【推荐1】The spring before our son Hank was scheduled to enter kindergarten, we were invited to the school's “Kindergarten Round-up”. The title led me to believe that Hank and I would be enjoying a fun night.999

We arrived to find several on-the-spot tests to see where Hank ranked academically. Somewhat nervously, I watched as Hank recited the alphabet (字母表), counted as high as he could, and arranged blocks in a series of confusing patterns. So far, so good. I breathed a sigh of relief.

“All right, Hank,” the tester said, “just a few more easy questions.” Then she explained to me that she wanted to hear what Hank thinks was the logical thing to do in certain situations. I smiled and nodded, but inside I felt a fresh flash of panic. What if Hank couldn't reach any logical conclusions?

After several dialogues, like “Eating too much sugar?” “Tooth decay!”, the tester nodded her head. “Okay, Hank, tell me what you'd do if you went into a dark room.” Without thinking, Hank said, “Be brave.”

The tester waited a moment before promoting, “What else would you do? Wouldn't you turn on a light?” “Oh, yeah,” Hank said, “if I could reach it.”

Obviously, being brave wasn't the expected answer, but as I listened, all I could think about was how many events awaited him when bravery would be enormously helpful. While it's smart to turn on a light, it never hurts to be brave while you're waiting for your eyes to adjust to the sudden brightness. From the mouth of my child, I realized that I'd handed my son advice that applied to my life just as much as it did to his.

Hank and I left the "Kindergarten Round-up" with a light heart, both believing he was going to be just fine.

1. What’s the purpose of the “Kindergarten Round-up”?

A．To evaluate kids' academic level.

B．To help kids pass kindergarten tests.

C．To let parents learn about kindergarten.

D．To please pre-schoolers.

2. How did the author feel at the beginning of the logical test?

A．Pleased.	B．Relaxed.
C．Worried.	D．Confident.

3. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 6?

A．She taught Hank an important lesson.

B．She was happy about Hank's answer.

C．She got valuable advice from the tester.

D．She was dissatisfied with the tester's reaction.

4. What's the best title for the text?

A．No Need to Turn on a Light	B．Kindergarten Will Just Be Fine
C．A Fruitless Kindergarten Round-up	D．Being Brave Is the Same Important

【推荐3】Occasionally, my father came back drunk. Late at night, he beat on the door, pleading to my mother to open it .He was on his way home from drinking, gambling, or some combination thereof, misspending money that we could have used and wasting time that we desperately needed.
It was the late-1970s. My parents were separated. My mother was now raising a group of boys on her own. My father spouted off about what he planned to do for us, buy for us.In fact, he had no intention of doing anything. As a father who was supposed to love us, in fact, he lacked the understanding of what it truly meant to love a child—or to hurt one. To him, this was a harmless game that kept us excited and begging. In fact, it was a cruel, corrosive lie. I lost faith in his words and in him. I wanted to stop caring, but I couldn’t.
Maybe it was his own complicated relationship to his father and his father’s family that caused him cold. Maybe it was the pain and guilt associated with a life of misfortune. Who knows. Whatever it was, it stole him from us, and particularly from me.
While my brothers talked about breaking and fixing things, I spent many of my evenings reading and wondering. My favorite books were a set of encyclopedias(百科全书) given by my uncle. They allowed me to explore the world beyond my world, to travel without leaving, to dream dreams greater than my life would otherwise have supported. But losing myself in my own mind also meant that I was completely lost to my father. Not understanding me, he simply ignored me—not just emotionally, but physically as well. Never once did he hug me, never once a pat on the back or a hand on the shoulder or a tousling of the hair.
My best memories of him were from his episodic attempts at engagement with us. During the longest of these episodes（插曲）, once every month or two, he would come pick us up and drive us down the interstate to Trucker’s Paradise, a seedy, smoke-filled, truck stop with gas pumps, a convenience store, a small dining area and a game room through a door in the back. My dad gave each of us a handful of quarters, and we played until they were gone. He sat up front in the dining area, drinking coffee and being particular about the restaurant’s measly offerings.
I loved these days. To me, Trucker’s Paradise was paradise. The quarters and the games were fun but easily forgotten. It was the presence of my father that was most treasured. But, of course, these trips were short-lived.
It wasn’t until I was much older that I would find something that I would be able to____ as evidence of my father’s love.
When the Commodore 64 personal computer debuted, I convinced myself that I had to have it even though its price was out of my mother’s range. So I decided to earn the money myself. I mowed every yard I could find that summer for a few dollars each, yet it still wasn’t enough. So my dad agreed to help me raise the rest of the money by driving me to one of the watermelon farms south of town, loading up his truck with wholesale melons and driving me around to sell them. He came for me before daybreak. We made small talk, but it didn’t matter. The fact that he was talking to me was all that mattered. I was a teenager by then, but this was the first time that I had ever spent time alone with him. He laughed and repeatedly introduced me as “my boy,” a phrase he relayed with a sense of pride. It was one of the best days of my life.
Although he had never told me that he loved me, I would ____ that day as the greatest evidence of that fact. He had never intended me any wrong. He just didn’t know how to love me right. He wasn’t a mean man. So I took these random episodes and ____ them like a thing most precious, storing them in my mind for the long stretches of coldness when a warm memory would prove most useful.
It just goes to show that no matter how friendless the father, no matter how deep the damage, no matter how shattered the bond, there is still time, still space, still a need for even the smallest bit of evidence of a father’s love.
“My boy.”
1. From the passage, the father was_____ in the writer’s memory.

