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三、阅读理解(共l5小题;每小题2分，计30分)

阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

A

Travel Arrangements

TRAVEL STUDY-- a new way to spend your holidays. Have you ever heard about it?

● TRAVEL

When you have a travel study, you can see Big Ben, Sydney Opera House, the Statue of Liberty and many other places.... I dreamed of visiting all the cities with beautiful sights. During the travel study, you may go travel yourself, with your family or your friends.

At the same time when you travel, you are in a different culture every day. You can be served with different new foods and make new friends. You read all these from books in the past, but now it is real and you are a part of it. Besides, you may also learn other cultures from your new friends because they are from different countries.

●STUDY

Maybe you already have foreign teachers in your school to teach you English. But he or she will not stay to speak English with you all the time, right? During the travel study, you have to speak it every day and almost everywhere because you are in an English-speaking country!

It also gives you a chance to let you live alone and make you learn how to live. What should I do if I lose my way in a foreign country? How can I bu y what I want with my poor English? You have to be clever and you decide them by yourself.

In a word, you can get a lot from the travel study.

题号 31 32 33

答案

31. To travelers, TRAVEL STUDY means_______.

A. culture         B. travel plus study     C. travel            D. study

32. Travel can help you do a lot except ______.

A. see many places of interest             B. try many kinds of food

C. make a lot of new friends               D. get lost in foreign countries

33. During the travel study, you ______.

A. can learn how to live by yourself

B. have no chance to learn other cultures

C. can't improve your English

D. will feel nothing special in foreign countries

B

“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”

That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better.

Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass is.

When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it.

With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.

You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.

All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things we might buy, such as food, clothes and so on. To see something well, we have to touch it.

The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or a bad floor. All feel different under your feet.

There are ways of learning to see well by feeling.

One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin. At first, it is not easy to feel these things. You are too used to them!

Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have some things to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show.

If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you’ll really see!