【推荐1】My favourite restaurant is called 'Annablella's cafe'. It is a small restaurant serving(供应) Western food. It is in a city called Bristol. It is difficult to find because it is behind a very tall building. Only local people eat at this restaurant, and visitors can never find it! I think the food at the restaurant is the best in the whole country.
I like to go to this restaurant every two weeks. The waiters know me very well now. They are my friends. They know what my favourite drink is, so when I arrive, there is always a bottle of coke on the table. The menu changes every week so there is always something different to eat. My favourite meat is chicken, so I always order something with chicken in it. For dessert(甜食), I usually have apple pie with custard or chocolate cake. Delicious!
Sometimes I go to this restaurant for breakfast. I have a typical(典型的) English breakfast： eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes and bread. The breakfast is delicious, but I like to eat at this restaurant at dinnertime better.
1. There are no visitors at this restaurant because_______.

A．they don’t like the food here

B．the restaurant is difficult to find

C．the restaurant is too small

D．Western food is not popular

2. How many times a month does the writer go to the restaurant?

A．Once.	B．Twice.
C．Three times.	D．Eight times.

3. What’s the writer’s favourite drink?

A．Orange juice.	B．Apple juice.
C．Coke.	D．Coffee.

4. What can we know from the passage?

A．A typical English breakfast is eggs, bread, bacon and milk.

B．The writer would like to have breakfast at the restaurant better.

C．Chicken and banana pie are the writer’s favourite food.

D．The menu often changes and there is always something different.

【推荐3】I’m the mother of a five-year-old boy. “Mommy, where are you going?” Dave asks me when I am putting on my running shoes on a cold Sunday morning. “Go running.” I say. “Why?” He asks me in surprise. He is only five, but it is a question that I can’t easily answer. I often ask myself, “Cathy, why are you go running?” I don’t know, but something lets me go. So I say to Dave, “Something lets me go.”

The truth is that just before you run, it’s still difficult to explain (解释) to someone why you run. Of course, some people run to lose weight (减肥) or to be healthy, and these are good reasons (理由).

Running is difficult, that’s because you need to persist every day. However, running is also easy to do. It’s cheap, and you can do it whenever you want. There are over two million (百万) people in England running at least once a week. I’m one of those two million runners. I go running not to lose weight or to be healthy. I run five kilometers every morning. After that I feel great, and it’s easy for me to do the other things. After my busy work, I usually go out to run, and I think it is the most wonderful time in a day. I love running and I will keep running. I hope more people love to run every day.

1. Dave is _________.

A．a runner

B．Cathy’s son

C．a teacher

D．Cathy’s friend

2. Which of the following words CANNOT describe (描述) running according to the writer?

A．Easy.

B．Popular.

C．Funny.

D．Cheap.

3. The underlined word “persist” means _________.

A．be interested in something	B．have fun in doing something
C．be worried about something	D．keep doing something

4. In the passage, the writer wants to _________.

A．tell us how she loses weight	B．tell us how to be healthy
C．tell us how she loves running	D．tell us how to get on well with her son

【推荐2】At the age of 16, Einstein always played with a group of mischievous（顽皮捣蛋的）kids. Because he was so busy playing, he didn’t study enough and failed his final exam.

One morning, when Einstein was holding a fishing rode（钓鱼竿）and wanted to go fishing with his friends, his father stopped him and said, “Einstein, you spent so much time playing that you failed your exam. I’m worried about your future.”

“What are you worried about? Jack and Robert also failed, but don’t they still get to go fishing.”

“My boy, you can’t think like that,” his dad said.

“There is a story that people tell in our hometown. I will tell it to you now.”

“There were two cats playing on a roof（房顶）. One cat fell down the chimney（烟囱）while holding the other cat. When the two cats climbed out of the chimney, one of the cats had soot（烟灰）on his face, while the other cat’s face was clean. Seeing the dirty cat, the clean cat thought its own face must be dirty, so it quickly ran to the river and washed its face. The dirty cat saw the clean cat and thought its own face was also clean, so it just swaggered（大摇大摆地走）down the street.”

