【推荐1】Home libraries can be a dynamic expression of the owner's personality. Creating a home library is a fun way to display your interests while establishing a special space for reading.

While there's no right or wrong way to design a library, the questions can be puzzling, especially to someone with hundreds or thousands of books. How do I organize?    1     We'll discuss how to build a home library that works for you.

What room should I use for my home library?    2     While reading in a room with big windows and lots of light is refreshing, storing books in natural light is harmful to them. Basements heavy with humidity（湿气）will cause mold (霉菌) and attract insects.    3    

When you started using the public library, you probably learned about Melvil Dewey and his system for ordering libraries. The Dewey Decimal Classification System has ten broad categories for organizing books, including philosophy, religion and the arts.    4     For example, when you want a book on modern art, you head to the 700th block. Larger libraries, such as those at universities, tend to use the Library of Congress Classification System, because it offers a more specific array of subjects for categorization, adding subjects such as medicine and law for a total of 21categories.

    5     Your home library may or may not be as large as your local public library, but a good system of organization will still help you find the book you want quickly. You could take a page from Dewey and the Library of Congress and sort books by subject matter. Sections for subjects such as history, technology or fiction might make their retrieval (检索) easier. This system will also allow you to highlight a particular passion, such as an extensive collection of World War II history,

A．How do I get everything to fit?

B．Each category is assigned a number.

C．Almost everybody wants a home library.

D．A good system of organization is the key.

E．In addition, basements are likely to be flooded.

F．Almost any room will do with a few exceptions.

G．The size of a home library depends on how much space you can spare.

【推荐2】According to a recent report, an Internet business boom has helped create more than 10 million jobs in China in recent years.    1     More than 80% of online shop owners are under 40. If you want to be one of them, here’s some advice from some successful Taobao shop owners.

◆Bring something special to consumers.

In the early days of Taobao, thousands of online shops found success simply by taking everyday products from China’s shops and making them widely available online.     2     It helps to have something unique things to sell.

◆    3    

It’s a market full of competitions. Consumers usually attach great importance to the sales volume of Taobao stores when choosing a product, which leads to price wars. You must be patient because it may take a store owner several years to make money.

◆Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

Many shop owners have the experience of losing money. You need to be prepared for failure and always keep the faith that your failure this time will help you success next time.    4    

◆Intend to help society, not just get rich.

    5     They’re doing it because they want to make a difference in people’s lives. “We started thinking about a business of selling masks when we were suffering from the air pollution every day,” says a Taobao shop owner. “We wanted to help not only ourselves. But also our friends, family and the general population.”

A．Don’t wait too long to make a big fortune.

B．Mistakes are a businessman’s best teacher.

C．However, most chose to quit several years later.

D．Don’t expect to make a lot of money right away.

E．But nowadays it doesn’t work like that any longer.

F．Many shop owners aren’t doing it just for the money.

G．Young people make up the majority of online business.

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A fresh-faced batch of teenagers just began a new school year, but will they get the most out of it? In the mornings, many are forced to get to school much too early. And at night, screens are a temptation that’s hard to resist. This double whammy (双重灾难) is a perfect lesson in sleep deprivation (剥夺).

Three out of every four students in grades 9 to 12 fail to sleep the minimum of eight hours that the American Academy of Medicine recommends for their age group. In most cases, insufficient sleep results in reduced attention, preventing students’ progress and lowering grades. More alarmingly, sleep deprivation may lead to physical and emotional problems.

It is important to understand why teenagers have a particularly hard time getting enough sleep, and what adults need to do to help. First, a reminder of the basic biology: Adolescents are no longer the morning larks of their younger years. They become rewired as night owls, staying awake later and then sleeping in. This is mostly driven by changes in the way the brain responds to light.

New technology habits aren’t helping. More teenagers now turn to activities involving screens at night. The growth in screen time is particularly problematic for sleep. The blue light emitted by LEDs, TVs, tablets and smartphones suppresses the body’s secretion (分泌) of melatonin, the hormone that signals it’s time to sleep. Overdosing on screens at night effectively tells the brain it’s still daytime, delaying the body’s cues to sleep even further.

Parents should inform their kids of the time that can be spent on screens, and praise children who show signs of regulating their own media consumption. In the hour before bedtime, there should be a suspension on bright lights in the home, avoiding devices and harsh LED bulbs in kitchens and bathrooms.

In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m., a policy now backed by the American Medical Association and many other health organizations.

Parents also need to join forces with community leaders, sleep scientists, health professionals and educators to put school start times on the local, then state agendas.

Whenever schools have managed the transition to a later start time, students get more sleep, attendance goes up, grades improve and there is a significant reduction in car accidents.

