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The Lake District
Attractions Guide
Dalemain Mansion &
Historic Gardens
History,
Culture
&
Landscape
（景观）
.
Discover
and
enjoy
4
centuries
of
history,
5
acres
of
celebrated
and
award-winning gardens with parkland
walk, Owned by the Hasell family since 1679, home
to the International Marmalade
Festival. Gifts and antiques, plant
sales, museums & Mediaeval Hall Tearoom.
Open:
29 Mar- 29 Oct, Sun to
Thurs.
Tearoom, Gardens & Gifts
Shop:
10.30
–
17.30 (16:00 in Oct).
House:
11.15
–
16:00
(15.00 in Oct)
Town:
Pooley
Bridge & Penrith
Abbot Hall
Art Gallery & Museum
Those viewing the
quality of Abbot Hall’s temporary
exhibitions may be forgiven for thinking they are
in a city
gallery. The impressive
permanent collection includes Turners and Romneys
and the temporary exhibition programme has
Canaletto and the artists from St Ives.
Open
: Min to Sat and Summer
Sundays.10.30-17.00 Summer,10.30-16.00 Winter.
Town
: Kendal
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
Discover, explore and enjoy award-
winning Tullie House, where historic collections,
contemporary art and family
fun are
brought together in one impressive museum and art
gallery. There are four fantastic galleries to
visit from fine art to
interactive fun,
so there’s something for everyone!
Open
:
High
Season
1 Apr-31 Oct: Mon to Sat
10.00-17.00,Sun 11.00-17.00.
Low
Season
1 Nov-31 Mar: Mon to Sat
10.00-16.30,Sun 12.00-16.30
Town
: Carlisle
Dove Cottage & The Wordsworth Museum
Discover William Wordsworth’s
inspiration home. Take a tour of his Lakeland
cottage, walk through his hillside
garden and explore the riches of the
collection in the Museum. Visit the shop and relax
in the café
. Exhibitions, events and
family activities throughout the year.
Open
: Daily,0.30-17.30(last
admission 17.00).
Town
:
Grasmere
21. Where is the House at
Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens open on
Sundays in July?
A. 09.30-17.30
C. 11.15-16.00
B. 10.30-16.00
D. 12.00-16.30
B. Have some interactive fun.
D. Learn the history of a family
22. What can visitors do at Abbot Hall
Art Gallery & Museum?
A.
Enjoy Romney’s works.
C. Attend a famous festival
23. Where should visitors go if they
want to ex
plore Wordsworth’s
life?
A. Penrith
B. Kendal
C.
Carlisle
B
D.
Grasmere
Some parents will buy any
high-tech toy if they think it will help their
child, but researchers said puzzles help children
with math-related skills.
Psychologist Susan Levine,
an expert on mathematics development
in
young children at the
University of Chicago,
found children
who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later
develop better spatial skills. Puzzle play was
found to be a
significant
predictor
of
cognition(
认知
)
after
contro
lling
for
differences
in
parents’income,
education
and
the
amount
of
parent
talk, Levine said.
The
researchers
analyzed
video
recording
of
53
child-
parent
pairs
during
everyday
activities
at
home
and
found
children who play with
puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have
better spatial skills when assessed at 54 months
of
age.
“The children who
played with puzzles performed better than those
who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability
to
rotate(
旋转
) and
translate shapes,” Levine said in a
statement.
The parents were
asked to interact with their children as they
normally would, and about half of the children in
the
study played with puzzles at one
time. Higher-income parents tended to have
children play with puzzles more frequently,
and both boys and girls who played with
puzzles had better spatial skills. However, boys
tended to play with more complex
puzzles than girls, and the parents of
boys provided more spatial language and were more
active during puzzle play than the
parents of girls.
The
findings were published in the journal Development
Science.
24. In which aspect do
children benefit from puzzle play?
A.
Building confidence.
C.
Learning self-control.
A.
Parents’age.
C.
Parents’education.
B. Developing
spatial skills
D. Gaining high-tech
knowledge.
B.
Children’s imagination .
D. Child-parent relationship.
B. They tend to talk less
during the game.
D. They are likely to
play with tougher puzzles.
25. What did Levine take into
consideration when designing her experiment?
26. How do boys differ from girls in
puzzle play?
A. They play with puzzles
more often.
27. What is the text mainly
about?
