【推荐1】I was on a train in Switzerland. The train came to a stop and the conductor’s(乘务员的) voice over the loudspeaker delivered a message in German, Italian, and French. I’d made the mistake of not learning any of those languages before my vacation.

Everyone started getting off the train and an old woman saw that I was confused and stressed. She could speak some English and told me that an accident had happened on the tracks(轨道). She asked me where I was trying to get to, then went and talked to some workers, and came back to tell me that we'd have to change trains three or four times to get there.

I was really glad she was heading the same way because it would have been impossible for me to figure it out on my own. So we went from one train station to the next, getting to know each other along the way.

She was really the sweetest woman. It was a 2. 5-hour journey in total, and when we made it to the final destination, we got off and said our goodbyes. I had made it just in time to catch my train to Rome. She told me she had a train to catch as well. I asked her how much farther she had to go and it turned out that her home was two hours back the other way.

She had jumped from train to train and traveled the whole way just to make sure that I made it. I was in shock. A woman spent her whole day sitting on trains and taking her hours away from her home just to help out a confused tourist visiting her country.

No matter how many countries I visit, I'll always say the most beautiful country in the world is Switzerland.

1. Why did the author have to get off the train?

A．Because she got on the wrong train by mistake.

B．Because she couldn't understand the conductor.

C．Because there was an accident on the tracks.

D．Because an old woman invited her to travel together.

2. How many extra hours did the old woman spend traveling that day?

A．About two hours.	B．About two and a half hours.
C．About four hours.	D．About five hours.

3. Why did the old woman help the author?

A．To make sure the author wouldn’t get lost.

B．To practice her English with the author.

C．To kill time with a foreigner on the train.

D．To guide the author around her country.

4. What can we infer about the author from the story?

A．Her hometown is Rome, Italy.

B．Her English is not better than the old woman's.

C．She was not satisfied with her trip in Switzerland.

D．She thinks people in Switzerland are quite nice.

【推荐2】I lived in Port Stewart, one of the small villages on the coast. I rented a small room at the top of an old two-storey Victorian house. From its window I could look out on the grey, ever-restless ocean,    1    

An old retired couple lived in two rooms on the ground floor. Mr. Paul was in his eighties and I remember him going for his nightly walk accompanied by his walking stick.     2     I heard him occasionally in his own-room. His wife would sit quietly in the kitchen beside the fire constantly knitting(织毛活)and offering me cups of tea as 1 came in from the pub or back from studying.

    3    I was not surprised, aware even then that age can be cruel. But what moved me most was his rapid worsening, the fact that I never again saw him walking bent double against the wind.

    4    The fact that I was only aware of this old man's illness through his rasping( 刺耳的) cough and his wife's nursing him gave the house an air of heavy sadness.

One evening, I came in from the cold and went straight to the kitchen to heat myself at the fire. Mrs.Paul sat alone. There was a silence I couldn't under-stand.     5     “Would you like a cup of tea?” I asked. She looked up slowly and l remember her old but still quite beautiful face as she said calmly and without emotion: “My husband is dead.”

A．Mr. Paul became ill suddenly.

B．Late into the night I could hear him coughing.

C．His walking stick was always lying in the hall.

D．She was friendly and enjoyed a cup of tea with me.

E．It took her some time to acknowledge me coming into the room.

F．I never saw the old man at any other time apart from on these walks.

G．I can still remember the view from the window and the constant changes in the sea.

【推荐3】In 2000, when I was around seven years old, my parents, sister, brother, and I were coming back from a T-ball game. There, in our driveway, we spotted two adult geese and a small gosling. The adults were startled by our return and flew away, but their baby was still too young to fly. We are no strangers to wildlife, so we avoided physical contact with the small gosling out of fear that it would keep us in its mind and be lost to its family forever. Hours passed, and night fell. The tiny little thing was wandering around our yard, unaware of what could happen.

And then another morning. And still another. Each morning, we would try to drive the goose over to his parents, who kept coming back to our yard. He wouldn’t go to them, though, and they wouldn’t come close enough to collect him. My sister Joanna decided to call the little guy Peeper, because he would follow us around the yard making a peeping noise, nonstop.

