【推荐1】What would it be like to be over 100 meters in the air? Besides taking a plane, there is a more interesting and relaxing way to experience it: having a ride on a Ferris wheel(摩天轮).

The London Eye, England

With a height of about 135 meter, the London Eye is one of the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe. There are 32 cars(轿厢) and each can carry 25 people at most. On the ride, people can get a view of London Tower, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben. One turn takes 30 minutes.

The High Roller, the US

It is one of the world’s tallest Ferris wheel. It is 168 meters tall. The High Roller first opened in Las Vegas on March 31st, 2014. A ride takes 30 minutes. You can also enjoy videos and music during the ride.

Tianjin Eye, China

Tianjin Eye is a 120-meter-tall Ferris wheel. It lies on a bridge over the Haihe River in Tianjin, China. The wheel has 48 cars. Each can take eight passengers. People can get good views of the city during the 30-minute trip.

Roue de Paris, France

Roue de Paris looks like all the other Ferris wheels. It is about 60 meters tall and has 42 cars. But people can move it. Because of this, the big wheel has been to many other places like Manchester in the UK and Bangkok in Thailand.

1. There are ________ cars in the London Eye.

A．25

B．30

C．32

D．135

2. The High Roller is in ________.

A．Paris

B．Tianjin

C．Las Vegas

D．London

3. The High Roller is ________ meters taller than Tianjin Eye.

A．33

B．48

C．60

D．108

4. ________ lies on a bridge.

A．London Eye

B．The High Roller

C．Tianjin Eye

D．Roue de Paris

5. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Tianjin Eye can bring you musical enjoyment.

B．Roue de Paris can be moved to many other places.

C．The London Eye can carry 384 passengers at most on one turn.

D．Having a ride on the four Ferris wheel needs the same time.

【推荐3】The Royal Hotel is the closest to the sea, so it is very popular. But it is expensive, so it is not the most crowded. It has the biggest swimming pool, but most of the guests go swimming in the sea.

The Promenade Hotel has the most popular restaurant in town. The food is the best and the waiters give the friendliest service, so it is the most crowded.

The Super Hotel is in the city, so it is the busiest hotel. Its guests are the richest. The rooms and the swimming pool are the most comfortable. This hotel is the most expensive one in the country.

There are some other hotels around, such as Lucy’s Hotel, but they are just for guests to have a sleep, and they are cheap.

1. Why do most of the guests in the Royal Hotel go swimming in the sea?

A．Because it’s close to the sea.

B．Because its swimming pool is small.

C．Because the water of the swimming pool is not clean.

2. What does the underlined word “waiters” probably mean in Chinese?

A．老板们

B．侍者们

C．顾客们

3. Which hotel is the most expensive?

A．The Royal Hotel.

B．The Promenade Hotel.

C．The Super Hotel.

4. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．the food of the hotels

B．the guests of the hotels

C．the introductions(介绍) of the hotels

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，从所给选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺，结构完整，其中有一项是多余选项。

The “April snow” is here! It’s not real snow, of course — it’s catkins (飞絮) from willows and poplar trees in spring. The female trees grow lots of flowers. When these flowers finish growing, they produce cotton-like seeds that spread through the air.     1     Catkins can cause allergies (过敏), making people’s noses, eyes, and skin uncomfortable.

    2     Doing “gender change surgery” (变性手术) on willow and poplar trees is one of them. People cut off the branches of female trees and replace them with branches from male trees. This cuts down the number of catkins. However, this way is slow and expensive.     3     From 2008 to 2018, only around 1,000 trees were treated in Beijing, reported Outlook Weekly in 2022.

Scientists in Wuxi, Jiangsu, use special injections (注射) to reduce the number of catkins on trees.     4     They won’t reproduce (繁殖) and make catkins. Xu Qinming, an expert in Wuxi, told Science and Technology Daily that this method is safe for the trees. However, the trees need to get injections every year to keep the catkin numbers under control.

Other than injections, the trees can take “medicine”. This medicine can be sprayed onto the trees before the catkins form, which can quickly reduce catkin numbers.     5     So people need to be very careful about how much of the medicine they use and when they should use it.

A．However, it is harmful to the environment.

B．For some people, this “snow” is not welcomed.

C．Luckily, scientists have found many ways to control catkins.

D．With the help of this special medicine, the catkins will soon disappear.

E．A skilled worker can only do the “surgery” on less than ten trees a day.

F．Trees mainly use their energy to grow bigger and get more leaves after being injected.

【推荐2】Plants are very important to us. We cannot live without plants. Plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. However, animals cannot do that. We can get their food by eating plants and other animals, so we need to protect the animals and plants.

There are many plants in our land. I want to talk about two kinds of plants. One is a kind of plant with flowers and fruits and the other is a kind of plant without flowers and fruits. Most trees are plants with flowers and fruits around us. We usually call them flowering plants. Non-flowering plants cannot grow flowers. They are much fewer than flowering plants.

If we look at the plants carefully around us, we will find that some plants are large and some are small. Most of them are green. Their flowers have different colors and leaves are very beautiful. They make the world colorful. They can make us happy.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Why do we need plants?

A．Because we like plants.

B．Because they are very beautiful.

C．Because we can get things from plants.

D．Because they can protect the land from wind.

2. How many kinds of plants are mainly talked about in this passage?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

3. Which part of the following is not mentioned (提到) in this passage?

A．Animals.

B．Plants.

C．Colors.

D．Forest.

4. How do we like the plants?

A．They can make us beautiful.	B．They can make us cool.
C．They can make us happy.	D．They can make us sad.

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

A．Plants Around Us	B．Plants and Animals
C．Flowering Plants	D．Non-flowering Plants

【推荐3】Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus Flytrap.

            The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.
       Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen(氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!
1. The Venus flytrap grows in ________.

A．most parts of the world	B．dry parts of the United States
C．some parts of Africa	D．wet parts of England

2. The underlined word “presses” probably means ________in Chinese.

A．关上

B．挤压

C．打开

D．松开

3. Why do some plants eat animal meat?

A．Because plants are dangerous to animals.

B．Because animals are dangerous to plants.

C．Because plants want to protect themselves against animals.

D．Because plants want to get what they need from animal meat.