【推荐1】Do you like telling jokes in your English study? Jokes can make your words colorful and interesting. If you make people laugh, you can know that people are interested in your topic.

In order to get jokes, you can watch comedies or talk shows on TV. When you hear David Letterman’s jokes in his program, you’d better write them down. Then you can have more jokes to tell when you talk with others. If your English is good enough, you can also write your own jokes to tell at a party or to break the ice before a speech.

How to make your jokes more interesting? Not all the English words sound funny. You have to choose. Different people may have different feelings on a joke. So don’t be sad if others don’t laugh after you tell a joke. After all, telling English jokes is just a way to help you with your English study.

1. Jokes can make our words colorful and interesting.
2. Almost all the English words sound funny.
3. David Letterman is a teacher.
4. You can write your own jokes to make people laugh.
5. People always have the same feelings on a joke.

【推荐3】①Many people like to pet (抚摸) animals because petting can make the relationship (关系) with their pet better. When you’re feeling blue, petting animals is a good way to make you happier. But how to pet animals? Different animals like different ways.

②Dogs like you to pet their heads, necks and shoulders. If you are petting a strange dog, you should come near to it slowly, get down to its height and hold out a closed fist (拳头) for it to smell. After the dog smells you and its body becomes relaxed (放松的), you can slowly touch around its heads and shoulders.

③Cats like people to pet their heads, chins (下巴) and faces. When you are going to pet a eat, let it come near to you first. Sit down and put your hand out for it to smell. If it wants your gentle touch, it will get close to your body.

④Rabbits like you to pet their heads, shoulders and faces. Rabbits are easily afraid of people. So you should come near to them slowly, sit down on the ground and put out your hand for them to smell. If your rabbit comes near to you, use your hand to lightly pet its head.

⑤Pet birds lightly on the head and don’t touch other areas. Building trust (信任) with birds takes time, so come near to them slowly and watch for their body language. If they like you to pet them, they will keep quiet.

⑥Pets are really lovely animals. Pet and take care of them carefully, and they will bring you a lot of fun.

1. What does the underlined word “blue” in Paragraph (段落) ① mean?

A．Sad.

B．Angry.

C．Hungry.

D．Excited.

2. What parts do cats and rabbits both like people to pet?

A．Their heads and ears.	B．Their heads and faces.
C．Their shoulders and heads	D．Their faces and necks.

3. Which is the right order (顺序) to show how to pet a strange dog?

a        b        c

A．c—b—a

B．a—b—c

C．b—a—c

D．c—a—b

4. Why do we need to be careful when we pet birds?

A．Because birds sometimes may get hurt.

B．Because birds are easily afraid of people.

C．Because petting birds can be very dangerous.

D．Because it takes time to build trust with birds.

5. What is the structure (结构) of the article?

A．①②...③④...⑤⑥	B．①...②③④⑤...⑥
C．①...②③④...⑤⑥	D．①...②③④...⑤...⑥

【推荐1】Joining a club is a great way to stay active(活跃的), meet new people, and get new skills. The Breakfast Club is a great meeting place for students. You can eat and talk with friends before classes. The club meets on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:00 a. m. to 8:45 a.m. in the coffee house. There are a lot of different foods, like bread, cakes, milk, juice, bananas and apples. We’d like to make sure the students start their day with healthy food. We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so don’t skip breakfast for classes.

To make our club run well, we need some volunteers(志愿者) to help us. If you’d like to offer your help to the Breakfast Club, please come to the coffee house in the morning and tell us you want to join us. Our volunteer Jerry will write down your information(信息). If you want to know more about our club, please call Emily at 5694582. She will be happy to answer your questions.

1. What can students do in the Breakfast Club?

A．Make breakfast.	B．Get new skills.
C．Do homework.	D．Talk with friends.

2. The underlined sentence “don’t skip breakfast for classes” means ________.

A．we mustn’t eat break fast	B．we must eat breakfast
C．we shouldn’t have breakfast	D．we can’t eat breakfast

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

A．找到

B．发现

C．提供

D．失去

4. What does the second paragraph talk about?

A．The Breakfast Club needs students’ help.

B．The Breakfast Club offers healthy food.

C．The Breakfast Club teaches students to make breakfast.

D．The Breakfast Club is a good place for students.

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Breakfast Is Very Important

B．Our Club Needs Your Information

C．Why Not Eat Bread for Breakfast?