A. A mathematical method.
C. A woman psychologist.
B.
A scientific study
D. A teaching
program.
C
When you were
trying to figure out what to buy for the
environmentalist on your holiday list, fur
probably didn’t cross
your
mind.
But
some
ecologists
and
fashion(
时装
)
enthusiast
are
trying
to
bring
back
the
market
for
fur
made
from
nutria(
海狸鼠
).
Unusual
fashion
shows
in
New
Orleans
and
Brooklyn
have
showcased
nutria
fur
made
into
clothes
in
different
styles.“It sounds
crazy to talk about guilt
-free fur
–
unless you understand that
the nutria are destroying vast wetlands every
year,” says Cree McCr
ee,
project director of Righteous Fur.
Scientists in Louisiana were so
concerned that they decided to pay hunters $$5 a
tail. Some of the fur ends up in the
fashion shows like the one in Brooklyn
last month.
C. They prefer to use more
spatial language.
Nutria were brought
there from Argentina by fur f
armers and
let go into the wild. “The ecosystem down there
can’t
handle this non-native
species(
物种
). It’s destroying
the environment. It’s them or us,” says Michael
Massimi, an expert in
this field.
The fur trade kept nutria in check for
decades, but when the market for nutria collapsed
in the late 1980s, the cat-sized
animals multiplied like crazy.
Biologist Edmond Mouton runs the nutria
control program for Louisiana. He says it’s not
easy to convince people that
people
that nutria fur is green, but he has no doubt
about it. Hunters bring in more than 300,000
nutria tails a year, so part of
Mouton’s job these days is trying to
promote fur.
Then there’s
Righteous Fur and its unusual fashions. Model
Paige Morgan says,“To give people a
guilt
-free option that
they
can wear without someone throwing paint on them
–
I think that’s
going to be a massive thing, at least here in New
York.” Designer Jennifer
Anderson
admits it took her a while to
come around to the opinion that using nutria fur
for her
creations is mor
ally
acceptable. She’s trying to come up with a label
to attach to nutria fashions to show it is
eco
-friendly.
28. What is
the purpose of the fashion shows in New Orleans
and Brooklyn?
A. To promote guilt-free
fur.
C. To introduce a new brand.
B. To expand the fashion market.
D. To celebrate a winter holiday.
B. Nutria are an endangered species.
D. Nutria are illegally hunted.
C. Remained
stable.
C. It's harmful.
D
I have a special place in
my heart for libraries.
I have for as
long as I can remember. I was always an
enthusiastic
reader, sometimes reading
up to three books a day as a child. Stories were
like air to me and while other kids played ball or
went to parties, I lived out adventures
through the books I checked out from the library,
My first job was working at the Ukiah
Library when I was 16 years old. It was a dream
job and I did everything from
shelving
books to reading to the children for story time.
As I grew older and became a mother,
the library took on a new place and an added
meaning in my life. I had several
children, and books were our main
source (
来源
) of
entertainment. It was a big deal for us to load up
and go to the local
library, where my
kids could pick out books to read or books they
wanted me to read to them.
I always
read, using different voices, as though I were
acting out the stories with my voice and they
loved it! It was a
special time to bond
with my children and it filled them with the
wonderment of books.
Now, I see my
children taking their children to the library and
I love that the excitement of going to the library
lives on
from generation to generation.
As a novelist, I've found a new
relationship with libraries. I encourage readers
to go to their local library when they
can't
afford
to
purchase
a
book.
I
see
libraries
as
a
safe
haven
(
避风港
)for
readers
and
writers,
a
bridge
that
helps
put
together a reader with a book.
Libraries, in their own way, help fight book
piracy (
盗版行为
) and I think
all writers should
support libraries in
a significant way when they can. Encourage readers
to use the library. Share library announcements on
your social media. Frequent them and
talk about them when you can.
32. Which
word best describes the author's relationship with
books as a child?
A. Cooperative.
B. Uneasy.
C.
Inseparable.
D. Casual.
D. Crashed.
29.
Why are scientists concerned about nutria?
A. Nutria damage the ecosystem
seriously.
C. Nutria hurt
local cat-sized animals.
A. Boomed.
A. It's formal.
30. What does the
underlined word
B. Became mature.
B. It's risky,
31. What can we infer about wearing fur
in New York according to Morgan?
D.
It's traditional.