【推荐1】I had been living with Dino and his family for ten days or so, who lived and worked in the rainforest. They were the “bad guys”, burning much of the western Amazon to tun it into cattle farms. They were also some of the nicest and warmest hosts. They are a family trying to survive in a very tough environment through hard work. Their view and understanding of the problems the Amazon faces are different from mine. I see the Amazon as an extraordinary valuable life that should be treasured and protected at all costs-the world needs it, and we all need it. However, the Dinos see the Amazon as a vast, lasting resource that feeds them. After talking extent win them, I realized their respect for it was as deep as my own: they just saw it very differently.

Cattle farming in the Amazon is perhaps mainly responsible for the fires we are seeing now. It is an industry of cutting forest, burning it and turning it to cattle farms. Fires spread throughout the Amazon every year as a result of that practice. Putting cattle on the land means replacing trees with animals that produce damaging levels of greenhouse gases. This is just about the most stupid thing humans can do.

One morning after a fire, I returned to the land. I felt as though I had seen the blue smoke from those blackened tree trunks that remained upright, which are memorials to human stupidity.

The problems the Amazon faces are perhaps more complex now than ever before, but they are curable. We need to decide where and how we appoint and apply values based on sensible economic models that favor both the farmer and the forest. One of the issues facing the Brazilian Amazon now is a loosening of rules by the current administration which has opened up more land for deforestation(毁林) and burning. This could be disastrous, both for the Amazon and the rest of the world.

1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about？

A．The consequences of cattle farming.	B．The main cause of forest fires.
C．The causes of greenhouse gases.	D．The importance of cattle farming.

2. How did the author feel when returning to the land after a fire?

A．It helped the author recall his memory about the land.

B．It reminded us of our foolishness of destroying the land.

C．It's not surprising to see the land destroyed by the fire.

D．It's amazing to see the trees keep straight after the fire.

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．The writer and Dino respected the Amazon equally in different ways.

B．Cattle farming is not to blame for the fires happening in the Amazon.

C．The problems the Amazon faces are more complex and can't be solved.

D．The Dinos are considered to be bad for burning the forest to make a fortune.

4. What should the Brazilian government do to solve the Amazon problems？

A．Prevent the deeds of burning.	B．Offer more land.
C．Take stricter measures.	D．Appoint economic models.

【推荐2】Coral reefs (珊瑚礁) as underwater walls can help reduce the effects of hurricanes on coastal communities. This seems unbelievable. It is reported that scientists have discovered that coral reefs are even more effective than man-made sea walls under the water. However, coral reefs are especially easy to be influenced by climate change. Overfishing and pollution have also proved very dangerous to them. Since 1950, half of the world’s coral reefs have already been lost. To protect our communities and keep sea ecosystems alive, we need to protect coral reefs right away.

Let’s take a closer look at how coral reefs protect us from floods, and how scientists are 1restoring (修复) reefs.

The roles that coral reefs play as underwater walls have long been recorded by scientists. During a Category 3 hurricane in 2015 in Australia, the coral reefs effectively protected the eastern shoreline from flooding. In contrast, the western coasts without coral reefs suffered serious damage. The researchers observed that the shape of coral reefs can break the approaching waves. More recently, researchers at the University of Miami have reached the same conclusion. They used a special lab simulator (模拟装置) to recreate ocean conditions during a Category 5 hurricane. They found that coral reefs could reduce the impact of waves by up to 95 percent!

Because of higher ocean acidity (酸性) and temperature, coral reefs are disappearing and dying out. At the same time, climate change puts weakened coral reefs under more stress. The University of Miami researchers are testing to plant new coral reefs while others are actively looking for effective methods to reduce the acidity of sea water. The governments have also paid more attention to these actions and provided enough money for reef restoration. With these efforts, we may address climate threats to coral reefs and they can carry on protecting our communities.

1. What can we know about coral reefs?

A．They can reduce hurricanes.	B．They are faced with danger now.
C．They can’t effectively prevent floods.	D．They aren’t influenced by overfishing.

2. Which of the following is true according to paragraph 3?

A．A terrible hurricane attacked Australia in 2015.

B．Scientists paid little attention to coral reefs before.

C．Coral reefs could reduce the impact of waves to 95%.

D．The eastern coasts of Australia were damaged seriously.

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards the future of coral reefs?

A．Doubtful.

B．Confused.

C．Positive.

D．Objective.

4. What’s the purpose of this passage?

A．To introduce the growth of coral reefs.

B．To explain the functions of coral reefs.

