【推荐1】We lived in a very quiet neighborhood. One evening I heard a loud crash in the street. Earlier that evening my wife had asked me to go to the store to get some soft drinks. It seemed that this would be a good time to let my teenage daughter Holly practice her driving, so I sent her to the store in my truck. At dinner my son talked about how much he liked my truck. I enjoyed having it, but I said: “Guy, my heart is not set on that truck. I like it but it is just metal and won' t last forever. Never set your heart on anything that won't last.” After hearing the loud noise, the whole family ran outside. My son shouted: “Dad! Dad, Holly crashed your truck.”

The accident had happened in my own driveway. Holly had crashed my truck into our other vehicle. In her inexperience, she had confused the brakes and the gas pedal . Holly was unhurt physically but when we reached her, she was crying and saying: “Oh, Dad, I'm sorry. I know how much you love this truck.” I held her in my arms as she cried.

Later that week a friend stopped by and asked what had happened to my truck. I told her the whole story. Her eyes moistened and she said : “That happened to me when I was a girl. I borrowed my dad' s car and ran into a tree that had fallen across the road. I ruined the car. When I got home, my Dad knocked me to the ground and began to kick me.” Over 40 years later, she still felt the pain of the night.

I remember how sad Holly was on the night she crashed our truck, and how I comforted her. One day, when Holly thinks back on her life, I want her to know that I love her a thousand times more than any piece of property.

1. What do we know about Holly?

A．She crashed her car.	B．She was badly injured.
C．She ran into a fallen tree in the truck.	D．She mistook the gas pedal for the brakes.

2. What happened to the author's friend after she had the crash?

A．Her father comforted her.	B．She lost the courage to drive.
C．Her father was violent toward her.	D．She suffered physical pain for a long time.

3. What does the underlined word “property" in the last paragraph probably mean ?

A．Advice.

B．Experience.

C．Possession.

D．Relationship.

4. Which is the best title of the text?

A．What Really Matters	B．How to Educate Children
C．Who Really Cares	D．How to Be a Father

【推荐2】Most students, when asked about their best graduation(毕业) gift, would probably reply, “ A car”, or “Money for a house”. Cai Kaiyuan, 21, made a different choice. As a graduation gift to himself, he decided to work as a volunteer teacher in a distant village in Tibet.

Cai, a student at Huan Railway Professional Technology College, at first planned to cycle from Sichuan to Tibet. It turned out cycling on a plateau(高原) was quite difficult. And it has kept changing his opinion on life. Cai’s hands even became painful while cycling up a 5008-meter-high mountain, where temperatures often dropped to 18 below zero. At night, the ice covered the road and he fell off his bike three times. Little oxygen made him feel sick and weak. “At the most serious moment, I felt that was on the line,” said Cai.

However, he also gained something unexpected. At Ya’ an, a city in Sichuan, he met a group of tourists who are also university students. A girl called Wu Ling told him that she planned to work as a volunteer in a primary school in Tibet after her journey. He was impressed by the idea as she looked weak.

It was not until he reached a family-run hotel in Shigatse that Cai’s spirits began to rise. The hotel manager’s two daughters enjoyed talking with him. The kids asked about his experiences on his trip, and showed him the beautiful local lakes. “They told me that they always liked to talk to guests, as they wanted to improve their Mandarin,” he said, “Their parents and many locals can only speak Tibetan.”

Cai was moved by the girls’ story. Their situation is worse and the local people have little chance to learn Mandarin because the schools are short of teacher. “1 want to do something to improve the situation for kids like them,” said Cai. His parents finally gave their agreement and his teachers also supported him.

1. What is Cai Kaiyuan’s graduation gift?

A．Cycling from Sichuan to Tibet.

B．Receiving money for a house.

C．Being a volunteer teacher in a Tibetan school.

D．Owning a new car and travelling around.

2. What is Cai Kaiyuan’s journey to Tibet like?

A．Special and comfortable.

B．Dangerous but meaningful.

C．Relaxing but unexpected.

D．Freezing cold and boring.

