【推荐1】Lake Forest High School Clubs
Environmental Club
Club members are provided opportunities to realize their goals of environmental service. The majority of projects are student-initiated. Last year’s activities included: the LFHS Courtyard Garden upkeep, Bike to School Day with free cocoa and snacks, an “eat local” 100-mile dinner, recycling solutions for LFHS, beach clean­up through the Great Lakes Alliance, and Earth Week celebrations.
Meetings: First Friday of the month in Room 5 at 7：00 a．m.
Advisor: Ms Mary Beth Nawor, mnawor@lfschools.net
Peer Tutoring
Students volunteer to help fellow students in improving their academic and organizational skills. Students tutor LFHS and middle school students on an individually scheduled basis. LFHS tutors must have proficiency(精通) in the academic area in which they wish to tutor, but middle school tutors only need general academic proficiency.
Meetings: All tutoring is done on an individually scheduled basis.
Advisor: Ms Kathy O’Hara, kohara@lfschools.net
Young Idea
Young Idea is LFHS’s art and literary magazine. Students of all ages who love writing and art are encouraged to become part of the staff of this award-winning magazine. Young Idea encourages all students to submit art and literature works to the magazine, whether they are a part of the staff or not. From September to February, Young Idea meets on Thursdays after school in the Public Room to discuss the pieces that have been submitted to the magazine and provide feedback for the authors.
Meetings: See above explanation.
Advisor: Ms Debbie Zare, dzare@lfschools.net
Scout Buddies
Scout Buddies is a friendship club which helps build friendship among individuals with and without disabilities. Club members participate in a variety of social activities both within the school and in the community. Activities include organizing holiday parties in the school, bowling, going to the movies, and eating out in local restaurants.
Meetings: Monthly meeting dates vary, but in Room 134.
Advisor: Ms Donna Lovitsch, dlovitsch@lfschools.net
1. Which club provides help for students poor in study?

A．Peer Tutoring.	B．Environmental Club.
C．Young Idea.	D．Scout Buddies.

2. When is the staff of Young Idea most likely to meet?

A．6：30 p．m., August 11, Thursday

B．6：00 p．m., January 5, Thursday

C．7：30 a．m., November 17, Thursday

D．7：00 p．m., September 23, Friday

3. What is the requirement for students to join a certain club?

A．They are required to have a bike to join Environmental Club.

B．They need to be athletic to join Scout Buddies.

C．They need to win a literary award to join Young Idea.

D．They need to be academically proficient to join Peer Tutoring.

【推荐2】Finding a Job

1. In which job do you need to speak a foreign language?

A．Advert A.	B．Advert B.
C．Advert C.	D．Advert D

2. Which job is suitable for those who are busy during the weekdays?

A．A babysitter.	B．A newspaper deliverer.
C．Working in a café.	D．Working in a museum shop.

3. Who are these job adverts mainly designed for?

A．Parents.	B．Teenagers.
C．Full-time workers.	D．English speakers.

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1. How much should you pay to buy a pair of HCR3?

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C．$458.	D．$478.

2. Which of the following descriptions of HCR3 hearing aid is wrong?

A．It can reduce noise automatically.

B．It has little in common with previous hearing aids.

C．It makes speech understood more easily with no whistling.

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A．A magazine.	B．A business report.
C．A textbook.	D．A guidebook.

【推荐1】My friend’s grandfather came to America from a farm in Thailand. After arriving in New York, he went into a cafeteria(自助餐厅) in Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a big plate full of food came up to him. She sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said, “Just go along the line and choose what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend later, “Life’s a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long as you want to pay the price. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

1. My friend’s grandfather came from ______ .

A．Manhattan	B．Thailand
C．New York	D．China

2. The grandfather went into a cafeteria to__________.        

A．wait for someone.	B．meet my friend .
C．get something to eat.	D．buy something.

3. What should we do to get food in a cafeteria?

A．Wait for the waiter.	B．Ask someone for help.
C．Sit down at an empty table.	D．Get it ourselves.

【推荐2】Have you ever noticed how the recital (叙说) of an adventure always finds ready audience? The man with a story of some stirring adventure always takes the floor Men will stop the most important discussion to listen. Women will forget to rock the cradle. Boys and girls will neglect any sport or game. Try it sometime and see how it grips all kinds and all ages. And the reason is that none of us ever really grows up. We are always boys and girls, a little older in years, but with the same nature—alert to the new, questioning, investigating, growing, living; stirred by martial music; thrilled by the sight of the fire-houses dashing madly down the street; lured by tales of subtle intrigue (阴谋)and splendid daring.

It would be sad if men and women ever lost this capacity to be attracted by tales of heroism. The man whose heart leaps for joy at the sight of a heroic deed is the man who will act the hero when his turn comes. No, the love of adventure will never be lost. It is a fundamental part of human nature, just as sentiment (感情) is.

So we reasoned that a magazine edited for this universal hunger of human nature for adventure ought to have a wide appreciation and appeal, and we decided to publish such a magazine and call it ADVENTURE.

