Built in 1794 for the 5th Duke of Bedford, this hotel in the heart of Bedford overlooks the River Ouse, which winds through the beautiful Bedfordshire countryside.

We offer a flexible approach to conferencing. With purpose-built meeting rooms offering a flexible and functional space, our hotel is designed for comfort and convenience. Day Delegate（代表/代表團(tuán)）, 24 Hour Delegate or room hire only can be arranged to meet your needs and we offer a range of food and drinks for all requirements.

The Bedford Swan Hotel provides an impressive range of conference, training and function rooms which are suitable for up to 250 delegates.

Our hotel is located 30 minutes drive from Luton Airport and a 20-minute walk from Bedford Train Station with regular trains to and from Central London.

What to expect:

? A professional service from the beginning

? Your own event consultant

? A great location with car parking

? Well equipped rooms perfect for your meeting or event

? Various Day Delegate packages

? Personalised dining and refreshment breaks

? Accurate billing

Discounted Day Delegate Rates from £35 per person

* Hold your meeting before 30th November 2013 and benefit from our special day delegate rates

* Day Delegate Rate from £35.00 per person

* Minimum numbers of 8 apply

Call us on 01234 346565 or e-mail us on info@bedfordswanhotel.co.uk

1.Bedford Swan Hotel is more suitable for _______.

A．busy sightseers                         B．conference travelers

C．fresh trainees                          D．event consultants

2.Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．It takes you 20 minutes to walk here from Central London.

B．The Bedford Swan Hotel was built in the late 18^th century.

C．The hotel is located sixty kilometres from Luton Airport.

D．Guests can get professional service by offering extra tips.

3.From the advertisement above we can learn that Bedford Swan Hotel _______.

A．can serve up to 250 delegates             B．winds through Bedfordshire

C．can provide personalised billing            D．offers no car parking service

4.The special discount will be given if _______.

A．a(chǎn) delegate of 8 apply for 24-hour-meeting rooms

B．guests pay £35.00 per person for the rooms they live in

C．you book a purpose-built meeting room on a special day

D．8 delegates hold a day meeting on November 2, 2013

 

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Built in 1794 for the 5th Duke of Bedford, this hotel in the heart of Bedford overlooks the River Ouse, which winds through the beautiful Bedfordshire countryside.

We offer a flexible approach to conferencing. With purpose-built meeting rooms offering a flexible and functional space, our hotel is designed for comfort and convenience. Day Delegate（代表/代表團(tuán)）, 24 Hour Delegate or room hire only can be arranged to meet your needs and we offer a range of food and drinks for all requirements.

The Bedford Swan Hotel provides an impressive range of conference, training and function rooms which are suitable for up to 250 delegates.

Our hotel is located 30 minutes drive from Luton Airport and a 20-minute walk from Bedford Train Station with regular trains to and from Central London.

What to expect:

?A professional service from the beginning

?Your own event consultant

?A great location with car parking

? Well equipped rooms perfect for your meeting or event

? Various Day Delegate packages

?Personalized dining and refreshment breaks

?Accurate billing

Discounted Day Delegate Rates from £35 per person

* Hold your meeting before 30th November 2013 and benefit from our special day delegate rates

* Day Delegate Rate from £35.00 per person

* Minimum numbers of 8 apply

Call us on 01234 346565 or e-mail us on info@bedfordswanhotel.co.uk

1.Bedford Swan Hotel is more suitable for _______.

A．busy sightseers                         B．conference travelers

C．fresh trainees                          D．event consultants

2.Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．It takes you 20 minutes to walk here from Central London.

B．The Bedford Swan Hotel was built in the late 18th century.

C．The hotel is located sixty kilometres from Luton Airport.

D．Guests can get professional service by offering extra tips.

3.From the advertisement above we can learn that Bedford Swan Hotel _______.

A．can serve up to 250 delegates             B．winds through Bedfordshire

C．can provide personalized billing            D．offers no car parking service

4.The special discount will be given if _______.

A．a(chǎn) delegate of 8 apply for 24-hour-meeting rooms

B．guests pay £35.00 per person for the rooms they live in

C．you book a purpose-built meeting room on a special day

D．8 delegates hold a day meeting on November 2, 2013

 

Part-time Front Desk Position

Fuse Fitness is looking for a part-time front desk receptionist (接待員) at our new Carlsbad location.

Job duties include:

Welcoming and greeting members; Answering phone calls;

Signing up new members; Cleaning and performing other various duties.

You should have great communication skills and be dependable. More importantly, you should have a positive spirit in stressful situations. You are expected to work five days a week (including weekends).

Please, no phone calls about this job in the morning!

Tel: (760) 434-7704      E-mail: info@fusefitness.com

Apply (申請(qǐng)) in person at: 2502 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA 92008

The first impression you make in a job interview is very important. The first judgment an interviewer makes is based on how you look and what you are wearing. That’s why it’s always important to dress professionally for a job interview, even if the work environment is casual.

