【推荐1】Smile Train is a charity that helps the millions of children around the world, who suffer from a facial defect（缺陷）. The defect happens when a baby’s top lip or mouth doesn’t form properly before birth. Eating and drinking are very difficult for these babies. The charity provides free operations（手术）, which give these children a new smile, and with it, new hope, and a new beginning.

Children with the defect need all the help. Although many patients are accepted by their families, sadly, others are not. In some countries, children with this defect are often abandoned（遗弃）at birth because their parents feel ashamed of them or cannot afford the operations. The good news is that the operation is not difficult. It takes less than an hour and costs the family nothing. The charity raises money and finds the right medical volunteers to do the operations.

A Smile Train doctor from the UK said, “Each child who has the operation is given a second chance at life. After years of staying at home, the children can finally go to school and be happy. Every year I do hundreds of operations free of cost through Smile Train. Some of the stories I have heard are quite surprising. One newborn baby girl was found abandoned on a train. Luckily for her, she was found and adopted by a passenger. This lady then heard about Smile Train and brought the baby to our hospital. I did the operation and gave hope to the family. Experienced doctors like me share our skills with local doctors. In this way we make sure that these operations will always be available（可获得的）.”

1. What does the charity Smile Train usually do?

A．It provides free food and medical care for poor children.

B．It raises money for all the doctors working in the UK.

C．It offers free medical help to children with the facial defect.

D．It gives children without parents new hope and a new beginning.

2. According to Paragraph 2, the following statements are correct except ________.

A．all of the children with facial defect are accepted by their families

B．some of the children with facial defect are given up soon after they were born

C．it doesn’t take a long time to complete the operation

D．operations are performed by medical volunteers

3. What did the doctor from the UK think of his volunteer work?

A．Dangerous

B．Surprising

C．Relaxing

D．Meaningful

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．children with the facial defect are becoming more ashamed than before

B．more doctors are trained to help children with the facial defect

C．fewer baby boys with the facial defect are operated on than girls

D．doctors in Smile Train are always well paid for doing the operations

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．A charity named Smile Train	B．Smile Train wants doctors
C．All the children need help from Smile Train	D．Never give up

【推荐2】In many British schools, the pupils usually wear their school uniforms to school on weekdays. However, recently the students at LVS Ascot Junior School in England wore something quite different. What they wore was what people wear when they go to bed—pyjamas (睡衣). They did this not only for fun, but for a local charity called Christopher’s Smile.

Christopher’s Smile was set up in 2008 by Karen & Kevin Capel whose only son Christopher died of cancer at a young age. They hope their charity will help pay for more research into children’s cancers. Since then, the charity has raised a lot of money and gotten more and more volunteers. Every year, thousands of people take part in different activities such as charity walk or run to show their support for Christopher’s Smile.

The students of Grade 6 at LVS Ascot Junior School also wanted to do something for the sick children. They organized the event “Pyjamas Day” to support Christopher’s Smile. “We wanted to raise money for our charity in a way that the whole school could join in it, so each pupil paid £ 1 to wear his or her pyjamas to school on Pyjamas Day,”said the young organizers. Both the students and their teachers took part in the event with great interest. Together they not only raised some money, but also had a good time.

1. Who set up Christopher’s Smile?

A．LVS Ascot Junior School’s teachers.	B．The local government.
C．LVS Ascot Junior School’s students.	D．Christopher’s parents.

2. Christopher’s Smile was set up to _________.

A．tell people some knowledge about children’s cancers

B．have fun for the students in LVS Ascot Junior School

C．raise money for more research into children’s cancers

D．help the local government do more things for students

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．It has been six years since Christopher’s Smile was set up.

B．Few pupils wear school uniforms to school on weekdays in Britain.

C．In LVS Ascot Junior School, only students join in the event “Pyjamas Day”.

D．All students in England need to wear pyjamas to school on Pyjamas Day.

