【推荐1】Dancing with your grandma for 15 minutes a week promotes positive and improves her state of mind, a study claims. Doctors from Israel are urging younger family members to have a regular visit to their grandmas and have a dance with their grandmas.

And they found a 15 minute boogie (布吉舞) once a week lifted the spirits of the elder family members and helped strengthen the familial bond. In fact, it is called Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). DMT across the generations, complete with eye contact, was found to promote positive feelings and improve mood for the elderly.

The grandparents reported a bright state of mind, happy memories and uplifted spirits. Dancing has also previously been linked to improved muscle strength, balance and endurance. For the grandchildren in the study, the weekly boogie changed how they view ageing and allowed them to come to accept the eventual death of their elderly relative.

The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, assessed how dance affected the well-being of 16 dance movement therapists and their grandmothers. Dance movement therapy was paid attention due to the fact it is easily accessible and does not cost more to practice. The researchers were eager to examine a low—cost method to treat issues commonly faced by an ageing population—such as limited mobility and depression. Grandchildren were instructed to make eye contact and encourage playfulness and touch. They were also told to mirror their grandmothers’ movements and give them time and space to rest when needed,

The sessions were recorded and then analyzed while diaries and interviews captured the opinions and feelings of the participants. As well as the benefits to the health of the senior, the experiment also changed the idea of the younger family members.

1. What can strengthen the positive feelings when dancing with grandmas?

A．Following the grandma’s steps.	B．Moving the bodies as long as possible.
C．The old need practice the special dance.	D．Talking with their grandmas in gentle voice

2. What can be inferred from Para3?

A．The young should dance every week.	B．The senior are always ready to accept ageing
C．The old need practice the special dance.	D．The young used to resist the final leaving of the old.

3. The passage is mainly concerned with________.

A．sharing a precious experience	B．presenting a new method
C．triggering a hot debate	D．summarizing a general principle

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．DMT: a Cure for Everything.

B．Dancing: a Good Way to Stop Being Senior.

C．Why Don’t You Dance 15 Minutes Every Week?

D．Dancing with Grandparents Benefit Health and Family Ties.

【推荐2】Upright farming is a hugely promising agricultural technique that aims to produce more food to meet the growing population on our limited planet. Techniques include growing in vertical frames(垂向框架) or even in high-rise farms while moving farms into urban areas, and producing nutritious crops without topsoil.

Vertical farmers plant crops in nutrient-rich water, so plants can be raised without soil. They also grow plants using water from fish tanks, or using nutrient water mist systems that reduce water use by more than 90 percent, which was a technique developed by NASA as a way for astronauts to grow in space and feed themselves without soil while preserving precious water supplies. All of these soil-less growing techniques use less or no chemicals, and recycle water with less waste. Plants can be sown and harvested year-round, free from bad weather conditions such as drought or flooding.

“This is the farming of the future,” said Paul Myers, co-founder of vertical farming enterprise Farm Urban. “Chemical-free and moving from the traditional horse and tractor agriculture that is steadily destroying the planet to a more sustainable approach.”

The global vertical farming market is expected to be six times bigger in 2026 than it is today. This is fueled in part by rising demand for organic, chemical-free foods, but also by countries looking to increase their food security and cut down on imports—the UK for example uses more than 70 percent of its land mass for agriculture but imports more than half of its food.

As the vertical farming industry expands, it is worth noting that it has limitations -- it only works for some crops, and urban locations can be expensive.

1. Where will upright farming be popular in the future?

A．In cities.

B．In plains.

C．In deserts.

D．In the countryside.

2. What do the techniques mentioned in paragraph 2 have in common?

A．Waste-free.

B．Nutrient-rich.

C．Soil-less.

D．Water-proof.

3. Why is upright farming promising?

A．The trade routes are not secure.	B．Organic food is increasingly popular.
C．The economic benefit is substantial.	D．Imports are becoming more difficult.

