【推荐1】

During the 2016 Rio Olympics, people were surprised to see the round, purple marks on the body of the famous American swimmer Michael Phelps. What happened to him? In fact, he just visited a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and had "cupping" (拔火罐).

Massage and acupuncture (针灸) are two other important kinds of TCM. Chinese massage can make you relaxed and fresh. In acupuncture, doctors put long needle (针) into the patients' heads, faces, arms...     1    .

TCM is an important part of Chinese culture. The earliest medical classic in China, Huangdi's Classic on Medicine, came out more than 2,000 years ago. The book is about the relationship between man and nature. In Chinese culture, yin and yang are the two parts of nature.     2     The human body needs such a balance, too. TCM helps to do that. Quite especially, for some health problems, the doctor of TCM will not give you medicine.     3    

For example, it is common to eat on the way to school, at our desk, or in front of the TV. But TCM thinks it's wrong. Here are the correct ways: Sit down to eat. While eating, turn off the TV and get away from the work desk. Eat seasonal foods. Do not miss any of the three meals.     4     Just as the saying goes, "Running water is never stale (陈腐的)".

Nowadays, traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more popular around the world. A government report says that people in 183 countries and areas are now using TCM.

A．Also, get your body moving often.

B．It takes away pain, though the look is funny.

C．Nature keeps balanced if yin and yang work well together.

D．TCM is deeply tied to both five elements (五行) and yin-yang.

E．Instead, he may give you just a food plan and right ways to eat.

【推荐2】

French and American doctors have done an operation (手术) together in which the doctors were outside the operating room. This kind of operation is known as robotic operation.

Doctor Marescaux did the operation in an office in New York City last month, while a sixty-eight-year-old woman patient was in a hospital in Strasbourg, France.

A doctor in Strasbourg got the patient ready. He placed medical tools and a small video camera in her stomach area. Doctor Marescaux in New York watched the patient on a video screen. Then he used the computer to send messages to the robot machine.

The robot moved the tools that cut the woman’s gallbladder (胆囊) away. The woman got well soon after the operation and left the hospital two days later.

Experts say the main problem with such a robotic operation is based on high-speed telecommunications (通讯系统) between the doctor and the robot. Technology must be able to send a doctor’s order to a robot to move the tool quickly.

Experts also say a successful robotic operation will improve an operation. For example, the robot can make such smaller movements than a person can. A robot machine can turn tools in ways that a doctor’s hand cannot.

Doctors say such a robotic operation will make safer and better operations in the future. They say it will improve doctor training. It will also mean that doctors could do an operation on people in dangerous places far away. And it could mean that people could have operations done by top doctors without having to travel to the city where the doctors work.

1. The underlined phrase “ robotic operation” means ________.

A．a special kind of robot invented by doctors.

B．something done to mend a robot.

C．an operation done by French and American doctors.

D．an operation done far away with the help of a robot.

2. We use the robot in the operation because _________.

A．it can send messages in a high speed.

B．even a top doctor can’t do the operation himself.

C．it can make the operation safer and better.

D．operations can be done without doctors.

3. Which of the following is NOT right?

A．Robotic operation has been used in the USA.

B．Robotic operation is good for doctor training.

C．Experts speak highly of robotic operation.

D．The robot is used to watch the patient clearly.

4. What’s the best title for this passage?

A．An Operation	B．Robotic Operation
C．How to do a Robotic Operation	D．The problems of a Robotic Operation

【推荐3】Some children fell ill because of bad weather recently．They had to see the doctor．

Nancy：Gets a cold and has a fever． Advice：1．Drink hot water with honey and have a good rest． 2．Take the Cold medicine three pills(片) a time and twice a day．	Mario：Has a cough and a sore throat． Advice：1．Don't drink tea or cold water． 2．Don't talk too much or read a lot． 3．Take the cough medicine a pill a time and three times a day．
Jimmy：Has a stomachache． Advice：1．Don't eat or drink something Cold． 2．Don’t do sports or exercise after dinner． 3．Keep warm． 4．Take the stomach medicine twice a day and one pill a time．	Jenny：Has a sore back． Advice：1．Lie down and have a good rest． 2．Don't walk too much． 3．Keep warm too and sleep with the Back on the bed． 4．Put the medicine on the back twice a day．

