【推荐1】How to spend a holiday without sending your savings into a nosedive? Take a look at these heavenly and affordable hideaways in Bahamas.

Pigeon Cay Beach Club, Cat Island

Pigeon Cay Beach Club is located on the largely undeveloped Cat Island, where it's possible to wander the very beautiful coastline for miles without spotting a soul - or a boat, dock (码头) or Jet Ski. TVs. AC, and Wi-Fi are all happily off-duty, leaving guests to explore the island by bike, canoe. or kayak (皮艇) (all free to use) or quietly drop by the honor-system beach bar.

Unique Village, Eleuthera

This 14-room hotel stands proud over the quiet Poponi Bench, which is rarely crowded despite being well-known for is pretty pink sands. Unique Village has a casual open-air restaurant and an outdoor pool, and its spacious (宽敞的). air-conditioned rooms have simple sand bright island decoration, free Wi-Fi, and outdoor balcony- all facing the ocean.

Stella Maris Resort Club, Long Island

If you're looking for casual, cheerful, and cheap, the beachfront Stella Maris Resort Club more than fits the bill. The large, family-owned complex on beautiful and remote Long Island is a bargain for is competitive rates, free activities, and accommodations that can suit larger parties (there are 27 hotel rooms, cottages. houses). One of the highlights of the resort (度假胜地) is its range of activities, many of which are free, including day rips, boating. nature walks, caving, kayaking. and wine parties.

St Francis Resort, Stocking Island

Stocking Island is just about as remote as you can get. The island is only accessible by boat, and has little human development; no cars, no roads, and about two dozen residents. The quiet and homey St Francis Resort fits right in with its surroundings, offering eight spacious rooms overlooking the ocean, two beaches, and free kayak. In-room breakfast, Wi-Fi, and transport from George Town are all free.

1. Which is the best choice if you want to have a quiet drink?

A．Pigeon Cay Beach Club.	B．Unique Village.
C．Stclla Maris Resort Club.	D．St Francis Resort.

2. What may attract you mot in Stella Maris Resort Club?

A．Unique sands.	B．An outdoor pool.
C．Diverse activities.	D．A quiet beach bar.

3. What do Unique Village and St Francis Resort have in common?

A．Limited development.	B．Free Internet access.
C．An outdoor restaurant.	D．Means of being reached.

【推荐2】Finland is the happiest place on Earth, according to the 2018 World Happiness Report of 156 nations.

The report, released Wednesday by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network, ranks the countries of the world based on six different categories of well-being: income, freedom, trust, life expectancy, generosity and social support. This year's report also pays special attention to the happiness of each country's immigrants.

The U.S. dropped four spots from 2017 and landed in the 18th place, and last year's winner, Norway, came in second place — followed by Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland.

'' The top five countries all have almost equally high values for the six factors found to support happiness, and four of these countries—Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and now Finland — have been in first place in the six World Happiness Report rankings since the first report" in 2012, '' co-editor John Helliwell told CNN. '' In a division with such excellent teams, changes in the top spot are to be expected."

Rounding out the top 10 happiest countries was Canada in sixth place, then New Zealand, Sweden and Australia. The order of the top 10 nations changed from the 2017 list but the countries did not, according to the report. They were also 10 of the 11 top spots in the immigrant happiness category (including Mexico — 24th overall, but 10th in immigration).

'' The most striking finding of the report is the remarkable consistency between the happiness of immigrants and the locally born, '' Helliwell said in a statement. '' Although immigrants come from countries with very different levels of happiness, their reported life evaluations resemble those of other residents in their new countries. Those who move to happier countries gain, while those who move to less happy countries lose. ''

Other major world powers placed in significantly low spots on the list. Germany came in 15th, the UK was 19th — followed by Japan in 54th place, Russia in 59th and China in 86th.

The report, based on surveys completed by citizen volunteers, came just under a week before World Happiness Day on March 20, when the UN declared to recognize '' the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations inthe lives of human beings around the world and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives''

1. What is the most significant finding of the report?

A．That immigrants are different from residents in the country.

B．That immigrants and locals feel the similar level of happiness.

C．That immigrants become happy when they leave the country.

D．That immigrants come from countries with different levels of happiness.

2. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Happiness is no less important than any other aspect in life.

B．People’s happiness and well-being should be considered when it comes to policy-making.

C．The happiness report came under a week before World Happiness Day.

D．What the UN declared was beneficial to all human beings.

3. What is the best title of the passage?

A．World Happiness Day.	B．Happiness — forever pursuit.
C．The 2018 World Happiness Report.	D．What's your happiness index?

【推荐3】ELECTRICITY IS AT THE CORE OF MODERN LIFE. DESPITE THIS, THE FULL STORY OF THIS REVOLUTIONARY FORCE HAS REMAINED UNTOLD-UNTIL NOW.