A．selfish and cruel	B．proud and cold
C．imperfect but loving	D．shy but thoughtful

2. The writer used not to feel Father’s true love because______ .

A．father showed his love but had no good way to express himself to his children

B．he just lost himself in his own mind without getting close to his father

C．father was too busy so unable to communicate with his children enough

D．he had a prejudice（偏见） and was too stubborn to feel it

3. The underlined phrase “cling to” can be replaced by __________.

A．catch hold of	B．depend on
C．stick to	D．keep

4. From the last parts (para7-11), we can infer that ______ .

A．father liked to show off his family before others

B．I couldn't understand Father’s love unless he expressed to me

C．father intended to show a loving father he was but failed.

D．I would definitely treasure all the small love from father

5. What’s the right order of the episodes?
1. His dad agreed to help him.
2. The Commodore 64 personal computer was just on sale.
3. The writer decided to buy it and earn the money himself.
4 His dad drove the writer to one of the watermelon farms south of town, loaded up his truck with wholesale melons and drove the writer around to sell them.
5. The writer didn’t have enough money.

A．23541

B．23514

C．32541

D．32514

6. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Remembrances of my father	B．Father and son
C．My boy	D．The past days

【推荐2】When I was younger, I thought that boys and grown men shouldn’t cry, much less show that they can be reduced to tears. The tears were signs of being weak, which a man isn’t supposed to be, supposedly. This was even strengthened in my young mind by a song, Boys Don’t Cry, in the early 1980s.

But just this last June, I discovered that courage isn’t all about trying to keep all the pain inside in check. Courage isn’t all about trying to hide the tears. It’s the opposite — the tears strengthen the heart’s courage. And I saw this in my father.

Our beloved grandfather passed away suddenly and with it, I saw how vulnerable my father’s heart was. My siblings and I were used to seeing him as an imposing figure and an iron-willed, authoritarian father. For three days after my grandfather’s death, he wouldn’t talk. He would just sit quietly outside our house in the dark. On the fourth night, I sat beside him and asked him to tell me what he feels about everything.

It has been years since I have laid my hand on my father’s shoulder as we have drifted farther and farther apart while I was growing up. That night though, I sensed my father trying to control his pain and I wanted him to be able to let it out. We have all cried over what happened except him. All of us except him. The simple touch and my words, “Dad, it’s not your fault” broke my father’s dam. In the darkness, he began to cry.

I understood then why he preferred to be in the dark. By being there, he hoped to spare his family of a father’s pain. His tears, though we didn’t see them before that night, were there all the same. I saw his courage, that night when my father cried with my hand on his shoulder, and understood his pain.

1. When the author was young, what did he think of an adult male crying?

A．Shameful.

B．Adorable.

C．Innocent.

D．Respectable.

2. Why did the author’s father burst into tears emotionally in the end?

A．Because the whole family were expecting him to overcome sadness soon.

B．Because he didn’t want to hide his sadness in front of his family anymore.

C．Because the author’s company and comfort helped him let out his sadness.

D．Because he wanted the author to know it was brave for a man to shed tears.

3. Which of the following best describes the author?

A．Selfless and reliable.	B．Thoughtful and caring.
C．Talkative and friendly.	D．Modest and sympathetic.

4. In which column of a website can the text probably be found?

A．Book reviews.	B．Business insight.
C．Life philosophy.	D．Parenting stories.

【推荐3】Morris, a well-known English violinist, had been exhausted from a day of recording at Abbey Road Studios when he exited the Southeastern Railway from London late last month. He was so tired that he didn’t even realize that he had left his beloved violin on the train until the following morning.

The violin is one of the few surviving instruments made by Roman craftsman David Tecchler in 1709. Not only is the violin worth$320,000,but Morris has also been playing the instrument for 15 years.

Feeling panic, Morris contacted the British Transport Police to see if it had been returned; unfortunately, officers checked the footage(录像) and saw that the violin had been picked up by another train passenger. Morris then created social media accounts to beg for the return of his instrument. The footage was shown in the news, and the person responsible for taking the violin was treated as a suspect.

Several days later, Morris received a phone call from someone who recognized the man on the train. Morris was then put in contact with the man who took the violin—and he had apparently been very eager to return the instrument. After promising the man that he wouldn’t be arrested, Morris met him in a parking lot so he could reunite with his beloved instrument.

The man apologized sincerely, saying he wanted to hand it to Morris in person. Morris found the instrument and the contents of its case were still in consummate condition. To his surprise, it was even still in tune(音调准确). Morris was excited and deeply grateful for its return.

“I’m still getting over the shock of its coming back,” Morris admitted in an interview afterwards. Then he played a breathtaking piece of music Amazing Grace on his 310-year-old violin in front of the reporters.

1. What can we learn about the lost violin?

A．It’s valuable and important.	B．It’s a gift from David Tecchler.
C．It’s the only violin Morris owns.	D．It’s the oldest violin in the world.

2. What did Morris do first after he found his violin missing?

A．He spoke to reporters about it.	B．He turned to the police for help.
C．He described his situation online.	D．He returned to the train to look for it.

3. What do we know about the man who took the violin away?

A．He knew the violin was unique.	B．He got in touch with Morris directly.
C．He was unwilling to return the violin.	D．He felt afraid to be punished for his act.

4. What does the underlined word “consummate” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Unusual.

B．Poor.

C．Perfect.

D．General.