Since the age of 5,Laura Lee has had a strange habit—she collects cardboard toilet-paper rolls（厕所卷纸筒）. She didn’t know this habit would one day become a recycling movement.
In 2018,Lee set up a goal to collect 1,000 kilograms of these rolls. She was then a 16-year-old student at Nanyang Girls’ High School in Singapore. As of February 2021,she collected 860 kg. She received an Ecofriend Award from the Singapore government.
Why did she choose toilet rolls?“They are convenient to collect and also one of the purest forms of waste to recycle because they are made of only one material,” Lee told Singapore Today. “It’s more difficult to recycle pens because they are made up of too many different materials like rubber casings（橡胶外壳）,metals and plastics,which require more resources to separate（分离）.”
Lee went into a partnership with the waste management firm Veolia. The firm gave her money for every kilogram of toilet rolls.
She organized “toilet roll challenges” within her school and worked with cleaners to collect used toilet rolls. She gave speeches about what she was doing at local schools. She also raises awareness（意识）about different social groups through her Instagram Live series,“On A Roll”.
One big challenge Lee faces is others doubting her because of her young age.“I always have toy use my actions to prove that I’m passionate（有热情的）and know about this,” she said. She will donate the money collected to a social cause focused on community health.
1. When did Laura Lee set the goal to collect lots of toilet rolls?2. According to Laura Lee,which is easier to recycle,toilet rolls or pens?
3. How does Laura raise awareness about different social groups?
4. What will she do with the money collected?
5. What do you think of Laura Lee?
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How would you feel if you received a large amount of money all at once?
That’s exactly what happened to Nkosikho Mbele, a worker at a gas station in South Africa. His sudden luck was brought about by an act of kindness he did for a young woman—Monet, a company manager.
One day, Monet stopped at the gas station to refuel（加油）. But when Nkosikho was about to serve her, she realized she didn’t have any money or cards on her. She immediately tried to stop him. Knowing about her trouble, Nkosikho decided to pay her gas bill of about R100 （＄ 7）to make sure that she could travel across the highway with enough gas.
“Madam, I’ll pay for you so that you won’t run out of gas on the road.Whenever you are near here again, you can just give me back the money,” Nkosikho said. As for him, the R100 was almost all he made in a day. He had to support a big family. He needed the money very much. He wasn’t even sure if Monet would come back to return his money, but he still volunteered to help her.
Several days later, Monet came back with his money and a box of chocolate. She was so thankful that she also posted their story on the Internet. Great changes took place. Nkosikho became famous in his town. Many people were moved by his act and offered to raise money for him. Nkosikho received around ＄ 24,000 as much as about his salary（薪水） of eight years.His boss also heard of his kind act and decided to give him a rise in salary.
“I feel like I’m dreaming. My life has been turned—upside down,” Nkosikho said thankfully. As normal people, we can bring a great change to life by doing a small good thing.
1. Why did Monet try to stop Nkosikho refueling?2. What was Nkosikho’s life like before he met Monet?
3. What else did Monet do to show her thanks besides returning the money?
4. List two changes in Nkosikho’s life after his act of kindness.
5. What can we learn from the story?
【推荐2】Mr. Brown is on his way home from the bus station. It is very late and he is walking by himself on the dark road. Suddenly he hears someone behind him. He begins to walk faster. The man behind him walks faster, too. He walks more slowly and the man moves more slowly, too.
He begins to run, and the man runs after him. Now he is sure the man is following him and he feels frightened.
He sees a wall on one side of the road and he quickly climbs up it and jumps down on the other side. “If he passes and doesn’t stop, everything will be all right.” Mr. Brown thinks. But the man stops. Mr. Brown thinks, “I am in great danger!” He stands up and shouts “What do you want? Why are you following me?” The man is very tired. At first, he can’t open his mouth and speak. “I don’t know you are a very good runner.” He says at last, “I have to go to Mr. Green’s house, but I don’t know the way. A man tells me that you live next to Mr. Green’s, and he tells me to follow you. I am too tired, I can’t walk any more.”
