【推荐1】There are a lot of names for people who travel the world — backpackers, tourists, explorers, travelers. Labels (标签) are everywhere but seem especially popular among travelers trying to differentiate (区别) their style of travel. For many travelers, these labels make them feel better over another.

Andrew Zimmern from Bizarre Foods once said, “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” The idea here is that travelers are better at exploring the world than tourists. They dig deep into the culture, drink it up, and get to know a place while a tourist takes pictures and declares to have “done Paris.”

But that’s wrong. We are all tourists.

Out on the road, backpackers love to talk about how real their travels are and how unreal tourists are. “Look at those tourists over there,” they say. They scoff at others who travel too quickly or to places that they think are not well worth visiting. However, they do so while eating hamburgers and drinking beers with other travelers.

The only way to really get to know a place deeply is to live there. If you want to live like a local, find an apartment, get a job, go to work, and do the same things as you did back home.

We are all only passing through a culture, getting a small taste before moving on to the next place. Even if we stay weeks or months, we’re just getting in touch with the surface. As a matter of fact, we are all really just tourists, or explorers, or travelers. Call yourself whatever you want — it’s all the same as we’re all trying to do the same thing — see the world.

So don’t label anyone and don’t let anyone label you. We’re all tourists. We’re all travelers. What we are all doing is more important than what we call ourselves. Let’s just enjoy the fact that we are simply people on the road.

1. The mention of Andrew Zimmern’s words is to .

A．present amazing experiences	B．differentiate travelers from tourists
C．give an example of misunderstanding	D．get to know different kinds of people

2. Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase “scoff at” in Paragraph 4?

A．Laugh at.

B．Get along with.

C．Take notice of.

D．Wait for.

3. What do tourists and travelers have in common?

A．They live like locals while traveling.	B．They enjoy tasty food on the way.
C．They have a brief experience of places.	D．They like calling themselves explorers.

4. What does the author suggest in the passage?

A．Dig deep into the culture.	B．Just enjoy the trip.
C．Make a careful trip plan.	D．Do important things.

【推荐2】My family and I belonged to a country club located across the street from the Long Island Sound. Each summer, the big attraction for us was the pool. I learned how to swim and joined the swimming team but was never really a good swimmer. However, swimming in my younger days was a way to keep cool, and swimming on a team gave me identity and a sense of belonging . It also became invaluable many years later.

In 1973, I was married, pregnant and had a home. What made our little home even more wonderful was when I discovered that four blocks away was Rath Park Pool! For the next 30 years, most of our summer days were spent around that pool.

Each of my five kids took swimming lessons and learned all the different swimming strokes (姿势). They later joined the swimming team and competed in sports meets. My daughter even became a lifeguard at the town pool. I sat back and happily took it all in!

As much as I would have liked to have life stand still, it doesn’t. My children outgrew their pool days and moved on. But the pool was still four blocks from my home, so I began to take up swimming again. And it was far better than I ever could have imagined. I got so much out of it that I joined the local pool so I could swim year-round. Whenever I swam, I would always come out feeling physically and mentally refreshed. I often felt that if I looked hard enough, I would be able to see all of the worries and problems I’ve had in life, sitting at the bottom of the pool!

What has swimming taught me? I’ve learned that balance is the key to being a good swimmer. If you are balanced in the water, you have no resistance. Working on staying balanced made me realize the similarities between life in and out of the swim lane (泳道). If you work on keeping yourself balanced, you will be able to swim right through the stress and problems life throws at you!

1. What can we learn about the author from paragraph 1?

A．Her family taught her how to swim.	B．She swam with friends more often in summer.
C．Swimming brought her lifelong benefits.	D．She was elected to be the swim team captain.

2. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 imply?

A．The author loved the pool days with her kids.

B．Swimming was losing its appeal to the author.

C．She was proud of her kids for winning competitions.

D．The author preferred to have a peaceful life.

3. What did the author find after she took up swimming again?

A．Sports can give you the courage to face difficulties.

B．She mastered more swimming skills than expected.

C．It enabled her to see how to handle problems in life.

D．Swimming made her remember her younger days.

