【推荐1】The scar ran down Ella's leg from the knee to the ankle. She brushed against its surface, remembering.

Jerry was only seven when he started surfing; by the age of eleven, he was positively incredible, moving over the face of big waves like there wasn't even a slightest bit of efforts involved in.

On that day in Bah, though, the ocean had seemed strange. The waves broke（拍岸）like water rolled in a washing machine, and there were breaks too, making it tough to tell whether it was better to try to catch one or to get out of its way. That was how he'd misjudged it.

Ella had seen her brother lost control and that his board was thrown out of the water high into the air, but she hadn't seen him on the surface. She'd waited for the space of a breath. Nothing. Something, clearly, was wrong.

She dashed into the water, swimming faster even than the competitors at school. Lungs burning. The heart beating rapidly.

She'd found him floating just beyond the reef, face up but knocked out completely. Just as she was paddling（拨水）hard, her leg was hurt by the reef, which caused a short, sharp instant of pain.

No matter. She had kept Jerry's head above water, swimming all the way back to shore. That day had been the worst, scariest moment in Jerry's surfing career, which had seen him rise from an ordinary kid who loved the ocean to a young star, winning competitions around the world.

For Ella, her life had changed as well. She had learned something about who she was and what she could achieve. She ran her fingers again over the scar, the representation of the person she had become.

1. What does the underlined part “positively incredible” in Para. 2 probably mean?

A．Terribly excited.	B．Extremely good.
C．Relatively young.	D．Hardly talented.

2. Why did Ella think something was definitely wrong?

A．She didn't see Jerry come out of water.

B．She had not seen Jerry lose control before.

C．She saw Jerry's board high into the air.

D．She noticed Jerry held his breath longer.

3. For Ella, the scar represents ________.

A．her skill at saving lives

B．her discovery of self value

C．her envy of her brother

D．her love for the swimming career

4. What can be inferred from the text?

A．Ella was as outstanding an athlete as Jerry.

B．Jerry learned how to surf all by himself.

C．Ella was grateful for this terrible experience.

D．Jerry had his leg injured in the surfing accident.

【推荐2】Nancy Meherne lives a simple life by the sea, gardening and riding the soft waves at Scarborough Beach just a couple of blocks from her house. The 92-year-old’s board made in the 1970s is a little old, but it's easy to carry and suits her just fine. Often wearing just a swimsuit, despite summer water temperatures ranging from 14℃ to 18℃, the grandmother of seven walks into the waist-deep water, waits for the perfect wave and jumps on.

Born in Wellington in 1929, Meherne says her life has been full, with “never a dull moment”. In her early 20s, after training and working as a schoolteacher, she left New Zealand by ship to study and work in England and other countries in Europe, spending her weekends and holidays exploring the regions.

Her travels also took her to India, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and Pakistan, where she taught at a school for three months. After returning to New Zealand, Meherne raised three children with her husband, Doug, while teaching in primary schools and tutoring at a music school. Her teaching philosophy was similar to her life philosophy: “You’ve got to have fun.”

She remembers seeing the ocean for the first time and being shocked at its scale. “I just thought water came in small quantities.” A keen swimmer and surf life saver in her youth, Meherne says she didn’t pick up surfing until her late 30s or early 40s when she was living in Summer and started borrowing her son’s board. “I never did try and stand up, but I loved it. I’d go wherever I could.”

Meherne will be 93 in August, 2022 and says she will keep surfing as long as she is able to “do a little jump” to get on the waves. Her husband Doug says: “She has definitely kept the bar pretty high there. She has aged but she hasn’t got old.”

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Meherne surfs near her home.

B．Meherne started surfing in the 1970s.

C．Meherne’s worn board is too old to be used.

D．Meherne can’t bear the water temperatures.

2. Which of the following words can best describe Meherne’s early life?

A．Busy and modest.	B．Aimless and relaxing.
C．Full and adventurous.	D．Hard and challenging

3. What does Doug mean by saying the words at the end of the passage?

A．Meherne keeps practicing to reach her limit.

B．Meherne has set a high standard for others.

C．Meherne is no longer fit for surfing due to age.

D．Meherne is still quite energetic despite old age.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．People’s comments on an unusual surfer.

B．A woman who has stuck to surfing for decades.

C．The travelling experience of a remarkable surfer.

D．The sport which attracts people of different ages—surfing.

