【推荐1】How do you deal with hunger of your stomach？ Eat your favorite meal and keep quiet after that？    1     But it never lets you know， because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars.So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow.When mind loses its freedom to grow， creativity sets a full stop.This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next？”， “Why can’t I think？”

    2     Why reading but not watching TV？ It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood.Since it develops other aspects of our life， we have to get help from reading.

Once you read a book， you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you.     3       Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas.If it is used many times， the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things， which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams！

This is nothing but creativity.     4     Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words.

So guys， do give food to your thoughts by reading， reading and more reading.     5       Go and grab a book！

A．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading.

B．Also this makes a great contribution to your vocabulary.

C．Reading can help you make more friends as well.

D．Now what are you waiting for？

E．Just like your stomach， your mind is also hungry.

F．Why not do some reading while you are hungry？

G．The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。

Are you a bookworm? Is your head permanently stuck in a book? If so, that’s a good thing. There are many benefits to reading. Getting into a good novel improves our literacy. But who or what encourages us to pick up a book and start reading?

Of course, when we are young, our parents and teachers inspire us by introducing us to characters that we love or love to hate. And there are the authors—the people who invent and write about these characters. Good writing can really capture our imagination. As a child, I loved books written by Roald Dahl, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Twits. These fictional stories were funny, mysterious, and slightly adventurous. These books are popular with children even today, despite competition from contemporary authors.

One modern-day children’s author is J. K. Rowling，who’s known for her books about the wizard, Harry Potter. Last year she was named as a “literacy hero” for her part in improving people’s love of reading. The UK’s National Literacy Trust awarded her the title for “turning a generation of children into readers”.

The Trust also honoured schoolchildren, a librarian and teachers for their effort in trying to get people to read. The actor, Henry Winkler, who has dyslexia, was also named for the books he has written about a boy with learning difficulties.

Reading books is more than an enjoyable pastime; it can also help people in difficult circumstances. The author Pat Winslow worked as a writer in prisons and found reading and discus- sing stories helped prisoners reflect on their patterns of behaviour. She says, “Very often we would have discussions about the moral compass of a character, what was the motivation of somebody, why did they behave that way?”

Today I tend to read factual books such as biographies, where you get an insight into the lives of important and well-known people. I also enjoy looking at travel books and learning about journeys and new destinations. It’s a good substitute if you can’t visit in person.

But the main benefit of reading is to improve our literacy. The more we do it, the better we get and who knows—one day you may become the next Tolstoy, Jackie Collins or even William Shakespeare.

1. How are we encouraged to read when we are young?
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2. Why was J K. Rowling awarded by the UK’s National Literacy Trust?
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3. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
In the face of the competition from contemporary authors, the stories the author read when he was young are not so widely enjoyed by young readers as they used to be.
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4. Besides the ones mentioned in the passage, what else do you think can reading benefit us? (In about 40 words)
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【推荐1】Andrea Speranza wanted to be a firefighter long before she had the right word for her wish. After one childhood adventure at a construction site ended with an iron nail embedded (嵌入) in her leg and an emergency call to the fire department, she found herself in awe. “As they gave me the medical treatment, I thought, they could help everybody and do anything,” says the now 52-year-old.

In 2000, Speranza fulfilled her dream of becoming a firefighter. Her job was exactly as fulfilling as she imagined it would be, except for one thing; she still hadn’t seen another woman in her role—not in a magazine, not on television, not in real life. Speranza decided to help young women see that they, too, could have a career like hers.

The result is Camp Courage, an immersive (沉浸式的) program for girls aged 15 to 19 who want to learn more about firefighting, paramedicine and police work. In 2006, Speranza welcomed the first 17 participants. Over the course, the girls discover the ins and outs of being first responders: learning how to put out fires, delivering first aid and so on.

Camp Courage now nuns one session every year and is free to attend. To offset (抵消) costs, Speranza fundraises by holding everything from car washes to comedy nights. Campers must submit an essay describing how they plan to help their community, or a specific individual in need. And they have to deliver on the plan—from building a bench for a senior at a bus stop to launching a local chapter of the Kids Help Phone.

While Camp Courage is designed to help more women become first responders, Speranza also has another, bigger objective in mind: building leaders. “If they can deliver a mechanical baby or climb a hundred-foot ladder, they’re not going to have a problem going through a job interview,” says Speranza. “It’s a complete change in mindset, and it works.”

Now hundreds of girls have passed through Camp Courage and some of them work as first responders now. Speranza feels a sense of achievement. The opportunity to recruit other girls to save lives alongside her keeps her going. It’s not even measurable.

1. What inspired Speranza to become a firefighter?

A．Her dream now.	B．A childhood accident.
C．The lack of female firefighters.	D．A firefighter’s encouragement.