4. What is the best title of the article?

A．Wonderful pool days with her family	B．Life in the swim lane
C．Balance between life and family	D．Similarities between swimming and life

【推荐3】Give yourself a test. Which way is the wind blowing? How many kinds of wildflowers can be seen from your front door? If your awareness is as sharp as it could be, you’ll have no trouble answering these questions.

Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults. A child’s day is filled with fascination, newness and wonder. Curiosity gave us all a natural awareness. But distinctions that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb (麻木的) to new stimulation (刺激), new ideas. Relearning takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

The first step in awakening senses is to stop predicting what we are going to see and feel before it occurs. This blocks awareness. One chilly night when I was hiking in the Rocky Mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream. The students began complaining about how cold it would be. We reached the stream, and they unwillingly walked ahead. They were almost knee-deep when they realized it was a hot spring.

Another block to awareness is the obsession (痴迷) many of us have with naming things. I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a “ruby-crowned kinglet” and checked it off. They no longer paid attention to the bird.

The pressures of “time” and “destination” are further blocks to awareness. I encountered many hikers who were heading to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark. It seldom occurred to them to wander a bit, to take a moment to see what’s around them. I asked them what they’d seen. “Oh, just a few birds,” they said.

Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait. Next time you take a walk, no matter where it is, take in all the sights, sounds and sensations. Wander in this frame of mind and you will open a new dimension (维度) to your life.

1. What idea does the author convey in Paragraph 3?

A．To avoid jumping to conclusions.	B．To stop complaining all the time.
C．To follow the teacher’s advice.	D．To admit mistakes honestly.

2. What does the bird watchers’ behavior show?

A．They are very patient in their observation.

B．They are really fascinated by nature.

C．They only care about the names of birds.

D．They question the accuracy of the field guides.

3. Why do the hikers take no notice of the surroundings during the journey?

A．The natural scenery is not beautiful enough.

B．They focus on arriving at the camp in time.

C．The forest is home to a few dangerous birds.

D．They are keen to see rare birds at the destination.

4. What does the author intend to tell us through the passage?

A．We should sharpen our senses to feel the wonders of the world.

B．We should face up to the blocks in life on our way to success.

C．We should keep our curiosity and explore different fields in life.

D．We should focus on the views along the way rather than destinations.

【推荐1】Richard Branson has had great global success. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which consists of more than 400 companies.

So what, I asked, is his most important secret to success? His answer was simple: Look for the best in other people. Throughout his life he's never thought ill of other people. He looks for the best and praises them. Branson at time seems almost not human. He's too good at what he does. No, great, Nearly perfect. When he starts something, he is very likely to succeed. He has fallen out with others though, like anyone else. He is only human. He told me, "Life is short and the world is much smaller than one realizes. You are going to come across people time and time again in the most surprising places. As a leader it's even more important to be out there praising and encouraging people. If you do fall out with somebody in life, even if you think it was their mistake, give them a call. Befriend them. Go out to lunch with them."

The greatest leaders in the world have taught forgiveness. Perhaps the most extreme example is Nelson Mandela, who invited his former prison guard to his inauguration(就职典礼)and even had lunch with a man who in the past wanted him to be sentenced to death.

Life is too short. We are humans and sometimes we make mistakes and anger people. What defines us is not those who are able to avoid confrontation(对抗), but those who are able to deal with it. The human body is able to self-heal(自愈)when we are cut. In that same manner, we must heal our past relationships.

Branson wins respect from those around him. A natural-born leader, he is always deep in thought and hungry for more; always one step ahead. And it was Richard Branson who taught me about forgiveness.

1. Richard Branson's success lies in his       .

A．of forts	B．generosity
C．judgement	D．determination

2. The example of Nelson Mandela is mentioned to show         .

A．he suffered a lot in prison

B．he was one of the greatest leaders

C．the power of forgiveness is really magical

D．great people set a good example of forgiveness

3. In the author's view, the most important thing for us humans is to         .

A．live in peace with others	B．be respected by our enemies
C．make a difference to others	D．make as few mistakes as possible

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．The key to success	B．What is forgiveness?
C．Invite your enemies to lunch	D．Richard Branson's success story