1. When does the story happen?| A．In an early morning. | B．In the afternoon. | C．In the night. | D．At lunch time. |
| A．Very afraid. | B．Quite lonely. | C．Very cool. | D．Quite happy |
| A．he wants to know where Mr Brown is going |
| B．he doesn't think Mr Brown is a good man |
| C．he can't find his way home next to Mr Brown's |
| D．he wants to visit a man living next to Mr Brown |
I’m Tom and I live in Vienna with my parents and my two brothers. I’m the youngest in my family. I have two black schoolbags. They’re cool, I like to go to school with them.
My school is not very far from our home, and I really love it I have a lot of friends there and I enjoy studying. （B） I think geography（地理）is interesting because it’s easy for me. But I don't like math,because it’s boring and I don’t like my math teacher, either.
I love playing sports. I'm on the basketball team. （A） I always play basketball with classmates after school. One day I could play professional（职业）basketball!
On the weekend I spend a lot of time with my friends Ralf and Kurt. We do a lot of things together.
36题完成句子;37、38题简略回答问题; 39 题将文中画线句子（A）变成特殊疑问句; 40题将文中画线句子（B）译成汉语。
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2. How many people are there in Tom’s family?
3. What color are Tom’s schoolbags?
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【推荐1】Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水), and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was high enough to escape (1)it.
Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to take care of.
“Well,” Elizabeth explained to her friends, “at the end of World War Ⅱ, there was a poor woman in a town in England. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children just like me now.”
The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, “We won’t be able to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one present for us all. Now I’ll go and get it.” She came back with a little girl who had no parents. “Here’s our present,” she said to her own children.
(2) The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.
1. 任务一：请根据短文内容，回答问题。(1) How many children did Elizabeth have?
(2) Did Elizabeth have parents at the end of World War Ⅱ?
2. 任务二：请找出（1）处画线单词it指代的内容。
3. 任务三：请将文中（2）处画线句子译成汉语。
4. 任务四：请在文中找出与“Elizabeth had six children to look after so her friends didn’t understand her.”意思相同或相近的句子。
5. 任务五：请选择文章的最佳标题。_______________
| A．A story about a little girl |
| B．A special Christmas present |
| C．Christmas |
I’m from Orange County, California, where I had the pleasure and honor of serving as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard(救生员). Whenever I could, I got shifts(轮流/轮值) working the Point. The Point was known for its great rip currents(退流潮). Now and then it could be very dangerous.
So, late in a shift, I was working Tower 15. Two streets to my right was another guard named Mike, working Tower 17. He called me, “Hey, I got a couple of kids. I gotta go and give them a warning. Keep an eye on us.” I said, “Sure.”
And sure enough, as soon as he hung up the phone, a rip current was coming up quickly under these two kids, and they were getting drawn out. All I saw was two small noses moving up and down in the water. They were in great danger. Mike was rushing quickly toward the sea.
By now, the mother of the two kids realized what was happening. She was crying crazily. I was also very worried and started running toward her, but before I was even halfway there, Mike reached the kids.
Mike swam sideways out of the rip current into the clear water and started bringing them in. When I reached their mother, Mike was in waist-deep water. The kids were so tired and afraid that they could not swim back by themselves, so Mike was carrying them, one under each arm.
I turned to their mom, “Hey, it’s OK. They’re safe.” I saw her stop crying and slowly start to calm down.
She turned back and got her first good look at Mike. He had a number of really terrible tattoos(纹身) on his strong arms and back, and his head showed the long scars(伤疤) he got from a broken beer bottle. Then a crazy thing happened. I saw a new kind of panic(惊慌) wash over her as though there was some new dangerous thing would happen to take away her kids’ lives. She rushed up to Mike, immediately caught her kids and walked away. Not even a thank-you.
Mike just looked at me and his tattoos on the arms, made a face, and ran back to his tower. I watched him with respect and came back to guard my own tower.
If any other guard had worked 17 that night, including me, there would be a very real chance that that mother wasn’t going home with both her kids.
