Identify the country or countries you will be travelling to. It is particularly important to know which countries you are travelling to because it determines where and how you are going to send your application.
● If you are intending to visit just one Schengen country, you will need to apply for the Schengen visa directly with the embassy or consulate of that particular country.
● If you are intending to visit two or more Schengen countries, your application must be sent to the embassy or consulate of the country that shall be your main destination.
● If you are intending to visit several Schengen countries, but do not have a main destination, you should apply for the visa at the embassy or consulate of the first Schengen country on your travel itinerary.
Fill out an application form. beforehand to obtain a Schengen visa. You can download and print off the form. online.
Prepare all the requirements for your Schengen visa application. Depending on the consulate or embassy, you are required to show the following documents:
● A valid national passport
● Evidence showing the purpose of your trip (e.g. hotel reservations)
● Proof of medical insurance
● A round-trip travel ticket
● Proof of funds
Check the processing time to ensure you get your Schengen visa on time. The processing time varies per embassy, so it is important to take the processing time into account when planning your trip.
1. This passage is mainly about ().
A. what is a Schengen visa
B. who can apply for a Schengen visa
C. how to apply for a Schengen visa
2. If you are intending to visit two or more Schengen countries, you will need to send your application ().
A. to the embassy or consulate of the country that shall be your main destination
B. directly with the embassy or consulate of that particular country
C. to the embassy or consulate of the first Schengen country on your travel itinerary
3. You can download and print off the form. ().
A. via your phone
B. on the Internet
C. by your friends
4. You are required to show the following documents EXCEPT ().
A. a round-trip travel ticket
B. a valid national passport
C. a birth certificate
5. The processing time is () per embassy.
A. different
B. the same
C. similar
So far there is no proof ______ spaceships from other planets do exist.
A.which
B.that
C.how
D.what
A. But Komfeld said scientists will not know about the applicability of the drugs in humans until a similar study is done on humans. “What’s very encouraging is that these drugs were developed to treat humans, and they are well understood, because they’ve been used for a long time, ” he said。
B. Later the scientists discovered that two related anticonvulsant drugs also lengthened the lives of the worms-in the case of one drug, by almost 50 percent. “This was a big surprise to use, Komfeld said. ”“We didn’t think anticonvulsant drugs had any particular relationship to aging. That connection was completely unexpected. ”
C. Roundworms are a poor subject for experiments, because they are not like humans, even though their molecules are similar. For example, they have no bones, nor do they show emotions, making it difficult to know how exactly human subjects would react to these drugs in large quantities. However, using the worms allows experiments to be conducted quickly, because they do not live for long。
D. “Somehow the neural activity seems to regulate the aging of all of the body the skin, musculature, and reproductive tract, ” Kornfeld said. “Somehow the nervous system coordinates the progress of all these tissues, evidently, though the life stages. But we don’t know how it does that. ”
E. The discovery may also shed light on the little-understood aging process. Since the drugs act on the neuromuscular systems of both humans and worms, the findings hint at a link between neural activity and aging。
F. Unlike vertebrates, the worms are ideal subjects for the study of aging because of their short life spans, which last only a couple of weeks in a laboratory. The worm is well known in genetics, and the worm’s genome has been sequenced。
G. Use of this drug has been permitted by law since 1998 and wider use is now expected as a result of the studies. “We can clearly link this drug with human aging, but we still need to find proof, says Kornfeld optimistically. ”
The passage tells us that proof of life on Mars would ______.
A.make clear the complex chemistry in the development of life
B.confirm the suggestion that bacterial fossils traveled to Earth on a meteor
C.reveal the kind of conditions under which life originates
D.provide an explanation why life is common in the universe
From the passage, we can not find the proof of the fact that ______.
A.now mothers do their household work just as well as they did before
B.with their mothers working, children are better off
C.lack of mothers' care, children like to go astray
D.in single-parent families, most children like their mothers go out working
A.write a firm letter of complaint to the store of purchase
B.show some written proof of the purchase to the store
C.complain personally to the manager
D.threaten to take the matter to court
Then the()of immigrants became a stream, and the population began to move ()- not to grab and () but to settle and (), they thought. The () were of peasant (), and they had their () in a Europe ()they had been (), for the possession of land was the requirement and the ()of a higher social class than they had known.