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

A．Upright Farming: How to Save Soil And Water

B．Upright Farming: What to Plant In The New Way

C．Vertical Farming: Lowering Environmental Impact

D．Vertical Farming: Raising Agriculture’s Potential

【推荐3】Goffin’s cockatoos, a kind of small parrot native to Australasia, have been shown to have similar shape-recognition abilities to a human two-year-old. Though not known to use tools in the wild, the birds have proved skilful at tool use while kept in the cage. In a recent experiment, cockatoos were presented with a box with a nut inside it. The clear front of the box had a “keyhole” in a geometric shape, and the birds were given five differently shaped “keys” to choose from. Inserting the correct “key” would let out the nut.

In humans, babies can put a round shape in a round hole from around one year of age, but it will be another year before they are able to do the same with less symmetrical (对称的) shapes. This ability to recognize that a shape will need to be turned in a specific direction before it will fit is called an “allocentric frame of reference”. In the experiment, Goffin’s cockatoos were able to select the right tool for the job, in most cases, by visual recognition alone. Where trial-and-error was used, the cockatoos did better than monkeys in similar tests. This indicates that Goffin’s cockatoos do indeed possess an allocentric frame of reference when moving objects in space, similar to two-year-old babies.

The next step, according to the researchers, is to try and work out whether the cockatoos rely entirely on visual clues (线索), or also use a sense of touch in making their shape selections.

1. How did the cockatoos get the nut from the box in the experiment?

A．By following instructions.	B．By using a tool.
C．By turning the box around.	D．By removing the lid.

2. Which task can human one-year-olds most likely complete according to the text?

A．Using a key to unlock a door.	B．Telling parrots from other birds.
C．Putting a ball into a round hole.	D．Grouping toys of different shapes.

3. What does the follow-up test aim to find out about the cockatoos?

A．How far they are able to see.

B．How they track moving objects.

C．Whether they are smarter than monkeys.

D．Whether they use a sense of touch in the test.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Cockatoos: Quick Error Checkers	B．Cockatoos: Independent Learners
C．Cockatoos: Clever Signal-Readers	D．Cockatoos: Skillful Shape-Sorters

【推荐2】Elizabeth Bishop is considered one of the best American poets of the 20th century. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. Her dad died when she was just a baby and her mom never recovered from the loss. She went to live with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, Canada when she was five. Eventually Bishop attended Vassar College, where she began to write poetry.

At Vassar she discovered Marianne Moore's poetry and met Ms Moore and began their life-long friendship. She later met poet Robert Lowell. She wrote tons and tons of letters to both of them, which is good for us because we would otherwise know very little of her personal life.

Bishop published her first book of poetry in 1946 and wrote until her death in 1979. She would spend years working on a single poem. Her poems are not the result of hasty scribbling (匆忙乱写) on paper while eating breakfast. She would look through drafts of poems again and again and improve them until they were as close to perfect as she could get them.

Reading Elizabeth Bishop is like being transported to the very place, the very moment she's writing about. She leads us to a microscope so we can see every smallest part of the scene. It seems that she's always asking us to notice more, and more until the poem is so clear in our minds that it's almost painful—like a light that's too bright.

1. What do we know about Bishop's early life?

A．She was mainly brought up by her grandparents.	B．She spent her childhood mainly in Worcester.
C．She was always encouraged by her parents.	D．She started to write poems at five.

2. Why are Bishop's letters to Moore and Lowell important?

A．They have a deep influence on other poets.	B．They offer much information about her life.
C．They help us study Moore and Lowell's poetry.	D．They prove she had friendships with famous poets.

3. What can we say about Bishop's poetic creation?

A．She liked to write in the morning.	B．She could write poems at high speed.
C．She tried her best to achieve perfection.	D．She published hundreds of books of poetry.

4. Which word can be used to best describe the style of Bishop’s poems?

A．Enthusiastic.

B．Romantic.

C．Humorous.

D．Exact.