1、ARock Junket is The Original Rock n Roll Walking Tour of New York City. Rock Junket founder Bobby Pinn is an author ，former rock radio personality, rock historian and he，s spent 17 years as a music executive(总、监）.Read the reviews, book the best and forget the rest!East Village Rock Tour - #1 seller-
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3、k Junket Walking Tours are not only the perfect way to dig deep into New Yorks rock scene but also learn about art, fashion, rock n roll clothing stores and great local bars and restaurants. The East Village Rock Tour is very popular as we demonstrate how the neighborhood went from poor to being the
4、 birthplace of punk rock. On The Greenwich Village Rock Tour well look at the influence Bob Dylan had on the Village plus sites about Jimi Hendrix and The Animals. We cover lots of clubs also including Cafe Wha, Bitter End, and others. The Union Square Rock Tour details the immoral behavior of Maxs
5、Kansas City, Webster Hall, Andy Warhol and his 2nd and 3rd Factory ,a famous Clash album cover and much more. The Beatles Tour takes us through Midtown and Uptown as we explore the sites that gave birth to Beatlemania(披头士狂热）.Our Customized Rock Tours have been booked and loved by schools, universiti
6、es, writers, museum curators(馆长)and many others.51.From the passage we know Rock Junket is_.A. a travel agencyB. a famous museumC. a website for music loversD. a survey company52.K you want to join in the Rock Junkets activities, you must_.A. has a gift for musicB. read online reviewsC. buy a ticket
7、 in advanceD. wear rock nroll clothes53.Which of the following is most popular among student groups?A.The East Village Rock TourB. Greenwich Village Rock TourC.Union Square Rock TourD. Customized Rock ToursBA 58-year-old mother of three, Emma Orbach has spent the past 13 years living with no electri
8、city in her self-built roundhouse，at the bottom of a field in rural west WaIes ，a 15-minute walk from the nearest road.Her daily routine includes tending to her vegetable plot and collecting fruit, looking after her three goats, seven chickens and two horses and cutting firewood. She gets her drinki
9、ng water from a nearby stream and only rarely goes to the shops for treats like rice and chocolate. Her evenings are spent in the light of her stove, cooking her dinner and playing music. She then retires to her wool covers at about 7. 30 pm. Mrs. Orbach said： This is how I want to live. This lifest
10、yle makes me feel really happy and at peace and this is my ideal home. Living in the mountains of West Wales, she named her home Tir Ysbrydol, which means ” spirit land in Welsh. When her children, who are in their 20s and 30s and live in London, Bristol and Brighton, visit, they, like all guests at
11、 the roundhouse, are banned from bringing technology such as phones or laptops with them,It is all a far cry from the conventional trappings of Mrs. Orbachs background, Her father was a violinist and her mother a librarian. After graduating from Oxford with a degree in Chinese, she married architect
12、ural historian Julian Orbach. Together they founded the Brithdir Mawr eco-community in the Preseli Mountains near Newport, in Pembrokeshire, round a 180-acre farm in 1993. For five years they enjoyed a simple life, then a survey plane chanced the lost tribe(部落）and they were involved into a decade-lo
13、ng battle with the authority.Officials were unable to find any records, let alone planning permission , for the mystery hillside village surrounded by trees and bushes and insisted the eight grass-covered buildings should be pulled down.The eco-community suffered a decade of inquiries, court cases a
14、nd a planning hearing before their fight，backed by more modem support for green issues, finally ended in victory in 2008 when the roundhouses were given planning approval. ,But by then Mr. and Mrs. Orbach had divorced and the community split into three sections, including hers. Each community is ind
15、ependent and they co-exist as neighbours in a more traditional style.Explaining why she set up her own home just before 2000，Mrs. Orbach said she felt a very strong pull to live life even more simplyShe is in the process of building a sixth roundhouse there and has permission from the council to bui
16、ld four more. She runs a healing an(l retreat(隐居)centre on the site and usually has about five people living in the other roundhouses. They pay her a donation, which covers her 63-a-month council tax payments, repair costs and supplies of grain.She said： “ 1 dont miss anything at all about what is n
17、ormally called reality. The quality of life, in my view, is decreasing and everything is speeding up and becoming more stressful. Once or. twice I have joked about getting a takeaway pizza delivered here when I am tired after a long day. But I dont think anyone would deliver a pizza across two field
18、s anyway. 54.What does Mrs. Orbach usually do at 7 :30 pm?A. Makes fire.B. Has dinner.C. Plays music.D. Goes to bed.55.The underlined sentence implies (in Para 4) that Orbachs lifestyle_.A.is deeply influenced by her parentsB.is quite different from her backgroundC.is closely associated with her deg
19、ree 1). is strongly supported by her husband56.The officials insisted that the roundhouses be pulled down because they were build_A. on the mysterious hillsideB. without planning permissionC.for commercial purposeD. regardless of the record57.Mrs. Orhach lives in her sell-built roundhouse in order t
20、o_.A. avoid her former husbandB. protect the local environmentC.lead a happy and simple lifeD. struggle against the authority58.When talking about her present life, Emma Oirbach is_A. satisfiedB. desperateC stressedD. regretfulCSarah Outlands weeklong “staycation gave her a chance to explore her new
21、 surroundings after moving to Chicago. A day after moving to the Windy City last year, Outland, started a new job and never got a chance to explore her new surroundings. After nine months as a resident ,she finally took a week off work to visit famous landmarks, museums and shopping centers that wer
22、e right under her nose.If you glance through a newspaper or listen to a news broadcast recently，you may hear or spot a strange word, “staycation” Staycation is a new word the American press is employing to describe a vacation very close to your home, or simply staying at home during your vacation. I
23、t is a combination of the words stay and vacation.According Io many news reports ，these staycations are achieving great popularity among American families this year. When asked about the reason for their expected staycation, respondents stated gas prices are too high”(61 percent)，travel in general i
24、s too expensive (44 percent). The high price of gas for cars and airplanes has made it very expensive for Americans to travel compared to. past years. When you combine this with the weak American dollar, it all adds up to people deciding to stay close to home during their traditional summer vacation
25、sFor aggressive young Americans who are trying to balance family and work，a staycation can be a great concept. They want to enjoy their homes ,and the attractions in their area without the stress of packing or making reservations. They wont be paying high fuel prices either directly, at the pump, or
26、 indirectly, in airfare, other than the gas required to drive around town. Absolutely, its friendlier on the environment when locals take trips to attractions in their own area, and not everyone is game for a vacation that involves staying on a hotel compound. Few people live close enough to a real
27、destination to make this worth their while.59.How long after moving to Chicago did Sarah Outland take a staycation?A. A day.B. A week.C. A month.D. Nine months.60.The author develops the second paragraph of the passage by_.A. making a comparisonB. giving a definitionC offering an analysisD. providin
28、g an example61.Staycations are popular with American people mainly due to_A. high traveling expensesB. stress of packingC .relatively low incomeD. lack of real destinations,62.The underlined part is game for” (in Para. 4) means _，.A. is tolerant ofB. is opposed toC.is willing to tryD. is expert inDP
29、olice traded gift cards for guns in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a buyback program Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as a crime-fighting response to the deadly shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut.Police officers handed out $ 200 grocery gift cards to people who turned int an automatic weapon, and .$1
30、00 gift cards to those who provided a handgun or shotgun. Los Angeles has held an annual gun buyback since 2009, and similar events have been organized in years past iin several other cities, including Detroit and Boston. police in San Diego had a buyback earlier this month.Some experts say the buyb
31、acks have little effect in reducing gun violence, but villaraigosa touted the buyback program as one step that can be taken in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14 thatt claimed the lives of 20 children and six adult staff members.Los Angeles
