【推荐1】Getting Along Well With Parents
Getting along well with parents is a big problem for most teenagers. Teenagers are gradually getting more mature---or at least they think they are. So they can’t wait to get themselves free from their so—called bondage. Their parents are in their 40s and they are annoyed by their aging.    1    . But people prefer harmony. How can we achieve it? Here are some tips:
First and foremost,    2    . We can’t be sure if we are created by God, yet people worship him, but we are absolutely sure that our parents created us. Isn’t a good enough reason why we should respect them?
What’s more,    3    We can’t just take their payment for granted or become apathetic to their kindness. We are always impressed by strangers’ occasional kindness. How can we be insensitive to our parents who worry about us all the time?
In addition, don’t forget to communicate with your parents.    4    . For example, they may read our private diaries or follow us everywhere even to the bathroom. This will definitely cause strife in the family.
Last but not the least,    5    . It may be difficult at first, but once you do it, your parents’ actions will suddenly be clear.
If parents and teenagers work a little more we can all get something back.

A．we need to switch places with our parents.

B．As we get older, we begin to realize that our parents are not as perfect as we thought.

C．That’s why people say families at this time are a confrontation between adolescence and the climacteric.

D．we must respect our parents from the bottom of our heart.

E．Gradual disappointment with patents is , in some degree, inevitable.

F．If we refuse to communicate with them, parents will fell so frustrated that they will do   anything they can to know us.

G．it’s important to be grateful to our parents.

【推荐2】In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition which she won last year.
As a writer, I know about winning contests – and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection letter from the publisher. I also know the pressure of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and destroyed hopes can resurface in our children.
A revelation (启示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”
I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自发地) told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.
Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting my daughter’s experience.
While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked. All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment, grow and find their own voices.
1. What do we learn from the first paragraph?

A．A lot of amusements compete for children’s time nowadays.

B．Children have lots of fun doing mindless activities.

C．Rebecca is much too busy to enjoy her leisure time.

D．Rebecca draws on a lot of online materials for her writing.

2. What did the author say about her own writing experience?

A．She was constantly under pressure to write more.

B．Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers.

C．She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer.

D．Her road to success was full of pain and frustrations.

3. Why did Rebecca want to enter this year’s writing contest?

A．She believed she possessed real talent for writing.

B．She was sure of winning with her mother’s help.

C．She wanted to share her stories with readers.

D．She had won a prize in the previous contest.

4. The underlined sentence probably means that the author was _______.

A．trying not to let her daughter enjoy her own life

B．trying to get her daughter to do the thing as the author wished

C．making sure that her daughter would win the contest

D．helping her daughter develop real skills for writing

【推荐3】These days，North Kickapoo Street in Shawnee，Oklahoma，is a four-lane road leading out to the highway，and lined with all kinds of places to eat and shop. But in the mid-1950s, it was just a gravel(砂砾) country road, the perfect place for our daddies to teach us how to drive.

We didn’t have driver’s education at Shawnee High Schoo1. We were on our own. Mom took me to pick up an instruction handbook. I was the oldest of my friends, so we were excited at the prospect of a whole new world opening up. We’d have freedom to get around. Best of all, we could go to the Starlite Drive—In theater on 50-cents-a-carload night. We’d have it made.

Mom let me back our 1949 Ford out of the garage a few times to get used to the clutch (离合器) and gearshift (变速排挡杆). I got familiar with the motion but was hardly ready for my road test.

Finally, the day came for Daddy to give me a real lesson. He drove out to the end of the paved section of Kickapoo Street and across to where the gravel started. My daddy had come from a family of 10, and they had been farmers in a poor area in Oklahoma. There was only one way to do things, and that was the right way.

Praises were rare, so when he expressed his approval it was special. I didn’t want to experience his glare if I ground the clutch or the car shook as I tried to get it going.

I took a deep breath, slowly let out the clutch, pushed the stick into second gear, eased down the road, and then carefully moved into third gear. He had me stop and repeat the procedure two or three more times until I came to the end of the section. I was feeling pretty good as I came to a stop and looked to Daddy for approval.

He glared at me and then barked，“You’ve been driving, haven’t you?”

He must have thought I’d been practicing in somebody else’ s car. I quickly explained that my training was all done on the Ford.

That was 60 years ago. I can still see the nod he gave me when he said，“Well, you did a good job. ”

1. How did the author learn to drive at the beginning?

A．He was taught by his mother.

B．He was taught at Shawnee High Schoo1.

C．He learned to drive with the help of his father.

D．He taught himself by an instruction handbook.

2. While Daddy was teaching him, the author operated carefully to__________.

A．avoid making him angry	B．pass the road test
C．show his driving skill	D．stop the car being damaged

3. Why did Daddy glare at the author when he stopped?

A．He thought he had been cheated.

B．Something was wrong with the car.

C．He was disappointed at his son’s driving skill.

