【推荐1】阅读下面材料，然后根据材料内容简要回答下列问题。

Growing up or Growing old

When the new term came, I had a new classmate, a little old lady with a warm smile. She said, “Hi, handsome! I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug(拥抱)?”

I said heartily, “Of course!”

“Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked.

She joked, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then travel around.”

“No, seriously,” I asked.

“I always dreamed of having a college education. Now I’m getting one!” she told me.

Over the year, Rose became an icon(偶像). She easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from other students.

At the end of the term, we invited Rose to speak at our banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the secrets of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die!” she said.

“There is a big difference between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent or ability,” She added. “But to grow up, you have to find the chances in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.”

She taught us by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be.

1. What was the writer’s new classmate like?
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2. Why was she in college at such an age?
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3. According to Rose, what’s the secret of staying young?
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4. What does the underlined part “that” refer to(指的是)?
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5. Would you like Rose to be your icon? Why?
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6. 假如你是李平，请根据第二节（回答问题）材料，以及材料后面 5 个问题为提示，写一篇介绍 Rose 的短文。
要点如下：
1. Rose 的外貌、年龄、性格及大学生活经历等。
2. Rose 的观点对你的启示和思考。注意：字数 80 词以上。
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【推荐2】回答问题 阅读短文，然后根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。

Jojo Manning is a middle school student from France. Because of the COVID-19, she is still going to school online these days. It is difficult to talk to classmates and make new friends like before. But she found a better way to talk to people, that is to go to online club meetings.

Jojo is the leader of a book club. They meet once a week to talk about the new book they have read together. “It’s fun to meet new people and hear what they say about a great book,” said Jojo. “Now we are reading The Perks of Being Wallflower（《壁花少年》）by Stephen Chbosky.”

One of the biggest clubs Jojo in is the National Honors Society. In this club, students help each other with their study. Now, Jojo’s group members are planning an online activity to help old people in an old people’s home. They will sing songs over a video call. They wish that would bring some joys to the old people’s life.

Clubs have been a great way for Jojo to make new friends. She hopes to see her club members in person someday, but she also enjoys going to the online meetings every week.

1. Where does Jojo come from?
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2. How often do people in book clubs meet?
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3. Does Jojo like the online book clubs?
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4. Who is Jojo going to sing over a video call for?
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5. What does Jojo hope to do someday?
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【推荐3】Two men walked slowly, one after the other. All they could see were stones and earth. They had bags on their backs, but no food. They had guns, but no bullets.

Suddenly the man who followed fell over a stone. He hurt his foot badly and cried: “Bill. I’ve hurt my foot. Help me!” Bill continued straight on without looking back.

The man was alone in the empty land. His foot hurt, but it was nothing compared with his hunger. He had not eaten for many days and could hardly move his feet. Bill would be going to find the right way for them, he thought. He crawled about, on hands and knees: As he moved on, the bag became heavier and heavier. He opened the bag, which was full of small pieces of gold. He left the gold on a stone. In the evening, he built a fire and slept like a dead man.

Eleven days passed, days of rain and cold. One morning, he woke up and heard a noise behind him. Wolf, old and sick, was coming slowly toward him. He rose to his feet and moved forward, knowing well the sick wolf was following him. Later, he found some bones. Beside the bones was a small bag of gold, like his own. So Bill had carried his gold to the end. He looked at the bones. Would he, too, be bones tomorrow? And why not? This was life. Then why was he not ready to die? It was the life in him, unwilling to die, that drove him on.

The man had lost everything — his gun, and his gold. Only the wolf accompanied him. At last he could go on no further. He fell. The wolf came close to him, but the man was ready. He got on top of the wolf and held its mouth closed. Then he bit it with his last strength. He held the wolf with his teeth and killed it, and then he fell on his back and fell asleep.

Later that day, the people on a ship saw something strange lying on the beach. It was moving toward them very slowly — perhaps twenty feet an hour. They took a careful look and could hardly believe their eyes — it was a man!

1. When the man cried for help, Bill continued straight on because _________.

A．he didn’t hear the man’s words	B．he didn’t want to help the man
C．he saw a sick wolf coming to them	D．he went to find the right way for them

2. What does the underlined word “accompany” probably mean in the passage?

A．Stay with

B．Fight with

C．Care for

D．Worry about

3. What can you infer from the passage?

A．Bill stole some gold from the man on the way.

B．The man found some bones of a wolf in the land.

C．The bag became heavier because the man got weaker.

D．The people searched for the man and finally found him.

4. What do you think of the man in the passage?（请用约40词回答）
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【推荐1】Trees are useful to man in three very important ways. The first important way is that they provide (提供) man with food, wood and other products. Trees provide not only man with food, but also many animals with food. Without trees, many animals could not live on the earth. It’s not easy for man to live on the earth, either.

The second important way is that trees give us shade. On a hot summer day, people long to have a rest in the shade of a tree after they have walked a long way. You can imagine (想象) how important the shade of a tree is to man and animals.

The third important way is that trees help to stop drought (干旱) and floods (洪水). However, in many parts of the world, man has not known the third important way. He has cut trees down in large numbers. In the end, he finds that he has lost his best friends.

