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Funded Programs Allow You To Explore Canada And Learn French Are you open to exploring Canada for a few weeks, meeting new friends, learning French and participating in unforgettable worthy adventures? The Explore Programs or Odyssey Programs may be right for you! EXPLORE PROGRAMS Offered during the spring and summer for people with any skill level in French, the Explore Programs are language programs which allow you to discover another region of Canada while learning French. There is a three-week Explore (from 13 to 15 years old) program and an Explore program if you're a student 16 years old or older. FUNDING The three-week Explore program： $ 2,000 (taxable income). The Explore program for 16+year olds： $ 2,800 (taxable income). The funding covers the major expenses for participating in the program： tuition, teaching tertials, workshops, meals, hotel, and most of your activities. Aside from personal spend-money (for snacks or souvenirs, etc. ) you will need to cover registration fees and travel expenses. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA (资格标准) In order to qualify for the Explore (from 13 to 15 years of age) funding, you must： ---be a Canadian citizen or resident (those studying in Canada as a student)； ---be 13, 14 or 15 years old by the time your Explore (from 13 to 15 years of age) course gins； and have been a full-time student for at least one term during the current school year. There is no age limit for participation in Odyssey, but you need to meet all the other eligible requirements in the Explore program. There are no French-language-skill requirements apply for the Odyssey program. For full details please visit wwww.myodyssey. ca. 【1】Which of the following can you do if you join in the Funded Programs? A.Go abroad. B.Meet old friends. C.Experience an adventure. D.Be a full-time student. 【2】What is the extra cost if you participate in the program? A.Students' books. B.Trip expenses. C.Hotel expenses. D.Suppers. 【3】What makes Odyssey different from the Explore? A.Age requirements. B.English requirements. C.French requirements. D.Learning time. |
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Last summer, Katie Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work in Minneapolis and stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She rolled her window. “Hey!” She shouted. "I'm driving around giving free haircuts. If I go grab my chair, do you want one right now?” The man looked to be in his 60s. He laughed, saying, "Actually, I have a wedding to go this week. I am really hoping to get a haircut. " "I'll be right back," Steller said. She drove off, went to the salon (美发厅) she owns, and moved a red chair into her car. en she drove back. The man, named Edward, took a seat. She started to give him a haircut. He told her about his growing up in Mississippi and moving to Minnesota to be closer to adult children. After the haircut was done, Edward looked in a mirror and said gladly, "I look good!” To date, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. It's more than haircut. Steller wants it to be a gateway to express care, value and appreciation, but also to know more people. Steller knows that a haircut can change a life. One changed hers: As a teen, she suffered m a serious disease and her hair thinned drastically. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut. "To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone,“ she said. After that, Steller knew she wanted to have her own salon so she could help people feel the way she'd felt that day. Not long after finishing cosmetology school in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people on the streets. 【1】What did Steller offer to Edward? A.Encouragement. B.A free haircut. C.A comfortable chair. D.Financial assistance. 【2】Why did Steller start her Red Chair Project? A.To advertise her salon. B.To change the poor's life. C.To show acts of kindness. D.To draw others' attention. 【3】What does the underlined word “drastically” in paragraph 7 mean? A.Sharply. B.Occasionally. C.Cautiously. D.Painfully. 【4】What is the best title for the text? A.A Free Haircut B.A Chair Project C.More than a Haircut D.Less Prejudice and Cruelty |
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Scientists have been studying Antarctica for over a century, but details as basic as what it looks like beneath all that ice have largely remained a mystery. Now, Earther reports that a team of scientists from Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and the UK has published the most detailed data yet on the continent's subglacial topography （冰川下的地形）near the South Pole. As they report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, central Antarctica is home to three large canyons （峡谷）, one of which is deeper than the Grand Canyon and nearly as wide at some points. The researchers made the discovery by flying a plane with radar over the South Pole, a spot that isn't covered by satellites. They expected to find mountains beneath the ice sheet, but the wide canyons they found between the mountains came as a surprise. Of the three canyons, two hadn't been documented previously. The largest, the Foundation Trough （基础槽），measures 218 miles long, up to 22 miles wide, and 6,260 feet deep, putting it up there with the planet's most impressive canyons. The discoveries are significant on their own, but the real purpose behind the research is to better understand how the West and East Antarctic ice sheets will react to rising temperatures. Human-caused climate change has made some of the continent's ice not firm, and the West Antarctic ice sheet especially has been slowly melting to the sea. If patterns continue, the coastal glaciers supporting the large ice sheets could fall down, causing sea levels to rise a minimum of 10 feet. If this happens, the canyons could be a major factor in the speed and direction of ice flow from central Antarctica to the coast. The event isn't likely to happen in the near future, but further study o£ Antarctica's topography will allow scientists to better predict when it might. 【1】Which of the following have scientists known little? A.The shape of Antarctica ice. B.The condition of Antarctica ice. C.The Grand Canyon. D.The beneath of Antarctica ice. 【2】Which of the following is found by a plane with radar? A.The Grand Canyon. B.The mountains. C.Three large canyons. D.Ice sheets. 【3】How do the scientists feel about finding the wide canyons? A.Unexpected. B.Interesting. C.Ridiculous. D.Common. 【4】What's the aim of the study? A.To document the three canyons. B.To find out how large the three canyons are. C.To know how ice sheets react to rising temperatures. D.To show the importance of the three canyons. |
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