【推荐1】You're never too old to pick up a book and read with a child. All you should do is grabbing a book and a few loved ones, and sharing in the joy of reading. A good habit of reading is very important for you.     1    .

    2    . You should have some time during every day when you'll read for least 5 to 10 minutes. For example, make it a habit to read during breakfast and lunch and even dinner if you eat alone.

Always carry a book.     3     When I leave the house, I always make sure to have my car keys and one book at hand. The book stays with me in the car, and I take it into the office and to appointments and pretty much everywhere I go.

    4    . Find a place in your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair. There should be no television or computer near the chair. If you don't have a place like this, create one.

Reduce television/the Internet. If you really want to read more, try cutting back on time on TV or the Internet.     5    . However, every minute you reduce of the Internet/TV, you could use for reading. This could create hours of book reading time.

A．Find a quiet place to read.

B．Find a library to read alone.

C．There are some ways to develop it.

D．Set time to read books for yourself.

E．It means you will read no matter how busy you are.

F．This may be difficult for some people.

G．Wherever you go, take a book with you.

【推荐2】Treasure hunts (寻宝)have excited people’s imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues (线索)found in a book when he wrote a children’s story Masquerade, in 1979. The book was about a hare, and a month before it came out, Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of “red herrings”, or false clues, to mislead them.

Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic (逻辑),not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words :”One of Six to Eight” under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six wives. Even here, however,   Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Befordshire and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth £ 3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

1. The underlined word “them”(paragraph1)refers to .

A．red herrings	B．treasure hunts
C．Henry VIII’s six wives	D．readers of Masquerade

2. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare ?

A．Two stone crosses in Ampthill

B．Stevenson’s Treasure Island

C．Katherine of Aragon

D．Williams’ hometown

3. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built .

A．to tell about what happened in 1773

B．to show respect for Henry VIII’s first wife

C．to serve as a road sign in Ampthill Park

D．to inform people where the gold hare was

4. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare ?
a.Henry VIII’s six wives
b.Katherine’s burial place at Kimbolton
c.Williams’ childhood in Ampthill
d.Katherine of Aragon
e.stone crosses in Ampthill Park

A．a—b—c—e—d	B．d—b—c—e—a
C．a—d—b—c—e	D．b—a—e—c—d

5. What is the subject discussed in the text ?

A．An exciting historical event

B．A modern treasure hunt

C．The attraction of Masquerade

D．The importance of logical thinking

【推荐1】Growing up in Colombia, Diana longed to explore the universe and gain more understanding of it. Her dad thought that being able to speak a second language would give her an advantage. He suggested she live with her aunt in Miami while going to school. Only 17 years old at the time, she accepted his suggestion.

With just $300 in her pocket, Diana took a series of housekeeping jobs to put herself through community college and later the University of Florida. In addition to learning English, she studied aerospace engineering. Sometimes she had to take six buses just to get to class. Other days she was cleaning bathrooms to continue her studies. But Diana saw everything coming her way as an opportunity.

Diana applied to the NASA Academy in her senior year of college, and was the first immigrant Latina in the academy. NASA hired her that year, and in 2009, she became a telecom system engineer for the Curiosity Rover (探测器) that landed successfully on Mars in 2012. During this mission, she developed a dust removal tool to help scientists better explore Mars’ surface, which earned her recognition as one of the 20 most influential Latinas in the technology industry. Since then, Diana has only kept setting the bar higher. In her second mission, it took her team two years to create the robotic arm for the Perseverance Rover that would bring back soil samples from the Red Planet to learn if there once was life there.

Right now, her mission is to help more Latinas realize they can be also successful in the exploration of science and technology. Last week, she hosted NASA’s first-ever Spanish-language live broadcast for Perseverance’s arrival on Mars and it gained more than 2.5 million views online.

1. What did Diana do after 17 years old?

A．She got $300 from her father.

B．She supported herself through college.

C．She showed great interest in space exploration.

D．She helped her aunt to do housekeeping jobs.

2. What was Diana’s contribution to the Curiosity Rover?

A．She designed a tool to remove the dust.	B．She explored the surface of Mars.
C．She created the robotic arm.	D．She directed the telecom system.

3. What is Diana’s latest mission?

A．To fight for the women’ equal rights.

B．To host a broadcast to attract more viewers.

C．To create the robotic arm for the Perseverance Rover.

D．To encourage more Latinas to study science and technology.

4. What message does the story convey?

A．It is never too old to learn.

B．Behind bad luck comes good luck.

C．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

D．Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

【推荐2】Most of us know about the Nobel Prize, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, but few of us know anything about the man who set them up. His name was Alfred Nobel. He was a great scientist and inventor himself. Besides, he had a big business. His business may surprise you. He made and sold explosives（炸药）. His companies even made and sold weapons（武器）. Isn’t this something that surprises you? The man who made money from weapons should set up the Peace Prize?

Though Alfred Nobel had a lot of money from weapons, he hated war. He hoped that there would be no war in the world. He was one of the richest in Europe. When he died in 1896, he left behind him a lot of money and his famous will. According to his will, most of his money was placed in a fund. He wanted the interest（利息） from the fund to be used as prizes every year. We know them as the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes are international. Alfred Nobel wanted the winners to be chosen for their work, not the country they came from.

Alfred Nobel had given his whole life to his studies and work and to the benefits of mankind. He made money all by his own efforts, but he let the world share his wealth. His inventions and wealth stay with the world for ever.

1. Alfred’s business was _____.

A．making explosives and selling weapons

B．not making and selling weapons

C．making and selling explosives and weapons

D．making weapons and selling explosives

2. Nobel wanted to set up the Nobel Peace Prize because _____.

A．he made enough money

B．he liked to live in a rich life

C．he wanted to get more interest from the fund

D．he disliked war

3. Nobel Prizes come from _____.

A．all the interest from the fund

B．all Nobel’s money in his company

C．all Nobel’s money in the fund

D．some of the interest in the fund

4. Nobel was a (an) _____ person in the world.

A．interesting	B．kind-hearted
C．unselfish	D．richest