【推荐1】Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Working women with young children often face a dilemma(进退两难的困境) of whether to keep working or to quit to take care of their children. Though the fact that married women work outside the homes has become a social trend, many people still expect mothers to stay home until their children are two or three years old. In my opinion,it’s unfair to deprive(剥夺) mothers of their right to keep working only for the reason of childcare.

Women also need a sense of achievement just like men. Working women often find it difficult to give up the chance of self-fulfillment(自我实现) and go back home to play the traditional role. The times that women should stay at home passed and we should not neglect(忽视) mothers’ desire to seek further goals outside the home.

Besides, taking care of children is both parents’ responsibility(责任) rather than only mothers’. Children belong to the father and the mother. So it is unreasonable to ask mothers to give up their jobs for childcare because it is also fathers’ duty.

Practically speaking, working mothers can help improve family finances. Though there’ll be extra expense for childcare service, working mothers have a steady income to help the family. Therefore, mothers’ working outside is good for the family, especially to those low-income ones.

In a word, to expect mothers to put childcare before everything is not practical in today’s society. Only if fathers and mothers cooperate can the problem be solved.

Title:     1    mothers

2	Whether working women should keep working or     3    the jobs to look after children.
4    expectation	Mothers should stay home until children are two or three years old.

The author’s     5

A mother has right to     6    . Women need a sense of achievement just like men. Taking care of children is     7    . Mothers can help     8    the family

9	Parents’     10    is the solution to this problem.

【推荐2】Have you ever run into a careless cell phone user on the street? Perhaps they were busy talking, texting or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new “species” of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name — phubbers (低头族)．

Recently, a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight. In the short film, phubbers with various social identities bury themselves in their phones. A doctor plays with his cell phone while letting his patient die, a pretty woman takes selfie (自拍) in front of a car accident site, and a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone. A chain of similar events eventually leads to the destruction of the world.

Although the ending sounds overstated, the damage phubbing can bring is real. Your health is the first to bear the effect and result of it. “Constantly bending your head to check your cell phone could damage your neck,” Guangming Daily quoted doctors as saying, “the neck is like a rope that breaks after long­term stretching.” Also, staring at cell phones for long periods of time will damage your eyesight gradually, according to the report.

But that’s not all. Being a phubber could also damage your social skills and drive you away from your friends and family. At reunions with family or friends, many people tend to stick to their cell phones while others are chatting happily with each other and this creates a strange atmosphere, Beijing Evening News reported.

It can also cost you your life. There have been lots of reports on phubbers who fell to their death, suffered accidents，and were robbed of their cell phones in broad daylight.

1. For what purpose does the author give the example of a cartoon in Para.2?

A．To advertise the cartoon made by students.

B．To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing.

C．To indicate the world will finally be destroyed by phubbers.

D．To warn doctors against using cell phones while treating patients.

2. Which of the following is NOT a risk a phubber may have?

A．His social skills could be affected.

B．His neck and eyesight will be gradually harmed.

C．He might get separated from his friends and family.

D．He will cause the destruction of the world.

3. Which of the following may be the author’s attitude towards phubbing?

A．Supportive.

B．Optimistic.

C．Opposed.

D．Objective.

4. What may the passage talk about next?

A．Measures to reduce the risks of phubbing.

B．People addicted to phubbing.

C．Definition of phubbers.

D．Consequences of phubbing.

【推荐3】We think of hospitals as peaceful and safe places.     1    . A study that came out in 2017 showed that one in four doctors in China has suffered from physical violence, with some even losing their lives.

To prevent such things from happening, the government worked out a draft law. It says that the safety of medical staff is protected by law and that no one is allowed to hurt medical workers.

In most cases, the attackers were relatives of patients who were not satisfied with their treatment.     2    . But of course, not every illness can be cured.     3    . Giving doctors cash bribes (贿赂) to get good treatment has long been an unwritten rule. Some people believe that they were not well treated because they didn’t bribe their doctors. In some cases, their anger in this situation turns into violence. Another problem is a lack of doctors.     4    , seeing as many as 60 or more patients in just half a day. It’s difficult for them to provide enough care for each patient.

    5    . For example, many hospitals have set up offices to hear and handle patients’ complaints.

“When arguments happen, patients should ask for mediation (调解仲裁) or seek legal advice instead of turning to violence,” the State Council said.

