【推荐1】Byron Bay is a famous small town, located in the northeast corner of New South Wales, Australia. It is a place where one can indulge themselves with the wildest nature. More than 300 cost-effective accommodations (住所) can be found on www. airbnb. cn. Just go and catch up!

Modern Eco Cabin

The eco-friendly self-contained cabin is set among the 24 acres of private rainforest with all the added modern luxuries. It is fully equipped with a full size kitchen, wifi, smart flat screen TV with Netflix.

Birdsong Hideaway

It’s an ideal place for couples, families or friends to get together and enjoy Byron Bay. Wake up to a chorus of birds in the morning, just in time to have a coffee with friends in the privacy of the large verandah (露台餐厅).

The Village Glamping

This beautiful luxurious glamping (豪华野营) space is located just 5 minutes from the heart of Byron Bay. This space is perfect for those wanting to experience the uniqueness of Byron Bay, from the breathtaking views on the lighthouse walk to the crystal-clear waters at Wategos Beach.

Emperor Glamping

The Emperor Bell Tent sits on its own raised deck overlooking the tree-lined valley beyond. It’s only a 9-minute drive to the local shops. Perfect to lie in bed and watch the sunrise or sit out on the deck beneath the milky way at night.

1. Which accommodation best suits people who put indoor equipment in the first place?

A．Modern Eco Cabin.	B．Birdsong Hideaway.
C．The Village Glamping.	D．Emperor Glamping.

2. Which feature is unique to Birdsong Hideaway?

A．It is convenient to the bay.	B．It is perfect for family gathering.
C．It possesses forest views.	D．It offers camping experience.

3. What is probably the major reason for travelers to choose the four accommodations?

A．Eco-friendliness.	B．Uniqueness.
C．Convenience.	D．Cost-effectiveness.

【推荐2】    1    

Biography

When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it…    2    

J D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski (Random House, $27)

Mystery

“You’re a smart boy.     3    . Do you think the murderer should get away with it?” The boy was staring stubbornly at his lap again.

A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, “You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”

The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers, “Maybe,” he said quietly.

Red Wolf by Liza Marklund (Atria Books, $25.99)

Short Stories

She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class: Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take.     4    , some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer, so their daughters won’t.

You Are Free by Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books, $15)

Humor

Do your kids like to have fun?     5    ! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times’s “amusement cycling” is the most fun you can have in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive of most cities?

Happy: And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle (Ecco, $14.99)

A．Come to Fun Times

B．Mini Book Excerpts

C．They are more like gymnastics

D．She didn’t know which direction was up

E．Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers

F．Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only one who saw it happen

G．The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor

【推荐3】Why not consider spending the holiday at Harvard if you are a high school student who will have a holiday in this coming summer?

About the program

This is a five-week program^ from July 16 to August 17, 2018, which is designed to help high school students to pave the way for a successful college experience. We have 200-plus courses, such as film, philosophy, creative writing, and computer science. Besides, we offer you two types of credit courses—4-credil course and 8-credit course. You can earn college credit here. Whether you choose to sign up for one or two courses, you will still have some flexibility (灵活性) to schedule your days'.

Tuition and Fees

Application fee (the application period opens in December): $50

Tuition: $3,300 for 4-credit course;

$6,600 for 8-credit course

Housing (room and board) fee: $5, 700

Health insurance fee: $200

Financial Aid(援助)

Financial aid is a scholarship award. It is available to Secondary School Program students with excellent academic records who give evidence of financial need. It does not have to be paid back. Awards cover only a part of the program cost. Families should expect to contribute to the remaining part. Award amounts are determined by many sides, including family finances, availability of fund (基金), and whether students are resident.... Local students may be eligible (有资格的) for additional funding towards room and board.

1. What is the main purpose of the text?

A．To attract students to sign up for the summer courses.

B．To tell students how to prepare for the college life.

C．To introduce the arrangement to a summer program.

D．To encourage students to study at Harvard.

2. How much is the tuition and housing fee for 8-credit course?

A．$6,600.	B．$ 12,300.
C．$12,500.	D．$12,550.

3. What can we know about the financial aid?

A．It can be used to pay the whole program fee.

B．The amounts of the financial aid are the same.

C．The local students may gain extra housing fee.

D．It is designed for all American students.

【推荐1】       Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it?
       The Internet is many different networks around the world. A network is a group of computers put together. These networks joined together are called the Internet.
       Maybe that doesn’t sound interesting. But when we’ve joined the Internet, there are lots of things we can do. We can find lots of interesting information on the World Wide Web(www). We can use the Internet instead of a library to find all kinds of information for our homework. We can find information about our favourite sports or film stars and do shopping on the Inter-net. We can also send messages to other people by e-mail. It is much cheaper and quicker than calling our friends or sending a letter.
       Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. People can now work at home with a computer in front of them, getting and sending the information they need. They can buy or sell whatever they want by the Internet. But do you know 98％ of the information is in English? So what will English be like tomorrow?
1. The passage is mainly about________.