It is published as a magazine wherein thousands of men and women can find adventure without being obliged to read through large amounts of stuff they care little about for the sake of getting a little they care a lot about, which is frankly made for the hours when the reader cannot work, or does not wish to, or is too weary to work and made for the reader’s recreation rather than his or her creative hours. If you care for stirring stories (and who does not?) —if you wish to get away for a brief time from the hard grind of the daily mill so that you can come back to it again with renewed passion and courage to walk through the knotty problems and nagging limitations, get a copy of Adventure.

You can get away for such a trip every month for 15 cents or you can get a season ticket entitling you to twelve trips for $1.50. No other kind of story in the magazine; just Adventure Stories. Fact-stories as well as fiction stories .If you don’t like that kind, don’t buy; but if you do like that kind, Adventure is sure to delight you.

1. Which of the following statement is TURE about man’s sense of adventure?

A．People are increasingly attracted by adventures as they grow.

B．The sense of adventure is rooted in a childhood curiosity.

C．Adventure stories are more attractive when told with sentiment.

D．Only children with curiosity grow into adults fond of adventures.

2. What’s the meaning of “grip” in the first paragraph?

A．to draw a clear line between	B．to capture the attention of
C．to affect the way people think	D．to give equal treatment to

3. In what way does the writer think the magazine ADVENTURE can affect its readers?

A．It reminds its work-burdened life driven readers of good old days.

B．It helps them regain their adventurous selves lost in tough life.

C．It offers a refreshing escape from long weary working hours.

D．It encourages them to face the toughness of life and work.

4. What is NOT TRUE about the purchase of Adventure?

A．One can buy one copy for 15 cents.	B．Adventure is available one issue a month,
C．It contains fictional and true stories.	D．Season ticket holders can enjoy free tours.

5. What is the main purpose of this article?

A．To instruct publishers in how to produce a popular magazine.

B．To explore the psychological cause and impact of adventure.

C．To attract potential readers by giving the editorial philosophy.

D．To recommend to working people a refreshing way of recreation.

【推荐3】Recently I rolled into a local restaurant to try an Impossible Burger, an all-plant patty(人造肉饼) invented by Impossible Foods. It's well known for having an strangely chewy(有咀嚼感), even bloody, meat-like quality, a surprising verisimilitude(逼真) that has made it ''perhaps the country's most famous burger, '' as New York magazine wrote. One bite into its wonderful, smoky taste and, damn, I was convinced.

This is good news, because the time has come to consume fake meat. In the fight against climate change, meat replacement is something we can try. A University of Oxford study recently found that, to keep global warming below 2 degrees this century, we need to be eating 75 percent less beef and 90 percent less pork.

However, diets are culturally enshrined, so changing them will be hard. It isn't easy to replace 75 to 90 percent of beef and pork with fake meat. The first taste of an Impossible Burger—a moment when low expectations work a powerful magic in the product's favor—is one thing. But how do you keep meat-eaters asking for more after their sixth, and their 26th？

To get to true mass adoption, fake meat will need to compete favorably with the real thing on multiple fronts. Impossible Foods' goal is to drive the price of its product below that of Safeway's 80/20 hamburger meat, at which point people will simply vote with their wallets. The new industry also wants to improve on animal flesh in various ways. Fake meat has an advantage over traditional meat because ''you won't need to refrigerate it'' cofounder Niko Koffeman says. Plus, custom(定制的) production could improve choice. ''You could have very soft and tender meat for elderly people,'' Koffeman adds. ''You could have a tailored meat for whatever you need.''

You can tell the world is shifting this way, because the ranchers(牧场主) are nervous. Last year, the US Cattlemen's Association asked the government to define ''meat'' as a product ''coming directly from animals.'' That anxiety—and the power of the science driving it—goes to show that this grand shift isn't impossible.

1. According to passage, the author was convinced by the Impossible Burger because__.

A．it has a special taste that is different from normal ones.

B．it contains all non-meat materials that taste like meat.

C．more vegetables are used as main materials for the burger.

D．one bite of this burger can provide people with the energy needed for a whole day.

2. What does the author mean by saying "Diets are culturally enshrined"?

A．That people think their diet is the best in the world.

B．That people are unwilling to go against their culture by changing their diets.

C．That people's preference for food is linked to the food choice available to them.

D．That people's eating habits are consistently observed and closely connected with their culture.

3. Which of the following statements is true about the advantages that fake meat will have to beat over traditional meat?

A．Fake meat will not be necessarily stored in a refrigerator.

B．The price of fake meat will be just one-fourth of traditional meat's.

C．Fake meat will win over older people thanks to its tender and soft taste.

D．Fake meat will own a taste that is not found in traditional meat.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Meat must come from animals.

B．The world will probably embrace the idea of fake meat.

C．The ranchers are suffering economic loss due to fake meat.

D．The definition of meat has been changed because of fake meat.