3. The underlined phrase “on the line” in the second paragraph means ?

A．in a hurry	B．at risk
C．making a phone call	D．surfing the Internet

4. The purpose of writing this passage is to               .

A．tell us about an unusual graduation gift

B．introduce a dangerous journey to us

C．give advice on how to travel to Tibet

D．encourage us to be a teacher in Tibet

【推荐3】As a child, I had a library phobia. I associated going to the library with doing research for a school project or a book report. I defined reading as work, and books came from the library, so going to the library for fun was out of the range of my thinking. As hard as they tried, my parents could not get me interested in reading. They purchased a few of the Hardy Boys series.

The books collected dust. The closest I came to wanting to read was The Big Green Book by Robert Graves, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, a gift from my aunt. Its lead character, a boy of about 8, my age, discovered a book of magic spells. I was fascinated spells were not in the book, but I drew an imaginary magic circle with a long stick in my bedroom, stood inside the circle, took three deep breaths and made up my own spell. I never became invisible, which was my goal. This was my favorite book. I read it again and again. Certainly no need to go to the library.

Eventually, I started reading novels in my 20s. To avoid going to the library, which was only seven blocks from my Brooklyn home, I joined various book clubs. I didn’t mind having to buy a book a month as long as I didn’t have to go to the library.

My library phobia was cured 23 years ago when my family moved to Long Island. The East Meadow Public Library, a two-block walk from our home, became a regular destination for me and my family. My children were introduced to books through the children’s section with free programs that even my wife and I enjoyed. My children made friends, and my wife and I made friends with the parents.

My library card is faded, the edges are ragged and I renew my membership time and time again. I have given up mail-order books, and when I go to a store that sells books, I snap pictures of the book jackets that enthral me and put the book on reserve at the library.

1. What can we learn about the book The Big Green Book?

A．It inspired the author with some ideas.	B．It appealed to the author’s parents.
C．It contained some magic spells.	D．It is a gift from the author’s uncle.

2. What did the author prefer to do rather than go to the library?

A．To go to book clubs.	B．To read novels.
C．To start a school.	D．To purchase books on his own.

3. What made the author fall in love with the library at last?

A．He formed a new family.	B．He moved to a new place.
C．He wanted to meet targeted people.	D．He came to know more about his family.

4. Which can replace the underlined word “enthral” in the last paragraph?

A．Puzzle.

B．Frighten.

C．Attract.

D．Escape.

【推荐1】One day, a teacher was giving a speech to his students. He held up a glass of water and asked the class, “How heavy do you think this glass of water is?”

The students’ answers are in the range from 20g to 500g. “It does not matter on the weight itself. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, I will have to see the doctor. It is exactly the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”

“If we carry our burdens all the time sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on. The burden is becoming increasingly heavy.”

“What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again.”

We have to put down the burden sometimes, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on. So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can.

1. The teacher brought a glass of water to the class because____________.

A．he was very thirst	B．his arms were strong
C．it’s a physics lesson	D．it was a good example

2. The underlined word “range” means ____________ in Chinese?

A．依据	B．范围
C．类别	D．重量

3. You can conclude that one may feel____________ if he put down the burden sometimes.

A．more energetic	B．much heavier
C．more stressed out	D．happier

4. This was a lesson about how to____________.

A．keep fit by drinking water	B．work out a physics problem
C．relax oneself in life	D．hold a school party

5. Choose the true sentence according to the passage.

A．You could become heavier and heavier if you held a glass of water in your hand.

B．All the students in the class knew what the weight of the glass of water exactly was.

C．The teacher had a good way of making his lesson clear and easy to be understood.

D．If you let your burdens down, your teacher will like you.

【推荐2】At one time it was the dream of many little girls to become a nurse. Today, however, America is facing its worst nurse shortage since World War I. Recently about 2,000,000 nurses are needed and 60 percent of all hospitals in the US have shortages, large enough to threaten the quality of care provided. The demand for nurses spreads widely throughout the nursing field.

What has become of these women in white? The answer lies in not one but several causes. One possibility is the fact that women have greater career options. In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices: nursing or teaching. Today, more women than ever are in the workforce, but their options have greatly increased. There are women doctors, lawyers, firefighters and police officers. In fact, women today are found in nearly every field of work. Nursing has been left behind, as women move on to jobs with higher pay and greater status. A woman or man in the nursing field is often looked down upon as“merely a nurse”. Teachers many be also at fault. Many high school students are actually away from nursing, told by teachers that they are“too bright to be a nurse”.

