【推荐1】Summer has finally arrived, which means kids are bound for the outdoors. It can be exciting for kids and parents to have a great opportunity to go swimming, picnicking or on adventures. This time of year is also a dangerous time of year as almost half of all injury-related deaths in children occur between May and August. Whether it be in the pool, on bike, out in the sun or in the backyard is always important. Here are some tips to keep the family safe over the summer.

Water Safety

At this time of year, drowning deaths among children skyrocket（飞涨） compared to the rest of the year. Never leave your child alone in the water, even in shallow water. A child can drown in as little as one inch of water. Enroll your children in swimming lessons. Some swim schools offer class for children as young as 6 months.

Sun Safety

We are fortunate enough to live in the Sunshine State, where sun shines year-round. But with all the time you and the kids will be spending outdoors this summer, it’s important to protect yourself. Make sure to use a widely-used sunscreen(防晒霜) that blocks both UVA and UVB sunlight. Cotton clothing has an estimated SPF of only 6, so even if your kids are going out wearing T-shirts and shorts, make sure they are covered up.

Bike Safety

Nothing says summer like a nice neighborhood bike ride. But bikes are not toys and can certainly cause injury. Don’t forget to always wear a helmet. Head injuries are reduced by 85 Percent when riders wear a helmet and other safety equipment like knee and wrist pads. It’s estimated that 75 percent of bicycle-related deaths could have been prevented with bicycle helmets. When riding on the street, make sure kids understand all riding hand signals, ride with the traffic flow and stay as far right as possible.

1. Summer is called a dangerous time because children             .

A．are easily injured

B．enjoy staying in the sun

C．want to learn swimming

D．refuse to accept advice

2. What can be learned from the passage?

A．Kids only need to wear T-shirts and shorts.

B．Bikes, like toys, seldom lead to injury.

C．Some swim schools offer children class for free.

D．Deaths from drowning increase suddenly in summer.

【推荐2】The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 7 and ends on Dec 20.     1    . Here are five things you should know.

Snowy winter

    2    , breaking tree branches and blocking the road. In the south, snowflakes fall and the world turns white. A proverb about the snow says, “A timely snow promises a good harvest”. As the snow covers the ground, the low winter temperature kills pests.

Appreciating plum blossoms

Plum blossoms usually flower in mid-to-late December in some southern cities of China, and sometimes bloom even earlier. The plum blossom is admired in Chinese culture for its toughness during severe winters.

Eating lamb

Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow.     3    . People in Chongqing like to have potted lamb soup or stewed lamb soup with their families and friends.

Eating porridge

Hot porridge could help warm you and nourish (滋养) your body in cold weather. In China, it’s customary to eat red bean porridge on the first day of Major Snow.     4    , such as wheat porridge, sesame porridge, radish porridge, walnut porridge and tuckahoe porridge.

Preventing lung illness

During this period, Chinese people watch for outbreaks of lung illness, which can be prevented by properly drinking water. During Major Snow, it’s drier and colder, so people should drink more water. But you should not drink too much water at once.     5    .

A．In addition, there are other varieties

B．People in southern China make sausages

C．The snow falls at night and melts in the day

D．Don’t drink cold water after exercise, either

E．The snow in North China may last a whole day

F．It’s excellent for protecting the body against the cold

G．During this period, the temperature drops significantly

【推荐3】Summer is a time to look forward to because there is no school to get you down.     1     . You just need to stay active, occupied, and have an open mind.

●Read if you feel bored

Subscribe to a magazine or comic if you don’t like books. Choose whatever age-appropriate book that interests you and start reading. You can read anywhere. In your backyard or on your balcony, on your bed, or out by the lake.     2     .

●Get caught up on schoolwork.

Not all of us are straight “A” students. Take this time to go to the library and review material for the next year in advance.     3     . No need to rush or stress out. It’s just important not to forget anything you learned in the past year over the summer.

●Travel.

    4     , start packing now! Can’t afford to travel far? No problem! Do some exploring in your own city. Go on a road trip with your friends and family. Find out what’s on the other side of that lake. Be creative!