Simply Electrifying offers the comprehensive story of one of mankind's most important journeys: from a time when only a few could even imagine a world with electricity to today when, for most of us, a world without electricity would be unimaginable.

Since the birth of the modern science of electricity 265 years ago, mankind has built a great structure to produce, deliver, and use electricity, thanks to a combination of pioneering science, innovative technology, wise business strategy, and pervasive (到处存在的) economic and environmental regulation.

Simply Electrifying brings to life the stories of the people that made it all possible- from early pathfinders like Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, and Albert Einstein to innovators such as Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla. In modern times, business strategists and economic and environmental regulation driven by many, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, and even President Barack Obama, have shaped how we use and understand electricity in important ways. Today, Elon Musk and others are on the edge of again changing the way we think about and interact with it.

Simply Electrifying is painstakingly researched and beautifully written, showing us how both profit-makers and policy-makers must use a wide-angle lens to truly understand the past and predict the future.

1. According to the passage, the book Simply Electrifying is written to tell us ______.

A．pioneering science of electricity

B．the significant journey of electricity

C．the people who invented electricity

D．the research which was about electricity

2. Why is President Barack Obama mentioned in the book Simply Electrifying?

A．Because a policy maker is usually a top dog that can arouse the readers' interest.

B．Because a policy-maker can help promote the better use of electricity.

C．Because policy-makers can decide the future of the market.

D．Because policy-makers can control the economy through electricity.

【推荐1】Canadians are blessed with an abundance of natural wonders with enough lakes, mountains and rivers to explore for a lifetime. We’ve also got some of the most shocking waterfalls on Earth.

Pissing Mare Falls-Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador

Pissing Mare Falls may have a funny sounding name but they' re no joke: in fact, they' re one of the highest waterfalls in Canada. Located in the beautiful Gros Morne National Park, the falls are only   accessible by boat tour.

Takakkaw Falls-Yoho National Park, British Columbia

Takakkaw translated from Cree loosely means the "magnificent", and it's a suitable word for the second-highest waterfalls in Canada. After a steep drive up a winding road, these falls are only a short hike from the parking lot along a wheelchair accessible path.

Niagara Falls-Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls are the most famous waterfalls in Canada.Actually they are made up of three different falls—the Horseshoe Falls, the most powerful in North America, are the only one located on the Canadian side.Melting glaciers（冰川）formed the falls thousands of years ago and the beautiful green color is due to dissolved salt and finely ground（磨）rock.

Bridal Veil Falls-Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park, British Columbia

Pretty and delicate, the Bridal Veil Falls are located just east of Chilliwack, British Columbia, and really do look like a bride with a beautiful veil（ 面 纱 ）, with water gently pouring over smooth rock. An easy 15-minute walk to the falls takes you through rich leaves. Picnic tables are available, and there are lots of opportunities for viewing wildlife along the way.

1. Where are Pissing Mare Falls?

A．Near British Columbia.

B．In a beautiful small park.

C．On the highest mountain in Canada.

D．Between Newfoundland and Labrador.

2. How did Niagara Falls come into being?

A．It remains a mystery.

B．It originated from several rivers.

C．It was formed by the melting glaciers.

D．It was made by dissolved salt and finely ground rock.

3. What can you do in Bridal Veil Falls?

A．Hunting wildlife.	B．Having a picnic.
C．Collecting salt.	D．Buying veils.

【推荐2】Every November, Time magazine picks out what it calls “The 25 Best Inventions” of the year. Here, Teens has chosen some of the most interesting ones.

Ember Mug

It’s hard to always keep coffee at the right temperature, especially in winter. It’s too hot to drink at first, but before we know it, it gets too cold and loses all its taste. The perfect level of warmth for a cup of coffee only lasts for 37 seconds, which makes the Ember Mug a great innovation. It keeps your coffee or tea at a certain temperature, anywhere between 45℃ and 62℃ once you set it through a smart-phone app.

Tasty One Top

TV cooking shows make cooking look so easy, but it’s almost impossible to get the recipes to cook the same as how the professionals cook. However, the Tasty One Top DIY cooking companion is here to help. Developed by Buzzfeed, the cooker can be connected to a smartphone app, which has more than 1,700 recipes and videos. You choose a recipe and the app will let the cooker know what to do. For example, it’ll tell you when to turn your steak or when to add certain ingredients.

Jibo

Smart speakers from companies like Amazon and Xiaomi have added a lot of fun to our lives, but they’re still just faceless speakers. However, Jibo, developed by MIT professor Cynthia Breazeal, has brought smart technology to life. Said to be “the world’s first social robot for the home”, Jibo looks like a cartoon character. Inside its “head”, there are various sensors (传感器) and cameras, which allow it to recognize faces and speech. It can also set alarms, remind you of important things, tell you the weather and read news or messages from your friends and family.

