【推荐3】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Kids with special needs refer to any kid who might need extra help because of a medical, emotional(情感的), or learning problem. For example, kids who can not walk need wheelchairs. They not only need equipment that helps them get around, but they might need to have ramps(坡道) or elevators available.    1    Kids with an illness would have special needs, too.    2    . Kids with sight problems might need Braille books to read. Kids with hearing problems might need hearing aids.    3    . It might be harder to do normal things—like learning to read or just getting around the school. The good news is that parents, doctors, nurses, teachers, and others can help. The goal is to help kids be as independent as possible.Other kids also can be a big help. How? By being a friend. Kids who use a wheelchair or have lots of health problems want friends just as you do. But meeting people and making friends can be difficult.    4    . Be sure to tell a teacher if you see someone being bullied (欺辱）or teased.Also, try to be helpful if you know someone with special needs.    5    As you get to know them, they may help you understand what it's like to be in their shoes. And you'll be helping fill a very special need, one that everybody has—the need for good friends.

A．Some kids might laugh at or make fun of them.

B．They also might need to get a special bus to school.

C．Life can be challenging for a kid with special needs.

D．It is good manners to offer help to kids with special needs.

E．Being friendly to kids with special needs is one of the best ways to be helpful.

F．They might need medicine or other help as they go about their daily activities.

G．Someone could have trouble with anxiety, but you wouldn't know it unless told about it.

【推荐1】America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real , yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending(延伸)sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, and share their holidays and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality(好客)easily.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday life, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides for our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at home, but truly can not manage a great deal of time to do with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered friendlier to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

1. The writer of this passage must be________.

A．an American

B．a Chinese

C．a professor

D．a student

2. What does the underlined phrase “ generous with our time ” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ?

A．Willing to spend time.	B．Serious about time.
C．Careful with time.	D．Strict with time.

3. When we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will be________.

A．warmly welcomed at the airport	B．offered a ride to his home
C．treated kindly at his home	D．treated to dinner in a restaurant

4. What is the best title for this passage ?

A．Friendships between Chinese

B．Friendships between Americans

C．Americans’ hospitality

D．Americans’ and Chinese people’s different views on friendship

【推荐2】They call it the “rule of 150”. An anthropologist(人类学家)called Robin Dunbar made a study of 21 different primitive societies. He found that they all lived in villages of around 150 people. Then he asked people living in modern cities to make a list of all the people they knew well enough to talk to. Each of them made a list of around 150 people. Many of us have left village life behind. But the idea of the village has not left us.

Other studies of businesses and army units have shown that when people are forced into groups of over 150 they become inefficient. There are just too many people around to communicate with effectively. It also seems that when our personal “villages” become too small, people feel lonely. We need other people to help us.

Many people see life as a kind of journey. As they travel they pick up things they need. These are friends, a family and jobs. This is a narrow way of looking at things. It does not explain why people who get good jobs and become rich are often unhappy.

Using the “rule of 150”, we can see things differently. Instead of being a lonely traveler, you are the head of your own village. You are responsible for every part of village life. Getting a good job helps with the “economic development of your village. But you also need to pay attention to the social harmony of your village.

Many people think that happiness is about winning a race. The winner gets a great job, a perfect family and a lot of money. The loser should expect to be unhappy. The “rule of 150” teaches us that happiness comes with getting the right balance of relationship in our lives.

In a competitive society it is easy to judge people according to the kind of job they have or how much money they make. In fact, we are all the boss of our own villages. This is a difficult job. It is worthy of your respect.

1. What does the figure “150” relate to?

A．The size of a group.	B．The number of groups.
C．The amount of work.	D．The number of primitive societies.

2. What is the author’s opinion about “seeing life as a kind of journey”?

A．It only refers to rich people.	B．It doesn’t include village life.
C．It can’t cover all possibilities in life.	D．It may bring about unhappiness.

3. What do you do as the head of your own village?

A．Take a long journey with the other villagers.

B．Compete against others to achieve happiness.

