【推荐1】根据短文内容。判断句子正误，正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”。
Hi!   I’m   Hu   Bin ,   a   student   of   Class   1 ,Grade   7.   At   school ,   my   teacher   and   classmates   are   very   friendly     to   me .   My school life is very interesting.   I like it very much.
Classes begin at 8:00 a.m.   I   have   four   classes   in   the   morning   and   two   classes   in   the   afternoon .   I   study   Chinese,   English , politics,   art,   history,   geography,   biology   and   some   other   subjects.   English   is   my   favorite   subject,   and   I   often   speak     English   with     my   classmates.   I also like P.E.   and music.   But   I   don’t   like   math   very   much .   I think it’s a little     difficult and boring.   What do you think?
After   school ,   I   often   play   basketball   with   my   classmates .   It’s my favorite outdoor activity.   Sometimes I swim     in the swimming pool.   Sometimes   I   draw   pictures   with   my   friends   in   the   park .   Every   Tuesday   and   Thursday ,   I   go   to   the   school   library .
Do   you   think   my   school   life   is   very   interesting ?   What about yours?     Can you tell me something about it?
1. Hu   Bin   likes   his   school   life   a   lot .
2. Math   is   Hu   Bin’s   favorite   subject .
3. Hu   Bin   has   six   classes   every   weekday .
4. He   goes   swimming   every   Tuesday   and   Thursday .
5. Sometimes   he   draws   pictures   with   his   friends   in   the   park .

【推荐2】To Jim,
Hi, Jim. I’m a Chinese girl .My English name is Betty. I’m a student. I live in Nanjing with my parents. Nanjing is a big city in China. I like playing table tennis and running. I like listening to music, too . My favourite food is rice and fish. My dad is a doctor and my mum is a worker.
To Betty,
Hi, Betty. I’m a boy. My name is Jim Hand. I’m a student, too. I live in London with my parents and my sister. London is big , too. It’s in England. My sister likes reading books, but I like watching TV. She can type and write Chinese. I can draw and sing very well. My parents are both teachers.
1. Betty is a(an)         .

A．Chinese girl

B．English girl

C．Chinese teacher

D．English teacher

2. The boy’s family name is           .

A．Green

B．Hand

C．Jim

D．Tom

3. Betty’s favorite sport is           .

A．walking	B．playing football
C．listening to music	D．playing table tennis and running

4. Who can write Chinese?

A．Jim

B．Betty

C．Jim’s sister

D．Betty’s father

5. Jim’s mother is a          .

A．worker

B．doctor

C．secretary

D．teacher

【推荐3】Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Zhenjiang Sunshine Secondary School．The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价)．He draws faces to show his progress：
excellent OK weak
Read the table and find out how well Li Ping is doing.

Unit/ Item	Unit l Past and present		Unit 2 Travelling		Unit 3 Online travel
Vocabulary	opposites		Suffixes‘ful’ and‘less’		Words about computers
Grammar	Present perfect tense		Past continuous tense		Passive voice
Study skills/ Pronunciation	Using a dictionary		Linking words		Organizing information
Main task	A report		My best holiday		Favourite educational computer game

1. What does Li Ping need to improve in Unit 1?

A．Present perfect tense．	B．Using a dictionary
C．A report．	D．Opposites．

2. Which do you think Li Ping does well in?

A．Present perfect tense．	B．Passive voice．
C．Organizing information．	D．Favourite educational computer game．

3. From the table we know Li Ping is weak in _____ ．

A．Vocabulary	B．Main task
C．Study skills／Pronunciation	D．Grammar

【推荐1】As a young man, Al was a skilled potter （陶工）. He had a wife and two sons. But one night, his oldest son died of a sudden illness. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his 6-year-old son. The pain was more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol. In time, Al became an alcoholic （酒鬼）.

Day by day, Al began to lose everything he had—his home, his job, his art, everything. In the end, Al died alone in a motel（汽车旅馆）room.

When I heard of Al’s death. I thought. “What a complete failure!”

As time went by, Al’s son Ernie grew up. He is one of the kindest and most caring men I have ever known. I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free flow of love between them. I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere.

I hadn’t heard Ernie talk much about his father. It is so hard to defend an alcoholic. One day I asked him, “I’m really puzzled by something,” I said. “I know your father was basically the only one to raise you. What on earth did he do that you became such a good person?”

Ernie sat quietly for a while. Then he said, “From my earliest memories as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, ‘I love you, son.’”

Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions（物质财富）behind. But he had been a kind and loving father, and he left behind one of the finest men I have ever known.

1. Why did Al turn to alcohol?

A．Because his son died of a sudden illness.

B．Because his wife left him.

C．Because he only had his 6-year-old son.

D．Because he couldn’t bear the pain of his broken family.

2. By saying: “I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere,” the writer intends to tell us ________.

A．it is not easy to find out how kindness and caring form

B．nothing can stop feelings of kindness and caring

C．kindness and caring did not appear on their own

D．most people are kind and caring at an early age

3. What does the underlined word “defend” mean?

A．to say something to support his father	B．to protect his father from being hurt
C．to make sure his father is safe	D．to watch and protect his father

4. What makes Ernie a kind and caring man?

A．His own hard work.	B．His father’s love.
C．His father’s kiss.	D．His children’s company.

5. What is the best title of this passage?

A．Love is blind	B．Love can be the greatest gift
C．A failed father and his caring son	D．Love can make a successful man

【推荐3】As I enjoyed the soft sunshine in the pool, my 8-year-old daughter swam up behind me.

“Guess who, Mommy?” she said.

“No idea. Who is this mystery (神秘的) person?” I joked.

The pair of us talked and laughed together for the rest of the afternoon.

“Remember this,” I told myself. “You are happy, right here, right now.”

Fast forward a few months, and my thoughts sounded different.

“Just keep going,” I would think, or, “How many sleeps until the weekend?”

I didn’t like what I was like—someone sleepwalking (梦游) through the week, running on coffee and too tired at night to do anything but watch TV. I thought the Christmas break would recognize (使再次充满活力) me, making me ready to take on another year of early starts. But I had to listen to my heart.

My patient husband and friends had listened to me going over the decision for six months, but the time for talking was over. It was time to make my choice: My daughter needed me and I needed her.

When she was really young, I loved the freedom of going to work as the sun was rising, happy that my family was still sound asleep. Then later, my daughter would set her alarm (闹钟) so she could wake up early with me to chat in the dark together.

The morning I planned to tell everyone I was quitting (放弃) my job, we sat together on the couch. I told her how nervous I was about sharing my news in a few hours’ time. Stroking (抚摸) her hair, I asked my daughter what she thought about my decision. “We’ll be so much happier, Mommy,” she said.

Life is never simply a choice between job and family. Ask anyone, and family always comes first.

Besides, I’m not disappearing—there are plenty of projects to keep me fulfilled.

Who knows what’s ahead?

Nobody knows what the future holds, but when it comes to my own, I can make sure it will be filled with long afternoons in the pool with my daughter.

1. What’s the writer’s main propose in writing the first five paragraphs?

A．To show how lovely her daughter is.

B．To show she’s happy when spending time with her daughter.

C．To explain how important her daughter is in her life.

D．To advise parents to play more with their children.

2. What was the writer’s life like a few months ago?

A．Her work took up much of her energy every day.

B．She kept a balance (平衡) between family and job.

C．She enjoyed the freedom of getting up early.

D．She asked her daughter to wake up early every morning.

3. Why did the writer want to quit her job?

A．She dreamed of trying something new and exciting.

B．She wanted to spend more time with her family.

C．She was treated unfairly at work.

D．Her husband and friends advised her to take a break.

4. The best title of the article is ________.

A．Daughter and I	B．Family always comes second
C．Making the right choice	D．Swimming in the pool

【推荐1】Marie didn’t like Eva’s friendship with Tom, so she told her husband that she didn’t want any smell of horses in the house. St Clare told Tom to stop working with the horses. Eva told her father she liked going for walks with Tom. So Tom had orders to leave what he was doing when Eva needed him. Eva and Tom spent a lot of time together.

Tom noticed that St Clare didn’t look after his money and his house very well. He started making some suggestions, and soon St Clare understood that Tom’s business advice was very good. After some time Tom started to look after the house expenses.

Tom also noticed that his master didn’t take anything seriously and didn’t live well, and this worried him. One night St Clare went to a party where he drank too much. He came home very late. The morning after, St Clare gave Tom some money to do business for him. Tom took the money but he didn’t move.

“What’s the problem? You look very serious.” St Clare asked.

“I feel very bad, Master. I thought that Master was always going to be good to everybody, but Master isn’t good to himself”

St Clare felt his face become red, then he laughed. “Oh, Tom!” said St Clare, with tears in his eyes. “Well, you right. Never again, Tom, I promise.”

