【推荐2】Once upon a time, the colors of the world quarreled without stop.

Green said: "Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen for grass, trees and leaves. Without me, all animals would die."

Yellow smiled quietly: "You are so serious. I bring laughter, pleasure, and warmth into the world. The sun is yellow, the moon is yellow, the stars are yellow. Without me there would be no fun."

Orange started next to blow herself: "I am the color of health and strength. I may be scarce（稀有的）, but I am precious for I serve the needs of human life. I carry the most important vitamins."

Red could stand it no longer, shouting out: "I am the ruler of all of you. I am blood-life's blood! I am the color of danger and of bravery. Without me, the earth would be as empty as the moon."

Indigo（靛蓝色）spoke more quietly but with just as much determination: "Think of me. I am the color of silence. You hardly notice me, but without me you all become superficial. You need me for balance and inner peace."

…

The colors went on boasting, each convinced of his or her own advantages. Their quarreling became louder and louder.

Suddenly there was a surprising flash of bright lightning and thunder rolled and boomed. Rain started to pour down cruelly. The colors crouched down（蹲下）in fear, drawing close to one another for comfort.

In the midst of the loud noises, rain began to speak: "You foolish colors, fighting amongst yourselves, each trying to control the rest. Don't you know that you were each made for a special purpose, unique and different? Join hands with one another and come to me." Doing as they were told, the colors united and joined hands. The rain continued: "From now on, when it rains, each of you will stretch across the sky in a great bow of color as a reminder that you can all live in peace. The Rainbow is a sign of hope for tomorrow." And so, whenever a good rain washes the world, and a Rainbow appears in the sky, let us remember to appreciate one another.

1. Why does Orange consider herself precious?

A．She serves the needs of human life.

B．She is the ruler of all colors.

C．She is the sign of life and of hope.

D．She brings laughter into the world.

2. Who would you like to see first when you're angry according to the text?

A．Red.

B．Yellow.

C．Indigo.

D．Green.

3. What are colors advised to do according to the last paragraph?

A．Hope for tomorrow.	B．Join hands with rain.
C．Boast themselves.	D．Admire one another.

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

A．The advantage of colors	B．The symbol of colors
C．The color of friendship	D．The types of rainbow

【推荐3】On a warm spring morning in 1984, Dong Yaohui and his two young friends pulled on backpacks and set out to hike the Great Wall. Their walk began in Shanhai Pass.     1     By sunset, they took shelter in ancient towers where soldiers once stood guard, perhaps watching for invaders from the north.

The walk of 17 months and 8,850 kilometers tested persistence.     2     The trip would not only change their lives but the fortunes of the wall itself, helping preserve it and lift it to the status it holds today.

On completing their journey, they published their experiences in a book. As they shared their adventures, it became clear that it was not just the physical demands but also the emotional impact that left lasting impressions.

    3     Since then, China has made a number of measures to protect the attraction. In 2006, for instance, the State Council issued the Regulations on the Protection of the Great Wall to strengthen laws concerning its preservation and regulate activities on the structure.

The Cultural Relics Administrative Department has been given control over the overall protection of the Great Wall.     4    

Dong places his hands on the weathered wall, as he did 35 years ago. But today, he thinks more deeply on a mission grander than his own journey. “Someone dug up some earth, making it into a brick,” he says. “Someone else brought it all the way up the mountain and built a wall. Then many people guarded the wall for hundreds of years. The Great Wall is definitely alive.     5    ”

A．It isn’t just a cold, stone wall.

B．It requires the efforts of all society.

C．From there they went forward to the vast west.

D．It wound its way and reached to the Bohai Sea.

E．It made them the first ever to walk the whole length.

F．Meanwhile, local villagers have recently been hired to act as guardians.

G．Preservation work began when the Great Wall was listed as a World Heritage Site.

【推荐1】A group of Canadian kids are already spreading a bit of Christmas spirit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by wrapping (裹) warm clothing around lamp poles (杆、柱) for the city’s homeless to pick up and use. The sight of warmly dressed poles caught recently the attention of locals, who stopped to click pictures to share on social media.

Every year, Tara Atkins collects warm clothing from her community, in order to give to the less fortunate. This year, she took to Facebook to call, for donations and the response was strong-their front porch (门厅) was filled with bags of clothes. Since the family was traveling to Halifax on November 15 with their daughter Jayda and seven of her friends to celebrate her 8th birthday, Tara decided it was the perfect time to teach the children a valuable life lesson.

The kids spent time handing out coats to any homeless they met on the streets and tied the rest around lamp posts for others to pick up. According to Tara, the experience helped the children better understand the difficult situation of homeless people having to confront the serious winter on the streets.

