【推荐1】Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem, the one I want to talk about as a specialist. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.

I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I dropped in on them. Sprawling himself (懒散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”

He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She admitted that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

1. Who is probably the author of the text?

A．A doctor for mental health problems.

B．A headmaster of a middle school.

C．A parent without teenage children.

D．A specialist in teenager studies.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refer to?

A．The advice that parents want their children to follow

B．The change from good to bad that’s seen in a child

C．The opinion that a child has of his parents

D．The way that parents often blame themselves

3. What we can infer about the parents from the second example?

A．They pay no attention to the two daughters.

B．They feel helpless to do much about the two daughters.

C．They have come to hate the two daughters gradually.

D．They are too busy to look after the two daughters.

4. What is the author's opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A．Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B．Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

C．Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D．Parents should pay still more attention to the change.

【推荐2】Mark and his brother Jason both were looking at the shining new computer enviously．Jason was determined not to go against their father's wishes but Mark was more adventurous than his brother．He loved experimenting and his aim was to become a scientist like   his father.
“Dad will be really mad if he finds out you've been playing with his new computer.”Jason said，“He told us not to touch it.”
“He won't find out，” Mark said，“I'll just have a quick look and shut it down.”
Mark had been scolded before for touching his father's equipment．But his curiosity was difficult to control and this new computer really puzzled him.
It was a strange­looking machine—one his dad had brought home from the laboratory where he worked.“It's an experimental model，” his father had explained，“so don't touch it under any circumstances.” But his father's warning only served to make Mark more curious．Without any further thought，Mark turned on the power switch．The computer burst into life and seconds later，the screen turned into colors，shifting and changing and then two big white words appeared in the center of the screen：“SPACE TRANSPORTER.”
“Yes！” Mark cried excitedly，“It's a computer game．I knew it！Dad's only been pretending to work．He's really been playing games instead.” A new message appeared on the screen：“ENTER NAMES
VOYAGER 1：...
VOYAGER 2：...”
Mark's fingers flew across the keyboard as he typed in both of their names.
“INPUT ACCEPTED.START TRANSPORT PROGRAM．AUTO­RETRIEVE INITIATED(自动回收程序已启动)．”
The screen turned even brighter and a noise suddenly rose in volume.
“I think we'd better shut it off，Mark，” Jason yelled，reaching for the power switch．He was really frightened.
But his hand never reached the switch．A single beam of dazzling white light burst out of the computer screen，wrapping the boys in its glow(光芒)，until they themselves seemed to be glowing．Then it died down just as suddenly as it had burst into life．And the boys were no longer there．On the screen，the letters changed.
“TRANSPORT SUCCESSFUL.DESTINATION: MARS.RETRIEVE DATE：2025.”
1. Why did Mark touch the computer against his father's warning?

A．He wanted to take a voyage.

B．He wanted to practice his skill.

C．He was so much attracted by it.

D．He was eager to do an experiment.

2. Where did the boys' father most likely work?

A．In an electronic factory.

B．In a computer company.

C．In a scientific research center.

D．In an information processing center.

3. Mark thought “SPACE TRANSPORTER” on the screen was the name of ________.

A．a computer game

B．a company website

C．a software producer

D．an astronomy program

4. Why did Jason want to shut off the computer?

A．He was afraid of being scolded.

B．He didn't like the loud noise and light.

C．He didn't want to play games any more.

D．He was afraid something dangerous might happen.

【推荐1】Tea is the second most popular drink in the world after water．There are different kinds of tea including green tea and black tea．A cup of tea has become a part of our daily lives and our culture．Earlier, tea used to be made in large pots．Hot water was poured over a bunch of tea leaves even to make a single cup．It is believed that this led to waste of tea and that is where the story of the teabag comes in．

It is more convenient and easier to use a teabag than to brew(沏) fresh tea leaves every time you want to make a cup of tea．With the help of teabags, tea was made available in places like offices and airplanes．In order to make tea taste good, you need to remove the dried leaves after brewing．With teabags, you can brew a great cup of tea without a tea strainer．