                                                                        —Taken from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1. Marie said she didn’t like the smell of the horses in the house. In fact _______.

A．she wanted her husband to sell the horses

B．she didn’t think the horses were useful to her

C．she thought Eva spent much time with the horses

D．she did not like Tom to stay with Eva

2. From the last paragraph, we know that St Clare _______.

A．was sorry that he was not kind to Tom before	B．was moved by Tom’s words
C．was afraid that Tom was not good to him	D．was surprised at Tom’s words

3. Which of the following is the correct order of the story?
a. St Clare promised to take good care of himself.
b. Tom stopped working with horses.
c. St Clare told Tom to do business for him.
d. Tom started to look after the house expenses.

A．b-c-a-d

B．d-b-a-c

C．b-d-c-a

D．d-c-a-b

【推荐2】I was on a train in Switzerland（瑞士）. Thirty minutes later, the train came to a stop and the conductor’s（乘务员）voice over the loudspeaker delivered a message in German, Italian and French. I’d made the mistake of not learning any of those languages before my vacation. Everyone started getting off the train and an old woman saw that I was confused and stressed. (I had to catch an overnight train to Rome, and I was flying home from there). She could speak some English and told me that an accident had happened on the tracks（轨道）. She asked me where I was trying to get to, then went and talked to some workers, and came back to tell me that we’d have to hop（换乘）trains three or four times to get there.

I was really glad she was heading the same way because it would have been impossible for me to figure it out on my own（自己弄清楚）. So we went from one train station to the next, getting to know each other along the way. She was really the sweetest woman. It was a 2.5-hour journey in total, and when we made it to the final destination（目的地）, we got off and said our goodbyes. I had made it just in time to catch my train to Rome. She told me she had a train to catch as well. I asked her how much farther she had to go and it turned out（结果是）that her home was two hours back the other way. She had jumped from train to train and travelled the whole just to make sure that I made it. I was in shock. A woman spent her whole day sitting on trains and taking her hours away from her home just to help out a confused（迷惑的）tourist visiting her country.

No matter how many countries I visit, I’ll always say the most beautiful country in the world is Switzerland.

1. The author had to get off the train at a stop because ______.

A．she got on the wrong train by mistake	B．there was an accident on the tracks
C．she couldn’t understand the constructor	D．an old woman invited her to travel together

2. How many hours did the old woman spend sitting on trains that day?

A．About an hour.

B．About 2.5 hours.

C．About 3 hours.

D．About 5 hours.

3. The old woman travelled the whole way with the author just to ______.

A．make sure the author wouldn’t get lost	B．practice her English with the author
C．spend time with a foreigner on the train	D．show the author around her country

4. What can we infer from the text?

A．The old woman is in Rome, Italy.

B．The author’s English is not better than the old woman’s.

C．The author thinks people in Switzerland are quite nice.

D．The old woman helped get a ticket to the final destination.

【推荐3】An old woman had two large pots (罐), one on each end of a pole (扁担). I always see her carrying the pole with the pots across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack (裂缝) in it while the other pot was perfect and always carried a full pot of water. At the end of the long walk from the well to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half-full.

For two years this happened daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. One day, I asked the old woman: “ Why don’t you get another pot? The cracked one always makes water drop all the way back to your house.”

The old woman smiled: “ Did you notice that there are flowers on one side of the road, but not on the other side? That’s because I have always known about the crack, so I planted flower seeds (种子) on the side of the road. And every day while I walk back, I can water them.”

“For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to make my house more beautiful. Without the cracked pot, I would not have this beauty.”

Each of us has our own cracks. But it’s these cracks that make our lives together so interesting and meaningful. So, accept these imperfections (不完美) and try to make good use of them.

1. The old woman used ________ to carry water.

A．two perfect pots	B．one large and one small pot
C．two cracked pots	D．one good and one cracked pot

2. How many pots of water were left when the old woman arrived home?

A．A half pot.

B．One pot.

C．One and a half pots.

D．Two pots.

3. The old woman planted ________ seeds on the side of the road.

A．flower

B．apple

C．vegetable

D．rice

4. The story wants to tell us that ________.

A．we mustn’t laugh at others

B．we should try to be perfect in our life

C．an imperfection can make a life meaningful

D．we shouldn’t use a cracked pot to carry water

【推荐1】House fires often happened. So it appears necessary to learn something useful to protect family from them. The following poster in the neighbourhood will tell you how to do it.