Almost a year passed. My family filled our days with feathery hugs and my dad would throw Peeper up into the air so he could fly a circle around the house.

One evening, my uncle came, and my dad wanted to show him Peeper’s circle. He threw him up in the air, but this time, Peeper just flew off. Everyone was very, very sad. We looked for him for days, calling his name, but he didn’t come back. Twenty years passed, and Peeper became a fond memory for my family.

Geese are very loyal, never forgetting their first home. Even so, it came as a total shock to me when, in 2020,an aging adult goose appeared at my home. At first, I assumed it was just another goose. After two weeks of the goose coming back repeatedly, it became clear to me that this wasn’t a random goose. He did all of the same things Peeper used to and responded to the name Peeper. My old best friend returned, 20 years later.

People desire connection with the natural world. Through Peeper, I have learned so much about myself and about the nature of love.

1. What does the underlined word “startled” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Moved.

B．Frightened.

C．Confused.

D．Attracted.

2. Why did the writer’s family avoid physical contact with the baby goose at first?

A．They were worried about its health.	B．They didn’t know what to do with it.
C．They didn’t want it to take them as its family.	D．They feared being attacked by its parents.

3. How does the writer find the experience?

A．Pitiful.

B．Entertaining.

C．Discouraging.

D．Rewarding.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．My Goose Returned Home	B．Dad Trained Goose
C．The Love for Nature	D．A friendly Goose

【推荐1】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Everyone gathered around and Paddy read out loud, slowly, his tone growing sadder and sadder. The little headline said: BOXER RECEIVES LIFE SENTENCE.
Frank Cleary, aged 26, professional boxer, was today found guilty of the murder of Albert Cumming, aged 32, laborer, last July. The jury (陪审团) reached its decision after only ten minutes, recommending the most severe punishment the court could give out. It was, said the judge, a simple case. Cumming and Cleary had quarreled violently at the Harbour Hotel on July 23rd and the police saw Cleary kicking at the head of the unconscious Cumming. When arrested Cleary was drunk but clear-thinking…
Cleary was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. Asked if he had anything to say, Cleary answered, “Just don’t tell my mother.”
“It happened over three years ago,” Paddy said helplessly. No one answered him or moved, for no one knew what to do. “Just don’t tell my mother,” said Fee numbly. “And no one did! Oh, God! My poor, poor Frank!”
Paddy wiped the tears from his face and said. “Fee dear, pack your things. We’ll go to see him.”
She half-rose before sinking back, her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead. “I can’t go,” she said without a hint of pain, yet making everyone feel that the pain was there. “It would kill him to see me. I know him so well— his pride, his ambition. Let him bear the shame alone, it’s what he wants. We’ve got to help him keep his secret. What good will it do him to see us? ”
Paddy was still weeping, but not for Frank, for the life which had gone from Fee’s face, for the dying in her eyes. Frank had always brought bitterness and misfortune, always stood between Fee and himself. He was the cause of her withdrawal from his heart and the hearts of his children.
Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank took it away. But Paddy’s love for her was as deep and impossible to wipe out as hers was for Frank.
So he said, “Well, Fee, we won’t go. But we must make sure he is taken care of. How about if I write to Father Jones and ask him to look out for Frank?”
The eyes didn’t liven, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks. “Yes, Paddy, do that. Only make sure he knows not to tell Frank we found out. Perhaps it would ease Frank to think for certain that we don’t know.”
1. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Frank was found guilty of murder because he was a professional boxer.

B．The family didn’t find out what happened to Frank until three years later.

C．The jury and the judge disagreed on whether Frank had committed murder.

D．Frank didn’t want his family to find out what happened because Paddy disliked him.

2. Paddy didn’t cry for Frank because he thought ________.

A．Frank did kill someone and deserved the punishment

B．Frank should have told Fee what had happened

C．what had happened to Frank was killing Fee

D．Frank had always been a man of bad moral character

3. Which of the following suggests that Fee was deeply shocked by what happened to Frank?

A．“Her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead.”

B．“Let him bear the shame alone, it’s what he wants.”

C．“Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank took it away.”

D．“The eyes didn’t liven, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks.”

4. “She half-rose before sinking back …” (in Paragraph 6) shows that ________.

