【推荐2】The following is a father's advice to his son or daughter, who has just graduated from high school：

First of all, congratulations on your graduation!Graduation from high school means that a new stage of life is ahead of you．At the beginning of this new stage, I have some advice for you．

Clean your own room and do your own laundry(洗衣物的活). After you have messed up(弄乱)something, you should learn to clean it up yourself．Cleanliness is indeed close to godliness(信奉上帝)．

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom. No matter how much information or knowledge you have gained, you'll never make sound(正确的)judgments if you don't have wisdom. Wisdom comes from imagination and reflection(反省)．If you can imagine the possible future outcomes of your present decisions and actions, you can avoid mistakes．And if you can reflect on the mistakes you have made, you can avoid making the same mistakes again and again．Such is wisdom．

Don't complain．When you take up a job, do your best to carry it out．Don't waste time complaining about it, no matter how difficult and boring it is．

Finally, be an early bird．If you get up earlier than the sun, you can watch it rising up slowly into the sky．And the sight of the rising sun will warm your heart and give you energy for the day ahead．Besides, being an early bird, you have plenty of time to take exercise or do a lot of work．

1. The father wants to give his daughter some advice, because ___

A．the father is a philosopher(哲学家)

B．another period of life lies ahead of him/her

C．he/she does not know how to behave himself/herself

D．the teacher is disappointed at his son's/daughter's performance

2. According to the father, wisdom enables one to ________．

A．avoid one's responsibilities	B．acquire(获得)a lot of knowledge
C．complain about many things	D．evaluate(评价)situations correctly

3. In the opinion of the father, complaining ________．

A．gets you nowhere	B．is a pleasant thing
C．usually leads to success	D．can be appreciated by people

4. The father says that being an early bird makes one ________．

A．sleepy and tired	B．clean and happy
C．hungry and angry	D．energetic and efficient(高效的)

【推荐3】Good gift giving is an art. The perfect present can lift mood or improve a relationship. It can repair a wrong

doing, or simply remind a loved one that you care.    1     ? We spoke to some experts to help us make a simple guide to gifting.

★Don't add a small gift to a big gift

    2    ? Some flowers to go with a bottle of grand French champagne (香槟)? Don’ t .When we receive gifts, we tend to unconsciously average out their value, so a small gift attached to a big one will   hurt the latter’s influence.

★Gift experiences rather than things

A brand new iPhone becomes old fast. But a dream vacation or seeing your favorite artist in concert will give you memories that last forever. “Experiences often have more thought gone into them.    3    . We might remember the tablet that a friend or a loved one has bought us, but not as much as a two-week holiday to Florida- the memories and the emotional attachment are greater than to a physical object,”explained Farrelly.

★Think like the receiver

Let s put it very simply: buy things that your receiver would buy for themselves. That might seem obvious.    4    . People tend to use gifts as jokes, encouragements to change one's ways, or to signal something about themselves rather than providing happiness to the receiver.

The best way to get it right is to ask the frank question, "what would you like?"

★     5    

The last rule is a no-brainer: remember the gift of giving. A study finds that spending money on others promotes happiness. The good feelings you may experience from giving someone a gift they love may also last longer than spending money on ourselves.

A．Be generous enough

B．Is that always the way people do

C．So are there a set of rules to follow

D．And they create more vivid memories

E．But it happens far less than we' d like

F．Spend more on others than on yourself

G．Do you attempt to add a tie to an expensive shirt

【推荐1】Teenagers who start the school early are likely to weigh slightly more than those who start later. That’s the finding of a new study of nearly 30,000 Canadians between the ages of 10 and 18.

Getting too little sleep can put kids at risk for a number of problems. Sleepy teens are more likely to be overweight, to have trouble concentrating and to struggle in school. Genevieve Gariepy, who works at Mcgill University in Montreal, Canada, wanted to know how earlier school start times might be connected with weight.

“Overweight in teenagers is a big problem in North American,” she says. The number of overweight kids has grown over the past 30 years. So Gariepy decided to home in on the impact (影响) of school start times.