There is no way to be sure that the coats left hanging on street posts were actually picked up by the homeless, but Tara says she isn’t too worried about that. By next morning, all the jackets and scarves on the posts were gone. Photographs of the inspiring project have been shared about 8,000 times on Facebook, and got over 10,000 likes. Tara, who did something similar in Toronto in December last year, says she’s already planning next year’s coat drive. She’s hoping to spread the word well ahead of time, so more people can contribute. And she also wants to add $5 fast food gift cards so the recipients (接受者) can also enjoy a hot meal. “We’ve had help from others when we were in need, and we knew how great it made us feel,” said Zachary Atkins, Tara’s husband.

1. How did locals react at the sight of the warmly dressed poles?

A．They got confused.

B．They were annoyed.

C．They took photos and spread the news.

D．They unwrapped and put on the clothes.

2. Why did Tara Atkins go to Halifax on November 15?

A．To go sightseeing.

B．To celebrate Jayda’s birthday.

C．To collect warm clothing for the homeless.

D．To spend the holiday with family.

3. What does the underlined word “spread the word” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Make the activity known to more people.

B．Send clothing to more people.

C．Teach the word “cold drive” to more people.

D．Understand the word very well.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Tara is sure that the coats will be picked up by the homeless.

B．People reacted warmly to the photographs on Facebook

C．Tara is calling on the government to donate.

D．Zachary Atkins is against what Tara has done.

【推荐2】William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13,1865. His childhood lacked the harmony(和睦)that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he inherited(继承)excellent taste in art from his family—both his father and bis brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature,particularly drama(戏剧)and poetry.

Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favourably at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.

Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition.

He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923.Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produced his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 70. He died in 1939, aged 73.

1. Which of the following can describe Yeats’s family?

A．It filled Yeats’s childhood with laughter.

B．It was shocked by Yeats’s choice.

C．It was a typically wealthy family.

D．It had an artistic atmosphere.

2. Where is the text most probably taken from?

A．A travel guide.

B．A literary journal.

C．A science book.

D．A health magazine.

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Yeats’s literary achievements.

B．Yeats’s historical influence.

C．Yeats’s artistic ambition.

D．Yeats’s national honour.

【推荐1】The Price of Success

One problem for schools is that many students do not want to study hard. As a result, they perform (表现) poorly in their classes. This is especially true in the United States, where average scores for math and science are lower than in many other countries. In recent years, schools and charities have been looking for ways to help students get better grades in these subjects. An organization called the LMD Foundation introduced a program called Learn and Earn recently.

In the program, money was used to get a group of students to study harder in math and science. In addition to the normal school day, they went to extracurricular classes for four hours each week. The students were paid eight dollars for each hour of the class. By the end of the year, the students in the program had higher grades than a similar group of students who had not taken part.

Not everyone thinks that this is a good idea, though. TV reporter John Tulenko studied data (数据) from a similar program. He found that students' grades went back down when they stopped getting paid. Many people are worried about this. They think that the students study because they want money, not because they enjoy learning. Also, some people believe that these types of programs are a bad idea because it is a large part of a teacher's job to get students to study. If students are given money, some teachers might stop trying to do this.

However, others believe that these learning programs can be helpful for students from poor families. Many of these students do part-time jobs after school, and some even quit school at a young age to work. Some do this to help get money for their families. Others feel that they can learn more by working than by going to school. Programs like Learn and Earn let these students stay in school and still make money.

1. What is true about many students in the United States?

A．They are not allowed to receive help from organizations.

B．They study more than students in other countries.

C．They are doing poorly in math and science.

D．They do not help their classmates get better grades.

2. Students in the Learn and Earn program ________.

A．were asked to help other students with poor grades	B．were given money if their grades went up
C．were made to go to school during summer vacation	D．were paid to go to extra classes after school

3. Why do some people think that programs like Learn and Earn are a bad idea?

A．Students' grades only improve a little during the program.

B．Students stop studying when they are in the program.

C．Teachers might stop trying to do a big part of their job.

D．Teachers have started giving low grades to save money

4. What does the underlined word “extracurricular” in the second paragraph mean?

A．after-school

B．normal

C．informal

D．moral

【推荐2】Starring Yi Yangqianxi and Lei Jiayin, new streaming series The Longest Day In Chang’an has been one of the biggest pleasant surprises for fans of TV dramas this summer. Its intense story and well-designed costumes and scenery have captured the attention of viewers, earning it high marks on review platforms.

