【推荐3】Some families choose to take extravagant(奢侈的) vacations, such as to the Grand Canyon. However, my favorite family "vacation"was different. Nine years ago, my parents made a plan to build the home of their dreams in the neighborhood.

Home Number I gradually turned into the management office for building Home Number 2. As Home Number 2 began to take shape, it drew our attention and our primary home became the place where we slept only. The three of us children worked and became soon-to-be-skilled workers. I quickly learned that personalities are readily displayed when we painted a wall. Some repeated his demand, refusing others to enter the area. Others systematically painted the wall, working from top to bottom in an organized fashion. And one might lose interest quickly and drew smiley faces and signed his name on the wall.

Of course, the journey doesn't come without a few lessons learned. I came to understand that paint would never be removed from my clothes no matter how many times I washed it. We learned other important lessons when my dad wanted to shingle(用瓦片覆盖) a roof in the air: Safety is indeed important, and sometimes money is well spent in the employment(雇用) of professional.

And a Mother's Day dinner served on a table could actually taste far better at the end of a long day's work than the everyday meals we remembered back at Home Number 1. Most importantly, I learned that my family can understand each other's' barks. When we finally“arrived after28 months,the“place of interest" we now call home was better than any other places, and our family grew closer because of it.

1. What makes the author's family vacation different from others'?

A．The way of spending the vacation.

B．The cost of spending the vacati

C．The length of time they spent on vacation.

D．People who they spent the vacation with.

2. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word"displayed"in Paragraph 2?

A．Developed.	B．Shown.
C．Changed.	D．Controlled.

3. What did the author learn when seeing his father working in the air?

A．How hard the job was!	B．His father's professional level.
C．The value of building the home.	D．The need to employ a professional.

4. What can be the best title for this text?

A．Creating close family

B．Life lessons I learned from a trip

C．A different house---building vacation

D．Why a family vacation is important

【推荐1】A PROFESSOR at Loyola University New Orleans taught his first online class from his courtyard, wearing a bathrobe (浴袍). The trouble caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn various responses at colleges struggling to continue teaching. This is widely being referred to as “online higher education.” There are even predictions that it will lead to a permanent departure from real campuses to virtual classrooms. However, all indications suggest that it probably won’t.

Real online education lets students move at their own pace. Additionally, developing a real online course can consume as much as a year. “That is not what is happening right now,” said Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. “What is happening now is we had eight days to put everything we do in class onto Zoom.”

What students are mistaking now for online education — long class meetings in videoconference rooms, professors in their bathrobes, DIY teaching tools — appears to be making them less open to it. In a survey of 14,000 college students in early April, 67 percent said they didn’t find online classes as effective as in-person ones. Among high school seniors, fewer than one in ten thought they would consider online college classes.

These opinions suggest that there is little likelihood that students will completely abandon their real-world campuses for cyberspace. Students who want classes best provided face to face, such as those in the performing arts or those which require lab work, will most likely continue to take them that way.

There will be some important lasting influences, though. Students are experiencing a flexible type of learning they may not like as undergraduates. The trend may not transform higher education, but it is likely to promote the combination of technology into it.

“Let’s take advantage of this moment to start a larger conversation about the whole design of higher education,” said Dr. Govindarajan. “We had better not lose this opportunity.”

1. According to the article, those who study ______ will be more likely to take online classes in college.

A．musical drama	B．applied physics
C．chemical engineering	D．computer science

2. From the article, the long-term goal of online education is to ______.

A．get rid of the real-world campuses

B．lower the cost of developing big courses

C．use digital technologies to satisfy students’learning needs

D．provide more students with access to courses of high quality

3. We can learn from the article that ______.

A．it is easy for most university professors to teach online

B．Dr. Govindarajan was positive about the outlook for online education

C．online classes worked better among high schoolers than among undergraduates

D．a flexible type of learning is more suitable for those who study while working full-time

【推荐2】I travel a lot, and I find out different “styles”(风格)of directions every time I ask “ How can I get to the post office?”
Foreign tourists are often confused(困惑的)in Japan because most streets there don’t have names. In Japan, people use landmarks(地标)in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “ Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat. In many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, “ Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.
People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map. They measure distance in time, not miles. “ How far away is the post office?” you ask. “ Oh,” they answer, “ it’s about five minutes from here.” You say, “ Yes, but how many miles is it?” They don’t know.
It’s true that a person doesn't know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, “ Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “ I don't know”. People in Yucatan believe that “I don't know” is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
1. When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place, they usually _______ .

A．describe the place carefully

B．show him a map of the place

C．tell him the names of the streets

D．refer to recognizable buildings and places

2. What is the place where people measure distance in time?

A．New York.	B．Los Angles.
C．Kansas                 C. Iowa

3. People inYucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ________ .

A．in order to save time	B．as a test
C．so as to be polite	D．for fun

4. What can we infer from the text?

A．It’s important for travelers to understand cultural differences.

B．It’s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.

C．People have similar understanding of politeness.

D．New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.

【推荐3】Walking is good for you.It’s good for your heart, for your lungs, for the muscle and bone growth of your children.Strong scientific evidence now supports the many benefits to health of regular walking.

Walking is connected with reduced death rates for both older and younger adults.In other words, walkers live longer!

In particular, walking has a great effect on cardiovascular disease(心血管病).Fit and active people have around half the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to unfit inactive people.

Even 10-minute walks can increase fitness.One study at Loughbrough University found that women walking continuously for 30 minutes 5 days a week had almost the same increases in fitness as women who divide their 30 minutes into three 10-minute walks.

The majority of studies of young people indicate falling participation in physical activity.Only half of 11-36-year-olds currently walk for ten minutes a day.Children in Britain walk 50 miles a year less than they did a decade ago.Around 20% of children can be classed as overweight.TV, computers, cultural changes and fears for children’s safety out of doors play a large part.

Walking offers a great way to help kids get the active habit.If parents express excitement about the prospect (前景) of a walk in the countryside, they are more likely to pass this feeling to their children.It’s important to treat the walk as an exploration or adventure and to go at the child’s pace, no matter how often they want to stop and look at things, take treats to eat and plenty to drink, and head for some landmarks that will attract them such as a castle, a playground, an ice cream car or a boating pond.If children experience walking as part of a fun activity, they are more likely to want to go again.

1. We know from the passage that regular walking __________.

A．can make people live longer and healthier

B．has nothing to do with cardiovascular disease

C．increases fitness only if you walk as fast as you can

D．will help you put on much weight in a short time

2. Which of the following is a reason why young people walk less than before?

A．They have more homework to do.

B．They have fitness equipment at home.

C．Their parents worry about their safety.

D．They want to learn more knowledge on TV.

3. In the last paragraph the author suggests that __________.

A．children should be led by parents when they play outdoors

B．parents should help their children form a habit of walking

C．parents should not care about their children too much

D．children should do more explorative and adventure activities