【推荐1】Maybe You Should Learn to Relax!

These days, Chinese children are sometimes busier on weekends than weekdays because they have to take so many after-school classes. Many of them are learning exam skills so that they can get into a good high school and later a good university. Others are practicing sports so that they can compete and win. However, this doesn’t only happen in China.

Doctors say too much pressure is not good for a child’s development. Dr Alice Green says all these activities can cause a lot of stress for children. “Kids should have time to relax and think for themselves, too. It’s normal to want successful children, but it’s more important to have happy children.”

根据短文内容结合生活实际完成下列各题。
1. 单词释义（请在文中找出与下面英文释义相符的单词）
a test at school or college to see how much you know about a subject ___________________________
2. Do you often take after-school classes on weekends?
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3. What do you often do when you are under pressure?
I often ___________________________. (答出两种即可)

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，完成信息记录表。每空不得超过三个词。

Everyone needs a place to relax, right?

Now young students suffer as much stress as adults do. They face competition, interpersonal relationships and personal problems as adults do. But adults have more social experience and can deal with problems with more self-control. For students, sometimes they have no choice but to rebel（叛逆）.

Faced with such a situation, a middle school in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shanxi Province, recently opened its “mood drain room（情绪发泄室）”, a place for students to lift their spirits.

The room provides students with classes to guide their mental（心理的）health development. It’s also a place for practice where students can express the feelings by doing things like boxing（拳击）or shouting.

There are also mental health teachers in the room who help students with questions and also watch them for safety reasons.

Designers have considered different personalities of students when designing these activities. No matter it’s a boy or a girl who shows up, they can put on a pair of boxing gloves to hit a sandbag or shout out loud to relax. A drawing wall and a “writer’s and reader’s corner” are for shy students.

“I wish my school had such a room. But I would feel a little bit shy going there to shout out loud by myself. I like the room to have different theme activities every week so that I feel more comfortable going there,” Xingyuan, a Chinese middle school student shared her opinions.

“What matters is that it should be used in a right way, unlike the place where my son goes to cut classes and box against his classmates. It needs to have professional teachers.” said Li, a parent of a middle school student.

A mood drain room	Cause: Students suffer much     1	Services: ●Classes: They help guide Students’     2     health. ●     3    : Boxing, shouting, drawing, writing and reading.
	Methods: A middle school opened a room for students to     4    .
	5    : Two people shared something about the room.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，完成相关任务。

When the teacher asks a question in class, Wang Xiaobin never raises his hand and this situation is very common at middle schools. This 15-year-old boy always waits for other classmates or the teacher to give the answer. “What if my answer is wrong?” Wang asks.

Wang said only six or seven students in his class raise their hands when a question is asked. “I think it’s a problem that may affect (影响) our studies, but I am afraid of making mistakes in front of my classmates.” he said.

When we asked the teacher, Hu Wei, why the students didn’t raise their hands, he said, “They lack (缺乏) confidence, they are afraid of showing off, or they’re afraid of losing face by giving wrong answers.”

To encourage students to raise their hands in class, Hu suggests that teachers should repeat the question, then try to guide and encourage students to offer their answers. Hu also advised students not to be shy, but brave enough to try.

Sun Pin, 16 of Fujian, always raises her hand as soon as she comes up with the answer, even if she isn’t sure she has gotten it right. Sun can’t understand why some of her classmates keep silent in class. She enjoys raising her hand a lot. “It keeps me enthusiastic(热情的) and confident to express my idea,” Sun said. “Raising my hand has really made me excellent.”

1. Does Wang Xiaobin raise his hand when the teacher asks a question in class?
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2. To encourage students to raise their hands in class, what should teachers do?
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3. Who enjoys raising hand a lot?
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4. 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
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5. 给短文拟一个适当的标题。
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【推荐1】On a school day, 60 students at Xishan Primary School in Guangdong, are learning how to make corn soup and fried pork（炸猪排）in an after-school cooking class. Working in groups of four or five, the little chefs（厨师）take their work very seriously. Soon, they are showing off their own delicious dishes.