C．Use the “rule of 150” to improve the village life.

D．Deal properly with the people and things around you.

4. What is the “rule of 150” discussed in the text mainly about?

A．The journey of life.	B．Relationship in one’s life.
C．The way to look at things.	D．The competitive society.

【推荐3】Members of Generation Z, born after 1996, will have to focus on human connections if they want to compete with robots for the jobs of the future. Therefore, it is important for Gen Z to have “soft” skills.     1     To be successful, Gen Z members need to acquire the following “soft” skills.

Be a good communicator

Some employers fear that Gen Z cannot do better than the robots they are competing with.     2     Good communication skills. Gen Z should pay attention to the importance of relationship building, listening and communication.

    3    

Although most of Gen Z are still in school, they already need to think about how to continually adapt to(适应) a fast-changing world. To get success, they must improve their skills and learn to meet the requirements of the work.

Find work that gives you a sense of purpose

    4     They said they were considering changing their jobs because of it. In fact, workers are at their best when doing something meaningful to them.

“Soft” skills are increasingly important to getting a dream job. Make the most of  them, otherwise Gen Z may appear less attractive to employers. What’s more, to have an advantage over robots, Gen Z are supposed to acquire as many “soft” skills as they can.     5    

A．What will make Gen Z workers stand out?

B．Be a continuous learner

C．They help workers to compete with machines that are skilled.

D．Be a good listener

E．Only in this way can Gen Z win the opportunity for better future jobs and achieve success.

F．Why should Gen Z workers be effective?

G．Nearly half of the Gen Z said they had experienced job burnout(倦怠) in the past year.

【推荐1】In 1963, at age 65, my grandfather, Erwin, decided to build a new house. He wasn’t quite sure what to do with the old house since it sat where the new house would be. He finally hired a powerful vehicle to push it far out into a small group of trees. That old house sits there to this very day.

Erwin and his wife, Elida, passed away, and I purchased the farm from their estate. My wife and I raised our sons on this place and have lived here for more than 30 years. When we first moved in, my wife took one look at the deserted house and declared it a hidden danger. I agreed and planned on a large bonfire. But I thought it appropriate to check out the house first, just in case something of worth had been left behind.

I walked through the tall grass in the meadow where the old house sat. Time had worn it out. The entrance floor had fallen down on itself and most of the windows were gone. We entered through an open window. ① Here lay the reminders of my grandparents’ lives: a broken chair, some old clothes ... But the thing that drew my eye was a cardboard box stuffed with papers. I dug through its contents and was instantly transported back in time. There was a tax return from 1957. Greeting cards from old friends and relatives, now all dead and gone. An uncle’s third-grade spelling book. So sweet were the memories that the old house was spared the torch.

As we hurried through our lives, my visits grew infrequent. I might catch a glimpse of the house through the trees and remembered how, as a child, I would struggle to walk in my father’s footprints. Even then, I could imagine no nobler calling than farming, just like Dad. Then, one April morning, my father was felled by a massive heart attack, at age 68. The entire family was shocked by his passing, none more than me. Why I visited that old house on a day shortly after my father’s funeral is still beyond me. It was as though it were calling; even the trees seemed to whisper an invitation to come, to visit, to stay awhile.

② As I stood once again on that ancient floor, my eye was drawn to a pile of papers on the floor. An envelope, yellowed with age, lay on top. A blue stamp on the envelope read “Passed by Naval Censor”. How could I have missed this treasure? My father had served aboard the USS Washington during World War II and had written home whenever he could. My grandmother saved all of his letters.

I removed one letter carefully from its envelope. ③ It was dated September 1944. My father would have been somewhere in the South Pacific at that time and all of 18 years old. I studied the familiar handwriting. Dad wondered how the com harvest had been. He supposed that his youngest brother was starting first grade and imagined that he was becoming quite the little man. He asked his mother to greet everyone and said that he missed them all.

