【推荐1】I will never forget the day when I won the bicycle race for the third time. It was special for me because I set a new record. But what made it more special was that I had to go through a tough time getting ready for the day.

About three months before the final race something unfortunate happened when I fell off during practice and broke my left leg. All I could do was to wait for the injuries to heal (治愈). The worry was that the doctors suggested bed rest for at least two months. A close friend of mine who had just recovered from his leg injury warned me that even if I were able to stand on my feet, I wouldn’t be able to ride a bicycle for a few more weeks. It was safe for me to give up because my leg was likely to be injured again during practice or the race.

It was very difficult for me to just stop like this. My father felt bad too. He tried to keep my spirits up during my bed rest. My parents gave me nutritious (有营养的) food to keep me strong. They showed me lots of videos of cycling events to improve (提升) my riding skills. Thus, they were preparing me for the day when I returned to the track. The most important thing they taught me was that while there could be a chance of missing the race, never giving up in such a situation was an example of good sportsmanship.

Two months passed quickly. The doctors were amazed at my complete recovery and supported my participation (参赛). Gradually, I was walking comfortably and exercising too. I practised as much as I could.

Finally, the big day came. I was a little bit nervous but once I was on the race track, the fear had gone. The race began. I tried my best and finally I won the race. The whole stadium (体育场) was clapping for me. This became my most special day.

1. What was the friend’s attitude to the author’s participation in the race?

A．He doubted it.	B．He was against it.
C．He was hopeful about it.	D．He paid little attention to it.

2. What did the author’s parents do during the two months?

A．They taught him how to take chances.

B．They helped him prepare for next year’s race.

C．They made it possible for him to enter the race.

D．They let him realise the importance of healthy diets.

3. Which of the following can best describe the author?

A．Honest.

B．Creative.

C．Warm-hearted.

D．Strong-minded.

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

A．My most special day	B．My unfortunate experience
C．A long bed rest after an injury	D．An exciting bicycle race in my school

【推荐3】5-year-old Taylor Hooper was just one of the 35,0000 people who were attending the Foo Fighters concert in Belfast, Norther Ireland last week. Not only is the American rock group his favorite band, it was also his first ever concert.

Taylor's mother, Nikki Hooper, says that she and her husband have always been huge fans of the Foo Fighters. So when the band played in their home city, they decided it was finally time for their son to see their beloved rock and rockers in concert.

Mrs Hooper told BBC．“We called the event organizers and they said it would be no problem, but that we should know it would be a loud music event, so we got Taylor some special headphones. When we got there everyone was so welcoming to him.”

Throughout the show, the audience continuously made Taylor and his parents move closer to the stage. Furthermore, Mrs. Hooper helped her son stand out from the crowd by making him a sign that said he was a 5-year-old attending his first concert.

When Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl finally saw the sign and read it aloud into the microphone, the crowd began chanting for them to bring the youngster onto the stage. When the stage managers brought the boy to the stage, Grohl asked Taylor to show the crowd how to dance．

The small boy then danced to the whole song, making him an “Internet wonder”. The band also invited him backstage to give him a number of gifts, including a pair of Taylor Hawkins's drumsticks(鼓槌).

1. What is Foo Fighters in the passage?

A．It's a music show.

B．It's a music band.

C．It's a pop song.

D．It's a music fan.

2. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that________.

A．the organizers refused to let the child watch the show

B．there was nothing wrong for the child to watch the show

C．the organizers suggested the kid take care of the loud noise

D．the child felt so scared that he didn't want to go to the stage

3. How did 5-year-old Taylor Hooper cause people's attention?

A．By shouting loudly.	B．By running to the singers.
C．By holding a sign showing his age.	D．By dancing to the whole song.

4. How did Taylor feel about his first ever concert?

A．Worried.

B．Scared.

C．Sorry.

D．Pleased.

【推荐2】Ian McKenna was in third grade when he learned that many kids at his Austin school weren’t getting enough to eat at home. He wanted to help, but local volunteer organizations turned him away, saying he was too young. So he decided to find his own solution. For years, he had been gardening with his mother, and they often sent their vegetables to the neighbors. “I’m good at gardening,” says McKenna, now 16. “Why not plant a garden at school, so that kids in need could take food home?”

McKenna persuaded his school to set aside space for a garden; then he asked the community for donations of seeds and equipment. Other students donated their time. Within months, McKenna’s garden was producing lettuces, tomatoes and cucumbers for students and their families. Now,seven years later, McKenna’s Giving Garden project has expanded to five area schools in addition to his own backyard garden. For most of his gardening activities, McKenna wears the same T-shirt in different colors, with his personal motto on it: BE A GOOD HUMAN. To him, that means helping in any way you can, no matter what your age.

