【推荐1】When we were very small, we realized that having friends was important.Some of us even had imaginary (想象中的) friends.The need for friends continued as we grew into our teens.Friends played a big part in forming our personalities.As adults, it is still important for us to have friends.

True friends are people who like us though we made mistakes and who listen to us and tell us the truth.Friends support our decisions and tell us when we're foolish.They laugh with us and share our sadness.They are our partners and share interests with us.They stimulate us when we are feeling down.They are people we aren't afraid of telling our secret wishes to or what is really on our minds.

Friends are our supporters.When you can depend on friends, you feel safe and warm.Friends offer   acceptance and emotional (情感的) support.At   times, they also help with our everyday lives, cooking a meal, doing chores, or giving us a lift when we need one.Friends also are there to offer advice，an ear to listen, or a shoulder to cry on.

Friends also help us reduce stress.Not only do they listen to us when we feel stressed, but they also discuss what is stressing us.Sharing interests and doing activities with friends help us forget about problems at work or at home.For a short time, we can lose ourselves in a pleasant activity and perhaps laugh and breathe more easily.

1. What is the best title for the passage?

A．How to Reduce Stress

B．How to Make New Friends

C．The Importance of Friends

D．The Qualities of Good Friends

2. The underlined word “stimulate” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A．educate	B．encourage
C．surprise	D．dislike

3. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．people should make friends anytime

B．friends are people who allow you to cry

C．a friend helps you in many ways

D．good friends are always difficult to meet

【推荐2】Friendship is something that everyone needs. Success is nothing without friends. You share life, happiness and sadness. A friend is someone you can depend on in a time of need and that can trust you with every secret he or she has.

So, what happens when a friendship of eight years is broken over something out of their control? Does that mean it was never a true friendship to begin with?

My friend and I met in high school and have known each other for nearly eight years. What happened recently broke our lifelong friendship.

This makes me think about what friendship really means. I always thought my friend and I could get through any argument, fight, or the sadness of life. We promised each other we’d always be friends, through thick and thin. We even joked about how we would sit in a circle and laugh at some jokes when we had grandchildren. We always laughed at every little thing.

But then her grandfather passed away (去世) and suddenly our friendship was nothing. It happened so suddenly that I never found out about it until I discovered a note she had written on the Internet. I was sad and hurt that she would post (发帖子) what I told her for other people to see. I understand that she was sad and wanted to vent (发泄) her sadness, but I wish she’d kept everything between us.

I don’t understand why she broke our friendship, and I don’t think I ever will. I think friendship means we’ll always forgive each other for our mistakes. I hope that finally I’ll find that true friend who will always be there for me, and I there for her.

1. In Paragraph 1, the author mainly talks about ________

A．how to make friends	B．the importance of success
C．what to share with friends	D．the importance of friendship

2. What broke the author’s friendship with her friend?

A．The internet.	B．The death of her friend’s grandfather.
C．Something unhappy between them.	D．Their jokes.

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A．A true friendship.	B．An unsuccessful friend.
C．The author’s idea of friendship.	D．Sharing success with friends.

【推荐3】How to Help a Friend with a Broken Heart

It can be difficult to see a friend in pain, especially if she’s just suffered a broken heart.    1    While you can’t fix your friend’s problems or take away her pain, you can support her in her healing process.

Work out.

Working out is a healthy way for your friend to deal with his emotions, because it increases the chemicals in his brain that produce pleasing feelings.    2    Maintaining a schedule will help your friend to get through his issues.

Listen.

It’s important for your friend to have someone she can trust. People who are hurting can benefit from feeling heard and understood, aiding in their emotional problems. If you’re not sure how to be a good listener for your friend, ask her what she needs.    3    

Help your friend make a list.

    4    If you can help your friend make a list of how great he is, what his strengths are, or how great his life is, it can help him in the healing process. When you divert your friend’s focus away from his pain and toward something positive instead, you can help him start thinking and feeling more positive.