【推荐3】Mr Smith was the manager of a hotel in Springfield. One weekend all of the hotels in the city were full because there was a large meeting. Late in the evening three men came into the hotel and asked for rooms. Mr Smith explained that because of the meeting, there were no rooms ready for use. The men were very unhappy because they had no place to stay in.

Mr Smith wanted to help them. He remembered that Room 414, a very small room, was empty. He asked them if they would share a room. The three men agreed. Mr Smith told them that the room would cost $30: $10 for each. Each of them gave Mr Smith $10, and they went up to the room.

Mr Smith soon began to feel sorry. “Thirty dollars is too much for that small room,” he thought. He called one of his men over and said, “Here is $ 5. Bring it to the man in Room 414. I’ve asked too much money for their room.”

The worker took the money from his manager. While he was on his way to Room 414, he started to think, “How can I divide $5? Well, I’ll give each of them only $1 and I keep $2. The men will be happy to get anything back. I’ll make a little money and Mr Smith will never know.” So he returned $1 to each man.

You see, there come a problem, each man had at first paid $10. After the worker returned them $1 each, each man had paid 9. There were three men, $9 x 3 =$27. The worker kept $2 —$27+$2=$29. Where is the missing dollar?

1. Which of the following is True?________.

A．The large meeting was held in this hotel.	B．The three men stayed together in one room.
C．Each of the three men got a small room.	D．Room 414 was the office for Mr Smith.

2. Where was the missing dollar?________.

A．There wasn’t any missing dollar at all.	B．It was taken by the worker too.
C．It was taken by the manager Mr Smith	D．It was taken by the three men themselves.

3. What is the best title of this text?________.

A．The Kind Manager	B．Three Men Came to the Hotel
C．A Strange Maths Problem	D．$27 + $2 = $29

【推荐1】We are admitted into the full-time school called “life”. Every day in this school, we have opportunities to learn new lessons. No matter whether we like these lessons or not, we have to take them, because they are our lessons.

Why are we here in this world? What is the purpose of life? Humans have tried to discover the meaning of life for thousands of years, but failed to get the answer, because the meaning of life is different from person to person.

Each one of us has his or her special purpose and path, unique and different. As we travel on our life path, we will learn many great lessons in order to fulfill that purpose. Learning our lessons well is the key to discovering the real meaning of our own life.

As we travel through our lifetime, we may be taught hard lessons that others don’t have to face, while others spend years struggling with problems we don’t need to deal with. We may never know why we love English, not physics, which indicates that our path is different. While traveling on our own path, sometimes alone, we should, first of all, take a basic lesson in openness.

Openness means being receptive. Life will present us with so many lessons, none of which are useful to us unless we can recognize them and are open to their values. These lessons are not easy to learn, but we should regard them as gifts. But how can we recognize these lessons? It is a matter of what “glasses” we are wearing at the time. It is not difficult to spot them if we take them as opportunities. So when we are not open to learning our lessons, failing a weekly English test might be like a disaster rather than an opportunity to us. Of course, the hard lessons may not be fun, but they can actually be the biggest gifts we receive from life.

1. The author may be in favor of the viewpoint that all men are born _______.

A．equal	B．challenging
C．opportunistic	D．different

2. The example of “we love English, not physics” is mentioned to show that _______.

A．we choose our own path in life

B．people have to face the same lessons

C．we should travel on the same path

D．we should enjoy the meaning of life

3. Whether we can see life lessons as gifts depends upon our________.

A．angles of view	B．experiences from life
C．common value system	D．willingness to face challenge

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

A．Life in School	B．Gifts from Life
C．Life School and Students	D．Life as School

5. What does the author imply at the end of the passage?

A．People always learn the same lessons.

B．Life is a lesson as one in the classroom.

C．Hard lessons are fun.

D．People should be open to the life.

【推荐2】From a young age, I would climb up and down for fun. My first introduction to gymnastics was through my older sister Arielle, who used to be a gymnast. She taught me how to do my first cartwheel(侧手翻). By the end of the week, I was teaching myself one-armed cartwheels and my sister said to my mom, “You need to put this kid in gymnastics.”

At about age 9, I realized that I wanted to pursue the Olympic path. I was used to the public eye, but the Olympic stage was different. The Olympics teach you to act in a certain way and to be disciplined(守纪律的). They teach you to be a mature young lady, and you grow up fast.

When I started this journey, I never knew what it actually took to get to the Olympics. I thought it was: Training. I had to quit a normal kind of life for gymnastics, but I didn’t mind. I moved from Virginia Beach to Iowa to get a different coach. I sacrificed my privacy. Gymnastics was what I was going to eat, breathe and sleep with. It takes a lot to be an Olympic athlete. You may have a talent, but the people who work harder than you will overtake you.

