【推荐1】One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England，an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. "This boy has lost his family," he wrote. "He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?”
I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.
The first two times we met, David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children's drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon——in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.
Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed， took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?
"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.”Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.
"Is your turn," he said.
After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.
Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one——without any words——can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.
1. When he first met the author, David        .

A．felt a little excited

B．looked a little nervous

C．walked energetically

D．showed up with his teacher

2. As a psychologist, the author        .

A．was able to describe David's problem

B．was skeptical about psychology

C．was ready to listen to David

D．was sure of handling David's problem

3. David enjoyed being with the author because he________.

A．wanted to ask the author for advice

B．bear the author many times in the chess game

C．liked the children’s drawings in the office

D．need to share sorrow with the author

4. What can be inferred about David?

A．He recovered after months of treatment.

B．He liked biking before he lost his family.

C．He went into university soon after starting to talk.

D．He got friends in school before he met the author.

5. What made David change?

A．His teacher’s help.

B．The author’s friendship.

C．The author’s silent communication with him.

D．His exchange of letters with the author.

【推荐2】Jason Ahn’s favorite parts of Marvel’s Iron Man movies are scenes showing inventions being developed. Many of these scenes are similar to the experiences he went through himself before winning national recognition for an innovative classroom whiteboard design.

For Ahn, 17, a rising senior at Ames High School in Iowa in the US, there was a good month’s worth of nights staying up until 4 am — before going to school the next day — during which he first gained the idea for an auto rolling and erasing whiteboard, or ARE Board. He then submitted it to the Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention US Nationals.

All that work paid off for Ahn in 2022 when he was among inventors from across the country to win awards at the competition.

In his advanced placement physics class — and throughout most of his time in school — he noticed his teachers struggle with having to write and erase the same notes for each of their classes; that was if they could even reach the top of their traditional whiteboards. However, electronic whiteboards are too expensive.

He made a working prototype (原型) of a whiteboard on a motorized conveyor belt (机动传送带) system that can be scrolled (滚动) up and down. It is more time and space efficient than a traditional whiteboard. He wanted to make something similar to an electronic whiteboard but far cheaper and easy to use.

“I’ve seen my friends kind of joking, ‘Isn’t this kind of a step backward? We’ve evolved all the way to electronic whiteboards’.” Ahn said.

“In some cases, it’s good to keep the traditional aspects and characteristics of some fundamental tools,” because markers and erasers are more tangible (有形的) and accessible to people, he added.

One of the awards he won at the competition provided him with a patent lawyer to help him get a patent application with the fee covered. He’d be willing to sell a patent to a company.

Ahn thinks of things in daily life that might make the world a better place. “I’m making a notebook of all the ideas that I’m thinking of,” he said.

1. What about Marvel’s Iron Man movies interests Ahn the most?

A．Iron Man’s hi-tech suit.

B．The hi-tech fight scenes.

C．The various hi-tech inventions used.

D．The scenes of hi-tech products being made.

2. What inspired Ahn to invent ARE Board?

A．His teachers’ struggles to erase whiteboards.

B．An electronic whiteboard he came across.

C．A motorized conveyor belt system he found.

D．His cooperation with other inventors.

3. Which of the following best describes Ahn?

A．Hardworking and humorous.	B．Optimistic and modest.
C．Determined and ambitious.	D．Creative and cooperative.

【推荐3】After a terrible electrical accident, which caused him to become both blind and deaf, the whole world became completely dark and quiet for Robert Edwards for almost ten years. The loss of sight and hearing threw him into such sorrow that he tried a few times to put an end to his life. His family, especially his wife, did their best to tend and comfort him and finally he regained the will to live.

One hot summer afternoon, he was taking a walk with a stick near his house when a thunderstorm started all at once. He stood under a large tree to avoid getting wet, but he was struck by the lightning. Witnesses thought he was dead but he woke up some 20 minutes later lying face down in muddy water at the base of the tree. He was trembling badly, but when he opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he saw: a plough and a wall. When Mrs. Edwards came running up to him, shouting to their neighbors to call for help, he could see her and hear her voice for the first time in nearly ten years.