    5    

Sometimes you just need a moment to be a little funny, a little serious and a little healing. If you have a releasing ceremony with your friend, it can provide all of these aspects. What you do is take objects that remind your friend of something sad, have your friend write a letter to release it, or take a picture of the sad thing and throw it away.

A．Losing a friend has doesn’t mean losing everything.

B．Have a releasing ceremony.

C．Set up times to meet up with your friend at the gym.

D．Feeling sad is not a natural thing.

E．Lists are a great way to get your brain on a roll.

F．See if she wants advice and respect her answer.

G．She may have trouble finding enjoyment in life.

【推荐1】One day two young men are walking in a big forest. One is fat , and the other is thin.” We are good friends. We must help each other. If we meet any beast(野兽), I’ll help you,” the thin man says. “I’ll help you, too,” the fat one says. They walk on. After a while they hear a great noise. It is a big bear. It is coming this way.

The two young men run away quickly. One of them climbs up a tree, and hides among the leaves. He forgets all about his friend. What about the fat one? He is too fat to climb up a tree. So he throws himself on the ground, closes his eyes, and pretends（假装） to be dead. “ The bear will think I’m dead,” he thinks to himself.

Soon the bear comes up to the fat man, and even puts its nose to his mouth and ears. The fat man holds his breath.

The bear thinks he is dead, so it goes away, because bears never touch the dead. The man in the tree comes down. With a smile he asks his friend, “ The bear puts its nose so close to your ears. What does it say to you?”

The friend answers, “ The bear says, ‘ Don’t trust your friend. He runs away from you when you need his help most.”

1. What is the best title of this passage?

A．A friend in need is a friend indeed

B．Two friends in the forest

C．Don’t trust(相信) your friend

D．An unlucky day in a big forest

2. What do you know about the bear according to the passage?

A．The bear is waiting for the two friends.

B．The bear isn’t hungry at all at that time.

C．The bear does tell the fat one something he can understand.

D．The bear doesn’t like to eat something dead.

3. What does the thin man do in this passage?

A．He breaks his promise.

B．He fails to climb up the tree.

C．He cares much about his friend.

D．He also knows what the bear says.

【推荐2】Empathy（共情）, the ability to understand other people, has dropped sharply among college students over the past 10 years.     1     Turn on the TV, and you’re showed with news and reality shows full of people, fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. Human beings learn by example and most of the examples on TV are anything but empathetic.     2    

Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human and having empathy is decisive to it. Researchers have also found that the empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety and fear.    3     Many top companies report hut empathy is one of the most important things they expect from new managers.     4     Apparently, empathy is n kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help us achieve it.

Then,     5     For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking. To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.

A．How can we take advantage of empathy?

B．Empathy is even an indication of a good leader.

C．What’s the best way to improve empathy?

D．There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples.

E．Today, people spend more time alone rather than join clubs.

F．That might be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time.

G．Academics are vital but without emotional intelligence , you won’t be successful in life.

【推荐1】Let us suppose it is now about A.D. 2060. Let’s make believe it is about 45 years from now. Of course, things have changed and life is very different.

Voyages to the moon are being made every day. It is as easy to take a holiday on the moon today as it was for the people in 1960 to take a holiday in Europe. At a number of scenic spots on the moon, many hotels have been built. The hotels are air­conditioned, naturally. In order that everyone can enjoy the beautiful scenery on the moon, every room has at least one picture window. Everything imaginable is provided for entertainment of young and old.

What are people eating now？People are still eating food. They haven’t yet started to take on heir (继承) supply of energy directly as electrical current or as nuclear power. They may some day. But many foods now come in pill form, and the food that goes into the pill continues to come mainly from green plants.

Since there are several times as many people in the world today as there were a hundred years ago, most of our planet’s surface has to be filled. The deserts are irrigated with water and crops are no longer destroyed by pests. The harvest is always good.

