【推荐1】If you're driving a car during a wildfire, do your best to stay calm. You can increase your chances of survival by taking as many safety tips as possible and remaining as calm as you can.

Check social media and the news for any information about where the fire is and where it's heading.     1     If you know or can see the direction the fire is moving in, try to drive away from it as best as you can.

Drive slowly and turn on your headlights and hazard lights（危险警示灯）.     2     By doing so firefighters around might see your car and help you.

    3     Accidents are a major risk in poor driving conditions. People and animals might be frightened and running on the road. If you're worried that people or animals are nearby but you can't see them, use your horn（喇叭）.

Cover your nose and mouth with a cloth and turn up all the windows to protect yourself from the smoky air while you drive

Keep the radio on while driving. Keep listening to the radio for information about where the fir is heading. Check online and social media for updates on the fire if you have another person in you car. Is it growing in a new direction?     4     This is valuable information that might cause you to change course and could save your life.

Pull over if you see flames getting closer. If your way becomes blocked（阻挡）or you can see the fire moving towards you, pull the car over to a safe area.     5    

A．Is there anyone injured?

B．Have the winds changed at all?

C．Keep a close watch on accidents

D．Keep an eye out for people or animals

E．Look for a parking lot to park your car in

F．Make your car easily seen in the smoky conditions.

G．Drive in the opposite direction from smoke or flames.

【推荐2】Remind yourself that no friend is better than a bad friend. If you’re unsure whether your friend is really a true friend or not, the following tips can help you.

Spend some time with your friend. If your friend makes the time, that’s a good sign.     1    , just as long as your friend makes time to get together when it’s appropriate, such as on a weekend and during vacation time. If your friend doesn’t want to make the time or comes up with a lot of excuses every time you try, then you will have a warning sign that he or she is not interested in being around you much.

    2    . If your friend does come, is he or she being friendly with you or is he or she ignoring you, just eating the cake and leaving early? Since you are the host or the center of attention when it’s at your place, a good friend should be spending time talking to you and being friendly.     3    .

Think about how you feel when you talk around your friend. A true friend is someone who won’t judge you. You don’t have to be careful about what you say when you’re around the right person.     4    . Anything less is not true friendship.

Consider what happens when you’re in need.     5    . And you will lose the false friends when you experience hardships and difficulties. In fact, those fair-weather friends are not worth your time or effort.

A．A trustworthy friend won’t lie to you

B．A good friend is someone willing to share your sadness

C．Sometimes your friend may be really busy and that’s fine

D．Invite your friend to a party or special occasion at your place

E．A true friend is someone who gives you the freedom to be yourself

F．Observe how your friend is when he or she doesn’t notice you’re around

G．But a bad friend will only use the occasion to get what he or she wants out of it

【推荐1】In 2000, a group of innovators in Denmark came up with a different kind of library —the Human Library. It has since transformed into a global phenomenon where “readers” can check out a human “book”. Each “title” offers an opportunity for dialogue over difficult questions, a process which the library hopes will help us all “un-judge” one another.

The first human library was organized by Ronni Abergel, his brother, and two colleagues. As a four-day event at a festival, the project was experimental. However, over a thousand readers came to read the human books available. The books themselves were chosen to represent often misunderstood groups. The initial library was a success leading to the foundation of the Human Library Organization, which has since carried on the lending of human books.

People can be part of the Human Library in two ways. One can volunteer to be a book and to offer first-hand knowledge of an experience or identity. Among the Human Library are books entitled “Alcoholic,” “Depression,” and so on. While these titles may seem simple and direct, the Human Library hopes readers will pick a topic but come to know the book for so much more than just the cover and title. Volunteer books agree to share their experiences — a commitment which requires patience, empathy (共情), and a level of comfort in sharing.

Another way to experience the Human Library is as a reader. Readers check out books for a certain amount of time. While being respectful, the library create s a space where readers can listen to the stories of books. Readers are encouraged to ask the difficult questions they always wondered but never had a chance to ask. Specifically, the library hopes it will be “a place where people who would otherwise never talk find room for conversation.”

The Human Library Organization today holds pop-up events around the world and even has permanent borrowing locations in several cities. They also work with companies as a rather unique provider of diversity and inclusion training.