【推荐2】The close relationship between speakers and their speech has led some scholars to suggest that language determines the view we have of the world around us. Different languages segment natural phenomena differently. We name seven colors in the rainbow: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Speakers of other languages may see only four, as did Turkish before our system was introduced, or even as few as two, roughly the lighter shades versus the darker. There is nothing in nature to demonstrate how we should chop up the spectrum of the rainbow, but when we have learned a given language, we distinguish the shades it designates, both in the rainbow and elsewhere students of language assume from such a situation that language determines much of the and patterns we see in the world around us, and that it directs our concepts and actions

Changes in the choice of language, then, might modify behavior. Today gasoline trucks are generally labeled" flammable(易燃的)". The in-prefix was taken as equivalent to that of words like "inactive", where in- means not". It is actually the in- of words like "intense", where it strengthens the meaning. The word "inflammable", then, means "highly flammable" The faulty interpretation of language, however, determined the attitudes of many speakers, who then adjusted their behavior in relation to the language. Prudent truck owners have taken notice and changed the warning to“ flammable"

Such observations led Whorf to a concept with deeper patterns of language, such as the use of tenses in the language of Europe. Tense is the linguistic expression or time. English and other European languages generally require their speakers to identify the time of an event, whether present: It is raining; past: It rained; or future: It will rain. By contrast, many languages, such as the Hopi language of New Mexico, lack expression for tense. Nor do such languages objectify time. In Hopi one cannot count days, minutes, years as though they were objects like stones. Everyday expressions like "Three years went by" are impossible in Hopi.

Comparing such languages, Whorf proposed that "our use of tense or our objectified view of time is favorable to historicity se t)and to everything connected with the keeping of records." That is to say, because of the patterns for referring to time in English and other languages, their speakers maintain records and emphasize bookkeeping, accounting, and the like. In accordance with it, ones conception of the world is relative to the language one learns

While the relativity hypothesis(假设) has attracted considerable attention, it has never been experimentally demonstrated to the valid. a large scale attempt to test the outlook of Hopi-speaking children versus English speaking children turned out to be inconclusive. It remains a task of future scholars to determine whether the hypothesis is valid and also whether one should assume a weak or strong position with regard to it. Clearly we are deeply tied to our native language. But whether it regulates our perceptions or our view of the world Is still an open question

1. The case of the label "flammable" is mentioned to prove that_________.

A．languages can affect our choices of action

B．prefixes can lead to disasters if used improperly

C．some truck drivers can adjust their behavior

D．misunderstanding can happen among speakers

2. It can be inferred from the passage that the use of tense________.

A．reflects deeper patterns of European languages

B．transforms abstract ideas into objects

C．helps avoid certain ambiguity in concepts or ideas

D．makes it possible to modern e the Hopi language

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Different languages often have different methods of keeping historical records

B．We need more studies to find out if we are closely related to our native tongues

C．Our mother tongues have a great influence on our world views and behavior

D．It's no easy task to confirm the link between mother tongues and our concepts

【推荐3】It’s the lunch break at Shanghai Xinhua Middle School. No mobile phones can be heard ring anywhere. The common sight of crowds of children chatting on their phones or sending short messages has disappeared.

A grade-2 student said, “I couldn’t concentrate (集中精力) during classes. if the cellphone was with me, I couldn’t help checking if there were messages or missed phone calls. I even played games on the phone sometimes.”

The school leaders say they feel the ban is necessary to keep order in class. They even gave out an open letter to remind parents not to let their children bring mobile phones to school .More than 96 percent of parents say they welcome the school decision. The school is also being flexible (灵活的) in carrying out the plan .Those students who live far from school are allowed to bring mobile phones to contact their parents. But they still have to switch them off in classrooms.

Medical experts have also welcomed the school decision. They say too much dependence on mobile phones can cause many psychological problems in teenage students.

1. What can we learn from paragraph1?

A．Shanghai Xianxia Middle School is very crowded during lunchtime breaks.

B．No mobile phones can be heard any time at Shanghai Xianxia Middle School.

C．All the children with mobile phones usually disappear during lunchtime breaks.

D．Lots of students used to be busy using their mobile phones during lunchtime breaks.

2. The grade-2 student thinks that______.

A．the mobile phones should be on during class.