1. Now Kate's temperature is 39℃，what should she do?

A．Keep warm．	B．Talk too much．
C．Drink hot water．	D．Don't walk a lot．

2. How many pills does Mario take a day?

A．Six．

B．Three．

C．Two．

D．one．

3. What can’t Jimmy do now?

A．Drink cold water．	B．Sleep with the stomach on the bed．
C．Read a lot．	D．Keep wearing warm clothes．

4. Who must keep warm according to the doctor's advice?

A．Nancy and Mario．	B．Jenny and Mario．
C．Jimmy and Nancy．	D．Jenny and Jimmy．

【推荐2】People have birthdays in every country in the world. And they celebrate (庆祝) them in many different ways.

In Brazil, the special birthday food isn’t cake, but special candies.

In China, people eat long noodles as a wish for long life.

In Iceland, people have pancakes with candies in them on birthdays.

In Britain, people have birthday all day. At school, the birthday child is lifted up high and bumped (碰撞) by his classmates. This means the child can grow up happily and healthily.

In Holland, children not only get gifts, they give things to others too. They give cakes, cookies and candies to their classmates and teachers on their birthday.

In Mexico, it’s good luck to give birthday greetings as early in the day as possible. So it’s usual for the birthday child to wake up at midnight with friends singing birthday songs.

In Thailand, the birthday person holds a tall candle. The candle is as tall as the birthday person. It will bring good luck to him or her.

In many countries, birthday customs (习俗) are changing, but one thing never changes—birthdays are special days for everyone.

1. How many countries are there in the text?

A．Six.

B．Seven.

C．Eight.

D．Nine.

2. What does the underlined phrase “is lifted up” mean in the text?

A．被举起

B．被安慰

C．被批评

D．被发现

3. In which country the birthday person both gets gifts and gives gifts to others?

A．China.

B．Brazil.

C．Holland.

D．Mexico.

4. Which is the best title (标题) of the text?

A．Food on our birthdays	B．Reasons for our birthdays
C．Festivals around the world	D．Birthday customs in different countries

【推荐3】Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm, winning 100 million users since it came out in November 2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, create instructions for cooking a certain food, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. In its own words, it is “a language model trained in a large amount of internet text to help users get human-like text.”

Compared with Siri or other chatbots, ChatGPT uses a much bigger information center for training. It also uses stronger software (软件) and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct itself. “It’s a totally different chatbot,” computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University told Tianjin Daily. “The knowledge level ChatGPT shows is the same as a university student. That’s why it shocked the world.”

But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an essay (论文), it “gave out many examples which other writers actually hadn’t mentioned at all”, he told The Guardian. Since the robot is trained using words from the internet, it can also pick up biases (偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.

1. Which can replace the underlined part in Paragraph 1?

A．Succeeded greatly online.	B．Done harm to the internet.
C．Brought strong wind and heavy rain.	D．Caused serious changes of the weather.

2. Why did ChatGPT shock the world?

A．It can find mistakes by itself.

B．It works differently from other chatbots.

C．Its information center is easier to control than Siri’s.

D．Its knowledge level is as high as a university student.

3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Anybody can make mistakes.	B．Anybody may give false information.
C．ChatGPT needs improvement.	D．ChatGPT can’t get on well with humans.

4. What might be the best title of the text?

A．ChatGPT is Coming!	B．ChatGPT is Catching the World’s Eyes!
C．Can ChatGPT Take the Place of Humans?	D．Can ChatGPT Avoid Biases Properly?