Americans are living longer than ever and requiring more medical attention. In fact, the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously a larger population requires more nurses. AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care. Usually fatal(致命的) diseases mean long hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.

1. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?

A．How teachers have influenced their students.

B．What has caused nurse shortage.

C．How nurses have been looked down upon.

D．Why women have chosen many different jobs.

2. The passage tells that high school teachers are at fault for       .

A．not mentioning the worst nurse shortage in the US

B．introducing jobs with higher pay and greater status to their students

C．persuading the students not to be nurses

D．not asking the government to raise the nurses’ payment

3. The author writes the passage in order to         .

A．warn people to pay more attention to the nursing problem

B．call on women to choose different kinds of jobs

C．tell us women’s free choices of jobs today

D．describe the unequal treatment of women in the US

4. It can be inferred from the passage that        .

A．of all the hospitals in the world 60 percent more nurses are badly needed

B．women in the US have greater career choices than those in other countries

C．high school students think themselves too bright to be nurses

D．nursing used to be a popular job among women

【推荐3】All I had to do for the two dollars was clean her house for a few hours after school. It was a beautiful house, too, with a plastic-covered sofa and chairs, wall-to-wall blue-and-white carpeting, a white enamel stove, a washing machine and a dryer—things that were common in her neighborhood, absent in mine. In the middle of the war, she had butter, sugar, steaks, and seam-up-the-back stockings.

I knew how to scrub floors on my knees and how to wash clothes in our zinc tub, but I had never seen a Hoover vacuum cleaner or an iron that wasn’t heated by fire.

Part of my pride in working for her was earning money I could squander (浪费): on movies, candy, paddleballs, jacks, ice-cream cones. But a larger part of my pride was based on the fact that I gave half my wages to my mother, which meant that some of my earnings were used for real things—an insurance-policy payment or what was owed to the milkman or the iceman. The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed, nuisances to be corrected, problems so severe that they were abandoned to the forest. I had a status that doing routine chores in my house did not provide—and it earned me a slow smile, an approving nod from an adult. Confirmations that I was adultlike, not childlike.

In those days, the forties, children were not just loved or liked; they were needed. They could earn money; they could care for children younger than themselves; they could work the farm, take care of the herd, run errands (差事), and much more. I suspect that children aren’t needed in that way now. They are loved, doted on, protected, and helped. Fine, and yet...

Little by little, I got better at cleaning her house—good enough to be given more to do, much more. I was ordered to carry bookcases upstairs and, once, to move a piano from one side of a room to the other. I fell carrying the bookcases. And after pushing the piano my arms and legs hurt so badly. I wanted to refuse, or at least to complain, but I was afraid she would fire me, and I would lose the freedom the dollar gave me, as well as the standing I had at home—although both were slowly being eroded. She began to offer me her clothes, for a price. Impressed by these worn things, which looked simply gorgeous to a little girl who had only two dresses to wear to school, I bought a few. Until my mother asked me if I really wanted to work for castoffs. So I learned to say “No, thank you” to a faded sweater offered for a quarter of a week’s pay.

Still, I had trouble summoning (鼓起) the courage to discuss or object to the increasing demands she made. And I knew that if I told my mother how unhappy I was she would tell me to quit. Then one day, alone in the kitchen with my father, I let drop a few whines about the job. I gave him details, examples of what troubled me, yet although he listened intently, I saw no sympathy in his eyes. No “Oh, you poor little thing.” Perhaps he understood that what I wanted was a solution to the job, not an escape from it. In any case, he put down his cup of coffee and said, “Listen. You don’t live there. You live here. With your people. Go to work. Get your money. And come on home.”

That was what he said. This was what I heard:

Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself.

You make the job; it doesn’t make you.

Your real life is with us—your family.

You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.

I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, big-hearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.

1. According to the article, which of the following is true about children in the 1940s and now?

A．Children become needed, loved and liked when they are at forty.

B．Children in modern times are less likely to be spoiled by parents.

