【推荐1】Maybe you are an average student. You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessary so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how.

1) Plan your time carefully.     1    . After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. then decide a good, regular time for studying. Don't forget to set aside enough time for entertainment. A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize everything that is happening to your time.

2) Find a good place to study.     2    . Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

3) Make good use of your time in class.     3    . Really listening in class means that you don’t have to work too much later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

4) Study regularly.     4    . Review the important points that your teacher mentioned in class. If you know what your teacher is going to discuss the next day, reading that material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer.

5)     5    . The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember what you have just learned in class. The world won’t end if you don't pass a test, so don't be overly worried.

There are other methods that might help you with your studying. You will probably discover many others after you have tried these.

A．Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teachers say.

B．Look around the house for a good study area.

C．When you get home from school, go over your notes.

D．Work hard at your subjects

E．When you plan your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do.

F．learn from other students when you meet some problems.

G．Develop a good attitude about tests.

【推荐3】Some students get so nervous before a test.     1     Sian Beilock, a professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has studied these highly anxious test-takers. The students start worrying about the results. And when they worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources (资源).

Professor Beilock and another researcher, Gerardo Ramirez, have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.

    2     They gave them two short maths tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test.

Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of 12% worse on the second test.     3     Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated (不相关的) to the test. Professor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B+, compared to a B- for those who did not.

“What we showed is that for students who are highly test-anxious, who’d done our writing intervention (干预), all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and performance.     4    ”

But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam?     5    

A．They were performing just as well as their classmates who don’t normally get nervous in these tests.

B．Researchers asked students to direct their attention from the test.

C．The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students.

D．But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of 5%.

E．They do poorly even if they know the material.

F．It doesn’t matter where we write about our worries before an exam.

G．Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home r in the library.

【推荐1】The Ig Nobel Prize, a spoof (滑稽模仿) of the actual Nobel Prize, exists to award the 10 strangest research projects of the year that bring you fun and make you think. The following are three of them in 2019.

Medicine Prize: pizza

It’s one of the world’s most popular foods. According to the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner, eating more pizzas can lower the risk of cancer and heart disease—if your pizza is loaded with fruits and veggies. These provide flavonoids (类黄酮) to fight against certain diseases. So, if you’re a pizza enthusiast, you now have one more reason to love it!

Economics Prize: Dirty Money

Paper money the most frequently passed items on the planet, is known to pick up all kinds of bacteria. Which country’s currency is the dirtiest? An international team compared seven countries’ paper money. The Romanian Leu was the only one to carry all three types of bacteria tested and the US dollar was also a finalist. Perhaps this will make cashless payments more popular.

Biology Prize: Cockroach

Cockroaches (蟑螂) are well known for their survival abilities, but few folks know they can sense magnetic fields. More surprisingly, an international team found that dead cockroaches have more magnetic properties (磁性) than live ones. That’s because magnetic properties decrease when the temperature gets higher. So if you can stand cockroaches, they may be good magnetic sensors.

1. What do the three prizes have in common?

A．They are beneficial to our health.

B．They are entertaining and unusual.

C．They’ve gained the recognition of the Nobel Prize.

D．They are stranger than any other project in previous years.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A．People with heart disease should eat more pizzas.

B．US Dollar is relatively dirtier than Romanian Leu.

C．Dirty paper money leads to cashless payments.

D．Dead cockroaches are better magnetic sensors than live ones.

3. Which Prize are you possible to win if your major is organizing money?

A．Medicine Prize.

B．Economics Prize

C．Biology Prize.

D．Literature Prize.

【推荐2】第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The engineer Camillo Olivetti was 40 years old when he started the company in 1908. At his factory in lvera, he designed and produced the first Italian typewriter. Today the company’s head office is still in Ivrea, near Turin, but the company is much lareer than it was in those days and there are offices all around the world.
By 1930 there was a staff of 700 and the company turned out 13,000 machines a year. Some went to customers in Italy, but Olivetti exported more typewriters to other countries.
Camilllo’s son, Adriano, started working for the company in 1924 and later he became the boss. He introduecd a standard speed for the production line and he employed technology and desion specialists. The company developed new and better typewriters and the calculators（计算器）.In 1959 it prodyced the ELLA computer system. This was the first mainframe（主机）computer designed and brade in Italy.
After Adriano died in 1960, the company had a period of financial problems. Other companies, especially the Janpanese, made faster progress in electronic technology than the Italian company.
In 1978, Carlo de Benedetti became the new boss. Olivetti increased its marking and service networks and made agreements with other companies to design and produce more advanced office equipment. Soon it became one, of the world’s leading companies in informationg technology and communications. There are now five independent companies in the Olivetti group --- one for personal computers,one for other office equipment, one for systerms and servicse, and two for telecommunications.
1. From the text we learn that__________.