A．Doctors need to take measures to protect themselves

B．Most people have high expectations for their doctors

C．Hospitals are trying to find ways to solve this problem

D．Doctors in large public hospitals often have to overwork

E．A general lack of trust in doctors has also made things worse

F．It’s difficult to solve the problems between doctors and patients

G．But doctors and nurses in Chinese public hospitals are often attacked

【推荐2】“Don't delete your browser(浏览器）history,”Lin Kai warns his 11-year-old son, who is supposed to be having lectures delivered by his schoolteachers.Mr Lin has reason to be anxious.

To contain the spread of Covid-19, the authorities have closed schools and universities.But＂study must not stop", says the education ministry.Under its orders, the country's biggest exercise in remote learning is under way, watched over by parents.Mr Lin, who lives in the eastern city of Hangzhou, has caught his son being distracted by online games.He wants his son to know that he will inspect the browser for evidence of such naughtiness.

There are other ways to enforce discipline.Liu Weihua, who teaches at Wuhan University of Technology,places more emphasis on how students perform in classroom discussions, which are conducted using video-conferencing platforms such as Dingtalk by Alibaba and Ketang by Tencent.

In poor rural areas, where some households lack internet access, instruction by television fills the gap.Since February 17th China Education Network, a state-run service,has been broadcasting classes every weekday from 8 a.m.to 10 p.m.The first lesson of the day is aimed at pupils in the first year of primary school.Programmes for older children air in the afternoon and evening.All core subjects,such as mathematics and Chinese,are covered.

The interruption is felt most keenly by pupils in the final year of secondary school.That is the year leading up to the gaokao, the university-entrance exam.Many parents feared that online learning is a poor substitute for classroom instruction.Hou Kaixuan, who will sit the gaokao in the northern city of Zhangjiakou this summer, eagerly waits for the re-opening of his school.“I'm simply more productive in a physical classroom,” he says.

When schools and universities eventually re-open, classrooms may be different, says Yue Qiu, a secondary-school teacher in Beijing.The teacher-student relationship will become “less hierarchical(等级分明的）”，he predicts.That is because China's extended experiment' with online learning is reducing the typical reserve(矜持）between instructor and pupil.Teachers who were previously reluctant to give out their contact details on WeChat, a messaging app, now rely on it to respond to students' questions.At Mr Yue's school, students may even call their teachers to ask for feedback.If he is right, such a breaking-down of barriers could be one of the few happy byproducts of Covid-19.

1. What does the underlined word “distract” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?.

A．frightened

B．attracted

C．admitted

D．impressed

2. In Hou Kaixuan's opinion, online classes can be described as

A．excellent

B．productive

C．informal

D．inefficient

3. What's the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．When schools reopen, teachers and students will probably feel awkward.

B．Teachers and students are willing to contact each other on WeChat.

C．The relationship between teachers and students may become better.

D．Students may ask their teachers for feedback in real classrooms.

【推荐1】Yosemite is a national park in California. It is very beautiful and big. The park includes more than 760,000 acres in the California Mountains. Most of the park is wilderness.

The part of Yosemite that everyone likes is Yosemite Valley. It is a tiny valley that is 7 miles long and less than 1 mile wide. It has tall rock walls and streams that splash down in waterfalls. More than two million visitors come to the valley each year.

One ranger (守护人) says the number of visitors is more than the land can handle. The valley has 4,500 camping spots. It has a hotel that can hold 4, 000 families. This is still not enough to handle all of the visitors. The valley has grown so big that it has a lot of traffic and crime.

A worker says the park is trying to keep the beauty of the park and let everyone visit. Some areas have been fenced off from people and planted with seeds to try to keep them beautiful.

A former worker thinks Yosemite should get more money to take better care of the park. He would also like to teach people what the park service is trying to do.

Some people are trying to save Yosemite Valley. A plan has been made to get rid of some buildings. There will be fewer cars allowed inside the park. More buses will help get people around.

1. According to the passage, which of the following should be rid of?

A．Some of the trees.	B．Some of the water.
C．Some of the families.	D．Some of the buildings.

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Yosemite is a national park located in the California desert.

B．Some people think the amount of visitors is more than the land can handle.

C．The valley has 4, 500 parking spots and some hotels.

D．Most of Yosemite park is full of traffic and crime.

3. There are parts of the park that are closed ________.

A．so some visitors can stay there alone	B．in order to supply an area for camping
C．so visitors can go fishing and barbecuing	D．and workers will plant seeds

4. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A．Yosemite is a beautiful national park	B．Yosemite is faced with a new problem
C．Yosemite is wilderness	D．Yosemite attracts a great many visitors each year

【推荐2】The words “England” and “English” are perhaps the two most misused words in the English language. The British themselves often say England and English when they really mean Britain and British.

