【推荐2】Would you like to do something to help make our city a better place to live in? Why not take part in “Clean & Green weekend”? Join us, and you can make new friends and help protect the environment at the same time.

Park Life

Do you like playing and relaxing in the park with your friends? If so, why not take the chance to come with us and tidy up the park when you go? To add some fun, there is a gift for the person who collects the most rubbish! Meet us at the south entrance to Taohe Park at 9 a. m. next Saturday if you want to join in.

The Air You Breathe

A great way to make the air we breathe cleaner is by planting lots of trees! It is a fact that trees slowly filter (过滤) a lot of pollutants (污染物) from the air. So come and help us plant some new ones in Fenhe Park at 2 p. m. next Sunday.

War on Graffiti (涂鸦)

Some people think graffiti is cool. Well, it is not! The best way to stop buildings from becoming totally covered in ugly graffiti is to fix it as soon as possible. And that is exactly what we are going to do. We are repainting the school walls from 1 p. m. on Saturday. You don’t have to bring any tools, just remember to wear some old clothes!

1. The main purpose of “Clean & Green Weekend” is to ________.

A．make our city more beautiful	B．offer the chance to have fun
C．help students meet old friends	D．have a nice weekend

2. How can we make the air we breathe cleaner?

A．By tidying the park.	B．By planting trees.
C．By repainting the school walls.	D．By protecting the environment.

3. If we’re going to repaint the school walls, we need to ________.

A．draw pictures well	B．bring some tools with us
C．wear some old clothes	D．wear some new clothes

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1. What is the best advantage of MD Hearing Aid AIR?

A．Fashionable.

B．Low-priced.

C．Visible.

D．Risk-free.

2. From the passage, we know the new product _______.

A．satisfies all the customers	B．is free to use for one year
C．can function without batteries	D．is safe and reliable

3. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To prevent people’s hearing loss.

B．To promote a new hearing aid.

C．To compare two affordable hearing aids.

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【推荐2】Here are some drop-dead wonderful botanical gardens where you can fill your mind with facts as well as filling your camera roll with beautiful pictures.

Cape Town, South Africa

Rhodes Drive, Newlands, 7735 Cape Town, South Africa.

Kissing the east side of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch is one of the world's most biodiverse gardens and a leader in conservation science. The sprawling site contains incredible forms of flora and near-endangered plants that have been cultivated since the early 1900s. Explore at ground level or from up above along "the Boomslang" , a treetop walkway.

Don't miss: The beautiful sculpture garden includes a bust of Nelson Mandela and breathtaking Mambo sculptures, carved from opal stone（蛋白石）.

Singapore Botanical Gardens

1 Cluny Rd, 259569 Singapore.

This place is called the Disneyland of Botanical Gardens. Now 160 years old, the tropical garden has it all：a section of the city's primary rainforest, an orchid garden, a ginger garden and an exhibition on ethnobotany, plus some wise old trees. It even has a pair of swans from Amsterdam, a national flower called Vanda Miss Joaquim and its own mist garden.

Don't miss：The National Orchid Garden with more than 1 000 species and 2 000 hybrids on display, plus a series of special tools and equipment to ensure the right humidity（湿度）.

Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

13 Ryoanji Goryonoshitacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto 616 -8001, Japan.

While Kyoto's bonsai-and bamboo-filled botanical gardens are worth a visit, you should also check out the city's Zen Buddhist temple. Set inside a fifteenth-century temple, this is a place for reflection. For maximum zen（禅/禅宗），walk the grounds and a lake flanked by Japanese blossom and maple trees.

Don't miss: Try the local delicacy, yudofu（boiled tofu）at the temple's traditional restaurant.

1. What is Kirstenbosch garden special for?

A．Wonderful views.	B．Garden tools.
C．Stone sculptures.	D．Local foods.

2. Where would a person go if he is interested in religion?

A．Rhodes Drive, Newlands, 7735 Cape Town, South Africa.

B．1 Cluny Rd, 259569 Singapore.

C．Royal Botanic Gardens, London, TW9 3AB, UK.

D．13 Ryoanji Goryonoshitacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto 616 -8001, Japan.

3. Which section of a newspaper does the passage belong to?

A．Agriculture.	B．Photography.
C．Traveling.	D．Food.

【推荐1】Most students try to learn English grammar using grammar textbooks. They study grammar rules and take grammar tests. They use an analytical（分析的） approach, attempting to memorize, and then apply, a great number of rules.
However, research has proved this method inefficient and ineffective. The truth is, the human brain simply cannot consciously remember process and use hundreds of or thousands of grammar rules. Real speech is too fast.
Native speakers do not learn grammar in this way, but rather intuitively (凭直觉地) and unconsciously. They learn in a complete way, not by attempting to memorize individual grammar rules. As a result, native speakers use correct grammar fluently and easily.
Fortunately, it is possible for English learners to learn grammar this way. Language teacher Blaine Ray has developed a unique "intuitive" approach to teach English grammar. Her system uses "point of view" stories to teach the patterns of English grammar, allowing students unconsciously to acquire correct grammar without ever studying grammar rules.
In this system, the teacher first tells a simple story from one point of view. It may be told about the past, then repeated, but beginning with "since he was a child"; then repeated again, but this time about the future.
Listening to these stories allows students intuitively and effortlessly to learn English grammar and makes them be able to use it correctly when they speak.
Point of View Stories is a creative new way to study English grammar, and offers hope to millions of frustrated English learners.
1. Which of the following ways is approved by the author?

