【推荐2】In Canada, rights come with responsibilities. ' These include:

Obeying the law—one of Canada’s founding principles is the rule of law. Individuals and governments are regulated by laws and not by arbitrary actions. No person or group is above the law.

Taking responsibility for oneself and one's family—getting a job, taking care of one's family and working hard in keeping with one's abilities are important Canadian values. Work contributes to personal dignity and self -respect, and to Canada's prosperity.

Serving on a jury—when called to do so. you are legally required to serve. Serving on a jury is a privilege that makes the justice system work as it depends on impartial juries made up of citizens.

Voting in elections—the right to vote comes with a responsibility to vote in federal provincial or territorial and local elections.

Helping others in the community—millions of volunteers freely donate their time to help others

without pay -helping people in need assisting at your child’s school volunteering at a food bank or other charity, or encouraging newcomers to integrate. Volunteering is an excellent way to gain useful skills and develop friends and contacts.

Protecting and enjoying our heritage and environment—every citizen has u role to play in avoiding waste and pollution while protecting Canada’s natural, cultural and architectural heritage for future generations.

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

A．Rights of Citizenship in Canada

B．Responsibilities of Citizenship in Canada

C．Different laws and regulations in Canada

D．Rights coming with responsibilities in Canada

2. Which is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Work can help one to win respect.

B．Canadian law requires its citizens to serve on a jury.

C．Volunteering is a better way to develop friends.

D．All citizens have the responsibility to protect Canada’s architectural heritage.

【推荐1】第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Kenya wants to organize a major international conference to discuss how to fight piracy(海盗) off the coast of Somalia. The conference may also deal with ways to rescue Somalia from seventeen years of civil war. More than forty percent of its people depend on food aid.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula says the world cannot end piracy and civil war without dealing with Somalia’s political problems.
Somali pirates operate in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal. The pirates have fast boats, modern weapons and equipment like satellite phones and global positioning systems.
Pirates hijacked the Sirius Star off the coast of Kenya and moved it to waters off Somalia.
The tanker Sirius Star, at three hundred thirty meters long, is the biggest ship ever known to have been captured by pirates. It also happened farther south than most attacks, and farther out at sea ---- more than eight hundred kilometers from land.
The ship was headed for the United States with two million karrels of oil, worth an estimated one hundred million dollars. A Saudi Arabian company owns the tanker. The pirates have   reportedly demanded twenty-five million dollars in negotiations to release the ship and its crew of twenty-five.
Somali pirates generally do not steal goods or kill hostages. They are believed to be holding seventeen ships with about three hundred crew members. Among the ships is a Ukrainian vessel hijacked(劫持) in September with a load of military weapons including tanks.
The increase in piracy is raising the cost of insuring ships. Also, oil from the Middle East and exports from East Asia could take longer to arrive.
Some of the world’s heaviest shipping traffic passes the Somali coast. But major shipping companies have begun to consider new routes. One of the world’s biggest shippers, A.P, Moeller Maersk, says it will avoid the Gulf of Aden. A move away from the Suez Canal could hurt Egypt’s economy.
American and other foreign navy ships are now watching for pirates. This week the Indian Navy destroyed a heavily armed “mother ship” in the Gulf of Aden. But the area to protect covers more than one hundred sixty million square kilometers.
1. According to the passage, which of the following is the key to solving the piracy in Somalia?

A．Providing lots of money.	B．Ending Civil war.
C．Supplying enough food.	D．Handling Somalia’s political problems.

2. Somali pirates do the following things except that _______.

A．they demand money	B．they hold the ships with crew
C．they kill some of the hostages	D．they hijack ships with military weapons

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．The cost of ship transport is decreasing.

B．The routes of some ships might change.

C．Nothing has been done to fight against the piracy.

D．The Suez Canal is of no importance to Egypt’s economy.

【推荐1】Popular Shows

This Is Us

Every family has a story. This Is Us follows the Pearson family across the decades: from Jack and Rebecca as young parents in the 1980s to their 37-year-old kids Kevin, Kate and Randall searching for love and fulfillment in the present day. This grounded(接地的) play shows how the tiniest events in our lives influence who we become and how the connections we share with each other can survive time, distance and even death.

