【推荐2】Many people go to school for a good education. They learn languages, history, maths and other lessons. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. No matter how much a teacher knows, he cannot teach his students everything they want to know. His work is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

It is always more important to know how to study by oneself. It is quite easy to learn something in a language or a formula in maths, but it is difficult to use a formula in finding the answer to a maths problem. Great inventors do not get everything from school but they can invent many things and change the world a lot. Though Thomas Edison invented many things he didn’t have much school education. How do they do all these? Because they know how to study. A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get knowledge from books outside school. They work hard all their lives, and the most important thing is that they know how to use their head.

1. What do many people go to school for?

A．To make friends	B．To get a good education
C．To get everything	D．To study by themselves

2. What should a student learn to do from school?

A．Try to remember more knowledge and formulas.

B．Try to make new things to change the world.

C．Try to remember what the teachers teach.

D．Try to learn how to read and how to think.

3. How can an inventor invent things? The most important thing is how to ________.

A．study by himself	B．be a great inventor
C．use his head well	D．remember what he’s been taught

4. The word formula in this passage means ________ .

A．数学用表

B．几何图形

C．数学题

D．公式

5. Which of the following shows the most important idea of this passage?

A．School education is important for a person.

B．A student should learn how to remember a formula.

C．A student can not learn everything from school.

D．Inventors can invent things and change the world a lot.

【推荐3】I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way.

Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he would concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn’t even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting angry, but then it hit me: I started noticing his answers were much quicker and right when he stood up. Could he concentrate better while standing up?

This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I grew up to believe that a quiet child was more likely to succeed. This child would have the ability to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life. Kids that were active and loud would only be losers.

Now people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA, and all they can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to guide them and help them find their way.

I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Clearly, he is concentrating, just in his own way and not mine. We need to accept our kids, and their ways of doing things. There is nothing sweeter than seeing our children being themselves. It makes us happy and that’s just the way I want my kids to live a happy life.

1. The author tried to keep his son seated so that ________.

A．he couldn’t disturb the author

B．he could keep silent in the room

C．he could finish his homework on time

D．he could pay more attention to his study

2. Encouraged by the example of his son, the author began to doubt ________.

A．the importance of parents

B．the old education concepts

C．the good grades of some kids

D．the love between kids and their parents

3. What does the author think of teaching children?

A．Encouragement is important.

B．Children shouldn’t be punished.

C．Children can’t be taught in the same way.

D．Children should be taught to behave themselves.

4. In the opinion of the author, children should ________.

A．have no freedom	B．have their own style
C．learn from their friends	D．be friendly to their parents

【推荐1】In the live-streaming (直播) channel of Yang Weiyun, no singing or dancing is performed nor are products sold. Yang teaches pinyin, reading and writing, something that has been most familiar to her for the past 50 years. The difference is her students are mostly adults.

The 73-year-old comes from Huainan city of Anhui province and is an experienced educator. She had been a Chinese teacher in an elementary school for 50 years. In retirement, Yang also wanted to do something meaningful. The rise of short video platforms gave her the idea of continuing her education attempt through live-streaming online. The retiree opened her live-streaming account in May 2021 and offered free pinyin courses designed for kindergarten pupils about to attend primary schools. However, she gradually learned among her viewers there are a lot of illiterate (文盲) adults.

Yang said she found many illiterate adults develop a sense of lack of confidence. They are afraid to go to new places, worried that they couldn’t teach their children or read their boss’s instructions. So, she added targeted content to meet their needs. “Many illiterate adults didn’t have the chance to go to school when they were young. They are the ones in urgent need of becoming literate. I wanted to give them a new starting point,” Yang said.

According to the seventh national census (人口普查) carried out last year, there are 38 million illiterate adults in China. Yang’s live-streaming channel offers an easy and private way for those who want to overcome adult illiteracy.

Yang said students learning through her live-streaming channel each have their own demands. So she always prepares her classes carefully after concluding a live-streaming session. She has tried her best to figure out what ways the students can learn and remember better, and her biggest wish now is to see these students graduate from her classes.

1. What’s Yang’s original purpose when she started teaching online?

A．To teach retired adults Chinese.

B．To spread Chinese character culture.

C．To teach kids before elementary school.

D．To sell products in her live-streaming channel.

2. Why does Yang’s live-streaming class become a hit among adults?

A．She is an experienced and respectable teacher.

B．Many people believe her classes are beneficial for their children.

C．Her class is vivid and lively with singing or dancing performance.

D．Many illiterate adults can learn Chinese in an easy and private way in her class.

3. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．The Rise Of Short Video Platforms

B．A Retiree And Her Live-streaming Courses

C．A Chinese Teacher In An Elementary School

D．38 Million Illiterate Adults Received Free Courses

4. Which of the following can best describe Yang?

A．Devoted and helpful.	B．Caring and brave.
C．Warm-hearted and strict.	D．Persistent and honest.

