【推荐2】Most adults show less interest in climate（气候）change than young people. Yet it's adults who have the power to influence the policies（政策）causing climate change. Now a new study shows that teenagers may be able to raise their parents' interest in human effects on climate.

In the study, a new curriculum（课程）was used in some schools in coastal North Carolina. The students worked on four activities centered on the connections between climate change and local wildlife. They also took part in a community-based project and interviewed their parents about the changes in weather they had noticed in their lifetimes. To see how attitudes changed as a result of the program, the researchers surveyed both students and parents at the beginning and the end of the study.

The study shows the students who completed the climate change module cared more about the issue（问题）. The effect was even stronger among parents. Experts say the program's success had a lot to do with how teachers dealt with climate change in the classroom.

"Reading a textbook and completing a worksheet are unlikely to lead students to talk about their day at the dinner table, ”says Martha Monroe, an expert on environmental education at the University of Florida. Instead, the researchers designed hands-on lessons focused on local issues. For example, one task involved monitoring the weather outside the school and comparing it with historical information about the area.

Those activities may have helped increase parental involvement. "If you can get kids so excited and talking with their parents about what they are learning in schools, parents will want to learn, ”says Danielle Lawson, a social scientist and leading researcher of the study. However, she adds, “We are not telling the students what to think or what to say. That way, kids didn't feel that there was all this responsibility put on them to change their parents' minds about anything.”

Lawson is hopeful that kids can boost their parents' understanding of climate science. "I know how powerful kids can be, ”Lawson says. "Kids don't need a special curriculum to discuss climate change at home. They just need to talk to their parents about what they see going on.”

1. The second paragraph is mainly about

A．how the study was carried out

B．how the activities were designed

C．why a new curriculum was introduced

D．why both students and parents were surveyed

2. What can we learn about the new curriculum from the passage?

A．It developed students' communication skills.

B．It focused on lessons about climate change in textbooks.

C．It helped students feel responsible to change their parents.

D．It created more chances for families to talk about climate change.

3. The word "boost" in the last paragraph probably means “_____________”.

A．check

B．express

C．improve

D．share

【推荐3】Hobbies—Find Yourself a New Hobby Today!
I don’t know about you,but I love hobbies.I   started my hobbies from NotSoBoringLife.com.I think the best way to find a new hobby is to see our Hobbies page.There I have more than 50 popular hobbies:Reading,Watching TV,Family Time,Going to Movies,Fishing,Computer,Walking,Exercise,Listening to Music,Team Sports,Travelling and so on.
You’ll find the 50 different hobbies and a short guide for you:what to expect and where to start.Then,in the 50 most popular hobbies,how many hobbies do you have?
Maybe you know hobbies take time.Most Americans spend 50 hours on work.They only leave about 20 hours a week for a hobby.With only 20 hours,they choose popular hobbies they can do well.
For example,they could drive the family and take them for camping.There they could swim,fish,read stories,go hunting for dinner,cook up their fresh food,and take a quick hike before it gets to dark.There they could play some music and get some much needed sleep.If so,they have 20％ of the 50 most popular hobbies all in one weekend!
Come and join us and I hope you can find a new hobby for yourself today!
1. Where did the writer begin his hobbies?

A．From NotSoBoringLife.com.	B．Form his new hobbies today.
C．From the hobby of reading.	D．From the hobby of computer.

2. About the Hobbies page,the following are right EXCEPT that_______.

A．it has a short guide for you	B．it offers over 50 popular hobbies
C．it can tell you how to start hobbies	D．it knows how many hobbies you have

3. How many hours do most Americans spend their time on work a week?

A．20

B．40

C．50

D．80

4. Why does the writer write the passage?

A．To tell you how Americans live their life.

B．To ask you find a new hobby for yourself now.

C．To show how Americans spend their weekends.

D．To talk about most Americans’ family camping.