1~2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Trees provide man with ________, and ________ ________.
2. It’s not easy for ________ and ________ to live on the earth without trees.
3. What does “his best friends” refer to (指的是) in the last sentence?
4. _______________________________________
5. _______________________________________

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，完成小题。

Around the world more and more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Of course there have always been people who have looked for adventures and those who have climbed the highest mountains or explored unknown parts of the world. Now, however, there are people who look for a quick pleasure from a dangerous activity, which may only last a few minutes or even seconds.

I think bungee jumping is a good example of such an activity. You jump from a high place (maybe a bridge or a hot-air balloon) 200 meters above the ground with an elastic rope to your ankles. You fall at up to 150 kilometers an hour until the rope stops you from hitting the ground. It is said that 2,000,000 people around the world have now tried bungee jumping. Most people think that other activities, such as jumping from the tall buildings and diving into the sea from the top of high rocks are as dangerous as bungee jumping.

Why do people take part in such activities? Some scientists think it is because life in modern cities has become safe and boring. Now city life has little excitement. They buy food in shops and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they are ill. The answer for some of these people is to look for something exciting in activities as bungee jumping.

1. 文中“They”指代的是________。

A．doctors

B．dangerous activities

C．people in cities

2. What kind of activity is bungee jumping?

A．

B．

C．

3. More and more people are taking part in dangerous activities because ____________________ (不超过10个单词)
4. Though bungee jumping only lasts a few minutes, people can get ____________________ from it. (不超过3个单词)
5. 英译汉：a good example of such an activity
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【推荐3】阅读下面短文，按要求完成下面小题。

Robots are very important in our daily life now. People like robots because they can do things for us. They can do housework. They can deal with data (处理数据) fast. Some people think robots can do everything nicely. But some things that are easy for us are difficult for robots. For example, robots have difficulty picking up things. This may make you feel surprised because even babies can pick up things easily. That’s because our brains tell us how to use our hands to hold things. But robots can’t understand these kinds of things. So they often break or drop things.

Many scientists are trying to deal with this problem. Among them is Ken Goldberg from the University of California, Berkeley, the US. He has studied the problem for years. Finally, he came up with an answer to the question. He built a database for robots. All kinds of information about a thing, such as its size and shape, are in the database. Before a robot picks up a thing, it can find the information about the thing. In this way, the robot can pick up the thing easily.

1、2题完成句子；3～5题简略回答问题。
1. Robots ________ picking up things.
2. Ken Goldberg ________ for robots to deal with the problem.
3. Why can even babies pick up things easily?
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4. How can the robot pick up the thing easily?
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5. Do you like robots? Why or why not?
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【推荐1】阅读表达

A 12-year-old boy named Tim Brown got lost in the mountains. However, he survived (活下来) at last thanks to his amazing survival (生存) skills.

One day, Tim went hiking with his group in the Magaliesberg, South Africa. At first, everything went well. But at about one o’clock in the afternoon, he lost his way and couldn’t find any other person. He got scared at first, but then he tried to calm down. He knew what to do in such a situation. “I should follow the river, follow the light, follow the sun and finally there will be buildings, roads and people and I could call home,” he told himself.

Tim kept walking. Suddenly he heard some sounds and ran towards them. But to his surprise, he saw some baboons (狒狒). Unluckily, one baboon scratched (抓伤) his arm. He found some water to wash the blood off the scratches and continued to walk. Tim just wore a pair of swimming trunks (游泳裤), so he felt very cold. He tried to keep warm by covering his body with tree leaves. About 22 hours later, he finally met a farmer and was able to call his mom.

After he came back, his mom asked why he carried on walking when it got dark. The little boy said if he did that, he would see her again. Nothing could beat his love for his mom!

1. Tim finally ________ himself because of his amazing survival ________.
2. It didn’t take Tim quite long to ________ ________ after he got scared when he lost his way.
3. The ________ Tim heard were from some ________.
4. Tim felt very cold because he just wore a pair of ________ ________.
5. It was Tim’s ________ for his mom that encouraged him to carry on ________ when it got dark.

【推荐2】When I was in school, I could always tell when my class was about to take a test.

You could feel the anxiety in the air. Their smiles were tight （紧绷的）. Pencils were knocking lightly on desks. A few students were trying to tell jokes to relax.

Every once in a while, a teacher would give us a break and announce that the test was going to be an open book one. Right away, you could see our smiles return. Students would laugh, and you even heard a cheer or two. The pressure went away. As we took out our books, we knew that the answers would be right in front of us. （A）_____________

Many people say that life is full of tests and we have to face them. This is true. But what most people don’t realize is that they are all open book （B）ones. The answers are always right there in front of you, and they are so simple. You just have to open the book of your soul （灵魂）to any page, and you will see the words: “JUST LOVE”. Just love yourself. Just love everyone as yourself. When you do this, you will pass every test that life throws at you. When you do this, you will make the world a brighter, better and happier place.

阅读短文，根据题目要求完成下列任务。
1. 请在文章第二段中找出与以下释义意思相同的单词或短语。
the feeling of being nervous or worried that something bad is going to happen: ________
2. What didn’t the writer’s classmates do when they knew the test would be an open book one?
①They smiled.                         ②They laughed and cheered.
③They told jokes to relax.          ④They knocked their pencils lightly on the desk.

A．①②

B．②④

C．③④

3. 以下选项适合填入文中（A）处划线部分，使文章意思连贯的是：________

A．And we needn’t finish the test.

B．All we had to do was to find them.

C．And the teacher would give us the answers.

4. 文中（B）处划线部分指代的是：________________
5. How can we pass the tests of life according to the writer?
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