【推荐2】Bert Kate, my grandfather, celebrated his 90th birthday in November 2016. Bert loved sports and was an enthusiastic Yankees (an American professional baseball team based in the New York City) fan, so it was no wonder that over the years, he was an avid (热切的) listener to WFAN radio and, in particular, the afternoon show hosted by Mike Francesa.

Bert had health issues in his later years that limited his mobility, and when he lost his vision three years ago, his attachment to his radio and Francesa became more pronounced. He just loved listening to Mike talk about sports and his Yankees each afternoon. Those hours brought him so much pleasure.

Of course, Mike will be leaving Dec.15,2017 after 30 years at the station. Mike lives in the same community where I work on Long Island, and I have gotten to know him over the past 20 years. So when my grandfather was approaching his special birthday the year before last year, I asked Mike for a favor: to call Bert and wish him a happy birthday.

Mike agreed without hesitation. Two days before the special day, Mike stopped at my workplace. I called Bert at his nursing home and put Mike on the phone. It was a complete surprise to Bert. Mike spent more than 10 minutes wishing Bert a happy birthday and, of course, talking about the Yankees.

When my family celebrated Bert’s birthday two days later, he couldn’t stop talking about the phone call. Over his lifetime, he said it was one of the nicest things anyone had ever done for him.

Unfortunately, Ben’s health declined last year and he passed away July 13,2017. But even in his final months in the hospital and nursing home,he always had a radio set to WFAN to listen each afternoon to Mike Francesa.And he also had the memory of that special phone call for his 90th birthday.

1. Why did Bert listen to WFAN radio for many years? ( no more than 10 words)
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2. What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph2? (1 word)
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3. What happened two days before Bert’s birthday? ( no more than 10 words)
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4. What is the best title for the text? (no more than 5 words)
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5. What do you think of the author? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
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【推荐3】I frowned at myself in the dressing-room mirror. I was wearing white tights and a white swim cap that hid most of my hair. I was one of 10 snowflakes (雪花) in my dance school’s Winter Wonderland show. I’d learned in science class that no two snowflakes are alike, but all of us snowflakes were wearing the same costume (表演服).

“What’s wrong, Avery?” Grandma looked at me in the mirror. “You love to dance.”

I used to love to dance. But Ms. Tuttle gave the part of the Snow Queen to Christine. Christine got to wear a blue leotard (紧身连衣裤) and a feathery skirt. And she got to do a dance onstage all by herself. But the snowflakes just had to run and spin to look like a blustery (大风的) snowstorm.

I whispered, “No one would notice if I wasn’t there. You came all this way, but now you won’t be able to tell me apart from the other snowflakes.” Grandma was about to speak. Then something outside the window caught her eyes. She grabbed my hand and my coat to the outside. It was snowing. Big swirling flakes. Grandma gasped and said “In Hawaii, it snows only on the very tops of mountains.”

I had seen snow lots of times, but now I tried to see it differently. Like it looked new to me. I saw snowflakes twisting through the air in different directions, sparkling and winking at us. So many snowflakes coming together to create something magical. “Snow changes the way the whole world looks,” I said. Grandma nodded. We watched the snow for a few more minutes, even though our toes were turning to ice. Then the wind settled down and the last flakes melted away. “Aloha,” Grandma whispered to the sky. “Aloha” can mean many things, including “love”, “hello” and “good-bye”. “I don’t know when I’ll see something like that again.”

“I do,” I said. I took Grandma Lani’s hand and pulled her back inside.

When the stage lights came up and the music started, I spun and ran with all of the other snowflakes. I didn’t care if Grandma Lani could see me. I was dancing for my grandma to see snowflakes!

1. How did the author feel about her part in the show?

A．Amused.

B．Uncertain.

C．Disappointed.

D．Indifferent.

2. What did the author desire?

A．The leading role.

B．The teacher’s comfort.

C．A large audience.

D．A different costume.

3. What did the author mean by saying “I tried to see it differently” in paragraph 5?

A．She sensed the cold of the snowflakes.	B．She saw the last flakes melt away soon.
C．She found snowflakes flying in all directions.	D．She discovered the beauty of the snowflakes.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Grandma Lani And Me	B．Magical Snowflakes
C．A Snowstorm for Grandma	D．A Winter Wonderland Show

【推荐1】A part－time job can build kids' skills, make good use of their spare time, and fill their pockets. But before your teen goes to work, here's what you both need to know to avoid any accidents.

Do your homework. Before your teen says “yes” to a job, find out as much as you can about the possible employer and the workplace. For example, if it's a restaurant, stop in for dinner or lunch; if it's a supermarket, shop there sometimes. Take note of how the manager treats the employees and whether safety measures(安全措施) are being followed.

Know the laws. Explain laws to your teen so he will know if he is asked to do anything unsuitable (like working beyond allowed hours). Go to youthrules. dol. gov/states. htm for more information.

Set up your own rules. Don't just rely on the law. You may need to be stricter. Even if it's legal for your teen to work until 7 p．m. on a school night, for example, you may want him home by 6 p．m. so he's not driving after dark.

________. Your teen may not tell you how things are going—you'll have to pull it out of him.“How was work today？” is likely to produce a meaningless answer “Fine”. Instead, ask, “Does the manager ever ask you to work after you clock out？” Or，“How closely does your manager watch to make sure you do things the right way？” You need to know whether a kid who was hired to do something innocuous has been asked to do something risky. Sad stories are often heard from parents who say，“When my teen got this job, she was hired as an assistant waiter. I didn't know they'd put her in the back using a slicing machine(切片机)”．

1. For whom is the text mainly written?

A．Students.	B．Lawyers.
C．Parents.	D．Teachers.

2. Which of the following is the most suitable to fill in the blank?

A．Ask leading questions

B．Follow your teens

C．Talk with bosses

D．Know what the job is

3. The underlined word “innocuous” in the last paragraph probably means “________”．

A．safe	B．tiring
C．interesting	D．difficult

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Relations between parents and kids.

B．Laws protecting teenage laborers.

C．How to choose a part－time job.

D．How to keep teens safe at work.

【推荐2】Why I Love Cycling

One of the first things I did when I moved to a new city was hire a bike. Why?    1     You travel much faster than on foot and you notice so much more of your surroundings than w hen in a bus or a car. It’s more appealing to wander down small streets if they seem interesting, as you can quickly get back to the main road.

Besides, I soon discovered plenty more benefits to cycling.

A bike means that fewer places, especially in a small city like the one where I live now, feel far away. For example, cycling to work takes me half the time that it would to walk.     2    

Of course, there are obvious health benefits of cycling—a bit of extra movement as part of your daily routine can help you keep fit and healthy. Cycling on my way to work also makes me feel more energetic in the mornings.

    3     While cars pollute the environment, bikes are carbon-neutral. Furthermore, thanks to being petrol-free, bikes are cheaper to run, buy and fix than cars. Even if you don ‘town a car, a bike can pay for itself when compared to the price of bus tickets.

    4     Always wear a helmet, pay attention to other traffic and don’t forget your lights at night. Make sure you know the road rules, especially in a new place. Some cities are more cycle-friendly than others.     5     Luckily, where I live now is pretty easy to ride a bike around, thanks to having lots of cycle lanes and not too many hills!

A．However, be careful when cycling.

B．I have to learn to ride safely on the right of the road.

C．Importantly, cycling also helps to reduce your carbon footprint.

D．And sometimes city roads are difficult or unpleasant for cyclists.

E．Riding a bike also means you’re not restricted by bus timetables.

F．Seeing a city by bike is ideal for settling in and learning your way around.

G．Cycling to work excellently fits for someone who wants to save their pocket money.

【推荐1】Nearly 80% of Chinese students who returned home after finishing education abroad thought their job salaries were lower than expected, according to a report by the think tank Center for China and Globalization and the online recruitment platform zhaopin. com.

More than 72 percent of overseas Chinese students have returned to China after finishing education abroad since the late 1970s, according to a report from a government-backed agency.

As for their reasons for studying abroad, 76% said they wanted to “experience the culture and life in other countries”, but few wanted to develop their careers abroad, according to the report.

Among those who returned, 61% chose to go back to their hometowns, 13% to Beijing, 8% to Shanghai, and 7% to Guangdong. The three first-tier cities are still popular choices for returnees due to their rapid economic growth and greater opportunities.

Recruitment websites and software were the top tools returnees used to find jobs, and 95% got jobs within half a year of returning to China.

Foreign languages and cross-cultural communication skills appeared to be the biggest advantage to the returnees’ domestic career development.

The report also showed that most chose to work in the financial industry. However, more than 70% of those surveyed believed their jobs were not highly fit for their academic majors, and over half changed jobs, due to unclear development trends and salary levels. Nearly 70% of students who returned had monthly incomes of more than 6, 000 yuan. At the same time, about 80% believed their income levels were lower than expected.

1. According to the passage, what is the purpose of most students studying abroad?

A．To develop their careers abroad.

B．To choose satisfying majors.

C．To learn foreign culture and feel foreign life.

D．To increase employment opportunities.