The Chinese name of the drama is Chang’an 12 Shichen. Each episode covers half a shichen, or one hour of time, telling the story in “real time”. The show takes place during the Shangyuan Festival in Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty and what is now Xi’an. The story follows Zhang Xiaojing, who has been sentenced to death. Before his execution(死刑), he is appointed by Li Bi, the young chief of the intelligence department, to stop a group of foreign terrorists called the Wolves Squad and protect Chang’an.

One of the main attractions of the show has been its recreation and presentation of the ancient city of Chang’an. To give viewers the feeling that they are traveling in the city, the show’s director Cao Dun has been making use of single shot scenes that show off what the crowded market would have been like during the Lantern Festival in Chang’an. The cast(演员) has also been a major draw. They have been an irreplaceable part of the drama. These experienced actors are the foundation for the drama.

The drama takes license with history to introduce important plot elements, such as watch towers in the city that are manned by sharpshooters who can hit any target in their range. The production team even came up with a detailed secret communication system that these watch towers use to communicate with each other. Another innovation(革新) is the use on screen notes to explain terms that audiences would be unfamiliar with. Such as the term bu liang ren (Lit: not good person), which audiences may mistakenly think refers to a villain in the show. An explanation appears on screen to tell the audience that bu liang ren are specialists trained to catch bad guys. It’s really helpful.

1. Which of the following best describes the drama?

A．Humorous	B．Attractive.
C．Academic.	D．Boring.

2. According to Paragraph 2, what do we know about Zhang Xiaojing?

A．He is a follower of Li Bi.

B．He has been excused for his crime.

C．He is chosen to defeat the terrorists.

D．He once served in the intelligence department.

3. The show’s director uses the skill of single shot scenes in order to________.

A．make viewers feel personally on the scene.

B．let audiences have a good trip in Chang’an.

C．help audiences understand the history well.

D．show what the Lantern Festival is like.

4. What does the term “bu liang ren” probably refer to?

A．Someone who is responsible for damage.

B．A person who acts against human principles.

C．A person who has particular skills to catch bad men.

D．Someone whose job is to protect people and their property.

5. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The explanation for screen notes.

B．The innovation elements of the drama.

C．The audience’s assessments of the drama.

D．The introduction of the communication system.

【推荐3】You're out to dinner. The food is delicious and the service is fine. You decide to leave a big fat tip. Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think.

Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service. Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter's choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the billl's total.

Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night.

“Studies before have shown that mimicry （模仿）brings into positive feelings for the mimicker, "wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor. "These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimicks.

So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups. He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, "Coming up!" Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers. Rick van Baaren then compared their takehome pay. The results were clear-it pays to mimic your customer. The copycat （模仿者）waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.

Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill. After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers' bills went up. In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau （稳定期）when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100.

"That's also a point of tipping," Green says. "You have to give a little extra to the cabdriver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you. If they weren't there, you'd never get any service. So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there."

1. Besides service, how many other fectors（因素）affecting the customers' tipping are mentioned in the passage?

A．1	B．2
C．3	D．4

2. These studies show that              .

A．tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiters

B．the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as those who don't mimick others

C．people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them

D．mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad

3. According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip percentages?

A．	B．
C．	D．

4. We know from the passage that the writer seems to            .

A．object to Mr Green's idea about tipping

B．think part of Mr Green's explanation is reasonable

C．support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping

D．give his generous tip to waiters very often

【推荐1】It’s commonly thought that “older” movies are in black and white and “newer ” movies are in color as if there is an obvious dividing line between the two. However, as with most developments in art and technology, there isn't an exact break between when the industry stopped using black and white films and when it started using color films. On top of that, film fans know that some filmmakers continue to choose to shoot their films in black and white decades after color films became the standard. Typical examples include oung Frankenstein (1974),   Raging   Bull (1980), Schindler’s List (1993),   and The Artist (2011).

An often-repeated but incorrect fact is that 1939's   The   Wizard of   Oz   is the first full-color movie. This misconception probably comes from the fact that the film makes great symbolic use of brilliant color film after the first scene   is shown in black and white. However, color movies were being created more than 35 years before The Wizard of Oz!

One of the most important developments in color films was Kinemacolor, created by Englishman George Albert Smith in 1906. Kinemacolor movies projected film through red and green filters (过滤器) to reproduce the actual colors used in the film. The first film to use the Kinemacolor process was Smith 's 1908 travelogue—A Visit to the Seaside. Kinemacolor was the most popular in its native UK, but the cost of installing (安装) the necessary equipment put many theaters off. After years of technical development, by the late 1950s, most Hollywood productions were being shot in color. Then, the color film finally became the standard in the filming industry.

However, the black and white film still makes its appearance. True, the black and white film has left a long-lasting impact on filming. Still,   audiences today always tend to associate the black and white film with classic Hollywood storytelling and also admire the bright colors of early color movies.