Farming, of course, is very highly developed. Very few people have to work on the farm. It is possible to run the farm by just pushing a few buttons now and then.

People are now largely vegetarians (素食者). You see, as the number of people increases, the number of animal decreases. Therefore, people have to be vegetarians and we are healthier both in our bodies and in our minds, and we know the causes and cure of disease and pain, and it is possible to get rid of diseases. No one has to be ill any more.

Such would be our life in 2060.

1. When was the passage written?

A．In about A. D. 2060.	B．In about 1960.
C．In about 2014.	D．In about 2015.

2. According to the text, what will be on the moon in about A. D. 2060?

A．Many other animals.

B．Many tourists.

C．Many plants.

D．A sea.

3. What will people eat then according to the passage?

A．Biscuits in pill form.	B．Foods in pill form.
C．Foods in liquid form.	D．Foods in gas form.

【推荐3】When you walk along a street in a big city in the United States, you may see clocks in most stores. Radio announcers give the correct time during the day. People there think that it is important to know the time. Most Americans have watches. They want to do certain things at certain times. They do not want to be late. Not all people all over the world value time. Suppose you visit a certain country in South America. You would find that people living there do not like to rush. If you had an appointment (约会) with someone, he would probably be late. He would not care for arriving on time. In some countries in South America, even the radio programs may not begin right on time, nor do the radio announcers think it important to announce the right time. Many people regard a clock as a machine. It seems to them that a person who does everything on time is controlled (控制) by a machine. They do not want a clock or any machine to have that much power over their lives.

1. There are clocks in most stores in the US cities because ______.

A．people in the stores want to sell these clocks

B．people think it important to know the time

C．bosses want to make their stores beautiful

D．they needn’t wear watches when they are away from home

2. The underlined word “rush” in the passage most probably means ______.

A．run

B．race

C．move

D．hurry

3. In some countries in South America ______.

A．the radio programs may start a bit early or late

B．the radio announcers do think it important to announce the exact time

C．many people think a clock has much power

D．most people do not want to be controlled by others

【推荐1】On a farm in England, Gavin and Alice Munro are taking sustainability to the next level: they harvest trees which they grow into chairs.

The couple have a furniture（家具）farm in Derbyshire where they are growing 250 chairs, 100 lamps and 550 tables. It is their answer to what they see as the inefficient（无效率的）process of cutting down mature trees to create furniture.

"Instead of force-growing a tree for 50 years and then cutting it down and making it into smaller and smaller bits…the idea is to grow the tree into the shape that you want directly. It’s like a kind of 3D printing, "said Gavin.

Part of the inspiration for the idea came when Gavin was a young boy. He spotted an overgrown bonsai tree（盆栽） which looked like chair.

The 44-year-old began experimenting in 2006. In 2012, Gavin and Alice set up the company Full Grown. Within several years, the couple developed the most effective way to shape a tree without limiting its growth. They guided shoots（嫩枝）already heading in the right direction, rather than force them the wrong way against their natural growth.

The average chair takes six to nine years to grow-and another year to dry out. The labor and time involved in producing the organic pieces means they do not come cheap. Chairs sell for ￡10,000 each, lamps for ￡900 to ￡2,300 and tables for ￡2,500 to ￡12,500.

1. How could the couple grow trees into a shape they needed?

A．They used 3D printing.

B．They limited their growth.

C．They forced trees into different shapes.

D．They guided their shoots in the right direction.

2. When did Gavin get the idea of growing furniture?

A．When he was a child.	B．When they got married.
C．When they bought the farm.	D．When they began experimenting in 2006.

3. Which can best describe the furniture?

A．Big and eco-friendly.	B．Natural but expensive.
C．Hand-made and creative.	D．Traditional but organic.

4. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A．A Couple Grow Furniture	B．Expensive Grown Chairs
C．It’s A Good Try Of Sustainability	D．Grown Trees Gain Popularity

【推荐2】A Visitor Oyster card is the cheapest way to pay for a single adult journey in London. It's a plastic smartcard.You can use it on the bus, tube, tram, DL R. London Overground and most National Rail services. It's much cheaper than buying individual tickets, in some cases costing 50%less than the price of a regular paper ticket.

How to get a Visitor Oyster card

You can buy a Visitor Oyster card online.Your card will be delivered by post.The card costs ￡5 and you choose how much money you want to add to the card. This means you can start using the card the moment you arrive in Central London.

How does the Visitor Oyster card work?

The Oyster card works on a pay-as-you-go system.You start by adding money to the card. Then you travel, the cost of the fare will automatically be deducted from your Visitor Oyster card. For example, if you add ￡20 to the card and make a tube journey of￡2.30, you will have ￡17.70 left on the card.

A few more points:

A child under the age of ll travels free when accompanied by an adult.

You'll save more money if you use the tube several times.The Visitor Oyster card is capped at ￡6.80 per day.

You'll pay more during peak times.Peak fares apply from Monday to Friday(6:30 am- 9:30 am;4:00 pm-7:00 pm).except for public holidays.

Reuse the Oyster card by adding credit at a tube station,Oyster ticket shop or Visitor Centre.

Receive a discount on the Thames Clippers River Bus services:

1. What can we learn about the Visitor Oyster card?

A．You can't use it during public holidays.

B．You can have it mailed directly to your home.

C．You can get a free Oyster card if you order online.

D．You can receive a 50%discount at any shop in London.

2. How much money will be deducted if you take the tube four times in a day with a Visitor Oyster card?

A．￡2.30.	B．￡3.40.
C．￡6.80.	D．￡9.20.

3. Where can you add credit to your Visitor Oyster card?

A．At a tube station.

B．At a bus station.

C．On the Internet

D．In convenience stores.

4. What does the underlined word“capped"mean in English?

A．set an upper limit

B．meet a deadline

C．follow a principle

D．prohibit visiting

【推荐3】Don’t let the heat keep you away from New Orleans. For one thing, the hotel rates are the lowest they’ll be all year. For another, with wonderful events, you’ll barely notice the heat. Come and see what we’re all about in summer.

FESTIGALS

Festigals is an annual festival that celebrates, and supports women of all backgrounds and causes related to women’s well-being. It features a variety of New Orleans-themed activities, designed for women and by women. It usually includes famous female speakers.

DATES: June 5-7, 2020

RED DRESS RUN

The run usually begins in French Quarter, although the exact location is only announced to those who registered. The runners, with drinks in hand, continue their route through the French Quarter and spend the rest of the day celebrating. Participants can sign up online on the official website. Registration usually includes donations to local charities, and beers for the run. You must be 21 or older to participate.

DATE: August 8, 2020

PRICE $65

RUNNING OF THE BULLS

Instead of running from real bulls, New Orleanians gather in the traditional colors of Spain’s bull run and chase runners with plastic bats on their rollerblades (旱冰鞋). Thousands of runners gather early in the morning in Downtown to participate in the run, wearing all white with a bit of red.

DATES: July 10-12, 2020

NOLA CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL

This year’s festival has expanded to two weekends, taking place June 19-21 and June 24-28. Guests can enjoy live music performances, local chefs, kids activities, salsa dancing and more. While the official fest takes place June 26-28, there’s plenty to do leading up to and following Caribbean Fest. To learn more about this year’s fest, visit here.

1. What is special about Festigals?

A．It shows great concern for females.

B．It features New Orleans’ local food.

C．It is celebrated in hot summer.

D．It is open to women only.

2. What can be learned about RED DRESS RUN?

A．Runners have to run all day long.

B．Runners can sign up on the spot.

C．There is an age limit for runners.

D．It provides free food and drinks.

3. Which of the following festivals may interest music lovers?

A．FESTIGALS.

B．RED DRESS RUN.

C．RUNNING OF THE BULLS.

D．NOLA CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL.