A.its good value for money B.its convenience C.the specific trains D.travel schedules

25.Sarah is a Railcard holder,traveling with her 12-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter.How much should they pay for the 6-pound Off-Peak fares?

A.￡6. B.￡18.￡ C.￡7. D.￡12.

26.Apart from the Off-Peak fairs,yomay also save money by.

A.becoming a VIP B.traveling at rush time C.buying tickets online D.getting group travel discounts

27.What type of writing is this text?

A.An announcement. B.A ticket booking guide. C.A business report. D.A travel review.

C

Dear daughters,

Most parents tell their children,“Yocan be anything yowant when yogrow up.”I feel the same and I say this often.But I also want yoto understand that a dream itself comes from hard work,some good luck and good timing.Girls,here are some words of wisdom as yomake your way in the world.

Firstly,be open-minded to changing your path along the way.In high school,I wanted to be a politician.I left my hometown and went off to college in Washington,D.C.There,I discovered that I loved to support women.It taught me that I’m creative,a strong leader and great at marketing.As a result,I moved on to be the head of a national healthcare nonprofit(非营利机构).Becoming a mother while in that job opened my mind to launching a breast pump bag business.Now I run a highly successful company that I started up on my own.In my opinion,yoneed to figure out what yoare good at and what yoare passionate about.Keep an open mind:the initial path yochoose may lead yointo other areas.Don’t waste your money or time,but yocan change what yoare doing based on what yoare learning about yourself.

Secondly and more importantly,remember that failure is vital to your success.I won’t tell yoto feel good about failure.Failure can be heartbreaking.But I will tell yothat every failure I’ve had along the way absolutely made me better.Failing the math exam in high school and going to summer school was embarrassing but I've never failed an exam again.

Being deprived(剥夺)of the job for a significant job opportunity that I was more than qualified for because of unfair assumptions hurt me but I went out and got a big job at a national organization at age 27.It’s okay to get angry! Take that and tum it into positive action.

I’m proud to be a role model to yoas a mom and an entrepreneur(企业家).I hope I inspire yoto believe that yoan be anything yowant and yocan have anything on your list.It will be my pleasure to watch your lives unfold before my eyes.

Love,

Your Mom

28.The author has achieved her final goal as.

A.a politician B.a social worker C.an entrepreneur D.the head of an organization

29.What does the author think of failure along the way in life?

A.Failure is important to success. B.Failure is never positive.

C.Failure is always heartbreaking. D.Failure makes people embarrassed.

30.The author was once deprived of a significant job opportunity because.

A.she lacked work experience B.she was wrongly judged as unfit for it

C.She was too young D.she was not as qualified as others

31.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A.A mom’s advice B.A mom’s life stories

C.Be wise in choosing your career D.How to be successful in life

D

The days of having to carry a phone charger everywhere could soon be over.Michigan researchers have revealed a major breakthrough in harvesting energy from human motion.They say it could lead to smartphones powered for a week by the motion of a swipe(重击).

Michigan State University’s low-cost device,known as a nanogenerator,has already been tested.Scientists successfully operated an LCD touch screen,a bank of 20 LED lights and a flexible keyboard,all with a simple touching or pressing motion and without the aid of a battery.The groundbreaking findings,published in the journal Nano Energy,suggest “We’re on the path toward wearable devices powered by human motion,” said Nelson Sepulveda,associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and lead researcher of the project.

“What I foresee,relatively soon,is the capability of not having to charge your cell phone for an entire week,for example,because that energy will be produced by your movement,”said Sepulveda,whose research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Electrical energy is created when the device is compressed by human motion.The completed device is as thin as a sheet of paper.The device used to power the LED lights was palm-sized,while the device used to power the touch screen was as small as a finger.Advantages such as being lightweight,flexible and low-cost could make it a promising and alternative method in the field of Mechanical-energy harvesting.

The device also becomes more powerful when folded.Sepulveda said,“Yocan start with a large device,but when yofold it once,and again,and again,it’s much smaller and has more energy.Now it may be small enough to put in a specially made heel of your shoe so it creates power each time your heel strikes the ground.”

Sepulveda and his team are also developing technology that would transmit the power generated by the heel strike to,say,a wireless headset.

32.Who is Nelson Sepulveda?

A.The major researcher in the project. B.A professor of engineering.

C.The fund supplier of the research. D.A journalist writing for Nano Energy.

33.The underlined word device in the 2nd paragraph is closest in meaning to.

A.keyboard B.smartphone C.screen D.machine

34.From the passage we know that the nanogenerator.