2. The reason why some students who returned chose Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong is _________.

A．higher income levels and living standards

B．rapid economic development and more chances

C．different cultural experiences and special charm

D．abundant human resources and the financial industry

3. We can infer from the last paragraph that ________.

A．employment in the financial industry is easy

B．more than half of the returnees’ jobs match their majors

C．most returnees are not satisfied with their income levels

D．few returnees’ attitude to work is not positive

4. What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?

A．To attract more overseas Chinese students to return to China.

B．To encourage more students to study abroad.

C．To introduce employment situations in China.

D．To report work situations of returnees.

【推荐2】The Supreme Court’s decision on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.

Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect”, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects — a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen — is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.

Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.

Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.”

George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. “It’s like surgery,” he says. “We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide.”

On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.

Just three weeks before the Court’s ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, “Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life”. It identifies the under-treatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying” as the twin problems of end-of-life care.

The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.

Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care, “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering,” to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse”. He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension”.

1. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that ________.

A．doctors used to increase drug dosage to control their patients’ pain

B．it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives

C．the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide

D．patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide

2. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A．Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients’ death.

B．Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.

C．The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.

D．A doctor’s medication is no longer justified by his intentions.

3. According to the NAS’s report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is ________.

A．prolonged medical procedures	B．inadequate treatment of pain
C．systematic drug abuse	D．insufficient hospital care

4. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they ________.

A．manage their patients incompetently

B．give patients more medicine than needed

C．reduce drug dosages for their patients

D．prolong the needless suffering of the patients

【推荐3】The Internet has got into all the fields of our life. We can study and work on it. We can find a job on it. We can communicate on it. We can treat friends on it. We can buy and sell on it. We can do almost everything on the Internet, and almost anywhere, anytime.

However, although the Internet provides services for us, it is silently getting our privacy(隐私) to some degree. The services on most websites require our personal information. If we want to enjoy these services, we have to provide much of our information, including our names, sex, addresses, telephone numbers and sometimes bank accounts(帐户). Because weak network sometimes is unsafe, our information might be open, stolen or sold. Even sometimes it will be used freely by others.

Considering the above mentioned, you must pay attention to the safety when using the Internet. First, when you need Internet service, you should always look through those big legal(合法的) websites. Second, if the service requires important personal information, you should think twice before you type it in. Third, store your own important card key(密钥卡) and don’t tell others easily.

1. According to the passage, we shouldn’t ______by using the Internet.

A．learn English

B．give our friends’ information to others

C．chat with friends

D．look for jobs

2. The underlined word “it” refers to ______.

A．the telephone number

B．the name

C．the information

D．the bank account

3. Which of the following ways is correct to protect our information on the Internet?

a. Surf the safe Web.

b. Think over and over before typing it in.

c. Don’t chat with friends on line.

d. Don’t use your key easily.

A．a,b,c

B．b,c,d

C．a,b,d

D．a,c,d

4. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The internet is dangerous.

B．Never use your ID Card on the Internet.

C．How to use the internet.

D．Pay attention to the safety of the information online.

【推荐1】When leaving school, I was pleased that my exam results meant that I could study engineering at university. But I also wanted to travel before starting my course. A friend of mine told me about the Schools Exploring Society, an organization which helps students take a gap year （a year between leaving school and going to college）. It has three foreign journeys a year, taking 16-20-year-olds on science and nature trips. I love being outdoors, and a mountaineering trip to Alaska was on offer. So I signed up immediately.

There was one problem, though. I had to raise a large amount of money for the trip. It was a big task, but I managed to make it. I washed cars, worked in a cafe and also sold off some of my old books, clothes and CDs. Then, just before starting out, I started worrying. Can I do this? Am I fit enough? What if I see a bear?

Seventy of us traveled to Alaska. The first two days after arrival were spent in a school hall preparing our equipment and five tons of food. Then we left for the beautiful Talkeetna Mountain. On the trip we dug paths and recognized plant species. Then we climbed a mountain that was over 6,000 feet high. It was tiring but exciting.

Looking back, a gap year was so right for me. I learned a lot about accepting other people for what they are. We had to help each other and it made me less selfish. My gap year has also made me more able to concentrate. Now, whenever Tm worried about anything, I think I did Alaska-I can do this!

1. We can learn from Paragraph 1 that the author      .

A．hadn’t taken foreign trips before

B．made the trip together with his friends

C．was not satisfied with his exam results

D．was going to study engineering at a college

2. What was the problem for the author?

A．His body was not strong.

B．He couldn’t afford the trip.

C．He had no outdoor experience.

D．He had little time to prepare for the trip.

3. The author may agree that his gap year      .

A．was well worth it

B．got him interested in plants

C．made him fall behind others in study

D．helped him know more about himself

4. What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To explain how to prepare for trips.

B．To advise on how to spend a gap year.

C．To describe his experience in his gap year.

D．To encourage students to do part-time work.