1. Which of the following words can best show “Mike’s action to the two kids in danger” ?| A．Crazy and rude. | B．Quick and brave. | C．Careless and risky. | D．Slow and careful. |
| A．She was so excited and afraid that she couldn’t remember it. |
| B．She thought Mike was ugly and crazy to her kids. |
| C．Mike got very tired of being highly thought of. |
| D．Mike looked like a dangerous man with tattoos and scars. |
| A．Mother should watch out for kids playing on the beach. |
| B．That mother wasn’t going home with both her kids. |
| C．Any other guard including me would save the two kids. |
| D．The two kids might die without Mike working Tower 17 that night. |
Many of us have the kind of big dreams that becoming rich and famous and becoming a star or entering an ideal college. In the autumn of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, hoping to get a legal job and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she suffered from a serious illness. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how busy I am, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo — a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream, either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each term.
Feeling really sorry about the time I spent away from the boys. There were times I wanted to give up, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives. In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me about 21 years to get my college degree!
When you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside, it looks huge, but when you’re in it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
1. When the writer went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________.| A．a writer | B．a doctor | C．a judge | D．a teacher |
| A．She suffered from a serious illness. | B．She fell in love and got married. |
| C．She had many children to support. | D．She decided to look after her grandma. |
| A．Failure is the mother of success. | B．Little by little, one goes far. |
| C．Every coin has two sides. | D．Well begun, half done. |
[2] Photographers use cameras, artists use brushes, musicians use songs and writers use stories.
[3] Spencer Johnson’s story Who Moved My Cheese? shows changes exist in(存在于) our life. Life changes and so we do. We must change ourselves to face the changing environment, or we will fail.
[4] Just look at the cycle(循环) of
[5] Since we accept the cycles of nature, we should also accept the changes in our life.
[6] We can prepare ourselves for changes by becoming more flexible(灵活的). We can regard the changes in our life as chances.
1. What’s the main idea of this passage? (no more than 10 words)
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2. How do writers share their life experiences? (no more than 3 words)
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3. What does Who Moved My Cheese? tell us ? (no more than 5 words)
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4. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 2 words)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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【推荐2】Creative ideas are bringing nature into city areas all around the world. Here are some cities that have found ways to let the plants in, which is good for their populations and the environment.
Liverpool
A living wall is how the city of Liverpool has made room for nature in its busy city center. Without planting space, it turned the concrete (混凝土的) surface of the St. John’s Shopping Center into a 65-meter living wall. It is perfectly located to help take in some of the pollution produced by the nearby bus station.
In 2021, two beehives (蜂箱) were put on the rooftop of the shopping center, each housing 20,000 bees. The bees don’t just pollinate (授粉) on the living wall. They are active within a five-kilometer-wide circle around their hives, helping the environment of the wider community.
Singapore
Singapore plans to be “a city of nature.” In February 2021, the city announced (宣告) its “Green Plan 2030.” It’s a program to make the city as environmentally friendly as possible. Singapore already has over 400 parks and 4 nature protected areas. It has also promised to plant a million trees across the country and further increase parkland by 50 percent. The hope is that by 2030, no family will be more than a ten-minute walk from a green space.
New York City
The High Line on the West side of Manhattan is a two-kilometer long public park. It is built along the remains of a railway line. The railway line closed in the early 1980s. It faced being pulled down before people wanted to put the place to good use. In 2003, people decided to make it an above-street level garden. It is now a city greenway with over 150, 000 flowers and trees.
The projects from all over the world show just how possible it is to include nature into city. Some of the projects are big, while others have a far more localized influence—but all are inspirational ways to give the whole planet a helping hand. 
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Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF. The event takes place every year to encourage families, companies and communities to turn off a part of lights and electrics for an hour. The event will happen between 20:30 to 21:30 on the 25th of March 2023.
When did Earth Hour first start?
Earth Hour first started as a light-off event in Sydney in 2007. Earth Hour has now become a yearly event, encouraging many around the world to show how much they care about the future of our planet! This year WWF will play a video, which you can share to get more attention!
Why is Earth Hour important?
Climate change and global warming cause all wildlife to face extreme challenges, such as losing their homes and facing worse weather conditions. This could make animals and plants disappear in the world! This includes us, so we need to do our bit to protect the planet, as there’s no planet B!