【推荐1】During the winter months, it is comfortable to stay inside in the warmth and read a book or watch TV. However, winter is one of the best times of year to go for a walk outdoors and experience the joys of nature, embracing (适应) the colder weather and fresh air can be good for you. Liz Nelstrop at the National Trust tells us, “Coming outside in the winter months is just as exciting as it is during the other seasons, and it is good for mental and physical happiness.”

Several studies have shown that spending time in nature can be good for people’s health and happiness. One study from 2019 showed that spending at least two hours a week in nature could have a positive effect. Being outdoors means being active and this is good for your health. Walking in fresh air and spending time in nature can be relaxing and makes people feel calmer and less worried. It is also a time to put away computers and phones and forget about homework. It’s a great way to spend time with family and friends.

“Winter is the perfect time for exploring,” Nelstrop says. “The trails (山径) are usually quieter and the lack of leaves on the trees can mean some views are even more unforgettable than usual.” Walking in colder weather is often refreshing and makes you feel good. There is a saying, “There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes”, which means that as long as you have suitable clothes, you can face the colder weather. However, if it is terribly cold, raining hard or there are strong winds, wait for better weather before out for a walk.

There are lots of great places to go walking wherever you are. There are coastal paths, woods, trails in the countryside, as well as parks and other green spaces in cities.

1. What does the underlined word “positive” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? ________

A．Creative and new.

B．Good and useful.

C．Brave and strange.

D．Unbelievable and strange.

2. What is the advantage of winter walking? ________

A．It’s the perfect time for exploring.

B．It’s terribly cold and raining hard.

C．It’s good for people’s health and happiness.

D．It’s comfortable and you can read a book.

3. What is the main idea of the text? ________

A．Introduce colder weather.

B．Introduce winter walking.

C．Find out good places to explore.

D．Compare winter walking and summer walking.

4. Where is the text probably from? ________

A．A newspaper.

B．A notice.

C．A novel.

D．An advertisement.

【推荐3】Many people today like exercise. Some like to run, and some like to walk. Others dance or play balls. They do different kinds of exercise. Why do people like exercising? It’s good for their health. And exercise helps make them tired, so they sleep better at night. You may like to run. If you do, take care of your feet. Make sure you have the right shoes. Some people like to run on roads, but they must watch out for cars.

Walking is a good exercise. You may take a long walk in the park. It’s more fun if you don’t go alone. Go with a friend. The two of you may have a great time.

Some people like to swim. But others don’t like to go into the water. If you like this kind of exercise, make sure that someone is watching you. You must always take care when you are in the water. Jumping a rope (跳绳) or riding a bike is also good exercise. There are many other exercises. Find out what you like. You may need help at first. Some people often do exercise, and they can help you. Do exercise every day, and you will know what it makes you feel.

1. The passage tells us about ________.

A．running

B．swimming

C．walking

D．exercise

2. If you want to run for exercise, you should ________.

A．have the right shoes

B．run fast on the roads

C．go with a friend

D．let someone watch you

3. In the passage, there are ________ kinds of exercise.

A．5

B．6

C．7

D．8

4. Which doesn’t mention (提到) in this passage if you want to do exercise?

A．Find out what you like.	B．Ask for help at first.
C．Exercise every day.	D．Never eat unhealthy food.

【推荐1】The 2022 Winter Olympic Games

What are the Winter Olympic Games?

The Winter Olympic Games are a contest of sports that take place on ice or snow, with athletes from countries all around the world taking part.

※ They take place every four years.

※ The first Winter Olympics took place in 1924, 98 years ago, in Chamonix, France, and only 16 nations took part.

※ In 2018, the Winter Olympics was held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The Host Country and City

The last Winter Olympics was held in the city of Beijing in China in 2022.

The event began on 4th February with an opening ceremony and ended on 20th February with a closing ceremony.

There were 80 nations competing in 15 different winter sports. The events were held in 26 different venues around the city of Beijing. Some events also took place in Hebei province, which is 140 miles from Beijing.

