【推荐1】The BBC was founded in 1922, including radio and television services. It is based at Broadcasting House in London.
The BBC is controlled by some governors chosen by the government, but these people have freedom and the government can’t interfere（干扰）. That is, the BBC is supposed not to be the mouthpiece（代言人） of the government. It has to be as fair as possible in giving radio and television time to, for example, political parties and religious groups.
There is a kind of interesting service in British-rental services. Many people prefer to rent their television sets instead of buying them.
The rent for a black and white set is about 80 pence a week. The rent of a color set is more than twice that of a black and white set. If the sets go wrong, people can have them repaired free of charge or replaced immediately.
Everyone has to buy a yearly license, since there is no advertising on BBC radio or television. It is from the sale of licenses that the BBC gets most of its money. A license for a black and white set costs 8 pounds, and for a colour set 18 pounds a year.
There are four specialized radio channels, which broadcast different kinds of programmes. Radio I is mainly pop music．Radio 2 deals with light music, sports and other programmes. Radio 3 broadcasts serious music, talks on serious subjects etc．News broadcasts are mainly given by Radio 4.
There are special programmes for Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and certain parts of England．It also broadcasts programmes about Britain—in many different languages as well as in English to all parts of the world.
1. The officials in charge of the BBC ________.

A．must say what the government wants to say

B．should give more time to political parties than to religious groups

C．are elected by the citizens from all over the country

D．can decide things without the permission of the government

2. If he wants to watch TV at home, everyone ________.

A．has to buy a television set of his own

B．must rent a TV set

C．has to buy a license once a year

D．can change his damaged TV set for a new one without payment

3. How does BBC get most of its money?

A．It gets money from all kinds of advertisements.

B．The BBC depends on the rent of TV sets.

C．The BBC gets money mainly by selling licenses and TV sets.

D．It gets its money mainly by selling licenses.

【推荐3】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A Bite of China Season Two(《舌尖上的中国 》第二季) is coming! The program is shown at 9:00 on CCTV-1 every Friday night from April 18 to June 6, 2014. There are altogether eight episodes (集), all about history andculture of food, eating and cooking in China. The directors spent one year visiting more than 150 different parts of China. More than 300 types of food are covered in the documentary.
As an old Chinese saying goes, food is what matters most to people. It plays an important role in our daily life, and the rich food culture is also one of the most important parts of Chinese culture. A Bite of China Season Two wants to show the joys and sadness of ordinary (普通的) Chinese in changing times through food.
A Bite of China Season One was shown on CCTV in 2012. It attracted more than 100 million viewers. It is all about food, while the second season cares more about the relationship between the people and the food. For example, the first episode shows a young man spent four hours climbing a 40-metre-high tree to get something nice for his brother.
The show reminds viewers of their homes and the tastes of childhood. One Weibo user wrote, "A Bite o f China Season Two makes me have so many words to say. It makes me think of my parents and my grandmother. I haven't been home for a long time, so I have decided to go back in a few days." The show uses food as a window to introduce China to the world. Viewers can see how Chinese people love life by loving food. Anyone who wants to know more about Chinese culture and Chinese society (社会) should have a bite of the program.
1. How many types of food are covered in this program?

A．150.	B．More than 150.
C．More than 300.	D．300.

2. The type of the TV program A Bite of China is ________.

A．a cartoon	B．a drama series
C．a chat show	D．a documentary

3. What's the Chinese meaning of the underlined sentence?

A．食物对于人类来说最麻烦。	B．民以食为天。
C．人类给食物制造了麻烦。	D．食物很重要。

4. The third paragraph mainly talks about ________.

A．the difference between Season One and Season Two

B．the rich types of food of China

C．the relationship between the people and the food

D．the details of the first episode

【推荐1】“I want to mention an example,” Guo said. “How should a director choose a film project among 100 film scripts? A good story is an important criterion, under which 95 film scripts may be less than adequate. Eventually we have five good stories to enter our final considerations. In this case, an additional criterion should be considered if the story gives strong messages about our Chinese culture. If so, we may undertake it. But if not, why should we bother to make a film that filmmakers from other nations can also produce?”

