【推荐1】

Goldfish are good pets. They are easy to care for. But they need the right home. Fish need more than a bowl. They are too small. Goldfish belong in tanks. A tank is better than a bowl. It holds more water. Your fish will have more room.

First, choose a place for the tank. Pick a safe spot. Put it where it will not fall. Do not put it near a window. The water will get too warm.

Next, add tiny rocks. Put in plants. You can add toy ships. These make good hiding places. Fish like hiding.

Finally, add water. Wait before adding your fish. Check that the water stays clean. Buy a pump. It cleans the water. Dirty water makes fish sick.

Now you can add your fish! You will bring it home in a bag. The bag will be filled with water. Let the bag float in the tank. The fish will get used to the tank. Then, open the bag. The fish will swim out!

Buy food for your fish. Do not feed it too much! Extra food makes the water dirty. It sinks to the bottom. Just give your fish what it can eat.

Put a cover on the tank. This keeps the fish safe. Nothing can fall into the tank. Your fish cannot jump out. If the cover has a light, you can watch your fish at night.

Each week the tank needs to be cleaned. Take out some old water. Add new water. Scrape the walls of the tank if they look dirty. But do not worry. It does not have to be spotless.

Just keep the water clean. Your fish will be happy!

1. What may happen if a fish tank is put near a window?

A．It may get cold.

B．It may get dark.

C．It may not work.

D．It may get warm.

2. Water may get dirty in a tank because of   ________.

A．too much food

B．too many rocks

C．too much water

D．too many hiding places

3. Which is the best title for the article?

A．How to Keep Pets

B．How to Feed Goldfish

C．How to Set up a Goldfish Tank

D．How to Choose a Tank for Goldfish

【推荐2】

In 2003, China sent its first astronaut, Yang Liwei, into space. Since then, 13 Chinese astronauts have “reached for the stars”. Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu are three of them. They carried out the latest (最近的) Shenzhou XIII mission (任务). Have you ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut like them? How did they get there?

●Health is important

To be an astronaut, you need to be very healthy. Good eyesight, a strong heart and lungs (肺) are important. You’d better not have other small problems. For example a decayed tooth (龋齿) could get worse in space and bring trouble to astronauts. You can’t have scars (伤疤) either. They may split (裂开) in space.

●Become stronger with hard training

For example, you need to build your muscles (肌肉) as strong as professional athletes (专业运动员) by running, swimming and doing pull-up (引体向上). You will also wear a 200-kilogram suit and do tasks underwater for six or seven hours without eating or going to the toilet. This is like doing tasks during a spacewalk.

●Learn science

Knowledge is important as well. Astronauts take 60 courses to get ready for a mission, including math, English, spacecraft design (设计), physics and many more. So they will know what to do when emergencies (紧急情况) happen during the mission. They can also do scientific experiments (实验) in space.

1. Who is NOT part of the Shenzhou XIII mission?

A．Zhai Zhigang.

B．Yang Liwei.

C．Ye Guangfu.

D．Wang Yaping.

2. What might happen if astronauts have a decayed tooth in space?

A．They might have heart problem.

B．Their decayed tooth might become worse.

C．Their good teeth might split.

D．They will have scars in their mouth.

3. What training should an astronaut take?

A．Flying an airplane for about 600 days.

B．Playing sports against professional athletes.

C．Wearing a special suit and doing tasks underwater.

D．Practicing spacewalks for six or seven hours every day.

4. For possible problems in space, what do astronauts do?

A．They take courses to learn things like math and science.	B．They take part in designing spacecraft.
C．They make sure there will be no emergencies.	D．They do scientific experiments on Earth.

5. What is this passage mainly about?

A．How astronauts stay healthy in space.	B．Why it’s difficult to become an astronaut.
C．How astronauts are training in China.	D．What it takes to become an astronaut.

【推荐3】

①Winter is cold in some places. Many plants do not grow during winter. Some plants die. Snow and ice may cover the ground. It can be hard for animals to find food during winter. But animals get through this time in many ways.