A．Fee was so heart-broken that she could hardly stand up

B．Fee didn’t want to upset Paddy by visiting Frank

C．Fee couldn’t leave her family to go to see Frank

D．Fee struggled between wanting to see Frank and respecting his wish

【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3】Grace Murray was born in New York City in 1906. She liked working out how things worked. When she was 7, she took her alarm clock to pieces. All the parts flew out of the clock, but she couldn’t make sense of the mechanism. Instead of giving up, she dismantled all the other alarm clocks in the house, determined to discover how they worked.

Grace’s parents encouraged her curiosity. They took her to museums, libraries, concerts, and lectures. When Grace was 8, her father became ill and had to have both legs cut off. He never complained. His bravery inspire Grace to face challenges head-on. If her father could be so brave, Grace felt that she could conquer anything.

Grace’s father worried that he might not always be able to provide for his daughters. He wanted them to get a good education and be able to support themselves. He encouraged them to go to college and create their better future. Grace started at Vassar College when she was 17. She studied math and physics. Then she went to graduate school at Yale. With a PhD in mathematics, the little girl who’d spent her days dealing with clocks would become one of the greatest computer minds of her generation.

After graduating from Yale, Grace joined the U.S. Naval Reserve(海军预备役), where she worked on the first large automatic calculator in the U.S. Her team came up with new ways to interact with computer data. Grace believed the data should be similar to human language. Later, she helped develop a computer language called COBOL, which uses English words.

Grace was a pioneer in computer science. At a time when women were rarely seen in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, she worked with other experts to develop computer programming as it’s known today.

1. What does the underlined word ^“dismantled^” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Made...useless.	B．Sold out.
C．Took apart.	D．Fixed over.

2. What did Grace’s father bring to her?

A．A lot of wealth.	B．The love for nature.
C．The unique curiosity.	D．The unbeatable spirit.

3. Why did Grace’s father encourage his daughters to go to college?

A．He thought they should stand on their own feet.

B．He couldn’t earn his own living for his poor health.

C．He was unwilling to support his daughters any longer.

D．He wished to leave home for a better education and life.

4. Which of the following is Grace’s achievement?

A．Joining the U. S. Naval Reserve as a woman.

B．Inspiring more women to enter STEM fields.

C．Helping develop a kind of English computer language.

D．Building the first large automatic calculator in the U.S.

【推荐1】United States health officials say an estimated 80,000 people died of influenza (流感) and problems resulting from the flu last winter, making it the worst season since 1977. The director for the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the number to The Associated Press. Health experts were expecting the winter of 2017-2018 to be a bad year for flu deaths, but not that.

Doctor William Schaffner is an expert on vaccines, at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Schaffner noted that 80,000 deaths are nearly twice as much as what health officials once considered a “bad year”.

CDC officials say that between 12,000 and 56,000 Americans die every year from flu-related causes, but they do not have an exact count of how many people die from the flu each year. Influenza is a relatively common disease and not always listed on death records as the official cause of death. While last winter was a bad flu season in the U.S., it was not the worst. The 1918 flu lasted nearly two years. Historians estimate that the disease was to blame for between 500,000 to 700,000 deaths during that period. The exact number is still not known.

One thing that made the 2017-2018 flu season so bad was that the flu virus was strong. Usually the disease kills the very young, the very old or those who are already sick. However, last winter, the flu killed many healthy Americans. Another thing that made the flu season so deadly was that the flu vaccine was not as effective as experts had predicted. Drug makers have made changes to the vaccine. Even though the vaccine did not work well last year, health experts still strongly suggest getting vaccinated.

1. What can we learn about influenza in the first paragraph?

A．The winter of 2017-2018 saw the deadliest flu in history.

B．Effective cures should be found to deal with influenza.

C．Health experts had assumed flu would be severer.

D．More people died of influenza than expected in the winter of 2017-2018.

2. How many deaths did the health officials expect in a bad year?

A．80,000.	B．40,000.
C．60,000.	D．20,000.

3. Why can't CDC officials give an exact number of deaths from flu?

A．Because flu is always considered as a common disease.

B．Because people usually don't take flu seriously.

