【推荐1】Community Volunteers

Hi Jenny,

I am enjoying my new school. It has lots of clubs and activities. One of my favourite clubs is the Community Volunteers. The club gives us a chance to help people.

This term we are helping out at a charity（慈善机构）for disabled（残疾的） children. I am helping to organize（组织）games , reading stories to the children and helping with the music group. Mrs. Brown organizes our club. She says that I am really good with the children. I think that is because I have two little sisters.

Next term we are going to visit some older people. Some of the older people are blind（失明的） and they want us to help them to read letters and books.

A lot of clubs and activities are about having fun but in the Community Volunteers we help other people and have fun.

Everyone in the club is very friendly and it’s a great way to make new friends at school. See you soon.

May

What May does this term	She is helping     1    children and taking good     2    of them. She    3    games, reads stories and helps with the     4    group. Mrs. Brown says May treats the children very     5     .
What May will do     6     term	She will help some    7     people. Some of them are    8    and need her to read letters or books to them.
9    May feels	It is     10    to help others and make new friends.

【推荐2】

Running two miles on the playground isn’t a fun thing to do for most students. But students in Miss Brown’s class at Mark Twain School in the USA gladly put on their running shoes. They wanted to raise money to help a dog in need.

Miss Brown told her students about Peter, a dog who had a hard start in life. At less than a year old, Peter’s owners found out that he was not healthy. Something was wrong with his body. Medicine could help but it was very expensive. For Peter to have a better life, he needed surgery (外科手术). But his owners couldn’t afford that. Finally, they had to leave Peter at the animal hospital.

“I love dogs and when I hear about Peter, I felt so sad for him,” says student Tony.

Miss Brown’s class decided to hold a Jog-a-Thon to raise money for Peter’s surgery.

“At first I felt like the Jog-a-Thon was just to get us to exercise,” says Mike “but then I wanted to help this dog.”

“I just wanted to make a difference in Peter’s life,” adds student Chance Wood.

News of the Jog-a-Thon spread throughout the school. Before long, five other classes also took part in the event. “I started receiving money from all kinds of people in our school community,” says Miss Brown. “We raised $3,180.64 in all.”

A     1     activity
Background	A dog named Peter had     2     problems before he was one year old. Medicine and surgery can     3     his health, but his owner didn’t have enough     4     to pay for them.
Act	Miss Brown’s class made their     5     to raise money for Peter by     6     an activity. The activity is called     7     which is about running.
Idea	In Miss Brown’s class, students felt sorry for Peter and wanted to     8     his life.
9	They raised $3,180.64 in all and     10     five classes joined the event.

【推荐3】May 31, 2017

Jaden is a six-year-old boy. He experienced the unlucky things of life twice. First he lost his dad when he was four and his mom died unexpectedly in her sleep last month. Jaden’s heart was broken. His parents’ death hit him a lot.

But things always go towards a good side. A few weeks later, Jaden told his aunt that he was tired of seeing everyone sad all the time. He’d like to see more smiles around him. He hoped that the number of the smiles could reach 100.

Then he asked his aunt to buy him some little toys and take him to the center of the city. “I’m trying to make people smile,” said Jaden. At first, he was not sure if the people passing by would like to receive his toys. In fact, he was always successful and got close to his dream step by step, because no one could refuse such a little boy’s giving and expecting.

“I’m keeping a count of 100 smiles,” said Jaden. When asked if he could make it, he answered, “I think I can.”

Reported by Barbara
1. Did Jaden lose his parents?
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2. How many smiles did Jaden hope to get?
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3. What did Jaden do to cheer himself up in the center of the city?
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4. Do you think Jaden’s way was good to deal with his problem? Why or why not?
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【推荐3】Educating girls quite possibly harvests more return than any other investment （投资）in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economic （经济的）field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually a social problem.

Parents in low-income （低收入）countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school — this leads to a vicious （恶性的）circle.

An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces different choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, making sure that her daughters are given an equal chance. The education of her daughters then makes it more possible that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus turned into a virtuous circle.

Educating women brings great social benefits. But it has big economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages （工资）of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 percent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has an important effect on health practices, including family planning.

