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1、s Museum Quarter in the South District, which is great for shopping at the Albert Cuyp Market and having a picnic in the Vondelpark. The top museums to visit are the Rijksmusuem, the Ann Frank House, and the Van Gogh MuseumIf You Have Time The Canal Ring is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was orig

2、inally built to attract wealthy home owners and is a place for celebrity spotting and nightlife today. The Plantage area has most of the citys museums, including the Jewish Historical Museum, the Scheepvaart Museum, and the botanical gardens.Transportation Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is located about

3、 15 kilometers southwest of city center, You can catch a train from Schiphol to Amsterdam Central Station, which has many connecting routes. Parking is difficult in the city center, so cycling is incredibly popular here, and its easy to find cheap bike rentals around town.Money Saving Tips Unless yo

4、u really want to see the tulips blooming, avoid booking between mid- March and mid-May. This is when hotel and flight prices surge.Look for accommodations in Amsterdams South District, where rates are generally cheaper than in the city center. Buy train tickets at the machine instead of the counter

5、to save a bit of money.1. Where can visitors have a picnic?A. The Old Centre.B. The Museum Quarter.C. The VondelparkD. The Plantage area.2. Why is cycling so popular in the city center?A. Its difficult to park cars there.B. It has too many connecting routes.C. Its too far from the airport.D. Its ver

6、y cheap to purchase a bike.3. How can visitors save money according to the authors advice?A. Booking in Mid -April,B. Buying train tickets at the counter.C. Parking in the city center.D. Booking hotel in the South District1-3【答案】CADB Five years ago, Yellow-Purple tore a flexor tendon （屈肌腱）, making i

7、t difficult to use her left leg. The little penguin was having a hard time walking and swimmingYellow-Purple lives with a large group of African penguins at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. African penguins are an endangered species. They are beautiful, black and white birds that are about tw

8、o feet tall when fully grown, and they are very popular with the Aquariums visitors. The staff at the Aquarium made a little support boot for Yellow-Purple from plastic. This supported her left ankle and made it much easier for her to do all the things that penguins like to do. Yellow-Purple was get

9、ting along fine with her, but then Dr. Jen Flower, Chief Clinical Veterinarian at Mystic Aquarium, heard about 3D printing technology. She decided to use it to help better the boot. Luckily, Mystic Aquariums Vice President of Education Conservation, Kelly Matis, knew that Mystic Middle School had re

10、cently acquired a 3D Systems printer. Kelly reached out to the school and arranged a meeting. Sue Prince, Library Media Specialist at Mystic Middle School, and seven middle school students visited Yellow-Purple to learn what was needed, and then contacted the supplier of their 3D printer, ACT Group.

11、 With ACT Groups help, the students learned how to scan Yellow- Purples existing foot cast, then use that data to create a more efficient boot with sculpting software. The final boot design was printed on a 3D printer using multiple materials, allowing the boot to be flexible enough for comfortable

12、movement, yet hard enough to support the injured tendon.The students were thrilled when they saw Yellow-Purple walking almost back to normal. It was a great way to put science into practice. Celebrities like Ashton Kutcher shared Yellow-Purples story on Facebook, inspiring more than 1. 5 million com

13、bined views.4. What can we learn about African penguins?A. They are very large in number.B. They are dangerous species.C. They are beautiful when young.D. They are attractive to visitors.5. Who came up with the idea of an updated support boot?A. The ACT Group.B. Dr. Jen Flower.C. Kelly Matis.D. Sue

14、Prince6. What preparation work was done before the students got the ACT Groups help?A. They reached school on time.B. They held a meeting to discuss the problem.C. They paid a visit to Yellow-Purple.D. They contacted the ACT Group for supplies.7. What is the best title for this text?A. The developme

15、nt of 3D printingB. A penguin benefiting from high-techC. An effort to put science into practiceD. A software that can design4-7【答案】DBCBC We spend a third of our adult lives working and another big part preparing for our careers. Historically, work was rarely seen as a source of meaning and purpose.

