【推荐1】How to keep healthy? It’s easy for us to catch a cold in spring and winter because the weather changes a lot in spring and it is too cold in winter. But if we take care in our life, all of us can keep healthy without any cold.

    1    This will stop germs (细菌) passing from one person to another. When you finish your work or before you eat, you’d better wash your hands.

    2    Use a tissue and then throw it into dustbins at once. When others around you are coughing, I advise you to turn your head away from the people so that their virus (病毒) won’t reach you.

Get more fresh air. Germs like staying around in dry and warm rooms.     3    Don’t stay too long in the places with too many people.

If flu is going round house or school, you should try to stay away from those who are ill.     4    

Boil your toothbrush for about a minute. This kills germs.     5    If you have used the toothbrush for three months or so, throw it away and buy a new one.

A．Have a shower every day.

B．Wash your hands often.

C．Don’t use your hands when coughing.

D．Don’t go out often when you are coughing.

E．Besides, don’t use the same toothbrush too long.

F．In this way, you won’t be infected by those people.

G．So you’d better stay in the places with more fresh air.

【推荐2】Are you living in the present?

The idea of being present—being more aware of life as it happens—may seem impossible to those who are used to sacrificing living for achieving their goals.    1    Being present is the only way to enjoy life to the fullest. These tips turn everyday activities into opportunities to be mindful.

Stop worrying about the future.    2    Learn to recognize when you're doing this, and then practice bringing yourself back to the present. Just focus on what you're doing right now. Enjoy the present moment.

    3    You want to do one task at a time, but also rush that task. Instead, take your time and make your actions deliberate, not rushed and random. It takes practice, but it helps you focus on the task.

Do less. If you do less, you can do those things more slowly, more completely and with more concentration. But you're busy and you can't possibly do less, right? You can. It's a matter of figuring out what's important.    4    

Put space between things. It's a way of managing your, schedule so that you always have time to complete each task. Avoid arranging things close together.    5    That gives you a more relaxed plan, and leaves space in ease one task takes longer than you planed.

By being present, you enjoy anything you're doing more. Even things you might thing boring, such as housework, can be amazing if you truly present. It takes practice, but it's incredible.

A．Do one thing at a time.

B．Act slowly and deliberately.

C．Are you constantly worrying about the future?

D．And don't waste time on the meaningless thing.

E．The most important thing is to keep practicing.

F．Instead, leave room between things on your schedule.

G．In fact, you are more productive when you are present.

【推荐3】How to Understand the Mind of an Interviewer

Getting inside an interviewer’s head can be tricky, as their perspective will change according to personality type, professional role, and personal experience.     1    

Research the company to determine what the interviewer is looking for. Company culture (work-life balance, atmosphere, etc.) is a great indicator of what your interviewer will want to see in candidates.     2     You can look for company mission statements for a better understanding of company culture, or quotes from top-level executives (领导层), like CEOs, which often set the tone for company culture.

Look up the interviewer when possible.     3     This is the perfect chance to look up background information on the interviewer on the company’s website. Professional and social media platforms can also help you better know what to expect from an interviewer.

    4     Many interviewers determine the truthfulness of your resume (简历) this way. If you respond with answers that are inconsistent with what you wrote in your resume, many interviewers will interpret it as a red flag. Thus, remember to review the start and end dates of positions listed on your resume and try not to be annoyed at this kind of fact checking.

Identify how the interviewer’s position will influence expectations. The role of your interviewer usually has an impact on what that person expects from a candidate. An HR representative, for example, will want to know you’re a good fit with the company culture and values. A direct manager, however, would be most interested in your practical ability to do the job.

Regardless of their roles, most interviewers will want to know you’ll make their lives easier.     5    

A．Be consistent with what you wrote in your resume.

B．Expect the interviewer to question you on your resume.

C．Therefore, it’s not an easy job to understand their mind.

D．So try to make a point of addressing this during the interview.

E．Usually, you’ll be informed of your interviewer’s name before you meet them.