D．Start a Good Day in Our Club

【推荐2】

Volunteer Appreciation（答谢）Dinner We’re glad to invite you and a guest to our volunteer appreciation dinner at the Chicago Yacht Club. We thank you for your time and work spent in planning the club’s many activities. Your help has made the group stronger and more successful. We hope more volunteers like you will join our club. Date: Saturday, April 25, 2021 Time: 6:30 p.m. — 8:30 p.m. Place: Chicago Yacht Club — Monroe Street Station Please let us know by April 18, 2021 if you’d like to come. You can call us at 312-8617777.

1. If you want to come to the dinner, you should decide before ________.

A．April 15

B．April 18

C．April 25

D．May l

2. Who is invited to the dinner?

A．The club’s owner.	B．Students of the Chicago Yacht Club.
C．A volunteer and his or her guest.	D．Anyone who wants to join the club.

3. What do we know about the dinner?

A．The club is having it to thank the club’s volunteers for their work.

B．The club holds it to get more and more volunteers.

C．Guests can know more about the dinner by sending an email.

D．The dinner will last for more than 3 hours.

【推荐3】Helping others is a great thing to do. You can learn new things and have fun.There are many ways of helping others in your community.You can help people, animals or the environment. It can make you feel good too! How can you help?
Charities(慈善机构）are organizations that help others, for example. UNICEF or the World Wildlife Fund. You can help charities by giving your time, giving money or giving things that you own .You can also help people or places you know.
Volunteering.
Volunteering is when you give your time to help others .It’s something which you do not have to do or for which you will not be paid. Some ways of volunteering are: visiting old people to talk to them or help them walking dogs at an animal shelter.(避难所）cleaning up a park.
Fundraising
Fundraising is when you collect money to help others. Some ways of fundraising are: making cakes or biscuits to sell. doing a sponsored (赞助）activity. For example, family and friends give you money if you finish a long walk.
Donating
Donating is when you give your things or money to help others .Some ways of donating are: giving your old toys or clothes to a charity that helps sick children or poor people, giving your old books to a library. giving your money to a charity. So, what can you do to help others?
1. You’ll ___ when you help other people.

A．feel uncomfortable	B．have a great job
C．feel good	D．have a hard time

2. How many ways of volunteering are mentioned   in the article?

A．Two

B．Three

C．Four

D．Five

3. The underlined word “fundraising” means “____” in Chinese.

A．募款活动

B．慰问活动

C．志愿活动

D．捐物活动

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Charities	B．Ways of Volunteering
C．A Great Thing to Do	D．Helping Others.

【推荐1】In July, my daughter Becky graduated from Washington High School. During the graduation party, one of her classmates gave a simple speech that I will remember. She talked about the “givers” of this world. She said, “You are a success if you make another person smile. If you are a friend to someone who needs a little help, you get an ‘A’!”
After the party, when all the students were outside the hall trying to find their parents and friends, a man and his wife came to me and asked if I was Becky’s mom. I said yes and the man handed me a gift and told me how much they would like thank Becky for her kindness to their daughter, Jessica, during the school sports meeting the week before.
Jessica’s left leg was hurt and she was not able to finish the up-hill race. Becky was worried about her and kept going back to check on her. Jessica’s dad told me that Becky had shown more kindness for her daughter than even the coach, and that he and his wife would never forget her kindness. Of course, by this time I had tears in my eyes, I was so proud of her.
I asked her, “So, does Becky get an ‘A’?”
He just smiled and said, “She gets an ‘A’!”
1. The speech the writer will always remember is about ______.

A．how to succeed	B．helping others
C．how to study well	D．making friends

2. After the party, Jessica’s parents looked for the writer to ______.

A．give her a gift from Becky

B．ask her how to get an “A”

C．learn about Jessica’s behavior

D．thank Becky’s kindness for Jessica

3. Jessica ______ during the sports meeting.

A．hurt Becky’s leg	B．fell from the hill
C．hurt her left leg	D．lost the race

4. Which of the following is the best title(题目) for this passage?

A．She gets an “A”	B．A graduation party
C．A popular girl	D．An excellent mother

【推荐3】Alyson is an 8-year-old girl from Kansas. Maurine is a 9-year-old girl from a village called Bartabwa in Kenya. It might not seem as if the girls have much in common. But when they met at a dinner several years ago, in Kansas, they became friends at once.

