecture
—
on February 28. He is the
first Chinese citizen to win this
award.
Wang serves as head of the Architecture
Department at the China Academy of Art
(CAA). His office is located at the
Xiangshan campus(
校园
) of the
university in
Hangzhou,
Zhejiang
Province.
Many
buildings
on
the
campus
are
his
original
creations.
英语
The
style
of
the
campus
is
quite
different
from
that
of
most
Chinese
universities.
Many visitors were amazed by the
complex architectural space and abundant building
types. The
curves(
曲线
) of the buildings
perfectly match the rise and fall of hills,
forming a unique view.
Wang collected more than 7
million abandoned bricks of different ages. He
asked
the workers to use traditional
techniques to make the bricks into walls, roofs
and
corridors.
This
creation
attracted
a
lot
of
attention
thanks
to
its
mixture
of
modern
and
traditional Chinese
elements(
元素
).
Wang
’
s
works
show
a
deep
understanding
of
modern
architecture
and
a
good
knowledge
of
traditions.
Through
such
a
balance,
he
had
created
a
new
type
of
Chinese
architecture,
said Tadao
Ando, the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Wang believes
traditions should not be sealed in glass boxes at
museums.
is only evidence that
traditions once existed,
Chinese
people
have
a
misunderstanding
of
traditions.
They
think
tradition
means
old
things
from
the
past.
In
fact,
tradition
also
refers
to
the
things
that
have
been developing and that are still
being created,
many
Chinese
people
are
learning
Western
styles
and
theories
rather
than
focusing on Chinese
traditions. Many people tend to talk about
traditions without
knowing what they
really are,
The
study of traditions should be combined with
practice. Otherwise, the
recreation of
traditions would be artificial and empty, he said.
28.
Wang
’
s winning of the prize
means that Chinese architects are ___________.
A. following
the latest world trend
B. getting international recognition
C. working
harder than ever before
D. relying on foreign architects
29. What
impressed visitors to the CAA Xiangshan campus
most?
A. Its
hilly environment.
B. Its
large size.
C.
Its unique style.
D. Its
diverse functions.
30. What made
Wang
’
s architectural design
a success?
英语
A. The mixture
of different shapes.[
B. The balance of East and West.
C. The use of
popular techniques.
D. The harmony of old and new.
31. What should
we do about Chinese traditions according to Wang?
A. Spread them
to the world.
B. Preserve
them at museums.
C. Teach them in universities.
D. Recreate them in
practice.
D
Adults understand what it feels like to
be flooded with objects. Why do we often
assume that more is more when it comes
to kids and their belongings? The good news
is that I can help my own kids learn
earlier than I did how to live more with less.
I found the
pre-holidays a good time to encourage young
children to donate
less-used things,
and it worked. Because of our efforts, our
daughter Georgia did
decide to donate a
large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother
was unable to pay
for her holiday due
to
illness.
She chose to
sell a few
larger objects that were
less
often used when we
promised to put the money into her school
fund(
基金
)(our
kindergarten daughter is serious about
becoming a doctor)
For weeks, I've been thinking of
bigger, deeper questions: How do we make it a
habit for them? And how do we train
ourselves to help them live with, need, and use
less?
Yesterday,
I
sat
with
my
son,
Shepherd,
determined
to
test
my
own
theory
on
this.
I
decided
to
play
with
him
with
only
one
toy
for
as
long
as
it
would
keep
his
interest.
I
expected
that
one
toy
would
keep
his
attention
for
about
five
minutes,
ten
minutes,
max. I chose a red
rubber ball-simple, universally available. We
passed it, he tried
to put it in his
mouth,
he tried bouncing it, rolling
it,
sitting on it,
throwing
it.
It was totally,
completely enough for him. Before I knew it an
hour had passed and
it was time to move
on to lunch.
We
both became absorbed in the simplicity of playing
together. He had my full
attention and
I had his. My little experiment to find joy in a
single object worked
for both of us.
32. What do the
words
“
more is
more
”
in paragraph 1
probably mean?
A. The more, the better.
B. Enough is enough.
C. More money, more
worries.
D. Earn more and
spend more.
英语
madeGeorgia
agree to sell some of her objects?
A. Saving up for her
holiday
B. Raising money
for a poor girl
C. Adding the money to her fund
D. Giving the money to
asick mother
34. Why did theauthor play the ball
with Shepherd?
A. To try out an idea
B. To show a parent's love
C. To train his attention
D. To help him start a
hobby
can be
asuitable title for the text?
A. Take It or Leave It
B. A Lesson from Kids
C. Live More
with Less
D. The Pleasure
of Giving
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Before
there
was
the
written
word,
there
was
the
language
of
dance.
Dance
expresses
love and hate, joy
and sorrow ,life and death, and everything else in
between.
____We
dance
from
Florida
to
Alaska, from
north
to
south
and
sea
to
sea.
We
dance
at
weddings, birthdays , office parties and just to
fill the time.
“
I adore
dancing,
”
says Lester
Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa.
“
I can't imagine doing
anything else with my life.
all
ages.
dance
is
wonderful.
____It's
great
to
watch
them.
For
many
of
them,
it's a way of meeting people and having
a social life.
____
can
tell
you
about
one
young
couple,
says
Bridges.
“
They're
learning
to
do
traditional dances. They arrive at the class in
low spirits and they leave with
a
smile. ____
”
So,
do
we
dance
in
order
to
make
ourselves
feel
better,
calmer,
healthier?
Andrea
Hillier
says,
“
Dance, like the
pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after
all
these
years,
I
want
to
get
better
and
better.____
I
find
it
hard
to
stop!
Dancing
reminds
me I'm
alive.
A. So why
do we dance?
B.
Dance in the everywhere.
英语