C．To encourage people to plant more coral reefs.

D．To stress the importance of protecting coral reefs.

【推荐2】Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany on December 7, 1770. His father, Johann Beethoven, also a musician, wanted his son to be a genius and encouraged him to develop his musical talents. Johann was so determined to make his son into a successful musician that he would pull poor Ludwig out of bed in the middle of the night and force the young boy to practice piano until the early hours of the morning.

At the age of eleven, Ludwig van Beethoven received professional piano and composition training in Bonn, and within ten years he became well known in Vienna for his imagination when creating music on the piano. He continued to live there and became very interested in the construction of pianos, which developed into the modern grand concert piano.

Things changed for Beethoven in 1798 when his hearing was becoming impaired. He composed the First Symphony and Septet Op 20 and performed them on April 2, 1800, and it won great success. However, his hearing continued to worsen, and he began to separate himself from his family and friends in order to avoid conversation.

After the performance of his Ninth Symphony, he turned around to see the warm applause of the audience and broke down in tears when he realized that he couldn’t hear them. Fighting against depression (抑郁) and a disorder, Beethoven continued to produce music by using special equipment that helped him to hear his symphonies. This equipment was a thin stick connected with the soundboard of his piano. Biting it, he was able to feel vibrations (震动) of sound. The music that he created during this period was filled with heroism and struggle, and went on to become his most famous compositions.

1. Why did little Beethoven play piano at the midnight?

A．He showed musical talents for music.

B．He was interested in playing the piano.

C．His father pushed him to practice his musical skills.

D．He was determined to realize his music dream.

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

A．Recovered.	B．Constructed.
C．Damaged.	D．Developed.

3. Why did Beethoven get separated from his family?

A．He didn’t want to talk with them because of his worsening hearing.

B．He had to receive treatment because of his depression.

C．He was busy in composing the First Symphony and Septet Op 20.

D．He had to fix his attention on practicing piano.

4. What do we know about Beethoven’s most famous compositions?

A．They were played by special equipment.

B．They reduced depression and the disorder of Beethoven.

C．They were composed before Beethoven went deaf.

D．They were filled with heroism and struggle.

【推荐3】Recently, the TV show “Where are we going, Dad?” produced by Hunan SatelliteTelevision is a big hit across nation. Many famous stars brought their children to a strange village alone, and they had to spend 72 hours with their children there. The program fully showed us a modern version of the “how to be a good father”. As the young parents today are too busy to take care of their children, this new form of “Lost on the way” played by nanny Daddy and cute kids triggered（触发）a lot of people’s emotional resonance（共鸣）. Both the kids and their parents will find that their hearts are being drawn closer. But this kind of feeling has just proved that there is a big spiritual barrier between the modern parents and children.
The TV shows like “Children are hard to support!”, “Where are we going, Dad?”, “hot mom” and “cute kids” are becoming more and more popular. All of these show the new parents’ confusion in children’s education and the appeal for the balance between career and family.
In the real life, on the one hand the young parents feel helpless because they are too busy to accompany their children under the pressures of work and life; on the other hand they continue to do so. The data collected by HNTV shows that nearly two-thirds of their audience are female, among whom 36% are aged from 25 to 34.We can imagine such a scene that one evening a young mother is watching the show with her young children, while her husband is still at work or trapped in socializing, or maybe is just playing computer games in the bedroom. The story of a child without the company of father is still going on. In fact, it is sometimes the same to mothers. In a modern family, it is often the old who take the responsibility of raising a child. Theparticipation of mother in the children’s education is also very low.
It is just this kind of confusion where the parents have gone in the modern family education, and where the parents will guide their children to go that “Where are we going, Dad?” shows us. If a child wants to grow up healthily and safely into a modern citizen with independent personality and free spirit, it is very important for him or her to follow the parents who serve as their first teacher. Maybe this is the real reason why such kind of TV programs could get hot. The truth is that children will go where their parents go; and society will go where the children go.
1. To raise a child in modern society, parents should ________.

A．break down the barrier between children and teachers

B．play computer games with their children

C．balance well between family and career

D．keep their children at home to avoid socializing

2. Which of the following can be inferred in the passage?

A．36% of the audience of the program are female aged from 25-34.

B．Parents shouldn’t entirely leave the education of children to the old.

C．In a modern family it is often mothers who are responsible for raising a child.

D．The program shows us the confusion where the parents and children will go to play.