C．Because CDC officials are unwilling to count the deaths.

D．Because flu is not always listed on death records.

4. What do experts recommend people to do in the last paragraph?

A．Change the vaccine.	B．Avoid using vaccine.
C．Get vaccinated.	D．Do research on vaccine.

【推荐2】A couple had two little boys aged 8 and 10 who were very naughty. They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that if any trouble occurred in their town their sons were probably involved.

The boys' mother heard that a clergyman in the town had been successful in educating children so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The clergyman agreed but asked to see them individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first in the morning with the elder boy to see the clergyman in the afternoon.

The clergyman, a huge man with a loud and deep voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him strictly, “Where is God?”

The boy's mouth dropped open but he made no answer, sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. So the clergyman repeated the question in an even stricter tone “Where is God?” Again the boy made no attempt to answer. So the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and shouted" Where is God?"

The boy screamed and escaped from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him. When his elder brother found him in the closet, he asked “What happened?”

The younger brother replied out of breath, “We are in big trouble this time. God is missing--and they think we did it.”

1. What were the two boys like?

A．They always made trouble.	B．They were brave.
C．They were easygoing.	D．They were honest.

2. What did their parents plan to do?

A．They gave up their children.

B．They liked their children very much.

C．They wanted the clergyman to educate their children.

D．They helped their children to make trouble.

3. What do you suppose the boy felt when he was asked by the clergyman?

A．Happy.

B．Sad.

C．Afraid.

D．Surprised.

【推荐3】On a warm day in sunny St, Petersburg, Florida, John Joyce put on his hat and headed outside. He pulled his push mower and started walking down his driveway, into the street and then he just kept going. He walked mile after mile as the sun hit his back, stopping along the way to mow the lawns of his customers, who smiled and said hello to him

His customers were very happy to see John. For some, he had been cutting their grass for over 20 years. Everyone knew John was a dependable and hard-working man.

What his customers didn't know was that John’s truck stopped working a few months back. Unable to fix it, the 83-year-old man with arthritis started walking to the homes of his customers. He would walk 5-6 miles each day, just to make sure everyone was taken care of. That’s just the kind of man he was. Robert Norton, one of John’s customers explained, “John is a simple man with a heart of gold.”

So when Robert and his newly-wed wife, Nikki, learned that John was walking to work, they knew it was time to do something for him. They started a GoFundMe page, giving some of the money they’d received from their wedding to kick it off. In a few weeks they successfully raised $13, 000. It was enough to buy John a truck from a used-car dealer, buy him a new lawn mower and pay for gas!

John was very moved by the generosity shown to him. Not surprisingly, once the celebration was complete, John drove off the lot, and headed off to mow lawns!

1. Why did John walk to mow the lawns for his customers?

A．He favored walking to work.	B．He had to pull his push mower.
C．His truck didn’t work.	D．The weather was fine.

2. What does the underlined words “kick off” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Buy.

B．Hit.

C．Assist.

D．Begin.

3. How did Robert help John out?

A．By helping him to mow lawns.	B．By repairing his truck.
C．By collecting money for him.	D．By taking care of him.

4. What does the story mainly tell us?

A．God help those who help themselves.	B．Goodness will have a good reward.
C．A friend in need is a friend indeed.	D．Where there is a will, there is a way.

【推荐1】A
Su Hua is studying at Cambridge, UK．She has bought a bicycle and is worried about security．Her friend, Kate, found this article and sent it to her．

1. Which part of the text gives you information on how to lock up your bicycle when you leave it?

A．Locks．

B．Marking．

C．Registration．

D．Basic Security．

2. The underlined phrase "act as a deterrent to a thief" means _____．

A．help you recognize your bike

B．help the police find your bicycle

C．stop someone stealing your bicycle

D．stop you worrying about your bike

3. The main purpose of this article is _____．

A．to tell you what to do if your bicycle is stolen

B．to suggest ways of keeping your bicycle safe

C．to give you advice on where to buy a good lock

D．to say why you shouldn't keep your bicycle in a quiet place

【推荐2】The year 2019 saw the end of the hit sitcom. The Big Bang Theory. Now, another popular comedy, Modern Family, follows in their footsteps. After 11 seasons the final episode aired on April 8, bringing an end to a sitcom "widely recognized as one of the funniest and most decorated sitcoms of this century", according to Eon﹣line.