【推荐1】I saved the grain carefully and finally had enough to plant. I built a wall around my garden to keep the wild goats away.
Then when my crop bore its fruit, the birds discovered it. The birds were not afraid of my dog at all. I shot them but as soon as I walked away. they returned. At last, I killed some birds and hung them among the crop, hoping they would serve as the scarecrows, which turned out to be successful. By harvest time. I had nearly two bushels of rice and two and a half bushels of wheat.
With my new grain to store, I found a new problem. The fine grain ran through my baskets. It took me nearly two months to form and dry two ugly pots- one for rice and one for wheat.
Next I formed a clay oven and made some other tools from hard wood and cloth to bake bread. I made and baked bread in my oven. I spent the third year on the island in farming and baking.
Soon after that. I began to think of my days sailing in a tidy boat with Xury. I wished to have a boat and explore the island by sea.
I tried to turn over the ship's boat that I had seen washed up, but failed. I was still determined to have a boat. So I chose a strong tree and spent weeks cutting it down. Then it took me months to turn it from tree to boat.
When it was time to launch, I realized I had made my boat too far from the nearest stream. The boat was far too heavy for me to move. I tried bringing the water to the boat instead of the boat to the water. I soon saw it would take me twenty years of constant labor.
I celebrated my fourth year on the island with two boats, but I was no closer to a sea journey.
----Taken from The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us        .

A．how much rice and wheat I harvested

B．how many tools I made to bake bread

C．how I protected my crop from the birds

D．how I kept the wild goats away from my crop

2. What does "a new problem" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．How to plant grain.

B．How to make pots.

C．How to store grain.

D．How to fix the baskets.

3. By the last sentence "I was no closer to a sea journey", the writer means       .

A．I was getting closer and closer to the sea

B．I was getting farther and farther from the sea

C．it was possible for me to have a sea journey in my boats

D．it was still impossible for me to explore the island by sea

4. What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A．I managed to turn over the ships boat.

B．I spent months bringing the boat to the nearest stream.

C．I tried to solve the problems with my courage and wisdom.

D．I spent the third year on the island in farming and baking.

【推荐2】I'm Sam. I'm a student at an American school. At my school, we can have a lot of activities. If you like drama, you can join in the autumn plays, winter music dramas or other activities. There are also many sports games at our school. There are men's and women's soccer, men's tennis, men's table tennis and women's volleyball. We also need to do some voluntary(志愿的) work once a week. We take a bus to an old man's home, a hospital or some other places to help others. Parents also take part in(参加) school activities with their children sometimes. They can take part in their children's sports games. We have a game called Parents' Night. At those nights, students thank their parents for their help. We give some flowers or a card to our parents. Parents also come for the plays, students' fashion shows and other activities.
1. Where is Sam from?

A．China.	B．America.
C．England.	D．Australia.

2. There isn't ________at Sam's school.

A．men's soccer	B．women's soccer
C．men's tennis	D．women's tennis

3. At Parents' Night, ________thank their mothers and fathers.

A．the teachers	B．the boys
C．the girls	D．the students

4. The students go out to do some voluntary work _____ .

A．once a week

B．once a year

C．every five days

D．every two days

5. Which of the following activities is NOT talked about?

A．Sports games

B．Fashion show

C．Drama

D．Making model planes

【推荐3】Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they don't all have the same coffee culture. In Europe, for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed when Starbucks coffee shops spread across the country.

The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop's business did well and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.

Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment(设备). He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired(雇佣)Schultz as the company's head of marketing(市场营销). In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso(浓咖啡)bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.

However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the "feel the same everywhere" environment offered by Starbucks.

1. The underlined word "ran" in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”.

A．closed

B．managed

C．left

D．sold

2. According to the passage, which is the right order for the following sentences?
a. This man helped to make Starbucks a huge coffee company.
b. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in Seattle in the USA.
c. He went to Seattle to learn about the company and later worked for it.
d. Howard Schultz noticed Starbucks ordered lots of special coffee makers.

A．a-b-d-c

B．c-a-b-a

C．b-d-c-a

D．d-c-a-b

3. Why did so many Starbucks close in small areas?

A．Because the coffee in these places was too expensive.

B．Because the style of the coffee stores seems the same.

C．Because the people like to drink coffee at home with friends.

D．Because there were too many coffee shops in one place.

