【推荐1】Cecilia Chiang, the chef and restaurant owner, was greatly known for introducing regional Chinese dishes to the United States. She helped change the way Americans think about Chinese cooking.

Chiang was born into a wealthy Shanghai family with two full-time chefs—one from the north and one from the south. In 1949 her family settled in Tokyo, opening a restaurant called the Forbidden City. But it was a 1960 trip in San Francisco that set Chiang on her dramatic journey to cooking fame. She was both shocked and amused by the food most Americans considered to be Chinese. “They think chop suey(杂烩) is the only thing we have in China,” she said with a laugh. “ What a shame.”

So Chiang was determined to open a high-end Chinese restaurant that served authentic Chinese food. “Everybody said, ‘You cannot make it. You cannot speak English. You don’t know anything.’” she recalled. In 1961 then, Chiang opened the Mandarin.

The restaurant wasn’t immediately successful. About a year after opening, the Mandarin received a mention from the San Francisco Chronicle (旧金山纪事报). The effect of the powerful writer’s positive comment was immediate. Tourists, dignitaries and celebrities(达官显贵)—from Mae West to John Lennon—flooded into the Mandarin for then -unfamiliar food like tea smoked duck twice cooked pork.

Though the Mandarin was closed years later, Cecilia Chiang’s DNA can be found all over American Chinese food. Her son founded the chain P.F. Chang’s and the son of one of her chefs founded Panda Express.

In early 2017, Chiang shared how she lived to be so old: “I always think about the better side, the good side of everything. I never think about, Oh, I’m going to fail. Oh, I cannot do this. Oh, I feel sorry for myself.” Instead, Chiang wrote books, starred in a PBS documentary series and won the most famous award in American cooking when she was 93 years old.

1. Cecilia Chiang opened the Mandarin in order to ________.

A．remember her 1960 trip in San Francisco

B．Serve real Chinese food to the Americans

C．Show her shock and amusement towards food

D．Continue her family tradition of running restaurants

2. What do we know about the Mandarin?

A．It is in the charge of Chiang’s son now.

B．It wasn’t successful until two years later.

C．It turned out pretty popular among Americans.

D．It changed the way Americans think about China.

3. Which of the following best describes Cecilia Chiang?

A．Talented and active.

B．Ambitious and selfless.

C．Optimistic and creative.

D．Positive and determined.

【推荐2】Before he sailed round the world alone, Francis Chichester had already surprised his friends several times. He had tried to fly round the world but failed. That was in 1931.

The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race. His old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would sail.His friends and doctors did not think he could do it, as he had lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan. In August 1966, at the age of nearly 65, an age when many men retire, he began the greatest voyage of his life.

Chichester covered 14100 miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia. This was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone. He arrived in Australia on 12 December, just 107 days out from England. He received a warm welcome from the Australians and from his family who had flown there to meet him. On shore, Chichester could not walk without help. Everybody said the same thing: he had done enough; he must not go any further. But he did not listen.

After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, Chichester set off once more in spite of his friends' attempts to dissuade him. The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part, during which he sailed round the treacherous Cape Horn.After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn, Chichester sent the following radio message to London: "I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare. Wild horses could not drag me down to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean again."

Just before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening 28 May 1967, he arrived back in England, where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him.Queen Elizabeth II knighted(授以爵位) him with the very sword that Queen Elizabeth I had used almost 400 years earlier to knight Sir Francis Drake after he had sailed round the world for the first time.The whole voyage from England and back had covered 28,500 miles. It had taken him nine months, of which the sailing time was 226 days. He had done what he wanted to accomplish.

1. What can we learn about Chichester?

A．He failed the solo transatlantic sailing race in 1959.

B．He was a brave and determined man.

C．The second half of his voyage was not as dangerous as the first half.

D．The radio message expressed his concern about the sailing.

2. What did Queen Elizabeth II do after Chichester arrived back in England?

A．She called on the English to learn form him.

B．She was waiting to congratulate on his success in sailing.

C．She thought poorly of his achievements.

D．She knighted him for praising him.

3. We can infer from the text that ____

A．Anyone who had sailed alone traveled less than 7050miles before 1966

B．Chichester sailed round the Atlantic in 1931

C．Most of the English retire at the age of 65

D．Chichester died of lung cancer in 1967 after he went back to England

【推荐3】It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags（衣衫褴褛）on the top step.

"Any old papers，lady？" asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals（凉鞋），wet with heavy snow.

"Come in and I'll make you a cup of hot coffee."

They walked in and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks on the floor. I served them coffee and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands，looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice，"Lady，are you rich？"

"Am I rich？Pity，no！"

I looked at my worn-out slipcovers（家具套）.The girl put her cup back in its saucer（茶碟）carefully and said，"Your cups match your saucers." They left after that，holding their papers against the wind. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.

Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and stirred（搅动）the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup，a roof over our heads，my man with a regular job，these matched，too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of the little sandals were still wet on my floor. Let them be for a while，I thought，just in case I should begin to forget how rich I was.

1. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？

A．Lady，Are You Rich？

B．A Story of Thanksgiving Day

C．The Meaning of Helping Others

D．Do Cups and Saucers Match Well？

2. The writer let the two children come in and served them well because __________.

A．she wanted to sell old papers to them

B．she wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party

C．she showed great pity on them

D．she had the same experience as them in the past

3. The writer left the muddy marks of the little sandals on the floor for a while to __________.

A．show that she was a kind-hearted lady

B．remind her not to forget how rich she was

C．leave room to think about what being rich is

D．prove that she had understood what meant being rich

4. It can be inferred from the passage that whether you are rich depends on __________.

A．how much money you have made

B．what attitude you have towards life

C．the way you communicate with others

D．your social relationship