【推荐2】I was a student. To gather data for my paper, I started visiting patients at Dr Sardjito Hospital, where I would review the medical records of patients and then interview them

One evening, I was in a ward(病房), desperately “ hunting” for the final three patients I needed to complete my study. Holding a patient questionnaire, I walked towards a room. A patient called Ms A was lying in bed, clearly still weak. There were no relatives or friends with her. Even the bed beside her was empty. I sat down on a chair next to her bed. and in a low voice I introduced myself and asked if I could gather some additional information from her. She agreed. After I finished, I prepared to leave. Before I stood up, Ms A said," I haven't seen you here before, doctor. Are you new?” “Not really, madam. It's just that I don't come here every day," I replied. Ms A started talking about herself. She shared her difficulties and sufferings, and talked about her husband, who was killed in a car accident, and how she struggled to earn money. All I did was nod my head as a way of showing my sympathy.

Without realizing it, I had begun holding Ms A's hand. Finally, Ms A stopped talking, “I'm very sorry for keeping you here to listen to my problems, but I feel relieved now. I had no one to pour out my problems to. " Tears fell from the corner of her eyes. Finally. I knew what to say, “It's OK, madam. It's a part of my duty." I stood up and waved goodbye. A few days later, when I returned to the ward, I discovered Ms A had left the hospital as her condition had improved. Ms A taught me the most important lesson a doctor should learn. Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine. They just need someone with the patience and willingness to keep an open ear and spare a little of his/her time.

1. Why did the author interview the patients at Dr Sardjito Hospital?

A．Because it was her duty as a medical student.

B．Because she needed some medical information for her paper.

C．Because she was going to get a good position there soon.

D．Because she wanted to learn about the sufferings of patients.

2. From Paragraph 2, we know that Ms A was feeling __________

A．relaxed	B．annoyed
C．nervous	D．lonely

3. What do we know about Ms A from the passage?

A．She had lost her husband and kids.	B．She got hurt in a traffic accident.
C．She was living in a tough condition.	D．She didn't get on well with others.

4. What conclusion did the author draw after interviewing Ms A?

A．A doctor must learn how to treat each patient equally.

B．Her psychological treatment made Ms A recover quickly.

C．Listening is sometimes the best thing a doctor can do for a patient.

D．It is the doctors’ duty to receive whatever patients say.

【推荐3】Jerry was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason why the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”

Several years later, he went to open the door of the restaurant in the morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness and he can’t recall the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local medical center. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “Wanna see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.” Jerry lived thanks to the doctors, but also his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

1. Why did some waiters follow Jerry in Para.1?

A．Because they could learn management.

B．Because they were curious about Jerry.

C．Because they could make more money.

D．Because they like Jerry’s attitude towards life.

2. What do you know about Jerry?

A．He must solve problems for others every day.

B．There is nothing bad happened in his life.

C．He will actively face people or things in life.

D．He has to adjust his mood every morning.

3. What is Jerry’s attitude towards life after he was shot?

A．Hopeless.

B．Optimistic.

C．Indifferent.

D．Complaining.

4. Who is the most likely to send Jerry to the hospital?

A．His parents.

B．His colleagues.

C．Three robbers.

D．Jerry himself.

【推荐1】Albert was mad about computer games. He could spend hours in front of the computer. When people encouraged him to leave the screen to have a normal life, he would respond "this is my window to the world. There is much more here than you realize."

Among all his games, he especially liked a rabbit-catching game. He was a real expert at it. He once even won the champion of an online rabbit-catching competition.

One day, as usual, as soon as he got home, he ran to his room to play computer games. But this time he found the computer was not there. Yet in its place there was a box, on which a card said, “Gift for Game Winner." When he opened the box, he found a real rabbit in it. His parents then came in to tell him that they bought him the rabbit in place of the rabbit game because his computer was sent for repair.

Albert loved the little rabbit immediately. He liked playing with it and even gave it a name. He studied its diet and habits. Days later, he actually began to enjoy the company of the rabbit. And he also enjoyed sharing his stories and his growing knowledge about rabbits with his parents, friends and teachers.

Now, Albert is no longer mad about computer games. He prefers learning and discovering new things about animals. He also uses the computer to do that. When someone asks him why he stops playing computer games, he points to his pet and says. “This is my window to the world. There is more than you realize.”

1. Albert used to be _______.

A．mad with his parents	B．interested in rabbit stories
C．good at catching rabbits	D．crazy about computer games

2. Albert was an expert at _______.

A．catching rabbits in the woods	B．keeping different kinds of pets
C．online computer game competitions	D．computer game of rabbit-catching

3. What is Albert's “window to the world” now?

A．His parents.	B．Computer games.
C．His pet rabbit.	D．Knowledge about nature.