What’s the difference, you may ask. To understand the question we have to know something about the history of the country and its people.

We all know that Britain is an island country separated from the European continent by the English Channel. Actually there are two main islands. The larger one is called Britain, or Great Britain, and the smaller one is called Ireland, and these two, together with many small islands make up what is called the British Isles.

The British Isles is a geographical term. It is not the name of any country. At present it is made up of two countries, the larger of which is the one we very often inaccurately call England. The full official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but people call it Britain or Great Britain for that. It consists of England, Scotland, Wales and a small part of Ireland－the northeastern part.

People still tend to call Britain England not only because England is the largest in area and the most populous but mostly because England is the strongest and also the most influential country in every respect before it absorbed the other three countries(The whole of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom at one time). Call it national chauvinism（沙文主义） if you like, but people in England call Britain England out of habit rather than conscious sense of superiority, though it annoys the Welsh and especially the Scots who are proud of their separate national tradition.

1. The British Isles is made up of_______.

A．one country	B．two countries
C．two and a half countries	D．three countries

2. The full official name of Britain is_______.

A．Great Britain

B．England

C．United Kingdom

D．the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

3. People call Britain England because of all of the following EXCEPT_______.

A．England is the largest in area and has the largest population.

B．people in England do so out of habit.

C．England is the nearest to the European continent.

D．England is the strongest and also the most influential in every respect.

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．The formation of the UK.

B．The chauvinism of the English.

C．The location of the British Isles.

D．The difference between “English” and “British”.

【推荐3】From the very beginning of school we make books and reading a constant (连续不断的) source of possible failure and public humiliation (羞辱). When children are little we make them read aloud, before the teacher and other children, so that we can be sure they “know” all the words they are reading. This means that when they don't know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone. After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try at all costs get over their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

One day soon after school had started, I said to them, “Now I'm going to say something about reading that you have probably never heard a teacher say before. I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them only for pleasure. I am not going to ask you questions to find out whether you understand the books or not. If you understand enough of a book to enjoy it and want to go on reading it, that’s enough for me. Also I’m not going to ask you what words mean.”

The children sat stunned (震惊的) and silent. Was this a teacher talking? One girl, who had just come to us from a school where she had had a very hard time, looked at me steadily for a long time after I had finished. Then, still looking at me, she said slowly and seriously, “Mr Holt, do you really mean that?” I said just as seriously, “I mean every word of it.”

During the spring she really astonished me. One day, she was reading at her desk. From a glimpse of the illustrations (插图) I thought I knew what the book was. I said to myself, “It can't be,” and went to take a closer look. Sure enough, she was reading Moby Dick, in edition with woodcuts. I said, “Don’t you find parts of it rather heavy going?” She answered, “Oh, sure, but I just skip over those parts and go on to the next good part.”

This is exactly what reading should be and in school so seldom is — an exciting, joyous adventure. Find something, dive into it, take the good parts, skip the bad parts, get what you can out of it, go on to something else. How different is our mean-spirited, picky insistence that every child get every last little scrap of “understanding” that can be dug out of a book.

1. According to the passage, children’s fear and dislike of books may result from          .

A．being made to read aloud before others	B．reading often and adventurously
C．being made to read too much	D．being made to read aloud before others

2. The teacher told his students to read          .

A．for higher scores in exams	B．for knowledge
C．for enjoyment	D．for a larger vocabulary

3. Upon hearing the teacher's talk，the children probably felt that         .

A．it sounded stupid	B．it was not surprising at all
C．it sounded too good to be true	D．it was no different from other teachers'talk

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

A．She skipped over those easy parts while reading.

B．She had a hard time finishing the required reading tasks.

C．She learned to appreciate some parts of the difficult books.

D．She turned out to be a top student after coming to this school.

【推荐1】An alternative provision academy in Bexley, South East London are seeking to appoint a Learning support Assistant to join their team permanently from September 2019.

Learning Support Assistant

Start-October 2019

Location-Bexley

Salary-Negotiable

Duration-Permanent

A growing number of children and young adults in the UK are being identified as having Special Educational Needs. These developments have led to an increase in the demand for qualified teachers and support staff. You would be working with some of the most vulnerable and complex young people in the community. It is important that you are enthusiastic and have a true passion for special needs as the children respond positively to familiarity and find it difficult to bond with people if there are regular changes in their class.

This alternative provision school caters for secondary aged students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health. The pupils have a range of learning needs but the school aim to instill the desire to learn and make progress and the belief that they can aim high and achieve their goals.