②Birds and butterflies can fly. Many of them do not stick around for the winter. They leave. They go to a place with nice weather. Then they come back in the spring. We call this migration. Migrating is a good way to avoid（避免）the cold.

③Another good way to avoid the cold is to sleep through it. Many animals hide during the winter. Their bodies slow down. To save energy, they do not eat. They live off the fat in their bodies. They do this until they can get food again. We call this hibernation. Snakes, frogs, and bears hibernate.

④Some animals store food in their homes. They do not sleep all winter, but they do much less. They live on what they saved in the summer and fall. This is what squirrels and beavers do.

⑤Other animals tough it out（咬牙坚持）. They do not leave or hide. Sometimes nature helps them out. Some animals grow thicker coats in the winter. Other animals change color. The arctic foxes are brown in the summer. Their coats turn white in the winter.

⑥Winter may be pretty. It is nice to see snow on the trees. But it is dangerous too. People are also at risk. You can get frostbitten（冻伤）or worse. How do you beat the winter?

1. How many ways of animals avoiding cold are mentioned in the passage（文章）?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

2. Why do many animals sleep all the winter?

A．Because they don’t eat.	B．Because they can’t find food.
C．Because they like sleeping.	D．Because their bodies have thick fat.

3. In winter, Raccoons don’t always sleep. And they have food to eat. According to the passage, raccoons get through winter in the same way as _______.

A．people

B．snakes

C．squirrels

D．butterflies

4. Which of the following shows the structure（结构）of the passage?

A．

B．

C．

D．

【推荐1】读下面的文章，然后判断文章后面1-4小题，正确的答案写“T”，错误的答案写“F”。

A new curriculum standard (课程标准) for labor (劳动) education has come out recently. Students have to take labor lessons, including everyday chores, productive labor and services. These lessons are to develop students’ hard-working spirit and important living skills.

Starting from September, 2022, students in primary and middle schools should have at least one lesson every week. Primary school students in the first and second grades need to do simple housework like washing vegetables and peeling fruit, and learn to keep plants or small animals at home. The third and fourth graders should clean their classrooms, wash their underwear, socks and shoes, and know how to make cold dishes and use home appliances (电器). The fifth and sixth graders should learn skills of cooking two or three common dishes, such as fried eggs.

Middle school students are encouraged to cook three or four dishes independently. Also, they should learn how to make traditional artworks. Social service and volunteer work are also needed.

It’s important for parents to realize the importance of labor education and make lists of chores to improve students’ independence. It’s not enough for children to simply finish the work. They should learn to enjoy the work.

1. The purpose of paragraph 1 is to tell people about changes in education.
2. A second grader in primary school should learn to make traditional artworks.
3. The fourth graders in primary school needs to learn skills of using an oven.
4. Parents are expected to realize the importance of encouragement.

【推荐2】Have you ever read an English book? Have you noticed its contents (目录)? If you do so, I think you can understand the contents below. Study the contents page of the book below and choose the right answer to each of the following questions.

Contents Partl The Growth（增长）of Shanghai and Its People Chapter（章节）l The Growth of Shanghai                         1 Chapter2   The Growth of Shanghai's Population                  17 Part ll The Needs of the People Chapter 3 Our Environment                                               32 Chapter 4 Our Food Production                                          47 Chapter 5 Our Busy Traffic                                               58 Chapter 6 Supermarkets and Shopping Centers                      71 Chapter 7 Parks and Places of Interest                                 86 To Our Readers                                                              101

1. How many pages does the book have?

A．It has about eighty-six pages.	B．It has a hundred and ten pages.
C．It has a hundred and one pages.	D．It less than a hundred pages.

2. Which part tells you some facts about Shanghai’s growth?

A．Part I

B．Part II

C．Either Part I or Part II

D．Part I and Part II

3. Where will you find information about traffic problems?

A．In Chapter 7.

B．In Chapter 6.

C．In Chapter 5.

D．In Chapter 4.

