【推荐1】Watching the latest Hollywood movie in a great cinema brings about a lot of excitement. Here are the best movie theaters in the world.

Prasad—Hyderabad, India

Can you think of anything better than a movie viewed on a screen measuring 97×117 feet? Prasad has the answer. It has been screening movies since 2003. Every day, it gets round 1,500 inquiries (咨询) on its phone booking system.

Castro Theater—San Francisco, United States

Back during the 20s, movie palaces with huge reception halls and video halls were put up for the pleasure of customers. This theater, with a cathedral façade (立面), is one of the last from that period.

Cine de Chef—Seoul, South Korea

Want to go out for dinner and a movie? Here you get to do both. And the food is not just the typical popcorn and soda, but a real meal made up of French and Italian cuisine (菜肴).

Secret Cinema—Worldwide

Secret Cinema is a group based in London that holds monthly screenings of a movie. You have to sign up for it, and they will tell you where and when to go for the movie. Hired actors will then act out the scenes from the film.

1. What makes Prasad well-known?

A．Its long history.	B．Its large-sized screen.
C．Its special decoration.	D．Its phone booking system.

2. Which should you choose to go out for a movie and dinner?

A．Prasad

B．Castro Theater.

C．Cine de Chef.

D．Secret Cinema.

3. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To advertise.

B．To educate.

C．To persuade.

D．To introduce.

【推荐3】Being the world’s most trusted volunteer abroad organization, IVHQ （International Volunteer Headquarters）offers volunteer programs in more than 50 destinations. Here are a few of them.

Marine Conservation Program

Volunteers of this program work in Queensland, Australia. You will join conservation efforts like collecting sea rubbish.

Requirements: Volunteers need to be 18 years or over. Able to swim. Speak fluent English. Present a police check. Have travel insurance. Complete our free pre-departure training.

Fees: 1 week $1,010, 2 weeks $2,020, 3 weeks $2,980

Shriners Hospitals for Children Program

Volunteers in Shriners Hospitals for Children in Honolulu, Hawaii need to pick up patients, deliver supplies and tutor patients.

Requirements: Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. Available to volunteer two hours per week for at least five months. Agree to a police check and a drug test. We offer free training upon your arrival.

Fees: No fees are needed.

Youth Support Program

Volunteers are placed in community centers of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA to provide tutoring and positive activities for the youth. You can also help organizations by beautifying spaces, re-organizing classrooms and preparing materials.

Requirements: Volunteers need to be 18 years or over. Have travel insurance and provide a police check. The training fee is included in the program fee.

Fees: 1 week $520, 2 weeks $825, 3 weeks $1,125

Pre-School English Program

Volunteers working in Cusco, Peru will teach English in pre-schools with younger children of 4 to 5 years old.

Requirements: 18 years and over. No previous teaching experience is required, but a basic understanding of Spanish is. Emergency contact, police check and resume （简历）are required. Training will be conducted online for free.

Fees: 1 week, $320,2 weeks $550, 3 weeks $735

1. Which program suits a 17-year-old volunteer?

A．Marine Conservation Program.	B．Shriners Hospitals for Children Program
C．Youth Support Program.	D．Pre-School English Program.

2. What should the volunteers do in Youth Support Program?

A．Collect sea rubbish.	B．Pick up and tutor patients.
C．Re-organize classrooms.	D．Teach the English language.

3. What is required for the programs in Australia and Peru?

A．Police check.	B．Travel insurance.
C．Drug test.	D．Emergency contact.

【推荐3】The OOH lists careers that look like promising opportunities for the next 10 years or so. Some involve treating patients, some involve managing people, and others are mainly about working with computers.

Medical and Health Services Manager

Health care is a big and complicated business. Providing care to patients is only part of it. There’s also the work of scheduling appointments, collecting payments, keeping medical records, and teaming up with other care providers.

Educational Requirements: At least a bachelor’s degree in a field such as health administration or health management, plus some experience working in the health care field.

Operations Research Analyst

An operations research analyst’s job is to use mathematical and analytical methods to find the best strategies for distributing resources, managing supply chains, developing production schedules, and setting prices.

Educational Requirements: Most entry-level jobs in this field require a bachelor’s degree, and some employers prefer candidates with a master’s degree. Common college majors for future operations research analysts include business, operations research, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

Web Developer

There are several kinds of Web developers: front-end developers responsible for the appearance of the site and how users interact with it, back-end developers for the site’s framework, which makes it run smoothly and allows for changes when necessary and webmasters in charge of maintaining websites, keeping them updated and meeting users’ requirements.

Educational Requirements: The education required for a job in Web development varies. Most Web developers have an associate’s degree in Web design or a related field. However, some employers hire Web developers with only a high school diploma for front-end development while others require a bachelor’s degree in a field like computer science, particularly for back-end development.

1. What can you study in college to be an operations research analyst?

A．Market.

B．Web design.