【推荐2】New climate-control jackets have helped people stay warm in subzero conditions, and even made cows comfortable enough to produce more milk. But it all began with an Indian graduate’s simple wish for clothing that could be used for both the cold Boston winters and heated MIT campus rooms. Now, the MIT graduated company has begun selling the jackets and other clothes that allow wearers to control their level of comfort without adding or removing layers. “Our products can go from 0°C to 100 °C in the push of a button,” said Vistakula, founder and CEO of the company. “We have four levels of heating and four levels of cooling that include low, medium, high and very high.”

When electricity runs through the junction where two different metals meet, it creates a temperature difference so that one side heats up and the other side cools down. Such heat-exchange equipment also needs fans to blow away the heat. “We were able to reduce the weight and get rid of the need for a fan,” Vistakula told Innovation News Daily. “That made it very suitable to put it into clothes.”

The current clothing runs on a range of laptop batteries (电池) that can support up to eight hours of hot or cold comfort. Aside from shoes, jackets and bike helmets, the startup also sells knee and elbow packs that provide hot or cold therapy (疗法) for aching joints. That’s just the beginning, as the 20-person team tries many new and different applications (应用) in the search to find what works. They have their eyes set on a “HaemoSave” application that could use freezing temperatures to control bleeding, and pain during medical emergencies. “That’s at a very early stage,” Vistakula explained.

“It works for superficial (表面的) wounds, but we have to do deeper wounds and see what happens.” In another case, tests with jackets adapted for cows succeeded in enabling the cows to produce more milk. But the current costs mean that farmers can’t afford such equipment - at least not until the company scales up its production and lowers the price.

It’s an ambitious goal, but their confidence is supported by the startup’s innovation (创新) philosophy. “Nature has been innovating for billions of years, so you just have to look in the right place,” Vistakula said. “If you go looking for answers, you’ll find them.”

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The technology were first designed to control climate.

B．The clothing is user-friendly with a simple push of button.

C．The clothing runs on batteries that can last at least eight hours.

D．The clothing needs fans to create a temperature difference.

2. According to Vistakula, next they have to test whether HaemoSave can ________.

A．be applied to reduce pain	B．be used to control bleeding
C．function for deeper wounds	D．make body temperatures low

3. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．the technology doesn’t work well in practice

B．the technology can be widely applied in life

C．the company will increase production to meet market needs

D．the company is now facing a very uncertain future

4. What can we conclude from what Vistakula said in the last paragraph?

A．We can probably innovate anything in nature.

B．Innovation should be encouraged to protect nature.

C．It has taken billions of years for nature to change.

D．We should innovate as it agrees with Nature.

【推荐3】“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face,”begins a motivational quote. “It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. Oh, and pretty nails!”That may well be Angela Peters's motto. Last July, Peters, 36, rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon located at the Walmart shopping centre in Burton, Michigan, with the idea of bedazzling her fingers. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy（脑瘫）, was turned away. The salon told her that they were afraid it would be too difficult to properly paint her nails given that her hands shook. What was meant to be a day of beauty bliss for Peters was now a disappointment.

Watching the interaction from a few feet away was a Walmart cashier about to go on her break. Ebony Harris, 40, recognized Peters as a Walmart regular. Now what she recognized in Peters was a kindred spirit. Harris approached Peters. “Do you want me to do your nails?”she asked.

A smile spread across Peters's face. “Yeah!”Harris accompanied Peters into the beauty aisle, where they shopped for nail polish. They settled on a bright blue—a statement colour that would catch every eye. They then made their way into a neighbouring Subway, found a table for two, and set up shop. Harris gently took Peters's hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails.

“She moved her hands a little bit, and she kept saying she was sorry,” Harris recalls. “I told her, ‘Don't say that. You’re fine.”

Watching it all with awe and admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. What struck her most was the ease and gentleness displayed by Harris as she painted Peters's nails, all the while chatting as if they were old friends. Smith was so taken by the scene that she wrote about it on Facebook. “They were so patient with her,”she wrote. “Thank you to the Walmart workers for making this beautiful girl's day!”

Peters harbors no bitterness toward the nail salon that turned her away. “When people do us wrong we must forgive,” Peters wrote on Facebook. “I just want to educate people that people with different challenges, like being in a wheelchair, can have our own business and get our nails done like anyone else.”

1. In this passage, the word "bedazzling"（Paragraph 1）is closest in meaning to “____________”

A．treating

B．beautifying

C．winding

D．crossing

2. What left a deep impression on Tasia Smith when she witnessed the scene?

A．Harris painted Peters's nails with great ease.

B．Harris happened to be an old friend of Peters's.

C．Harris did Peters's nails in a relaxed manner.

D．Harris chatted with Peters while painting her nails.

