【推荐3】According to a sales report from askci.com on 2018’s Double Eleven,the national shopping day,women’s down garments(羽绒服)were among the top 10 hit products.     1    It seems the strong warmth provided by down garments has been nationally approved.Especially during a fiercely cold winter,when you tremble in the wind,who cares about being stylish?    2    As living standards rise, more expensive garments filled with goose down instead of duck down, have appeared in the market. Goose or duck?

    3    First, the down from mature geese is larger and thicker,which makes garments filled with goose down much warmer.Second,goose down is more flexible than that of ducks.The last difference is key for people sensitive to smells:Compared to duck down,goose down has no strange smell.    4    These are the advantages that account for the higher prices of garments made with goose down.However,duck down is still a good choice if you live in place where winter is windy,yet not that cold.

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Although most down garments can make people look big and fat, you could choose longer ones for a slimming look. For colors, metallic colors are more stylish and pair more easily with other street-style outfits.

A．How to be stylish?

B．All you need is warmth.

C．Where to choose your down garment?

D．Not everyone prefers wearing down garments.

E．They have been popular for many years in China.

F．What’s the difference between the down from these two creatures?

G．Ducks do not eat clean diet, which could give their feathers a strong smell.

【推荐1】For someone who enjoys gardening, gifts for their garden can be very thoughtful and appreciated by them. They can be tools to make gardening easier. Or they can be decorations (装饰品) to make a garden more attractive.     1    

High quality garden tools can make excellent garden gift ideas. These may be designed with flowers or other gardening pictures on them, or they may be personalized for the gift receiver. Any user-friendly tools for gardeners can be a useful gift.     2    

Decorations for the garden are some of the more popular garden gift ideas. Animals and small sculptures (雕塑) are generally a good choice. They look good with most types of garden decoration.     3    If a gardener already has a certain style of decoration in his/her garden, try to buy something that fits that style.

    4    There are many ideas to be found online — using items such as old wine bottles to create lights, for example. The gift receiver will certainly appreciate the time it took to make a gift by hand.

Some garden gifts can be very useful. If you know the gift receiver likes birds, for example, you might choose to buy a bird feeder or birdbath for the garden. A stone bench is a more expensive yet very nice gift for a garden as well.    5    These gifts show that you’re really thoughtful.

A．That’s why they enjoy gardening.

B．Here are some great garden gift ideas.

C．It allows gardeners to rest when they’re tired.

D．No matter what you buy, they will be appreciated.

E．Making something for the garden in person is a nice idea.

F．A gardening bag to store these tools can also be a great idea.

G．Consider the design of the garden before buying any gifts for it.

【推荐3】Europe’s busiest shopping street

London is a shopper’s paradise（天堂）, and one of the best places to go is Oxford Street. Selfridges, one of the world’s first department stores, is here. There are at least four other major stores and Europe’s largest music shop. In December the Christmas lights are always switched on by a famous person.

Kids’ heaven

Nearby in Regent Street is Hamleys. This is the biggest toy store in the world, opened in 1881. There are seven floors, so kids can always find something they haven’t got.

Markets

You can’t leave London without visiting a market. One of the oldest is Borough market. Walk around and look at the fresh fish, bakeries, and fruit and vegetable sellers. You can also buy specialist food, like cheeses, pork pies and chutney. For antiques（古玩）, jewellery or collector’s items go to Portobello Road on a Saturday. You never know what you will find. If you like browsing（浏览）for jewellery and gifts, there is nothing better than Covent Garden market. There are lots of cafés here and always some kind of street entertainment.

Back in time

If you are in the north of England, why not explore York’s picturesque medieval（中世纪的）quarter, known as The Shambles. The narrow streets are always filled with shoppers. The old wooden buildings are so close they almost touch each other.