It wasn’t hard to read between the lines. Here was a homesick young man, a kid really, who had spent his entire life living upon a sea of flat land grass. Now he was on a different kind of sea, an ocean that was being disturbed by the thunder and the lightning of a world at war. At the bottom of the page, my father had passed on one last message. ④ Tears burned my eyes as I read those words he had so carefully emphasized: “All is well here. Please don’t worry. I am doing fine.”

As I left the old house that day, I took one last glance back at it over my shoulder. I don’t care what any one thinks, I decided. That old house gets to stay there until it rots into the earth.

1. Why did the writer visit the long forgotten house?

A．He had to ensure his family's safety.

B．There were some antiques inside.

C．He wanted to sort valuable stuff.

D．His wife asked him to check it out.

2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 implies that ________.

A．the shabby house proved of great use

B．the house held his childhood memories

C．the writer could not erase grandpa’s past

D．the writer finally gave up the initial plan

3. Where does the following sentence fit in best?
“I felt as though I had stepped into a time capsule.”

A．①

B．②

C．③

D．④

4. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A．Father’s death caused a disaster to the writer’s family.

B．Father had a strong influence on the writer’s childhood.

C．The writer wanted to find Father's letters in the old house.

D．The house was totally forgotten by the writer's family.

5. During his serving in the US Navy, the writer’s father could be described as ________.

A．ambitious and energetic	B．proud and patient
C．considerate and homesick	D．confident and helpful

6. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．Saving Grandpa’s Home	B．Treasuring Old Stuff
C．Grandpa, Father and I	D．Letters From Father

【推荐2】On September 11, 2001, I was in the second week of the new school year with my senior English class at T. C. Williams High School just a few miles south of the Pentagon.

Suddenly that morning, a colleague who grew up in New York, opened the classroom door and said, "Turn on the TV the World Trade Center has just been hit by a plane. " I've always believed in never letting school get in the way of my students' education. I switched on the TV in front of the room, and my students and I listened to the announcers make a guess about what had happened——only to see the second plane hit. At first, the sight of the towers burning didn't seem to have much more immediacy (紧迫性)than a TV action movie. Soon, however, things in that classroom would get far too immediate.

In what seemed like about a half-hour after the second plane hit, we heard a loud explosion outside the school. Several students were shocked and I told them not to worry, saying that "it was just a car backfiring". A moment later a boy sitting near the windows said, "That's no car； look at that black smoke." We could see an enormous plume of smoke rising in the distance, but didn't know where it was coming from until, a few seconds later, the NBC reporter stationed at the Pentagon broke into the New York coverage to say that he felt the ground shake beneath him as he heard an explosion—obviously the same one that had just surprised my students. It was several minutes before it was announced that the explosion came from a plane hitting the Pentagon.

At that point, a boy a football player suddenly came undone and had to be comforted by the girls in the class. His mom worked in the Pentagon, and when he tried to get her on his cellphone he could not get through.

Reports vastly overestimated the number of deaths in the Pentagon. Some reports were estimating over 800 dead when the actual death toll at the Pentagon was 125.

1. The author was working as on September 11, 200____.

A．a security guard	B．a teacher in a school
C．a TV reporter for NBC	D．an officer in the Pentagon

2. What can be inferred from the second paragraph?

A．Another plane hit the Pentagon before the author turned on the TV.

B．The author thought the hit got in the way of his students' education.

C．The author's colleague forced him and his students to watch the TV report.

D．The author believed that there exists something deserving attention besides school.

3. Which of the following is TRUE based on the third paragraph?

A．The boy sitting near the windows witnessed the hit.

B．The author tried to comfort his students by telling them the truth.

C．The loud explosion was caused by the plane hitting the Pentagon.

D．The author realized the Pentagon was hit immediately he heard the loud explosion.

4. What does the author mean by mentioning the football player suddenly came undone?

A．The football player lost self-control as he was unable to contact his mum.

B．The football player felt at a loss as his mum left without saying good-bye.

C．The football player was terrified when a car crashed against the school gate.