“Who invented the teabag？”has been a question for a very long time．There are some interesting stories about this question, but the most popular one is of a New York tea businessman, Thomas Sullivan．In 1908, he sent samples of tea to his customers in small silk bags．A few of his customers thought that these bags were to be dipped(浸) in water to brew tea and so they did not empty out the tea．Sullivan did not realize this till the time he started receiving complaints from customers about the orders not being sent in bags．Then he started producing teabags and because of silk being too expensive he later used gauze(纱布)．

The_popular_Sullivan_story_lacks_evidence．Whatever the truth may be, we will be ever so thankful to whoever came up with this wonderful product．Teabags have managed to make our lives so much easier．By the 1920s, teabags had successfully become the new way of drinking．It brought about a great change in our habit of drinking tea．

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A．It is a waste of time to brew tea in pots．

B．The teabag was produced to replace traditional tea．

C．Tea is second only to water as a popular drink．

D．Green tea and black tea are most popular among all kinds of tea．

2. What advantage does the teabag have according to Paragraph 2?

A．It is easier to use．

B．It saves more space．

C．It makes the tea taste better．

D．It provides more choices for people．

3. What can we learn about Thomas Sullivan from the passage?

A．He was a popular tea businessman in England．

B．He taught his customers to use teabags．

C．He used silk to make teabags at first．

D．He liked drinking tea very much．

4. What does the author mean by the underlined part in the last paragraph?

A．The story has not been proven to be true．

B．The story cannot explain all the truth．

C．The story is hardly accepted by experts．

D．The story provides evidence of the teabag’s history．

【推荐2】Born in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing will be most likely to be one of the faces of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

The 17-year-old is a freeskier (自由式滑雪运动员) and grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult” decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was “proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringings (培养)”.

As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is “valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born.”

Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school last year and is focusing on her Beijing 2022 training. It is reported that She scored 1,580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT (美国大学入学考试), and has been offered a place at Stanford.

Gu started on the snow at the age of 3, was competing in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver for China at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan. 30th, 2021, Gu made her debut(首次亮相) at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze.

“My goal is to win Olympic gold,” she told the official Olympic website. “It’s the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that I’ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.”

1. 第一自然段中划线的短语switching to的含义是 ________ .

A．打开	B．关闭
C．突变	D．转变

2. What do we know about Gu Ailing?

A．She grew up in China.	B．She is an average student.
C．She will graduate from a high school.	D．She decided to compete for China.

3. Which of the following words can best describe Gu Ailing?

A．Helpful and knowledgeable.	B．Modest and hard-working.
C．Clever and ambitious.	D．Creative and confident.

4. What’s the main idea of the fifth paragraph?

A．Gu Ailing won her first World Cup event at 15.

B．Gu Ailing’s achievements as a freeskier.

C．Gu Ailing’s training when she was young.

D．Gu Ailing learned to do snow sports in China.

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

A．Gu Ailing—An American Freeskier	B．Gu Ailing—A Stanford Graduate
C．Gu Ailing—A talented Chinese Freeskier	D．Gu Ailing—An Olympic Champion

【推荐3】Our children grew up on peanut butter and jelly (果冻) sandwiches. Even my husband and I sometimes ate one secretly at late night with a glass of milk. It was too delicious and tasty. My mother-in-law was the jelly maker in this family. The jelly was made of either grape or blackberry. The only job I did to the jelly making was to save baby food jars (罐子), which my mother-in-law would fill with the tasty gel (凝胶体), pack them up and send back to our home. For the past 22 years of my married life, whenever I wanted to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for ourselves, all I had to do was reach for one of those little jars of jelly. It was always there.
This past December, my mother-in-law passed away. Among the things in the house to be divided by her children were the remaining canned goods in the pantry (食品储藏室). When my husband brought his jars home, we carefully put them away in our pantry.
The other day I reached in there to get jelly for a quick sandwich, and there it was. Sitting all alone on the far side of the shelf was a small jar of grape jelly. As I picked up the jar, I suddenly realized something that I had failed to see earlier-this was the last jar we would ever have from my mother-in-law. Although she had been dead for nearly a year, so much of her had remained with us. Our children had never known a day without their grandmother’s jelly. It seems like such a small thing, and most days it was something that was ignored. But today it seemed a great treasure.
No longer was it just a jar of jelly. It was the end of a family tradition. I believed that as long as it was there, a part of my mother-in-law would always live on.
1. Why did the couple eat the jelly secretly at late night?

A．Because it was very delicious and nice.