●     5    

If summers are hot where you live, you can go to the beach with your family or friends. Also, some water parks have great discounts at times during the summer. But be careful, if there’s a heat wave outside, you’d better stay out of the sum, or even go indoors.

A．Beat the heat.

B．Reading doesn`t have to be boring

C．Spend a lot of time outside.

D．If you usually go on vacation in the summer

E．Since it’s summer, you can do this at your own pace

F．To have a good summer, you don’t have to do anything expensive.

G．If you don`t have much time.

【推荐1】Elephant Transit Home

In both Africa and Asia elephants are being threatened by changes in their natural habitats (栖息地). People are moving into the elephants’ habitats and endangering their survival. In the country of Sri Lanka, there is one place where elephants are not only protected but also respected. It is called the Elephant Transit Home (ETH).

Set up in 1995, the ETH aims to protect and nurture baby elephants that are found injured or living without their mothers in the wild. Every year about 30 baby elephants in Sri Lanka need help. As many as possible are brought to the ETH. There they are given food, shelter, and medical care. Most importantly, they are given the chance to be with other elephants and become part of a herd (象群).

A day at the ETH begins early in the morning when the baby elephants are given their first feeding of milk. During the day, each baby will drink an average of 13 gallons of milk. Older elephants are fed mostly coconut leaves and other native plants. Then the elephants are allowed to walk around, eating the grass and forming a herd. The cost of caring for the baby elephants is high. The ETH spends about $125,000 each year on powdered milk for the baby elephants.

At the ETH, workers try to reduce human connection with the elephants. They also try to increase bonds (联系) between the elephants. It usually takes three years for a baby elephant to be set free into its natural habitat. The elephants are sent back to the wild together with other orphans with whom they have bonded. This program helps them return to the wild as members of a herd that will communicate with each other and take care of each other.

The ETH is considered one of the best animal protection sites in the world. Not only are the elephants cared for, they are treated with respect. Most importantly, they go back to live in the wild, where they belong.

1. What does the underlined word “nurture” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Set free.

B．Relate to.

C．Focus on.

D．Care for.

2. What do we know about the ETH?

A．It changes elephants’ habitats for the better.

B．It receives about $125,000 each year.

C．It helps to keep baby elephants safe.

D．It protects 30 elephants every year.

3. Why do the workers reduce human connection with the elephants?

A．To study them better in a natural environment.

B．To help them make it in the wild as a herd.

C．To provide them with more living space.

D．To train them to stay away from hunters.

4. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To introduce an animal protection site.

B．To show the ways of wildlife protection.

C．To explain the threat baby elephants face.

D．To persuade the readers to protect elephants.

【推荐2】阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

When Brantley Harrison and her family rescued a tiny, injured squirrel back, then released her back into the wild, they didn’t expect to ever see her again. Nine years later, however, little Bella, they called the squirrel Bella, still comes to visit them almost every day—as long as snacks are provided, of course.

As a baby, the terrible attack made by an owl (猫头鹰) left Bella near death, she was carefully taken in by the Greenville County, South Carolina family, and raised by them alongside three other squirrels named Larry, Curly, and Moe. Bella stayed with the Harrisons until she had healed successfully thanks to a regular diet of fruit, nuts, and baby food, and was ready to jump on the trees in the forest. The sweet squirrel never goes too far from her adopted home, though, and stops by to say hello whenever she can, despite how much time has passed.

“Bella sits right at the front door waiting for someone to notice she has come by for a visit. If no one notices her, she will jump over to the dining room window to wait for someone to see her,” Brantley told The Dodo. The little lady just isn’t ready to part with the family that succored her life. Whenever she stops by, she asks for nothing more than a handful of nuts.

What is the most amazing part? A few years after Bella’s original stay at the Harrison house, she found her way back to them with an injured foot—and a belly full of babies—spending another few months of recovering. “It was truly amazing to watch the baby I raised raise her own babies,” Brantley said. Bella now even has her own Instagram page, where her human family documents her adventures, with almost 4 thousand followers!