Throughout my career, a lot of people have doubted me. When someone tells you that you can’ do it, especially when there are many people, you start to believe it. It took me years to figure out how great I was at gymnastics. Fear held me back when I hurt my leg in 2011, but I told myself that I had a talent and that I was going to use it. I went to the world championships and got a team gold.

I won three gold medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and helped Team USA win gold at the 2011 and 2015 World Championships. My mom used to say, “Inspire a generation.” It’s one thing when you say it, but I never thought that I would be a pioneer and that people would draw inspiration from my story.

1. Why did the author’ sister suggest putting her in gymnastics?

A．Because she was talented in gymnastics.

B．Because she needed to decide her future career.

C．Because she was too noisy to stay at home.

D．Because she had fallen in love with gymnastics.

2. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 3?

A．She left school at an early age.

B．She devoted great efforts to training.

C．She thought talent was necessary.

D．She dreamed of being famous one day.

3. What did the author learn from others’ doubt?

A．Failures were unavoidable.

B．She had to improve her skills.

C．She should be confident in herself.

D．What others thought was not important.

4. What does the author mainly talk about in this passage?

A．Her childhood experiences.

B．Her road to success.

C．Her passion for the Olympics.

D．Her performance in gymnastics.

【推荐1】In one of my favorite photographs of my mother, she's about 18 and very tan, with long and blond hair. It's the 1970s and my dad is there, too, hugging her from behind.

I haven't seen this photo for years. I have no idea where it is now, but I still think of it — and, specifically, my mom is in it. She looks so young and innocent. At that time she hasn't yet dropped out of college, or got married. The young woman in this photo has no idea that life will bring her five children and five grandchildren, one divorce, two marriages, and a move across the country.

For me, as for many daughters, the time before my mother became a mother is a string of stories, told and retold: the time she sold her childhood Barbie doll to buy a ticket to Woodstock; the time she worked as a waitress at Howard Johnson's, struggling to pay her way through her first year at Rutgers. The old photos of her are even more appealing than the stories because they're a historical record, carrying the weight of fact, even if the truth there is slippery: the trick of an image, and so much left outside the frame.

It is always a comfort from those photos to know that time, aging and motherhood cannot take away a woman's essential identity. For daughters who closely resemble their moms, it must be an even bigger comfort; these mothers and daughters are twins, separated by a generation, and an oldphoto serves as a kind of mirror.

For daughters, these old photos of our mothers feel like both a chasm and a bridge. The woman in the picture is someone other than the woman we know. She is also exactly the person in the photo—still, right now. Finally, we see that the woman we've come to think of as Mom—whether she's nurturing, or disapproving, or thoughtful, or supportive, or sentimental—is also a mysterious, fun, brave babe.

She's been here all this time.

1. Why does the author still think of the photo of her mother appealing?

A．The photo reminds her of her mother.

B．Her mother looks young and happy in the photo.

C．She wonders why her mother dropped out of college.

D．The photo tells a lot about her mother in her youth.

2. What does the underlined word "chasm" in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Bond.

B．Memory.

C．Difference.

D．Relation.

3. Why do some photos of mothers bring comfort to their daughters?

A．The photos are kept well even after generations.

B．The photos record the life of the mothers faithfully.

C．The photos help daughters to learn more about their mothers.

D．The photos show the essential part of the mothers remain unchanged.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Pictures of Our Mothers.	B．Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them.
C．My Favorite Picture of My Mother.	D．The Way to Learn About Our Mothers.

【推荐2】Soon, no one will type. I know this because in science-fiction movies people communicate with devices (设备) by talking. Being a person who is aware of technological change and yet still somehow chooses to work for a news magazine, I felt it was my responsibility to test your future for you by collecting voice-controlled devices.

I went to my desk, turned on my Lynx SmartGrill and said, "SmartGrill, cook scallops (扇贝)." It asked me to put the scallops on the heated grill (烤架), told me when to turn them, and informed me when to remove them. I ordered the scallops by speaking to my Amazon Dash, a hand-held stick that made a list of groceries. Talking into my LG Watch Urbane made me seem so powerful. For instance, I can control the air conditioning in my house by giving an order to my wrist. But my favorite thing to talk to is Amazon Echo, a tower-shaped speaker, which could also provide information, play music, read the news, check the weather, and more instantly, it even provided jokes for my column.

