【推荐1】阅读短文，并按题目要求用英语回答问题。

When Katie Stagtiano was 9 years old, she was given a class project to grow her first cabbage from just one seed. She took it home and planted it in the back corner of her home garden. It didn't even take a Jong lime to come up and begin to grow. But as friends came over, they pointed out that it “as bigger than any of theirs”. They asked her what she did and she just told them that she watered it every day. The cabbage ended up weighing 40 pounds! Katie then decided that she could use this cabbage to do something nice for the community. So she took the huge cabbage to a local soup kitchen (施舍处),where they used it, and cooked it with ham and rice. And because of her cabbage, 275 people were fed.

She began to realize that gardening and helping people is what she likes to do most. So, she decided to start her first garden on a plot of land donated by her school. Now, just 9 years later, Katie is now 18 years old. and has set up her own business called “Katie's Krops" with the help of her friends. But this doesn't even come close to the other amazing part. She has raised over 200,000 dollars! And there are over 100 Katie's Krops within 33 states in the United States. She loves gardening and loves inspiring other children to experience the joy of gardening as well.

Not only does Katie have a green thumb, but she has so much determination and the right attitude. Ever since she was 9, she has been inspired to grow champion vegetables, and is pretty amazing at it!

As of today, her first garden is still doing amazing things and is even responsible for supplying over 3,000 pounds of produce donated to local charities. Her goal now? To get 500 gardens across all 50 states.

1. What was the difference between Katie Stagtiano's cabbage and her friends'?(no more than 6 words)
2. What did Katie Stagtiano do with her cabbage? (no more than 15 words)
3. What does Katie Stagtiano love to encourage other kids to do? (no more than 10 words)
4. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 mean? (no more than 8 words)
5. What do you think of Katie Stagtiano's deed? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)

【推荐2】I rescued my little Foxy several years ago. I wasn’t looking for her, but she just crawled up onto my lap and went to sleep, so I took her home. She spent the night with her head on my pillow, and I knew she belonged to me.

I was her person. She didn’t really like other dogs or people...until I met my wife-to-be. The day Angelika came over to visit for the first time was the last time Foxy was truly my dog. She ignored me for the love of a tender woman and who can blame her? I would have done the same. Then Angelika and I got married, and we became a happy family.

The three of us always walk together through our village from the hills to the lake. We get exercise and have fun because Foxy enjoys her walks and strolls through the neighborhood like a 10-pound prize pony.

How sweet and lovely, you say, but there is a dark side to the little furball! Foxy is now a one-woman dog—she has totally bonded with my wife and won't go for a walk at all if Angelika is out. She just lies in her bed by the window waiting for her angel to walk through the door, and I have to tell you, I feel a little rejected. But it’s pretty cute.

I understand animal bonding. My therapy dog, Mercy, was with me for over a decade, and we were a total item. In fact, it wasn't until Mercy died that I decided to remarry. That's how much unconditional love she gave me.

Now my wife is getting to experience that kind of bond for the first time. Young or old, big or little, when your dog finds you, it's an amazing experience, and the love you feel just makes your life sweeter.

When you adopt an animal, remember that it’s a lifetime commitment. And if your pet falls for your other half, just enjoy watching the love.

1. What happened after Foxy met Angelika?

A．Foxy was rejected by Angelika at first.	B．Foxy didn’t love the author anymore.
C．Foxy became more willing to stay at home.	D．Foxy developed deep feelings for Angelika.

2. How did the author feel about the relationship between Foxy and Angelika?

A．Awkward.

B．Delighted.

C．Embarrassed.

D．Disappointed.

3. What is the tone of the text?

A．Plain.

B．Lively.

C．Appreciative.

D．Persuasive.

【推荐3】J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, began writing at age 6. In her biography(传记), she well remembers her good friend, Sean, whom she met in secondary school, helped build her confidence in becoming a very good writer. “He was the first person to know my serious dream to be a writer. He was also the only person who thought I was certain to be a success at it, which meant much more to me.”