1. What happened after little Bella was injured by an owl? (No more than 10 words)
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2. How did the Harrisons take care of little Bella? (No more than 15 words)
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3. What does the underlined word in the third paragraph mean? (Only 1 word)
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4. What brought Bella back to the Harrisons a few years after its original stay? (No more than 10 words)
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5. How does Bella’s story inspire you? Please explain in your own words. (no more than 20words)
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【推荐3】Like humans, animals need sleep too. A big problem for animals in the wild is keeping their enemies away while they sleep. Animals take care of this problem in different ways.

Anolis lizards live in many areas including tropical rainforests. They often sleep on leaves at the end of long branches. A leaf might seem like a strange bed, but it works like an alarm. If a hungry snake wiggles a branch, the lizard wakes up and leaps to safety.

Chimpanzees take their sleep very seriously. Each day, a chimpanzee builds itself a new, comfortable bed to sleep in. Scientists believe chimpanzees carefully choose a tree that is strong, where they build a nest using branches and leaves.

Parrotfish live among coral reefs in oceans. Every night, parrotfish usually sleep close to the rock in sheltered places. Some parrotfish go one step further by quickly making a slime layer that covers their whole body. This covering acts like a sleeping bag that provides a barrier against danger.

Bottle-nosed dolphins need to sleep, but they have to be on the ocean’s surface to breathe. They also need to watch over their young. What do they do? While half of the dolphin’s brain sleeps, the other half stays awake. After a while, the sleeping half wakes up while the other half snoozes.

Sooty terns have the most amazing sleep. They nest on islands. When they arc not nesting, they live for many years in the sky and on the sea’s surface. When and where can they sleep? Scientists believe they are able to sleep while they are flying, staying out of the reach of enemies.

1. Which animals need the most preparation before sleep?

A．Anolis lizards.

B．Chimpanzees.

C．Parrotfish.

D．Sooty terns.

2. What is the shared concern when wild animals sleep?

A．Quietness.

B．Time length.

C．Comfort.

D．Safety.

3. The passage is probably taken from a ______.

A．biography

B．tourist brochure

C．science fiction

D．popular science magazine

【推荐1】You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it. But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.

“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (礼仪) is sort of odd,” Gray told the BBC. “They are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.”

We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed.

He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.

If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.

When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.

New entrants(新进入者) to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple – look down, or look at your phone.

Why are we so awkward in lifts?

“You don’t have enough space,” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators.”

In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be construed (理解) as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,” she said.

1. According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually _____.

A．try to keep a distance from other people

B．look around or examine their phone

C．make eye contact with those in the elevator

D．turn around and greet one another

2. Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator?

A．	B．
C．	D．

3. The underlined phrase“size up”in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.

A．ignore	B．make the best of
C．put up with	D．judge

4. According to the article, people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.

A．someone’s odd behaviors

B．their unfamiliarity with one another

C．the lack of space

D．their eye contact with one another

【推荐3】Seamounts are mountains, usually volcanoes, which rise up from the sea floor. Some of the volcanoes are extinct; some are still active. But they are hard to find for the reason that they do not reach the surface of the water. Scientists say seamounts cover nearly 29 million square kilometers of this planet under the sea. Marine life gathers at seamounts because they carry nutrient-rich water upward from the sea floor.

In September, a group of scientists set out to explore Cook Seamount which rises almost 4,000 meters from the Pacific Ocean floor about 160 kilometers off the island of Hawaii. Never have humans seen it up close before.

Three people went in a submarine down to over 900 meters below the ocean surface to the top of the seamount. As the blue waters became darker, underwater creatures that chemically create their own light began to swim past the submarine. The scientists found several kinds of deep sea corals, including a possible new species of coral they named “Purple Haze”, on the seamount’s sides.

Conservation International and the University of Hawaii worked together for the trip to Cook Seamount. Greg Stone, the lead scientist, said, “This three-day research is the start of an effort to survey seamounts throughout the Pacific Ocean over the next five years, and we hope to study a total of 50 seamounts.” He said humans have little knowledge about seamounts, but they are a “key part” of what drives the ocean. Stone said he wanted to find out what is living on the seamounts and how they support ocean life. From that, he says, we will understand ocean health, which relates directly to human health.