Fire Safety

Put a smoke alarm in your house and test it every month. Half of all house fire deaths happen between 11 pm and 7 am. The risk of dying in a house fire is cut in half with working smoke alarms.

Make sure your hearing aid, wheelchair or eyeglasses are next to your bed. Fire can spread through a house soon. You may have as little as two minutes to escape (逃离) safely. Be ready to act at once.

Create a fire escape plan. 77% of families don't have a house fire escape plan to follow. That's one of the reasons why at least one child dies and 293 children are injured in a house fire every day.

Don't call 119 until you are safely outside. During a fire, the first thing to do is to get out of house as fast as you can.

1. makes the risk of dying in a house fire smaller.

A．A smoke alarm

B．A pair of eyeglasses

C．A wheelchair

2. We may have only         to escape from a house firm safely.

A．half an hour

B．2 minutes

C．293   seconds

3. According to the poster, can help save you from a house fire.

A．stopping the fire from spreading

B．making and following a plan to escape

C．keeping awake betwren11 pm. and 7 am.

4. Call 119 for help .

A．after you reach safely

B．as soon as you are ready to escape

C．when you find out what causes the house fire

5. The poster is put up in the neighborhood to help people learn to .

A．plan their live as they wish

B．save time as much as possible

C．protect themselves in a right way

【推荐2】Can dolphins (海豚) talk? Maybe they can not talk with words，but they can talk with sounds．
They show their feelings with sounds．Dolphins travel in a group．We call a group of fish a“school”．They do not study，but they travel together．Dolphins are mammals (哺乳动物)，not fish，but they swim together like fish in a schoo1．Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the schoo1．They give information to the others．They talk when they are happy，sad or afraid．They say“welcome”when a dolphin comes back to the schoo1．They talk when they play．
They make some sounds above water．They make many more sounds under water．People cannot hear these sounds because they are very，very high．Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them．Sometimes people catch dolphins for a large aquarium (水族宫)．People can watch dolphins in a show．Dolphins do not like to be away from their school in an aquarium．They are sad and lonely．There are many stories about dolphins．They help people．Sometimes they save somebody' s life．Dolphins' meat is good，but people do not like to kill them．They say that dolphins bring good luck．Many people believe this．
1. The word“school”in this passage means      ．

A．a place for students to study

B．a group of fish traveling together

C．a special kind of animals

D．a place for training dolphins

2. A dolphin makes a sound to      ．

A．show other dolphins they are happy

B．tell other dolphins they are sa

C．1et people know they are afraid

D．give information to the other dolphins

3. The best title (题目) for this passage is      ．

A．Dolphin's talk	B．Schools of dolphins
C．The dolphin	D．Man's friend

【推荐3】Betty is not a traditional American nice girl. She is unfashionable, has thick red glasses, untidy hair and large metal braces（牙套）on her teeth. But this hasn’t stopped her from becoming one of American’s favourite TV characters. So how did she manage to do it?

The answer is that charm can be more attractive than beauty. Betty is the main character in a TV show Ugly Betty. The show is about her life as an office worker at a fashion magazine in New York.

Betty has many exciting experiences and romantic stories. Betty is often looked down on and laughed at by the people around. But she manages to do better than others with her hard work, charm and wisdom. The show tells us about how a girl goes from an ugly young duck into a beautiful swan.

Though you may know the ending of the show from the beginning and the story is familiar to many of us, it has still been a big success in the USA. It has attracted a large number of viewers and won two Golden Globes awards, one of the highest honors for a television program in the USA. “I think you can see a bit of Betty in all of us, and I mean men as well, because it’s about the underdog（弱者）,” says Ashley Jensen, who plays one of the characters on the show.

The program is so popular because of the performance of the 23-year-old American actress Ferrera who plays the role of Betty. She brings the character alive on the screen.

1. Betty is popular because of _______.

A．her clothes

B．her charm

C．her personality

D．her appearance

2. In Paragraph 4, the underlined word “it” refers to（指的是）_______.

A．the beginning

B．the ending

C．the story

D．the show

3. Which is the reason for the success of the show?

A．A large number of viewers.	B．Betty’s life as an office worker.
C．The wonderful performance.	D．Two Golden Globes awards.

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

A．Betty is a girl of wisdom.

B．Betty acts as a beautiful swan on the show.

C．Betty is an American favourite TV character.

D．Betty is often looked down on by the people around her.

5. What can be the best title for the passage?

A．Beauty from Within	B．A Romantic Story
C．An Ugly Girl	D．An Exciting Experience