Before you even think about going to an interview, make sure you have suitable interview clothes and that everything fits correctly.

Get your clothes ready the night before, so you don’t have to spend time getting them ready on the day of the interview.

Polish (擦亮) your shoes.

Bring a breath mint (薄荷糖) and use it before you enter the building.

For more information: Visit: Jobsearch. monster. com

Or Tel: (800) 421-7250  or  (760) 603-4000  Carlsbad, California

1.How should you contact Fuse Fitness about the front desk position in the morning if you can’t go in person?

A．Call (760) 603-4000	B．Call (760) 434-7704
C．Visit Jobsearch. monster. Com	D．Send an e-mail to info@fusefitness.com.

2.What does Fuse Fitness think is the biggest challenge for a receptionist?

A．Working five days a week including weekends.

B．Having good communication skills.

C．Keeping cheerful even in difficult situations.

D．Welcoming guests and answering phone calls.

3.What would be the best title for the second piece of information?

A．What to Bring to a Job Interview	B．How to Find a Desired Job
C．Job Interview	D．Interview Dressing Suggestions

4.Which is TRUE according to the second piece of information?

A．The first judgment is made based on how you behave.

B．What to wear should be taken into consideration before an interview.

C．It is OK to dress informally for an interview if the work environment is casual.

D．You don’t need to pay attention to your shoes because nobody will notice them.

 

If I raised the question, “What would be the last thing you would expect to happen while watching your son’s flag football game?” you probably still couldn’t come up with what happened to me and my family.

As we were sitting on the sidelines enjoying the game, a low-flying bird came swooping in attempting to land on my daughter’s head! It honestly came out of nowhere. We were seated by ourselves on the tree lined side of the field. I was able to calm my daughter’s shock and fear once I showed her that the bird was not some wild animal, it was in fact, somebody’s pet!

Now, we’re sitting at the outdoor fields of the Pontiac Silverdome, far from any populated area, wondering where this very social cockatiel, an Australian parrot (澳洲鸚鵡) could have come from. I walked up to the bird and put out my hand. Immediately, it hopped on and chirped in a friendly way. We looked around us and knew that we could not just leave and suppose that the bird would return to where it came from. This was a very domesticated bird that needed help or it would not survive.

The flag football game had ended so we walked the bird over to other groups of adults and asked if they knew of anyone who had lost a bird. All the kids were excited about the bird and fed it with some post game snacks. The bird’s nails were getting long and he was looking pretty dirty, so we knew it had been out here for a long time and was hungry. Since its wings were clipped, it could fly a little but probably not more than 100 yards or so at a try. We all just scratched our heads as a group wondering what to do with the lost bird.

We explained to the kids that this bird needed our help since it was someone’s pet and would not know how to get its own food, and it could not fly well since its wings were clipped. The kids understood, and all of them wanted to take the bird home! The parents however, knew this was not a good choice as one had a large dog, another two cats, etc. We explained to the kids that one of us could take the bird home for the night and then bring it to the Humane Society in the morning in hopes to connect it to its owners. We couldn’t keep the bird. It wasn’t ours. This was tough for the kids to understand at first. We couldn’t just leave the bird either. There was no way it could attend itself. The group of us sat around the Silverdome practice fields for quite a while trying to determine the best course of choice for the lost bird. It was getting dark out but no one was willing to leave that parking lot until we had a game plan for how to help the bird.

The owner of the football league, Chris Novak, offered to take the bird. It was extremely nice of him and he really stepped in to help while all the rest of us who had kids tugging on our shirts and begging to take it home. We took a box and put a bunch of holes in it and he brought it home for the night. Another mom went online and found a family that had lost a bird that looked just like the one we’d found. She emailed the info to Chris who got in touch with the family and the next day, reunited the bird with the family that lost it almost 3 weeks earlier! When Chris emailed us to let us know, we could not believe that this bird had traveled from The Rochester Tienken area all the way to the Silverdome!

We were so happy to be able to save this bird and get it back to its family. I showed my kids the email about how the other family got their pet back. The family has 3 kids who were so happy to see their bird. My kids realized what a nice ending this story had. Not only had we been able to save this bird’s life, but we were able to bring it back to the family that loves and misses him.

The life lesson in the missing bird story seemed to miss its mark with my kids at first. They were a little bummed out that they couldn’t keep the lost bird. I explained to them that when an animal or someone needs help, you just can’t turn a blind eye and hope everything works out OK. The “l(fā)ost bird incident” was also a reminder to them that teamwork and the kindness of strangers can make a world of difference and that a group of well-meaning strangers can work together to help someone. It wasn’t a heroic act, but one that I knew had sunk in with my kids when they realized that trying to help was the best and only real course of action. 　

1.What happened when the author watched his son’s football games?

A．A parrot tried to eat their food.

B．His daughter was hurt by a parrot.

C．A parrot flew towards his daughter.

D．A parrot landed on his daughter’s head.

2.The underlined word “domesticated” in the second paragraph probably means_______.