D．The son didn’t operate properly while driving.

4. Which of the following best describes Daddy’s character?

A．untalkative.	B．bad-tempered.
C．Strict.	D．Helpful.

【推荐1】Jeremy was born with a twisted body, and terminal illness slowly killing him throughout his young life. Still, his parents had tried to give him as normal a life as possible and had sent him to St. Theresa's Elementary School.
At the age of 12, Jeremy was only in second grade, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, often became angry with him. He would often disturb the class by squirming（扭动） in his seat, drooling（流口水） and making grunting（呼噜声）noises. Doris had 18 other youngsters to teach and she didn’t want to waste time on Jeremy.
Spring came, and the children talked excitedly about the coming of Easter. Doris told them of the story of Jesus, and stressed the idea of new life springing forth, she gave each of them a large plastic egg. "Now," she said to them, "I want you to take this home and bring it back tomorrow with something inside that shows new life. Do you understand?" "Yes, Miss Miller!" All the children responded except Jeremy. He just listened, his eyes never left her face. He did not even make his usual noises.
The next morning, the children came to school and placed their eggs in a large basket on Doris' desk. After they completed their Math lesson, it was time to open the eggs.
In the first egg, Doris found a flower. "Oh yes, a flower is certainly a sign of new life," she said. The next egg had a plastic beautiful butterfly in it. Then Doris opened the fourth egg. It was empty! Surely it must be Jeremy's she thought, and he did not understand the instructions.
She put that egg down so she wouldn’t embarrass him. Suddenly Jeremy spoke up and said "Aren't you going to talk about my egg?" Doris replied, "But Jeremy - your egg is empty!" He looked into her eyes and said softly, "Yes, but Jesus' tomb was empty too!"
Doris asked him, "Do you know why the tomb was empty?" "Oh yes!" Jeremy exclaimed. "Jesus was killed and put there. Then His Father raised Him up!"
After class the children excitedly ran out, but Doris cried. The cold inside her melted completely away.
Three months later, Jeremy died. Those who paid their respects at the funeral were surprised to see 19 eggs on top of Jeremy’s casket, all of them empty.
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Jeremy’s parents sent him to school.

B．Jeremy was badly ill.

C．Jeremy liked to go to school.

D．Jeremy lived a normal life.

2. From the third paragraph, we can infer that Jeremy _____________.

A．was absent-minded in class

B．slept in class as usual

C．made noises uncontrollably

D．listened to the teacher attentively

3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the text?

A．In one of the eggs is a flower.

B．Jeremy didn’t understand his teacher’s instructions.

C．In one of the eggs is a butterfly.

D．There was nothing in Jeremy’s egg.

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Disabled Jeremy

B．A special class

C．Doris and her students

D．Jeremy’s empty egg

【推荐2】Shortly after the war，my brother and I were invited to spend a few days with an uncle who had just returned from abroad. He had rented a cottage in the country，although he rarely spent much time there. We understood the reason for this after our arrival: the cottage had no comfortable furniture（家具）in it；many of the windows were broken and the roof leaked（渗漏），making the whole house terrible.

On our first evening，we sat around the fire after supper listening to the stories which our uncle had to tell of his many adventures in distant countries. I was so tired after the long train journey that I would have preferred to go to bed；but I could not stand missing any of my uncle's exciting stories.

He was just in the middle of describing a rather terrifying experience he had once had when there was a loud crash from the bedroom above，the one where my brother and I were going to sleep.

"It sounds as if the roof has fallen in！"cried out my uncle，with a loud laugh.

When we got to the top of the stairs and opened the bedroom door，we could see nothing at first because of the thick clouds of dust which filled the room. When the dust began to clear，a strange sight met our eyes. A large part of the ceiling had fallen down，falling right onto the pillow（枕头）on my bed.

I was glad that I had stayed up late to listen to my uncle's stories，otherwise I should certainly have been seriously injured，perhaps killed.

That night we all slept on the floor in the sitting room downstairs，not wishing to risk our lives by sleeping under a roof which might at any moment fall down on our heads. We left for London the very next morning and my uncle gave up his cottage in the country. This was not the kind of adventure he cared for either！

1. Why did the uncle seldom spend much time in the country cottage？

A．Because the roof of the cottage had fallen.

B．Because the cottage was in bad condition.

C．Because he was used to living abroad.

D．Because the rooms were too small to live in.

2. When the author and his brother opened the bedroom door，they could see nothing at first because.

A．it was completely dark inside

B．there was too much dust in the air

C．something strange stopped them

D．it was a mess inside

3. The author felt glad that he had stayed up late because.

A．he did not miss the exciting stories

B．he spent more time with his uncle

C．he had a lucky escape

D．he saw a strange sight

4. Which of the following can best describe the writer's uncle？

A．Adventurous and good at storytelling.

B．Humorous and good at making jokes.

C．Dependable and generous with money.

D．Thoughtful and sensitive to danger.