2. Why did Speranza decide to start Camp Courage?

A．To train the girls to take the first aid course.

B．To complete an immersive program about firefighting.

C．To assist more females to take up some jobs like hers.

D．To motivate more females to stand on their own feet in the future.

3. What do campers have to do to pass through Camp Courage?

A．Raise money to pay off the cost.

B．Submit an essay and deliver a speech.

C．Build a bench for the disabled at a bus stop.

D．Hand in a plan and then put it into action.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Ups and downs make one strong.

B．Every noble work is at first impossible.

C．Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.

D．Joint effort is the key to solving problems.

【推荐2】I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran Jackson’s Carnegie Library absolutely by herself. SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere. If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes. I was willing; I would do anything to read.

My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me. “Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said.

Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you’d taken it out; it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at a time and two only. So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. I knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time.

My mother shared this feeling of mine. Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else. I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my brother’s two daughters. She’d just look up at the right time, long enough to answer—in character —“The better to eat you with, my dear,” and go back to her place in the magazine article.

1. Which of the following best describes Mrs. Calloway?

A．Quiet.	B．Considerate.
C．Boring.	D．Strict.

2. What do the underlined words “this feeling” refer to in the last paragraph?

A．Interest in games.	B．Love for Mrs. Calloway.
C．Desire to read.	D．Fear of the library rules.

3. Where is the text probably from?

A．A guidebook.	B．An autobiography.
C．A news report.	D．A book review.

【推荐1】When is a media company not a media company? When it’s on the Internet. YouTube and Facebook convey what their users read and watch, and sell advertising next to it. Edited content, financed by advertising? It sounds a lot like the model that dominated media for much of the 20th century. And yet these firms have long claimed to be mere "platforms”，passively hosting content they say they are neither able nor willing to assess. It's true that they are not like traditional media companies. Much of their content is donated by their users; and algorithms (算) not editors, decide what is most worthy of attention. But they are getting more like them every day.

The anger over “fake news” has led Facebook to employ fact checkers, hire editorial staff to control the algorithms, crack down on the spread of junk and invest in tools to help out journalists.

So what kind of media companies are Facebook, YouTube and the rest? Not good ones. Their enormous power to inform, and the huge potential value of forming connections between people around the world, have in fair measure been wasted by prioritising attention-grabbing content 一 regardless of its quality, truthfulness or seriousness, which has made the online content cheap and its tone rude.

The tech giants are now coming under increasing pressure to clean up their acts. Perhaps more exactly, the advertisers have begun to revolt （反抗）：Google and Facebook now take nine out of every 10 new dollars spent on online advertising, although they have been accused of marking their own homework'", making unconvincing and unverifiable （无可考证的）claims about its effectiveness.

Meanwhile, the companies are avoiding responsibility for setting rules over their services. Excuses that the problem is too technically complex are not convincing: their engineers have proven skillful at cracking down on, say, copyright violation when it suits the firms. Nor does a firm position on free speech hold up: history is filled with examples of how a fair balance can be struck. Those have involved dialogue and democratic considerations that social media companies have thus iar mostly disdained （轻视）.They should do so no longer. The firms have enjoyed the privileges and profits of media for long enough: it's time they picked up the responsibilities too.

1. What does the author think of YouTube and Facebook's claim in Paragraph 1?

A．It is unexpected.	B．It is absurd.
C．It is practical.	D．It is influential.

2. YouTube and Facebook aren't considered as good media companies mainly because of   .

A．their low quality content	B．their prejudice against morality
C．their being a time-waster	D．their lack of control of speech

3. According to the text, tech giants' advertising business          .

A．may not actually satisfy advertisers' needs

B．has invited users^ questioning of privacy issues

C．will be cut down to respond to public discontent

D．may not gain profit as ad spending keeps rising

4. In the last paragraph, the author suggests that new media companies should       .

A．improve their overall technology

B．abandon the democratic ideal of free speech

C．take responsibility for regulating copyright issues

D．act as a medium despite their Internet background

【推荐2】The smartphone has long since become our constant companion. While gaming used to be limited to computers and consoles (操纵台), gaming on mobile phones has become very popular in recent years. You can find out why this is so with us.

New developments in the area of smartphone production make mobile gaming particularly attractive. Tablets in particular have a sufficiently large display to allow gaming with very high resolution(分辨率). In addition, there are eight-core processors that are not only installed in current flagships, but also in the middle class. With appropriate graphics card (显卡), nothing stands in the way of mobile gaming. That being said, it is much more convenient to play games on the smartphone or tablet.

One advantage that mobile games have is their low price. Many games are offered for free in the app stores. The developers generate their income through so-called in-game purchases. The user can, for example, activate special features for which he would otherwise have to wait a certain time, or which he would otherwise not be able to access at all. And even if the mobile games cost something, gamers pay a lot less than when playing on the console.