4. The best title for the passage may be _________.

A．The Christopher’s Smile	B．Fun and Charity
C．The Pyjamas Day	D．Children’s Cancers

【推荐1】Many Chinese people will wonder what presents to get for their mums on Mother’s Day, but not many know Mother’s Day is in fact a festival from the west. Mother’s Day first began in America during the early 20th century. The festival came to China as early as in the 1980s and was widely accepted.

Why did a foreign festival become popular in China? In fact, Chinese traditional culture has always encouraged filial devotion (孝顺) to parents.

One of the examples is the story of Taste Liquid Medicine for Mother (《亲尝汤药》). It tells us the filial virtue (美德) of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty. His mother had been ill for three years. He often stayed up by her bedside and looked after her day and night. He tasted the liquid medicine first before she drank it. Also, mother’s love is an eternal (永恒的) subject in Chinese ancient poems, like Song of the Parting Son by Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Now poems like these are still a must-read in school textbooks. Children in China are brought up with the education of filial devotion. On special days, people often use the rose or the forget-me-not (勿忘我) to show love. The carnation (康乃馨) is seen as the perfect flower for mothers around the world, but few know that China has its own flower for mothers —the tiger lily.

We can have different ways to show our love for mothers. What matters most is love, not the festival itself.

1. What do we know about Mother’s Day from the first paragraph?

A．It came from America.

B．People all over the world celebrate it.

C．It first came to China during the early 20th century.

D．People usually buy flowers for mothers on that day.

2. Why does the writer mention the examples in Paragraph 3?

A．To introduce some stories in ancient China.

B．To explain why Mother’s Day is popular in China.

C．To help people know more about Mother’s Day.

D．To compare different traditions on Mother’s Day.

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Children in China are asked to buy flowers for their mothers.

B．Sending flowers is the best way to show love to mothers.

C．Chinese prefer the tiger lily to the carnation.

D．The education of filial devotion is very important in China.

4. On Mother’s Day ________ is the most important.

A．preparing presents

B．celebrating the festival

C．understanding the love from mothers

D．showing our love to our mothers

【推荐3】People like to eat fruits. Because they are not only delicious but also good for our health. We should eat them every day. But different people like different fruits. Some like apples, some like pears, some like bananas, some like...What’s your favorite fruit?

In fact, we should eat all kinds of fruits. Because they come in so many beautiful colors like the rainbow in the sky. Each of the colors is good for us. Red fruits like strawberries have vitamin C(维生素C). Orange and yellow fruits like oranges and bananas have many kinds of vitamins like A, B and C. Blue or purple fruits are good for us, too. So try to fill your bodies with different colors, then you will be healthier.

根据短文内容，判断下列句子正（T）误（F）。
1. From the passage we know that red fruits have vitamin A, B and C.
2. Bananas have vitamin A, B and C.
3. People should only eat orange and yellow fruits.
4. The meaning of the underlined word “rainbow” is “彩虹”.
5. The main idea of the passage is that eating fruits in different colors is important.

【推荐1】The following is a true story. It happened in a small village in Australia, where some dangerous animals live in the forest.
Lisa, a 33-year-old mother, went to cook lunch in the kitchen, her 3-year-old son, Barney, playing by himself in the garden.
Suddenly, a loud cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears. Lisa rushed into the garden in a hurry and found a big snake entwining（缠绕）the little boy with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy. It was a boa（蟒）. Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She decided to save her son from the boa’s mouth.
It was great mother’s love that made Lisa forget what she was facing. She took up a hoe（锄）from the ground and beat the boa as hard as she could.
One…two…with the hoe, Lisa beat the boa time and time again, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opened her mouth and bit into the boa’s back. The boa was so badly hurt that it let go of Barney and moved into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a woman had such terrible sharp teeth. Soon the boa was found dead in the forest.
It was great mother’s love that saved the little boy.
1. When she came into the garden, Lisa found _____.

A．her son was in danger of losing his life

B．her son was playing with a big snake

C．a boa was playing with her son

D．Barney was fighting with a boa

2. What is the Chinese meaning of the word “terrified” in the passage?

A．激动的

B．惊恐的

C．平静的

D．难过的

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Lisa was getting weaker and weaker.

