【推荐1】When starting college, most students enjoy a week’s stay on campus before classes actually begin. What should you do with that time? Below are several tips to ease yourself into college life.

Participating in Campus Welcome Activities

Most universities host welcome events before the academic year officially begins, including freshmen orientations, campus picnics, and entertainments like concerts.

Participating in such events is a great way to learn about school facilities and understand campus culture: What do students do for fun? What are their favorite classes? What is the history of your university? It can help you observe campus life outside the classroom.

Exploring Campus

Getting to know where essential campus resources are—such as the student advising center, psychological services, and the tutoring center, will make your first few weeks on campus a lot easier, because you won’t have to look for them while still getting used to your classes.

Take some time to check out the buildings where your classes will be held. This will prevent you from getting lost in the first few days of classes and familiarize you with how long it takes to get from place to place. If you’re worried about taking classes one after another in different buildings, a quick test run won’t hurt. That way, you will avoid potential time delays in getting to your classes.

Starting a Routine

Before getting too excited about all of the fun things you will be able to do during the week, remember that you do have a pretty big schedule change coming up. Starting classes means being in different places at different times, so it’s a great idea to start getting used to that routine right this week.

What helps you most is to schedule your sleep. Following the planned time will ensure you have enough sleep to get to those early classes and stay wide awake.

If you have other daily routines, such as exercising or talking on the phone with family, work those into your day-to-day life before classes start so that you get a better idea of how they fit in with your schedule.

1. By participating in campus welcome activities, freshmen can _________.

A．learn about campus culture.	B．get their course schedule.
C．have a physical examination.	D．take an entrance test.

2. Why are freshmen advised to have a quick test run between buildings?

A．To see how many facilities they can use.	B．To avoid being late for future classes.
C．To help those getting lost on campus.	D．To practice running on their way to class.

3. What does the author suggest freshmen do to stay focused in class?

A．Take physical exercise before class.	B．Leave their phones powered off.
C．Take early classes every day.	D．Keep to the sleep schedule.

【推荐2】阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

I always do voluntary work in the hospital. As a patient visitor, my primary goal is to deliver quality services to patients and families. By providing companionship for patients in a sometimes lonely environment, I try my best to serve and help to diminish the loneliness and frustration patients may feel after staying in a hospital for a stretch of time for weeks or even months.

Every Saturday afternoon for three to four hours, with a list of patients who have requested a patient visitor service, I head up to the 5^th 6^th or 7^th floor to first visit my priority patients. At the nurse’s station, I kindly ask the nurses or the medical staff about the condition of the patients on that unit and confirm that the patients would like a visitor. After receiving an update from the nurse, I gently knock on the door of the patients and enter with a friendly “Hello”. Then, I introduce myself and again politely ask if they would like a patient visitor. I usually try to prepare a few starting conversation topics such as the current news, sports scores and fun facts. However, the patients usually engage me first in an interesting conversation.

When volunteering as a patient visitor, I spent a lot of time communicating one-on-one with patients. Individual patients had individual needs and possessed. extraordinary personal stories. Therefore, I found every visit fascinating. From generous and kind patients I have learned about their diseases and their course of treatment. Additionally, I learned about literature, life during the Great Depression and wilderness of Northern Minnesota. On the whole, not only did I learn about the hospital settings and system, but I learned about the diverse life of others.

Many of the patients I have visited were truly inspiring and I always admire them for their strength. Although difficult, they were often willing to share their stories of pain, suffering, hopes and optimism. I realize that I am truly grateful and honored that they would share their personal stories with just a volunteer like me.

1. What does the underlined word “diminish” in Paragraph I mean? (1 word)
2. What are the topics the author prepares for the patients? (no more than 10 words)
3. What did the author learn from her talking with the patients (no more than 12 words)
4. How does the author feel about the patients telling her their stories? (no more than 8 words)
5. What can you learn from the author’s story? (no more than 15 words)

【推荐3】My sister Alice and I have been trying to get people to stop dropping cigarette butts (烟头) for seven years. One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop dropping butts. We called it “No Butts About It”.

At first, we drew pictures with “The Earth is not your ashtray (烟灰缸)” written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown — in parks, on beaches, and along roads. We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts hurts the environment. Most smokers don’t think that dropping butts hurts the Earth. But it does, and all rubbish does!

Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays and gave them to smokers. We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn’t have to drop butts.

At the moment, we are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. Some companies want to do it. Many people have started to join our group since it began. Today there are 45 other “No Butts About It” groups in America.

Now there are even groups in England, Australia, and India! Many newspapers have written about my sister and me over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for what we do. But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the Earth a better and cleaner place for animals, plants and people. One day, it will be.

1. What did the writer think about the cigarette butts in the first place?

A．They made the town smelly.

B．They made the town unhealthy.

C．They made the town dirty.