B．it is good to play cellphone games sometimes.

C．the mobile phone is helpful to her studies.

D．it is no good using the cellphone at school.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．All parents welcome the school decision.

B．Some students can bring mobile phones to school.

C．Medical experts are against the school decision.

D．No one is allowed to bring a mobile phone school.

4. The passage mainly tells us______.

A．the mobile phone is a big trouble to teenage students.

B．the use of the mobile phone can cause mental problem.

C．about a ban on the mobile phone in a middle school.

D．a story happening at Shanghai Xinhua Middle School.

【推荐1】For years I have been asked by several people how and why I came to translate a novel by Virginia Woolf in 1945. I graduated from the University of Ankara in 1941 and my four teachers, including Orphan Burian, are members of the Translation Bureau who prepared a list of works to be translated into Turkish and set themselves to translating some of these, besides shouldering the heavy work of correcting or editing the translations submitted to the Bureau. Orphan Burian, now mostly known for his translations of Shakespeare, had started to translate To the Lighthouse for the Translation Bureau, but at the same time he wanted to do something from Shakespeare. So he transferred it to me.
For me, To the Lighthouse was love at first sight or rather at first reading. To translate a book, I first read it from the beginning to the end. Then I started writing each sentence by hand. When I finished the whole book I read my translation from the beginning to the end, checking it with the original, and making corrections. Then I typed it, and read the typed copy, making changes again. All in all that added up to five readings. I started translating the novel in 1943 and submitted it to the Bureau in 1944. It was published in 1945 under the general title of “New English Literature” in the series called “Translations from World Literature” known as the “Classical Series”.
So, the first book by Virginia Woolf in Turkish appeared in 1945, and it was To the Lighthouse. This was eighteen years after its publication in England in 1927. To me the book itself was pure poetry; I read it as if in a dream. Not trying to dive very deeply into it, I sort of swam on it or over it. Now, years later, ______ Even after so many years, in each reading I become conscious of new layers of which I haven’t been aware before. It keeps pace with my experiences in life as years go by, and each reading is a new reading for me.
In 1982 and again in 1989 I revised it for two new editions and I again did it sentence by sentence checking it with the original. In those years I had thought it was necessary to revise my translations every ten years, but now I think I must do it every three or four years. In a country like Turkey, where we work very hard to clear our language from old and new foreign words, we should try to be up to date as to the words we are using, and of the same importance are the studies being made on the methods or techniques of translation, and new approaches in translation.
While translating, I usually have both the writer and the reader in mind. The novels she wrote after 1920 were especially new for most of the readers. She usually uses very short sentences, followed by rather long ones. I remember sentences of more than ten lines which weren’t easy for me to translate as they were. And in Turkish our having only one word, the word “O”, for “he”, “she”, “it” in English, made me repeat the names of the characters more often than Woolf did. And I changed some long indirect sentences in the original into direct sentences in my translation, thinking it would make an easier reading in Turkish.
When translating, I make use of all kinds of dictionaries. A difficult English word for me is the word “vision”. In To the Lighthouse, the artist Lily Briscoe is trying to finish the picture she has been drawing for some time and the novel ends with the following sentences: “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush extremely tired, I’ve had my vision.” And I’m still thinking about how to translate this remark into Turkish.
1. How and why did the writer come to translate To the Lighthouse?

A．It was really a piece of good luck.

B．She was the only qualified person for it.

C．Virginia Woolf was very familiar to her.

D．She was a member of the Translation Bureau.

2. What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 mean?

A．The writer prefers the work very much.

B．The writer likes the sport swimming.

C．The writer is aware of her advantages.

D．The writer has digested the book very well.

3. Why does the writer revise her translations more often now?

A．Readers make new demands.

B．Turkish is a language of mobility.

C．Many mistakes are spotted in the old edition.

D．She wants to make it more popular in the market.

4. While translating, the writer repeated the names of the characters to_________.

A．make full use of the direct sentences

B．emphasize all of these characters

C．make her translation clearer in Turkish

D．make her translation much briefer

5. The last paragraph mainly implies that_________.

A．the writer is taking up a difficult job

B．the writer’s translation needs improving

C．English is a difficult language in the world

D．remarks from characters are difficult to translate

【推荐2】Jerry is a world-famous mountain climber. He has climbed many high mountains in the world. Starting in 2015, he and his friends spent two years on an adventure in South America, covering 7,800 miles. He was even named Adventure of the Year by a famous geography magazine in 2018.

