【推荐1】When you are on vacation without your parents, it's easy to feel homesick(想家的). How can you have a great vacation without your parents? Here is some advice for you.

    1     Try not to think about it too much. Find something interesting to do. If you are busy enough, you will not think of your parents too much.

    2     Hearing their voices(声音) will make you happy and forget all your worries.

    3     Talking to your new friends will make you feel better.

    4     When you miss your parents at night, listen to some relaxing music or read some interesting books.

    5     Take some photos of your vacation and show them to your parents when you get home. It will be fun to show them what a great time you have had.

Have fun! Just enjoy your vacation, and know your parents will be waiting for you at home.

A．Make some new friends.

B．Keep busy.

C．Show photos to your parents.

D．Call your parents.

E．Enjoy music or read books at night.

【推荐3】There are many ways to keep healthy. Different people have different ways. Lisa's father thinks riding a bike is the best way because he likes to go to work by bike. And their home isn't far from his bank. Lisa thinks running is better than riding, so she runs every day. However, her mother thinks it's boring. She loves walking to work. Lisa's sister likes flying kites. She goes to fly kites once a week. Lisa's brother thinks playing ping-pong is a good way to keep healthy. He plays it every morning.
1. _____ likes riding a bike to work.

A．Lisa's mother

B．Lisa's father

C．Lisa's brother

D．Lisa's sister

2. Lisa's father works in a _____

A．bank

B．school

C．police station

D．store

3. Lisa's sister likes______

A．fishing

B．flying kites

C．swimming

D．playing basketball

4. Lisa runs_______

A．once a week

B．every week      C every day

C．three times a day

5. The best title(题目 ) is______.
A Different Ways to Keep Healthy

A．Different People, Different Likes

B．How to Eat Healthily

C．How Often do You Exercise

【推荐3】A problem is only a problem until there is a solution(解决办法). We find solutions by thinking creatively.     1     In other words, we think outside the box. Sometimes, thinking outside the box solves not just one, but two problems. Amsterdam is one of the most crowded cities in Europe. As a result, housing is very expensive, especially for students.

    2     However, finding this type of apartments was almost impossible until recently. While the colleges in Amsterdam were trying to solve the housing problem, thousands of shipping contains(集装箱) were lying quietly in ports(港口) around the world. These huge steel containers carry products from one country to another. The life of each container is about 10 years.     3     Yet they can’t recycle all of them because there are so many.

Back in Amsterdam, a company came up with amazing idea. Why not reuse these shipping containers as student apartments?     4     They are all the same size and fit together perfectly. The steel is strong. Moreover, these containers are so widely available that they are quite cheap to buy. For all these reasons, they can be used to build apartments quickly and cheaply. Building began in 2005, and after only a few weeks, hundreds of Amsterdam students had new homes.
When students first heard about this idea, they thought the container apartments would be small, noisy, and cold.     5     Each container apartment has a kitchen, a bedroom with a study area, and a bathroom. The apartments are warm and quiet. They even have a high-speed Internet connection. Living in a shipping container has become popular. Today, over 3,000 Amsterdam students live in the con tainer village.

A．Students need low-cost apartments.

B．The containers are great for building apartments.

C．In fact, these apartments are not in good condition.

D．However, they were surprised when they saw them.

E．Steel companies recycle some of the old containers.

F．Recycling the steel containers has many ideas.

G．We use our imagination and come up with creative advantages.

【推荐1】Could you imagine being in a car driven by a computer, not a human? Recently, China has made a big step toward self-driving technology. Driverless taxis can run on roads in Wuhan, Chongqing and Shenzhen.

Why do we develop self-driving care?

Self-driving cars give us many benefits (好处). They use computers to sense the things around them and make better use of space. This means fewer traffic jams and better parking of car for disabled or blind people. Self-driving cars also help them get around more easily. Each year, over 1.35 million people are killed on roads around the world. Many more are injured. Self-driving cars could reduce road accidents by 90% and save governments a lot of money. The main causes of car accidents are human mistakes. By using computers, self-driving cars don’t make poor decisions or lose attention like humans do.