D．The football player exploded with anger since he was forbidden to use his cell phone.

【推荐3】Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in this century. He was born in 1942. He's world well-known on space and time. Stephen was searching some very big questions, such as "How did the universe begin? How will it end?"

Stephen was a student at Oxford University. He studied math and science. Then, at the age of twenty, he became sick. He was so young, but the doctors said to his family, "He has only two more years to live." As a matter of fact, the doctors were wrong — he didn't die. He can't walk but he uses a wheelchair. He can't feed himself and get in or out of bed himself. But he refused to give in to the condition. He talks with the help of a computer. After Oxford, Stephen went to Cambridge University. Three years later, in 1965, he became a doctor of philosophy (哲学).

Because of his serious health problems, it was difficult for him to draw or to write. So he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking, he became one of the most famous scientists in the world. In 1981, he met the Pope (教皇) in Rome. They talked about his ideas. Then in 1988, he wrote his first important book, A Brief History of Time. It sold more than 5.5 million copies in 33 different languages. He was once invited to China. He impressed us with his self-confidence, humorous and witty (风趣的) conversation.(谈话)

1. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Stephen is good at thinking.

B．Stephen cannot walk.

C．Stephen has had the answers to some very big questions.

D．Stephen had once studied math and science.

2. Stephen's studies DO NOT include ________ according to the passage.

A．science	B．math
C．philosophy	D．art

3. The underlined word "impressed" might mean ________ in Chinese.

A．使……感动	B．表扬
C．给……印象	D．给……帮助

4. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．Stephen's books	B．Stephen's study
C．Stephen and the Pope	D．Stephen Hawking

【推荐1】One of my second graders, Debbie, had been unusually quiet in my Family Living class. When I asked her if something was wrong, she replied, “I don't feel like talking today. I'm sad. My best friend's parents are going to get divorced（离婚的）. Her father moved out of the house. I told her I would share my dad with her, but I know it isn't the same. ”

I was surprised to learn that almost every child in my primary grade Family Living classes seemed to have some personal acquaintance （了解）with divorce—through friends of the family, neighbors, relatives, or much closer to home—their own parents. For many of them, divorce was just a normal part of life. Emily once said, “I want to be a doctor or nurse when I grow up, so after I get married and divorced, I'll be able to support myself. Then there was Billy, who stated, “When my mom gets married again next week, we're all going on a honeymoon.

Sometimes parents fight about the kids," said Kimberly. “My parents are divorced and my mom keeps pulling on one of my arms and my dad pulls the other. ” How sad, I thought, that a child would feel like her parents were actually pulling her apart because they each wanted more of her than the other should. “I hate that my parents are divorced! exclaimed Greg. “It's all my fault, too. I bite my nails too much. ”

Lori tried to look at things from a more positive perspective. “Your mother and father got mad at each other, but it doesn't mean they got mad at you," said Lori. “Lori is right," I said. Sometimes a husband and wife realize that they no longer love each other and decide it will be best for the whole family if they don't live together anymore. But that doesn't mean they stop loving their children, and it certainly doesn't mean that it is the children's fault!

“Maybe your mom and dad will change their minds and get undevoured,” Eric told Greg. “Then you can all be together again. ” Greg shook his head. “No, that won't happen. ” And then, with a thoughtful expression on his face, he said, “You know something? Divorce is like a cake. You cut it in half and it's separated forever. ”

1. Why did Debbie feel sad?

A．Debbie’s best friend’s parents were going to get divorced.

B．Debbie’s parents were getting divorced.

C．Her father moved out of the house.

D．She didn't want to share her dad with others.

2. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A．It's the children's fault that leads to parents' divorce.

B．It's acceptable for parents to get divorced if they don't love each other.

C．Parents usually get mad at the kid when they get mad with each other.

D．Parents usually ignore their children when they plan to get divorced.

3. According to the text, what is the author?

A．A teacher.

B．An officer.

C．A writer.