The news of Robert regaining his sight and hearing quickly spread, and many doctors came to examine him. Most of them said that he regained his sight and hearing from the shock he got from the lightning. However, none of them could give a convincing answer as to why this should have happened. The only reasonable explanation given by one doctor was that, since Robert lost his sight and hearing as a result of a sudden shock, perhaps, the only way for him to regain them was by another sudden shock.

1. The reason for Robert’s attempts to kill himself was that _________.

A．he had to live in a dark and silent world

B．a terrible traffic accident happened to him

C．he was struck by the lightning once more

D．nobody in the world cared about him

2. What was Robert doing when he was struck by the lightning?

A．Lying on the ground.

B．Driving a car.

C．Taking a walk with a stick.

D．Sheltering from the rain under a tree.

3. We can learn from the text that ________.

A．Robert’s wife sent for doctors immediately after the shock

B．many doctors came because Robert was badly injured

C．a sudden injury in the head led to Robert’s recovery

D．there was no correct explanation for Robert’s recovery

4. What’s the best title of the whole passage?

A．What a Sudden Shock

B．Robert Edwards and His Wife

C．An Unforgettable Experience

D．A Terrible Electrical Accident

【推荐1】Fort Scott High School English teacher Emily Rountree has been working this semester to raise money for Charity Water, a nonprofit organization , which uses 100 percent of public donations to help fund water projects in places without access to clean drinking water. Her goal was to motivate her students to use their writing in class to make a real world difference. Twelve students got top grades on the project and their articles will be published in the Tribune and online. The money from their writing is of great help.
"Did you know that there are many countries around the world that don't have access to safe drinking water? Just think, that could be your someone in your family. in my English three classes, we are trying to .raise money for Charity Water. Charity 'Water is 3n organization that helps people get water in countries where there is no safe drinking water" , said Tanner Johnson, a student attending Fort Scott High School. clean drinking water. In Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hour every year just walking for water .Women and children are the ones that mainly do the walking. They could he attacked, or get hurt. Whenever they get home the water that they have brought home is unsafe water that. 'has been in swamps, ponds, or rivers .if they had safe drinking water they wouldn’t have that to worry about and they wouldn't be wasting   hours of their day. Unsafe drinking water causes many different kinds of     diseases that could lead to death.
You could help save someone's life by donating $ 20 so you could   help get them some safe drinking water. You can easily donate online at, mycharitywater. org/fshsenglish, or you can send a check payable to Fort Scott High School to Emily Rountree .if you don't help these people then who will?
1. Emily Rountree is working for Charity water ____

A．to set up a nonprofit organization about water

B．to help discover where clean drinking water is

C．to find access to using the public donations

D．to encourage her students to help those in need

2. How can the students bring differences to the world?

A．By donating all their pocket money.

B．By collecting money in their spare time.

C．By giving away their money from writing.

D．By conducting themselves well in class.

3. What does the third paragraph imply?

A．Africa is lacking in water resources.

B．Women do nothing but getting water.

C．People in Africa live a hard life.

D．Rivers in Africa have been polluted.

4. 1t can he inferred from the last paragraph that _     

A．only a few people participate in the donation

B．it is easy to lend a hand to those in need

C．staff at the website will collect money

D．it is convenient to pay off your check

【推荐2】Last weekend, my kids along with a few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car. My 10-year-old daughter came up with the idea of washing other people’s cars as well. It was pretty hot outside. She further wanted to give juice for a low cost but not free. I felt happy and decided to help her.

She asked me, “What if we make this ‘a smile car wash’, mom?” I couldn’t hold back my tears and encouraged her and other kids to go inside the house and come up with ideas. While I kept myself busy in drying the car, the kids walked up to me with a board of beautiful signs of smiles. They had “Free Car Wash” written on it and the theme of their exercise was “Smile”. It was pretty natural to see a team of kids 5 to 11 years with the task to do something for others.

All that seemed natural and came right from their heart. Nothing seemed to matter to them: their playtime, and then heat outside — they just wanted to help and do something nice in the community!

I helped them make some fresh juice and brought out some waste materials to help clean cars. Passers-by were amazed and one even shouted at them saying “Good kids”. One of them even tried giving them 5 dollars, which they refused. A pretty heart-warming scene!

The following weekend, I saw the idea of the week, the theme of which was “Global Kindness”. I was moved by such wonderful and loving souls. They made me smile!