C．Education.

D．Engineering.

2. What can a high school graduate probably choose as a job?

A．Front-end developers.	B．Back-end developers.
C．Operations Research Analyst.	D．Medical and Health Services Manager.

3. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?

A．Employment.

B．Education.

C．Entertainment.

D．Science.

【推荐1】

THE REMARKABLE ROCKS area must-see on Kangaroo Island

accessible by air and ferry from the Australian mainland

Hop on new Kangaroo Island trail

for five-day adventure

It sounds like an amusement park.Or a portion of a zoo reserved for marsupials(有袋动物). But Kangaroo Island(KI), 30 minutes by air from Adelaide in South Australia, is just the opposite. Much of the island remained inaccessible to visitors until this year.Opened to the public in May, the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail, a nearly 38-mile, fie-day hike, ushers adventurous trekkers on a botanically distinctive immersion into the islands' south-west side.

Footers can expect to walk roughly four to seven hours a day, passing colorful flower, splendid sugar gum tees and massive native plant life. In this timeless setting, they'll likely sport kangaroos, goanna lizards and spiny echidna. From cliff rims， they'll overlook the Southern Ocean， where sharks lurk and schools of salmon cluster in flower like, protective formations.

The trial includes 4 camping areas,each outfitted with 24 tent platforms :12 for self-guided walkers and 12 for tour operators,who also can arrange options off the trail.

Independent trekkers pay about$124to do the walk; the cost includes the parking at the Flinders Chase visitor center ,and a trail guide and map.

KI is accessible both by air and by ferry ;www.tourkangarooisland. com.au

--Chicago Tribune/TNS

1. According to the passage, Kangaroo Island is special for      .

A．camping sites	B．kangaroos
C．an amusement park	D．natural beauty

2. On the island the visitors can        .

A．feed wild animals

B．visit the Remarkable Rocks

C．choose from 12 tent platforms

D．take a boat on the Southern Ocean

【推荐2】When I was 16 years old，I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most English children，I learned French at school and I had often been to France，so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems.

How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my friend Danny a ring and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking like being lost and asked if he could help me.

“Yes，” I said.“I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well，that’s nice，” he said.“Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit young？”

“Who is talking about marriage？” I replied.“I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box？”

“Oh！” he said.“There’s a phone downstairs.”

When at last we did meet up，Danny explained the misunderstanding to me.

“Don’t worry，” she said to me.“I had many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from us British. You’ll soon get used to all the funny things they say. But most of the time British and American people can understand each other！”

1. Where was the writer from?

A．He was from America.

B．He was from France.

C．He was from England.

D．He was from China.

2. The writer wanted         .

A．to buy a ring for his friend

B．to make a call to his friend

C．to go to the telephone company

D．his friend to see him off

3. From the passage we can see that “give somebody a ring” _____________.

A．means the same in America as in England

B．means “call somebody” to the old man

C．means “be going to get married”

D．has different meanings in America and in England

【推荐3】People sometimes say, "It's raining cats and dogs!” when there is a heavy rain. Nobody has ever really seen cats and dogs falling from the sky, but there have been many reports of other strange things “raining” down. In 1956, the people of a town in the USA saw a small black cloud in the sky. It started to rain from the cloud normally, but only in a small area. The cloud then turned white, and fish started to fall to the ground. Most of them were still alive.

During a storm in July 1901, in Minneapolis, people heard something falling from the sky that did not sound like rain. When they went outside, they found all types of frogs covering four streets.

There are other reports of strange “rains” failing from the sky including worms, insects and snakes.

Can these strange “rains” be explained by science? Scientists usually say that a tornado （龙卷风）has picked up the animals from a river or ocean, carried them for miles, and then dropped them somewhere else. But this does not completely explain all of them. On May 15, 1890, in Italy, there was a rain of blood-birds' blood. Scientists said that flying birds must have been torn（撕碎）to pieces by strong winds. But if so, why did only their blood fall from the sky, and not other parts of their bodies? And anyway, there were no strong winds that day!

1. What does it mean when people say, “It's raining cats and dogs”?

A．Cats and dogs are falling from the sky.	B．It's raining heavily.
C．Animals started to fall to the ground.	D．There is a black cloud.

2. Which of the following has not been reported as strange things failing from the sky?

A．Cats and dogs.	B．Worms and insects.
C．Fish and blood.	D．Snakes and frogs.

3. According to scientists, what can move things from the ground to the sky?

A．Storms.

B．Rains.

C．Clouds.

D．Tornadoes.

4. Scientists’ explanation for rain of blood is that________.

A．the tornado picked up the birds' blood.

B．there were no strong winds that day.

C．flying birds were tom into pieces by strong winds.

D．other parts of birds’ bodies did not fall with the blood.

5. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A．Strange “Winds”.	B．Strange “Clouds”.
C．Strange “Rains”.	D．Strange “Animals”.