1. Which of the following is true of Ember Mug?

A．It’s an invention to heat coffee in 37 seconds.

B．It can make a cup of tea.

C．It’s hard to keep coffee at the right temperature by Ember Mug.

D．You can use it by setting through a smart-phone app.

2. How can Tasty One Top help people?

A．By giving people different recipes.

B．By helping people cook intelligently.

C．By saving energy while cooking.

D．By offering different kinds of cooking apps.

3. What can Jibo probably be?

A．A faceless robot.

B．A family assistant.

C．A cartoon character.

D．A smart alarm.

4. What does the underlined word “innovation” mean?

A．matter	B．magazine
C．invention	D．temperature

5. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To advertise high-tech products.

B．To introduce some new inventions.

C．To encourage subscription to Time.

D．To tell about some “tasty” products.

【推荐3】Until the 1990s coffee was rarely served in China except at luxury hotels aimed at foreigners. When Starbucks opened its first shop there in 1999, it was far from clear that the country’s tea-drinkers would take to such a different and usually more costly source of caffeine. Starbucks tried to attract customers to coffee’s bitter taste by promoting milk and sugar-heavy concoctions(调和) such as Frappuccinos.

But coffee has become fashionable among the middle class in China. Starbucks now has about 3, 800 shops in China more than in any other country outside America. Statista, a business-intelligence portal(门户网站), says the roast coffee market in China is growing by more than10 %year. Starbucks and its rivals see big opportunities for expanding there.

So too, however, do home-grown competitors. A major new presence is Luckin Coffee, Beijing- based chain. Since its founding less than two years ago, it has opened more than 2,300 shops. On May 17th Luckin’s initial public offering on the Nasdaq stockmarket raised more than $570m,giving it a value of about $4bn.

Luckin’s remarkable growth is sign of change. No longer do Chinese consumers see coffee as such a luxury. Most of Luckin’s shops are merely kiosks where busy white-collar workers pick up their drinks, having ordered them online. Super-fast delivery can also be arranged through the company’s app. Independent coffee shops are springing up. The growth is striking considering the country’s reputation for its tea-drinking culture where many residents like to relax in teahouses sipping tea served gracefully.

But the two markets are different. The teahouses tend to cater to older people who like to spend long hours playing mahjong and gossiping. At the coffee shops it is rare to see anyone over 40. Young people use them for socialising, but much of their interaction is online -sharing photos of their drinks and of the coffee-making equipment. An option on the Chinese rating app Dianping allows users to search for wanghong ("internet viral") coffee houses.

1. How did Starbucks try to appeal to Chinese consumers?

A．By reducing the price slightly.	B．By introducing the benefits of coffee.
C．By making coffee taste not so bitter.	D．By promoting its products effectively.

2. What does Luckin Coffee’s growth suggest?

A．People tend to like coffee’s bitter taste.

B．People’s views on coffee-drinking have changed.

C．People in China can afford coffee now.

D．Tea is no longer part of Chinese culture.

3. What does the underlined word “kiosks” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Places where people can drink beer.

B．Restaurants where food can be taken away.

C．Shops aimed at people who like drinking.

D．Small shops where drinks are sold.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Coffee is taking off in China.

B．Tea-drinking is not popular.

C．Coffee or tea, which do you prefer?

D．Coffee has become people’s favorite in China.

【推荐1】Teenagers who talk on the cell phone a lot, and hold their phones up to their right ears, score worse on one type of memory test. That’s the finding of a new study. That memory impairment（损伤） might be one side effect of the radiation (放射线) that phones use to keep us connected while we’re on the go.

Nearly 700 Swiss teens took part in a test of figural memory. This type helps us remember abstract symbols and shapes, explains Milena Foerster. The teens took memory tests twice, one year apart. Each time, they had one minute to remember 13 pairs of abstract shapes. Then they were shown one item from each pair and asked to match it with one of the five choices. The study volunteers also took a test of verbal memory. That’s the ability to remember words. The two memory tests are part of an intelligence test. The researchers also surveyed the teens on how they use cell phones. And they got call records from phone companies. The researchers used those records to figure out how long the teens were using their phones. This allowed the researchers to work out how big a radiation exposure (接触) each person could have got while talking.

A phone user’s exposure to the radiation can differ widely. Some teens talk on their phones more than others. People also hold their phones differently. If the phone is close to the ear, more radiation may enter the body, Foerster notes. Even the type of network signal that a phone uses can matter. Much of Switzerland was using an older “second-generation” type of cell phone networks, the study reports. Many phone carriers (通讯公司) have moved away from such networks. And more companies plan to update their networks within the next few years.