What can you do to take part in Earth Hour?
In recent years, around 9 million people took part in Earth Hour in the UK! Let’s see if we can increase that number this year! There are many activities you can do:
1. Going for a nighttime walk is a great way to support your own health.
2. Take advantages of this hour by going to bed early and having a good rest.
3. Have a wonderful night by setting up a tent in the backyard.
4. Bring some light and warmth to your home with candles.
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【推荐1】If you are really interested in music festivals, then you have probably heard of the Bestival Music Festival. It takes place every September on the Isle of Wight, the UK. As it is at the end of summer, people think it's their last chance to go to a festival and have fun before going back to boring work.
The dream begins as soon as you start traveling to the island. In order to get to the campsite(营地) of the Bestival，you have to take the ferry（渡船). The ferry is full of happy festival lovers who are ready to take part in the fantastic music party. After you arrive at the campsite, you can put your tent up. There people talk with each other openly. They are not that cold like those you meet in your everyday life.
The festival lasts for four days. During that time you forget all your worries and problems, just like living in a dream. And it is really hard for you to come back to “reality” after that．
It seems that it is this kind of music event that makes people gather together. It gives people a real sense of unity, I took part in the Bestival with my friends the year before last.
It was so exciting and we all lost ourselves in the beautiful music. We are family sung by Sister Sledge was my favourite. I’m really looking forward to joining in it for a second time.
1. When is the Bestival Music Festival?2. Where do people enjoy the music party at the Bestival?
3. What does the writer think of the people at the Bestival?
4. Why does the writer say being at the Bestival is a dream?
5. How long does the festival last?
There were smiling children all the way. Clearly they knew at what time the train passed their homes and they made it their business to stand along the railway, wave to complete strangers and cheer them up as they rushed towards Penang. Often the whole families stood outside their homes and waved and smiled as if those on the trains had been their favourite relatives. This was the simple village people of Malaysia. I was moved by them.
I had always travelled to Malaysia by plane or car, so this was the first time I was on a train. I did not particularly enjoy the long train journey and had brought along a dozen newspapers and magazines to read and reread.
It was not long before the train was rattling across the Causeway and in Malaysia. Johore Bahru was just another city like Singapore, so I was tired of looking at the crowds of people as they hurried past. As we went beyond the city, I watched the straight rows of rubber trees and miles and miles of green. Then the first village came into sight. Immediately, I came alive and decided to wave back.
From then on, my journey became interesting. I threw my magazines into the waste basket and decided to join in Malaysian life. Then everything came alive. The mountains seemed to speak to me. Even the trees were smiling. I stared at everything as if I had been looking at it for the first time.
The day passed fast and I even forgot to have my lunch until I felt hungry. I looked at my watch and was surprised that it was 3:00 p.m. Soon the train pulled up at Butterworth. I looked at the people all around me. They all looked beautiful.
I looked forward to the return journey, by train.
1. What did the children do when the train passed their homes?2. How had the writer travelled to Malaysia before?
3. What did the writer take with him on the long train journey?
4. When did the writer watch the straight rows of rubber trees?
5. The writer would return by train, wouldn’t he?
6. What did you do on your journey when you travelled?
【推荐3】If someone has no arms or no legs, can he live a happy life? You may think it is impossible, but for Nick, everything is possible.
In 1982 in Australia, when Nick was born, he had no arms and no legs. His parents were sad to see their baby. When Nick grew up, he looked things on the bright side. But sadly, he suffered (受苦) a lot in school, he was usually laughed by other students during his school days. Nick got through all the ups and downs in his life.
He learned to do everything, like walking, swimming, and taking a bath. Now Nick is a famous speaker, and he travels around the world to tell people his story to give people hope and help.
In his speech, he tries hard to say something: Everyone is special and is strong enough to overcome (战胜) bad things. It’s not the end of the world, so never gives up.
1. Can Nick live a happy life with no arms or legs?2. When and where was Nick born?
3. How were Nick’s parents when they saw their baby?
4. What did Nick suffer during his school days?
5. Why does Nick travel around the world to tell people his story?
6. Why can Nick live a happy life? (please list at least two reasons)