The Voice

The Voice, which has won four Emmys for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, returns with the strongest singers from across the country invited to compete in the show’s new season. Superstar singer, songwriter, actress and pop-culture icon Miley Cyrus takes a red chair this season alongside the show’s returning coaches,Adam Levine and Blake Shelton and host Carson Daly.

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live, the Emmy-winning late-night comedy show, enters its 43^rd season for another year of laughs, surprises and great performances of their generation. The program has won 64 Emmy awards, the most for any show in television history, ”SNL” is influencing the political dialogue while making fun of it at the same time.

The Brave

This fresh, heart-pounding journey into the complex world of America’s military heroes follows Captain Adam Dalton and his heroic Special Operation Team of highly trained undercover specialists. Often facing seemingly impossible challenges, the team works tirelessly to get the job done. Week after week, the team saves the lives of innocent people and carries out missions in some of the most dangerous places in the world.

1. What is This Is Us mainly about?

A．American families in the 1980s.	B．people’s reactions facing death
C．The influence of time on friendship.	D．Everyday life and relationship.

2. Who is the new coach on this season’s The Voice?

A．Miley Cyrus

B．Adam Levine

C．Blake Shelton

D．Carson Daly

3. What has Saturday Night Live achieved as a TV show?

A．Entering the 64th seasons.	B．Making national policies.
C．Winning the most Emmys.	D．Having the most comedians.

【推荐2】Teacher, Foreign Language (High School)

DoDEA offers teaching opportunities in some of the most amazing and culturally rich places in the world. Come and work for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools !

Salary: US$ 39,775-US $ 80,930 Per School Year

Open Period: 10/3/2019 to 7/31/2020

Department: Department of Defense

Agency: Department of Defense Education Activity

Position Info: Flexible Schedules, Flexible Appointment Types

Who may apply: US Citizens； prior teaching experience is required

Food Inspector

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the US Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply for meat, poultry and egg products is safe, wholesome and correctly labeled and packaged.

Salary: US $ 31,628-US $ 50,932 Per Year

Open Period: 7/18/2019 to 7/17/2020

Department: Department of Agriculture

Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service

Position Info: Full-time, Permanent

Who may apply: US Citizens； graduates in Food Quality and Safety are preferred

Supervisory Public Health Veterinarian(兽医)

This is an excellent opportunity to seek a greater leadership role and responsibility in public health. If you are a new, mid-career, or experienced professional interested in a Public Health Veterinarian (PHV) career, this job is for you!

Salary: US$ 57,928-90,344 Per Year

Open Period: 9/30/2019 to 9/30/2020

Department: Department of Agriculture

Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service

Position Info: Full-time, Permanent

Who may apply: US Citizens and Nationals； no prior Federal experience is required

Veterinary Medical Officer-Veterinarian

The National Animal Health Emergency Response Corps (NAHERC) assists in the federal response to domestic (国内)and international animal disease outbreaks, threats, or natural disasters.

Salary: US $ 27. 78-US $ 36. 12 Per Hour

Open Period: 5/9/2019 to 5/1/2020

Department: Department of Agriculture

Agency: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Position Info: Full-time, Permanent

Who may apply: US Citizens and Nationals； no prior Federal experience is required

1. If you apply to be a teacher in DoDEA, you .

A．should have a good command of foreign cultures

B．will be able to arrange work time flexibly

C．should work for the Department of Agriculture

D．can send in your application from July 2019 to July 2020

2. Who is most likely to obtain the position of Food Inspector?

A．Roger, who expects to get paid US $ 60,000 a year.

B．Mary, who is a US national and wants a part-time job.

C．Adam, who intends to resign to look for a new job in August 2020.

D．Lucy, who is an American and majored in Food Quality and Safety.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．As a Food Inspector, you just need to ensure your food is safe.

B．Department of Agriculture recruits professionals passionate for a PHV career.

C．DoDEA welcomes US citizens and nationals with no prior teaching experience.

D．NAHERC independently researches domestic animal disease outbreaks, threats, or natural disasters.

【推荐3】Shimon, a four-armed robot with a ball-like head, holds small mallets (球棍) in “hands” to play a kind of music called a marimba. As he plays, his head moves around in time to the music.

Using “deep learning”, Shimon was taught to write his own music. He could not only make up his own music, but do it in real time, while playing with other musicians. This is called “improvising”.