Fun Winter Olympics Facts

※The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, was the first time artificial snow had to be used.

※Women were allowed to compete in ski-jump for the first time at the Sochi Games in 20 l4. Before this only men competed.

※Norwegian athletes have won more medals at the Winter Olympics than any other country since the games began.

※American athlete, Eddie Eagan is the only athlete ever to have won gold medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games. He won gold at the 1920 Summer Games in boxing. He then won gold at the 1932 Winter Games in the team bobsled event.

Did You Know...?

The Winter Olympic mascot is called Bing Dwen Dwen and is a panda that wears a shell made from ice.

1. Who or what is Bing Dwen Dwen?

A．A Winter Olympic sport.

B．A Winter Olympic athlete.

C．A Winter Olympic mascot.

2. When did the 2022 Winter Olympics begin?

A．On 20th February.

B．On 14th February.

C．On 4th February.

3. The last Winter Olympics took place in ________, and ________ nations took part.

A．Pyeongchang, South Korea; 60

B．Beijing, China; 80

C．Beijing, China; 26

【推荐3】Boyan Slat has been dreaming of cleaning up the world’s oceans for a long time.

In 2010, he went on a diving (潜水) vacation in Greece and was shocked. “I saw more plastic bags than fish in the water,” he said.

From then on, Slat began to pay more attention to ocean pollution. He decided to give up higher education and set up the Ocean Cleanup, a non-government organization. Its purpose is to clean up ocean rubbish. He has set up the world’s first ocean cleanup system (系统) with his team.

Every year, over 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans, and it can take up to 500 years to break down. In 2018, the World Economic Forum predicted that the weight of ocean plastic would match that of all the fish in our oceans by 2050. Sea animals easily get caught in plastic. They can’t move. They can even die if they eat it. Smaller plastic pieces can also enter the food chain (链) and end up in our bodies.

Slat’s plan was to create an environmentally-friendly, large system to clear out plastic rubbish from the ocean.

After seven years of tests, on October 2nd, 2019, a machine called System 001/B came out. It successfully caught and collected a large amount of plastic rubbish floating in the ocean.

Slat and his team are working to improve System 001/B. Their dream is to clear out 90 percent of all the ocean plastic by 2040.

1. What did Boyan Slat care more about after his vacation in Greece?

A．Diving.	B．Plastic bags.
C．Ocean pollution.	D．Higher education.

2. How long does it take to break down 8 million tons of plastic?

A．More than 7 years.	B．Up to 30 years.
C．Less than 40 years.	D．About 500 years.

3. From the prediction of the World Economic Forum in 2018, we can learn ________.

A．little pollution ends up in the ocean	B．ocean plastic pollution is serious
C．animals prefer plastic	D．people like sea food

4. How did System 001/B work?

A．It collected much plastic rubbish in the ocean.

B．It dealt with all the rubbish in the ocean.

C．It cleared out rubbish everywhere.

D．It cleared out 90% of the plastic.

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Animals and humans.	B．Plastic problems.
C．Life in the future.	D．Ocean cleanup.

【推荐1】Have you heard about a story of killing a tree by yelling(叫喊)?On the Solomon Islands(所罗门群岛) in the South Pacific, some villagers cut down trees in a special way. If a tree is too large to be cut down with an ax(斧子), they try something else — yelling at it. Woodsmen with special powers climb up a tree at dawn(拂晓) and yell at it at the top of their voices. They continue doing this for 30 days. After 30 days, the tree dies and falls over. It seems like the yelling kills the spirit of the tree. According to the villagers, it always works.

It’s too bad they don’t have the advantages of modern technology and a scientific mind.

No matter how true the story actually is, it reminds me of something. I often yell at my wife, the telephone and workers. And sometimes I even yell at the TV, the newspaper and my children. I’ve been known to shake my fist(拳头) and yell at the sky at times.

