【推荐1】All students are expected to read and learn the School Rules. These rules aim to make each student aware of the value of self-control, orderliness and the need to develop a sense of responsibility for their own behavior and for the larger community of which they are a part.

Dress Regulations

The School expects its students to wear their full school uniform correctly and with pride. It is our expectation that uniform and shoes will be clean and in good repair. Boys’ hair should be combed and of an acceptable length (not over the collar, ears or eyes), with no artificial coloring. Girls’ hair should be of a natural color. Shoulder-length hair must be tied back.

Absence, Illness and Punctuality

All students must be at school on time. If late, the student must sign in the late book in the General Office. Parents are asked to inform the school if their child is absent by 8:30 am on the day of absence. A written note from a parent explaining the absence MUST be provided to the General Office the day after return.

Should a student be ill during school hours he is to go straight to the School Medical Center. The sister will then take appropriate action.

Safety

◆ Proper behavior is expected within and around buildings and on the sporting field at all times.

◆ Students are not to enter laboratories, language rooms, the Technics and music rooms until invited to do so by teachers.

◆ The riding of bicycles or skateboards is prohibited along the front drive. Students riding bicycles must wear an approved bicycle helmet.

◆ No knives, explosives or dangerous materials may be brought into the school or boarding houses.

◆ Students are forbidden to interfere with fire safety equipment. An automatic fine will be imposed if this occurs.

1. The following requirements are listed except ________.

A．how to wear school uniform in the right way.

B．the length of girls’ hair.

C．being on time.

D．the safety at school.

2. What shall a student do if he is late?

A．He shall ask his parent to inform the school.

B．He shall provide his parent’s written note for the General Office.

C．He shall go straight to the sister.

D．He shall leave his name in the General Office.

3. In which case does a student have to pay money as a punishment, according to the School Rules?

A．When he plays with the fire safety equipment.

B．When he brings a knife to a boarding house.

C．When he rides a bicycle without a bicycle helmet.

D．When he goes into a language room without permission.

4. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To point out the importance of the School Rules.

B．To introduce the details of the School Rules.

C．To tell students the results of breaking the School Rules.

D．To make each student aware of the value of self-control, orderliness and so on.

【推荐2】What is language for? Some people seem to think it’s for practicing grammar rules and learning lists of words — the longer the lists, the better. That’s wrong. Language is for the exchange of ideas and information. It’s meaningless knowing all about a language if you can’t use it freely. Many students I have met know hundreds of grammar rules, but they can’t speak correctly or fluently. They are afraid of making mistakes. One shouldn’t be afraid of making mistakes when speaking a foreign language. Native speakers make mistakes and break rules, too. Bernard Shaw once wrote, “Foreigners often speak English too correctly.” But the mistakes that native speakers make are different from those that Chinese students make. They’re English mistakes in the English language. And if enough native speakers break a rule, it is no longer a rule. What used to be wrong becomes right. People not only make history, they make language. But a people can only make its own language. It can’t make another people’s language. So Chinese students of English should pay attention to grammar, but they shouldn’t overdo (做过头) it. They should put communication first.

1. According to the passage, language is used to ________.

A．express oneself	B．practice grammar rules
C．talk with foreigners only	D．learn lists of words

2. Generally, when an American or an Englishman speak English, he or she ________.

A．never makes mistakes	B．often makes mistakes
C．can’t avoid making mistakes	D．always makes mistakes

3. The underlined sentence “Foreigners often speak English too correctly.” means that ________.

A．foreigners speak correct English

B．foreigners speak incorrect English

C．foreigners never make mistakes when they speak English

D．foreigners speak English according to the grammar rules

4. If too many native speakers break a rule, ________.

A．they are against the law	B．what they use will become right
C．they should say sorry to others	D．they will become heroes

5. What is meaning of the underlined word in first paragraph?

A．改变

B．交换

C．破坏

D．替换

【推荐3】It’s really true what people say about English politeness: it’s everywhere. When squeezing past someone in a narrow aisle, people say “sorry”. When getting off a bus, English passengers say “thank you” rather than the driver. In Germany, people would never dream of doing these things. After all, squeezing past others is sometimes unavoidable, and the bus driver is only doing his job. I used to think the same way, without questioning it, until I started traveling to the British Isles and came to appreciate some more polite ways of interacting (交往) with people.
People thank each other everywhere in England, all the time. When people buy something in a shop, customers and retail assistants in most cases thank each other twice or more. In Germany, it would be exceptional to hear more than one “thank you” in such a conversation. British students thank their lecturers when leaving the room. English employers thank their employees for doing their jobs, as opposite to Germans, who would normally think that paying their workers money is already enough.
Another thing I observed during my stay was that English people rarely criticize others. Even when I was working and mistakes were pointed out to me, my employers emphasized (强调) several times that none of their words were intended as criticism. It has been my impression that by avoiding criticism, English people are making an effort to make others feel comfortable. This is also shown in other ways. British men still open doors for women, and British men are more likely to treat women to a meal than German men. However, I do need to point out here that this applies to English men a bit more than it would to Scottish men! Yes, the latter (后者) are a bit tightfisted.
1. What is the author’s attitude towards English politeness?