【推荐2】Treasure hunts have excited people’s imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues found in a book when he wrote a children’s story, Masquerade, in 1979. The book was about a rabbit, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold rabbit in a park in Bedlordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the rabbit, but Williams put in a lot of “red herrings”, or false clues, to mislead them.

Ken Roberts, the man who found the rabbit, had been looking for it nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic, not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words “One of Six to Eight” under the first picture in the book connected the rabbit in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambrideshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the rabbit there. He had been digging there for over a year before he came up with a new idea. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the rabbit in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth £3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

1. The underlined word “them” in paragraph 1 means            .

A．readers of Masquerade	B．treasure hunts
C．Henry VIII’s six wives	D．red herrings

2. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the rabbit?

A．Two stone crosses in Ampthill	B．Stevenson’s Treasure Island
C．Williams’ hometown.	D．Katherine of Aragon

3. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built            .

A．to tell about what happened in 1773.	B．to serve as a road sign in Ampthill Park.
C．to show respect for Henry VIII’s first wife.	D．to inform people where the gold rabbit was.

4. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the rabbit?
a. Henry VIII’s six wives                                   b. Katherine’s burial place at Kimbolton
c. Williams’ childhood in Ampthill                    d. Katherine of Aragon
e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park

A．a-b-c-e-d

B．d-b-c-e-a

C．b-a-e-c-d

D．a-d-b-c-e

【推荐3】At the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, halfway in the women’s slalom (障碍滑雪) race, 18-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin took a commanding lead over the greatest women’s slalom skiers in the world. On her final run, she burst from the start house at a breakneck speed, snaking around the poles in crazy rhythm.

Skiing has always been a significant part of Mikaela’s life. Her mom raced and coached skiing and her dad ski raced all through college. The Shiffrins taught Mikaela and her brother, Taylor, to ski at a very young age. At the age of two and a half, Mikaela made her first ski run on plastic skis. From ages 8 to 11, she worked hard, practicing hundreds of training runs on small hills repeatedly to develop the correct techniques of slalom skiing.

When Mikaela was 11, she attended the Burke Mountain Academy, a Vermont boarding school for skiers. She took classes, studied, and practiced her skiing crazily. According to Kirk Dwyer, Burke Mountain Academy headmaster, “It was the degree of Mikaela’s effort to be the best that distinguished her from others. Her commitment to conditioning, having proper sleep, eating correctly, doing the drills, and watching video was unusual for an 11 to 13-year-old. Mikaela practiced more than anyone and believed in herself then and now.”

By the time she was 17, she had already won her first World Cup race.

Working hard is a full-time job for Mikaela. Even her off-season is work time. In the summer, when Mikaela is off the ski slopes and in the gym, her daily training consists of six to seven hours of weight lifting, swimming, and biking to improve her core strength and flexibility. She does all of this so that she can dash down slopes at speeds topping 50 miles per hour while cutting back and forth around gates with astonishing precision.

“If you have passion for your targets, whatever they are,” she says, “the sky is the limit. Give it your all!”

1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?

A．Mikaela came from a skiing family.

B．Mikaela’s mother taught her to ski first.

C．Mikaela trained harder than her brother.

D．Mikaela’s father coached skiing in colleges.

2. Why were headmaster Kirk Dwyer’s words cited?

A．To stress Mikaela was a crazy teenager.

B．To show Mikaela’s distinct personality.

C．To praise the good students in his school.

D．To highlight Mikaela’s great devotion to training.

3. Which of the following words can best describe Mikaela?

A．Talented and wise.	B．Creative and determined.
C．Flexible and brave.	D．Determined and self-disciplined.

4. What does Mikaela Shiffrin’s story convey?

A．Practice makes perfect.

B．Not to advance is to go back.

C．He who laughs last laughs best.

D．Actions speak louder than words.

【推荐1】In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.

But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete their study programs than other students.

It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United Sates and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.

So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those students being low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.

How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.

For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facing difficulties. Hat way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference. Michigan States has not only received useful information from its parents. It has also shared helpful information of its own.

Bridget Burns, the executive director for the UIA, says efforts like this have never been as successful. “There are rankings that measure all kinds of things,” Burns said. “But how well you do for low-income students has not historically been highlighted.”

1. What led to the setting up of the UIA?

A．The low graduation rates	B．The great need of low-income students.
C．The inefficiency of learning	D．The severe competition between schools

2. The UIA functions in such a way as the member universities ____.

A．find out their own graduation rates

B．share and follow each other’s good practice

C．make joint efforts to aid students financially

D．popularize computer programs among students

3. By “it has meant a world of difference” in paragraph 6, the author means Michigan State__________.

A．has found the computer program quite different from theirs

B．has discovered the computer program is very difficult to use

C．has helped students successfully with the computer program

D．has involved more academic advisors in the computer program

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

A．Universities Highlighting Their Efforts for Low-Incomes

B．Universities Computing for Better Students and Teachers

C．Universities Working Together to Help Poor Students

D．Universities Creating the UIA to Share Information

【推荐2】


1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about 11-DAY Tour of UZBEKISTAN?