Now he is back with a whole bunch of new tricks. He can write the words to his own songs, and sing them. Shimon learned to write the words for the songs the same way he learned to write music — by being “fed” thousands of examples. Shimon was trained on the lyrics (歌词) to 50,000 songs.

Georgia Tech professor Gil Weinberg, who leads the Shimon project, gets Shimon going with a starting idea. Shimon then writes the lyrics based around that idea. Mr. Weinberg usually provides much of the music for the songs, but Shimon helps out there, too.

Singing the songs is another story. To give Shimon a voice, the Georgia Tech team worked with experts at Pompeu Fabra University. The voice was created using AI and sounds very much like a man.

Later this spring, the team plans to put out an album of about 8-10 of Shimon’s songs. The album will be released on the music streaming service Spotify. There are also plans for Shimon to go on tour with a band to play and sing his songs live.

For Mr. Weinberg, that’s the main goal behind the Shimon Project — not to have robots take over, but to have robots and humans make something beautiful together.

1. What’s the main purpose of Paragraph 1?

A．To describe what the robot looks like.

B．To tell readers how Shimon performs.

C．To arouse readers’ curiosity to read further.

D．To advertise functions of the robot Shimon.

2. What skill does Shimon NOT have?

A．Writing music.	B．Releasing albums.
C．Singing songs.	D．Playing the marimba.

3. How does Shimon gain the ability to write lyrics?

A．By deep learning.

B．By copying songs.

C．By feeding himself.

D．By teaching himself.

4. What does the Shimon Project mainly aim to?

A．Have Shimon achieve more amazing skills.

B．Make robots take the place of human beings.

C．Carry out a music tour to make more profits.

D．Have Robots and humans work hand in hand.

【推荐1】If there was a subject at school that made me anxious, it was science. Maybe that’s because in my tenth grade, I couldn't understand my physics teacher's instructions, causing me to accidentally set fire to the classroom. So, when my husband and I decided to home-school our daughters, we made a deal: he would teach science, while I would handle everything else. But that’s not how things have been going these past few weeks, since my husband has been too busy to teach the girls.

Recently, while out on my morning hike before starting lessons, I noticed that the sky was a beautiful blue, and the air was filled with the sweet smell of flowers. That s why I decided that the day’s lessons would be taught outside, although I remembered that my daughters hadn't had any science classes from my husband for a while.

I returned to the house to get the girls ready. We headed up into the forest, settling ourselves by a pond that rarely has any visitors. My daughter Saoirse started to pick up pond weeds and catch frogs, while my other daughter Ula looked at me, waiting to be instructed. I handed her a drawing board and colored pencils. "We wait, "I told her, " and see if something comes along. In the meantime, just draw what's around you.”

We worked for more than an hour, hardly speaking. A bird flew across the water, and then settled in a front of a fallen tree. I quickly told Ula, worried that she’d not seen the creature. But she had, and she started drawing it. An hour later, she’d not finished her picture and I stared down at it. She drew the bird on her paper with amazing accuracy. But there was one other interesting fact about this drawing: she also drew me, sitting beside her.

I realized, as I stared at this child's drawing of us watching a bird, how I'd lived for 40 years, gathered 10 years of higher education, and never understood the foundation of science before this moment. The foundation of science is a sense of wonder; it isn't about accurately reciting words from a textbook. It is first and foremost about stepping outside our busy lives and amazing at the world around us.

1. How did the author feel about science when in school?

A．She was nervous about it.	B．She was fond of it.
C．She was confused about it.	D．She was eager for it.

2. The underlined word“it” in Paragraph4 refers to“      ”

A．the fallen tree	B．the forest
C．the bird	D．the picture

3. Which of the following best describes Ula?

A．She's very outgoing.	B．She's good at observing.
C．She's very hard-working.	D．She shares interests with her sister.

4. What is the foundation of science in the author's opinion?

A．Attention to accuracy.

B．Curiosity about the outside world.

C．Determination to find out the truth.

D．Ability to understand teachers' instructions.

【推荐2】The first thing that Valoy saw when she put on color-blind corrective glasses was green — the vibrancy (活力) of the grass and tree — and later, the brilliance of red in stop signs and flowers. Valoy says it’s unbelievable and she has struggled with certain topics, especially the painting class in school and she would even paint the ocean purple before that.