Hitting our screens in 2009, the show claimed 22 Emmys in total, an American award that recognizes excellence in television. At its peak the show appealed to over 9 million viewers for its similar family dynamic, loveable characters and mockumentary style.

Over the course of the series, fans have witnessed the Pritchett﹣Dunphy﹣Tucker clan, an extended Los Angeles family, overcome the problems of any modern family, including death, adoption and mental health. The big family's highs and lows have made it so similar that we see them as part of our own family and care about their stories. From fights between brothers and sisters to parental disagreement about children's education, the show, despite being a comedy, deals with serious modern issues that are familiar to the audience.

As the camera cut to each departing family member, Jay Pritchett, the head of the family, expressed an important theme of the show. "Life is full of change. I learned a long time ago you can fight it, or you can try to make the best of it. And that's a whole lot easier if you've got people helping you face whatever life throw to you," he said emotionally.

Just as the final episode concluded, fans were treated to one last heartfelt moment: As each family switched off their porch light, Claire asks Phil (a couple in the show) what they'll do now that their kids have grown up and moved on. Phil said, "Leave the porch light on—they come back. "

1. We can know from the passage that Modern Family .

A．gained 22 Emmys in 2009	B．is set in Los Angeles, US
C．is more popular than The Big Bang Theory	D．has little to do with serious modern issues

2. Why does Modern Family attract the audience so much？

A．Because its plot, characters and style attract them.

B．Because it is considered the funniest comedy of the century.

C．Because they witness the solutions of modern families' problems.

D．Because they are unfamiliar with the issues dealt with in the show.

3. The purpose of the author to write Paragraph 4 is .

A．to introduce Jay Pritchett	B．to describe the departing scene
C．to show the topic of the show	D．to give an end to the show

4. What can be inferred according to Phil？

A．When the porch light is turned on, the kids will return home.

B．The love of the family leads the kids back home.

C．When the porch light is lit, the kids will miss their home.

D．With the porch light on, the kids can see the access to their home.

【推荐3】I want to share with you a story from 28 years ago. My dad was a used car salesman. Every Thursday night, he would head off to Shreveport, LA for an auction (拍卖会). Most of the time, I drove a car over there for him so he could sell it at the auction.

One day I was riding with my dad when he noticed a hitch-hiker(搭便车的人) with a backpack. Without hesitation, he pulled the car over and offered him a ride. Dad asked him his name, and proceeded to talk to him about all sorts of things. Dad asked him where he was going. The hitch-hiker told him that he was heading for the   west. I can’t recall why but he told Dad a lot of things that had occurred to him and that persuaded him to make that decision. He talked about the tragic events that occurred to him several years before. He was low in spirits, but I could see that the hitch-hiker’s attitude was changing as someone was really listening to him.

We drove 45 minutes before the hitch-hiker got off. We pulled over and Dad told him to keep his head up and things would start looking up for him soon. He reached into his pocket and handed the hitch-hiker a twenty-dollar bill. The guy smiled. He nearly lit up right there on the cold, dark highway.

We drove on and my dad did not say a single thing. I was still completely amazed by   what I had just witnessed. I was always told by everyone never to pick up a hitch -hiker and yet my dad did it every single time he saw one. While reflecting upon that story I came   to understand that just one single kind act could change someone’s life, and I am sure that my father’s deed made that poor man’s day.

1. What made the hitch-hiker become less upset?

A．The writer’s father offering him a free ride.

B．The writer’s father really listening to him.

C．The writer’s father agreeing to drive him to his destination.

D．The writer’s father talking to him about all sorts of things.

2. The underlined words “that decision” in Para. 2 refer to______.

A．catching the car	B．heading for the west
C．talking about his experiences	D．driving 45 minutes

3. Which of the following words CANNOT be used to describe the father?

A．Willing to help.	B．Easy-going.
C．Far-sighted.	D．Full of sympathy.

4. The author wrote the text mainly to ______.

A．show his respect for his father	B．tell a story of his father
C．prove his father is the best teacher	D．advise people to learn from their father