F．However, you can research on the interviewer and tailor your answers to stand out.

G．In most situations, interviewers will expect you to share similar values with the company.

【推荐2】My doorbell rings at 11 a.m. On the step, I find an elderly Chinese lady. She is small and slight. She holds a paper carrier bag in her hands.

I know this lady. It is by no means her first visit. Her daughter, Nicole, bought the house next door last October. Nicole, who is currently in Shanghai, has apparently told her mother that I am having heart surgery shortly, and the result is that her mother has decided I need to be supplied with meals.

I know what is inside the paper carrier bag — a stainless-steel container with a meal of rice, vegetables and either chicken, meat or shrimp. This has become an almost-daily occurrence.

Communication between my benefactor (恩人)and me is somewhat handicapped by the fact that she doesn’t speak English and all I can say in Mandarin is “hello”. Once, she brought an iPad and pointed to the screen, which displayed a message from Nicole telling me that her mother wanted to know if the food was all right.

“Your mother just can’t be bringing me meals like this all the time” I protested. “I can hardly reciprocate by cooking something from my native land, like roast beef or Yorkshire pudding for her” I said.

“Oh，no,” Nicole said. “Don’t worry about that. She has to cook for the family anyway, and she wants to do it for you. You can call her Wing, which is her surname.”

The tenant in my basement suite is a university student who speaks Mandarin quite well, so with her help, I have found out that Wing is 68—13 years younger than I am — and that she lived through the Cultural Revolution. For my part, I was raised in wartime Britain.

So here we are, two grandmothers a world away from where we were raised, neither of us able to speak the other’s language. But the doorbell keeps ringing and there is the familiar paper earner bag, handed smilingly to me by Wing.

Right now I am working on some more Mandarin words—it’s the least I can do after such a display of kindness.

“Thank you” is, of course，the first one, which somehow seems inadequate.

1. The author and Wing got to know each other        .

A．as next door neighbors

B．when exchanging meals

C．by sharing similar experiences

D．after using an iPad to communicate

2. The underlined word “reciprocate” in Paragraph 5 probably means        .

A．do as well	B．offer generously
C．give in return	D．accept with pleasure

3. The author’s effort to learn Mandarin shows her         .

A．great satisfaction	B．real kindness
C．heartfelt thanks	D．sincere friendship

【推荐3】That children are the hopes of our tomorrow is statement that is repeated time and again. And it is an axiom(格言); they are our pillars of the coming time. But then do we train them into becoming healthy human beings?

Healthy human beings here are not meant the physical well being, but the good human being, that is, one with virtues and values keeps them in the state of working towards the benefit of humanity.

How can children absorb within themselves the virtues and values? Well, this is the primary responsibility of parents and other immediate family members, followed by school authorities. The values and virtues of an individual is sown in their childhood and as they grow up.

Depending on the way we bring up our children, we decide our own future. It is vital that in the formative years we give them quality time and attention. We teach them to discriminate between the good, bad and the ugly. We have to teach them use positive emotive like love and compassion and teach them actions of kindness and generosity. At the same time we have to help them do away with the negatives of hatred, anger, jealousy, selfishness, etc.

Your child is like a plant. You sow the seeds and also reap the benefits of its growth and development. First and foremost you as a parent have to realize your responsibility in nurturing a child to grow into a good human being. And it is just not up to anyone of the parents, but both together to inculcate(谆谆教诲)the values and virtues into your child.

1. What should a good human being have?

A．A good physical state	B．A good virtue or value
C．A good career in society	D．A powerful relationship net

2. What sense is the most important for kids to learn?

A．Safety sense	B．Lifestyle sense
C．Transportation sense	D．Responsibility sense

3. Whom is the passage most probably written for?

A．Family parents	B．Child experts
C．Health researchers	D．Primary school teachers

4. What does the passage mainly want to tell us?

A．Children are parents’ hope

B．Educating children is a tough thing

C．Parents take responsibilities for educating children

D．Parents have trouble in educating children