A．He appreciatesit.	B．He gives no personal opinion.
C．He thinks it is unnecessary.	D．He thinks it goes too far.

2. What can we learn about customers and retail assistants in Germany?

A．A customer never says thank you to a retail assistant.

B．They may say thank you only once.

C．It’s always a retail assistant who says thank you.

D．They always say thank you to each other.

3. We can learn from the last paragraph that Scottish men __________.

A．are not so willing to spend money for women

B．are more polite than English men

C．treat women in an impolite way

D．are more likely to be involved in a fighting

4. The author develops the text through the method of ____________.

A．giving reasons

B．telling stories

C．giving comments

D．making comparisons

【推荐1】AppFire

This application provides for users apps that are free and highly discounted daily. By using this app, you only need to submit some information when registering. After filling it up，you are eligible to have access to a list of recommended downloads.

Starling

Based on bank nature, this app has been a good one in that regard. They have a banking license and allow you to open a current account through your phone for just some minutes. You are even liable to earn interest on the money held in your account through this app. The app will notice you with alerts when you spend money as it will help you outline what you have spent in categories like shopping, bill, foods and many more.

Campus Special

This app is greatly used by students as it enables them to have great deals on food stores and restaurants around the school. It also gives you the opportunity to order food from your hostel through your phone on pick-up delivery. The good thing about this app is that it enables you to get more rewards when you often use it. Those rewards can be used at your usual local food stores.

ATM Locator

This is another interesting app that can assist you in financial needs. When you are hooked up in an area that is not familiar to you and you are interested in getting some cash, instead of moving up and down in searching for the nearest place to withdraw some cash, this app should give you comfort in doing that. It helps you to find cash points that are very near to you, and it will display them on the map for you to check through.

1. Which app can serve as a warning if you spend money?

A．Campus Special.	B．ATM locator.
C．AppsFire.	D．Starling.

2. What's special about Campus Special?

A．Its rewards enable you to save some money.

B．It offers you the biggest discounts for deals on food.

C．It allows you to do your banking without going out.

D．It enables you to spend less on eating in campus canteen.

3. In which situation can you make use of the app ATM locator?

A．When you have no bank cards on you.

B．When you can't find the nearest cash machine.

C．When you are unfamiliar with the local campus.

D．When you are busy with some banking business.

【推荐2】

John Blanchard was studying the crowd making their way through the station. He was looking for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose.

When reading a book in a Florida library a year before, John became interested not in the contents of the book, but in the notes penciled in the margin. The handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and beautiful mind. He discovered the former owner’s name in the front of the book: Miss Hollis Maynell.

He located her address and wrote a letter introducing himself. The next day he was shipped overseas to serve in the army. During the next year, they grew to know each other through the mail and their friendship developed. John requested a photograph, but she refused, saying if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like. When the day finally came for him to return home, their first meeting was suggested — 7:00 p.m. at the Grand Central Station in New York.

She wrote, “You’ll recognize me by the red rose I wear on my coat.” So now John was in the station to meet the girl with a rose.

As a pretty and slim girl in green came over, John noticed her blue eyes like flowers in spring. He walked directly towards her, entirely forgetting she was not wearing a rose. As John came closer to her, he saw another woman with a red rose stood nearby. Well past 40, this woman had graying hair done under a worn hat. Seeing the girl in green walk quickly away, John felt as if he were split in two.

He desired to follow that girl, but longed for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and supported him.

The woman looked gentle and sensible. John went to her, saying, “I’m Captain John Blanchard. You must be Miss Maynell. I am glad to meet you here. May I take you to dinner?”

She replied with a smile, “I don’t know what this is about. But the lady in green who just went by, begged me to wear this rose on my coat. She said if you asked me out to dinner, I’d tell you she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”
1. John was eager to know the former owner of the book because he ______.

A．was very interested in the contents of the book

B．was impressed by the notes written by its owner

C．wanted to improve his handwriting

D．wanted to discuss the book with her

2. What happened to John after getting in touch with Miss Hollis Maynell?

A．He served in the army abroad.

B．He went overseas for vacation.

C．He went on a business trip in New York.

D．He visited Miss Maynell.

3. What do we know about the woman with a rose?

A．She was Miss Maynell’s close friend.