Smash hit The Wandering Earth is based on works by Liu Cixin, who has tried to create an obviously Chinese style of science fiction. Also, critics owe the film’s domestic success to its unique cultural context because it tells a story Chinese people are quite familiar with. For instance, the Chinese people in the film wanted to help make the Earth move as it was coming to a stop. Some critics have pointed out that this plot point is linked with Chinese farming culture.

Regarded as a science fiction director, Guo continued to say that a style of Chinese sci-fi film hasn’t been set up yet. He believes that China is not ready to make ‘soft’ sci-fi films, which put more focus on characters, culture and sociology.

“There’s a logical order in it. We may find there are both lots of soft and hard science fiction films in Hollywood. But the hard sci-fi movie, a category characterized by focusing on scientific accuracy and logic, came first to serve as a foundation,” Guo said. “Hollywood filmmakers spent decades making hard sci-fi movies, which paved the way for the growth of soft sci-fi films afterwards. China is still young in making sci-fi films.”

There’s a whole new world in sci-fi film. Moviegoers will first have to believe in such a world before getting interested in it. “So, gaining their trust is important, otherwise they wouldn’t be interested in the characters as well as their emotions in the films,’’ Guo Fan said.

1. What attracts a film director’s attention?

A．A. good actor.	B．A. good story.
C．An important criterion.	D．An adequate film.

2. What’s The Wandering Earth based on?

A．A true story.	B．An author’s works.
C．A Chinese style.	D．A. successful man.

3. Why is The Wandering Earth a success?

A．It tells a story about Chinese culture.	B．It made many actors famous.
C．It aroused a widespread discussion.	D．It makes the earth move again.

4. What can we know from the passage?

A．Hard sci-fi films mainly focus on characters.	B．The Wandering Earth was made in Hollywood.
C．China has a long way to go in Sci-fi films.	D．The soft sci-fi films mainly center on logic.

【推荐1】I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs.When a newspaper reporter asked him why he was able to be so much more creative than the average person, he responded that it all came from an experience with his mother when he was about two years old.

At that time he was trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he accidentally dropped the bottle, splling its contents all over the kitchen floor—a real sea of milk!

When his mother came in, instead of yelling at him, giving him a lecture or punishing him, she said, ''Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made!I have rarely seen such a huge puddle of milk.Well, would you like to play in the milk for a few minutes? ''

Indeed, he did.After a few minutes, his mother said, ''Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order.We could use a sponge(海绵) , a towel or a mop. Which do you prefer? '' He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk.

His mother then said, ''You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry big milk bottle with two tiny hands.Let's go to the backyard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it. '' The little boy leaned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What a wonderful lesson!

This famous scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn't need to be afraid to make mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were opportunities for learning something new, which is what scientific experiments are all about.

Wouldn't it be great if all parents would respond the way Robert'smother responded to him?

1. What happened when the boy dropped the milk bottle?

A．He got injured and burst into tears.

B．He cried over the broken milk bottle.

C．His mother scolded him for making a mess.

D．His mother encouraged him to play with the milk.

2. What was his mother's purpose by inviting him to do the clean-up together?

A．To inspire his creativity.

B．To promote his responsibility.

C．To develop his cooking skill.

D．To improve his experiment ability.

3. Why did the mother take the boy to the backyard?

A．To fetch water for cleaning

B．Top our milk into the bottle.

C．To help him wipe off his memory of failure.

D．To explore how to carry bottles successfully.

4. What is critical to the scientist's creativity?

A．His childhood toys.

B．His mother's strictness.

C．Lessons from making mistakes.

D．Failure in scientific experiments.

【推荐2】No one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo. But a new study suggests they used a little rock ‘n’ roll. Long- ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand, the scientists say.

"Technically, I think what they’re proposing is possible," physicist Daniel Bonn said.

