【推荐1】Many young people want to become pop-stars. It is their great ambition（雄心） in life. They think pop-stars makea lot of money, they haveinteresting and exciting lives, thousands of fans love them, and they become famous!
Yes, but first they must become stars. Most of themstart theirlife with a group. But there are many groups and competitions(比赛)are hard. Only a small number can be popular. They have to work very hard before they reach the top.And very few reach the             top and stay there. In England there are perhaps thirty or so groups at the top. Most of these do not makeso much money, perhaps 500 pounds each time they act. What’s more, they have quite a lot of expenses(开销). They have to pay a manager, for             example. He is the key person in their lives.
Then there are their clothes, their instruments(乐器) and their van（厢式货车）.
And don’t forget, they have to travel a longway-sometimes 2,000 miles in one week. At timesthey even sleep in their van instead of a hotel, just to save money.
So now, what do you think? Are pop-stars so rich? And do they have such exciting lives?
1. Which of the following is the reason that many young people want to become pop-stars?

A．Living an exciting life.

B．Becoming a rich man.

C．Thousands of fanslove them.

D．All of the above.

2. What does the manager do in the group?

A．He runs(管理) this group

B．He looks after them

C．He is important to them

D．He buys them clothes and instruments

3. The writer makes us know ___________.

A．it is glad to become a pop-star

B．if you work very hard in pop groups, you will reach the top

C．pop-starsare not happyor rich.

D．Wehad better not dream ofbeing pop-stars

【推荐2】In China, more and more middle school students are getting shorter sleeping time than before. Most students sleep for less than nine hours every night, because they have much homework to do. Some homework is given by their teachers, and some by their parents. Also, some students don’t know how to save time. They are not careful enough while they do their homework, so it takes them a lot of time. Some students spend too much time watching TV or playing computer games. They stay up (熬夜) very late. Some students have to get up early every morning on weekdays to get to school on time by bus or by bike. It may be a long way from home to school.

Schools and parents should cut down some of the homework so that our children can enjoy more than nine hours’ sleep every night for their health. For children, they should make best use of their time. When they have enough time for sleeping, both their study and health will improve.

1. What makes most students sleep for less than nine hours every night?

A．Watching TV.	B．Playing computer games.
C．Doing their homework.	D．Doing housework.

2. Who else gives children some homework to do except their teachers?

A．Their parents.

B．Other students.

C．The children themselves.

D．Nobody else.

3. What does the writer want to tell us?

A．More and more middle school students are getting shorter sleeping time than before.

B．Middle school students have much homework to do.

C．Schools and parents should cut down some of the homework.

D．When students have enough time for sleeping, both their study and health will improve.

4. What might happen to a student who often goes to bed late and gets up early?

A．He might fall asleep in class.	B．He might do well in study.
C．He might finish his homework fast.	D．He might have good health.

5. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Some students are so careless that they spend lots of time on their homework.

B．All the students stay up late for their homework.

C．Children should be given less homework.

D．Schools and parents should take care of children.

【推荐3】Most of Chinese people can recite (背诵) the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work”. But sadly, many of us don’t really get the real meaning.

A CCTV program reported that Chinese people throw away much food every year and it can feed 200 million people for a year. Do we have too much food? The answer is no. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2011, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger.

Chinese people are well-known for being friendly and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table. Luckily, a lot of people have realized the importance of saving food. What should we do to waste less food in our daily life?

Don’t order too much in a restaurant. Just order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest home.

Don’t leave any food in your bowls while having meals.

Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.

1. According to the UN report, how many hungry people were there in 2011?

A．6 million.

B．200 million.

C．725 million.

D．925 million.

2. What’s the real meaning of the underlined sentence?

A．春种一粒粟，秋收万颗子。	B．谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。
C．吏禄三百石，岁晏有余粮。	D．足蒸暑土气，背灼炎天光。

3. What should we do to waste less food?

A．Order more food in a restaurant.

B．Take all the food you ordered home.

C．Every time you eat, leave some food in your bowls.

D．Don’t store too much food like vegetables and fruit.

4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A．200 million children die of hunger every year.

B．A number of people have realized the importance of saving food.

C．Many Chinese feel that they lose face if guests have eaten all the food on the table.

D．The food Chinese people throw away a year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.

5. What does the writer of this passage want to tell us?

A．Don’t waste food.

B．We can’t die of hunger.

C．Every grain is grown by farmers.

D．Chinese people are friendly and generous.

【推荐1】Every day, you may go to school by school bus. But, do you have lessons on the bus? On a small farm in Mexico（墨西哥）, there are no schools. A bus is the school. The driver of the bus is the teacher. It’s a school bus, but it doesn’t take the children to school. It just goes round from place to place, and sometimes it comes to this farm. The bus will stay here for three months. The farmers call it a school on wheels（轮子）. Every time when the bus comes, the farmers will come，running to it，shouting and laughing. They warmly（热情地）welcome the school bus.

