Welcome to Green Village Community! Here is some information for the newcomers about the sports and fitness facilities in this area.

Power Station Gym

This gym is well known in the area. Here you can find a newly-built swimming pool and the latest fitness equipment. It has a team of skilled trainers that can provide personal training. Please note that the swimming pool is closed for cleaning every Sunday and it is not open to the public.

Zest-booster Leisure Center

This is the largest leisure center in the area and it is open 24 hours a day. It is a perfect choice for people who need a flexible workout schedule. It has a 400-meter running track that is free to use for members. It provides specially designed fitness programs for VIP members. It is open six days a week and closed on Mondays.

Wonder Ladies' Club

This club is for female members only. It has a modern gym with the newest equipment. It offers one-to-one training and programs that best meet females' needs. It also organizes club events such as lectures on health care and member gatherings where you can get to know other club members over a cup of coffee and snacks.

Josh's Running Club

This is a club organized by Josh Smith, a professional running athlete. He leads a five-kilometer run every Tuesday and Friday evening, starting at 9 o'clock.  You don't have to become a member or pay anything to run with the club. Just come and meet other runners at the main gate of Green Village Park.

Papa and Mama's Health and Fitness

This center welcomes anyone above the age of 60 who wants to improve his or her fitness by doing some regular and easy exercise. You can surely find the support you need to achieve your goals. It has a team of super-friendly personal trainers of yoga, dancing, etc. Currently they are offering programs to non-members free of charge, every Monday morning.

A.attend member gatherings

B.have coffee and snacks

C.use a running track for free

D.swim in a new pool

A.Zest-booster Leisure Center

B.Wonder Ladies' Club

C.Josh's Running Club

D.Papa and Mama's Health and Fitness

A.VIP fitness programs

B.health-care lectures

C.swimming courses

D.running classes

A.A wonder lady

B.An old couple

C.A professional athlete

D.A fitness trainer

A.Swimming athletes

B.Young mothers

C.Running lovers

D.Elderly people

The first forest library in Shanghai recently opened in public. Known as Read & Joy Forest, the library was jointly founded by Pudong New Area and Shanghai Library. It is located in an urban wood, covering an area of 20,546 square meters.

The design of the forest library allows the environment-friendly principle-ensuring minimum disturbance to nature. In the library existing green spaces are connected by wooden walkways.

The library is in open air and equipped with facilities such as benches and an information booth. Visitors can read and relax in a natural environment. They can take a pleasant walk in the quiet and verdant forest, which includes Camphor, Cedar and Osmanthus trees.

"I learnt about the forest library from my friends, so I came here," said a 21-year-old college student, Mr. Wang. "The green outdoor environment helps reduce eyestrain. I will come back for sure."

Having a library in the woods is an extension of reading indoors, according to Xu Qiang, who works in Shanghai Library. "It offers a different reading experience to readers," he added.

Most of the visitors to the forest library are young people and parents with kids. They are really impressed by the fresh air and the green. They can either immerse themselves in reading or take leisurely strolls in the forest. Since most of the time they stay indoors, this special library makes it possible for them to get close to natural surroundings. They feel really relaxed there.

A.increasing green spaces

B.making the least change to nature

C.reducing disturbance to readers

D.creating a relaxing indoor environment

A.It is a plant

B.It is a path

C.It is a bench

D.It is a device

A.It appeals a lot to parents and kids

B.It provides a new reading experience

C.It enlarges the indoor reading space

D.It helps reduce readers' eyestrain

A.offers people a chance to read in nature

B.attracts a large number of readers

C.has support from the local government

D.covers a large area of forest

A.diary

B.A handbook

C.A newspaper

D.A novel

Since the first kindergarten opened in 1837, the kindergarten has been a place for telling stories, building castles, drawing pictures, and learning to share. But today, children are spending more time in kindergartens working out math problems and memorizing words. In short, kindergartens are becoming more like schools.

In my mind, exactly the opposite is needed. Instead of making kindergartens like schools, we need to make schools more like kindergartens.

As I see it, the kindergarten approach to learning is ideally suited to the core need of the 21st century—the ability to think creatively. Unfortunately, most schools are out of step with today's need: they are not designed to help students develop as creative thinkers. But kindergartens, at least those that remain true to the kindergarten tradition, do things differently.