A．It doesn’t cover all accommodation.

B．It features small-group tour.

C．Flights are booked through Wild Frontiers.

D．It provides homestay with the locals.

2. All the information about the two tours is included in the advertisement EXCEPT _____.

A．departure date

B．main attractions

C．price

D．flight information

3. The purpose of the advertisement is to __________.

A．compare two options of the Silk Road adventure.

B．highlight the cultural aspect of the advertised tours

C．provide detailed information about the advertised tours

D．promote an eco-friendly way of touring the Silk Road

【推荐3】Chinese scientists recently have produced two monkeys with the same gene, Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, using the same technique that gave us Dolly the sheep. These monkeys are not actually the first primates（灵长类）to be cloned. Another one named Tetra was produced in the late 1990s by embryo（胚胎）splitting, the division of an early-stage embryo into two or four separate cells to make clones. By contrast, they were each made by replacing an egg cell nucleus（原子核）with DNA from a differentiated body cell. This Dolly method, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer（SCNT）, can create more clones and allows researchers greater control over the edits they make to the DNA.

Success came from adopting several new techniques. These included a new type of microscopy to better view the cells during handling or using several materials that encourage cell reprogramming, which hadn’t been tried before on primates. Still, the research process proved difficult, and many attempts by the team failed. Just two healthy baby monkeys born from more than 60 tested mothers. This leads to many researchers’ pouring water on the idea that the team’s results bring scientists closer to cloning humans. They thought this work is not a stepping stone to establishing methods for obtaining live born human clones. Instead, this clearly remains a very foolish thing to attempt, it would be far too inefficient, far too unsafe, and it is also pointless.

But the scientists involved emphasize that this is not their goal. There is now no barrier for cloning primate species, thus cloning humans is closer to reality. However, their research purpose is entirely for producing non-human primate models for human diseases; they absolutely have no intention, and society will not permit this work to be extended to humans. Despite limitations, they treat this breakthrough a novel model system for scientists studying human biology and disease.

1. What do we know about the technology called SCNT?

A．It created the first two primates.

B．It may contribute to editing the DNA.

C．It can divide an early-stage embryo into several cells.

D．It produced two cloned monkeys with different genes.

2. What does the author mean by “pouring water on the idea” in paragraph 2?

A．Keeping a hot topic of it.

B．Attaching no importance to it.

C．Having a low opinion of it.

D．Adding supportive evidence to it.

3. What is the scientists’ purpose to clone these monkeys?

A．To prepare for their research on human cloning.

B．To serve as a stepping stone to their reputation.

C．To help with the study of human diseases.

D．To raise money for holding an exhibition of novels.

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Cloning humans is already on its way.

B．New techniques seem to be pointless.

C．Society won’t agree to clone another monkey.

D．The success rate of cloning a monkey was not high.

【推荐1】My day began on a definitely sour note when I saw my six-year-old wrestling with a limb of my azalea（杜鹃花）bush. By the time I got outside, he'd broken it. "Can I take this to school today？" he asked. With a wave of my hand, I sent him off. I turned my back so he wouldn't see the tears gathering in my eyes.

The washing machine had leaked on my brand-new linoleum. If only my husband had just taken the time to fix it the night before when I asked him instead of playing checkers with Jonathan.

It was days like this that made me want to quit. I just wanted to drive up to the mountains, hide in a cave, and never come out.

Somehow I spent most of the day washing and drying clothes and thinking how love had disappeared from my life. As I finished hanging up the last of my husband's shirts, I looked at the clock. 2: 30. I was late. Jonathan's class let out at 2: 15 and I hurriedly drove to the school.

I was out of breath by the time I knocked on the teacher's door and peered through the glass. She rustled through the door and took me aside. "I want to talk to you about Jonathan, " she said.

I prepared myself for the worst. Nothing would have surprised me. "Did you know Jonathan brought flowers to school today？" she asked. I nodded, thinking about my favorite bush and trying to hide the hurt in my eyes. "Let me tell you about yesterday, " the teacher insisted. "See that little girl？" I watched the bright﹣eyed child laugh and point to a colorful picture taped to the wall. I nodded.