While there were more card games or hits like Snake on the first mobile phones, more and more complex games can be found in app stores today. This includes sports games, but also role-playing games. What also attract gamers to smartphones are mobile versions of well-known games. So you can control the life of your Sims from your mobile phone, catch Pokémon on your smartphone and finally get your Hogwarts letter that you've been waiting for so many years. That attracts customers. You can also find a lot of self-growth and many other brain training games like Sharp Knife Target, Hexagone Brain Workout, and etc. in Play Stores.

1. What makes mobile gaming appealing and popular according to Paragraph 2?

A．Mobile numbers.	B．Updating games.
C．New technology.	D．Benefiting brains.

2. What does Paragraph 3 mainly show us about mobile games?

A．Their low cost.	B．Their development.
C．Their versions.	D．Their convenience.

3. How does the author probably introduce different mobile games?

A．Making a comparison.	B．Giving some examples.
C．Explaining a phenomenon.	D．Confirming an assumption.

4. Which can be the best title for the text?

A．Why not limit mobile gaming	B．How to play mobile games well
C．How mobile games are developed	D．Why mobile gaming is so popular

【推荐3】Wearing a headset to play a virtual-reality game is fun. As you move your head around, you can see the scene from different angles. You’re in a fake environment that seems so real. But the power of VR may go well beyond entertainment. It just might help people who suffer from long time of pain, a new study finds.

“If VR can reduce some types of pain, it could become a new cure with fewer side effects than drugs,” says Sam Hughes, a psychologist at Imperial College London. “And it would be 1ess expensive.”

Hughes’ group studies bone and muscle pain. One example is sciatica. Sciatica is a form of pain doctors call chronic pain, which is different from the hurt you feel when you hit your knee against a table or put your hand in very hot water. It is fairly long-1ived pain and may even spread from an initial site to other body parts.

The researchers tested the pain-altering effect of virtual reality. Each volunteer accepted some form of temporary pain. The pain came from a special cream applied to the skin. The cream contained capsaicin. It’s the chemical in hot peppers that burns your mouth.

They then showed the volunteers a movie. Each volunteer would see the movie twice-once in 3D, while wearing a VR headset, and once on a normal 2 D screen. The researchers randomly decided for each volunteer whether they watched the 2D or 3D version first. Using the 2D movie as the comparison allowed them to isolate the effect of VR. Watching the movie in VR reduced the pain in the skin area better than did viewing the movie in 2D. VR helped them tolerate more pain in the area of the creamed skin. However, that pain reduction ended a few minutes after removing the VR headsets. The researchers wondered how well VR might reduce other types of pain.

1. What’s one of the advantages of VR to reduce pain?

A．It’s much safer.	B．It’s more convenient.
C．It’s much faster.	D．It’s more efficient.

2. What does the underlined word “chronic” mean in Paragraph 3?

A．sudden	B．long-term
C．1ight	D．sharp

3. Why was the special cream used in the experiment?

A．To find chemicals in hot peppers.	B．To bring comfort to volunteers.
C．To burns the volunteers’ mouth.	D．To cause some temporary pain.

4. How was the test carried out?

A．By giving numbers.	B．By using examples.
C．By making a comparison.	D．By presenting research findings.

【推荐1】One day I stopped to think about growing apples. I was eating a delicious, juicy apple and took a big bite. As a result, I got an apple seed into my mouth. I spat it out into my hand, with the intention of throwing it away. But instead I looked at the apple seed. I realized I was holding an apple tree in the palm of my hand. A little seed with the potential to become a beautiful big tree-a tree that could grow thousands of apples in its lifetime. Why then the world wasn't filled with apple trees? It is a rule of nature that only a few of these seeds grow.

And it came to my mind that it's also quite often so with people's dreams. Wonderful ideas come to our minds but they die too soon-we don't tend to the little saplings, we don't protect them as we should. And then one day we wonder what happened to our dreams-why did they never come true?

The seeds of your dreams did not automatically grow, like planting an apple tree. It might take many tries: like a hundred job applications to get that good job. You might send your manuscript out two hundred times before it was accepted.

Some people think their best time in life is when they are young. I refuse to believe that. There are plenty of examples out there that prove you can achieve amazing things even in your mature years. I love the little story of a woman who decided she wanted to go and study when she was in her forties. Her husband asked her.”Do you realize that if you start your studies now, you will be fifty when you graduate?" To which this admirable lady replied:“Darling-l shall be fifty in any case".

So go ahead and follow your dreams. No matter what they are, no matter what your age, and no matter what others think of it. It's your life after all.

1. How does the author introduce the topic of the text?

A．By giving a classic example.

B．By telling us a natural phenomenon.