What do I mean by the kindergarten approach to learning? In traditional kindergartens, children are constantly designing, creating, experimenting, and exploring. Two children are building towers with wooden blocks. A classmate sees the towers and starts pushing his toy car between them. But the towers are too close together, so the children start moving the towers further apart to make room for the car. In the process, one of the towers falls down. After a brief argument over who is at fault,they start talking about how to build a taller and stronger tower. Seeing this, the teacher shows them pictures of the real world—tall buildings, and the children notice that the bottoms of the buildings are wider than the tops. So they decide to rebuild their block tower with a wider base than before.This type of process is repeated over and over in kindergartens. The materials vary and the creations vary, but the core process is the same. In going through this process, kindergarten children develop and improve their abilities as creative thinkers. They learn to develop their own ideas, try them out,test the boundaries, experiment with alternatives, get input from others—and, perhaps most significantly, generate new ideas based on their experiences. The kindergarten approach to learning is well-matched to the core need of the current society, and should be extended to learners of all ages.

A.encouraging children to express themselves

B.engaging children in creative activities

C.teaching children knowledge

D.telling children to share with others

A.More high quality kindergartens are needed

B.The kindergarten approach is more innovative

C.Schools should adopt the kindergarten approach

D.Schools should set an example for kindergartens

A.think creatively

B.build towers quickly

C.handle arguments properly

D.memorize words efficiently

A.help the children to develop better cooperation

B.provide materials for building block towers

C.prevent the block tower from falling down

D.inspire the children to observe and explore

A.To help kindergartens to build schools

B.To promote the kindergarten approach to learning

C.To advise the school to invest in kindergartens

D.To start the reform of traditional kindergartens

When you type the phrase "information overload" into a search engine, you will immediately get information overload with more than 7 million hits in 0.05 seconds.  (1)  For example, you learn that the phrase "information overload" was first used in 1964, before the Internet was invented. But much of the information is irrelevant or useless.  (2)

(3) Every day, there are news and sports websites to watch, emails that need to be answered, and people who want to chat with you online. Back in the real world, friends, family, and colleagues also have things to tell you.

(4)  A recent survey has shown that many employees believe that it has made their jobs less satisfying and has even affected their personal relationships outside work.  (5)   Dealing with the overloaded information, they sit in front of their computers for hours before they know it. So they cannot find time to do exercise or get enough time for quality sleep.

A. Some of the information is useful.

B. Information overload is everywhere in our life.

C. Reading such information is a pure waste of time.

D. Some of them also think that it is bad for health.

E. At work, information overload is causing some problems.

There's a lot to deal with when you go off to university. The school work is just the  _1 _ . There are new friends to _ 2_  , new opportunities to seize, new responsibilities to take...and, for most students, a completely new city to  _3_  .

We recently  _4_   our daughter Ella 150 miles to start her college life. It was a  _5_   to find a car park that day. Even worse, we had greater trouble finding her room.

We had taken her to the local supermarket before we left, though we knew that she had roommates and phone apps to give her  _6_  . But a bigger challenge ahead was clear—to find her  _7_   in a new world.

The  _8 _  news for Ella and learners everywhere is that exploring new surroundings is hugely beneficial to memory. In a recent study, volunteers walked around a  _9 _ . Then some of them walked around the same forest again, while others explored a  _10 _  forest. And the second group  _11 _  significantly better in memory tests later. According to the researchers, that was because exploring the  _12 _  environment stimulated their brains for learning. So leaving home to _ 13_   in a college makes perfect sense. What's more,  _14_   seem to gain most from being in strange surroundings. But we adults may also be able to  _15_   some of the benefits, according to the research.

A.start

B.aim

C.thing

D.case

A.persuade

B.meet

C.leave

D.defeat

A.design

B.build

C.honor

D.explore

A.walked

B.forced

C.drove

D.flew

A.must

B.struggle

C.surprise

D.success

A.directions

B.hope

C.inspirations

D.trust

A.room

B.friends

C.way

D.clubs

A.hot

B.good

C.latest

D.current

A.supermarket

B.college

C.forest

D.building

A.different

B.quiet

C.great

D.thick

A.learned

B.worked

C.felt

D.performed

A.beautiful

B.unprotected

C.unfamiliar

D.noisy

A.train

B.study

C.date

D.wander

A.teenagers

B.researchers

C.parents

D.volunteers

A.miss

B.notice

C.provide

D.get