1. What can we learn about the first human library?

A．It was well received.	B．It had only four workers.
C．It was misunderstood.	D．It was a weekly project.

2. What is required of a volunteer book?

A．Eagerness to learn.	B．Painful experiences.
C．Willingness to share.	D．Remarkable achievements.

3. How does the Human Library help readers?

A．By creating a space for them to talk freely.

B．By encouraging them to open up to strangers.

C．By showing them how to be respectful of others.

D．By teaching them to solve difficult questions alone.

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

A．The origin of the Human Library	B．How to manage a Human Library
C．Borrowing people instead of books	D．How to get along with human books

【推荐2】I have spent the past two decades in the classroom teaching literature, and what I deeply believe is that literature makes us more empathetic (同感的). The empathy we feel for characters can help us better connect with others.

While reading books，we compare the main characters’ actions to what we would do in a similar situation. The mind-reading we do when thinking through a character gives us practice taking on another person’s point of view. How do books manage to transport us into another person’s body? Taking a look at the brain— many regions that are actively involved with and work well together when we read— gives us a clue.

One of my favorite authors is Jane Austen. In one of my favorite studies» my literature students were given a Jane Austen novel to read inside a FMRI Machine (核磁共振机), which shows brain activities by testing changes in blood flow. Natalie Phillips, the literary scholar who worked on the study, supposed that the students, while reading, would experience a great increase in blood to the areas of the brain responsible for processing language. To her surprise, the students experienced a dramatic blood flowing increase to the areas that are responsible for their communication skills as well.

My students are those most in need of the increased brain connectivity that literature can lead to. When you read a passage about running through a forest, you would expect the area responsible for language processing to light up. It does— but the area, which is in charge of the body’s movements, lights up in the same way it would if you were actually running.

The students in my class are struggling over whether or not to choose to be an English major to be successful. If by “success” they mean the highest average starting salary perhaps I should lead them somewhere else from the English building. But if “success” means helping to create a more harmonious world, pull up a chair.

1. What does the author mainly talk about in paragraph 2?

A．How reading books influences us.	B．Who benefits from mind-reading.
C．When we should read books.	D．Why the characters’ opinions count.

2. How did Natalie Phillips draw her conclusion?

A．By giving some examples.	B．By making a comparison.
C．By carrying out experiments.	D．By listing some figures.

3. What does the author expect a successful English major to do?

A．To spread what is really successful.

B．To read more wonderful English books.

C．To help people live in a harmonious way.

D．To earn a lot money after graduation.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．More regions are involved with when we read

B．Literature helps us better connect with others

C．Most students try to be excellent English majors

D．Language processing affects blood flow in the brain

【推荐3】Reading Enlightens Teens

    1     First, they want to entertain readers. They would like to think that their stories will attract their young readers. Second, they also know that they have a moral responsibility to young people, as they recognize that their young readers are in one of the most important stages of life: the change from childhood to adulthood.     2    

Of course, not all books for the young are of a high quality.     3     The writers aim to copy the success of another book, which makes their stories less interesting instead. Sometimes writers are out of touch they actually know less about the world than their readers do. In a world that changes so quickly, keeping up with the times can be really difficult.

The other is with the writers’ “responsibility”. A story that enlightens the reader is welcome, but no one wants to read a book written by someone who thinks that they know better, just because they are an adult and a writer.

One advantage that writers of teens books have is that they have been there themselves: they know what it is like to feel bored with the challenges of schoolwork, or to find it hard to get along with their parents. They use this to their advantage when it comes to making them understand the young.     4    

When choosing books to read, we should wisely pick books from a range of different cultures and times. Some books are funny, while some are serious, or even tragic. This classification exists in all of world literature.     5     The subject matter of these books is the lives of the young, particularly while they struggle to come of age, showing that they deal with problems relating to parents and friends, and the growing awareness of the responsibilities of adult life.

You can get your hands on these books at a good bookshop nearby, or at your school library. Reading is said to be the key on the path to enlightenment.

A．Their work must reflect this great change.

B．Some books for the young are not entertaining.

C．It’s no surprise that it is also present in fiction for the young.

D．Good writers try to imagine themselves in the shoes of their readers.

E．Writers of books for teens and young adults have two aims for their work.