"Well, yesterday she was almost hysterical. Her mother and father are going through a nasty divorce. She told me she didn't want to live, she wished she could die. I watched that little girl bury her face in her hands and say loud enough for the class to hear, 'Nobody loves me. ' I did all I could to comfort her, but it only seemed to make matters worse. " "I thought you wanted to talk to me about Jonathan, " I said. "I do, " she said, touching the sleeve of my blouse. "Today your son walked straight over to that child. I watched him hand her some pretty pink flowers and whisper, 'I love you. '"

I felt my heart swell with pride for what my son had done. I smiled at the teacher. "Thank you, " I said, reaching for Jonathan's hand, "you've made my day. "

Later that evening, I began pulling weeds from around my azalea bush. As my mind wandered back to the love Jonathan showed the little girl, a biblical verse came to me："…these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. " While my son had put love into practice, I had only felt anger.

I heard the familiar squeak of my husband's brakes as he pulled into the drive. I snapped a small limb bristling with hot pink azaleas off the bush. I felt the seed of love that God planted in my family beginning to bloom once again in me. My husband's eyes widened in surprise as I handed him the flowers. "I love you, " I said.

1. Why did the woman cry when seeing her son had broken the azalea bush？

A．Because she could not tolerate the harm to it.

B．Because it made her bad mood even worse.

C．Because her son did not ask her for permission.

D．Because she wanted to hand it to her husband.

2. The writer wanted to hide in the mountain cave probably for the reason of_________.

A．feeling fed up with her endless daily housework

B．her husband's failing to fix the machine in time

C．boring daily routine with a feeling of lack of love

D．her hoping to seek happiness in a brand-new place

3. We can infer from the passage that the writer expressed love to her husband in that_________.

A．she was inspired by her son that love was supposed to be felt and practiced

B．she felt guilty that she misunderstood her husband and wanted to apologize

C．she felt it necessary to have a complete family for the happiness of herself

D．she wanted to prove her love and expected the same words from her husband

4. What did the teacher intend to express when telling the story of the little girl?

A．the girl was from a poor family.	B．the troublesome work at school.
C．the love between the girl and the author’s son.	D．the author should be proud of her son.

【推荐2】In a new look at the impact of long-time sitting behavior on health， a new study links time watching television to an increased risk of death.   One of the most surprising findings is that it isn't just couch potatoes who were affected.   Even for people who exercised regularly， the risk of death went up the longer they were in front of the TV.   The problem was the long periods of time spent sitting still.

Australian researchers who tracked 8，800 people for an average of six years found that those who said they watched TV for more than four hours a day were 46% more likely to die of any cause and 80% more likely to die of cardiovascular（心血管的）disease than people who reported spending less than two hours a day in front of TV.

Time spent in front of TVs and computers and video games has come under fire in studies in recent years for contributing to a spread of obesity in the US and around the world.   But typically the resulting public-health message urges children and adults to put down the Xbox controller and remote and get on a treadmill（跑步机）or a soccer field.

The Australian study offers a different view.   "It's not the sweaty type of exercise we're losingsays David Dunstan， a researcher at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute？ Melbourne？ who led the study.   "It's the incidental moving around？ standing up and using muscles.   That doesn't happen when we are planted on a couch in front of a television.

Indeed？ participants in the study reported getting between 30 and 45 minutes of exercise a day？ on average.

The results are supported by a new field of research that shows how long periods of inactivity can affect the body's processing of fats and other substances that contribute to heart risk.   And they suggest that people can help decrease such risk simply by avoiding extended periods of sitting.

Keeping such processes working more effectively doesn't require constant intense exercise， but consciously adding more routine movement to your life might help？ doctors say.   "Just standing is better than sitting，" says Gerard Fletcher， a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic， Jacksonville， Fla.   ， who works standing up at his computer.   "When you stand up， you wander around a little bit and use muscles not required when you are sitting or lying down. "

Simple strategies for increasing activity include combining household chores such as folding laundry with TV-watching time or getting up to change a TV channel rather than using a remote control.

The report， published Tuesday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation focuses on TV watching partly because it is the main leisure-time activity in many countries？ researchers said， especially in the US.

1. One misunderstanding people might have is that___.

A．couch potatoes were affected by long-time sitting.

B．watching TV is related with increased death risk.

C．watching TV very long is a good way to kill time.

D．regular exercise can minimize the side effect of watching TV

2. What is new about the discovery of the Australian study？___

A．Remote control shouldn't be used when people watch TV.

B．People who watch TV too long should take more physical exercise.

C．Sitting too long in front of TV will lead to high risk of heart attack.

D．Long-time sitting is bad for all people including those who exercise regularly.

3. According to the study？ how can people reduce the risk of death when watching TV？___

A．By increasing simple movement.

B．By totally avoiding watching TV.

C．By taking some medicine.

D．By doing sweaty type of exercise.