B．She was a waitress in the big restaurant.

C．She was probably a passerby.

D．She was paid to meet John at the Station.

4. Which would be the best title of the text?

A．An Interesting Book	B．A Woman With a Rose
C．A Brave Soldier	D．A Love Test

【推荐3】 Here at VOA Learning English, we love to help those who teach English make learning more interactive, student-centered and fun. Besides our quizzes, downloadable lesson plans and other materials, there are other creative ways to use our programs in your classroom. Let’s start with speaking activities.

Beginners: Using the Day in Photos

Every day, VOA Learning English posts fascinating photos from around the world. We call it the Day in Photos.

Here’s a speaking activity that will inspire even the shyest beginning speakers to talk to their classmates. With students sitting in pairs, show an image on the screen. Have one student describe what she sees in the image. Then, have the other student imagine what the people or animals in the photo are thinking or saying.

Intermediate（之间的）learners: Using Learning English TV

Learning English TV features two-minute videos on topics from science to politics to health. For intermediate learners, you can use pair work to have students make a summary of what they learn after watching the videos.

Advanced learners: Using Learning English TV

For this level, have students do the activity exactly as they did in the intermediate activity, but ask students to come up with three questions on additional things they’d like to learn about the topic. You can also use our video series America’s Presidents to set off discussion on debatable topics. Students can work in small groups to express their opinions on what they watched in the video.

Advanced learners: Using English at the Movies

These short series explore an idiom, or common expression.

Students can use the context（上下文）of the movie clip and its explanation-based on the multiple choice quiz in the video-to develop their understanding of the expression.

One fun activity is to have students create two-or three-person dialogues using the new idioms. They can act out or voice the dialogues in their groups or share the dialogues with the whole class.

1. What should a shy beginning speaker choose?

A．The Day in Photos.	B．Learning English TV.
C．America’s Presidents.	D．English at the Movies.

2. What do we know about Learning English TV?

A．It covers broad topics.

B．It is designed for advanced learners.

C．It provides learners with common expressions.

D．It encourages learners to debate with each other.

3. What does the text mainly intend to introduce?

A．How to practice our spoken English.

B．An English learning website-VOA.

C．Easy ways to bring fun to speaking activities.

D．How to use VOA Learning English for speaking.

【推荐1】I've come back to check on a baby. Just after dusk I'm in a car down a muddy road in the rain, past rows of shackled (戴镣的) elephants, their trunks swinging. I was here five hours before, when the sun was high and hot and tourists were on elephants' backs.

Walking now, I can barely see the path in the glow of my phone's flashlight. When the wooden fence post stops me short, I point my light down and follow a current of rainwater across the concrete floor until it washes up against three large, gray feet. A fourth foot twisted above the surface, tied tightly by a short chain and choked by ring of metal spikes(尖刺). When the elephant tires and puts her foot down, the spikes press deeper into her ankle.

Meena is four years and two months old, still a child as elephants go. Khammon Kongkhaw, her caretaker, told me earlier that Meena wears the spiked chain because she tends to kick. Kongkhaw has been responsible for Meena here at Mactaman Elephant Adventure, near Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, since she was 11 months old. He said he keeps her on the spiked chain only during the day and takes it off at night. But it's night now.

I ask Jin Laoshen, the Mactaman worker accompanying me on this nighttime visit, why her chain is still on. He says he doesn't know.

Mactaman is one of many animal attractions in and around tourist-crowded Chiang Mai. Meena's life is set to follow the same track as many of the roughly 3,800 captive(被捕获的) elephants in Thailand. When Meena is too old or sick to give rides -- maybe at 55, maybe at 75 she'll die. If she's lucky, She will get a few years of retirement. She'll spend most of her life on a chain.

1. Why does the author decide to come back?

A．She knows a baby is in need of help urgently.

B．She wants to feed those shackled elephants.

C．She wants to release those shackled elephants

D．She wants to check baby elephant Meena.

2. What can we conclude from the second paragraph?

A．The author is scared of walking in the path.

B．Meena only has three healthy legs.

C．Meena is treated badly and very painful.

D．One of Meena's legs is badly broken.

3. What's the author's attitude towards those elephants?

A．Indifferent	B．Critical
C．Sympathetic	D．Negative

4. We can infer that the purpose of the author's writing is ___________.

A．to appeal to people to care about the fate of those elephants

B．to describe those elephants to attract tourists around the world

C．to tell readers the story of a baby elephant in Chiang Mai, Thailand

D．to tell the reason why the number of elephants is decreasing

【推荐2】To get in shape soon, some people use “quick” methods without realizing that these methods can put their overall health in danger. For example, they lose weight by eating fat-free food. It’s true that consuming（消耗）fewer fats can help you get in shape sooner, but low fat foods like dried fruits, nuts, beans, etc, actually contain high amounts of calories. For example, fruit juice contains no fat, but has high calories, so drinking more than one glass of fruit juice won’t help in losing weight.

