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1、Cost: Adult: $7.40, Children （under15）: halfBookings: Phone the booking office at 34032578.Address: Brisbane Botanic GardensNote: Secret of the Dragon is a magical story about two children who are taken on a dragon ride to explore the universe.The Search for life: Are We Alone? Thursday, July 4, 201

2、5, 2:00 p. m. $14. 50，Children （under 15）: $8.70 Phone the booking office at 34037689. Are we truly alone in space? Is there any life out there? These are the questions asked in this show.Magic Class Friday, July 12, 2015, 10:00 a. m. Free Please call 34038470 to book your place. Centenary Community

3、 hub, 171 Dandenong Rd. Would you like to be a magician? Then join David, the magician, to learn about real magic with playing cards, coins, ring ropes and DIY projects and be able to become the life of the party.Science with me: Making Your Own Guitar Saturday, July 20, 2015, 3: Freed Please phone

4、34031226 to book your place. 10, Egginton Close Do you want to make a guitar with Katy and her mom? Science with Me is going to be with you. Please remember to bring a piece of wood, a hammer, some rubber bands and some nails with you.1Alec is strongly interested in space life. He may go to .A. Magi

5、c ClassB. Science with MeC. Secret of the DragonD. The Search for Life2John and his 10-year-old son want to watch Secret of the Dragon. How much should they pay?A. $7.40.B. $11.10C. $14.80D. $23.203What do the four activities have in common（共同之处）?A. They are all free.B. They happen in the same place

6、.C. They can all be booked by phone.D. They are all weekend activities.Most students, when asked about their best graduation（毕业） gift, would probably reply, “ A car”, or “Money for a house”. Cai Kaiyuan, 21, made a different choice. As a graduation gift to himself, he decided to work as a volunteer

7、teacher in a distant village in Tibet.Cai, a student at Huan Railway Professional Technology College, at first planned to cycle from Sichuan to Tibet. It turned out cycling on a plateau（高原） was quite difficult. And it has kept changing his opinion on life. Cais hands even became painful while cyclin

8、g up a 5008-meter-high mountain, where temperatures often dropped to 18 below zero. At night, the ice covered the road and he fell off his bike three times. Little oxygen made him feel sick and weak. “At the most serious moment, I felt that was on the line,” said Cai.However, he also gained somethin

9、g unexpected. At Ya an, a city in Sichuan, he met a group of tourists who are also university students. A girl called Wu Ling told him that she planned to work as a volunteer in a primary school in Tibet after her journey. He was impressed by the idea as she looked weak.It was not until he reached a

10、 family-run hotel in Shigatse that Cais spirits began to rise. The hotel managers two daughters enjoyed talking with him. The kids asked about his experiences on his trip, and showed him the beautiful local lakes. “They told me that they always liked to talk to guests, as they wanted to improve thei

11、r Mandarin,” he said, “Their parents and many locals can only speak Tibetan.”Cai was moved by the girls story. Their situation is worse and the local people have little chance to learn Mandarin because the schools are short of teacher. “1 want to do something to improve the situation for kids like t

12、hem,” said Cai. His parents finally gave their agreement and his teachers also supported him.45What is Cai Kaiyuans graduation gift?A. Cycling from Sichuan to Tibet.B. Receiving money for a house.C. Being a volunteer teacher in a Tibetan school.D. Owning a new car and travelling around.67What is Cai

13、 Kaiyuans journey to Tibet like?A. Special and comfortable. B. Dangerous but meaningful.C. Relaxing but unexpected. D. Freezing cold and boring.89The underlined phrase on the line in the second paragraph means ?A. in a hurry B. at riskC. making a phone call D. surfing the Internet1011The purpose of

14、writing this passage is to .A. tell us about an unusual graduation giftB. introduce a dangerous journey to usC. give advice on how to travel to TibetD. encourage us to be a teacher in TibetMany people believe that you lose the ability to learn new languages as you get older. Language experts, howeve

15、r, will tell you that youre never too old to learn a new language. As you get older, it can be more difficult to learn a new language, though.Children and adults learn new languages in different ways. For children, language is their life. They study for thousands of hours every year, because they ne

16、ed to learn languages to become part of their communities. Adults, on the other hand, are already part of a language community. Learning a new language means becoming part of another language community, and adults rarely get the chance to practice as much as young children do.Moreover, children lear

17、ning a new language are expected to make mistakes. This gives them freedom when learning to be daring and confident. Adults, however, often feel pressured to be perfect when learning a new language. This can discourage many people and make it even harder to learn a new language.When young children l

18、earn a new language, they come to see various languages as a “normal” part of society. This mindset（思维模式） helps them embrace learning a new language without feeling like theyre doing something unusual or “too hard”.So if you want to learn a new language, go for it! Its never too late to learn a new

19、language. If youre older, it may take more work, but it can be done. If youre a young child, though, now is the time to step out and learn a new language!12By “language is their life”, the author means that children .A. can t live without languageB. lead a happy life every dayC. practice a new langu

20、age a lotD. are taken good care of adults13What may make it hard for the old people to learn to a new language?A. They are afraid of being laughed atB. They usually have too many interestsC. They think making mistakes is naturalD. They always make all kinds of mistakes14Which of the following shows

21、the difference between children and adults in learning a new language?A. The behaviors they haveB. The learning attitudesC. The future plans they have madeD. The materials they are using15According to the author, a new language .A. can never be learned by the old peopleB. can be grasped by the old p

22、eople easilyC. can be understood only by the old peopleD. can be learned by both the old and the youngFailure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has. There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding.We experience this tiredness in two ways: as start-up fatigue（疲惫） and performan

23、ce fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult. And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.Such start-up fatigue is very real, even if not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The solution is obvious though p

24、erhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first.Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors. Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical（按字母顺序）, never letting myself leave out a tough idea. And I always started the da

25、ys work with the difficult task of essay-writing. Experience proved that the rule works.Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Though willing to get started, we cannot seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear so great that, however hard we work, we fail again and again. In such a

26、situation, I work as hard as I can-then let the unconscious take over.When planning Encyclopaedia Britannica （大英百科全书）, I had to create a table of contents based on the topics of its articles. Nothing like this had ever been done before, and day after dat I kept coming up with solutions, but none of

27、them worked. My fatigue became almost unbearable.One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved. I tried to convince myself that the trouble was with the problem itself, not with me. Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.An hour later, I

28、 woke up suddenly with the solution clearly in mind. In the weeks that followed, the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind provided correct at every step. Though I worked as hard as before, I felt no fatigue. Success was now as exciting as failure had been depressing.Human beings, I beli

29、eve must try to succeed. Success, then, means never feeling tired.16People with start-up fatigue are most likely to .A. delay tasks B. work hardC. seek help D. accept failure17What does the author recommend doing to prevent start-up fatigue?A. Writing essays in strict order.B. Building up physical s

30、trength.C. Leaving out the toughest ideas.D. Dealing with the hardest task first.18On what occasion does a person probably suffer from performance fatigue?A. Before starting a difficult task.B. When all the solutions fail.C. If the job is rather boring.D. After finding a way out.19According to the author, the unconscious mind may help us .A. ignore mental problems B. get some nice sleepC. gain complete relief D. find the right solution20What could be the best title for the passage?A. Success Is Built upon FailureB. How to Handle Performance FatigueC. Getting over Fatigue: A