B．Lisa got mad when she saw her son in danger.

C．Lisa opened her mouth and bit into the boa’s back.

D．Lisa beat the snake with the hoe as hard as she could.

4. In this passage the writer mainly wants to tell us _____.

A．a boa is a dangerous animal

B．how great mother’s love is

C．how sharp the woman’s teeth are

D．the boy is too young to fight against the boa

【推荐2】My sister Sharon and I look very different. She’s tall, and I’m short. She has short curly dark (黑暗的，深色的) hair, and I have long straight blond hair. We both have dark eyes, but Sharon wears glasses, and I don’t. And she always wears large earrings (耳环). I don’t wear earring.
Sharon and I do many things together (一起). We watch movies together, and we often go shopping. We play tennis together every Saturday. Often, people don’t know that Sharon and I are sisters, because we look so different. But we are also good friends.
1. What does Sharon look like? She        .

A．is tall and has dark hair	B．doesn’t wear earrings
C．has long straight blond hair	D．is short and dark hair

2. The sisters don’t        together.

A．play the piano	B．play tennis
C．go shopping	D．watch movies

3. The two sisters both_      .

A．wear glasses	B．have blond hair
C．like earrings	D．have dark eyes

4. What does the word “ different” mean in Chinese?

A．一样的	B．困难的
C．不一样的	D．友善的

5. Which is the best title (标题) for this reading?

A．Playing Tennis	B．My Hobbies.
C．Two sisters	D．Meeting New Fiends

【推荐3】Alice was a student in a secondary school. The school was on the other side of the street from my house. Every day. I watched her play basketball after school from my house. She played very well, much better than any other of her classmates. And she never stopped. She practised over and over again, sometimes until it was very dark.

One day, I asked her, “why do you practise so hard? You are playing very well.”

“That's because I want to play in the city basketball team,” she looked at me and said proudly. “But I'm still not good enough. I must work hard.” I was moved by her great courage.

Another day, I saw her crying on the grass, instead of playing basketball. I walked across the street and sat down by her side.

“Why are you crying, girl?” I asked.

“The coach of the city basketball team told me that I couldn't go on playing basketball because I was too short.”

But some days later, I saw her playing basketball again, practising even harder than before. I was curious(好奇的) and asked her the reason. “My father told me if my dream is big enough, nothing can stop me.” I was moved again.

根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）误（F）。
1. Alice’s school was not far away from the writer’s home.
2. The writer was touched when he heard what Alice said in the third paragraph.
3. From the passage we know Alice was a hard-working girl.
4. Alice’s father told her that she was too short to go on playing basketball.
5. Alice might give up playing basketball according to the last paragraph.

【推荐1】Can you think of any actors（actresses）, hosts（hostesses）or sports players who are short? How did they find success?

Sarmiento was born in Guam（关岛）, a very small island in Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean（太平洋）.Like his home, Sarmiento himself is on the small side, standing just 165 cm tall. Bigger kids bullied（欺凌）him when he was young. As he grew up, he couldn’t join his favorite soccer team because they thought he was too short. But then, Elijah was born. Elijah is Sarmiento's nephew（侄子）. He's also quite short. Sarmiento started to worry for his nephew. Would he face the same challenges and difficulties that Sarmiento faced? "I didn't want him to dislike himself because he was short, but how could I help him?" he said in a TED speech. And so, he started to ask himself: In what ways am I strong?

He came to understand that one's strength doesn't depend only on one's size. It's on one's character and abilities（能力）. Sarmiento once saw himself as a small kid from a small island. But now, Sarmiento said he should see himself as "a young man from Micronesia, a place rich with culture, talent and perseveranc（毅力）." "And I know well next to Guam is the Marianas Trench（马里亚纳海沟）, the deepest place on Earth," he said. "It is a world so wonderful, just like the depths of our character and our abilities."

1. What does the writer mean by saying "on the small side"?

A．Someone's country.	B．Someone's house.
C．Someone's size.	D．Someone's weight.