When the bus is on the farm，in the morning, the teacher teaches the small children. In the afternoon, the bigger children come to have their lessons because they must work in the morning. At night, the fathers and mothers come to school. They want to learn, too. How the farmers hope that some day they can have a real school!

1. The driver of the bus is ________.

A．the teacher

B．the student

C．the farmer

D．the school.

2. The bus school will ________.

A．take the children to school	B．stay at a place for a whole year
C．go around from place to place	D．take the fathers and mothers to school

3. The bigger children have their lessons in the afternoon because ________in the morning.

A．they have to work	B．they can’t get up early
C．they have to do their homework	D．the teacher wants to teach the small children first

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The school bus takes children to the school every day.

B．The farmers don’t welcome the school bus to the farm.

C．The students are the same from morning to evening.

D．Farmers on the farm hope to have a real school some day.

5. What is the best title（标题）for the passage?

A．A School Bus.

B．A Small Farm.

C．A Real School.

D．A School on Wheels.

【推荐2】Students aiming to enter Tsinghua University this year had better be able to swim or be prepared to learn swimming and pass a swim test since the top university will not grant bachelor’s degrees if they cannot swim.

This September, would-be freshmen at Tsinghua University will have to take swimming courses if they fail a swimming test at the beginning of their university life, and they won’t receive their degrees if they cannot swim before their graduation, according to a message at a university staff meeting days ago, the Beijing Daily reported on Monday.

Potential freshmen with chronic diseases, skin disease or hydrophobia, once examined and affirmed by medical staff, don’t need to take the required test or course.

Plans are for freshmen to take the test during their military training. In the test, students will pass the test if they can swim 50 meters, no matter whether they choose the breaststroke, butterfly, stroke, freestyle or backstroke. Those failing the test have to take a compulsory swimming course.

“Now Tsinghua University will test students in long-distance running and swimming, so students with poor sports performance will have to overcome a lot of difficulties once they enter the university,” said a student surnamed Zhang from the Second High School Attached To Beijing Normal University.

However, students don’t need to worry much, since Liu Bo, head of the Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, said relevant statistics showed that 90 percent of students can swim after taking the compulsory swimming course in their second year of university, and the remaining 10 percent will receive instruction after class provided by teachers, without paying extra tuition.

And seeing the ability to swim as a must for students to earn their degrees is not something new in Tsinghua University, as this ability was listed on its school regulations in the early 20th century.

“As early as 90 years ago, Tsinghua University required that students cannot graduate from the university or study overseas if they cannot swim, though the requirement didn’t work later on since the swimming pools at the campus could not accommodate increasingly more students” said Liu.

1. Who will not get their bachelor’s degrees of Tsinghua University?

A．Students who don’t take a compulsory swimming course.

B．Students who fail a swimming test in the first year.

C．Students who swim 100 meters in the test.

D．Students who cannot swim before their graduation.

2. Students don’t need to take the swimming test or course if they have the following diseases except for _______.

A．heart disease

B．skin disease

C．chronic disease

D．hydrophobia

3. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．Students with poor sports don’t need to worry about their performance at all.

B．Students have to pay extra tuition if they receive instruction after class.

C．Students can choose any swimming style to take the test.

D．Tsinghua University has never made such a school regulation before.

4. Where is the passage probably from?

A．a novel

B．a news report

C．science fiction

D．a diary

【推荐3】①Last Friday, our class held a special and meaningful activity—working in the field. The purpose of the activity was to give us a chance to experience farm life and improve our skills. We were excited when we heard the news.

②Guided by our teachers, we took part in the activity. Every eight students prepared their farming tools — together as a group, which played a key role in developing their ability to work with each other. Then, following a process including (包括) lining, turning, stepping and leveling the land, we managed to create an excellent environment for the growth of vegetables. Although there were challenges (挑战) like the hard soil and heavy tools, these could be seen as chances to build up both our bodies and willpower.

③At the end of the day, we students learned the skill of building cucumber frames (黄瓜架). It seemed easy to make them, but in fact, it was quite difficult to make them stand upright.

④Although it was tiring, we enjoyed the happiness of farming. “There couldn’t be a better chance to enjoy the beauty of farming, which enhanced my responsibility (责任) to value the fruit of others’ labor (劳动) and improved my skills,” said Liu Li, one of my classmates. More amazingly, great influences (影响) were seen when it comes to students’ daily life. “He began to make sure the zero-waste dinner, and loved planting in his bedroom”, said a student’s mother when talking about her son’s progress.

⑤Some of the students even suggested making a school garden in the empty land so that they could grow their vegetables and enjoy the fruit of the labor. The teachers thought the idea was quite great.

1. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The activity was done in groups.

B．The cucumber frames were easy to build.

C．The students didn’t have any challenges.

D．The activity was not tiring at all.

2. Which of the followings is the students’ opinion (观点) on labor?

A．Experiencing farm life is boring.	B．Farming can improve their labor skills.
C．Farming has an influence on their study.	D．Farming has nothing with happiness.