Topic: The importance of female            1     in developing countries

Viewpoint	Educating girls is more worth investing than the other investments.
2	From low-income families	From educated     3     families
Attitudes	Girls are of less     4     than boys.	Development should be for all the     5     .
Practices	There’s     6     investment in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home,    7     housework.	It is insisted that girls and boys be offered     8    chances to be educated .
9	A vicious circle	A virtuous circle
Importance	Educating women     10     to social benefits, has economic advantages and affects health practices significantly, including family planning.
Conclusion	Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.

【推荐1】July 16th was a bad day for Arthur Johnson. In the morning, he set off from his home in Santa Barbara, California. It was the start of his summer holidays, and he decided to visit his friends at Las Vegas. Then he hoped to go fishing at Lake Mead.
Johnson’s troubles started while he was driving happily across the Mojave Desert. His car broke down and he tried to repair it, but he failed. He telephoned a workshop to ask it to send a tow truck (拖车) to pull the car away and repair it.
When waiting for the tow truck, he fell asleep. While he was sleeping, a tow truck arrived from San Pedro (the nearest town) and pulled his car away. Later on, Johnson woke up and thought that somebody had stolen his car. Unwillingly, he started to walk back towards San Pedro, but a police car stopped him to find out why he was walking in the desert.
Johnson looked like a man wanted in California for robbery, so the police kept him at San Pedro for the night. The next day, Johnson’s friends came from California. They proved that Johnson was a harmless salesman, so they let him go.

Title: Aday for Arthur Johnson
Johnson’s ________	1. To visit his friends at Las Vegas 2. To go_________ at Lake Mead
Johnson’s troubles	1. His car didn’t _______ and he failed to ______ it. 2. As he was sleeping, a tow truck arrived from San Pedro and ________ his car away. 3. Unluckily, he had to walk back towards San Pedro, but a police car _________ him to find out why he was walking in the desert. 4. Johnson looked like a man wanted in California for ________, so the police kept him at San Pedro for the night.
In the end	Johnson’s friends ________ that Johnson was a harmless ______, so the police let him go.

【推荐2】阅读短文，根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

My name is Liu Ying. I’m from Beijing. I’m a student at Happy School. I’m in Class One, Grade Seven. I don’t go to school on weekends. On Saturday I get up at seven o’clock. After breakfast, I usually go to the music club. I play the piano for two hours there. I like my music teacher, Ms. Chen. She is nice to me. In the afternoon I go to the sports club. I play baseball with my friends. On Sunday morning I get up at eight o’clock. First I take a shower. Then I do my homework. In the afternoon I go to Sun Hotel by bus. In the hotel I help my father work. In the evening I watch TV with my parents at home.

请务必将76—80小题的答案写在答题卡的相应位置！
1. Where is Li Ying from?
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2. How long does Liu Ying play the piano in the music club?
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3. What does Liu Ying think of Ms. Chen?
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4. What time does Liu Ying get up on Sunday?
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5. How does Liu Ying get to Sun Hotel?
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【推荐3】根据短文内容回答下列问题。

Alan worked in an office in the city. He worked hard and really looked forward to his holidays.

He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. “Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at Willow Farm. Good food. Fresh air. Horse riding. Walking. Fishing. Great Prices.”

“This sounds like a good idea,” he thought. “I’ll spend a month at Willow Farm. I’ll enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They’ll make a change from sitting by the seaside and swimming.”

He wrote to the farmer and arranged to spend all of July on the farm. Then, on the first of July, he left for Willow Farm.

Four days later, he returned home.

“What was wrong with Willow Farm?” his friend, Jack, asked him. “Didn’t you enjoy country life?”

“Country life was fine,” Alan said. “But there was another problem.”

“Oh? What?”

“Well,” he explained, “the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast lamb for dinner.”

“What’s wrong with that?” Jack asked. “Fresh meat is the best.”

“I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner.”

“Lucky you!”

“You don’t understand,” Alan said. “On the third day, a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner.”

“A different roast every day,” Jack exclaimed, “and you are complaining!”

“Let me finish,” Alan said. “On the fourth day, the farmer died, and I was so afraid that I didn’t stay for dinner!”

1. Did Alan often go to the seaside for his holidays?
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2. How long did Alan plan to spend at Willow Farm?
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3. When did Alan go to Willow Farm?
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4. What did Alan eat for dinner during the first three days on the farm?
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5. What did Jack think of the trip at first?
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6. Why was Alan afraid to stay for dinner?
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