“Even a smile might change someone’s life,” he says. “It lets them know that they are important. It can make their day.”

When COVID-19 hit the U. S., McKenna redoubled his efforts, cooking up to 100 meals to distribute (配送) to the hungry on the weekends. When social distancing meant that volunteers couldn’t work on community garden, he started offering online classes and a gardening hotline so families could grow at home. While gardening is his core focus, McKenna says he is always looking for new ways to help the hungry.

1. What caused Ian’s decision to help the kids in his own way?

A．Being rejected by volunteer groups.	B．Being good at gardening.
C．His school’s support.	D．His mother’s suggestions.

2. What do we know about the Giving Garden project?

A．It helps students only.	B．It was started with many supports.
C．It is funded by schools.	D．It earns great profits every year.

3. Which of the following can best describe Ian?

A．Well-educated.

B．Honest.

C．Boring.

D．Caring.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Ian McKenna, Growing a Food Project

B．Ian Mckenna, an Experienced Gardener

C．Giving Garden Project, a challenging Task

D．Giving Garden Project, a Universal Solution

【推荐3】 “ELSA, IT’S YOU!” It was the four-year-old’s surprise birthday party, and her favorite Disney character, Elsa from Frozen, had arrived. The two merrily began to sing the movie’s big song, “Let It Go”. You would swear they were celebrating at the most magical place on earth, but this wasn’t Disney World. It was the pediatric（儿科）cancer ward at a hospital on Long Island in New York. And the princess was a college student volunteering for A Moment of Magic, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to lift the spirits of sick children, which has 400 volunteers from 11 colleges around the country.

It all began with a movie Frozen. Kylee McGrane, now 23, noticed that she and Elsa had matching blond hair and big blue eyes. At that time, she was searching for a new community project, ideally one with kids. That sparked an idea—dressing up as Disney princesses and visiting pediatric cancer patients.

“When kids are in a hospital for so long, they don’t get all the magic that most kids do,” says McGrane. “It’s nice to give them time to be themselves.” In 2015, after raising $2,000 on a Go Fund Me page to pay for costumes and travel expenses, McGrane and her friend landed their first gig, at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. They dressed as Elsa and her sister, Anna, to the squealing delight of the girls and blushing smiles from the boys. “To see the kids believe in me, my character…It was life changing,” says McGrane.

They also have a growing kingdom of fans. Shara Moskowitz from New Jersey says that her seven-year-old daughter, Avery, still talks almost every day by phone or text to the princesses she met nearly two years ago at her birthday party. Avery was receiving treatment for a neuroblastoma（成神经细胞瘤）. “My daughter found something that she really needed to connect to,” says Moskowitz. “These girls gave her that moment of imagination, freedom, and happiness of dreaming”.

1. The princess performances were given in order to________.

A．raise money for "A Moment of Magic"	B．cheer up children suffering from cancers
C．celebrate children's birthday in Disneyland	D．share the spirits of the movies with volunteers

2. What can we infer from Paragraphs 2 and 3

A．Kylee landed a good part in the movie Frozen.

B．Kylee was financed by Cohen Children's Medica Center

C．Kylee had matching blond hair and big blue eyes with Elsa.

D．Kylee's idea of princess performance was inspired by the movie Frozen.

3. By referring to Avery Moskowitz, the author wants to indicate that________.

A．their performances were well received and popular

B．their performances greatly depressed those children

C．their performances helped build a magic world for girls

D．their performances freed the kids with cancer from sufferings

【推荐1】Michael Todd wore the same clothes every day for the first three weeks of school. He became the target of laughter, but there was little Todd could do. His mother simply couldn’t afford to buy him new clothes.

Two of the kids laughing at Todd were Antwan Garret and Kristopher Graham, a pair of freshman football players. But over time, they realized that their words seemed to hunt Todd’s spirit.

“I feel like I needed to do something.” Graham says. So he and Garet made a plan. They went home and hunted through their own closets (橱柜). The next day at school, they met Todd at their third-period class and asked him to come into the hall. Todd was worried about being called out by the boys.

“He wasn’t smiling, and I was like, I think this is going to make you smile,” Graham says. “I told him, We’re in the same third period, and I apologize for laughing at you. I want to give something to you to make up for it.” He then handed Todd a bag. Inside were clean shirts and shorts, plus a brand-new pair of New Balance sports shoes.