1. Who raised the idea of washing other people’s cars for free?

A．The mother

B．One of the passers-by

C．The writer’s 10-year-old daughter

D．One of the writer’s neighbors’ kids.

2. Why couldn’t the author hold back her tears when she knew her daughter’s idea?

A．She was moved by her daughter’s kindness.

B．She felt sorry for those passers-by in hot weather.

C．She was sorry for not helping the kids.

D．She thought of too much hardship of the kids.

3. Why did the kids want to wash others’ cars for free?

A．They wanted to earn money.

B．They were asked to do that by their teacher.

C．They just wanted to help and do something nice in the community.

D．They wanted to exercise in smiling.

4. Which of the following did NOT the writer do to help the kids?

A．She supported the kids’ ideas.

B．She prepared some fresh juice for the passers-by.

C．She brought out some waste materials to help the kids.

D．She gave the kids some money.

【推荐3】I was waiting for my train and on the subway station’s floor was a man just sitting there. I looked around and nobody stopped so I just went my way. After a few steps, I turned and asked him whether he needed help. He told me his house was one station further and he would only need to take the train there. So I reached for his hand to help him stand up.

He wanted to take the stairs but I feared that he would hurt himself since he seemed too weak to walk, so I asked him to take the elevator. Even though my mind was trying to turn the danger lights on, I put the thought that I should not go alone with a drunken man out of my mind and accompanied him on the elevator.

We arrived on the platform with no incidents. The man’s knees seemed to soften, so I asked him to rest on a bench. While sitting there, he thanked me, telling me that I saved him. No, I said, I really did nothing; he saved himself as he walked on his own feet.

At the next station, we said our goodbyes. Before I knew it, he left 100 dollars and dashed out of the train. There was no way to give him back his money. I wanted to leave it on the seat, but a young woman who thought it belonged to me ran after me and gave me the note.

My initial reaction to getting that money was of shame and I even felt offended. Then I thought he just wanted to thank me, the best way he knew how. Now, my question is—what act of kindness shall I do with these 100 dollars?

1. Why was the man sitting on the subway station’s floor?

A．Because he wanted to go home.

B．Because he was seriously ill.

C．Because he was drunk.

D．Because he was waiting for the train.

2. Seeing the money left by the man, the author first felt ________.

A．ashamed	B．grateful
C．delighted	D．frustrated

3. How will the author possibly deal with the money?

A．Give it back.

B．Buy something favorable.

C．Leave it on the seat.

D．Give it to people in need.

【推荐3】One day Howard had to go to New York for a meeting. He flew to New York and called a taxi.     1    Then the driver turned around to speak to him.

“Congratulations!” he said. “You’re my first passenger and this is my first day as a taxi driver, but you don’t have to worry. In my old job I had lots of driving experience, and I know the city very well.”

    2    “Thank you,” said the driver. He started driving towards the hotel.

Howard looked at his watch and noticed that he was early for his meeting. He decided to ask the driver to take him to a bookstore. He leaned forward and tapped him on his shoulder.

    3    It almost hit a bus and another car. Then it almost hit a pedestrian (徒步的) crossing the street, who screamed and jumped out of the way.

Howard was afraid. He shouted at the taxi driver. “Be careful!”

The driver screamed again, and the taxi went suddenly to the other side of the road and almost hit a truck. The truck driver shook his fist (拳头) angrily.     4    Then it crashed into a store window with glass falling over it.

The driver looked at Howard. Then slowly he began to laugh. He laughed and laughed.

    5     “I’m sorry,” said the driver when he stopped laughing. “I thought I was still in my old job. When you tapped me on the shoulder and talked to me, I got really scared!”

“What was your old job?” asked Howard. “Didn’t I tell you?” said the driver. “I used to drive a car that carried coffins (棺材) to funerals (葬礼)!”

A．“That’s good,” said Howard. “I’m sure you’ll be a good driver.”

B．“I’m good at avoiding accidents,” the driver said confidently.

C．The driver screamed and made the taxi go suddenly across the road.

D．He told the driver the address of the hotel and sat in the back seat.

E．“It’s not funny,” said Howard. “You could have killed somebody!”

F．Then the taxi went into the sidewalk, just missing two more pedestrians (行人).

G．On the way to the hotel, Howard wanted to stop at a bookstore, so he tapped the driver on the shoulder.