C．Children in 1940s are capable as they can handle various daily routine.

D．Children in modern times aren’t needed to do daily works any more.

2. What did the author’s father make her understand?

A．Don’t escape from difficulties at work.

B．Whatever decision she made, her father would support her.

C．Convey her dissatisfaction with her work.

D．Make a distinction between work and life.

3. Which of the following corresponds to the author’s views in the passage?

A．Don’t regard work achievement as a criterion for evaluating oneself.

B．Hard work is a struggle for a better future in your limited life.

C．Parents are the best teachers of children.

D．Job security is less valuable when compared with family.

【推荐1】More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through excessive use of smartphones and other audio devices, the UN warned Tuesday, proposing new safety standards for safe volume levels. In a bid to safeguard hearing, the World Health Organization and International Telecommunications Union issued a non binding international standard for the manufacture and use of audio devices.

Young people are particularly prone to (易于) risky listening habits. Around half of those between the ages of 12 and 35, or 1.1 billion people, are at risk due to “prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music they listen to through personal audio devices.” the UN health agency said.

Currently, about five percent of the global population, or some 375 million people, including 34 million children, suffer from disabling hearing loss, WHO considers a volume above 85 decibels (分贝) for eight hours or 100 decibels for 15 minutes as unsafe. WHO is calling for parental as well as automatic volume controls on audio devices to prevent dangerous use.

While some smartphones and other audio devices already offer some of these features, the UN would like to see a uniform standard used to help protect against disabling hearing loss. “Think of it like driving on a highway, but without a speedometer in your car or a speed limit,” Shelly Chadha of the WHO told reporters in Geneva. “What we’ve proposed is that your smartphones come fitted with a speedometer, with a measurement system which tells you how much sound you’re getting and tells you if you are going over the limit.”

1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?

A．The UN and the World Health Organization are concerned about the hearing health of the young.

B．The UN already have a unified standard to help protect against disabling hearing loss.

C．One billion young people are damaging their hearing through excessive use of smartphones.

D．A volume above 85 decibels for eight hours or 100 decibels for 15 minutes is unsafe.

2. What might be the population of the world according to the passage?

A．7.5 billion.	B．75 million.
C．375 million	D．37.5 billion.

3. Which kind of people are more likely to suffer from hearing loss?

A．Young people who seldom use their smartphones.

B．Adult who never use their cellphone above 100 decibels.

C．Children supervised by their parents on cellphone use.

D．Young people who frequently listen to music above 85 decibels for eight hours.

4. Which kind of journal might this passage be taken from?

A．A travel journal.	B．A health journal.
C．An entertainment journal.	D．A science journal.

【推荐2】The latest diet trend in America is also an ancient human activity. The activity is fasting, or not eating food for a set amount of time.

Social media apps and Facebook groups are appearing for people who do “intermittent fasting,” or fasting on a part-time basis. Like other diets, intermittent fasting helps you lose weight by setting limits on eating. But instead of limiting what you eat, it limits when you eat.

Melissa Breaux Bankston is a Crossfit instructor in New Orleans, Louisiana. She tried intermittent fasting as a way to reduce her snacking. “I wanted to limit the amount of time that I was eating,” she said.

However, for now, limited research suggests it may not be any better for weight loss than reducing calorie intake over the long term.

“It’s really another way of fooling your body into eating less calories,” said Krista Varady, who studies intermittent fasting at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Courtney Peterson, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, also studies intermittent fasting. She suggested the benefits of intermittent fasting are not as great as some might suggest. “Unfortunately, intermittent fasting gets a little hyped,” she said.

Some health experts say intermittent fasting might be too difficult for many people. They point to a study of 100 people where those placed in a fasting group lost about the same amount of weight as those on diets that restricted calories. The fasting group had a dropout rate of 38 percent, compared with 29 percent for the caloric-restriction diet group.

But intermittent fasting may be easier for people who already skip meals when they are too busy, said Varady. People interested in intermittent fasting should talk to their doctor before trying it. Health experts do not recommend intermittent fasting for children, people on some medications and people with a history of eating disorders.

1. What do intermittent fasting and other diets have in common?

A．They limit what you eat.	B．They limit when you eat.
C．They help people lose weight	D．They are on a part-time basis.