People have long puzzled over how the Egyptians moved such huge rocks. And there’s no obvious answer. On average, each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck. The Egyptians somehow moved the stone blocks to the pyramid site from about one kilometer away.

The most popular view is that Egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths. Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds (滑板). Then they would have dragged them along paths. To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet day or with the fat from cattle. Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.

Evidence from the sand supports this idea. Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

However, physicist Joseph West thinks there might have been a simpler way, who led the new study. West said, "I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped with pyramid construction. I thought, ‘Why don’t they just try rolling the things?’" A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized. That, he notes, should make a block of stone "a lot easier to roll than a square".

So he tried it.

He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block. That action turned the block into somewhat a wheel. Then they placed the block on the ground.

They wrapped one end of a rope around the block and pulled. The researchers found they could easily roll the block along different kinds of paths. They calculated that rolling the block required about as much force as moving it along a slippery (滑的) path.

West hasn’t tested his idea on larger blocks, but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding. At least, workers wouldn’t have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

1. It’s widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by       .

A．rolling them on roads	B．pushing them over the sand
C．sliding them on smooth paths	D．dragging them on some poles

2. The underlined part "lubricated the paths" in Paragraph 4 means       .

A．made the paths wet	B．made the paths hard
C．made the paths wide	D．made the paths slippery

3. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 7 refer to?

A．Rolling the blocks with poles attached.

B．Rolling the blocks on wooden wheels.

C．Rolling poles to move the blocks.

D．Rolling the blocks with fat.

4. Why is rolling better than sliding according to West?

A．Because more force is needed for sliding.

B．Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle.

C．Because sliding on smooth roads is more dangerous.

D．Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

【推荐3】Forests in countries like Brazil and the Congo get a lot of attention from environmentalists, and it is easy to see why South America and sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing a loss of forest on a large scale: every year almost 5 million hectares （公顷） are lost. But forests are also changing in rich Western countries. They are growing larger, both in the sense that they occupy more and that the trees in them and bigger. What is going on?

Forests are spreading in almost all Western countries, with fastest growth in places that historically had rather few trees. In 1990 28% of Spain was forests; now the proportion is 37%. In both Greece and Italy, the growth was from 26% to 32% over the same period. Forests are gradually taking more and in America and Australia. Perhaps most astonishing is the trend in Ireland. Roughly 1% of that country was forested when it became independent in 1922. Forests cover 11% of the land, and the government wants to push the proportion to 18% by the 2040s.

Two things are fertilizing this growth. The first is the abandonment of farmland,especially in high, dry places where nothing grows terribly well. When farmers give up trying to earn a living from farming or herding trees simply move in. The second is government policy and subsidy（补贴）. Throughout history,governments have protected and promoted forests for diverse reasons, ranging from the need for wooden warships to a desire to promote suburban house-building. Nowadays forests are increasingly welcome because they suck in carbon pollution from the air. The justification change; desire for more trees remains constant.

The greening of the West does not delight everyone. Farmers complain that land is being taken out of use by generously subsidized tree plantations. Parts of Spain and Portugal suffer from terrible forest fires. Others simply dislike the appearance of forests planted in neat rows. They will have to get used to the trees, however. The growth of Western forests seems almost as unstoppable as deforestation elsewhere.

1. What is catching environmentalist's attention nowadays?

A．Rich countries are robbing poor ones of their resources.

B．Forests are fast shrinking in many developing countries.

C．Forests are eating away the fertile farmland worldwide.

D．Rich countries are doing little to address deforestation.

2. Which countries have the fastest forest growth?

A．Those that have newly achieved independence.

B．Those that have the greatest demand for timber.

C．Those that used to have the lowest forest coverage.

D．Those that provide enormous government subsidies.

3. What account for our increasing desire for forests?

A．Their unique scenic beauty.

B．Their use as fruit plantation.

C．Their capability of improving air quality.

D．Their stable supply of building materials.

4. What does the author conclude about the future of forestation?

A．Deserts in sub-Saharan Africa will decrease gradually.

B．It will play a more and more important role in people's lives.