A．the Internet	B．information
C．computers	D．e-mail

2. The quickest and cheapest way for people to send messages to their friends is________.

A．by post

B．by e mail

C．by telephone

D．by TV

3. The Internet cannot be used to__________.

A．find information for our homework

B．get some information about our favourite sports stars

C．do some shopping

D．do our housework

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The Internet is a big computer.

B．The Internet is lots of computer networks.

C．The Internet is very helpful.

D．People can work at home with the help of the Internet.

5. What does the writer try to tell us with the last two sentences?

A．The Internet is more and more popular.

B．All the information is in English.

C．English is important in using the Internet.

D．Every computer must join the Internet.

【推荐2】How to be a safe and smart searcher

Some keywords will help to find better results.    1    . If you want to find out about seagulls (海鸥), for example, search for “bird seagull” and not just “seagull”. Because seagull might also be the name of just about anything else, from a hotel to a documentary film.

Exact symbols can help you find what you’re looking for. If you are looking for an exact phrase or sentence, for example, “seagull are very clever”, type it between inverted commas (引号).    2    . Avoid common words like “a” or “the” in a search. There are usually unnecessary. Remove unwanted results by adding a symbol “-”. For example, “Seagull-hotel-film” would leave out all information on hotels and films.

Check your spelling. Make sure you spell spell every word correctly.    3    . That’s because sometimes there are mistyped words existing.

Have a filter (筛选). It’s a good idea to filter your online searchers, especially when you are searching for pictures.    4    . There is lots of filtering software available.

Reliability is very important when you are searching on the Internet. Always ask yourself, “Is this reliable?”    5    . Some websites are unreliable and some information is incorrect. Check your information on other websites before accepting it.

A．So add a filtering system to your computer.

B．Then only exact information will be shown.

C．Make sure that you’re using the safest search setting.

D．The smallest typing mistakes can bring unwanted results.

E．Use more than one keyword when you are doing a research.

F．Don’t make the mistake of believing everything as soon as you see.

G．But finding the right information among thousands of websites can be a real challenge.

【推荐3】Mobile phone users in China expected a pleasant surprise this month. Starting from October 1, a new policy adopted by the three giant cellphone operators — China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom — has allowed unused data from individual data packages to be carried over to the next month for use.

At the beginning, users of the three telecommunication companies welcomed this policy, since they would have more free data to use in the next month. However, even before Chinese users could enjoy the free extra package, the users found that since the adoption of the policy, the original data limits seem to be far more easily swallowed up, which means there wouldn’t be any unused data left for the next month. One user of China Unicom claimed that it took him only nine days to use up the data package of a month.

Telecoms have become a necessity in modern life like water or power, and raising or lowering costs significantly affects people’s lives and finances. But disagreements between consumers and service providers cover discussion. It is too early to judge how long the disagreement between telecommunication companies and consumers over data packages will last, since, according to media reports, the measurement of data usage is difficult to track. Companies are using “user privacy” to avoid giving out any information.

But reading through the companies posted online by cellphone users, we can sense the public’s distrust of Stated-owned enterprises (SOEs). A survey done by the people’s Tribune Research Center in 2012 found that the public’s negative impression of SOEs came from the belief that they only rely on government support and their employees usually do easy jobs but get higher pay, yet their sense of service is far behind private and foreign enterprises.

The current argument over the data package of three State-owned telecommunication giants reflects the extent of public anger. Among the country’s anti-corruption campaign (反腐败运动) and reforms, it shows the public’s enthusiasm for deepening reforms and making SOEs benefit domestic consumers.

1. The attitude of the users towards the new policy of the three telecommunication companies at the beginning can be best described as ________.

A．indifferent

B．opposed

C．positive

D．disappointed

2. What is the result of the new policy adopted by the three telecommunication companies?

A．Chinese phone users are allowed to send their unused data to their friends.

B．Chinese phone users are presented with much cheaper individual data packages.

C．Chinese phone users have no need to buy individual data packages.

D．Chinese phone users consume the data much sooner than expected.

3. Which of the following is NOT the public’s impression of SOEs?

A．SOEs are supported by the government to a large extent.

B．SOEs have benefited domestic consumers effectively.

C．SOEs’ employees don’t deserve the high pay.

D．SOEs’ service is worse than private and foreign enterprises.

