【推荐2】A recording which captures the sounds of nature went online on Ximalaya, a popular audio (音频的) sharing platform, on July 9. The album was recorded by Shenggu, whose work has attracted over half a million followers.

After graduation, he moved to Hangzhou in 2011 to work at an Internet company with a "996 schedule" — working from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. The stress of work began to affect his sleep. To relieve the stress in work, in 2013, he traveled to Fujian during the National Day holiday. It was the first time he had visited the coast and he was so impressed by the sounds of the waves that he wanted to record them.

When he was back in Hangzhou, he took the recorder to the suburbs at weekends to collect the sounds of nature and started uploading his recordings to the audio platform. Of his audio clips, the sound of rain has proved to be the most popular. Rain, he notes, is also one of the hardest sounds to record as it's all hard to predict — when it is going to rain, how heavy the rainfall is and when it will stop. He usually keeps his recorder fully charged, and knows where he wants to record before the rain comes. To avoid catching the sound of the rain hitting the material, he doesn't wear a raincoat and has to remain still. As a result, he endures mosquito bites and is often left soaking wet. He once drove 50 kilometers to record a thunderstorm but returned empty-handed.

He will often take his recording equipment into the forest or to the river just to be a "gourmet" of nature sounds. "When I bring my recording equipment and walk alone in the woods, I feel the peace in nature and all messy thoughts in my head can be thrown away," he says. He adds that he will continue to record the sounds of nature, because, as time goes by, some may vanish like those no longer heard in the city. He wants to keep them in the recordings.

1. Why did Shenggu start recording sounds?

A．The "996 schedule" motivated him.	B．The stress of work made him sleepless.
C．The sound of nature kept him spellbound.	D．The vastness of the ocean impressed him.

2. Which of the following best describes Shenggu's efforts to record the sound of rain?

A．Painful.

B．Wholehearted.

C．Dangerous.

D．Pleasant.

3. From the last paragraph, we can infer Shenggu will work continuously to__________.

A．find inner peace for his life

B．gain popularity from his audience

C．prepare more materials for his work

D．preserve nature sounds for more people

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

A．A Cure for Stress Found

B．A Natural Sounding Pastime

C．The Trick of Recording Nature Sounds

D．An Audio Platform Attracting Followers

【推荐1】In this day and age，it may seem that getting two people with different views together to discuss them is a recipe for disaster.Just think about what would happen if you sat down and had an open and honest conversation with someone with completely opposing views.Could it bring you closer together?

However，the Human Library organization is counting on it.

At a Human Library，people volunteer to become“books”and make their experiences open and available.“Readers”are encouraged to ask them questions freely，and they'll get honest answers in return.There are no judgments，and no questions that are off limits.

You won't find unpleasant comments，and you won't lose faith in humanity.At the Human Library，you actually feel better about the world you live in.You might even make a new friend!

“The human books consist of people who have been discriminated by society，”said Ronni Abergel，the Human Library organization's founder，who has set out to build space for conversations that can challenge prejudices through dialogue.“The most pleasantly surprising thing about it is how close all the human books become to one another，”he said.

Human Libraries help to remind us there really is more what unites us than divides us.And as events now spread throughout 82 countries，with the Human Libraries even set to launch soon in Pakistan and Jordan，you can tell that is a shared feeling.

“We can spend billions and billions on trying to build up homeland security and our safety，but real safety comes from having positive relations to other groups in your community，”said Abergel.“Real safety is not going to come from building walls.It's going to come from reaching out and getting to know each other.”

1. What does the first paragraph imply?

A．Heated discussions are often carried out among people.

B．Open dialogue can't always lead to close relations.

C．People with opposing views are not honest enough.

D．We tend to have open dialogue with people around us.

2. What will readers get at a Human Library?

A．A fair judgment.

B．Unpleasant comments.

C．An available experience.

D．Regaining confidence.

3. Which of the following can replace the underlined“launch”in Para.6 in meaning?

A．Accelerate.	B．Substitute.
C．Succeed.	D．Start.

4. What did Abergel advise people to do to get real safety?

A．Strengthen bonds between people.

B．Join other groups in the community.

C．Pull down walls between communities.

D．Spend less money on homeland security.

【推荐2】Playing tennis regularly could help keep people off death, but football, rugby and running may not help people to live longer, a study suggests.

A study followed more than 80,000 people for an average of nine years to find out if certain sports protected them against early death. It found that people who played racket sports regularly were the least likely to die over the study period, reducing their individual risk by 47 percent compared with people who did no exercise. Swimmers also reduced their chance of death by 28 percent, aerobics (有氧运动) fans by 27 percent and cyclists by 15 percent. Yet running appeared to have no impact at all on dying early, and neither did playing football or rugby.

Scientists say the difference may lie in the social aspect which goes alongside sports like tennis and squash (壁球), which often involve clubs and organized activities outside of the game. It means that people often have larger social net-works and tend to keep up activities into later life, both of which are proven to be good for health.

In contrast, people who play team sports often do not move onto a new sport once their teams break up for family, or injury reasons. They become watchers rather than participants in their chosen activity.

The researchers found that playing racket sports was associated with a 56 percent lower risk from heart death. Similarly, swimmers lowered their heart disease or stroke risk by 41 percent, and people who took part in activities like aerobics, dance or gymnastics lowered their risk by 36 percent. But again running, football and rugby had no significant impact on heart deaths.

However, other experts argue that this study must not be misinterpreted as showing that running and football do not protect against heart disease. In this study both runners and footballers had a lower rate of death from heart disease.

1. Which sport has hardly any impact on protecting people against early death?

A．Cycling.	B．Swimming.
C．Rugby.	D．Tennis.

2. According to the study, which makes a big difference in keeping healthy?

A．Playing basketball with their friends occasionally.

B．Watching football games every day.

C．Playing tennis and joining a club.

D．Doing running in the park every day.

3. What is considered more important to people's health?

A．Social networks.	B．Staying at home.
C．Physical examinations.	D．Setting up families.

4. In paragraph 4, the underlined part “break up” probably means ________.

A．Give up	B．Fall apart
C．Destroy	D．Crash

5. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Thousands of people participated in a 9-year research.

B．Study finds playing tennis helps people live longer.

C．It is wrong to say running has no impact on heart disease.

D．There are differences between racket sports and team games.