A．Remembering grammar rules.

B．Taking grammar tests.

C．Analyzing grammatical structure.

D．Applying language to situations.

2. What does the underlined part "this way" in the fourth paragraph refer to?

A．Talking to native speakers when learning.

B．Learning English grammar in a complete way.

C．Using correct English grammar.

D．Learning English grammar from a teacher.

3. From this passage we learn that ______.

A．native speakers learn English grammar by listening to stories

B．Blaine Ray’s method gets students to grasp correct grammar unconsciously

C．Blaine Ray teaches grammar rules by asking students to tell stories

D．it’s hard for students to speak correct English in the new system

4. This passage wants to ______.

A．criticize the traditional way of learning grammar

B．introduce a new way to study English grammar

C．ask students to learn English grammar by listening to stories

D．tell us how the native speakers learn English grammar

5. Why shouldn’t the English learners use an analytical approach?

A．because the analytical approach can let them learn English grammar effortlessly

B．because the analytical approach makes them be able to use English correctly when they speak.

C．because the analytical approach can’t let them memorize and then apply a great number of rules.

D．because Real speech is too fast.

【推荐2】When a dog looks at you with big puppy-dog eyes, it’s hard for you to go away, and you may speak out “Awww” without hesitation. However, there’s a reason why you find a dog’s stare so attractive. That sweet stare actually causes the release of a particular hormone, or chemical messenger in the body. This hormone creates feelings of affection in humans. The same thing happens to dogs when people look back at them. Scientists believe this helps people and their four-legged friends bond, or feel connected. Scientists have wondered what causes dogs to lovingly stare at their owners. To find out, a team of researchers from Azabu University in Japan studied 30 owners and their dogs.

The researchers found that after the pets and their owners spent half an hour together, both showed a rise in oxytocin (催产素). One key role of this hormone in many animals is to promote bonding, like that between a mother and newborn. The increase of oxytocin didn’t happen, though, when scientists repeated the experiment with wolves and the humans who had raised them.

A second experiment also found that if dogs were given oxytocin, they looked at their owners longer. Scientists aren’t sure exactly why, but this reaction occurred only with female dogs. Their owners’ oxytocin levels also rose as a result.

The result of these experiments might help answer an age-old question: How did the fearsome wolf ancestor of modern dogs turn into man’s best friend? Takefumi Kikusui, an animal scientist who worked on the study, thinks that the change happened when dogs first became domestic (驯养的).

According to Kikusui, there may have been a small group of wild dogs that were naturally friendlier. “Humans are very sensitive to eye contact. By using this special communication tool, the dogs are able to win over our hearts. If they are more likely to make eye contact, it would be easier for them to bond with dog owners,” Kikusui said.

1. According to Paragraph1, people say “Awww ” to ________.

A．make the dog stare at them	B．express their love for the dogs
C．draw the dogs’ attention away	D．warn the dogs not to approach them

2. According to the passage, oxytocin can ________.

A．reduce animals’ pain of giving birth

B．motivate animals’ desires to protect others

C．help animals to develop a better relationship

D．enable animals to survive more easily from dangers

3. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that ________.

A．dogs given oxytocin react differently

B．female dogs are more popular among humans

C．oxytocin helps dogs become man’s best friends

D．wolves are not likely to be friends with humans

4. The underlined words “ the change” in Paragraph 4 refer to that ________.

A．dogs and wolves are best friends

B．wolves begin to bond with humans

C．dogs became friends with humans

D．dogs were domesticated by humans

5. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To call on humans to be friendly to dogs.

B．To give advice on how to get along with dogs.

C．To introduce the evolution process of wild dogs.

D．To explain why humans and dogs are connected.

【推荐3】Next time you hear a funny joke you’d better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal, laughter isn’t always the best medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says: “We found people with heartbeat problems which had stopped their heart, we found people who had fainted (昏倒), and we found people who’d dislocated their jaws or burst their lungs.”

It seems that laughing can be no laughing matter. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing when you want to lose weight, for example. Yes, that’s right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains that: “You use energy when you laugh, you move your diaphragm (横膈膜), you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful.”

According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laughed all day you’d use up about 2,000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But don’t do that or you might end up with a painful jaw. Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a funny way.

But I don’t want to finish this article leaving you feeling desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3-6 months. So give in to your sense of humor and keep smiling. Life is short anyway.

1. Laughing too much may cause the following harmful results EXCEPT_________.

A．diaphragm movement

B．heart stop

C．lung burst

D．jaw dislocation

2. The underlined phrase “doom and gloom” in Paragraph 2 probably means_______.

A．nervous	B．funny
C．painful	D．hopeless

3. How many calories can you use if you laugh for half a day?

A．About 40.	B．About 2,000.
C．About 1,000.	D．About 2,040.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards laughing in the last paragraph?

A．Uninterested.	B．Favorable.
C．Worried.	D．Disapproving.