4. The last paragraph most probably implies that ________.

A．the public are not satisfied with the reforms at present

B．the public do not care about the country’s reforms

C．the public think highly of anti-corruption campaign

D．the public are confident about the reform of SOEs

【推荐1】King’s College Winter School is an annual(每年的) training program for all the high school students who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King’s College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year’s winter school will be from November 1 to December 15. More information is as follows:

Application(申请) date Students in New York should send their applications before October, 18, 2014. Students of other cities should send their applications before October 16, 2014. Foreign students should send their applications before October 10, 2014.	Courses English Language Spoken English:22 hours Reading and Writing: 10 hours American History: 16 hours American Culture:16 hours
Steps A letter of self-introduction A letter of recommendation(推荐) ★ The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information.	Cost Daily lesson:＄200 Sports and activities: ＄100 Travels: ＄200 Hotel service: ＄400 ★ You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city.
Please write to: Thompson, Sanders 1026 King`s Street New York, NY 10016, USA Email: KC-Winter-School@yahoo.com

1. You can most probably read the text in _____________.

A．a newspaper	B．a travel guide
C．a textbook	D．a telephone book

2. Which of the following is TRUE about King’s College Winter School?

A．Only top students can take part in the program.

B．King’s College Winter School is not organized every year.

C．Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program.

D．Only the teachers of King’s College give courses.

3. If you are to live in your friend’s home in New York, you will have to pay the school_________.

A．＄200

B．＄400

C．＄500

D．＄900

4. What information can you get from the text?

A．The program will last 2 months

B．You can write to Thompson only in English.

C．As a Chinese student, you can send your application on October 14, 2014.

D．You can get in touch with the school by telephone or by e-mail.

【推荐2】Visiting Joshua Tree National Park, California

Joshua Tree National Park is nearly 800,000 acres (英亩) large and surrounds parts of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts in South-central California. Although barren at first sight, the park is full of wildlife and provides a variety of entertainment activities from hiking to climbing. Within a three-hour drive, Joshua Tree National Park takes at least a full day to visit.

Things to do

Hiking opportunities within the park include several choices, from 12 self-guided nature routines to all-day back-country hikes.

Joshua Tree NP has nine camping grounds, and back-country camping is also allowed.

Rock climbing is a popular activity in the park, which has 10 mountains greater than 5, 000 feet in height.

When to visit

Joshua Tree NP is open 365 days a year, although the best time to visit is October through April, when temperature is milder. The peak season is when the wild flowers bloom, and the summer months are the least crowded.

What to bring

In addition to your camera and telescope, be sure to carry lots of water. Park and guiding maps can be picked up at any of the three visitor centers.

Fees

Parking fees: You can buy a seven-day vehicle permit (周票) for $ 15, a single entry permit for $ 5, or Joshua Tree National Park annual pass for $ 60.

Camping fees: They vary by camping ground

1. The underlined word ''barren'' in the first paragraph can be replaced by ''________''.

A．rich	B．deserted
C．useless	D．beautiful

2. When is the best time to visit Joshua Tree NP?

A．September	B．May
C．June	D．March

3. If one goes to Joshua Tree NP by car and stays there for 9 days, how much at least one should pay for the parking fees?

A．$ 60	B．$ 25
C．$ 15	D．$ 30

4. What can be inferred from the text?

A．There are guides for nature trails.

B．Tourists can easily visit the whole park within a day.

C．The camping fees at the nine camping grounds are different.

D．Tourists must take park and trail maps with them when they visit the park

5. Which is not mentioned to bring when you visit Joshua Tree NP?

A．camera	B．water
C．food	D．park and guiding maps

【推荐3】Book reading is certainly one of the most absorbing habits. For young adults who love to read, finding some good books to read is very essential. Writing a book review can help you to improve your language and writing skills.

The Book Thief

Listed on The New York Times Children’s Best Seller List for over 100 weeks, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is the story of a young girl in the Nazi camps set during World War Ⅱ. So, if you love history and wish to learn how the life was during Adolf Hitler’s time, read this historic book.

The Diary of Young Girl

Even Anne Frank can not have imagined that, her personal diary written during World War Ⅱ would become such a popular book. It’s a must read that describes the situation of a family in the evils of wars through the eyes of a teenager.

Animal farm

Animal Farm is one of the most popular books by George Orwell. It is just a reflection of the Stalin and World War I period that has been so creatively presented in this book. It is an interesting example of how literature can be used to present conditions common in the society.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the great American novels in the history, and is certainly a great pick for young adults. Young Huck Finn and his mischief along with the colorful description of people around the Mississippi River make this novel a great book to read.

1. Who wrote Animal farm?

A．Markus Zusak.	B．Anne Frank.
C．George Orwell.	D．Mark Twain.

2. What do the first three books have in common?

A．All of them are diaries.

B．All of them are about wars.

C．All of them are about farms.

D．All of them are about animals.