Valoy wasn’t diagnosed with red-green color blindness until the fourth grade. “For the past 17 years, I’ve lived in a ‘black and white movie’,” the recent Louis E. Dieruff High School graduate says. But not anymore. The transformative moment all started with a public speaking class Valoy took. After she made an informative speech about growing up with her color deficiency (缺陷), her teacher, Sandy Kile, was inspired to teach the class a more important life lesson.

Kile made a suggestion that the class should reach out to companies that produced corrective glasses to see if they would donate a pair to Valoy. While Kile encouraged Valoy to write a description of living in a world with mostly shades of grey and brown, her classmates wrote accompanying statements about why she needed the glasses. “I didn’t expect much for that,” Valoy says. “Professor Kile truly believed it was going to happen but we were not sure.”

It wasn’t so surprising when the first company turned down their request. Then, the class received reply from the founder of Pilestone Inc., offering Valoy and six other commumity members his glasses for free. “We started this business by trying to make some difference to people,” founder Ben Zhuang says.

Valoy is grateful to Kile and her classmates for their efforts. But Kile says that she is very glad the students have the chance to realize the significance of lending a hand to those in need, and that being able to aid Valoy in changing her life is something she will never forget the rest of her life.

1. Why is Valoy’s painting class mentioned?

A．To stress her serious attitude to study.	B．To give an instance of her sufferings.
C．To support wearing collective glasses.	D．To stop people from having color blindness.

2. How did Valoy feel when Kile offered the advice?

A．Satisfied.

B．Thankful.

C．Negative.

D．Uncertain.

3. What do we know about Valoy?

A．She delivered a speech to call for donation.

B．She only understood black and white movies.

C．She wasn’t the only one to get the glasses.

D．She didn’t know her problem until she was 17.

4. What did Kile try to teach the class?

A．The value of offering help.	B．The power of friendship.
C．The benefit of technology.	D．The magic of creativity.

【推荐3】The word on Acadia National Park is always “sunrise”. The chance to see the sunrise from a top Cadillac Mountain--- at 1,530 feet, the highest point on the US Atlantic coast--- draws huge crowds. But Acadia offers treats for night owls (猫头鹰) as well.

In addition to campfire parties and other programs, forest keepers lead stargazing (观星) hikes throughout the summer. Then in September, Acadia hosts its annual Night Sky Festival.

John Kelly, management assistant at the park, says the annual Night Sky Festival offers activities inside and outside the park ranging from the “fun and silly” to the “highly scientific”. “September’s the clearest month,” Kelly says, “It’s a great month to do stargazing.”

Kelly has a couple of tips for people planning a trip to the Maine coast. First, Acadia is one of a half-dozen or so parks that allows you to buy passes online in advance. Avoid lines by buying a seven-day pass at yourpassnow.com. The National Park Service plans to add other parks to the website, Kelly says, so keep an eye on it for your travel planning.

Also, Kelly recommends using the Island Explorer Bus system, which links hotels, inns and campgrounds with key park destinations, including hiking trails, carriage roads and island beaches. Cyclists, joggers and walkers will enjoy the 45 miles of carriage roads, traffic-free small stone surfaces that were funded and designed by philanthropist John D. Rockefeeller Jr. to highlight the beautiful lakes and mountain views in the parks.

Finally, Kelly advises planning your travel to avoid large crowds. For instance, Cadillac Mountain may be the big draw for sunrise and sunset, but Kelly says, “Ocean Drive is empty and quiet and offers just as great a view as Cadillac Mountain does.”

1. What do we know about Acadia National Park?

A．It hosts Night Sky Festival every other year.

B．It is about 1,500 feet away from Cadillac Mountain.

C．It offers various activities during the day and night.

D．It requires tourists to treat night owls well.

2. Why is September the best time to observe the stars in Acadia National Park?

A．The weather in September is the best.

B．Most stargazers are free in September.

C．The nights in September are the longest.

D．The cost of stargazing is the lowest in September.

3. How can tourists get a pass conveniently to visit the Maine coast?

A．By picking up one at a ticket office.

B．By buying one online ahead of schedule.

C．By placing an order for one by telephone.

D．By applying to the National Park Service.

4. Which is the best means of transportation one the Maine coast according to Kelly?

A．A plane.	B．A train.
C．A taxi.	D．A bus.