2. What does the underlined word “hyped” in paragraph 6 mean?

A．Ignored.

B．Overstated.

C．Welcomed.

D．Rejected.

3. Which statement is right according to the passage?

A．Intermittent fasting is very effective.

B．Intermittent fasting is difficult for all people.

C．People can try intermittent fasting as they like.

D．All people are not advised to do intermittent fasting.

【推荐3】The Taj Mahal(泰姬陵) is a love story，a sad and beautiful one.If it didn’t exist，we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale.Three hundred years ago，there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan.His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly.Her title was Mumtazl Mahal：its shortened form Taj Mahal，means “pride of the palace”．In the year 1630 this beloved wife of the emperor died.He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne.He decided，out of his love for his wife，to build her the most beautiful tomb that had ever been seen.

He summoned the best artists and architects from India，Turkey，Persia and Arabia and finally，the design was complete.It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal，one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6—7 meters high.Towers rise from each of the four corners.The Taj itself soars another 61 meters into the air.It is an eight­sided building made of white marble.

The emperor planned to build an identical tomb of black marble for himself on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge.However，his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish，and for the rest of his life，he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife.

1. The whole passage tells us about________．

A．a beautiful fairy tale

B．the love story of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife

C．white and black marble tombs made for two emperors

D． the story of the Taj Mahal

2. The emperor’s own tomb was designed to be________________．

A．meters high

B．eight­sided

C．black­coloured

D．white­coloured

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Taj Mahal?

A．It was completed quickly owing to the efforts of the best artists and workers.

B．A lot of people took part in the building work.

C．It is a magnificent building.

D．It is a tomb for the emperor’s beloved wife.

4. The emperor________．

A．died soon after Taj Mahal died

B．died after 1648

C．was beloved by his people

D．was killed by his son

【推荐1】The two roads

It was New Year’s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. When he cast them on the earth, where a few more hopeless people besides himself now moved towards their certain goal--- the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and regrets. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts.

The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the serious moment when his father placed him at the entrance of the two roads---one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, covered with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs; the other leading to a deep, dark cave, which was endless, where poison flowed instead of water and where devils and poisonous snake hissed and crawled.

He looked towards the sky and cried painfully, “O, my father, place me once more at the entrance to life, and I’ll choose the better way!” But both his father and the days of his youth had passed away.

He saw the lights flowing away in the darkness. These were the days of his wasted life; he saw a star fall from the sky and disappeared, and this was the symbol of himself. His regret, which was like a sharp arrow, struck deeply into his heart. Then he remembered his friends in his childhood, who entered on life with him. But they had made their way to success and were now honored and happy on this New Year’s night.

The clock in the church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents’ early love for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his good. But he chose the wrong way. With shame and grief he dared no longer look towards the heaven where his father lived. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing effort, he burst out a cry: “Come back, my early days! Come back”

And his youth did return, for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year Night. He was still young though his faults were real; he had not yet entered the deep, dark cave, and he was still free to walk on the road which leads to the peaceful and sunny land.

Those who still linger at the entrance of life, hesitating to choose the bright road, remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, but in vain: “ O youth, return! Oh give me back my early days!”

1. In the 3rd paragraph, the man cried painfully because _________.

A．all the hopeless people were moving towards death

B．He had lost forever the chance to take the right road

C．His parents and the happy days of his youth were gone

D．He refused to take the road leading to a deep dark cave

2. What happened to the man before his sudden realization?

A．He was at his father’s funeral farewell.

B．He was enjoying the New Year’s eve.

C．He was wandering at the entrance to life.

D．He was having a dream of his life in old age.

3. We can infer from the story that _________.

A．The man’s childhood friends led a joyful life like him

B．The man still had the opportunity to chose the right way

C．both the man’s parents passed away when he was young

D．the man’s father was quite strict with his son before death

4. The passage is mainly written for _________.

A．a new driver getting lost on a detour

B．a concerned mother with two children to raise

C．an experienced teacher with a good reputation

D．a hesitating young adult facing a tough life choice

【推荐2】Aaptiv

Download Aaptiv, take a quick fitness quiz about your goals, and get going. The app will set you up with workouts to do on your favorite cardio(有氧的) machine, at home on a yoga mat, or outside. Where this app stands out: It pairs audio instructions from instructors and personal trainers with songs you love-not boring, canned beats-so it’s more engaging than most recorded workouts. It’s basically like your favorite cycling class in the palm of your hands.

MyFitnessPal

Another app that pairs workouts with a nutrition plan. This free app tracks your personal diet and exercise to determine the best calorie intake based on your body type and workouts. It even gives you the ability to scan food bar codes or enter them by hand to get accurate calorie and nutrient counts.

MyFitnessPal is great at helping people become more aware of their eating habits. It may not be the most accurate at times, but just by having people become more conscious of the foods and drinks they’re putting into their body is a huge win.

Amazon Kindle

Kindle offers a wide selection of books, magazines and newspapers, making it one of the most popular eBook reader apps for smartphones and tablets. You needn’t own a Kindle device to enjoy books through the Kindle app; it’s available on Android and IOS devices too. To increase reading pleasure, Kindle is powered by technology from Amazon that allows you to sync(同步) your last read page, bookmarks, highlights and notes across all devices; it also includes a built-in dictionary that makes it easy to look up new words while reading, and the Kindle app provides access to Google search and Wikipedia as well.

1. What feature makes Aaptiv most appealing?

A．It enables you to exercise as you wish.

B．It allows a quick fitness quiz about your goals.

C．It provides classes of running, cycling and yoga.

D．It offers trainer-led workouts with music you love.

2. What do people most probably download MyFitnessPal for?

A．Exercising with right diets.	B．Studying eating habits.
C．Tracking calorie consumption.	D．Scanning food bar codes.

3. How many advantages does Kindle have for a better reading experience?

A．2.

B．3.

C．4.

D．5.

【推荐3】Teachers’ Day around the world is not celebrated on the same day. In some countries, Teachers’ Day is celebrated on working days. However, in other countries, it is celebrated on holidays.

Here we are giving you a list of countries that celebrate Teachers’ Day on holidays.

China

The Teachers’ Day was proposed(提议) at National Central University in 1931. It was adopted(被采纳) by the central government of Republic of China in 1932. In 1939, the day was set on August 27th, Confucius’s birthday. People’s Republic of China government called it off in 1951. It was reestablished in 1985, and the day was changed to September 10th. Now more and more people are trying to celebrate the Teachers’ Day back to Confucius’s birthday.

India

In India, Teachers’ Day is celebrated on September 5th, in honor of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India. Because his birthday was September 5th. At schools on this day, students in India celebrate this day to show their respect and love to their teachers.

Russia

In Russia Teachers’ Day is on October 5th. Before 1994, this day was set on the first Sunday of September.

USA

In the United States, Teachers’ Day is a holiday on the Tuesday of the first full week of May.

Thailand

January 16th was adopted as Teachers’ Day in the Thailand by a resolution(决议) of the government on November 21, 1956. The first Teachers’ Day was held in 1957.

Iran

In Iran, Teachers’ Day is celebrated on May 2nd every year. It is in honor of the famous Iranian professor Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari who died on May 2, 1980.

Although different countries celebrate Teachers’ Day on different days, the activities people take to celebrate it just stay the same.

1. The best title of the passage is __________.

A．Teachers’ Day around the world

B．The history of Teachers’ Day

C．Activities on Teachers’ Day

D．How to celebrate Teachers’ Day

2. What will be discussed in the next paragraph of the text?

A．How Teachers’ Day became popular in the world.

B．Which country is the first to celebrate Teachers’ Day.

C．What activities people take to celebrate Teachers’ Day.

D．Which country has the longest vacation for Teachers’ Day.

3. In which country is the Teachers’ Day celebrated for its leader?

A．Iran.	B．Thailand.
C．Russia.	D．India.

4. We can know from the passage that __________.

A．not all the Teachers’ Days are celebrated on holidays

B．China is the first country to celebrate Teachers’ Day

C．Thailand first celebrated Teachers’ Day in 1956

D．Russia and USA celebrate Teachers’ Day on the same day