4. What's the best title for the passage?

A．The History of Starbucks	B．The Culture of Starbucks
C．The Popularity of Starbucks	D．The Environment of Starbucks

【推荐1】Today I’ll talk about how to improve your pronunciation. Language researchers say pronunciation and fluency (流利度) are the biggest difficulties, followed by grammar and listening. However, most people don’t regard pronunciation as a very important part of communication skills. They pay more attention to vocabulary. One reason is that most people don’t even realize their mispronunciations. So it’s important to find out the words you mispronounce first. You should listen to experts those who make fewer pronunciation mistakes. When listening to them, you should pay attention to words that sound strange, because you may pronounce the same words differently. When you meet such words, look up their right pronunciations in a dictionary. You can also search for words that are difficult to pronounce and make a list (清单) of them. At last, read aloud. Now you’ve got the correct pronunciations of the words. It’s time to practice reading them out every day.

阅读短文，根据短文内容判断句子正误。正确的写“A”，错误的写“B”。
1. Most people think grammar is the most important part in communication.
2. Most people don’t realize the importance of pronunciation because they are able to pronounce correctly.
3. Experts think there is no need to find out the words you pronounce in a wrong way.
4. After pronouncing these words correctly, you should practice reading these words loudly.
5. The writer gives us some advice on improving pronunciation.

【推荐2】Is there the best time to sleep? Actually, you have an amazing biological clock (生物钟) inside your body which can tell you some true facts.

From 11 p.m. to 3 a.m, your liver (肝脏) gets larger when filled with more blood and it lets the rubbish in your body out. If you go to sleep at 11 p.m., you have 4 hours to clean up the rubbish. And if you sleep at 2 a.m, there is only an hour to go. What if you sleep after 3 a.m.? Unfortunately, you won’t have any time to clean yourself. If you continue with this sleeping habit, there will be more toxins (毒素) in your body. You know what will happen next.

What if you go to bed late and wake up late? Did you realize you felt very tired the next day no matter how much you slept?

Going to bed late is very bad for your health. Besides not having enough time to clean your body, you will miss other important body functions (功能), too.

From 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., you should exercise and breathe in fresh air to take in good energy into your body. From 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., go to the toilet. And from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., it’s the best time to have breakfast. This is your most important meal in a day. Not having breakfast causes lots of health problems for you in the future.

Once you know the importance of your biological clock, try your best to follow it. What if you have much work to do until late at night? Well, why not go to bed early and wake up early to do it? You’ll get the same time, but your body will get fit.

1. After reading, We can learn ________ is the proper time to go to bed.

A．3 p.m.

B．2 a.m.

C．11 p.m.

D．5 a.m.

2. If you always go to bed late, ________.

A．you’ll lose weight	B．you’ll do more work
C．your liver will get lager	D．there will be more toxins in your body

3. The underlined word “breathe” means ________ in Chinese.

A．释放

B．呼吸

C．循环

D．消化

4. Which of the following is WRONG according to the text?

A．The liver helps clean up the rubbish in the body.

B．It’s best to have breakfast between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.

C．You’d better enjoy a good sleep from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.

D．It’s necessary to stay up late when there is much work to do.

5. The passage mainly talks about ________.

A．going to bed as early as possible

B．doing exercise is quite necessary

C．following your biological clock and you will get fit

D．we should do different things in different times of a day

【推荐3】My name is Sammy, and I live in London. I always get up at 7 a.m. and have breakfast. My father drives to work at 7:30 a.m. At 7:45 I usually wait for the bus to go to school. My mother goes shopping at 10 a.m. to buy food. At 3:30 p.m., I finish school, and I wait for the bus to take me back home. Sometimes, if it is a good day, I walk home, but walking takes a long time! My father goes back from work at about six o’clock. And he often reads newspaper while my mother is getting ready for our dinner. After dinner, I usually do my homework by 9 p.m. Then I say goodnight to my parents, and go to sleep at 10 p.m.
1. Where does Sammy live ?

A．In Moscow

B．In London

C．In Beijing

D．In Los Angeles

2. How does Sammy usually go to school ?

A．By bus .

B．By car .

C．On foot .

D．By train .

3. When does Sammy’s father go to work ?

A．At 7:00.

B．At 7:15 .

C．At 7:30 .

D．At 8:00 .

4. How many people are there in Sammy’s family ?

A．Four .

B．Five .

C．Six .

D．Three .

5. What is the best title for the passage ?

A．Sammy

B．My day

C．My work

D．My family’s day