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Every city has its museums and you would be forgiven for thinking they are rather boring. In reality nothing could be further from the truth — particularly when you visit the Manchester Museum in the city of the same name.
In fact if you are looking for somewhere to take the kids for the day, this is the ideal place to try. All you have to do is mention the words mummies (木乃伊) and dinosaurs to them and they are guaranteed to want to find out more!
While the museum does all it can to draw in the attention of kids of all ages, it does a pretty good job at fascinating the adults as well. There is a whole section about Ancient Egypt (where you will find the mummies) which is rich in history and incredible information. The displays even go back as far as prehistoric (史前的) Egypt.
You might also be surprised to know that the Manchester Museum is home to more than 17,000 different coins. These are obviously not the kind of coins we use today, but rather thos
A. the mummies and coins
B. the mummies and vivarium
C. the mummies and dinosaurs
D. the coins and vivarium

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Every city has its museums and you would be forgiven for thinking they are rather boring. In reality nothing could be further from the truth — particularly when you visit the Manchester Museum in the city of the same name.
In fact if you are looking for somewhere to take the kids for the day, this is the ideal place to try. All you have to do is mention the words mummies (木乃伊) and dinosaurs to them and they are guaranteed to want to find out more!
While the museum does all it can to draw in the attention of kids of all ages, it does a pretty good job at fascinating the adults as well. There is a whole section about Ancient Egypt (where you will find the mummies) which is rich in history and incredible information. The displays even go back as far as prehistoric (史前的) Egypt.
You might also be surprised to know that the Manchester Museum is home to more than 17,000 different coins. These are obviously not the kind of coins we use today, but rather thos
A. 15,000.
B. 16,000.
C. 17,000.
D. 18,000.

[简答题]Every human society has its own particular culture, or sociocultural system, which overlaps to some extent with other systems. Variation among sociocultural systems is attributable to physical habitats and resources; to the range of possibilities inherent in various areas of activity, such as language, rituals and customs, and the manufacture and use of tools, and to the degree of social development. Adaptation and change take place within and among cultures by means of ecological and environmental changes.

[单项选择]Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It’s usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. They are easy to see, because they are bright yellow and carry large TAXI signs. Taxis do not go outside the city. However they will go to the airport. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a tip of 15 percent of the fare’s value.
The quickest way to travel in New York is usually by
A. taxi.
B. bus.
C. subway.
D. bicycl

[单项选择]Every silver lining has its cloud. At the moment, the world’s oceans absorb a million tonnes of carbon dioxide an hour. Admittedly that is only a third of the rate at which humanity dumps the stuff into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, but it certainly helps to slow down global warming. However, what is a blessing for the atmosphere turns out to be a curse for the oceans. When carbon dioxide dissolves in water it forms carbonic acid. At the moment, seawater is naturally alkaline -but it is becoming less so all the time.
The biological significance of this acidification was a topic of debate among scientists. Many species of invertebrate have shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate. It is these, fossilized, that form rocks such as chalk and limestone. And, as anyone who has studied chemistry at school knows, if you drop chalk into acid it fizzes away to nothing. Many marine biologists therefore worry that some species will soon be unable to make their protective homes.
A. there is always a difficult side to a hopeful situation
B. there is always a comforting side to a sad situation
C. there is always a chink of light before the sun comes pouring in
D. visible water vapor floating in the sky can join up to make a silver line

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Every land has its own dining custom, and the United States is no exception. Americans feel that the first rule of being a polite guest is to be on time. If a person is invited to dinner at 6:30, the hostess expects him to be there at 6:30 or not more than a few minutes after. Because she usually does her own cooking, she times the meal so that the coffee and meat will be at their best at the time she asks the guest to come. If he is late, the food will not be so good, and the hostess will be disappointed. When the guest can not come on time, he calls his host or hostess on the telephone, gives the reason, and tells at what time he thinks he can come
As guests continue to arrive, the men in the group stand when a woman enters and remain standing until she finds a chair. A man always rises when he is being introduced to a woman. A woman does not rise when she is being introduced either to a man or a woman
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned