【推荐2】If you do not use your arm or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory（记忆力） is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault(过错). But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame(受责备), and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things they cannot write down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: Practice remembering.
1. The main reason for one’s poor memory is that _______.

A．his father or mother may have a poor memory

B．he does not use his arm or legs for some time

C．his memory is not often used

D．he can’t read or write

2. If you do not use your arms or legs for some time _______.

A．you can’t use them any more

B．they will become stronger

C．they become weak and won’t become strong until you use them again.

D．they will become neither stronger nor weaker

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Your memory works in the same way as your arms or legs.

B．Your memory, like your arms or legs, becomes weak if you don’t give it enough chance for practice.

C．Don’t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory.

D．A good memory comes from more practice.

4. Some people can’t read or write, but they usually have better memories, because _______.

A．they have save much trouble

B．they have saved much time to remember things

C．they have to use their memories all the time

D．they can’t write everything in a little notebook

5. Which is the best title for this passage?

A．Don’t Stop Using Your Arms or Legs	B．How to Have a Good Memory
C．Strong Arms and Good Memories	D．Learn From the People

【推荐1】Lise Meitner was born in Vienna, Austria on November 7, 1878. She was the third child of eight children in the family. Her father Philipp, who was a lawyer, hired personal teachers to teach the children, and she learned mathematics very well. Music was important to the family, and all the children learned to play the piano. The Meitner children were taught to listen to their parents, but to think for themselves.

When Lise Meitner finished school at the age of 14, she could not go to college for higher education, as were all girls in Austria. But, inspired by the discovery of Henri Becquerel, she was determined to study radioactivity(放射性).

When she turned 21, women were finally allowed into Austrian universities. Meitner was admitted into the University of Vienna; there she was excellent at math and physics and earned her doctor’s degree in 1906. She wrote to Marie Curie, but there was no room for her in the Paris lab, so Meitner made her way to Berlin. There she worked with Otto Hahn, but as an Austrian Jewish woman, she was excluded from the main labs and allowed to work only in the basement.

In 1912, the pair moved to a new university and Meitner had better lab equipment. Though Meitner was forced to escape Nazi Germany in 1938, they continued to co­work. Meitner continued her work in Sweden and later they found the phenomenon “nuclear fission(核裂变)”. The discovery, which finally led to the atomic bomb, won Hahn the Nobel Prize in 1944. Meitner, ignored by the Nobel committee, refused to return to Germany after the war and continued her atomic research in Stockholm into her 80s.

1. What can we learn about Lise Meitner’s childhood?

A．She received a poor education.	B．She often went against her parents.
C．She did well in math.	D．She lived a hard life with her family.

2. Why didn’t Lise Meitner go to college after finishing high school?

A．She wasn’t interested in college.

B．Girls in Austria were not permitted.

C．Her family couldn’t afford the school fees.

D．She wanted to study radioactivity by herself.

3. Which one is true according to the text?

A．She should find a better partner than Otto Hahn.

B．She made the wrong college choice.

C．She should have kept her identity a secret.

D．She was unfairly treated when working in Berlin.

4. What was most probably Lise Meitner’s attitude toward the Nobel committee?

A．Positive.	B．Unclear.
C．Angry.	D．Pleased.

【推荐2】Say the phrase “female environmental pioneers,” and among the names you will hear are Rachel Carson, who wrote pesticides; chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall; and 17-year-old climate-change activist Greta Thunberg. To mark Women’s History Month, Kidspost is sharing the story of an environmental pioneer who is not that famous but equally remarkable.

At age 3, Sylvia Earle found her lifelong passion while playing on a beach. A wave suddenly came up and knocked her over.

“My mother ... saw the big smile on my face and let me run back in,” Earle told a TV interviewer years later. “And I’ve been running back in ever since.”

Earle is now 84 years old and has spent a lifetime exploring the world’s oceans and working to protect them from pollution, overfishing and other threats.

She is a pioneer in using scuba gear. Scuba gear lets divers take breath underwater. She holds the world record for the deepest untethered walk on the ocean floor at 1,250 feet. This means she was not tied to anything when she was walking underwater. During this exploration, she planted a U.S. flag.

In 1998, Time magazine gave Earle its first Heroes for the Planet award. She was the first female chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is the U.S. ocean and atmosphere group. She was also elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Earle has spent her life teaching people about the ocean. She notes how much it affects the weather, and what we eat and drink. She has something to say to those who don’t understand why the ocean matters. “They should know that with every breath they take, every drop of water they drink, the ocean is touching them,” Earle says. “You should treat the ocean as if your life depends on it— because it does.”

1. What does Earle’s lifelong passion refer to?

A．Teaching people how to dive.	B．Writing articles for magazines.
C．Exploring and protecting oceans.	D．Providing equipment for divers.

2. What do we know about Earle from the text?

A．Earle is a world record holder.

B．Earle’s mother is in support of her work.

C．Earle is a remarkable British ocean explorer.

D．Earle is the only female chief scientist at NOAA.

3. Which of the following words can best describe Earle?

A．brave and conservative.	B．devoted and courageous.
C．determined and rigid.	D．ambitious and modest.

4. Which of the following statement will Earle agree with according to the text?

A．People should stop overfishing and eating seafood.

B．The ocean plays a significant role in human’s life.

C．The weather has a far-reaching effect on the ocean.

D．The exploration of the ocean can be done without limit.

【推荐3】200 years after Darwin’s birth, studies have found his new life details at the University of Cambridge. Six learner-centered ledgers ( 账本) discovered in the university show this.     1    .

He lived in the most expensive rooms provided for a rich student at his time.     2    . He had someone to clean his room, make his bed and take care of the fire in his bright rooms. He hired a dishwasher, a clothes washer and a man who cleaned his shoes. A tailor, hatter and barber made sure he was well presented. A chimney cleaner and a coalman kept his fire going. Christ’s College’s basic and necessary food was meat and beer.     3    .

Darwin’s bill topped 636 pounds during his three years of study at Cambridge. Later he described this time as the most joyful of his happy life. That large sum would have been fairly common for a student at Cambridge in the 19^th century.     4    .

In those days, Cambridge was full of rich students living a pretty good life and Darwin was just one of them.     5    . And so he had plenty of time for socializing (交际) or private study. He would be out shooting, collecting beetles, doing his scientific hobbies or visiting friends. He played cards and drank wine at night, just like students always have.

A．Thanks to the richness, he was able to hire servants to help with the daily life.

B．So he paid five and a half pence extra each day to have vegetables.

C．He enjoyed the kind of comfortable university life that most of today’s students can only dream about.

D．He had several people to help him to deal with the daily housework.

E．The bills were paid by his wealthy father, Robert Darwin, a doctor.