4. Which pages can you read if you want to know something about food production?

A．Pages 17-31.	B．Pages 32-46.
C．Page 17-85.	D．Pages 47-57.

5. Where can you find this passage?

A．In the front of the book.	B．In the middle of the book.
C．At the back of the book.	D．At the end of the book.

【推荐3】Dear Dad and Mom,
How are you? I’m happy here, but I miss you very much. It’s Sunday today. I don’t have classes. I am writing an e-mail to you in the computer room now. There are lots of students here. Some students are talking with their friends on QQ. Some students are playing computer games. Some students are watching movies on computers. My new friends, Peter and Bill, are here with me. Peter is buying a T-shirt on the Internet. And what is Bill doing? Oh, he is reading a book on the computer. They’re friendly and they often help me with my study and life. When you come to Shanghai, I want you to meet them. I’m OK in Shanghai. Please don’t worry (担心) about me. I hope you are happy and well.
Love,
Jenny
根据邮件内容，选择正确答案。
1. Where is Jenny now?

A．At home.

B．In the supermarket.

C．In the library.

D．In the computer room.

2. What’s Peter buying?

A．A sweater.	B．A T-shirt.
C．A book.	D．A basketball.

3. What is Bill doing?

A．He is talking with his friends on QQ.

B．He is playing computer games.

C．He is reading a book on the computer.

D．He is watching a movie on the computer.

4. What does Jenny think of her two new friends?

A．They are friendly.	B．They are funny.
C．They are smart.	D．They are strict.

5. What can we know from the e-mail?

A．Jenny doesn’t have fun at school.

B．Jenny can speak Chinese well.

C．Jenny is in China now.

D．Jenny doesn’t like Chinese food.

【推荐1】As we all know, everyone has a different temperament（脾气）. It is usually believed that both genes（基因）and environment may affect people’s temperaments in different ways. But now scientists have found that the season of birth also plays a role.

Scientists did a survey among 400 university students. In the study, the students needed to finish a questionnaire（问卷）. The purpose of it was to find out which of the four kinds of temperaments they were more likely to have. Scientists found the students always answered something like “ My mood often changes for no reason” and “ I love to deal with new projects, even if they are risky” . These answers were then matched with their birthdays.

They discovered that people born in summer easily changed their moods between sadness and happiness compared with people born in winter. Those who always felt positive were mostly born in spring and summer. The study also found that those who were born in autumn less probably had a mood of depression（沮丧）which might easily drive them to cry.

Scientists said that this was probably because the seasons had an influence on certain chemicals（化学物质）in the human body. And the chemicals were important to control people’s moods even in adult life.

1. The season of birth has no effect on people’s temperaments.
2. The survey aims to discover which of the four kinds of temperaments people are more likely to have.
3. What the students answered in the questionnaire had nothing to do with their birthdays.
4. People born in different seasons may have different moods.
5. The seasons played a part in people’s moods only when they were teenagers.

【推荐2】For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. So people may ask the question, “What clothes are in fashion?” And they use the adjective(形容词) “fashionable” in the same way, “She was wearing a fashionable color.” But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and in books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs and languages.

Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An Englishman in 1750 looked different from his grandson in 1860. Today fashions change very quickly. Some of these are natural. We hear about things much more quickly than ones in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones, televisions, and computers send information from one country to another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is also money in fashion.

1. From this passage we know that “fashion” means ________.

A．clothes

B．many things

C．most of the popular things

D．everything

2. Today fashions change very quickly because ________.

A．people read newspapers every day	B．radios send information from one country to another
C．new things that people like are often shown on TV	D．people quickly learn what is happening in the world

3. From the passage, we know fashions change ________.

A．as places change

B．as people change

C．as time goes

D．as information goes

4. “There is also money in fashion” means ________.

A．fashionable things are expensive	B．money comes from fashion
C．people like new things	D．there are no fashions without money

5. According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true?

A．Fashion just means clothes.

B．There are fashions in many things.

C．An Englishman in 1750 was not the same as his grandson in 1860.