3. What does the underlined sentence “Peters harbors no bitterness toward the nail salon that turned her away”mean?

A．Peters felt quite annoyed after being denied the service in the nail salon.

B．Peters made a complaint to the nail salon about her experience.

C．Peters put no blame on the nail salon despite her bitter experience there.

D．Peters decided to make a trip to a harbor to release her negative emotions.

4. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

A．Everyone is entitled to the pursuit of beauty regardless of their physical conditions.

B．After a salon rejects a physically-challenged woman, a stranger makes a beautiful gesture.

C．Walmart leaves much to be desired in terms of its service to the handicapped.

D．A warm-hearted Walmart employee helped her customer to brave unfair treatment.

【推荐1】In 1997, a group of twenty British women made history. Working in five teams with four women in each team, they walked to the North Pole. Apart from one experienced female guide, the other women were all ordinary people who had never done anything like this in their lives before. They managed to survive in an environment which had defeated several very experienced men during the same period.

Once on the ice, each woman had to ski along while dragging a sledge(雪橇) weighing over 50 kilos. This would not have been too bad on a smooth surface, but for long stretches (一片地域), the Arctic ice is pushed up into huge piles two or three meters high and the sledges had to be pulled up on side and carefully let down the other so that they didn't crash. The temperature was always below freezing point and sometimes strong winds made walking while pulling so much weight almost impossible. It was also very difficult to put up their tents when they stopped each night.

In such conditions the women were making good progress if they covered fourteen or fifteen kilometers a day. But there was another problem. Part of the journey was across a frozen sea with moving water underneath the ice and at some points the team would drift (漂流) back more than five kilometers during the night. That meant that after walking in these very terrible conditions for ten hours on one day, they had to spend part of the next day covering the same ground again. Furthermore, each day it would take three hours from waking up to setting off and another three hours every evening to set up the camp and prepare the evening meal.

So, how did they manage to succeed? They realized that they were part of a team. If anyone of them didn't pull her sledge or get her job done, she would endanger the success of the whole expedition (远征探险).Any form of selfishness could result in the efforts of everyone else being completely wasted, so personal feelings had to be put to one side. At the end of their journey, the women agreed that it was mental effort far more than physical fitness that got them to the North Pole.

1. During the expedition, the women had to be careful to avoid ________.

A．being left behind	B．damaging the sledges
C．falling over on the ice	D．breaking the ice

2. It was difficult for the women to cover 15 kilometers a day because ________.

A．they got too tired	B．they kept getting lost
C．the ice was moving backwards	D．the temperatures were very low

3. Which of the following can best describe the women in the text?

A．Strict but caring.	B．Proud but patient.
C．Honest and devoted.	D．Determined and strong-willed.

4. What can we infer from the text?

A．Experience must be bought.

B．Facts speak louder than words.

C．He who risks nothing gains nothing.

D．Motivation and teamwork achieve goals.

【推荐2】As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unfortunately, fashion wasn’t much interested in her. Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle disorder and stands a little under 4 feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. Paging through magazines, she didn’t see a single person like her. “That would have been a game changer for me,” says Blake, who had 26 surgeries before age 17 to treat her Freeman-Sheldon syndrome.

So far, Blake, 39, has spent her adult life trying to make up for that. She is a disability-rights activist as well as a freelance (自由职业的) writer whose works have appeared in The New York Times and Clamour, but she gained a national following in 2019 after clapping back at people who made ugly comments about her online.

Blake posted a new selfie (自拍)every day. “Some selfies were serious, like the ones where I talked about disabilities or, how I was feeling on not-so-good days. Some were fun and silly, but each was a celebration, and each carried a message. However, some people said that I should be banned from posting photos of myself because I’m too ugly. I feel like every time I post a selfie or share something about my life as a disabled woman, it is a representation to fight that,” Blake told WBUR.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her fans is Mindy Scheier, the founder and CEO of Runway of Dreams, which displays fashion for people with disabilities. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models because of her support of the welfare of the disabled.

“It was a little scary,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the challenge. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we should get a seat at the table in all aspects of life.”

1. What can be inferred from the 1st paragraph?

A．Melissa Blake was a game designer.

B．Melissa Blake was interested in games.

C．Melissa Blake was too tall to find suitable clothes.

D．Melissa Blake’s fashion dream was affected by her disability.

2. Why did Melissa Blake post selfies every day?

A．To show off her fashion sense.

B．To gain a national following.

C．To become a model for Runway of Dreams.

D．To fight against ugly comments about her appearance.

3. Why was Melissa Blake asked to be a model for Runway of Dreams?

A．Because she is a fashion icon.	B．Because she is the founder of the event.
C．Because she is a disability-rights activist.	D．Because she is a professional writer.

4. Which of the following best matches the article?

A．Courage can break down obstacles.

B．A friend in need is a friend indeed.

C．Practice makes perfect.

D．It is never too old to learn.