2. Which event made Sarmiento start to think about their problem?

A．Some bigger kids bullied him.

B．He couldn't join his favorite soccer team.

C．The birth of his nephew.

D．He gave a speech onstage.

3. In what way did Sarmiento think of himself a strong person?

A．He imagined himself as a rich man.

B．He changed his natiơnality.

C．He started to travel around the world.

D．He changed the way he thought about the meaning of strength.

4. What does the passage want to tell us?

A．Sarmiento was a short person but very successful.

B．Bigger kids were unfriendly to bully smaller kids.

C．One's strength doesn't depend only on one's size.

D．Adults should care much about kids.

【推荐2】Recently a video on Bilibili got widespread attention. About 1, 000 students across China talked about what they didn’t want to be in the future. This was a bit unusual. Normally, people talk about the things they do want to do or be.

Well, it turns out that most of the students are unsatisfied with the present world. There are lots of big problems. Some have easy solutions and others don’t. Most adults have become tired and bored. In other words, they get tired and give up on having any dreams or hopes of being able to make the world a better place.

When I was a teenager, my parents told me I could do anything and be whatever it is that I wanted to be. I usually laughed and thought this was a bit silly. However, looking back, I was really thankful for their advice, support and help with my learning. I think this, plus (加) the excellent suggestions I got from several excellent teachers in high school and my experience as a summer camp counselor (辅导员), led me work in education. I’ve been looking for more ways to encourage my students to keep their dreams alive. I always encourage them to try to help make the world a better place. I have found that I have personally been able to achieve this in my job as a Director of College Counseling (咨询服务).

But how can you achieve what it is that you want to do? According to one of my favorite books, The Four Disciplines of Execution, there are four steps. Focus on your “wildly important purposes” (your “WIGs”), develop steps to achieve them, find out your progress, and finally check your progress. So what’s your WIG? Don’t be afraid; think positively (积极地) and dream big!

根据短文内容，判断正（T）、误（F）。
1. It’s usual to talk about the things people don’t want to do or be.
2. Most students get tired and give up on having any dreams or hopes.
3. Suggestions from parents and teachers were helpful to the writer.
4. The writer wants the students to make the world better.
5. The main idea of the passage is “Think positively and dream bravely”.

【推荐3】I really love this job because I enjoy working with small children. I also think my work is very important. But there was a time when I thought I would never have a job like this.
I wasn’t the best student because I didn’t do much schoolwork. Just before I left school, I started thinking what I might do and found that there’s not much I could do. I thought I wasn’t that kind of person to have a career.
I then found myself a job, looking after two little girls for a family. It wasn’t difficult at first. But problems began when I agreed to live in, so that my boss could go out to work in the evenings. I got very tired because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the children.
One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and met Mary who used to go to school with me. I told her about my job. She said that I should get a qualification (资格证书) if I wanted to work with children. And it would help me learn more skills to look after children better without feeling too tired. __________ I decided (决定) to take part-time lessons. In that way, I had to leave the family. But all the lessons I took helped me look after children better and helped me get a job at a kindergarten (幼儿园).
Now I have a job as a professional teacher at a kindergarten. I should be thankful to Mary. I would never have a career if it wasn’t for her.
1. The writer’s first job was to ______.

A．teach part-time lessons

B．look after children for a family

C．help children with their schoolwork

D．look after children at a kindergarten

2. When staying with the two girls’ family, the writer ______.

A．taught the two girls a lesson

B．got help from her boss

C．made a lot of money

D．worked long hours

3. In paragraph 4, by saying ‘Her words made sense’, the writer means ______.

A．Mary was right

B．Mary had feelings

C．Mary got a good job

D．Mary made a good plan

4. Why did the writer leave her first job?

A．The two girls made her too tired.

B．She decided to keep studying.

C．She found a part-time job.

D．She needed to rest.

5. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．The writer’s own story of finding a job.

B．The friendship between the writer and Mary.

C．Mary’s story of helping friends when needed.

D．The writer’s story of looking after small children.