【推荐1】Volunteer Day

What better way is there to enjoy your own hobbies while helping others at the same time? Come to Volunteer Day and choose an activity you’d like to join for the day. See below for a schedule of events on Volunteer Day.

Volunteer Day Schedule:

■7:30 a.m.: Meet at the Community Center for juice and bagels(面包圈).

■8；00-8：30 a.m.: Choose which activity you’d like to help with for the day.

■8:30 a.m.: Board the bus to your activity site.

■9:00 a.m.3:30 p.m.: Work as a volunteer.

■3:30 p.m.: Board the bus that will take you back to the Community Center.

See below for a list of volunteer opportunities for Volunteer Day so you can begin thinking about which activity you might want to join.

A list of volunteer activities:

Paint Houses: Happy Homes is a local organization that provides home painting. For elderly or physically disabled people who cannot do repairs to their homes. Happy Homes provides volunteer painters to repair old houses.

Plant flowers: Help plant flowers and bushes in city parks, help lay paths at Cave Springs Park, or help pick up rubbish around the river banks.

Read to children: Love and Learning is an organization that provides volunteers to help children with learning disabilities. Read books out loud to groups of children four to six years old, or read one-on-one with struggling readers seven to eight years old.

Play with animals: Lovely Friends is an organization that visits local animal shelters and provides volunteers to spend time with the animals while their cages are being cleaned.

1. At what time do volunteers leave for their activity sites?

A．7:30 a.m.	B．8:00 a.m.
C．8:30 a.m.	D．9:00 a.m.

2. An outdoor lover probably takes part in ________.

A．Plant flowers	B．Paint houses
C．Read to children	D．Play with animals

3. What do Lovely Friends volunteers do?

A．Read books to children.	B．Spend time with animals.
C．Help plant bushes in parks.	D．Pick up garbage along the river

【推荐2】While smartphones stand accused of a variety of crimes, these pocket computers can certainly be a force for good. Your phone is always with you, making it the perfect device to push you into a more beneficial way of living. Here are some of the best apps that can help.

Habitica

Habitica turns the goal of forming good habits into a game, with its own characters and scoring. It’s a lot of fun，and the app also lets you build habits with friends and family. In addition to regular repeating habits, you can add a more general to-do list, and the rewards you get can be customized too — you could treat yourself to a meal out or an extra hour of games.

Smoke Free

If you’ve got a specific habit in mind，then you’ll usually find specific apps to help, like Smoke Free. If you’re determined to give up smoking, then this is one of the most comprehensive apps for giving you that extra push you need to make a permanent change. The app offers a host of useful features for people wanting to go smoke-free ： The ability to see your progress over time，charts showing how your health is improving，day-by-day encouragement， and some advice on techniques for giving up smoking.

MyFitnessPal

You can find a ton of health and fitness apps for your phone, but MyFitnessPal stands out not just because it is easy to use, but because it makes practical suggestions for you. It can take in a host of data, from the calories (卡路里)you’re taking in to the number of swims you’re doing per week, and offer reports on calorie consumption and macronutrient (大量营养素） breakdown.

1. What can Habitica help you to do?

A．Win a tough game.	B．Start a lasting friendship.
C．Find a fancy restaurant.	D．Develop a pleasant habit.

2. Which of the following can Smoke Free provide?

A．The freedom to smoke.	B．The ability to make progress.
C．Advice on how to quit smoking.	D．Charts about your excellent health.

3. What can we learn about the three apps mentioned in the text?

A．They’re cheap.	B．They’re practical.
C．They’re free.	D．They’re interesting.

【推荐2】Top Public Sculpture Parks to Visit in America

Kasmin Sculpture Garden (New York City)

This quiet sculpture garden in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood is far from the crowds. Owned and operated by Kasmin Gallery, this exhibition space can be viewed from the nearby High Line. It is designed by Future Green, a Brooklyn, landscape architect studio, and it stands beside a famous building designed by Zaha Hadid. There’s a current exhibition featuring bronze (铜) sculptures by Alma Allen, which shows the artist’s regard for Utah.

Tippet Rise Art Center (Fishtail)

This sculpture garden is worth the trip to the Beartooth Mountains in Fishtail. It is a 12,500-acre ranch (牧场), which is peppered with public art, including sculptures by Mark di Suvero, among others. This summer, the ranch will be open to those who are hiking or traveling by bike.