3. What does the underlined word “participation” probably mean?

A．taking responsibility	B．understanding
C．taking part	D．keeping company

4. What attitude towards modern family education does the author express in the second paragraph?

A．Optimistic.

B．Indifferent.

C．Proud.

D．Worried.

5. Which one is the best title of the passage?

A．New problems in Modern Children’s Education

B．Modern Education is Important

C．Confusion Behind “Where are we going, dad?”

D．Nanny Daddy and Cute Kids

【推荐1】Riding on the road? Time to review all that you learned in elementary school —especially if you'll be riding in traffic.

Always ride on the right side of the street in the same direction as the traffic. Never ride against traffic. Try to use bike lanes (车道)whenever you can.

Always stop and check for traffic in both directions when leaving your driveway. Some people in cars just don't see cyclists.

Watch traffic closely for turning cars or cars pulling out of driveways.

Don' t ride too closely to parked cars — doors can open suddenly!

Stop at all stop signs and stop at red lights just as cars do. Take special care at crossroads. It's d good idea to walk your bike across busy crossroads using the crosswalk.

Don't wear headphones while biking—you need to hear what's going on around you.

Never change directions or change lanes without first looking behind you and using the correct hand signals. That way everyone knows where you' re going. You can use your left arm for all hand signals. To show you' re making a left turn, hold your arm straight out to the left. To show a right turn, bend your elbow(肘部)，holding your arm up in an “L” shape. And before you stop, bend your elbow, pointing your arm downward in an upside down “L” shape. Of course, you can also hold your right arm straight out to the right to show you are going to turn right.

Biking is a fun way to get exercise and a great way to get around, but bike injuries are common. So follow these tips to really enjoy your ride.

1. While riding in the street, we shouldn't ride_______ .

A．in heavy traffic	B．before parked cars
C．behind turning cars at crossroads	D．in the opposite direction of the traffic

2. Listening to music while riding_______ .

A．is harmful to our hearing	B．may put us in danger
C．may stop us changing lanes	D．is a good way to help us relax

3. Which two pictures might show the same direction?

A．a, b

B．a, c

C．b, d

D．c, d

4. What's the best title of this passage?

A．Riding safely	B．Riding in traffic
C．Correct hand signals	D．A great way to get around

【推荐2】As a child, Jane Goodall had a natural love for the outdoors and animals. And at age 23, she left for Nairobi, Kenya. There, Jane met famed Dr. Louis Leakey, who offered her a job at the local natural history museum. She worked there for a time before Leakey decided to send her to the Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees. He felt her strong interest in animals and nature, and her knowledge as well as high energy made her a great candidate to study the chimpanzees.

In December 1958, Jane returned home to England and Leakey began to make arrangements for the expedition (考察), securing the appropriate permissions from the government and raising funds. In May 1960, Jane learned that Leakey had gained funding from the Wilkie Brothers Foundation.

Jane arrived by boat at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika with her mother. The early weeks at Gombe were challenging. Jane developed a fever that delayed the start of her work. Finally, an older chimpanzee named David Greybeard, began to allow Jane to watch him. As a high ranking male of the chimpanzee community, his acceptance meant other group members also allowed Jane to observe. It was David Greybeard whom Jane first witnessed using tools. Excited, she telegraphed Dr. Leakey about her observation. He wrote back, “Now we must redefine ‘tool,’ and ‘man,’ or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

Jane continued to work in the field and, with Leakey’s help, began her doctoral program without an undergraduate degree in 1962. At Cambridge University, she found herself at odds with senior scientists over the methods she used — how she had named the chimpanzees rather than using the more common numbering system, and for suggesting that the chimps have emotions and personalities. She further upset those in power at the university when she wrote her first book, My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees, aimed at the general public rather than an academic audience. The book was wildly popular, and her academic peers were outraged. Dr. Jane Goodall earned her Ph.D. on February 9, 1966, and continued to work at Gombe for the next twenty years.

1. What can we infer from the passage?

A．The journey to Kenya rooted Jane’s deep love for animals.

B．Jane was the first to discover chimpanzees use tools.

C．Dr. Leakey easily raised funds from the Wilkie Brothers Foundation.

D．Jane’s work at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve went along smoothly.

2. What is the academic peers’ attitude towards Jane’s first book?

A．Extremely ambiguous.	B．Genuinely pleased.
C．Truly sensitive.	D．Really angry.

3. What does the underlined sentence imply in paragraph 4?

A．Senior scientists disagreed with Jane’s method in observing chimpanzees.

B．Jane’s method inspired more scientists to make further discoveries.