Rowling met many difficulties in her writing, especially fantasy(幻想) stories. It wasn’t until l990 that she first got the idea about Harry Potter. As she recalls, it was on a long train journey from London to Manchester that “the idea of Harry Potter simply fell into my head. I didn’t have a pen with me, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one. I think, now, that this was probably a good thing, because I simply sat and thought, for four(delayed train) hours, and all the details appear in my brain, and this thin, black-haired, glasses-wearing boy who didn’t know he was a wizard (男巫)became more and more real to me.”

That same year, her mother passed away after a ten-year illness, which deeply affected her writing. She went on to marry and had a daughter, but separated from her husband shortly afterwards.

During this time, Rowling suffered from depression(抑郁症). She ,out of work,completed her first novel in the cafes, where she could get her daughter to fall asleep. After being refused by l2 publishing houses, the first Harry Potter novel was sold to a small British publishing house.

Now with seven books sold nearly 400 million copies in 64 languages, J. K. Rowling is the highest earning novelist in history. And it all began with the confidence of a friend !

1. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

A．Confidence of a Friend Helped the Success of Harry Potter

B．J. K. Rowing’s Hard Life and the Success of Harry Potter

C．J. K. Rowing---author of the Harry Potter book series

D．How J. K. Rowing Firstly Got the Idea of Harry Potter

2. According to the passage, we know J.K.Rowing________.

A．had a happy family

B．had a ten-year illness

C．earned a lot from her novels

D．published 12 books in 64 languages

3. Where did J.K.Rowing first have the shape of Harry Potter?

A．in the cafes	B．on a train
C．in a secondary school	D．in a publishing house

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Harry Potter’s friends didn’t know he was a wizard until he graduated.

B．J. K. Rowing wrote down her idea while she was on the train by borrowing a pen.

C．It’s lucky that J. K. Rowing didn’t have a pen while she got the idea of Harry Potter.

D．Harry Potter was a thin, yellow-haired handsome boy with a pair of glasses on his nose.

【推荐1】In today's global world, more and more people travel to foreign countries. Cross cultural awareness and an understanding of foreign etiquette is important if you want to succeed as an international business person. Behaviour that is polite at home may be considered rude in another country. In particular, by learning about dining etiquette and table manners, you can avoid offending people and this can directly influence your business success.

John Smith's book The Perfect Guest is a goldmine of information for the globe-trotting business person. There are chapters dedicated to all the main problem areas of dining etiquette and entertaining in different countries and tips on how to cope with embarrassing situations.

These are some of the areas which are covered in the book.

Seating arrangements

Whether you are eating at a restaurant or at someone's home, there may be a fixed protocol of who sits where. Do men and women sit together? Is there a hierarchy according to age or status? Rules vary greatly. For example, in Korea, it is customary to offer the best seat to the most senior person; in the US, there are no specific seating rules. If you don't know where to sit, wait until your host shows you.

Conversation

Is the dining table the right place to have a conversation or is the meal taken in silence? In France, for instance, the meal is a social affair with loud animated conversations and most topics are acceptable, including business. In Japanor Vietnam, on the other hand, only quiet conversation is acceptable and business is never conducted at the dinner table.

Food

What type of food is popular? Is it polite to remark on the food? Should you eat everything or leave some food on your plate? Is il polite to ask for the salt and pepper if it isn't on the table? And how can you deal with a food delicacy that you find disgusting? In Europe, it is polite to eat everything on your plate whereas this would be considered rude in Egypt. If you clean your plate, it will be filled up again immediately.

1. Who is most likely to find the information useful?

A．A business person.

B．A scientist.

C．A student.

D．A soldier.

2. When you are a guest in the US, where should you sit?

A．In the best seat.

B．Where your host shows you to sit.

C．Wherever you like.