Storm King Art Center (New Windsor)

By far the most popular sculpture park in upstate New York, it is a 500-acre sculpture park in Hudson Valley. Since opening in 1960, it has grown to include dozens of sculptures that change over time. In its collection, the park owns sculptures by famous artists including Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois, and Daniel Buren.

Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle)

This outdoor park was created by the nearby Seattle Art Museum and features a large red sculpture by Alexander Calder called Eagle, as well as Wake by Richard Serra. Since 2007, this waterfront park has brought creativity to Elliott Bay. The landscape design fits in with the local roads and skyline, facing the harbor in what’s recognized as Seattle’s largest downtown green space.

1. What can be learned about the garden in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood?

A．It is run by Kasmin Gallery.

B．It is designed by Zaha Hadid.

C．It has become a part of the High Line.

D．It stands for Alma Allen’s respect for Utah.

2. Which of the following parks is located in Hudson Valley?

A．Kasmin Sculpture Garden.	B．Tippet Rise Art Center.
C．Storm King Art Center.	D．Olympic Sculpture Park.

3. Where can you see the sculpture Wake?

A．In New York City.	B．In Seattle.
C．In New Windsor.	D．In Fishtail.

【推荐1】Tokyo may be one of those places that you love and hate at the same time. In Tokyo, there are always too many people in the places where I want to go. There are also too many cars. Tokyo drivers often spend a long time in the busy street, just like drivers in London, Paris and New York.

Tokyo also has a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk in the street. The worst time in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is because the nightclubs are closing at that time and everybody wants to go home then. There are 35,000 nightclubs in Tokyo, and usually none of them is empty at night.

During the day, most people go to work by train. Six million train tickets are sold every year in Tokyo. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours it is not enough at all. Although trains are always crowded, they are very good in many ways. They always leave and arrive on time. In London trains, you may see everybody reading a newspaper. But in Tokyo trains, everybody seems to be sleepy, no matter whether his journey is long or short. If you stand outside the station for five minutes, there will be three fire engines(消防车) going past you. They are on the way to one of the fires that Tokyo has every day. Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now.

1. In London, Paris and New York, there are _____ in the street.

A．a few trains	B．many trains
C．too many cars	D．no cars

2. What does the writer say about the Japanese trains?

A．They seldom leave and arrive on time.

B．They are important traffic tools for Japanese.

C．They are good for reading.

D．They are not crowded.

3. How is the business of the nightclubs in Tokyo ?

A．It is very good

B．Just so so

C．It isn’t very good

D．It is very bad

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The writer likes Tokyo more than he hates

B．The writer hates Tokyo more than he likes

C．The writer wants to leave Tokyo as soon as possible

D．The writer has got used to the life in Tokyo

【推荐3】New York City consists of five parts: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The population is about 7.5 million and there are 1.5 million in Manhattan alone.

Manhattan, the center of the city, is on the island between the Hudson River and the East River. Most of the famous buildings such as the Empire State and the United Nations and other skyscrapers are in Manhattan. Some of its districts are: Broadway, which has many theatres and cinemas, Fifth Avenue, with stores and apartments, Greenwich Village, where many artists and writers have lived, and Central Park, with a skating rink (溜冰场). From Manhattan you have to cross to the other parts of New York City through a tunnel or over a bridge. The bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island is the longest in the world.

New York is the second biggest port in the world and it has two airports. The people who live there come from all over the world and speak many different languages. There are 324,000 Germans and 390,000 Poles as well as people from Greece, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and Romania. People call one district "Little Italy" and another "China town".

1. The most important part of New York is _______.

A．Hudson River	B．East River
C．Bronx and Staten Island	D．Manhattan

2. The Empire State is ______.

A．a state of the U.S.A.	B．a country
C．a skyscraper	D．a district in New York

3. If you are going to do some shopping in Manhattan, you will go to _______.

A．Broadway	B．Fifth Avenue
C．Greenwich Village	D．Central Park

4. From the article we understand ________.

A．Staten Island and Brooklyn are separated by the sea

B．Staten Island and Brooklyn are one landmass

C．Manhattan and Queens are one landmass

D．Brooklyn and Queens are separated by the sea

5. Many ________ live in the New York.

A．people from Poland and China

B．children from Brooklyn and Staten Island

C．people from Germany and Italy do not

D．children from Greece and Romania do not