C．Forests destruction in the developing world will quickly slow down.

D．Developed and developing countries are moving in opposite direction.

【推荐1】There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee(担任考试委员会主席), the students would be in fear, because he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the exam room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.

The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned to（结果是）be OK.

Then the professor asked about the cure (药剂) for illness, and the student, too, answered just as right.

“Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?”

“A full spoon”, answered the student.

“Now you may go out and wait for what you can get.”, said the professor. At the same time, the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. “ A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr Professor, I’ve make a mistake! A full spoon is too much for a patient. He can take only five drops.”

“I’m sorry, sir.” Said the professor coldly, “But it’s too late. Your patient has died.”

1. The students were afraid of the professor because _________.

A．they often angered and disappointed him

B．their answers often astonished him

C．their answers seldom satisfied him

D．he often misunderstood (误解) them and give them bad markers

2. The student’s description of the illness was _____.

A．not correct

B．not satisfied

C．completely discouraging

D．accepted.

3. Before he left the room the student was almost sure that ______.

A．he had passed the exam, and the only thing was to wait for the mark

B．his last answer was satisfying

C．he had made a mistake

D．he had not done well in the exam.

4. Which of the following is Not true?

A．The patient will be in danger if he’s taken as much as a full spoon.

B．The doctor will be in trouble if he’s given the patient a full spoon.

C．Since one spoon is less than five drops, the patient will be all right soon if he takes only one full spoon at a time.

D．If the patient wants to remain safe, he should take no more than five drops at a time.

5. Which guess is the most reasonable from the passage?

A．The student must have passed the exam.

B．The students may not have passed the exam.

C．The student must have been very happy when he heard, “Your patient has died.”

D．The professor must have been very pleased and given the student a good mark.

【推荐3】A simple piece of clotheslines hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who see clothes dryers as a waste of energy and a major polluter of the environment. As a result, they are turning to clotheslines as part of the "what-I-can- do environmentalism”

But on the other side are people who are against drying clothes outside, arguing that clotheslines are unpleasant to look at. They have persuaded Homeowners Associations(HOAs) across the US to stop outdoor clotheslines, because clothesline drying also tends to lower home value in the neighborhood. This has led to a Right-to-Dry Movement that is calling for laws be passed to protect the choice to use clotheslines. So far, only three states have laws to protect clotheslines.

Matt Reck, 37, is the kind of eco-friendly person who feeds his trees with bathwater and reuses water drops from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But several days ago, the HOA in North Carolina told him that a dissatisfied neighbor had telephoned them about his clothesline. The Recks paid no attention to the warning and still dried their clothes on a line in the yard "Many people say they are environmentally friendly but they don't take matters in their own hands," says Reck. The local HOA has decided not to take any action, unless more neighbors complain.

North Carolina lawmakers say that stopping clotheslines is not the right thing to do. But HOAs and housing businesses believe that clothesline drying reminds people of poor neighborhoods. They worry that if buyers think their future neighbors can" even afford dryers, housing prices will fall.

Environmentalists say such worries are not necessary, and in view of global warming, that idea needs to change. As they say, "The clothesline is beautiful Hanging clothes outside should be encouraged. We all have to do at least something to slow down the process of global warming.

1. Supporters of clothes dryers are trying to stop clothesline drying because         .

A．clothes dryers can save money	B．clothes dryers are energy-saving
C．clothesline drying reduces home value	D．clothesline drying is not allowed in US

2. Which of the following best describes Matt Reck?

A．He is a warm-hearted man.	B．He is an impolite neighbor.
C．He is an inexperienced gardener.	D．He is a man of social responsibility.

3. Who are most likely to support clothesline drying?

A．Housing businesses.	B．Environmentalists.
C．Homeowners Associations.	D．Reck's dissatisfied neighbors.

4. What could be the best title for the passage?

A．Opposing Opinions on Clothesline Drying	B．A Way to Save Energy and Money
C．Different Varieties of Clotheslines	D．A Lost Art to Be Discovered.