D．New fashions mean that people will buy new things.

【推荐1】Fish and apple soup'？Yes, and you won't believe how delicious it is. This first came out of a restaurant in Singapore, but it is now very popular as the soup du jour in Chinese restaurants.   Ingredients (serves 4):
1. Whole fish
2 apples, quartered,
4-6 ginger slices (姜片)
1 bunch of spring onions, cut into pierces
1 red tomato, cut into 8 pierces ，oil. salt and pepper
Methods:
l. Remove the bones from the fish.
2 Pour oil into a pan. Fly the ginger slices, and the spring onions Add the fish hones and oil.
3. Add enough water and boil it for about 15 to 20 minutes,
4. Add the apples, the fish and the tomato. When the apples go soft, ads salt and pepper,
1. This passage is probably_________.

A．a poem

B．a piece of news

C．a story

D．a recipe

2. The name of the soup in Chinese restaurants is_________.

A．du jour soup

B．tomato soup

C．union soup

D．ginger soup

3. The underlined word "quartered" means_________.

A．榨汁

B．切成四份

C．洗净

D．炸碎

4. If you want to cook the soup for 8 people, you will need _____ red tomatoes.

A．1

B．2

C．3

D．4

5. In what order should you add the ingredients while cooking the soup?

A．apples, fish and tomato—ginger slices and spring onions—oil—fish bones

B．oil—fish bones—ginger slices and spring onions—apples, fish and tomato

C．oil—ginger slices and spring onions—fish bones—apples, fish and tomato

D．ginger slices and spring onions—fish bones-apples, fish and tomato—oil

【推荐2】On school days, American students usually get up at 7 a.m. Most students walk or take a yellow school bus. Some students ride bikes. When they get to school at 8:00 a.m., they meet their friends and talk about their activities. They put their backpacks on desks and take out books for the subjects. In middle schools, they learn many subjects.

At noon, the students have lunch at school. They usually have meat, vegetables, fruit and some drinks. However, some students would like pizza, hot dogs or hamburgers. After lunch, they have three classes. School is over at 3 p.m. and then they go back home. They can play basketball or volleyball on Saturdays.

1. What time do American students usually get up on school days?

A．At 7:00 a.m.

B．At 8:30 a.m.

C．At 7:30 a.m.

D．At 8:00 a.m.

2. Where do American students have lunch?

A．At home.

B．In restaurants.

C．In parks.

D．At school.

3. What do American students do after school?

A．Do sports.

B．Go home.

C．Have classes.

D．Watch TV.

4. Do they have classes on Saturdays?

A．Yes, they do.

B．No, they don’t.

C．They play basketball.

D．They play volleyball.

5. The passage mainly talks about ______.

A．lunch in American schools	B．classes in American schools
C．sports in American schools	D．life in American schools

【推荐3】Nowadays, watching TV is a popular way to relax. More and more people watch TV in their free time. There are many different kinds of TV programs. What kind do you like? I ask my parents and some of my friends what kinds of TV programs they like.

My mother likes watching soap operas. She thinks it's relaxing. She loves to watch them after dinner. My dad prefers watching movies. He says he can't stand soap operas because they are boring. My little cousin says she likes cartoons. People in cartoons are always funny. They make children laugh. As for students, we prefer movies to other TV programs. But boys and girls like different movies. Most girls like thrillers and action movies. Besides, romance is not bad. Boys like games. And they love science fictions.

In my opinion, different people like different shows. It's just different people have their own hobbies.

1. ________ people watch TV in their free time.

A．All

B．Some

C．No

D．More and more

2. I ask_________ what kinds of TV programs they like.

A．my parents

B．all my friends

C．some of my friends

D．A and C

3. Who doesn't like soap operas?

A．My mum

B．My dad

C．My cousin

D．My parents

4. What kinds of movies do most girls like?

A．Romance

B．Thrillers

C．Action movies

D．A, B, C

5. The article is mainly about _________.

A．Different hobbies

B．TV shows

C．Family

D．types of movies