A．having been abandoned                  B．having been used to home life

C．having been used to life in the wild          D．having been week and hungry

3.Who was the first one to find the bird’s owner?

A．The author                            B．Chris Novak

C．The Humane Society                     D．A participant’s mother

4.What can be learned from the “l(fā)ost bird incident”?

A．Strangers can also work well together.

B．Humane Society helps children in teamwork.

C．Children can keep lost injured pet birds home.

D．Helping others is always regarded as a heroic act.

5.What did the author want to tell in the text?

A．How to help a lost parrot to find home.

B．The experience of watching a football games.

C．The importance of teamwork and helping others.

D．How a parrot can fly a long distance from home.

6.The best title of the text should be________. 

A．What Animals Can Teach Us

B．Complete Care for a Lost Bird

C．Life Lessons When You Least Expect It

D．Love First, Teamwork and Kindness Second

 

The Friends of the Amazon is a nonprofit association helping to preserve the forest, its wildlife and its native cultures in the Peruvian Amazon.  We are located 3 degrees south of the equator in the Region of Loreto, which is roughly the size of Montana and is one of the richest areas in the world in terms of flora(植物群) and fauna（動(dòng)物群）. Our team consists of lawyers, ecologists, sociologists, medical professionals and native Amazonians working together to protect the forest and its people from destruction. We use litigation（訴訟）, filing lawsuits against those who seek to destroy the forest and its native cultures. In addition to legal processes, we promote health, education, and the conservation of native plants and animals.

The Amazon Rainforest is commonly referred to as the "lungs of the planet" whose trees are essential for absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2, a greenhouse gas that causes global warming) and converting it into oxygen, thereby mitigating the rise of global temperatures and climate change.  An estimated 120 billion tons of carbon dioxide is absorbed in the Amazon Rainforest and global emissions of carbon dioxide increase with every tree of the rainforest that is cut down. That is why the survival of the Amazon Rainforest is vital for the survival of our planet, without which rising global temperatures could melt the polar icecaps and cause flooding of our coastal cities. 

Currently, the Amazon is under siege（圍攻）, with an estimated 1000 hectares being destroyed everyday.  After harvesting old growth forests, corporations are often replacing the native forest with palm oil plantations instead of reforesting with native tree species.  Palm oil trees are native to Africa, not the Amazon, and due to high profits, their promotion by international aid agencies and recent legislation in Peru, palm oil plantations represent perhaps the single greatest threat to the native Amazon Rainforest. 

In addition to conventional logging and deforesting to make room for crops such as palm oil and soybeans, the Amazon forest faces a new threat in the form of REDD projects and “Carbon Cowboys”.  REDD refers to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation by using carbon offsets (“carbon credits”).  Under the guise of REDD projects, scammers are tricking native communities into signing unjust contracts in English without legal representation which essentially give these so called Carbon Cowboys the forest for free. These cheaters are making false promises of "billions of dollars in profits" from REDD and voluntary carbon offset （碳補(bǔ)償）projects by lying that they are representatives of the United Nations and World Bank in order to trick vulnerable indigenous Amazonians into ceding their land by signing unjust contracts with hidden clauses that give the Carbon Cowboys a power of attorney to do whatever they want with the forest for a period of 100 years.  Friends of the Amazon is actively filing lawsuits against these Carbon Cowboys and those who support them. 

For further information on our programs and to find out how you can help preserve the Amazon Rainforest, please contact:

Friends of the Amazon

153 Túpac Amaru Street

Iquitos, Peru

Phone: (+51) 985665374

For more specific information on supporting the goals of our nonprofit organization, please contact us using the email address listed below.

If you would like to learn how you can help preserve the Amazon Rainforest and its indigenous people, please contact us for more information at:

info(at)friendsoftheamazon.org

1.The Friends of the Amazon is the name of _________.

A．your best friend                        B．a(chǎn) non-profit organization

C．a(chǎn) historic hero                          D．a(chǎn) famous carbon cowboy

2.What does the underlined word “converting ” in the second paragraph mean?

A．changing          B．increasing         C．reducing          D．burning

3.Why is the survival of the Amazon Rainforest vital for the survival of our planet?

A．Because this forest absorbs a lot of carbon dioxide emitted by the world

B．Because people rely on this forest to get enough wood to build houses and furniture

C．Because people living here can get a large sum of compensation to offset carbon dioxide

D．Because the United Nations and the World Bank are helping preserving the land here

4.We can learn from the passage that palm oil trees _____________.

A．have produced much profit for the local people.

B．a(chǎn)re native to Amazon and fit in well with their surroundings

C．a(chǎn)re native to Africa and may do great harm to the native Amazon trees

D．a(chǎn)re used to replace the native forest because the local people can profit from them

5.The purpose of this article is _______.

A．introduce the largest rain forest in the world

B．to appeal to the government to take some measures to get rid of Carbon Cowboys

C．to advertise the rain forest as a favourite tourist destination

D．to arouse the awareness of the public to help conserve the “l(fā)ungs of our planet”