3. The author’s main purpose of writing the passage is to ________.

A．instruct youngsters how to improve skills

B．introduce several good books to youngsters

C．tell youngsters some wonderful reading habits

D．give youngsters advice on writing a book review

【推荐1】What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade（升级） and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited             online shopping websites on the Internet
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.
1. We learn from the text that eBay provides people with__

A．a way of buying and selling goods

B．a website for them to upgrade

C．a place to exhibit their own photos

D．a chance to buy things at low prices

2. Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?

A．For fun

B．To make money

C．For gathering the engineers

D．To fulfill a task of his company

3. From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_

A．did not feel lonely

B．was always hopeful

C．did not think about the past

D．became more and more successful

4. How does eBay make money from its website7?

A．By bringing callers together.

B．By charging for each sale

C．By listing items online

D．By making e-photos.

【推荐2】Do you want to travel back in time? What about traveling into the future? There’s an easy way to do it.

One way you can make a time travel journey is by writing a letter to your future self to be opened in the future. To your future self, the letter will be a visit to the past. What can be gained by writing a letter to yourself? It depends on how good your letter is. You have the chance to say something to your future self. What would you want to communicate? You’ll be able to talk to yourself 5, 10, 15 years down the road. There may be instructions for your future self, or you may have goals that you will want to check up on.

There are a lot of things you could include in your letter or letters to yourself. The more you include, the better the letter will be to you. Here are some ideas of things to include in your letter:

Your thoughts and feelings about life, religion, politics, society, etc; Your feelings for your family; Your likes and dislikes; Your dreams; The type of person you want yourself to become...

Be creative with what you put in your letter. Include a picture of yourself or family to show the period from which the letter came.

You can store your letter in a number of different ways. You can give your letter to a friend or family member to keep and mail to you. If you can get others to take part, have them write letters to themselves as well and ask someone to be the letter holder until it’s time to send the letters. You can also use a service online to store your letter and e-mail it to you.

Make the most of your letter writing, and you’ll help your future self make the most of the present.

1. How can you travel into the future?

A．By traveling back in time.

B．By writing a letter to your future self.

C．By opening a letter from the past.

D．By paying a visit to the future.

2. If you want to gain more in the future, what should you do?

A．Have the chance to say something to your future self.

B．Talk to yourself 5,10,15years down the road.

C．Write more about instructions for your future self.

D．Include as many things as possible in your letter.

3. Why had you better put a picture in your letter?

A．To check up on your goals.

B．To prove your feelings for your family.

C．To show the time when the letter was written.

D．To find out your thoughts and feelings now.

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

A．How to Write a Letter to Your Future Self.

B．What to Communicate with Your Future Self.

C．What to Include in a Letter to Your Future Self.

D．How to Make the Most of Your Letter.

【推荐3】You know that thrill you get when listening to your favorite music or that exciting feeling down your spine (脊柱) when you hear your favorite melody or rhythm? According to a recent study, it seems the same thing can happen while you are reading, but not with every kind of text. This opens up fascinating questions around how music, reading and emotions are connected in the brain.

“We decided we would do a comparison between four or five different kinds of texts to see how the brain responded,” explains Professor Adam Zeman, a neurologist. “The participants lay in an MRI scanner reading the texts, and then we compared brain activity for those five texts.” The texts ranged from deadly boring ones to highly exciting ones, including the Highway Code, passages from novels and poems.

As the researchers observed, participants found some texts more emotional than others. When they read these emotional texts, there was higher activity in brain areas associated with pleasure and reward — the same areas related to the thrill we get when we listen to music. As Zeman says, “It was a nice proof that the emotional response to literature and to music has quite a bit in common.”

When the participants were reading poems, the team found there was more activity in a particular group of brain areas called the Default Network. "These areas seem to be associated with things we do with our minds when we are resting, like thinking about what's happened to us recently, thinking about what’s going to happen in the near future, about other people, and that network seems to be more strongly associated with poetry than with prose” explains Zeman. The study shows that the different texts activate different areas of our brains when we read.

1. What can we know from the study?

A．People may feel excited when reading poems.	B．People aren’t thrilled when listening to music.
C．Music gives participants more pleasure than text.	D．Deadly boring texts never excite the brain.

2. What is the purpose of the comparison between different kinds of texts?

A．To thrill the participants.	B．To scan the participants’ brain.
C．To check the response of human's brain.	D．To teach the participants novels and poems.

3. What happened in the participants’ brains when they were reading?

A．Their brains preferred music.

B．Brain areas related to pleasure became more active.

C．Their emotional response to literature stopped.

D．Their brains were less emotional when reading the emotional text.

4. Where is the text probably from?

A．A science magazine.	B．A film review.
C．An advertisement.	D．A science fiction.