C．Jane’s achievements quickly attracted attention from senior scientists.

D．Jane’s study of chimpanzees received no support from scientists.

4. What can we learn from Jane Goodall?

A．Challenging senior scientists is a must in gaining fame.

B．Cooperation is the only key to making significant discoveries.

C．Passion and hard work can make a difference in scientific research.

D．The ability to raise funds counts in achieving great success.

【推荐3】To move visual technology into the future, sometimes it helps to make a little noise. Researchers have used sound waves to produce floating 3-D images, create a sense of touch and even supply a soundtrack.

Since the 1940s, scientists have toyed with the concept of acoustic levitation(声悬浮), the use of soundwave vibrations(震动) to trap tiny things in midair. The technology has gained greater capabilities in the past decade. Some researchers believe this improvement could lead to applications such as contributing to novel 3-D printing methods, or creating displays that would be visible from any angle without requiring a screen.

Other researchers have also worked on visual displays that use acoustic levitation. In addition to visuals, the system can also produce audible noise to give the display a soundtrack. And the ultrasound speakers can also concentrate vibrations in one spot so that a finger might feel a sense pushing back—a little like the object shown by the floating image is really there. Soundwaves create a 3-D display!

Display without a screen is remarkably useful. It means that everybody in the room can see the image—any angle, location—and that’s extremely helpful. As a communications system, such a display might one day allow users to chat with a 3-D projection(投影) of a person who can turn his or her head to follow as they move around a room.

The display will require a lot more work before you can install it in your living room, however. So far, this has been done in the research laboratory. We need to push it a little bit harder. We need to do more analysis to see if it would make sense to create a real display that people would have at home. The current system can only show simple graphics, such as a smiley face or figure eight, in real time.

Still, we are optimistic about the potential for this type of technology. If the system had only one speaker-covered surface instead of two, it could generate images that are bigger than the device itself. We can’t make a TV image that’s bigger than the TV—even a projector has to have a projection screen that’s bigger than the image itself. But with a volumetric(容积的) display, a small, portable device might produce a much larger picture. We can imagine, in the future, having volumetric displays in watches, for example, that create large images that just project out of your watch.

1. From the first two paragraphs soundwave vibrations can be used to _________.

A．catch very small objects in midair

B．develop 3-D printer’s capabilities

C．replace a creative display screen

D．compose soundtracks by making no noise

2. What does the underlined word “novel” in paragraph 2refer to?

A．Different.

B．New.

C．Storied.

D．Formal.

3. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Room for the technical improvement.

B．Situations of the modern technology.

C．Praise for the cutting-edge technology.

D．Outlooks for the new technology.

4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．Hearing is Seeing—Sound Waves Create a 3-D Display.

B．Seeing is Believing—3-D Printing Methods Arrive.

C．Advancing Sense of Touch—3-D Images Float in the Air.

D．Promoting TV Technology—Chat with 3-D Projections.

【推荐1】The Museum of London is starting to unearth what might turn out to be as many as 3,000 human skeletons(遗骸) under a train station in the United Kingdom’s capital. The bones were exposed when workers began building a new entrance to a train station in London, England.

As the first city burial(埋葬) ground in London, Bedlam was probably used between 1569 and 1738. Its name comes from the nearby Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, which people also called Bedlam. Often, the people buried in Bedlam could not afford to be buried anywhere else. The burial ground also served as an overflow cemetery(墓地). That means that if other cemeteries became full, a person would be buried in Bedlam instead. It is believed that there could be a total of 20,000 skeletons in the overall burial ground.

Experts think studying the skeletons may help them learn about London’s past, including questions about the Black Death, a deadly disease that had a terrible influence on much of the world. It started in the mid-1300s and swept through Asia, Africa, and Europe. Historians believe almost 50 million people died of the disease, including many of those buried at Bedlam. “Sixteen sixty-five saw the very last recorded period of the disease,” says Jay Carver, the leading expert on the project. Carver and his team believe the Bedlam bodies may explain why the outbreak suddenly stopped.

The dig site also sits above an even older Roman(古罗马的) road (between the 2nd and 3rd century A. D. ). Archaeologists(考古学家) have already found a large number of objects from Roman times, including horseshoes and urns. Nick Elsden, the project manager for the site, says, “This is the UK’s largest archeology project, in what is one of the oldest areas of the city, so we stand to learn a great deal.”