1. What can we know about color movies?

A．They hardly have a clear boundary with the black and white ones.

B．They will replace the black and white films sooner or later.

C．They lead to the developments in art and technology.

D．They are more popular with film fans.

2. Which of the following is a color film?

A．RagingBull.	B．A Visit to the Seaside.
C．Schindler’s List	D．The   Artist

3. What accounted for the failure of many theaters to use Kinemacolor?

A．The lack of enough finances.

B．The complex process of using colors.

C．The difficulty in installing necessary equipment.

D．The unsatisfying color effect of Kinemacolor movies.

4. What does the author want to convey in the last paragraph?

A．The significance of the black and white film.

B．The possibility of replacing the black and white film.

C．The popularity of the black and white film among audiences.

D．The applicability of shooting classic stories in black and white.

5. What does the underlined word “misconception” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．That   The Wizard of Oz was shot in 1939.

B．That The Wizard of Oz is the first full-color movie.

C．That The Wizard of Oz was shown in black and white.

D．That The Wizard of Oz took advantage of bright colors.

【推荐2】

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1. According to the text, the Guardian________.

A．favors important events	B．provides trustworthy reports
C．finances readers in 180countries	D．receives CA$1.5 million annually

2. What does the underlined word"this"in Paragraph4 refer to?

A．Making readers well-informed.	B．Inspiring readers to take action.
C．Fighting for information equality.	D．Keeping the Guardian easily accessible.

3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To advertise the Guardian.	B．To review achievements.
C．To encourage donations.	D．To inspire new ambitions.

【推荐3】There is a famous story about British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was writing a poem when he was interrupted by a knock at the door.

This was an age before the telephone. Someone was delivering a message. When Coleridge got back to his poem, he had lost his inspiration. His poetic mood had been broken by the knock on his door. His unfinished poem, which could otherwise have been a masterpiece, would now never be more than a fragment (片段).

This story tells how unexpected communication can destroy an important thought. That brings us to the invention of the cellphone.

The most common complaint about cellphones is that people talk on them to the annoyance of people around them. But more damaging may be the cellphone’s disruption (中断) of our thoughts.

We have already entered a golden age of little white lies about our cellphones, and this is by and large a healthy, protective development. “I didn’t hear it ring” or “I didn’t realize my phone had shut off” are among the lies we tell to give ourselves space where we’re beyond reach.

The notion of being unreachable is not a new concept — we have “Do Not Disturb” signs on the doors of hotel rooms. So why must we feel guilty when it comes to cellphones? Why must we apologize if we decide to shut off the cellphone for a while?

The problem is that we come from a long-established tradition of difficulty with distance communication. Until the recent mass use of cellphones, it was easy to communicate with someone next to us or a few feet away, but difficult with someone across town, the country or the globe. We came to take it for granted.

But cellphones make long-distance communication common, and endanger our time by ourselves. Now time alone, or a conversation with someone next to us which cannot be interrupted by a phone, is something to be cherished (珍惜). Even cellphone devotees, myself usually included, can’t help at times wanting to throw their phones away, or curse the day they were invented.

But we don’t and won’t, and there really is no need. All that’s required to take back our private time is a general social recognition that we have the right to it.

In other words, we have to develop a healthy contempt (轻视) for the rings of our own phones. Given the ease of making and receiving cellphone calls, if we don’t talk to the caller right now, we surely will shortly later.

A cellphone call deserves no greater priority than a random word from the person next to us. Though the call on my cellphone may be the one-in-a-million from Steven Spielberg — who has finally read my novel and wants to make it his next movie. But most likely it is not, and I’m better off thinking about the idea I just had for a new story, or the slice of pizza I’ll eat for lunch.

1. What is the point of the story about the poet Coleridge?

A．To direct readers’ attention to the main topic.

B．To attract readers’ attention to read his poems.

C．To show how important inspiration is to a poet.

D．To emphasize the disadvantage of not having a cellphone.

2. Why does the writer mention the “Do Not Disturb” sign?

A．To encourage us to use the cellphone as much as we can.

B．To persuade us not to worry about the ring of the cellphone.

C．To inform us that the cellphone is not to be disturbed in our life.

D．To ask us to make an apology when we don’t answer the cellphone call.

3. What does the underlined word “it” (Paragraph 7) most probably refer to?

A．answering a call from afar

B．talking to friend next to us

C．using the cellphone to chat with friends

D．communicating to keep the long-established friendship

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Cellphones require more attention than any other invention.

B．We sometimes throw the phone away when it is too disturbing.

C．The writer would rather continue his own work than be interrupted by the ring.

D．We should give priority to the cellphone as it has brought us so much convenience.