M. Sanjayan, Executive Vice President of Conservation International, said there were 10,000 or maybe 100,000 seamounts across the world’s oceans and because most had not been explored, he expected they would see things new to science.

One of the other two seamounts studied on their trip was Lo’ihi, an active volcano, which has been studied over the past 30 years. The scientists saw an “old friend” on it-a shark they had seen there before. Scientists say volcanic activity of Lo’ihi pushes the seamount upward. But do not look for it to break the surface of the water any time soon.

1. Why is it difficult to find seamounts?

A．Because there are too few seamounts.

B．Because they can’t be seen above the sea.

C．Because it’s dangerous to get close to seamounts.

D．Because many seamounts are not high.

2. What can we inferred from the third paragraph?

A．There is no sunlight around the top of Cook Seamount.

B．Scientists found some new species on Cook Seamount.

C．The height of Cook Seamount is about 900 meters.

D．Underwater creatures can create their own light.

3. What can we know from Greg Stone’s words?

A．They will study 10 seamounts every year.

B．Their survey aims at 50 seamounts around the world.

C．They know little about how seamounts influence the ocean.

D．They want to find out how ocean health relates to human healt

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Lo'ihi is a new discovery during that trip.

B．Lo'ihi is the only active volcano under the Pacific.

C．Lo'ihi may become an island many many years later.

D．Lo'ihi must have had volcanic activity in recent years.

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

A．Undersea Creatures and Seamounts

B．New Discoveries Under the Ocean

C．Scientists Surveyed the Creatures In the Sea

D．Scientists Explored Seamounts

【推荐3】Since the beginning of the summer in 2022, China has been sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades. A number of people in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Sichuan provinces were diagnosed with thermoplegia (热射病), the most severe form of heatstroke, and some even died of this disease.

In a warming world, the hazards of heatwaves are increasing. “Over the past four decades, the main drivers of the large increase in heatwave-related deaths in China are the rapid increase in the frequency of heatwaves, followed by population growth, population aging, and rising baseline mortality (基线死亡率),” said Prof. Huang Cunrui, a researcher from Tsinghua University. According to a study, the number of deaths caused by heatwaves in China has increased rapidly since 1979, from 3679 persons per year in the 1980s to 15,500 persons per year in the 2010s.

High temperatures would accelerate the loss in soil moisture (水分). What’ s more, each additional degree of warming will increase crop losses to insects by 10 - 25 percent, threatening food security for billions of people. China has witnessed a range of extreme weather events, including heavy rainfall, flooding, tornadoes, and record heatwaves this year. Meteorological officials said the country had an average temperature of 21.3 degrees Celsius in June, 0.9 degrees Celsius higher than the same period on average, and the highest record for the same period since 1961.

Experts say that while extreme summer heat is not entirely new, these sorts of occurrences could be something that becomes a standard part of life, requiring people to start learning how to cope with heatwaves that may continue for the rest of summer and well into the future.

Remember that even healthy, young athletes can be harmed by extreme heat, so every activity should be evaluated when extreme heat hits. There are some ways to stay safe during extreme heat events, such as drinking plenty of water, looking for shade or remaining in shade when outside, and avoiding cooking large meals.

1. What is the major reason for the increase in heatwave-related deaths in China?

A．The aging of the population.

B．The higher frequency of heatwaves.

C．The higher level of death rate.

D．The increase of the population.

2. How does the author illustrate the hazards of heatwaves according to paragraph 2 and paragraph 3?

A．By listing examples.

B．By comparing statistics.

C．By giving explanations.

D．By referring to previous findings.

3. What can we infer from experts’ statement?

A．The government should take measures to solve the extreme heat.

B．The rare heatwave in summer is coming to an end.

C．People may get accustomed to the extreme heat in summer.

D．Extreme summer heat has never occurred before.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．Significance of being aware of the danger of extreme heat.

B．Prediction of the extreme weather events in the future.

C．Conclusion of the relationship between heatwave and health.

D．Effective ways to protect people from heatwave.