B．Because it was only made for children.

C．Because it was made by mother-in-law.

D．Because it was good to health.

2. What can we know about the author in making jelly?

A．She could make baby food by herself.

B．She could only collect baby food jars.

C．She helped her mother fill the jars with the tasty gel.

D．She sent the jelly jars home with her husband.

3. What did the mother-in-law leave to the author?

A．The skills to make jelly.

B．Some baby food in the house.

C．Some canned jars filled with jelly.

D．A lot of money.

4. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．a quick sandwich	B．the shelf
C．grape	D．jelly

5. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To miss her mother-in-law.

B．To introduce the skills of making jelly.

C．To remember the family tradition.

D．To warn people to be nice to the old.

【推荐1】阅读短文, 按照题目要求用英语回答问题。(请注意问题后的字数要求)

For most of her life, Suanne Laqueur’s passion for storytelling was shown on the dance floor.

Although Laqueur began writing at a young age, dancing always took center stage. She majored in dance and theater at Alfred University and taught at her mother’s dance studio in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, for years. But when her mother was ready to retire and an opportunity opened for Laqueur to take over the studio, she realized she had no interest in taking on the business side of her art: “Owning a studio is a lot of work — financially, logistically. I love the teaching, the choreographing (编舞), the staging, but I didn’t want to own it.”

Yet Laqueur’s disinterest in running the studio changed when she became a self-published author. In the fall of 2013, she decided to pursue self-publishing as a way of sharing her first completed novel with friends and family. During the process, she realized that following her true passion-telling stories through writing — made the business of the art worthwhile, and owning that business meant she could direct her writing career however she chose.   

Starting with her second self-published novel, she began investing more time in marketing and building her audience. Her investment paid off. Since 2014, Laqueur, now 49, has self-published six novels, which collectively have hundreds of ratings and reviews on Goodreads. Gradually, readers pay more attention to her works. In particular, her 2016 novel An Exaltation of Larks stole the show and won the grand prize at the 25th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, topping more than 2, 300 entries.

“You have to write the most truthful story to you, and I think self-publishing allows that freedom,” she says, “If you work with traditional publishing, it’s more about what’s marketable. There are trade-offs, which everyone will tell you, but by self-publishing I have control of the book, I have control of the story, and I’m cool with that.”

1. Why didn’t Laqueur take over her mother’s studio? (no more than 10 words)
__________________________________________________________________________
2. What made Laqueur change her attitude to business? (no more than 5 words)
__________________________________________________________________________
3. What does the underlined part “stole the show” mean in paragraph 4? (no more than 3 words)
__________________________________________________________________________
4. How does Laqueur enjoy the way of self-publishing? (no more than 10 words)
__________________________________________________________________________
5. Which do you think is the most important factor when pursuing your career? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
__________________________________________________________________________

【推荐2】A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I was determined to go ahead.

I remember back to my 7th year in school. In my first P. E. class, the teacher required us to run laps and hit a softball. I didn't do either well. He later informed me that I was "not athletic".

The idea that I was "not athletic" stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the battle against my own body and mind. A test of wills!

The night before my marathon, I dreamt that I couldn't even find the finish line. I woke up sweating and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces became untied. So I stopped to readjust. Not the start I wanted!

At mile 3, I passed a sign: "GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!"

By mile 17, I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt severely. Despite the pain, I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.

By mile 21, I was starving!

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.

I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. Actually, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels(世俗标签), I can now call myself a "marathon winner".

1. After the author’s ankle was injured, the author ________.

A．decided to quit	B．made up his mind to run
C．lost hope and held back	D．felt painful and frightened

2. Why did the author refer to his experience in the 7th year?

A．To share a funny story.	B．To share his precious old days.
C．To show his inability in sports then.	D．To express his thanks to the teacher.

3. What happened to the author at last during his first marathon?

A．He walked to the end.	B．He made it to the end.
C．He quit running halfway.	D．He was awarded the first prize.

4. Which words can best describe the author?

A．Strong-minded and brave.	B．Confident and learned.
C．Outgoing and dependent.	D．Courageous and humorous.

5. What does the story mainly tell us?

A．One is never too old to learn.

B．Failure is the mother of success.

C．The secret to success lies in family support .

D．Success can be gained with a great effort of will.