32、normally has its gun buyback in May, but VilIaraigosa announced last week that the city would have this special buyback in response to the Newtown tragedy(悲剧）.There are a number of things we can do. This is just one of them， Villaraigosa said on CNN. Weve got to also address the culture of violence
33、that weve got in this country.At last count, the Los Angeles gun buyback had collected 1 ,366 firearms, including 477 handguns and 49 assault weapons, said Vicki Curry, a spokeswoman for the mayor. The buyback ended at 4 pm local time，but a final number of guns collected was not expected to be relea
34、sed before Thursday. In May, the citys annual gun buyback program collected 1 ,673 firearms at six locations, comparer! to two locations used for the program on Wednesday, curry said.At each of the locations where the buyback was held, a line of cars stretched around the block, Curry said .People of
35、f their guns were asked to leave them in the trunks of their cars ,where officers collected the weapons.While officials in Los Angeles and elsewhere have said the gun buybacks help keep streets safe ,a 2004 report by the National Research Council of the National Academies questioned that conclusion6
36、3.What is the purpose of this special gunback program?A. To distribute gift cards.B. To buy private guns.C.To respond to the shooting.D. To encourage people to consume.、64.The underlined word touted (in Para. 3 ) is close in meaning to _.A.praisedB. quittedC. designedD. accepted65.Compared with an a
37、nnual gun buyback，this special one is_.A.abnormalB. flexibleC. welcomeD, dangerous66.Which could be the best title for the passage?A.A creative gun buybackB. Two different gun buybacksC.Guns for Gift CardsD. Opposition to gun buybackEReducing the amount of salt in our diets could save nearly 20,000
38、lives in the UK every year, according to researchers.The recommended maximum daily intake for adults is 6g in the UK，although just last month the World Health Organisation( WHO) revised this down to 5g. Yet according to figures from the British Heart Foundation, men consume around 9. 7g a day, while
39、 women have 7. 7g.Fast FoodSalt ContentOriginal chicken2. 9g per portion(份）Spicy crayfish3. 5g per portionLarge chips1g per portionMcDonalds Big Mac2. 1g per portionNow researchers at three universities，including Harvard Medical School，have revealed the dramatic effect reducing salt could have on de
40、ath rates by using computer models, They estimated that reducing salt intake to 6g would save 500,000 to 850,000 lives in the US over the next decade.British doctor Ian Campbell, medical director of charity Weight Concern, told Mail Online: Salt is a big problem in the UK too. Its a silent killer. O
41、ver time consuming too much of it increases the risk of high blood pressure, which can lead to heart attacks. About 80 per cent of our salt intake comes from processed foods, so it can be difficult to avoid.Many people are unaware of where salt is hidden，such as bread，soups, ready meals, and even br
42、eakfast cereals (麦片).The Government approach has been to encourage food companies to cut the amount of salt in their products. There has been a reduction but it is taking too long. The Food Standards Agency should consider setting compulsory maximum levels for salt.Victoria Taylor, Senior Dietitian
43、at the British Heart Foundation, added； Eating too much salt may raise your blood pressure and having high blood pressure increases your risk of developing heart disease.The Government has worked with the food industry to reduce the amount of salt in our food and make labels clearer. But there is st
44、ill work to be done by everyone because the majority of Brits are still consuming more salt than they should be.67.Which of the following in the table reaches the daily maximum amount of salt recommended by the WHO?A.A large chips and a McDonalds Big Mac.B.A McDonald5S Big Mac and an original chicke
45、n.C.An original chicken and a spicy crayfish.D.A spicy crayfish and a large chips68.According to the passage, when people eat processed food theyA. should add a little saltB. neednt add saltC- may ruin their healthD. can have risks of heart attacks69.To solve the problem of eating too much salt, Ian
46、 Campbell advises_.A.having healthier breakfastB.punishing the illegal food companiesC.reducing the amount of processed foodD.making laws about maximum levels for salt70.The last paragraph emphasizes the importance of_.A.making food labels clearerB.monitoring the food industryC.promoting the awareness of salt contentD.strengthening the governments functions