Since last September, the school has set up after-school classes for students. Cooking classes are the most popular. It comes after the “double reduction” policy（政策）. The policy aims to ease the burdens（减轻负担）of too much homework and off-campus tutoring（课外辅导）for primary and junior high school students.

But does the life really change for students and parents after the “double reduction” policy?

“Our homework is clearly less than before,” said 13-year-old Shen Yuzhe from Beijing. “We aren’t asked to buy workbooks anymore. The exercises are mainly from the textbook.” According to Shen, teachers have taught much slowly. It gives us enough time to learn new things.	Instead of spending my weekends taking after-school classes, I began to plan my own weekends. Reading books for more knowledge, listening to music for fun, doing sports for health—these activities all enriched（充实）my weekends. Besides, I have more time for honest（坦诚的）talks with my parents now. They give me good advice whenever I feel sad. Li Yijia, 14. Jiangsu
“With finishing homework at school, my child and I can read books and listen to music together in the evening, or we can go out to play badminton or skip rope（跳绳）,” said Lu Di, the parent of a fifth-grader.

1. What lesson are the 60 students at Xishan Primary School having?
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2. According to Shen Yuzhe, what are the changes after the “double reduction” policy?
（One example is OK. ）
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3. Find the underlined phrase Instead of in the box, write a sentence using it.
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4. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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5. Does Lu Di agree with the “double reduction” policy?
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6. What’s your opinion about the “double reduction” policy?
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【推荐2】阅读下文并回答问题。

In January, the Ministry of Education released（发行）a notice. It restricts（限制） primary and middle school students from carrying mobile phones to school. Those who still require their phones for some reason must be allowed by their parents and teachers first and must hand over their phones during class time.

According to a 2020 report by the China Internet Network Information Center, China had 175 million Internet users under the age of 18 in 2019, with 74 percent having their own smartphones.

This is worrying, as long-time use of smartphones is harmful to children’s eyesight, and even the brain, according to the World Health Organization.

On Feb 19th,a notice from Beijing Municipal Education Commission asked all local primary and middle schools to make rules on smartphone use.

Schools should make it clear where, how and who will take care of the phones for students who are allowed to bring them.

Many schools have taken action to control students’ phone use at school. According to Zhou Dandan, an English teacher in Beijing, every classroom in her school has a box for students’ phones during class. Before the new rules, she noticed that many students were preoccupied with（沉浸在）their phones. Some even played games on them during class. Zhou said that most students are not self-disciplined（自律的）. Spending too much time on the phone will distract them and prevent them from learning, she added.

Li Jisen, a middle school student, agrees with the new rule. “In general, there are more advantages than disadvantages,” he said. Li believes that controlling phone use at school is the only way to make students pay attention to their study.

However, Liu Yanping, a head teacher in Beijing, said it was unwise to take a “one size fits all” way. “You can’t simply cut students off from the Internet in the digital era（数字时代）.”

Kathy Chen, a parent from Shanghai, allowed her daughter to take her phone to school. Chen said it’s more important to develop kids’ ability to self-manage and good habits of phone usage.

1. Is long-time use of smartphones harmful to children’s brain?
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2. In Zhou Dandan’s classroom, where should the students put their phones during class?
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3. What are the purposes of the Ministry of Education to release the notice?
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4. Are you for or against the new rule on smartphone use? Why?
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【推荐3】On April 1st, China announced that it would build the Xiongan New Area in Hebei Province. This will be of the same importance as the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Pudong New Area.

The area will cover three counties(县) that sit at the center of the triangular(三角形的) area formed by Bejing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang.

The Xiongan New Area has great potential(潜力) for growth. It has a large space to develop and will expand(扩大) to cover 2, 000 square kilometers. The transportation of the area is convenient, with only an hour’s drive to Beijing and Tianjin.

The new area also has a wonderful natural environment. It is home to Baiyangdian, one of the largest freshwater wetlands in North China. With more than 140 lakes, the wetland is known as the “pearl(珍珠)” of the North China Plain.

Once built, the area will lower the heavy burden(负担) on Beijing. For example, many companies, universities and scientific research centers will move from Beijing to the area.