The teens’ scores in the figural memory tests were roughly the same from one year to the next. But those who normally held their phones near the right ears, and who were also exposed to higher levels of radiation, scored a little bit worse after a year. No group of teens showed big changes on the verbal memory test. Why might one type of memory be linked to cell phone use, but not another? Foerster thinks it could have to do with where different memory centers sit in the brain. The site that deals with the ability to remember shapes is near the right ear.

1. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A．Phone users can make more money with new networks.

B．Radiation levels are affected by the cell phone network types.

C．The cell phone network type has little to do the cell phone use.

D．How people hold their phones has no effect on their bodies.

2. According to the study, teens who use their phones to their right ears a lot do worse in ________.

A．matching numbers	B．reading signals
C．remembering shapes	D．learning words

3. What might be the best title for the text?

A．Cell phone use and safety warnings

B．Facts about cell phone use at school

C．Dangerous levels of cell phone use among teens

D．Teen’s cell phone use linked to memory problems

【推荐2】Living in a culture that is different from your own can be both an exciting and challenging experience. The following are 6 cultural differences between China and the USA to help promoting mutual understanding.

Money

As is well known, the Chinese are conservative when they are planning to spend money, but far fewer American families are saving money for emergencies and education than their Chinese counterparts (对等的人)..

Privacy

Chinese people do not have the same concept of privacy as American do. They talk about topic such as ages, income or marital (婚姻的) status, which Americans think is annoying and disturbing.

Family

In China, elders are traditionally treated with great respect while young are cared for. In America, the goal of the family is to encourage independence, particularly that of the children. Unlike the Chinese, older Americans seldom live with their children.

Friends

Chinese people have different meanings to define friends. Just hanging out together time to time is not friendship. Friendship means lifelong friends who feel it deeply necessary to give each other whatever help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends and drinking friends.

Education

Chinese people value education and career more than Americans, who in turn attach more great importance to good character and faith, which they think are of great value in their life.

________

Basically China values the community and the USA values the individual. If you achieve something in the USA, it’s because you are great. While in China, if you achieve something, it’s because the team, or family, or company is great. Everything you do gets owed to the greater whole, while in American individual achievements are celebrated.

1. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Americans lay more stress on faith and good personality.

B．Americans think much of the individual and the community.

C．Americans are mean with money to spend while Chinese are not.

D．Americans define friendship almost the same.

2. Which of the following can best describe the last difference?

A．Achievements	B．Individual
C．Team VS Individual	D．Teamwork

3. What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A．To promote friendship between China and the USA.

B．To help Chinese live well in the USA.

C．To have a complete understanding of the USA.

D．To introduce the cultural differences between China and the USA

【推荐3】Knowing how to communicate well needs very personal attention between you and another human being. Is there a better way to learn how to communicate effectively? Yes, there is. Please follow the 3 basic steps below.

* Relax and breathe

Whether it's a business meeting or a first date, the first thing you must do in order to communicate is to relax.

When you relax, you are in control. You control your reactions and your reactions do not control you. Breathing is central to relaxation. Take a few deep breaths and your body will begin to be more at ease. This will help you apply what you already know about how to communicate well.

* Think and you will be prepared

Have you ever heard the old saying "think before you speak"? Well, it is true. By thinking ahead about how the conversation might flow, you will be better prepared, more at ease and more confident.

* Follow the flow of the conversation

If you are uncomfortable, being silent will only make it worse and make the other person uncomfortable as well. So when all else fails, follow through with small talk until a common topic appears.

A good way to keep a conversation going is to ask the other person questions. People love to talk about themselves and if you do this, they will leave the conversation, thinking very highly of you. Learning good communication skills is not something out of reach. If you make an effort, you will succeed.

1. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．How to Begin Your Conversation Effectively.

B．Preparation and Conversation.

C．Personal Attention and Communication.

D．How to Communicate with People You Meet.

2. If you want to talk with others successfully, the most important thing you should do is ________.

A．to make a good preparation for the conversation.

B．to take as many deep breaths as possible.

C．to keep calm and relax yourself fully.

D．to follow the flow of the conversation.

3. Why does relaxation play an important part in your good communication?

A．Because it can help you keep excited and react quickly in the communication.

B．Because it will help you organize good sentences for your communication.

C．Because it can help you put your communication skills that you know into use.

D．Because no one likes to communicate with a nervous person.

4. If you feel uncomfortable, you'd better ________.

A．talk small things until you find a topic you both like.

B．speak freely so as to run across the topic you like.

C．keep silent in order to give the chance of speaking to others.

D．ask questions which you are interested in.

5. What's the meaning of the underlined sentence?

A．You will be good at communication if you try.

B．Good communication skills can be learned if you try.

C．Not all people can learn good communication skills.

D．Communication skills can be improved easily.