Although Jerry had achieved great success, he didn’t feel fulfilled. He asked himself, “Is it enough to climb the highest mountains? Am I doing something helpful? How can I turn my adventures into something that can help the world?”

Jerry learned that scientists need plants, rocks and water samples (样本) from the places far away to do research. But scientists can’t get there themselves as such places are hard to reach — only the bravest adventurers can make it. Jerry thought himself could do something to help. He then came up with an idea. He set up a team of top adventures to collect samples for scientists. By studying the samples, scientists could know more about the earth and find ways to protect it.

Recently Jerry and his adventurer friends have discovered a special plant life of Mountain Qomolangma. The samples they brought back have helped scientists how plants live in extreme (极端的) conditions.

For Jerry, this kind of adventure is most satisfying. “Such adventures had made us see life in a different way. Now, being the best climber isn’t important for me, what matters is doing something helpful while climbing the mountains. There is still much more we can do.” Jerry said to a newspaper.

1. What does the underlined word “fulfilled” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Satisfied.

B．Lonely.

C．Patient.

D．Worried.

2. Why did Jerry set a team of top adventures?

A．To make friends.	B．To help scientists.
C．To study plants.	D．To train scientists.

3. Jerry’s and his friends’ adventures had changed ________.

A．their hobbies	B．their friendship
C．their understanding of life	D．their living conditions

4. Which is the right order of the following events?
① Jerry and his adventurer friends have discovered a special plant life on Mount Qomolangma.
② He and his friends spent two years on an adventure in South America.
③ He set up a team of top adventures to collect samples for scientist
④ He was even named Adventurer of the Year by a famous geography magazine.

A．①③④②

B．④①③②

C．②④①③

D．②④③①

【推荐3】I still remember my friends giving me the advice: Try something new. I was stressed and, of course, also on my phone too much. I was writing about food for work, so cooking didn’t really count as a hobby anymore, nor did reading, nor socialising, especially since all of my friends worked in my industry. I needed something in my life that existed apart from all that.

“Maybe something you can do with your hands.” The suggestion felt like an escape exit: Maybe a hobby could free me from my work. Cooking had once been the thing I did to relax when I got home from work, the thing I was curious about, and the thing that made my brain away from its standard complaints. The kitchen had once been a release, but now it was part of my professional life. It needed a replacement. A few months later, I dutifully signed up for a ceramics (制陶艺术) class at a studio near my apartment.

At the studio, I started as a lazy learner, but after a few months I became addicted, signing up for more classes when my term ended. I had a place to go in my free time and something to be curious about, and my goals were unrelated to outer forces: a boss, a job, a market, a reader. Unlike with writing, my progress was quantifiable (可量化的): Now I can make a vase this tall. Now I have made a pot. Now my handles are beautiful. Now I have made two things that more or less look like a pair.

Finally finding a hobby that is just for my own enjoyment is a release. I enjoy having something to do that doesn’t involve a screen and therefore feels far from the style of work to which I am most accustomed – hands covered in clay cannot swipe (滑屏) very well. Making time for this also means carving out time, for creation and inspiration, and also for the rest that is required for me to reflect on my life. It is something more than a new hobby. This is the peace that everyone needs in our life.

1. What is true about the author’s current profession?

A．It is also the author’s hobby.

B．It requires the author to use the phone a lot.

C．The author is popular in the cooking industry.

D．The author records and posts others’ cooking online.

2. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A．The author was tired of ceramics classes.

B．The author had no goals for learning ceramics.

C．The author gradually took up ceramics as a hobby.

D．Outer forces played a part in the author’s progress in ceramics.

3. How does the author feel with the new hobby?

A．Calm.

B．Confident.

C．Inspired.

D．Energetic.

4. What’s the writing purpose of this text?

A．To show the benefits of having a hobby.	B．To share a story of a balance of life.
C．To introduce an interesting hobby.	D．To help readers choose a new hobby.