Todd was blown away. “I was very happy,” he says. “Shocked, completely.” And Todd got much more than a new closet. Now, he no longer sits alone at lunch. He eats with his new friends, Garrett and Graham.

Reflecting on the day Garrett and Graham called him into the hall, Todd called it the best day of his entire life.

1. What can be inferred from paragraph 1?

A．Todd’s family was poor.

B．Todd was unhappy about his life.

C．Todd liked the way he was dressed.

D．Todd cared little about his classmates’ laughter.

2. What was Garrett and Graham’s plan?

A．To play football with Todd.	B．To help Todd with his studies.
C．To find some clothes for Todd.	D．To buy Todd a new closet.

3. What does the underlined expression “blown away” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Extremely worried.

B．Greatly moved.

C．Quite frightened.

D．Very interested.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．The bad effects of laughter	B．The benefits of kindness
C．The change in Todd’s character	D．The best day of Todd’s life

【推荐2】The journey two divers made some time ago to the deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains to be studied. The two men went down seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any ocean currents(水流) or signs of life.
It was necessary to set out early, so that the ball would come to the surface in daylight, and be easily found by the mother ship which would be waiting for it. The divers began preparations early in the morning and soon afterwards, when all was ready, the steel ball disappeared under the surface of the water.
The divers felt as if they were going down steps as they passed through warm and cold layers (层) of water. In time the temperature dropped to the freezing point. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone telling how they felt. Then, at a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut off from the outside world. All went well until some four hours later at 30,000 feet, the men were frightened by a loud, cracking noise. Even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant death. Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the ball touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of "dust" made up of small dead sea creatures. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled by the great water pressure. But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long, as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the faint but clear voices of the divers were heard on the mother ship seven miles away. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none was worse for their experience.
1. The purpose of the divers' journey to the deepest point on the earth was to find _______.

A．if there are water currents, and life in the great depths

B．if people can stand the severe cold in the great depths

C．if there are steps in the great depths

D．if the telephone works well in the great depths

2. The divers set out early in the morning so that                .

A．they could avoid the cold at night

B．they could see at the bottom of the ocean

C．they could return to the surface during the day

D．they could stay long at the bottom

3. As the divers went down to the ocean floor, the telephone              .

A．kept working all the time

B．stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again when they returned to the same depth

C．stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again at 30,000 feet

D．stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again after they reached the bottom

4. On the ocean floor, the divers found that               .

A．there was no life but some small dead sea creatures

B．fish were swimming as freely as they do near the surface

C．fish were not swimming freely in the dark water

D．fish were not swimming freely under the high water pressure

【推荐3】My wife, Hannah, and I don’t usually keep houseplants. Anything in pots gets either over-watered or under-watered. But after my diagnosis with glioblastoma, a terminal brain cancer, with a prognosis of little more than a year to live, I loved the idea of having something new and green around.

My friend Mitch gave me what he said was a lucky bamboo plant in a deep-green pottery bowl with three pencil-sized stalks braided together. We placed the plant in the living room window across from the couch where I spent much of the day. I smiled when I looked at it over the rim of the mug of coffee Hannah brought me each morning.

I told Hannah I wanted to care for the plant myself. Tending to the plant gave me a sense of accomplishment at a time when I sometimes felt useless. Glioblastoma limited my ability to walk, and the treatment left me fatigued, making it hard for me to accomplish everyday tasks. As a family physician, I was used to being the one who provided care, not the one who received it. Since my diagnosis, I had to rely on help from other people. The enormous change left me feeling purposeless and unsettled Watering the plant, as small an act as it was, connected me to a core part of my old identity and taught me that plants and people could still depend on me.

Over the next few months, I recovered from surgery and completed radiation and chemotherapy. Even after I returned to work, I continued to care for the plant. Soon, it had nearly doubled in height and its leaves were shiny and lush. Both the tree and I were thriving.

1. What led the writer to keep the plant?

A．Work experience.	B．Misfortune in life.
C．Hannah’s insistence.	D．Mitch’s suggestion.

2. According to paragraph 3, why did the writer feel fulfilled?

A．He continued his career.	B．He overcame his disease.
C．He could still be a caregiver.	D．He developed a love for planting.

3. Which of the following best describes the writer?

A．Caring and optimistic.	B．Accomplished and determined.
C．Worried but understanding.	D．Aimless but open-minded.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．A Healing Bamboo	B．A Determined Doctor
C．An Incurable Disease	D．A Miracle Cure