D．Next to the senior.

3. You leave food on your plate in Egypt                                  .

A．to show that you have eaten enough

B．so that there are leftovers for the cat

C．to show that you don't like the food

D．but it is considered rude.

4. The passage mainly tells us                                   .

A．cross cultural dining etiquette

B．cultural differences around the world

C．how to improve cultural awareness

D．why the book is worth buying

【推荐3】When I opened my closet door this morning, I saw a sign that says, “Good morning, beautiful business.” It’s a reminder to me of just how beautiful business can be when we put all our creativity, energy, and care into producing one product or service in exchange for another. Economic exchange can be one of the most meaningful and beautiful interactions among human beings.

Over the past years since I started the White Dog Café, my business has not only provided me with a way of making a living and a way of serving others but also been my teacher. In reading Small Is Beautiful I realized that so much of what my business has taught me can be found in the great lessons of E.F. Schumacher: it is of great benefit to keep your business focusing on the needs of workers rather than only on what they produce; you’d better use a management style that balances freedom and order; you should build sustainable local economies and respect the land and nature. The effects of industrialization that worried Schumacher decades ago have gotten even worse: namely, wealth inequality and the growing degradation (退化) of our environment.

Today much of what I care about ---nature, animals, communities, family farms, family businesses, native cultures, the character of our towns and cities, even   our children’s future---is being threatened by corporate globalization. To protect all that I care deeply about, I need to step out of my own company, out of the White Dog Café. I started my journey with the simple idea that a sustainable global economy must be compromised of sustainable local economies. Rather than a global economy controlled by large international corporations, our movement advocates a global economy with a network of local economies made up of small independent businesses that create community wealth while working in harmony with natural system.

I opened the White Dog Café in 1983 on the first floor of my house in a neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is the house I have lived in since I was a child. Today much of the food I serve at the White Dog Café comes from the same land where my ancestors once farmed. When I opened the café years ago, it was a simple coffee and cake take-away shop serving students who lived nearby. Over the years we have expanded our menu and grown to occupy five buildings. We now employ more 100 people, can seat more than two hundred customers, and earn over $5 million a year! I owe our success to making decisions not for the purpose of maximizing profits but instead maximizing the relationships with our customers and staff, with our community, with our suppliers and with our natural environment.

Now I still live above the shop. I still have the old-fashioned way of doing business---the way it was in the old days with the family farm, the family inn, and the corner store. Living and working in the same community has given me a stronger sense of place and a different business outlook. When I make a business decision, it comes naturally for my decision to be made in the common interest of all involved because every day I see the people affected by my decision---my neighbours, my customers, and my employees as well as the natural world. There is a short distance between the business decision-maker and those affected by the decision. I believe that when we are surrounded by those affected by our decisions, we are more likely to make a decision from the heart as opposed to the head.

Business schools teach “grow or die”. But I make a conscious decision to continue to be a small business because I know that when we grow in physical size, we give up something very important ---authentic relationships with the people around us and those we do business with. I have come to realize that we can measure our success by measuring how much we improve our knowledge, deepen our relationships, achieve happiness, and have more fun.

1. What do we know about the sign on the author’s closet door?

A．It has been her family motto for years.	B．It comes from one of her favourite book
C．It serves as an inspiration to her..	D．It helps her forget difficulties in business.

2. What did the author do when facing the threat of corporate globalization?

A．She fought against the global economy in her community.

B．She worked together with other independent businesses.

C．She expanded her own business at home and abroad.

D．She learned from large international corporations.

3. What is the secret behind the success of the White Dog Café?

A．It gets along well with the people involved.	B．It has been run as a family business.
C．It makes big profits by developing fast.	D．It always has regular customers.

4. Why does the author choose to live and work in the same community?

A．She wants to stay close to her family.

B．Neighbors can be her customers or employees.

C．Food in her café can be served immediately.

D．She can learn about others’ opinions easily.

5. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph imply?

A．Business schools teach when to expand or leave the business.

B．We tend to measure success in business by constant growth.

C．We usually learn how to do business in business school.

D．Business schools focus on the basic principles of business.

【推荐1】Teens and preteens who start the school day really early tend to weigh slightly more than those who start later. That’s the finding of a new study of nearly 30, 000 Canadians between the ages of 10 and 18. These data are the latest evidence that starting school too early can harm health.

“We know from earlier studies that when school starts too early, kids can’t get the sleep they need,” says Genevieve Gariepy. She works at Mcgill University in Montreal, Canada. Getting too little sleep can put kids at risk for a number of problems. Sleepy teens are more likely to be overweight, to have trouble concentrating and to struggle in school. They also are at higher risk of feeling depressed, using alcohol or drugs and getting in car accidents.

As an epidemiologist (流行病学家), Gariepy is interested in patterns of disease. She studies teen obesity，or extreme overweight. In this study，she wanted to know how earlier school start times might be linked to weight.

“Overweight and obesity in adolescents is a big problem in North America,” she says. The number of overweight kids has grown over the past 30 years. About one in three U. S. and Canadian teens are now overweight or obese. Kids who don’t sleep enough may be at higher risk. So Gariepy decided to find more about the impact of school start times.

Her team collected start times of 362 Canadian schools and found that among “6 to 10” graders, those who started school earlier tended to be slightly heavier for their height. Every 10-minute delay in school start time was linked, on average, to a slightly lower weight among students who were the same sex, age and height. But it’s not clear that changing school start time would help heavier kids lose weight. To know for sure, researchers would want to compare the same kids before and after changing to a later school start time.

1. What is the function of the first paragraph?

A．To introduce the main topic.

B．To show concern for teenagers

C．To show the importance of the study.

D．To offer advice on school starting time.

2. What does Gariepy want to find out in her research?

A．How to rid adolescents of being overweight.

B．The links between school start times and teen obesity.

C．Why more and more students are becoming obese.

D．The most suitable sleep time for school students.

3. What can we infer about the study of Gariepy and her team?

A．A 10-minute delay is enough.	B．Schools may value its conclusion.
C．Its conclusion is reliable.	D．More work remains to be done

4. What can be a suitable title of this text?

A．Experts Worry about the Health of Adolescents.

B．Overweight Becomes Common among teenagers.

C．Study Links Weight to School Starting Time.

D．Students Tend to Sleep Less Than Before.

【推荐2】Christina Horsten and Felix Zeltner tried not to panic when they were hit with a $400 rent increase on their Park Slope apartment in 2016, and realized they would have to move for the second time in two years. Instead of feeling intimidated by the unexpected event, they hit upon an unconventional idea: Why not move to a new neighborhood every month for a year?

At first, things went remarkably well. They found their next apartment, a beautiful apartment in Chinatown. The next months brought stops in Staten Island and Harlem. As September approached, their next place to live proved difficult to find. When their Harlem lease (租约) ended, they took a road trip, then fell for a false advertisement in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, when an apartment they found advertised online wasn't actually available to rent. And eventually they got their money back through Paypal. “That was rock bottom,” Ms. Horsten said.

Over the rest of the year, they spent time in a townhouse in Mott Haven, as well as apartments in Chelsea, the East Village, Hell’s Kitchen, and Williamsburg. “In the end, we were like, ‘Why should we even stop doing this?’ ”Ms. Horsten said. But then a lease takeover on Listings Project caught their attention: a two-bedroom apartment atop an Upper West Side townhouse.