Benefits of working with Special Needs include:

Small class sizes, usually 5- 10 students

A warm and supporting working environment

Ongoing opportunities for CPD (Continued Professional Development)

SEN points added to your salary

Qualified mainstream teachers CAN teach in special needs schools

You will gain a good understanding of SEND and additional needs

Improve your classroom and behavior management

For further information, please do not hesitate on calling and speaking to some of our specialist SEND consultants about how Special Needs could be the new opportunity you' ve been searching for SEN/SUP.

1. As a Learning support Assistant, you are meant to help those with special needs to_______.

A．lead a normal life

B．develop communicating skills

C．fulfill their dreams

D．fit in with others

2. While working as a Learning Support Assistant, _______.

A．you can upgrade your teaching skills

B．you will teach a large number of students

C．you can get promotion to the management quickly.

D．you will face fierce competition from your colleagues

【推荐2】When we’re studying a new language, many of us approach it with fear and anxiety. However, we would benefit a lot by changing our focus, according to communication skills trainer Marianna Pascal.

Pascal has spent 20 years in Malaysia helping people speak better English. Over time, she has discovered a surprising truth: How well somebody communicates in a new language has very little to do with his language level — but a lot more to do with his attitude.

Pascal noticed that a lot of Malaysians went into English conversations with the feeling that they were going to be judged by how many mistakes they were going to make. And they had the idea of what good proper English is supposed to be and how far they would have to go to get there.

As a teacher,she’d noticed one specific student named Faisal. Despite not knowing much English,this guy could just sit and listen to anybody very calmly,clearly,and then he could express his thoughts beautifully.

Pascal realized when Faisal entered an English conversation, he didn’t feel judged. He entirely focused on the person that he was speaking to and the result he wanted to get. He got no thoughts about his own mistakes.

Pascal believes that speaking a language is not like those exams that many of us had to take in school,where a tiny spelling or grammar mistake would result in a big red X from the teacher. In the real world, small mistakes don’t matter — what matters is whether we’re able to make ourselves understood. She concludes, “If you want to speak English like Faisal with that great confidence, here’s the one thing that you can do when you speak: Don’t focus on yourself, focus on the other person and the result you want to achieve.”

1. Why was Faisal successful in English conversation according to Pascal?

A．His spoken English was quite excellent.

B．His attitude to speaking English was right.

C．He and his partner were good friends.

D．He made few grammatical mistakes.

2. What is the Pascal’s attitude to the mistakes English speakers make?

A．Tolerant.	B．Careful.
C．Grateful.	D．Worried.

3. What should you do if you want to communicate effectively in English?

A．Try to express yourself correctly.

B．Remember to use a new language.

C．Avoid any mistakes while speaking.

D．Concentrate on what the other people say.

【推荐3】Summer Program Guide for Teens Pre-College Immersive Program

Wellesley College is known for the thousands of accomplished women it has sent out into the world—women who are committed to making a difference. Especially designed for high school girls, the program is based on Wellesley’s campus. Students will take courses and become members of the Wellesley community.

When: July 7 - August 1

More Information: 781-283-2748 Young Scholars Program

Open to high school students who have an academic average of 3.2 or better, the program is a great introduction to the University of Maryland. Seminars featuring speakers in innovative（革新的） career or academic fields further enrich the learning experience. Students enjoy movie nights, activities at the students’ union and more.

When: July 8 - July 27

More Information: 301-405-7762 Zeal Adventure and Travel

We offer two-week and three-week long trips to Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, Costa Rica, and Spain. All trips include 15 to 25 hours of community service activities. Depending on your trip of choice, you’ll be volunteering with sea turtles, caring for dogs in Spain, and much more. Every   trip also includes exciting outdoor activities like surfing, ice climbing and hiking.

More Information: 844-282-9325 California College Tour

Students will visit top schools throughout the state on this fun-filled tour. The tour includes enjoying tourist attractions along the way, including Disneyland! Along the way, students take college tours, meet with admissions staff, and learn how to make the most out of future college visits.

More Information: 510-548-6612

1. What can you do if you attend the Young Scholars Program?

A．Take part in various outdoor activities.

B．Learn the history of Wellesley College.

C．Watch films together with other students.

D．Enjoy some tourist attractions along the way.

2. Which number can provide access to volunteering chances?

A．301-405-7762.

B．510-548-6612.

C．781-283-2748.

D．844-282-9325.

3. Which program may help students make a choice during the college application?

A．California College Tour.

B．Young Scholars Program.

C．Zeal Adventure and Travel.

D．Pre-College Immersive Program.