【推荐1】It’s 4 am, and Danilo C. Dequina is already awake. Holding a flashlight and a bucket, he is walking in the pre-dawn darkness along the shore of Old Poblacion Beach in the town of Maitum, Sarangani, in the far south of the Philippines.
A few minutes later, he spots a patch of sand that appears to have been disturbed by a turtle. Dequina studies the area carefully, figuring out where the eggs have been buried, and then starts digging slowly. After clearing away several centimeters of sand, he uncovers a large group of eggs, roughly the size of ping-pong balls. He picks them up and puts them in the bucket.
Dequina carries the eggs to his hatchery (孵卵所), some 50 meters away from the seashore. The hatchery is really just a sandy patch of land under the coconut trees enclosed by a black fence. It is here that he buries the turtle eggs he has collected. Today, Dequina scoops a hole, puts the eggs in it, and covers them with sand. After 45 to 70 days, the eggs will hatch. Dequina will then carry the hatchlings to the shore, and release them into the sea. He admits to feeling sorrow as he sets the hatchlings free -- most are hunted down by natural predators, and just one percent survive to adulthood.
According to the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), eight species of sea turtles face extinction, including four that come to the shores of Sarangani to lay their eggs -- the Hawksbill, Olive Ridley, Loggerhead and Green Turtles.
After learning about their plight (困境), Dequina attended a DENR training session on turtle conservation and decided to take action. He helped the local government to set up the Pawikan Nesting Sanctuary next to his house in 2003.
The hatchery drew the attention of the locals. “They started to change their attitudes towards sea turtles,” 52-year-old Dequina says. “If they see turtle eggs, they will either bring them to me or inform me of the nesting places.” Over the past ten years, more than 3,000 hatchlings have been released to the ocean.
1. Dequina walks along the shore to ________.

A．release small turtles

B．bury turtle eggs deeper

C．look for newly laid turtle eggs

D．clear away trash from the seaside

2. When Dequina finds turtle eggs along the shore, he will ________.

A．put them into the sea instantly

B．just bury them

C．pick them up and put them in the bucket

D．take them and go to his house

3. What is the attitude of local people toward Dequina’s efforts?

A．Doubtful.	B．Disappointed.
C．Opposed.	D．Supportive.

4. What do we learn from the passage?

A．Dequina feels sad when he releases hatchlings.

B．Dequina has worked for the hatchery for six years.

C．The hatchery is far from Dequina’s house.

D．The hatchery mainly protects injured turtles.

【推荐2】Losing weight is difficult. For most people, it requires a change in diet, a change in exercise habits, and a change in attitude.    1    

●Set healthy goals.

If you’re overweight and want to change that, the first step is deciding what your target weight is.    2    

●Start small.

Making big behavior changes isn’t something that happens overnight.    3     Keep eating 5 servings of vegetables a day, exercise 2 days a week for the first week, and then add a little more each week.

●    4    

The best way to stick to your diet and exercise rues is to track it. There are plenty of apps that allow you to do this. Or you can do it in an old way and keep a written food and exercise journal. Find what works for you and write down what you’ve achieved every day.

● Evaluate (评估) and adjust.

Every month you should take a look at your goal and see the progress you’ve made towards achieving it.    5     Try doing different exercises or cutting out some foods that you may be eating too much. Losing weight and keeping it off is a highly personal thing for you. Only you can find what just works for yourself and stick with it.

A．Track your diet and exercise.

B．Here are some ways to help you.

C．You might as well start with playing music.

D．Do not run too much.

E．So start with 1-2 small things per week and work up from there.

F．If you’re not what you want to be, make small adjustments.

G．Write down your goal and set a date by which you want to achieve that goal.

【推荐1】When we are little, we know nothing about the rights and responsibilities of adulthood.     1     Thus, if we like a certain toy or if we want to eat a certain type of chocolate, we think that our parents will have to buy that for us.   We don’t care that they possibly have not enough money for that. If they don’t carry out our wish, we’ll begin to cry.     2     Whenever we begin to cry, we’ll get what we want.

Still, little by little, we realize that our parents can’t offer us all that we want for certain reasons. We then also understand that parents have their rights. They have the right to scold us when we do something wrong or when they find out that we have lied to them.     3     They choose our clothes, the food we eat, the school we will study at, the hours when we should go out to play and the time we have to return home.

    4     They are the ones to blame later if we don’t receive proper education. That’s why when we beat a classmate at the kindergarten, parents are the ones to apologize for our deeds in front of the teacher and the classmate’s parents. And when we get ill, they are responsible for not taking good care of us and for dressing us inadequately.

The moment we become teenagers, we notice that we should be responsible for the society. Now we have the right to be independent.     5     It is supposed that we are mature enough to solve our problems and to make people around trust us. For some of us, this is a difficult test to pass, but it is the best method to see if we are capable of taking our place in society.

A．We think our parents should offer us all we need.

B．We should believe we can do them by ourselves.

C．This is a child’s important weapon to threaten his/her parents.

D．Moreover, they have the right to make choices for us when we are little.

E．As a matter of fact, parents have a lot of things to be concerned about.

F．But at the same time they are responsible for many things that happen to us.

G．However, it’s also time for us to give explanations when we do something wrong.

【推荐2】Throwing a rock into a calm body of water creates a ripple(涟漪) effect across the calm pond, until those ripples reach the edge of the water. It can be a beautiful experience and it also explains how our actions affect other people. When we display love and kindness to others, the feeling ripples out to people in our inner circle, and the impact of our actions extends out further. The same logic also applies to hate or anger. It is important that we should begin to be more thoughtful about our actions and words.

Love can reach so many different people, making it a powerful force in the world. Hate has the same effect. The world would be a better place if we learn to love and show kindness to others instead of anger. We can't always control what others do, but we have power over our actions and contribute our own ripples into the world.

We don't always know the impact that our actions have on others. There will be times when you are angry. Some people may feel a sense of temporary relief when they throw a rock of hate into the world, but that feeling usually changes into shame and anger towards oneself eventually. Hate hurts yourself and the world in the meanwhile. I recommend walking away for a while when you feel angry. Kindness is like perfume(香水). Spreading love and kindness not only has positive effects on others but also on ourselves. You get to enjoy it, and the people around you can enjoy it too. Personally, I feel my best when I help others and I feel my worst when I've made someone upset. When we put kindness into the world, we'll feel thank- fulness, sympathy, and understanding. Let my kindness guide my decisions and this allows love and connection to ripple out into the world.

It's important that we take care of ourselves when we show love and kindness to others. When we love ourselves, we're then able to love others. And when we let this love and kindness guide our decisions, the world will become more beautiful.

1. Why does the author mention the experience of throwing a rock into a pond?

A．To teach us how to make big ripples.

B．To introduce the topic of this text.

C．To see how the ripples spread in water.

D．To share an interesting experience.

2. What does the author advise you to do when you are angry?

A．Turn to your parents for help.

B．Talk about your problems with someone else.

C．Stop those ripples of anger from spreading.

D．Avoid seeing the person making you angry.

3. How is the third paragraph mainly developed?

A．By referring to a theory.	B．By analyzing cause and effect.
C．By giving some examples.	D．By making comparisons.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Anger has a bad effect on our actions

B．Love and kindness make the world much more beautiful

C．Kindness or anger ripples out to other people nearby

D．Hate usually leads to shame and anger in the end