To rely only on fruit and vegetable juice to lose weight is also a wrong method. By replacing your meal with only juice, you decrease the calorie intake（卡路里摄取量）greatly. It’ll help lose weight, but it can make you lack energy, leading to headaches, stomach disorders, etc.

It’s true that exercise helps to keep healthy weight, but it’ll probably not help you much if you don’t take care of your diet by reducing your calorie intake. If you believe you can exercise every day and eat as much as you want, you’re incorrect. For healthy weight loss, you need to burn more calories than you consume. So, you need to limit the intake of food.

Wrong weight loss methods are dangerous. So if in doubt, you’d better ask a doctor before starting weight loss. Luckily, it’s possible to lose weight with healthy methods. For example, follow healthy food habits, exercise regularly for 20-30 minutes every day, and go on with a healthy lifestyle even after you lose weight. Anyway, as you don’t gain weight overnight, it can’t be lost in a short time either. Give yourself some time. Although healthy methods may take a bit longer to work, they’re surely good for your body.

1. We can know from the first paragraph that             .

A．fruit juice is low in fat and calories	B．most people don’t lose weight safely
C．eating high fat foods helps lose weight	D．some quick shaping methods may be harmful

2. Relying on a liquid diet to lose weight is wrong because it            .

A．makes you skip meals	B．reduces the calorie intake greatly
C．can cause a few health problems	D．doesn’t help you to lose weight fast

3. How can we get more calories burnt than we consume according to Paragraph 3?

A．By reducing mental pressure.	B．By only drinking fruit juice.
C．By having more rest.	D．By exercising with food control.

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．We should be patient with losing weight.

B．We can actually lose weight very easily.

C．Regular exercise is enough for us to lose weight.

D．We don’t have to consider our doctor’s advice.

【推荐3】Barack Obama

In the past hundred years, the U.S. presidency has turned more and more to the left — not in policy, but in handedness. Barrack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left — handed presidents from the 20th century: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Henry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were all southpaws.

What makes lefties so electable? Some experts think left-handed people have a greater aptitude for language skills, which may help them craft the rhetoric necessary for political office. And as for the bout of recent left-handed presidents, some think it’s because teachers only recently stopped working to convert lefties to rightist at an early age.

Bill Gates

Claiming the nation’s richest man among their number is a source of considerable pride for America’s society of southpaws. In fact, the Microsoft titan and philanthropist (巨头兼慈善家) is one of a surprising number of U.S. business moguls to be left-handed, including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and former IBM head Lou Gerstner. But the club seems to be a guys-only fraternity — research suggests that while left-handed men tend to earn more than their right-handed colleagues, there is no similar advantage for women. A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research floated the idea that left-handed men favor “divergent” thinking, a form of creativity in which the brain moves “from conventional knowledge into unexplored association.” Maybe that’s what it takes to develop a net worth estimated at $ 57 billion.

Oprah Winfrey

The talk-show queen doesn’t need much more to set her apart from the rest — what with her estimated $ 2.7 billion fortune and a magic ability to sell books just by glancing at them — but she also has the distinction of being a member of the left-handed club. Since men are more likely to be left-handed than women, that makes Oprah doubly impressive. She’s in good company: Other show-business ladies of the left-handed persuasion include Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie

Marie Curie

Not only was atomic scientist Marie Curie left-handed, but she was the matriarch of a whole family of accomplished, southpaw scientists. Curie, who discovered the principles of radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes, was married to fellow lefty Pierre Curie, who was instrumental in helping Marie’s atomic research and shared one of her Nobel awards. Historians believe their daughter, Irene, was also left-handed. Irene went on to win a Nobel Prize of her own with her husband — who, you guessed it, was also left-handed.

1. The underlined word “southpaws” in the last sentence of Paragraph 1 means_______.

A．people coming from the south	B．powerful presidents
C．people who use their left hand	D．forceful speakers

2. What makes it so easy for lefties to be elected as presidents according to the passage?

A．Their great gift for foreign language.

B．Their great language skills to make speeches.

C．The need of left-handers in the political office.

D．Teachers stopping to force them to use their right hand.

3. It can be implied that Bill Gates, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and Lou Gerstne_______.

A．have creative thinking	B．have formed a special club
C．earn more money than their wives	D．are wealthy philanthropists

4. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 “She’s in good company” means “_______”.

A．she works in a very good company	B．she has many good friends
C．she has got on well with others	D．she is among many female lefties