At first, I was polite with all my devices, saying "please" and "thank you". Then I realized how stupid that was, like petting (抚摸) your robot cleaner. So I started to order them around which felt great. I yelled, "Alexa, off!" Then my son Laszlo started doing it too, and I realized that we sounded like mean (刻薄的) bosses.

Eventually, however, Laszlo started insisting I say "please" and "thank you" to my devices. It's not that he found it a lot of fun to tell his parents to say polite words. It's because in this way "they said more things back," and he could continue talking to them. Furthermore, I think Laszlo knows that how your act affects who you are, I'm far less worried that robots are going to be mean, and more worried that they're going to turn us into total jerks (混蛋). Because I believe saying something awful is far more poisonous than typing it.

1. What does the author probably do?

A．A typist

B．An inventor

C．An actor

D．A writer

2. If the author wants to buy something, he will talk to________.

A．Amazon Dash

B．Lynx SmartGrill

C．Amazon Echo

D．LG Watch Urbane

3. Why did Laszlo demand that his father say polite words to the devices?

A．Because he thought it was stupid to say mean words	B．Because he wanted to keep on talking to the devices
C．Because he thought it was fun to give parents orders.	D．Because he wanted to make friends with the devices.

4. What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．We have become too dependent on devices	B．Our lives have been greatly changed by devices
C．We should mind our manners while using devices.	D．Parents needn't worry about the effect of devices.

【推荐3】When it comes to the most famous 20^th century painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself , “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me”. No one could have had a more active old age．

She was born on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12 she left home and was in domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927．

Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery (刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff (僵硬的) to sew and she still wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought all that she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930’s and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures: careful and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it” she said．

1. What can we learn about Moses?

A．She stopped painting in her late seventies.

B．She still led an active life when she was old.

C．Her marriage life was not happy.

D．She painted oils as a child.

2. What did Grandma Moses spend most of her life doing?

A．Embroidering.	B．Farming.
C．Nursing.	D．Painting.

3. What does the underlined word “portrayals ” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Directions.	B．Stages.
C．Surveys.	D．Descriptions.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？

A．Grandma Moses: the Best Woman Painter

B．Grandma Moses and Her Farm Life

C．Grandma Moses and Her Exhibition

D．Grandma Moses : A Famous Woman Painter of 20th Century

【推荐1】Thinking of getting your child to take up a sport that involves a coach or instructor? There is a piece of good news. A new study finds that children who join in organized physical activities at a young age are less likely to have emotional difficulties by the time they turn 12.

“The primary school years are a critical time in child development,” said Frédéric N. Brière, a professor of psycho-education who led the study. And every parent wants to raise a well-adjusted (适应性强的) child. Besides keeping children from sitting for long, physical activities, such as structured sports, have the potential physical and mental benefits, Brière believes, something parents seem to know instinctively (直觉地).

“We followed a large representative population of typically developing Canadian children over time to examine whether consistent participation in organized sports from ages 6 to 10 would lessen risks associated with emotional distress, anxiety, shyness, social withdrawal (不合群) at age 12, said Brière. “Our goal was to test this question as critically as possible by excluding pre-existing child or family conditions that could offer a different explanation.” To do this. Brière and his team examined data from children born in 1997 or 1998. From ages 6 to 10, mothers reported whether their child participated in organized physical activities. At age 12, teachers reported on the child's levels of emotional distress, anxiety, shyness, and social withdrawal at school.

“The results revealed that children who participated in sports consistently from ages 6 to 10 showed fewer cases of those factors at age 12 than their peers who did not engage in physical activities in a consistent way,” said Brière. “We found these benefits above and beyond pre-existing individual and family characteristics.”

Brière concluded, “Getting kids actively involved in organized sports seems to promote global development. This involvement appears to be good on a socio-emotional level apart from the physical benefits it brings. Being less emotionally troubled between primary and high school is a priceless benefit for children,as they are about to enter a much larger universe with bigger academic challenges.

1. What does Brière's study show about doing sports?

A．It helps children improve study efficiency.

B．It improves children's personality development.

C．It strengthens children’s relationship with their parents

D．It helps prevent children from having emotional problems.

2. What can we know about the study process?

A．It investigates children from similar backgrounds.

B．It takes children's personal habits into consideration.

C．It focuses on how children fit in with the environment.

D．It requires cooperation from children's parents and teachers.

3. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Children’s personal and family characteristics.

B．Children’s performances in the study.

C．Children’s emotional problems.

D．Children’s daily activities.

