【推荐2】Instagram is containing so many photos of food — now a pop-up diner in London is taking advantage of this new trend by letting people settle the bill for their meals simply by uploading photos of their dishes to social networks.

I always thought people’s taking pictures of their food was kind of silly, but at this new pop-up restaurant in the UK, I’d probably do it too. “The Picture House” is the world’s first pay-by-photo restaurant — you order, click a photo of the food, share on Instagram and eat for free!

The restaurant belongs to frozen food giant (巨人) Birds Eye, who came up with the idea to cash in on people’s addiction with photographing food and sharing the pictures online. They conducted a survey and found out that more than half of the British population regularly took pictures of their meals. So they realized it was a better way to advertise their new dining range.

The pop-up diner was open in Soho, London for three days in May, and is now moving to other major UK cities. They serve two-course meals that customers don't have to pay for, if they photo and Instagram it.

The restaurant is a part of Birds Eye’s “Food for Life” campaign, a new marketing project that aims at changing the way people look at frozen food. “Taking photos of food enables people to show off and to share their mealtime moments — from the everyday to the special,” said marketing director Margaret Jobling.

The reaction to The Picture House has been great so far. And the pay-by-picture concept has proven to be an effective way. Alternative payment methods are actually gaining popularity among a lot of businesses. Last year, in a cafe in Germany customers pay by how much time they spend there, not by what they eat.

1. Instagram probably is ____.

A．a restaurant free of charge

B．a campaign of “Food for Life”

C．a new marketing project

D．a program used to share photos

2. What’s the author’s attitude to this new trend?

A．Opposed.

B．Interested.

C．Confused.

D．Unconcerned.

3. “The Picture House” encourages sharing photos of its food to ____.

A．attract more customers

B．raise the price of frozen food

C．create a new social media trend

D．reward the regular customers

4. Which of the following can serve as the best title for the passage?

A．No Need to Pay

B．The Pop-up Diner

C．Pay by Picture

D．Food for Life

【推荐3】Every summer holiday, there are always many drowning (溺死) accidents. Especially, swimming in the wild is extremely dangerous.     1    . Surprisingly, in many drowning accidents, a large proportion (比例) of drowning deaths are able to swim.

The main reason is that people who can’t swim have a fear of water.     2    . But the person that can swim is otherwise.     3     and likes to enter water, appearing occasionally so nervous for unusual condition. If nobody rescues, accident may happen.

    4    . Don’t make the mistake of thinking that drowning deaths are mostly swimmers. The truth is that the vast majority (大部分的) of accidental drowning are those who cannot swim. An extra skill will give you an extra chance to save yourself in the event of an accident.

The improvement of swimming skills lies in practice. The only proper place for practice is a swimming pool with coaches and ambulance people present.

Good advice to prevent drowning:     5    .

A．He is not afraid of water

B．Swimming is good for your health

C．Most accidents happen right there

D．They don’t want to go near dangerous waters

E．Master swimming skills and never swim in the wild

F．However, we cannot think learning to swim is useless for this reason

G．Common swimming strokes (泳姿) are breaststroke, freestyle, and backstroke

【推荐1】As a student at a medical school, Sam thinks poetry is a big part of his life, thanks to his new teacher, Rafael Campo, who believes poetry can benefit every doctor’s education and work. Rafael is a physician, professor and a highly respected poet.

“Poetry is in every encounter with my patients. If we do anything when we’re with our patients, we’re really immersed in their stories, really hearing their voices. And, certainly, that’s what a poem does,” he said.

Rafael worries that something important has been lost in medicine and medical education today: humanity, which he finds in poetry. To end that, he leads a weekly reading and writing workshop for medical students and residents. He thinks medical training focuses too much on distancing the doctor from his or her patients, and poems can help close that gap.