1. Oxford Street becomes special in December for ________.

A．the busiest shopping street in Europe

B．the largest music shop in Europe

C．the lights are always lighted by a famous person

D．many bargains to choose from

2. To enjoy food, you can go to ________.

A．Borough market	B．Portobello Road
C．The Shambles	D．Covent Garden market

3. Where is this passage probably taken from?

A．A science book	B．A traveler’s journal
C．A news report	D．A trip guide

【推荐1】Over the years, Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, has studied such things as how far Americans typically drive to buy food, how many times we refill our plates at all-you-can-eat buffets and how we organize our kitchens. In the mid-2000s he famously coined the phrase “mindless eating” (and wrote a book by that name) to focus attention on all the bad dietary decisions we make without really thinking about them.

His new book, Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, aims to change the design of restaurants, school lunchrooms, office cafeterias and homes so that the mindless choices we make will be more healthful ones. Some examples:

Keep kitchen counters clear. No visible snack food, no bread, no nuts — not even breakfast cereal. In Wansink’s research, “women who had even one box of breakfast cereal that was visible — anywhere in their kitchen — weighed 21 pounds more than their neighbor who didn’t.”

Trick yourself into drinking less wine. “We tend to focus on the height of what we pour and not the width, so we pour 12 percent less wine into taller wineglasses than we pour into wider wineglasses.” And the shape of the glass is not the only variable that affects how much we drink. Wansink writes: “Because red wine is easier to see than white wine, we pour 9 percent less red wine whenever we pour a glass.”

Wansink said his researchers also found that people ate less at restaurants when sitting in well-lighted areas near windows and doors, than in darker areas or in the back. They ate less if they were offered a doggie bag, or to-go box, before they got their meals: apparently the idea of getting a “free” second meal outweighed the impulse (冲动) to clean their plates. Workers who frequently ate at their desks weighed 15.4 pounds less, on average, than those who didn’t. Fruits and vegetables kept on the top shelf of the refrigerator were eaten at higher rates than those on lower shelves.

The point, Wansink says, is to consider findings like those and change your environment or habits. Then you won’t have to think about it: You’ll just eat less.

1. Why did Brian Wansink write Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life?

A．Because he wanted people to become thin.

B．Because he intended to help people eat more healthily.

C．Because he hoped to coin a new phrase “mindless earing”.

D．Because he wished to change the design of dining places.

2. According to Wansink, which of the following affects the amount of wine we drink?

A．The shape of wineglasses.

B．The color of wineglasses.

C．The taste of wine.

D．The quality of wine.

3. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Changing environment or eating habits will help you eat less.

B．Eating fruits and vegetables is better for your health.

C．Keeping your kitchen counter clear of any food will help make you thin.

D．Many people eat or drink too much without paying attention to it.

【推荐3】Passage one（The only way to travel is on foot）

The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like ‘ Palaeolithic Man’, ‘Neolithic Man’, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label ‘Legless Man’. Histories of the time will go something like this: ‘in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks. ’

The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world – or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: ‘I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.’ The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says ‘I’ve been there. ’ You mention the remotest, most evocative place-names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say ‘I’ve been there’ – meaning, ‘I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else. ’

When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travellers.

1. Anthorpologists label nowaday’s men ‘Legless’ because

A．people forget how to use his legs.

B．people prefer cars, buses and trains.

C．lifts and escalators prevent people from walking.

D．there are a lot of transportation devices.

2. Travelling at high speed means

A．people’s focus on the future.

B．a pleasure.

C．satisfying drivers’ great thrill.

D．a necessity of life.

3. Why does the author say ‘we are deprived of the use of our eyes’ ?

A．People won’t use their eyes.

B．In traveling at high speed, eyes become useless.

C．People can’t see anything on his way of travel.

D．People want to sleep during travelling.

4. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A．Legs become weaker.

B．Modern means of transportation make the world a small place.

C．There is no need to use eyes.

D．The best way to travel is on foot.

5. What does ‘a bird’s-eye view’ mean?

A．See view with bird’s eyes.

B．A bird looks at a beautiful view.

C．It is a general view from a high position looking down.

D．A scenic place.