C．By asking and answering a question

D．By describing a personal experience.

2. Which of the following is true according to the author?

A．Wonderful ideas will not die easily.

B．The seeds of our dreams grow naturally.

C．Our dreams will not come true without tries.

D．We never know what will happen to our dreams.

3. What does the author tell the story of the woman to show?

A．People will grow old anyway.

B．It's never late to achieve things.

C．It's better to start doing things early.

D．We should not care what others think of us.

4. What is the author's purpose of writing the text?

A．To describe how our dreams are ruined.

B．To treat apple seeds like our dreams.

C．To encourage us to pursue our dreams.

D．To explain the process of growing apple trees.

【推荐2】If businesses are to get workers back into the office, finding ways to keep social distancing will be key. An Israeli company thinks it can help, using smart sensors installed on workplace ceilings.

PointGrab developed its technology before the Covid-19 to help workspace managers optimize how employees use office space. About the size of a smoke alarm, the sensors can record the exact number and location of people in buildings including offices, hotels and restaurants.

One of the company's first clients was Deloitte, which installed the system at its London office last year. PointGrab's sensors were connected to screens in the building to show the availability of desks and shared areas in real time. PointGrab CEO Doron Shachar says it was one of a series of innovations that helped Deloitte fit 30% more people into 3% less space.

Now PointGrab has adapted the technology so the sensors can also monitor social distancing by keeping track of how far apart people are, and whether they're traveling in one direction around a building. Workspace managers can set up alerts for when two people are closer than two meters for more than 30 seconds, for example.

The sensors have been included in the “six feet office” concept created by a company Cushman & amp; Wakefield to encourage employees to practice social distancing. They are currently being used in this way at a university in the Netherlands, and at an innovation centre in Belgium. While the social distancing innovation is new, PointGrab has installed more than 10, 000 sensors for workspace optimization, including in the offices of Coca-Cola, Facebook and Dell.

Workers might not like the idea of being monitored, but PointGrab says no images or identifying features are recorded. Instead, each employee is represented as an dot on a dashboard. “The sensor does not violate people’s privacy,” Shachar says. “This is extremely important in the workspace.”

1. What can we learn about PointGrab?

A．It has been dedicated to outdoor monitoring.

B．It established industry standards for monitoring.

C．It has developed a sensor to monitor social distancing.

D．Its new product gets inspiration from the smoke alarm.

2. Which has the closest meaning to the underlined word “optimize”?

A．Reduce workplace seriously.	B．Select employees wisely.
C．Take their time efficiently.	D．Make the most of.

3. What's the result of the use of PointGrab’s products?

A．Office efficiency will be greatly improved.

B．It will improve the availability of office space.

C．It can keep track of the whole working process.

D．It makes the staff work at ease without being disturbed.

4. What's the working staff’s anxiety?

A．Their privacy will be revealed.

B．The activity space has been reduced.

C．The change has affected work efficiency.

D．They cannot work under monitoring.

【推荐3】That day, after church my son told me his two friends were very hungry. After careful consideration, I took them to a cafeteria within a store for lunch. It's really affordable though I'm not all that comfortable in supporting my family. However, when I got to the cashier（收银员）, I found my wallet missing.

The cashier had pity on me and helped me think through some ideas for paying the bill. Then the cashier offered to pay for the meal first and then have me reimburse her through a payment app. So, I stood to the side to download the app. But because my phone was an old one and there were tech problems, this was taking me a very long time. Everything was loud; it got so hot there; and I was uncomfortable. But,                    the boys were jumping round and screaming. I came so close to be mad. So I sent them on various errands（差事）to keep them busy. And then I remembered to breathe.

Seeing me still having trouble downloading the app, the cashier called me back and handed me a receipt（收据）, telling me, "Here you go. It's on me. Enjoy your meal." I was touched and thanked her. The cashier didn't know my son's friends hadn't eaten yet, and that this meal was likely to be their only one that day. The cashier not only simply saved me from the embarrassment（窘迫）of a missing wallet, but also made sure these boys had food for the day.

After our meal, I planned to go back to the cashier to thank her and pay back the money, as I'd finally gotten the app working on my phone. But she was gone, and the other workers weren't sure of her name because she was new, But I didn't plan to make this wonderful cashier unknown to her boss and her colleagues. She should be praised.

1. What does the underlined word "reimburse" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Guide around.	B．Pay back.
C．Wait for.	D．Think of.

2. Which of the following can describe the cashier properly?

A．Patient and honest.	B．Smart and confident.
C．Kind and thoughtful.	D．Generous and proud.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．The author finally had his phone fixed.

B．The cashier had a bad relationship with her colleagues.

C．The cashier got off work early to refuse the author's money.

D．The author would make the cashier's good deeds known at her workplace.