A．by 1930 Olivetti produced 13,000 typewriters a year

B．Olivetti earned more in the 1960s than in the 1950s

C．some of Olivetti,s 700 staff regularly visited customers in Italy

D．Olivetti set up offices in other countries from the very beginning

2. What was probably the direct result of Olivetti,s falling behind in electronic technology?

A．A dtiano’s death.	B．A period of financial problem
C．its faster progress	D．Its agreements with other companies

3. What do we know about Olivetti ?

A．It produced the best typewriter in the word.

B．It designed the word’s first mainframe computer.

C．It exported more typewriter than other computer.

D．It has five independent companies with its head office in lvrea.

4. The best title for the text would be___________.

A．The Origin of Olivetti	B．The Success of Olivetti
C．The History of Olivetti	D．The Producich of Olivetti

【推荐3】In 1997, a group of twenty British women made history. Working in five teams with four women in each team, they walked to the North Pole. Apart from one experienced female guide, the other women were all ordinary people who had never done anything like this in their lives before. They managed to survive in an environment which had defeated several very experienced men during the same period.

Once on the ice, each woman had to ski along while dragging a sledge (雪橇) weighing over 50 kilos. This would not have been too bad on a smooth surface, but for long stretches (一片地域), the Arctic ice is pushed up into huge piles two or three meters high and the sledges had to be pulled up on side and carefully let down the other so that they didn’t crash. The temperature was always below freezing point and sometimes strong winds made walking while pulling so much weight almost impossible. It was also very difficult to put up their tents when they stopped each night.

In such conditions the women were making good progress if they covered fourteen or fifteen kilometers a day. But there was another problem. Part of the journey was across a frozen sea with moving water underneath the ice and at some points the team would drift (漂流) back more than five kilometers during the night. That meant that after walking in these very terrible conditions for ten hours on one day, they had to spend part of the next day covering the same ground again. Furthermore, each day it would take three hours from waking up to setting off and another three hours every evening to set up the camp and prepare the evening meal.

So, how did they manage to succeed? They realized that they were part of a team. If any one of them didn’t pull her sledge or get her job done, she would endanger the success of the whole expedition (远征探险). Any form of selfishness could result in the efforts of everyone else being completely wasted, so personal feelings had to be put to one side. At the end of their journey, the women agreed that it was mental effort far more than physical fitness that got them to the North Pole.

1. What was so extraordinary about the expedition?

A．It was a new experience for most of the women.

B．The women did not have any men with them.

C．The women had not met one another before.

D．There was no one leading it.

2. During the expedition, the women had to be careful to avoid________.

A．being left behind	B．damaging the sledges
C．falling over on the ice	D．breaking the ice

3. It was difficult for the women to cover 15 kilometers a day because________.

A．they got too tired	B．they kept getting lost
C．the ice was moving backwards	D．the temperatures were very low

4. What can we infer from the text?

A．Experience must be bought.	B．Facts speak louder than words.
C．He who risks nothing gains nothing.	D．Motivation and teamwork achieve goals.

【推荐2】Online learning is a term used to describe distance or correspondence courses that are offered over the Internet.     1    

There are two types of online course access: open and restricted. Open access allows virtually anyone with an Internet browser to view the course material.     2     This initiative removes the barriers to advanced knowledge and allows anyone with the interest to learn. The other type of online courses are restricted access courses, which limit the class to registered students. These courses offer instructor interaction and require grades upon completion.

It is more efficient for both sides to access course materials online.     3     The recurring cost is for marking and moderating the class communications. This greatly reduced the staff time and costs. Online courses also allow students to complete coursework from a wide range of locations and remove the time restriction to access course lectures.

The material for online courses provided by educational institutions has been carefully reviewed and approved before the course is offered. Many introduction and intermediate courses do not change.     4     Due to the reduced expenses for online courses, the fees are sometimes lower than a standard instructor-led course. Additional savings like transportation make online learning the most cost-effective learning method available.

    5     These tools include mobile audio and video viewers, improved online interactive tests, and tool and course management software. The continued development in this area will further enhance the quality of online courses and encourage more people to further their education.

A．As a result, the courses are stable.

B．Students are required to use effective study skills.

C．The fees are much lower so that most students can afford it.

D．Technology continues to expand to meet the needs of online students.

E．This type of online learning does not require interaction with an instructor.

F．From the educator perspective, the course lectures can be recorded once and reused.

G．It is prized as a cost-effective method of providing access to education for a large population.