3. What’s the structure of the passage?

A．①②/③④/⑤

B．①/②③④/⑤

C．①/②③/④⑤

D．①②/③/④⑤

4. What is the best title for this passage?

A．Good News	B．Building Cucumber Frames
C．The Beauty of the Field	D．A Meaningful Farming Experience

【推荐1】①Walk or drive to work? Which way is lower in carbon (碳)? To be friendly to the environment, you may choose to walk. Have you ever tried to live a low-carbon life through your diet (日常饮食) ?

②A new study from the University of Oxford has looked into the health and environmental influences of 15 foods common in western diets. Among these, plant-based (基于植物的) foods included fruits, vegetables, nuts and potatoes. It also studied animal-based foods, including red meat, chicken, milk products, eggs and fish.

③According to the study’s lead researcher, Michael Clark, “Choosing better and greener diets is one of the main ways people can improve their health and protect the environment.” That is to say, plant-based diets are much healthier for us and kinder to the environment.

④To get this result, researchers compared the influence of eating another portion (一份) of each food with the increased risk of a few illnesses. They also find out the environmental harm for each animal-based food and each plant-based food.

⑤By using this method, the study found that red meats were the most unfriendly foods to the environment. Keeping farm animals produces a large number of methane (甲烷) that keeps 30 times more heat than CO₂. As well as making the earth warmer, eating too much red meat is known to increase the risk of a few illnesses, such as heart trouble.

⑥Plant-based diets can give us the same health benefits in a much greener way. According to the study, without eating or using meat and milk products, global farmland use could be cut down by more than 75% and still feed the world.

⑦Speaking to the Guardian, Tim Benton of Chatham House said, “If we can give people reasonable official advice of what a healthy and green diet is, the world and its people would be in a much better place.”

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. Which one is animal-based food?

A．Milk products.

B．Fruits.

C．Vegetables.

2. What’s the result of this study?

A．Many people choose to walk to work.

B．The more we eat, the better the environment is.

C．Plant-based diets are healthier and greener.

3. What is the main idea of paragraph⑤?

A．The harm of CO₂.

B．The risk of heart trouble.

C．Two disadvantages of red meats.

4. What does “benefits” in paragraph⑥mean in Chinese?

A．问题

B．方式

C．益处

5. What will this study probably be used for?

A．Giving official advice on health and environment.

B．Teaching farmers to plant vegetables correctly.

C．Guiding people to lose weight by doing exercise.

【推荐2】

Look at the center circles （中心圆） of picture A and picture B. Which of the center circles looks bigger? Take a first look and you may think that the center circle in picture A is smaller than that in picture B. In fact, they are the same size.

Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase （花瓶）?Or two faces? Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.

“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may ask yourself. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes: When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret （解读） the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it visual illusion（视觉错误）.

Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the things around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much bigger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park（《侏罗纪公园》） and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids（《亲爱的，我把孩子变小了》）just make use of illusions.

1. The center circle in picture A looks smaller than that in picture B That’s because ________.

A．something is wrong with our eyes

B．the two circles are not the same size

C．the two pictures change quickly from one to the other

D．our brains interpret the information in a wrong way

2. According to the passage, the right order should be ________.
a. We look at things with our eyes.
b. Our brains interpret the messages.
c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.
d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.

A．adbc

B．cabd

C．bead

D．cabd

3. In the last paragraph, the writer mentions the movies because ________.

A．he loves movies	B．readers love movies
C．he wants to make the text funny	D．he wants to give some examples

4. The passage may be taken from a ________.

A．history book

B．science book

C．movie magazine

D．a story book

【推荐3】How to talk to someone you don’t know? It depends on the situation (情况).

If one of your friends introduces you to a new friend, it would be OK to start talking about the person who introduces you. You may ask him/her how they knew each other. Show you’re interested in it even if you aren’t. Nod (点头) after he / she talks. This will give you more time to listen to what he/she says, and you think about next question from his/her talking.

Now if you go to a class on the first day where you do not know anyone, the first thing you should remember is not to be shy when talking to other people. You may remember when you were in the first or second grade, someone would just walk up to you and talk to you. Be open, but think before you talk.

When it comes to meeting people face to face for the first time, find a situation which both of you are in. Maybe you are sitting next to each other. Maybe the other person says something you don’t understand. Find a situation that seems proper (恰当的). Start by a simple conversation. It may seem strange at first. But the more you talk and take action with them, the more they will like you.

1. What does the underlined part “the person” refer to?

A．The weather.

B．One of your friends.

C．Yourself.

D．A new friend.

2. Why do you need more time according to the second paragraph?

A．To know clearly what they say.	B．To think about next question.
C．To find what they are interested in.	D．To find funny things.

3. What does the third paragraph want to tell us?

A．To remember to greet others.	B．To attract people to talk to us.
C．Not to be shy when talking to strangers.	D．To find a good talk to start.

4. Which is a good situation to meet people face to face for the first time?

A．Saying something you know.	B．Sitting face to face.
C．Sitting next to each other.	D．Saying something you both know well.