16、 During the vast majority of our 300,000-year human evolution（进化）, work was in fact pretty simple. We worked to eat and avoid being eaten. Meaning and purpose came from somewhere else, like spirituality, art, religion, or science. The idea that we are meant to find meaning at work or to find work me

17、aningful-is a rather modern, if not postmodern, invention. Only one hundred years ago it would have been frequent to see a worker who returned from a typical workday at a factory complain to their folks that they didnt earn much or they were worn out and rare to see that they complain they didnt exp

18、erience a sense of purpose. Similarly, the idea that we ought to bring our whole self to work is a pretty novel and recent form of career advice. Its origins can be traced to William Kahn who invented the concept of employee engagement 30 years ago. His point was that employees differ in the degree

19、to which they identify with their work role. Some see work as merely a job and clock in and out every day, without bringing their whole self to work. Work is just not a core aspect of their identity, and their concept of themselves is built on other social categories like mother, husband, American,

20、Christian, captain of the local soccer team, etc. Others, however, have very low psychological distance with their work role, seeing it as essentially intertwined（交融的） with who they are. They dont just come to work, they are fully devoted to their careers and have a spiritual type of connection with

21、 their jobs. They are, it seems, almost possessed by work and are the type of workaholics（工作狂） most companies long for.8. Why did we spend much of our adult lives working?A. To prepare for future careers.B. To find the water sources.C. To help us evolve.D. To make us survive.9. Why did the writer me

22、ntion the worker a century ago?A. To help us find meaning at workB. To prove that the idea was modern.C. To show us the bad old days.D. To complain about the experience.10. Which of the following might William Kahn agree with?A. Employees have different understandings about their work role.B. Every

23、employee must bring their whole self to work.C. To be devoted to work is a pretty novel idea.D. Workers core identity is built on art categories.11. What kind of employees do most companies favour?A. Those who see work as a job.B. Those who identify with their work role.C. Those who are fully devote

24、d to their work.D. Those who possess experience.8-11【答案】DBACD Wearing a headset to play a virtual-reality game is fun. As you move your head around, you can see the scene from different angles. You re in a fake environment that seems so real. But the power of VR may go well beyond entertainment. It

25、just might help people who suffer from long time of pain, a new study finds. If VR can reduce some types of pain, it could become a new cure with fewer side effects than drugs, says Sam Hughes, a psychologist at Imperial College London. And it would be less expensive. Hughes group studies bone and m

26、uscle pain. One example is sciatica. Sciatica is a form of pain doctors call chronic pain, which is different from the hurt you feel when you hit your knee against a table or put your hand in very hot water. It is fairly long-lived pain and may even spread from an initial site to other body parts. T

27、he researchers tested the pain-altering effect of virtual reality. Each volunteer accepted some form of temporary pain. The pain came from a special cream applied to the skin. The cream contained capsaicin. Its the chemical in hot peppers that burns your mouth. They then showed the volunteers a movi

28、e. Each volunteer would see the movie twice once in 3D, while wearing a VR headset, and once on normal 2D screen. The researchers randomly decided for each volunteer whether they watched the 2D or 3D version first. Using the 2D movie as the comparison allowed them to isolate the effect of VR. Watchi

29、ng the movie in VR reduced the pain in the skin area better than did viewing the movie in 2D. VR helped them tolerate more pain in the area of the creamed skin. However, that pain reduction ended a few minutes after removing the VR headsets. The researchers wondered how well VR might reduce other ty

30、pes of pain.12. Whats one of the advantages of VR to reduce pain?s much safer.B. Its more convenients much faster.s more efficient.13. What does the underlined chronic mean in Paragraph 3?A. suddenB. long-termC. lightD. sharp14. Why was the special cream used in the experiment? A. To find chemicals in hot peppers.B. To bring comfort to volunteers.C. To burns the volunteers mouthD. To cause some temporary pain,15. How was the test carried out?A. By giving numbers