A second daughter, Lily, was born in January. And with a newborn, they have no intention of moving again anytime soon. Still, many aspects of their adventure have remained with them. “In the same way that we’ve tried to keep minimalism (极简主义) in our life, we try to stay in touch with all the people we’ve met,” Ms. Horsten said.“We realized it was a lifelong project to try to get to know NewYork City,” she added. But there is one member of the household eagerly waiting for a repeat: their 4-year-old daughter Emma.“ I think she loved it the most,” Ms. Horsten said.“At all the places we stayed, she found things I never noticed: children’s books, a dollhouse, a drum set. Even now, she’s like,‘When are we moving to a new home?’ And we’re like,‘We kind of like it here.’ ”

1. What does the underlined word “intimidated” in Paragraph1 mean?

A．Frightened.	B．Surprised.
C．Embarrassed.	D．Confused.

2. While looking for a place to stay, where was the couple nearly cheated?

A．In Chinatown.	B．In Sunset Park.
C．In Staten Island.	D．In Harlem.

3. What’s the couple’s plan for next month?

A．Buying a townhouse in Brooklyn.

B．Staying in the apartment in the Upper West Side.

C．Donating their daughter’s toys to those living nearby.

D．Looking for a two-bedroom apartment for their newborn.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．East or west, home is best.	B．Where to start, where to end.
C．Wherever you are, there is home.	D．Another month, another neighborhood.

【推荐3】I used to spend the second half of Sunday fearing Monday morning. Over the years, little tweaks to my routine and changes in my ideas have changed things to the point that I am in the “I Love Mondays” camp. Here’s what I’ve found that works:

Consider Sunday nights your warm-up for Monday. Get everything you need for the morning ready to go. If mornings are a struggle… give it a try at least for Mondays and see if it makes a difference. Once that’s done, consider a special “Sunday Night Only” calming down ritual (惯例). It might be tea and a favorite TV show, or it might be a long hot bath and reading until you’re ready for sleep. Whatever it is, enjoy this Monday morning warm-up, and consider sleeping a little earlier than you’re used to, in order to help with the second step.

One of my favorite parts of the weekend is sleeping in and waking up when I’m ready instead of fighting with the alarm for “Just five more minutes!” Sleeping a little early on Sunday night can help with getting up a little early on Monday morning — not to pack more into your morning to-do list, but to give yourself time to take it slowly. When you have a little extra time in the morning, you can gently settle into the day and keep that weekend feeling of ease as you start your new week.

Find a theme for the week. Every Monday, I post an inspiring quote or saying. These are intentional! Each week, as part of my Sunday night calming down time, I consider what I’d like to focus on in the coming week, and look for a quote that’s a good fit to strengthen it.

What are you excited about for the new week? What problem-solving opportunities do you have? What’s been hanging over your head undone from last week? During your preparation time on Sunday night, think about the week ahead and mark a few things that you want to get done and can reasonably accomplish. If possible, schedule at least one of them for Monday, so you’ve started your week off feeling successful, instead of feeling like there’s a mountain of tasks ahead of you. The work is the same either way, but our attitudes are always within our control.

When you are intentionally creating a life you love, Mondays begin to feel less like drudgery (单调乏味的苦差事), and more like a beautiful start!

1. The underlined word “tweaks” is the nearest in meaning to _________.

A．mistakes	B．adjustments
C．encouragements	D．problems

2. You had better start Monday morning _________.

A．with some morning exercises

B．with a morning to-do list

C．by getting thing ready on Sunday nights

D．by getting up early to do more things

3. What’s the benefit of getting up early enough on Monday morning?

A．It can help you get to your office and start work in time.

B．You can have enough time to make a to-do list for the week.

C．You can have enough time to sit with your tea or coffee.

D．It can make you feel the weekend feeling a little longer by starting slowly.

4. What does the author want to indicate in Para.5?

A．Be confident to solve the problems.

B．Look for opportunities for the week.

C．Positive attitude means a happy Monday.

D．Arrange your tasks well for the week.

5. What might be the best title for this passage?

A．How to Love Your Mondays	B．How Do You Spend Mondays
C．Troublesome Monday Disease	D．Monday Morning Warm Up