The dinner was hosted by the group World Vision International. In some parts of the world, people must walk several miles each day to collect water from a stream (小溪) or another water source. Often the water is polluted. World Vision International builds wells (井) and rain catchers in these communities.

Alyson was at the dinner because her family supports World Vision International. Maurine was there because her village had been without clean water. World Vision International solved that by building a water station there. Alyson was influenced by Maurine. “People helped Maurine so she could have clean water, and kids are dying because they don’t have it.” Alyson says, “I want to help.”

Races are one way World Vision International raises money to pay for its water projects. Runners promise to run a race, often a 26-mile marathon or 13-mile half marathon. They ask people to support them by giving away money to World Vision International.

Alyson decided to run the 2017 Kansas City Half Marathon for World Vision International. She’d raised $20,000. She was the youngest person in the history of World Vision International to raise more than $10,000 at a time. In 2018 she ran again ... and raised $36,000. Alyson and Maurine still keep in touch. Last year, Maurine went to the US and they met up in Chicago. But Alyson’s work is not finished. “My purpose is for every kid to have clean water,” she says.

1. Where did the two girls become friends?

A．In Bartabwa.

B．In Kansas.

C．In Chicago.

D．In Kenya.

2. How did World Vision International help Maurine’s village according to Paragraph 3?

A．By building wells.	B．By building a water station.
C．By building rain catchers.	D．By collecting water from a stream.

3. Which of the following is the way World Vision International raises money?

A．By dinner.

B．By friendship.

C．By race.

D．By bus.

4. How much did Alyson raise in total from 2017 to 2018?

A．$36,000.

B．$46,000.

C．$56,000.

D．$66,000.

5. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Run for Clean Water.	B．Run for Bartabwa.
C．Run for Maurine.	D．Run for WWF.

【推荐2】In many countries the sport we call soccer is called football. Whatever its name, it is the most popular sport in the world. Soccer or football is played in more than 200 countries. In the United States, lots of children and teenagers love to play soccer. More than one million children and teenagers play on soccer teams that are part of the U.S. Youth Soccer Association.

The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament (锦标赛) in the world. It is not held every year. It is held every four years. Only thirty-two teams make it into the finals. The best men's soccer teams in the world compete in the finals. The competition last about a month.

When the World Cup comes, lots of soccer fans all over the world are always excited about it. Some of them prefer to stay up late to watch the competitions on TV. They all want to know who can win the World Cup trophy (奖杯).

1. Why does the writer mention (提到) the U.S. Youth Soccer Association?

A．To show how many children and teenagers play soccer in USA.

B．To show how many countries have such soccer associations.

C．To show why soccer is popular in the world.

D．To show lots of soccer fans in USA.

2. Some of the soccer fans stay up late in order to          .

A．watch the competitions	B．wait for soccer stars
C．finish their work	D．play computer game

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

A．Soccer is the most popular sport and it is played in over 200 countries.

B．The competitions last for a week.

C．The World Cup is held every year.

D．Nobody wants to know who can win the World Cup trophy.

4. We can probably read the passage from a magazine called “         ”.

A．Healthy Life

B．American History

C．Sport World

D．TV Show

【推荐3】Do you know of SQ3R? It is a reading method named for its five steps: survey, question read, recite and review. Many students have begun using this method to better understand what they’re reading.

S=Survey

Survey means to skim a book. This step helps you gather the information. Go through the pictures, the title or tables, if there are any. Read the first sentence. This survey step only takes 5—10 minutes, but it is very important.

Q=Question

Question means to ask yourself, “What’s the book about? What’s the writer trying to tell me?” Once you get an idea of what you’re going to read, then you can read with a better understanding.

3R=Read, Recite, Review

①Read the book, looking for the answers to the questions you have had picture in your mind what the words are saying.

②Recite the main ideas of what you just read in your mind, or write down the main ideas on paper in your own words.

③Review what you have learned. Make notes to help you review.

Now you have a valuable study tool. Use it to help study for a test. Use it to help remember what you read. Use it to help understand important information.

1. What does the “S” in SQ3R mean?

A．To skim a book first.	B．To find some good books.
C．To ask yourself some questions.	D．To review what you have learned.

2. Why should you ask questions before reading a book?

A．To improve your reading speed.	B．To remember more words.
C．To understand the book better.	D．To better prepare for exams.

3. Who would be interested in this text?

A．Students who aren’t good at math.	B．Students who have trouble in reading.
C．A mother whose son likes playing sports.	D．A teacher who is looking for teaching methods.