4. Why is emotional health important to children in the years between primary and high school?

A．They are too busy to participate in sports.

B．They go through a quick development.

C．They will soon face great academic stress.

D．They are more likely to have mental problems.

【推荐2】“What kind of rubbish are you?” This question might normally cause anger, but in Shanghai it has brought about complaints(抱怨) over the past month. On July 1^st, 2019, the city introduced strict trash-sorting rules that are expected to be used as a model for the country. Residents must divide their waste into four separate groups and throw it into specific public bins.

Shanghai is faced with an obvious environmental problem. It produces 9 million tons of rubbish a year, and the number is rising quickly. Like other cities in China, it is in short of a recycling system. Instead, it has relied on trash pickers to pick out whatever can be reused. This has limitations. As people get wealthier, fewer of them want to do such dirty work. The waste, meanwhile, just keeps piling up.

Many people appear to be bothered by the details. Rubbish must be divided according to whether it is food, recyclable, dry or hazardous(有害的), the differences among which can be complex and confusing. Some have complained that they must put food waste straight in the required public bin, forcing them to tear open plastic bags and throw it by hand. Most annoying are the short scheduled time for throwing trash, typically a couple of hours, morning and evening. This means that people go at around the same time and anyone can keep an eye on what is being thrown out; no one wants to look bad.

People who fail to obey the rules will be punished. They could be hit with fines of up to 200 yuan ($29). For repeat violators, the city can add black marks to their credit records, making it harder for them to get bank loans or even buy train tickets.

However, others support the idea of recycling in general and say a tough campaign is necessary. “Slowly people will get used to it,” says Li Changjun of Fudan University.

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To amuse the readers with a question.

B．To present a social problem in Shanghai.

C．To offer a way to deal with the complaints.

D．To introduce a hot topic about trash dividing.

2. The underlined word “limitations” in paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A．benefits	B．strengths
C．possibilities	D．weaknesses

3. What upsets people most about the trash-sorting rules?

A．Being forced to keep plastic bags open.

B．Being required to tell different kinds of rubbish apart.

C．Being asked to throw trash at the short scheduled time.

D．Being seriously punished when blamed for improper behavior.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．People will finally reduce the food waste.

B．The idea of recycling will be gradually supported in the future.

C．It is common to have some difficult problems in our daily life.

D．The government will take measures to push people to obey the rules.

【推荐3】Most of Earth's freshwater sits underground. Worldwide, about 70 percent of the groundwater drawn to the surface goes for farming. But surface waters-rivers and streams come from groundwater, too. Drawing too much groundwater over a short time can be harmful. Natural waterways can begin to empty. And that car hurt freshwater ecosystems. Scientists consider this a tipping point when small actions can begin making unusually big differences.

A new study has found that 15 to 21 percent of tapped water(自来水)areas have reached this sort of tipping point. Most of those tapped rivers and streams are in dry areas. Farmers in rates these areas use groundwater to water their crops. At present drawing rates, the study predicts that 42 to 79 percent of water areas around the world where groundwater is drawn up for use at the surface will reach tipping points by 2050.

A healthy groundwater aquifer(含水层)protects ecosystems against seasonal ups and downs in the use of water. That provides stability for area plants and animals. But if too much groundwater is drawn up from below, surface waters will begin to flow into the aquifer, which can harm what are living in rivers and streams.

De Graaf and the study team set up a computer model. It linked groundwater drawing and water flows within rivers. The model covered fifty years, from 1950 to 2010. Then the researchers used climate forecasts to help the model predict what might happen in future years. Throughout, they kept groundwater drawing rates sustainable. More than half of drawn water areas are likely to cross this ecological tipping point before 2050, the model finds.

"We need to be thinking about this now, not in 10 years," De Graaf says. "Our study shows us where to target more sustainable efforts."

1. What does the "tipping point" in paragraph 1 mean?

A．End point.	B．Breaking point.
C．Freezing point.	D．Boiling point.

2. Which of the following causes the "tipping point"?

A．Water pollution.	B．Climate change.
C．Increasing population.	D．Overusing groundwater.

3. What is the part the groundwater plays in the environment?.

A．Clearing surface waters to be drinkable.

B．Protecting ecosystems from pollution.

C．Keeping the stability of natural water.

D．Providing stability for the local economy.

4. How did the researchers conduct the study?

A．They predicted the result based on old data.

B．They happened to work out the result.

C．They measured all the groundwater and surface water.

D．They did questionnaire surveys on the water information.