【推荐1】YORK HARBOUR, Newfoundland 一 A balloonist who tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons is heading home after landing in Newfoundland, far short of his goal.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday that it used a helicopter to collect US balloonist Jonathan Trappe from the remote area where he landed a night earlier.

“It’s not the destination I set out for, but it’s kind of the way with real adventure. Adventure isn’t what you planned on, it’s what you find，and that’s what we have today，’’he told the CBC.

Trappe landed safely near York Harbour after reporting that he was having trouble controlling his balloons Thursday evening, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Instead of using a conventional hot-air balloon, Trappe was using more than 300 colorful helium-filled balloons, like those used in the animated movie”Up “.

He lifted off on Thursday morning from Caribou, Maine，in hopes of becoming the first person to cross the Atlantic using a bunch of helium balloons. But he ran into trouble as he approached Newfoundland and was in communication with a search and rescue center in Halifax; Nova Scotia, said Lt. Steve Henley of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Stephenville. The balloonist's movements were tracked by radar by Canadian officials, he said.

He told CBC that his calculations indicated he wasn’t going to make it to Europe so he decided to set down on land before crossing over open ocean, where a water landing would have been more dangerous. He said the landing had its hairy moments because he was coming in fast.

“We set out on this expedition for the adventure, and we got the adventure.”Trappe said.

Trappe will likely have to meet with Canada Border Service Agency before being allowed to return to the U. S. , officials said.

The North Carolina native said he'd worked on the trans-Atlantic crossing for two years, and there was no stranger to use bunches of balloons. He’d once used them to lift a artifcial house, as in the Disney-Pixar movie, and he’d used them to cross the English Channel.

By Thursday afternoon, he was well on his way, heading toward Newfoundland. But a couple of hours later，he ended his adventure. “This doesn’t look like France,’’he posted on Facebook.

1. What can we learn about Jonadian Trappe according to the text?

A．It was not until Thursday evening that he was collected by a helicopter.

B．He was going on the adventure trip with much help of the U. S. departments.

C．If he had used the hot-air balloon, he would definitely have reached his goal.

D．Even though he didn’t achieve success, he thought it was a worthy adventure.

2. Jonathan Trappe took the adventure trip because_________.

A．he got reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp

B．he was inspired by his favorite stars in the Disney-Pixar movie

C．he'd like to be the first to cross the Atlantic in a helium-balloon

D．he’d like to be well-known for a balloon flight across the world

3. Which of the following is closest to the underlined word “hairy’’in meaning?

A．Discouraging.	B．Frightening.
C．Having hair.	D．Made of hair.

【推荐2】“Dad,” I say one day, “Let’s take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”

As a manager from IBM, my father’s job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I had fun under the Eiffel Tower. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father sees me travelling without a purpose, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down (安定下来), but now I want him to explore the world.

He agrees and we meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

“What is our first stop?” asks my father.

“What time is it?”

“Still don’t have a watch?”

Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he looks up at sculptures of the four Presidents in granite(花岗岩), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of little boy.

“Amazing,” he says, “How was this done?”

A film in the information center shows sculptor(雕塑家) Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculptures.

We look up and I ask myself, “Can I devote my life to anything?”

No directions, no purpose. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

“Did you ever travel with your dad?” I ask.

“Only once,” he says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other---but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”

The last sentence---it’s probably the same thing I will say about my father. And what I want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I’ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling. I realize--- and maybe a fixed job won’t be as boring as I think.

Weeks after our trip, I call my father. “The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says. “We have got to take another trip like that sometime.” I tell him I’ve decided to settle down and find a fixed job, and I’m wearing a watch.

1. We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3?

A．The father followed the fashion

B．The father got bored with his job

C．The father was unhappy with the son’ lifestyle

D．The father liked the author’s collection of stamps

2. From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author__________.

A．wants his children to learn from their grandfather

B．begins to understand what parents’ love means

C．learns how to communicate with his father

D．hopes to give whatever he can to his father

3. What can we infer(推断) about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A．The call makes them sad.

B．The son has found a job.

C．They decide to learn photography together.

D．They begin to change their thoughts about life.

4. What could be the best title for the passage?

A．Love Nature, Love Life	B．A Son Lost in Travelling
C．A Journey with Dad	D．The Art of Travel

【推荐3】
1. It can be concluded from paragraph 1 that _______.

A．the problem of global warming will have been quite solved by 2020

B．gas emissions have been effectively reduced in developed countries

C．the Paris Agreements is more influential than the Kyoto Protocol

D．humans have made continuous efforts to slow down global warming

2. If nations could only keep the initial promises of the Paris Agreement, what would happen by the year 2100?

A．The human population would increase by one third.

B．Little over 50% of all species would still exist.

C．Nations would not need to tighten their emissions targets.

D．The Agreement’s minimum goal would not be reached.

3. If those island nations not far above sea level are to survive, the maximum temperature rise, since the start of the industrial age, should be_______.

A．0.8℃	B．1.5℃
C．2℃	D．3.5℃