1. The underlined word “exposed” in Paragraph I probably means “________”.

A．studied	B．found
C．returned	D．searched

2. We can learn from the text that Bedlam ________.

A．served as a cemetery for poor people	B．used to be a train station
C．got its name thanks to Jay Carver	D．was once taken up by Germen

3. What kind of emotion was expressed in Nick Elsden’s words?

A．Sadness.	B．Anger.
C．Regret.	D．Expectation.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．History of the Black Death	B．Skeleton secrets in London
C．The Museum of London	D．A Roman road in Bedlam

【推荐2】In the competition of Olympic weightlifting, the athletes try to lift the maximum (最大的) weight they can. There are special conditions they have to meet in order to compete: body weight, height and strength.

The Olympic weightlifting mainly tests the limit of explosive strength (爆发力). There are not many lifters who really like Olympic weightlifting and the explanation is very simple: they are short of explosive strength.

The weights used for Olympic weightlifting are added in kilograms. The order by which the athletes enter the competition is not general, but it is set depending on the event. Usually the athlete with the lowest weight begins. If he/she is not successful, he/she can try later. There is a maximum of three lifts allowed for every competition.

For many years Olympic weightlifting was only for men. However, now women also take part in Olympic weightlifting. It was at the beginning of the 21st century that women’s competitions entered an organized professional environment. For women, Olympic weightlifting is more difficult because of their different body structure. However, strength training techniques (技术) are widely and successfully used by women, too.

Lots of the athletes who’ve ended up in Olympic weightlifting competitions have started with strength training only to improve their muscle condition and their body power. However, the demarcation line (界线) is not still very clear between power training and Olympic weightlifting. This is how so many lifters have got into Olympic weightlifting competition, even if their purpose was different at the beginning.

1. In the competition of Olympic weightlifting, athletes need to be all of the following EXCEPT________.

A．the right age	B．the right height
C．the right weight	D．the right strength

2. How many more times can a lifter try if he/she fails for the first time?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

3. According to the fourth paragraph, ________.

A．men often do better than women in weightlifting

B．women need to use different training techniques from men

C．men can learn the training techniques better than women

D．women used not to be allowed to compete in Olympic weightlifting

4. According to the passage, many athletes began to practice weightlifting because they wanted to________.

A．take part in the Olympics

B．get a reward in the competition

C．strengthen their body power

D．test the limit of explosive strength

【推荐3】For the most part, it seems, workers in rich countries have little to fear from globalization, and a lot to gain. But is the same thing true for workers in poor countries? The answer is that they are ever more likely than their rich-country counterparts to benefit, because they have less to lose and more to gain.

Traditional economics takes an optimistic line on integration（整合）and the developing countries. Openness to foreign trade and investment should encourage capital to flow to poor economies. In the developing world, capital is scarce, so the returns on investment there should be higher than in the industrialized countries, where the best opportunities to make money by adding capital to labour have already been used up. If poor countries lower their barriers to trade and investment, the theory goes, rich foreigners will want to send to over some of their capital.

If this inflow of resources arrives in the form of loans or portfolio investment（组合投资）, it will top up domestic savings and loosen the financial restriction on additional investment by local companies. If it arrives in the form of new foreign - controlled operations, FDI, so much the better; this kind of capital brings technology and skills from abroad packaged along with it, with less financial risk as well. In either case, the addition to investment ought to push incomes up, partly by raising the demand for labour and partly by making labour more productive.

This is why workers in FDI - receiving countries should be in an even better position to profit from integration than workers in FDI - sending countries. Also, with or without inflows of foreign capital, the same gains from trade should apply in developing countries as in rich ones. This gains from trade logic often arouses suspicion, because the benefits seem to come from nowhere. Surely one side or the other must lose. Not so. The benefits that a rich country gets through trade do not come at the expense of its poor country trading partners, or vice versa, Recall that according to the theory, trade is a positive sum game. In all these trades, both sides -- exporters and importers, borrowers and leaders, shareholders and workers can gain.

1. Why are workers in poor countries more likely to benefit from the process of globalization?

A．The can get more chances to gain a good job.

B．They have less to lose and more to gain.

C．They have nothing to lose.

D．They can get more financial aid.

2. What can be the final result of the inflow of the resource?

A．It will top up domestic savings.	B．It will loosen the financial restriction.
C．It will push people’s incomes up.	D．It will bring technology and skills from abroad.

3. What can we know from the last paragraph?

A．Poor countries get the most profit during the process of trade.

B．Rich countries get profit from trade at poor countries’ expense.

C．Poor countries get more profit from trade than rich ones.

D．All aspects involved in the trade can get benefit.