The man next door yells at his car a lot. And this summer I heard him yell at a ladder for most of an afternoon. Some modern, educated people often yell at traffic, bills, banks and machines. Machines and relatives get yelled at the most.

It doesn’t do much good. Machines and things just sit there. Even kicking it doesn’t usually help. As for people, well, the Solomon Islanders may have a point. Yelling at living things does tend to(有做……的倾向) kill the spirit in them and break our hearts too.

1. How do the Solomon villagers cut down a very large tree?

A．They use a special ax.	B．They yell at the trees day by day.
C．They use the powers of nature.	D．They use modern technology.

2. From Paragraph 3, we learn that the writer seems to be _____.

A．a nice husband

B．a patient father

C．a gentle boss

D．a complainer

3. Which is true according to the passage?

A．Solomon Islands is a modern place.

B．Solomon Islanders never use an ax to cut down trees.

C．Modern people are often in a bad mood.

D．The man next door lives a peaceful life.

4. What does the writer think about yelling in life?

A．It solves traffic problems.	B．It helps people at the bank.
C．It makes machines work.	D．It does no good for people.

5. What does the story want to tell us?

A．Yelling hurts both sides.	B．Yelling is bad for our health.
C．Every living thing has its own spirit.	D．Solomon Islanders are very clever.

【推荐2】Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He found it was strange.
‘I don’t know why, but I frightened your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a purse from Dongtai. She looked in it and asked me to take it back. Then I saw a red spider (蜘蛛) on the table, and I killed it for her. She seemed very unhappy. Do English people like spiders?
‘Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop front, so there was a ladder. Grandmother stopped me from walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought some lovely rose soap for my mother, a smart umbrella for my father and some new shoes for myself. When we got back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to check if it was all right. Your grandmother came in and screamed!
‘Then I broke a small mirror in the bathroom. Your grandmother’s face went white. I felt very sorry. When I left, I gave your grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were 13. She didn’t like them.’
I explained to Lu, ‘My grandmother follows the old customs. You must not give someone an empty purse, or they will have no money. You must not kill a “money spider”, or the same will happen. Also it is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table. An open umbrella in a house means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years’ bad luck, and 13 is also a very unlucky number. You were really making my grandmother very afraid.’
1. Why did Lu frighten the writer’s grandmother?

A．Because he could not speak English.

B．Because he did many unlucky things.

C．Because he understood British customs.

D．Because he went shopping in England.

2. What do many British people think of spiders?

A．They are afraid of them.

B．They keep spiders as pets.

C．They hope to see every kind of spiders in their houses.

D．They think some kinds of spiders are lucky.

3. What did the writer’s grandmother feel when she saw the umbrella?

A．Excited.

B．Satisfied.

C．Afraid.

D．Happy.

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

A．Thirteen is an unlucky number in England.

B．It is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table in England.

C．For most British people, breaking a mirror means bad luck.

D．People never give purses as presents in England.

5. How many wrong things did Lu do altogether?

A．5.

B．6.

C．8.

D．10.

【推荐3】Last year, some groups of students in their community made a survey about “How do people spend their free time? ” The following diagrams show some results of it:
Diagram (1): Hours for people of different ages who surf the Internet in a week.

Diagram (2): Different days people go to the library. (library attendance)

（%）

Diagram (3): Different programs people like.

1. People aged         spend the most time surfing the Internet every week.

A．7—16

B．17—30

C．31—55

D．over 56

2. How many people go to the library on Saturdays?

A．About 20%.	B．About 40%.
C．Over 60%.	D．More than 80%.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the diagrams?

A．The fewest people like watching music programs.

B．Sports are the most people’s favorite programs.

C．People seldom go to the library on weekdays.

D．Half of the people like watching news and cartoons.

4. The three diagrams show us the results of a survey about

A．what people do every day

B．people’s different habits.

C．people’s different lifestyles

D．how people spend their free time