Her team collected start times for 362 Canadian schools. Then they asked students at those schools to give their height and weight. In all, they collected data from nearly 30,000 10 to 18-year-olds. Among 6th-to 10th-graders, those who started school earlier were likely to be slightly heavier for their height. Every 10-minute delay in school start time was connected, on average, with a lightly lower weight among students who were the same sex, age and height. However, the difference is slight. Healthy eating and getting enough exercise will play a bigger role in keeping a healthy weight.

As the study compared kids who already started school at different times of day, it’s not clear that changing school start time would help heavier kids lose weight. To know for sure, researchers would want to compare the same kids before and after changing to a later school start time.

Still, the study is a good start, says Cora Bruener, a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Washington. The findings add to a growing pile of evidence that later school start time might be better for teen health, she says.

1. What is the finding of the new study?

A．Teens who start school earlier are a little overweight.

B．Healthy diets and enough exercise help reduce weight.

C．More and more teens are growing overweight.

D．Teens who start school earlier do not perform well.

2. What does the underlined phrase “home in on” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Reduce.

B．Judge.

C．Move to.

D．Focus on.

3. How did Gariepy’s team get their finding?

A．By recording the teen’s weight.	B．By comparing different sets of data.
C．By checking the teen’s physical health.	D．By measuring the teen’s height.

4. What does Cora Bruener think of the study?

A．It needs improving.	B．It lacks further support.
C．It has inspiring value.	D．It is well designed.

【推荐2】The person who set the course of my life was a school teacher named Marjorie Hurd. When I stepped off a ship in New York Harbor in 1949, I was a nine-year-old war refugee, who had lost his mother and was coming to live with the father he did not know. My mother, Eleni Gatzoyiannis, had been imprisoned and shot for sending my sisters and me to freedom.

I was thirteen years old when I entered Chandler Junior High. Shortly after I arrived, I was told to select a hobby to pursue during “club hours.” The idea of hobbies and clubs made no sense to my immigrant ears, but I decided to follow the prettiest girl in my class. She led me into the presence of Miss Hurd, the school newspaper adviser and English teacher.

A tough woman with salt-and-pepper hair and determined eyes, Miss Hurd had no patience with lazy bones. She drilled us in grammar,assigned stories for us to read and discuss, and eventually taught us how to put out a newspaper. Her introduction to the literary wealth of Greece gave me a new perspective on my war-torn homeland, making me proud of my origins. Her efforts inspired me to understand the logic and structure of the English language. Owing to her inspiration, during my next twenty-five years, I became a journalist by profession.

Miss Hurd retired at the age of 62. By then, she had taught for a total of 41 years. Even after her retirement, she continually made a project of unwilling students in whom she spied a spark of potential. The students were mainly from the most troubled homes, yet she alternately bullied and charmed them with her own special brand of tough love, until the spark caught fire.

Miss Hurd was the one who directed my grief and pain into writing. But for Miss Hurd, I wouldn’t have become a reporter. She was the catalyst that sent me into journalism and indirectly caused all the good things that came after.

1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph Two most probably mean?

A．Hobbies and clubs did not interest the author.

B．The author turned a deaf ear to joining clubs.

C．Hobbies and clubs were inaccessible to immigrants like the author.

D．The author had no idea what hobbies and clubs were all about.

2. Which of the following caused the author to think of his homeland differently?

A．Stepping on the American soil for the first time.

B．Her mother’s miserable death.

C．Being exposed to Greek literary works.

D．Following the prettiest girl in his class.

3. It can be inferred from Paragraph Four that _______.

A．Miss Hurd’s contribution was recognized across the nation

B．Students from troubled homes preferred Miss Hurd’s teaching style

C．The students Miss Hurd taught were all finally fired

D．Miss Hurd employed a unique way to handle these students

4. The passage is mainly concerned with _______.

A．how the author became a journalist	B．the importance of inspiration in one’s life
C．the teacher who shaped the author’s life	D．factors contributing to a successful career