But self-driving cars aren’t perfect. If something unexpected on the road happens, self-driving cars can’t react as fast as a human driver could. Also, during weather events like heavy snow, self-driving cars would have trouble seeing the lines on the road. It might lead to an accident. The car’s computer system could also get hacked by someone, causing it to crash or change its direction.

It’s clear that there’s much work to do to make self-driving cars common and safe on our roads. And China is taking the lead in making this happen.

1. What’s a benefit of self-driving cars?

A．They don’t need parking lose

B．They allow disabled people to travel more freely.

C．They react faster than humans in bad weather.

2. Why can self-driving cars help reduce road accidents?

A．Because they can correct human mistakes while driving.

B．Because their computers can predict all road accidents.

C．Because their computers don’t “lose attention” like humans do.

3. What does the underlined phrase “get hacked” mean in Chinese?

A．被窃取信息

B．被黑客侵入

C．被意外保护

4. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．The disadvantages of self-driving cars.

B．The benefits of having a human driver.

C．How the computers in self-driving cars work.

5. What do we know from the last paragraph?

A．Many countries are working together to develop self-driving cars.

B．Self-driving cars are already commonly seen in China.

C．China is trying to make self-driving cars safer and more common.

【推荐2】Here are some facts about homes in the United States and the people who live in them. In the early 1990s, about 50% of the Americans owned their homes and the rest rented (租) their homes. The rented homes were usually apartments (公寓).
74% of the people in the US make their homes in or around cities. 26% live in the country. Dogs live in about 40% of all homes in the US. About half that number have cats.
Families in the US are becoming smaller. On the average (平均), 2.64 people lived at home in early 1990s. In 1960, the average was 3.5.
Half of the teenagers in the US have their own bedrooms.
An American moves, on the average, twelve times in his or her life. In Japan a person moves about five times, and in England a person moves eight times.
1. Most Americans live ________, according to the passage.

A．in or around the cities	B．in cities
C．around cities	D．in the country

2. How many American families own a cat?

A．About 40%.	B．About 20%.
C．About 74%.	D．About 26%.

3. On the average, there were ________ people in an American family in 1994.

A．more than 3	B．only 3.5
C．less than 2	D．about 2.64

4. ________ in the US have their own bedrooms.

A．All of the people	B．Most of the children
C．Half of the teenagers	D．Only some of the teenagers

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A．In the early 1990s, most of the Americans owned their homes.

B．Families in the US are becoming bigger and bigger.

C．A Japanese moves more often than an American.

D．An American moves more often than an Englishman.

【推荐3】Can you get enough sleep? With so much homework, it’s often difficult for you to get enough sleep you need. However, you should know that enough sleep keeps you healthy and stops you from getting fat.

A group of American scientists did a study among the local kids aged between 8 and 13. The study finds that if kids get an extra (另外的) hour’s sleep each day, their chance of getting fat will be reduced by about 30%.

Why? Because if kids don’t get enough sleep, they will be tired. When they are tired, they don’t get enough exercise. Besides, kids usually like snacks. If they are awake for an extra hour each day, they will have more time to eat snacks or other unhealthy food.

How much sleep should kids get? Scientists suggest that kids aged between 5 and 12 should sleep for ten to eleven hours a night. As for older kids, eight to nine hours will do.

根据材料内容选出最佳答案。
1. The study was most probably done in _________.

A．China

B．Britain

C．Canada

D．America

2. How many reasons are given for why kids without enough sleep may get fat?

A．2.

B．3.

C．4.

D．5.

3. If you are 10, how long do the scientists advise you to sleep?

A．For 7 to 8 hours.

B．For 8 to 9 hours.

C．For 9 to 10 hours.

D．For 10 to 11 hours.

4. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean?

A．Eight to nine hours’ sleep will be too long.

B．Eight to nine hours’ sleep will be enough.

C．Eight to nine hours’ sleep will make them fat.

D．Eight to nine hours’ sleep will make them tired.

5. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．How to keep fat.

B．How to get enough sleep.

C．Enough sleep stops children from getting fat.

D．The older people are, the less sleep they need.