Third-year resident Andrea Schwartz was one of the workshop regulars. She said, “I think there’s no other profession other than medicine that produces as many writers as it does. And I think that is because there’s just so much power in doctors and patients interacting when patients are at their saddest moments.” Not everyone believes that’s what doctors should do, though.

Rafael said, “I was afraid of how people might judge me, actually. In the medical profession, as many people know, we must always put the emergency first. But, you know, that kind of treatment, if it’s happening in the hospital, very regrettably, sadly, results in a bad outcome. The family is sitting by the bedside. The patient hasn’t survived the cancer. Don’t we still have a role as healers there?”

In a poem titled “Health”, Rafael writes of the wish to live forever in a world made painless by our incurable joy. He says he will continue teaching students, helping patients and writing poems, his own brand of medicine.

1. What’s Rafael Campo?

A．He’s a doctor.

B．He’s a physicist.

C．He is a teacher in a senior school.

D．He is a student at a medical school.

2. What does the underlined word “immersed” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Committed.

B．Forced.

C．Absorbed.

D．Persuaded.

3. What does Andrea Schwartz think of poetry?

A．It contributes to medical work.

B．It is mostly produced by doctors.

C．It has nothing to do with doctors.

D．It keeps doctors away from patients.

4. Which words can best describe Rafael Campo?

A．Gifted but overconfident.

B．Capable and responsible.

C．Honest and modest.

D．Cold but respected.

5. What is the best title for the text?

A．A good medicine tastes bitter

B．Poetry heals the pain

C．Sad poetry is a ready medicine

D．A poem a day keeps the doctor away

【推荐2】Why do we read poetry？ First obvious one： because we enjoy it．    1     But that's not why this is here．

Many of us read poetry simply because we often feel depressed and hopelessly lost, and in poetry we see how beautiful and strange everything is．    2    

There are many different kinds of poems. They are not all calming. Some poems make me anxious, angry, scared, and sad, which is why I value them.     3     I want the sweet and the bitter. Often, I read poetry when I'm already relaxed. In fact, I read more when I'm not stressed out．

Here are the main reasons I respond to poetry, as far as I can tell.     4     Usually, this is done by setting up a rhythm（节奏） and then violating（违反） it or almost violating it. And then returning to it again. This satisfies my desire for order and also my desire for testing boundaries．

Poetry plays with language. It often slams words together in surprising ways like the way food can be when the chef has paired ingredients that you never thought would taste good together but somehow do．

Many poems are dense. Words mean two or three things at once and lots of suggestions are packed between the lines. This is intellectually（在智力上） inspiring.     5    

And, of course, there's the subject matter. It interests me just as it would if the same subject was explored in a story or essay. Not all poems interest me in this way, but then not all stories and essays do, either．

A．So in that way poetry calms our anxiety．

B．As a reader, I want a full meal, not just dessert．

C．Another reason is to appreciate the suggestions offered．

D．The only other reason seems to be for academic purposes．

E．The best part about poetry is that they are not fixed in length．

F．Metrical（格律的） poems are about setting up rules and then bending them．

G．It allows me to read the same poem over and over, always finding new things in it．

【推荐3】Answer the following questions briefly according to the poem.根据诗歌内容,简要回答下列问题。

The Flight of Youth

By Richard Henry Stoddard

There are gains for all our losses,

There are balms ( 止痛膏) for all our pains,

But when youth, the dream, departs

It takes something from our hearts,

And it never comes again.

We are stronger, and are better,

Under, manhood's sterner (严峻的) reign (驱使).

Till we feel that something sweet

Followed youth, with flying feet,

And will never come again.

Something beautiful is vanished (使消逝),

And we sigh (叹息) for it in vain;

We behold (看到) it everywhere,

On the earth, and in the air,

But it never comes again!

1. Is this poem written using personification (拟人法)?
2. When does youth take something from our hearts?
3. Which word does the poet use to describe manhood's reign?
4. Where does the poet think we can find youth?
5. What does this poem want to tell us?