Title	Let Teenagers Sleep In
Introduction	The     1     of students fail to have enough sleep.
Consequences of   insufficient sleep	★Lacking sleep, students fail to     2     on their study, progress prevented and grades lowered. ★Deprived of sleep, students are     3     to suffer from physical and emotional problems.
Reasons for lacking sleep	★Biologically, adolescents tend to sleep late and get up     4    , which can’t meet the actual needs. ★Long     5     to the blue light from screens prevents the   body’s secretion of the hormone sending sleeping signals.
6    to the problem	★Parents should set real     7     on screen time, and praise children who can regulate their own media consumption. ★Before bedtime, parents should create a healthy environment     8     from bright or too strong lights. ★Joint efforts should be made to     9     the school start time until, say, 8:30 a.m.
Conclusion	Changes on school start time will     10    both students and society although there is a long way to go.

【推荐2】Many years ago, on a winter morning, Lily, our only daughter, sat quietly, all her heart put into her work. Every once in a while she would ask how to spell the name of someone in our family, and then painstakingly(费力地) formed the letters one by one. Next, she added flowers and green grass at the bottom of each page with a sun in the upper right corner, surrounded by the blue sky. Holding them at eye level, she was satisfied.

“What are you making, honey?” I asked.

“It’s a surprise,” she said, covering up her work with her hands.

It wasn’t until later that evening that I noticed the “mailboxes” fastened to the door of each of our bedrooms. There was one for Edward, one for Tom. She hadn’t forgotten Peter and baby Paul.

For the next few weeks, we received mail regularly. There were little notes showing her love for each of us and short letters full of tiny things that only a seven-year-old child would notice. I was in charge of retrieving baby Paul’s letters, page after page of colored scenes, including flowers with happy faces.

“He can’t read yet,” she said, “but he can look at the pictures.”

This little girl grows up now, but something about her has never changed. One morning only a week or so ago, I found a love note next to my pillow.

“Thanks for always being there for me, Mum,” it read, “I’m glad that we are best friends,”

I couldn’t help but remember that she has brought me countless hours of joy throughout these years. There are angels among us. I know, I live with one.

1. What was Lily busy doing that afternoon?

A．Playing a spelling game.

B．Examining her work carefully.

C．Doing her drawing homework

D．Preparing love notes for the family

2. Every time the writer received her daughter’s mail, she felt___.

A．surprised	B．happy
C．proud	D．interested

3. The underlined words “something about her” in Paragraph 7 mean__.

A．her habit of writing letters to her friends

B．her interest in drawing pictures

C．her action of giving us surprises on purpose

D．her love for the family members

4. Why did the author write the passage?

A．To draw people’s attention to her daughter

B．To tell people her daughter’s growing stories.

C．To remember the true love from her daughter,

D．To describe the angel living with her all her life.

【推荐3】Boomerang children who return to live with their parents after university can be good for families, leading to closer, more supportive relationships and increased contact between the generations, a study has found.

The findings contradict research published earlier this year showing that returning adult children trigger a significant decline in their parents’ quality of life and wellbeing.

The young adults taking part in the study were “more positive than might have been expected about moving back home—the shame is reduced as so many of their peers are in the same position, and they acknowledged the benefits of their parents’ financial and emotional support. Daughters were happier than sons, often slipping back easily into teenage patterns of behaviour, the study found.

Parents on the whole were more uncertain, expressing concern about the likely duration of the arrangement and how to manage it. But they acknowledged that things were different for graduates today, who leave university with huge debts and fewer job opportunities.

The families featured in the study were middle-class and tended to view the achievement of adult independence for their children as a “family project”. Parents accepted that their children required support as university students and then as graduates returning home, as they tried to find jobs paying enough to enable them to move out and get on the housing ladder.

“However”, the study says, “day-to-day tensions about the prospects of achieving different dimensions of independence, which in a few extreme cases came close to conflict, characterised the experience of a majority of parents and a little over half the graduates”.

Areas of disagreement included chores, money and social life. While parents were keen to help, they also wanted different relationships from those they had with their own parents, and continuing to support their adult children allowed them to remain close.

1. What is the finding of the previous research?

A．Boomerang children made their parents happier.

B．The parents were looking forward to their children’s return.

C．The parents’ quality of life became worse than before.

D．Boomerang children never did any housework.

2. The underlined word “trigger” in Paragraph 2 may be best replaced by ________.

A．cause	B．defeat
C．arise	D．allow

3. What is the attitude of the college graduates towards returning home?

A．They are ashamed of turning to their parents for help.

B．They are glad that they could come back.

C．They are doubtful about whether they should return.

D．They are proud to be independent from the family.

4. What can be inferred as the reason for the “boomerang children” phenomenon?

A．The children want to keep in closer touch with their parents.

B．The parents are willing to provide support to their children.

C．It is harder for the children to secure a satisfying job.

D．There is more house work needed to be done by the children.

5. What is the side effect of the boomerang children phenomenon?

A．Both parents and children enjoy a more harmonious relationship.

B．Neither parents nor children want to do the chores at home.

C．Not only parents but also children want to be independent.

D．There are occasional quarrels between parents and children.