D．They made the town poor.

2. What did the writer do with the cigarette butts?

A．Gave ashtrays to the smokers.

B．Stopped people buying cigarettes.

C．Picked up the cigarette butts.

D．Won prizes for starting groups.

3. What can we know from the passage?

A．No companies wanted to give money to them.

B．The writer believes that the Earth will be a better and cleaner place.

C．There are only 45 “No Butts About It” groups in the world.

D．The writer likes to be on newspapers and win prizes.

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Save our town from cigarette butts

B．Buy yourself an ashtray

C．Cigarette butts also destroy other countries

D．No butts prizes

【推荐1】Every few years, there’s a hot new management strategy that promises to make employees happier, healthier and more productive. To that end we’ve seen the rise of positions like ‘chief happiness officer’ as well as workplace dogs and on-site meditation. But while the employers may have improved the office itself, they have not solved the stress itself: the crushing tide of emails and IMs, which—thanks to the rise of smartphones-can pull us back to work, anytime, anywhere.

Now, in an effort to prevent burnout, a growing number of employers have started to suggest ways in which employees should unplug their connected devices. The automaker, Volkswagens, in collaboration with its union, sets its serves to stop mobile email service for some works from 30mnutes after quitting time until 30 minutes before starting time.

These measures may sound dramatic and possibly impractical, but there is a data to suggest they are needed. A recent research suggested that limiting the number of times a day that we check email or work-chat services—from say 10 or 20 to three or four –can not only reduce stress levels but also increase the overall productivity..

But in order for any solution to succeed, works have to be willing to regulate their own habits. And that is especially tough in a country in the U.S, where being superbusy, or at least appearing to be superbusy, is a point of pride. Even if more U.S employers were to implement the kinds of limits that Volkswagen do, experts are skeptical that they’d work. ‘If the social norm is to be on the time, you don’t want to be the odd one out,’ says Angela Leaney, a New Jersey based marketing consultant, adding that some bosses will think less of employees for not answering emails after work hours, even if they say they won’t.

Moreover, dictating when and how employees should use their connected devices will inevitably hamper many workers. There are plenty of people who do their best work at 3 a.m. In fact, a majority of working adults say that being able to check work email at home makes it easier to get more done; many also said it improved their relationships with their colleagues.

For now, it seems, the best way for employers to foster a fulfilled, productive workforce is to be flexible , both inside and outside the office. One example, although Andy Monfried, the CEO and founder of Lotame, a New York-based data management company, say those kinds of time limits wouldn’t work for his business—it’s too global –he does give his employees flexibility on when and where they can work. He’s also vigilant about burnout. ‘I vowed that I would not crest company where people had the Sunday-night blues—the kind where you go to bed sick to your stomach,’ he says. ‘I tell people if that’s happening repeatedly, it’s a sign of work-life imbalance and they should come talk to me.’

1. From stopping employees getting exhausted, employers have tried to _________

A．promise to make their staff happier and more productive

B．allow pet dogs in the office

C．encourage meditation in the work place

D．suggest ways to disconnect their mobile devices

2. Which of the following statements is true according to the article?

A．employers will find ways to regulate workers’ working habit.

B．U.S experts cast doubt on the feasibility of limiting connected time.

C．U.S employers won’t think of contacting employees after work.

D．Volkswagen’s policies will also apply to U.S. companies.

3. The underlined word ‘hamper’ is closet in meaning to ‘_________’

A．facilitate	B．handicap
C．relieve	D．toughen

4. Which of the following can be inferred from the article?

A．There seems to be no right way to unplug from work

B．Flexibility on when and where to work is the best way to avoid burnout

C．Employees applaud the way to cue down their connected time.

D．Impractical as the measures sound, they will work well for employers.

【推荐2】English words don’t stay the same.People need new words for new ideas and new inventions. Different words come into use, or older words are used in a new way.

English can change by borrowing words from other languages. For example, the word “tomato” was borrowed from Mexico and “tea” came from China. New words are formed by putting two words together sometimes.“Countryside” and“earthquake”are made up of two parts.Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. As we know,the word“photo” was made from “photograph”by cutting off the end of the longer word. “Plane” was made by cutting off the front part of“airplane”. The names of people and products(产品) can become new words, too. Our “sandwich” was named after a man called Sandwich and“sellotape”(透明胶带)was a name given by the company that first made the product.

1. New English words are needed because__________

A．people use old words in a new way	B．people need a new way to explain things
C．the old words are not enough	D．new ideas and new inventions appear all the time

2. Which of the following words was taken to England from an other country?

A．Plane.

B．Sandwich.

C．Tomato.

D．Countryside.

3. Which of the following words came from China?

A．Tea.

B．Earthquake.

C．Airplane.

D．Sellotape.

4. How many ways of developing English words does the passage tell us?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.