International experts and media also think highly of this new area, saying that it will set an example to developing countries.
(每空最多两个词)

The Xiongan New Area
Location	It lies in Hebei Province. It will be as     1     as the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Pudong New Area.
Size	There are three counties in the new area and it will cover     2     square kilometers.
Transportation	The transportation of the area is convenient, and it will take only an     3     to drive to Beijing and Tian jin.
Advantages	The Xiongan New Area will lower the heavy burden on Beijing if it     4    . Besides, international experts and media who think     5     of this new area believe that it will set an example to developing countries.

【推荐1】Most children need their parents’ watching to keep safe in heavy traffic. Children learn about road safety by watching others. Make sure that you always set good examples. Your children will follow you and think it’s OK to do like you. Teach your children to pay attention to traffic lights when you cross the road together with them. This helps them understand when it is safe to cross. Make sure that you walk between your children and traffic, and hold their hands all the time.

When your children are a little older, you can start to tell them the importance of traffic knowledge. Let them start to understand the reasons why they need to be so careful. Talk with them about road signs and traffic rules and ask them to choose safe places to cross.

Teach your children to choose safe places to play. Never let them ride bikes on the road without an adult present (在场) at rush hour.

The most important thing you can do to keep your children from getting hurt is to encourage them to follow traffic rules. After knowing traffic rules, they will volunteer to obey them. In this way, they will be careful enough to keep themselves away from danger.

根据短文内容回答问题。
1. Can most children stay safe without their parents’ watching in heavy traffic?
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2. Why should parents set good examples to their children?
___________________________________________________.
3. Where should parents walk while crossing the road with their children?
___________________________________________________.
4. Parents shouldn’t let their children ride bikes alone at rush hour, should they?
___________________________________________________.
5. What’s the most important thing parents can do to keep their children from getting hurt?
___________________________________________________.

【推荐3】Sometimes the easiest way to get somewhere is on the back of a bike.

More and more people are using cars in many places in Africa today. However, things are different in Malawi(马拉维). ①Bikes are most popular in this African country.

Bike riding is a way of life in Malawi. ②People use bikes to carry heavy things. They also use bikes to carry people, especially visitors. These years, taking a “bicycle taxi” to go around Malawi has become quite popular for visitors from all over the world.

If you go to Malawi, you will find a lot of bike taxis waiting on the sides of the roads. The riders make the bikes comfortable for passengers to sit on. You can jump on a bike taxi and get around at a very good price.

Alice is a 21-year-old student from Canada. She enjoys the special bike riding a lot. “I really like the bike taxi,” she says. “It’s easy and cheap.” Alice usually pays just $1 for going shopping in town.

28-year-old Panjira Khombe began to ride a bike taxi two years ago. The young man enjoys this job. “③I used to make boats for a living, but that’s a hard job. Being a bike taxi rider is easy for me and I don’t mind carrying heavy people,” he says.

1. 文中①处画线部分有错误，改正并抄写。
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2. 将文中②处画线部分改为被动语态（省略by people）。
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3. 将文中③处画线句子翻译成汉语。
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4. How much does Alice usually pay for going shopping in town by bike taxi?
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5. Do you like riding a bike? Why or Why not? (At least 1 reason)
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【推荐1】Have you seen the hit TV series Minning Town（《山海情》）? It tells the story of people who move from mountains in Ningxia to build new homes on the plains（平原）in the 1990s.They learn to grow mushrooms from experts from Fujian. Some of them go to Fujian factories to make money. In the end, they get rid of poverty（贫困）.

The show is based on a true story. It is a good example of China’s “pair-up” practice. In 1997, Fujian and Ningxia paired up as partners to fight against poverty. The name Minning comes from the short nicknames for Fujian ( Min) and Ningxia ( Ning). Since the work started, Fujian has sent 183 officials and around 2,000 experts in science and technology, education, and medical care to Ningxia, according to the local govermment.

The population of Minning grew from 8,000 to 66,000. In 2020, the yearly disposable（可支配的）income of its people reached nearly 15,000 yuan.

Poverty is a big problem around the world. But China has done a good job of dealing with it. China has found its own way to fight against poverty. Instead of just giving money to poor people, it has tried to educate people and give them the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Minning Town is without doubt a good example of it.

1. Is the story of Minning Town a true one or a made-up one?
_____________________________________________.
2. How did the people in Minning get rid of poverty?
They get rid of poverty _____________________________.
3. How does the town get its name Minning?
It comes from _____________________________.
4. How does the writer help the readers to know clearly about the development in Mining?
The writer listed some _____________________________ for us to know clearly about the development in Mining.
5. What’s China’s way to fight against poverty?
China has tried to _____________________________ to lift themselves out of poverty.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根报短文内容，回答下列问题。

Seeing changes in China

①It was a warm spring day in 2021. Chen Beier, a reporter and TV presenter from Hong Kong, was on her way to a small village called Atule’er. The small village sits at the top of an 800-meter-high cliff (悬崖). People can only get up to it by climbing a 2.556-step steel ladder (钢梯). It is very dangerous.

②So, was Chen looking for adventure there? The answer is no. The famous presenter was, instead, making a documentary.

③In February 2021, China reached an important goal. It got rid of poverty (摆脱贫困). Many people couldn’t believe this. After all, China has a large number of poor villages. In order to show the truth to people, Chen set out to make No Poverty Land.

④The trip turned out to be hard. When she was halfway up the ladder to Atule’er. For example. Chen felt so tired that she could hardly go any further. She was also afraid of heights. The villagers advised her to stop the climb, but the woman continued her climb.

⑤This steel ladder, in fact, is only six years old. Before it was built, the villagers had to face even bigger danger and use a rattan (藤条制成的) ladder. The government has also built houses for the villagers at the foot of the mountain. Through No Poverty Land, people can easily see how life in poor areas of China has been improved.

⑥China has changed a lot, but some people just find it hard to believe. Now, Chen has shown us what we can do about that: Don’t just tell people about the great changes; show them when you can.

1. Who is Chen Beier?
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2. Where is the small village Atule’er?
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3. Why did Chen make the documentary No Poverty Land?
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4. How did Chen feel about climbing up the ladder?
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5. Through No Poverty Land, what changes can be seen in Atule’er? (Give one example.)
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6. What do you think of Chen Beier? Why do you think so?
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【推荐3】This year marks the fortieth anniversary of China's“ reform and opening up”" policy (“改革开放”政策).

Forty years ago, China was a very poor country where almost three quarters of the population lived in poverty(贫困). So far, China has become the world's second largest economy, next to the United States, and over 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty

What else has changed in the past forty years? Well, in 1980, there were 100 Chinese students studying in the UK. Today, the number is 170,000. Last year, over 600, 000 left China to study in foreign countries.

Another example of that commitment is China International Import Expo(CIIE，中国国际进口博览in Shanghai which runs from Nov. 5 to Nov.10 in 2018. Over 140 countries exhibited (展出) their products, hoping to attract Chinese customers. With a market of 1.4 billion people, foreign countries see a very great chance here, and China recognizes that two-way trade with foreign countries is of importance to the health of the world economy.

The CIIE visitors coming to Shanghai saw a different city from the Shanghai of forty years ago. They saw streets filled with cars where once there were bicycles. They saw modern high-rise apartment buildings where once there were shabby (破旧的) brick houses. But they also saw a thing that hadn’t changed---- the friendly people of Shanghai who have led the way of China's successful reform and opening up.

根据短文内容成表格 。(每空一词)

Opening up,     1     years on

2	“China’s reform and opening up" policy has been in use for 40 years.
Main body	In the past	China was a very poor country where almost three       3     of the population lived in poverty.
		In 1980, 100 Chinese students     4    in the UK.
		There were bicycles and shabby brick houses here and there.
	At     5	China has become the second largest economy in the     6    .
		By 2018, the number of the students is 170, 000 in the UK. Last year, over 600,000 left China to study     7    .
		The CIlE in Shanghai realizes that trading with others is     8    for the world economy. Visitors saw streets    9     of cars and modern high-rise apartment buildings.
Conclusion	Shanghai has changed a lot. One thing that hasn’t changed is the friendly people of Shanghai who have     10     in the lead on the way of China's successful reform and opening up.