D．A doctor.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Say Goodbye to Divorces	B．Married or Divorced
C．Whose Fault for a Divorce	D．Divorce's influence on children

【推荐2】The more parents talk to their children, the faster those children’s vocabularies grow and the better their intelligence develops. Dr. Hart and Dr. Risley published their study in 1995.

They found a close relationship between the number of words a child’s parents had spoken to him by the time he was three and his academic success at the age of nine. At three, children born into professional families had heard 30 million more words than those from a poorly performed family. Besides, recent studies show that words should be spoken directly to a child, rather than simply heard in the home. Leaving children in front of the television does not have the same effect. Neither does letting them sit at the feet of academic parents while the grown-ups talk about Plato.

The effects can be seen directly in the brain. Babies are born with about 100 billion neurons more or less, and connections between these neurons form at an exponentially(以指数方式) rising rate in the early years of life. It is the pattern of these connections that determines how well the brain works, and what it learns. By the time a child is three years old, there will be about 1,000 trillion connections in his brain, and that child’ s experiences continuously determine which are strengthened and which decreased. This process—gradual and irreversible, has shaped the path of the child’s life.

Fortunately, there are tools that can help those silent parents. One such is a Language Environment Analysis (LENA) device. It is like a pedometer, but instead of recording users’ walking steps, this device keeps track of words by analyzing the speech children hear. Parents use it to monitor and improve their patterns of words, much as a pedometer-wearing couch potato might try to reach 10,000 steps a day. Plus, parents are taught to make the words they speak to their children more enriching. In this way parents can make sure of an enough input.

1. Which factor influences the children’s intelligence development most according to the text?

A．The wealth of households.	B．Parents' academic success.
C．Babies’ inborn language ability.	D．Effective vocabulary input by parents.

2. What can we learn from paragraph 3?

A．The number of neurons at birth varies a lot.

B．Neurons connections can be decided by experiences.

C．Individual efforts can also shape the kids' development.

D．School education leads to faster increase of the connections.

3. Why is the "pedometer" mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To give parents two options.	B．To offer two possible solutions.
C．To show the similarity to LENA.	D．To tell the difference from LENA.

4. What should parents do for their babies according to the text?

A．Involve in their games.	B．Share more quality time with them.
C．Enlarge their vocabulary through media.	D．Expose them to being spoken to directly.

【推荐3】Population could live in cities. In addition, the population could increase to 9.1 billion people during that time yet the amount of land available for farming will be the same. If current farming practices don't change, we will need an area of new land to produce enough food for the planet.

Vertical farms, where urban farmers could grow crops in environmentally friendly skyscrapers, could be the solution. In spite of concerns over high costs, experts want to make it a reality and use these skyscrapers to grow crops.

Vertical farms would have many advantages, supporters say. Unlike traditional farming, vertical farming could be free of chemicals and diseases. Besides, crops would not suffer from problems like flooding. Finally, vertical farms would reduce the cost and negative effects of transporting food over long distances.

Some argue that although crops growing in a tall glass building would get natural sunlight during the day, it wouldn't be enough. For this reason, vertical farms would need additional light sources(来源), such as artificial light.

Another way of growing fresh food is to build urban farms on rooftops. This more practical approach may be more achievable than the idea of farms in skyscrapers, researchers suggest. Experts agree that innovative(革新的) farming practices are needed to support the need for more food at affordable costs, both to the farmer and to the consumer, but the best ideas could be yet to come.

1. What primary problem could vertical farming settle?

A．Poor state of rural life.

B．Shortage of food supply.

C．High cost for transporting crops.

D．Environmental pollution by transitional farmings

2. What is the advantage of vertical farming?

A．It can produce organic food.

B．It requires little care.

C．It can benefit transport industry.

D．It needs very low cost.

3. What is a big challenge to make vertical farming a reality?

A．Farmable land.	B．Crop diseases.
C．Light sources.	D．Climate conditions.

4. What can be the best title of the test?

A．Future Food Needs.

B．Symbol of Urban Life.

C．Farming on Rooftops.

D．Farms of the Future.