“Einstein, no one can be your ‘mirror’. You have to think for yourself. If you just do what everyone else does, you will never learn.”

Hearing this, Einstein put down his fishing rod and returned to his room. He decided to pay more attention to his studies and less attention to what his friends were doing. This allowed him to be successful.

1. According to Einstein’s father, what was his main problem?

A．He was not good at math.	B．He didn’t play often enough.
C．He played with mischievous kids.	D．He didn’t take his final exam.

2. What do we know from the fable（寓言）that told by Einstein’s father?

A．The dirty cat fell into the chimney first.	B．The dirty cat washed its face clean.
C．The clean cat didn’t wash its face.	D．Both of the cats made the wrong judgement (判断).

3. Why did Einstein’s father tell the fable?

A．To tell his son to be his own mirror.	B．To warn his son to keep away from those kids.
C．To remind his son to study hand.	D．To ask his son not to listen to other’s advice.

4. How did Einstein feel at the end of the story?

A．Angry about what his father said.	B．Regretful（懊悔的）for what he did.
C．Excited about fishing again.	D．Disappointed by the fable.

5. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．A story of two cats	B．Reach out and help others
C．It’s never too late to learn	D．No one can be your “minor”

【推荐3】He was a painter, a musician, an engineer, and a scientist. He was a man of many talents. His name is Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452 in a small town of Italy. His most famous works are “Last Supper,” “Mona Lisa” and “The Virgin among the Rocks”.

Last Supper was drawn on the walls of a church. It may be one of the most famous religious（宗教的）pictures in the world. Mons Lisa probably is the world’s most famous portrait. Mona Lisa’s smile is always the topic people talk about. The most important of his own paintings during the early Milan period was The Virgin of the Rocks. He had worked on the painting for a long time, as his custom, he seemed unwilling to finish what he had begun.

Although Leonardo is generally known as a painter, today only about twelve paintings are looked upon as（视作）having been done by him. This is because of his different interests in nature and his endless scientific experiments and designs. Many of his inventions have become important in modern life. His most special invention was the machine gun. By watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of flying. Among his sketches（草图）we can see several flying objects. We take them as modern flying machines. In order to make good use of time, he also invented the labor—saving machines.

Leonardo was a strange man. He didn’t eat any meat. He never published his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like writing in a mirror, starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left. In his time, people learn only from written records. Leonardo encouraged people to find out knowledge in nature. He believed that knowledge is also from practice.

1. Where can you find the information that best supports “He was a man of many talents.”?

A．In paragraph 1 and 2.	B．In paragraph 2 and 3.
C．In paragraph 2 and 4.	D．In paragraph 1 and 4.

2. Why did Leonardo da Vinci leave only about twelve paintings to the world?

A．He never published his scientific discoveries.

B．He was not interested in painting from nature.

C．He had too many experiments and designs to do.

D．He didn’t have enough time to finish his sketches.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Leonardo was the first man who tried to find out the secret of flying.

B．Leonardo encouraged people to learn from practice instead of books.

C．Leonardo was used to spending a long time working on his paintings.

D．Leonardo has made great achievements both in art and natural science.

【推荐2】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

    1     What is life really like in space? And what do astronauts do there?

Astronauts living in space have the same hygiene（卫生）needs as people do on Earth.     2     And of course they also go to the bathroom. However, because of microgravity（微重力）, astronauts take care of themselves in different ways. For example, they use a kind of special matter to wash their hair, and they use leg restraints（固定装置）to position themselves when they use the toilet.

    3     Some foods can be eaten in the natural form such as fruit. But they need to add water to some other foods such as noodles. There are no fridges in space, so space food must be stored and prepared properly to avoid going bad.

Besides morning routine（常规）and eating in space, astronauts perform many tasks. They must check the machines, update computer equipment（设备）, and so on.     4     It gives the astronauts different kinds of instructions by radio or e-mail to help them in their daily routines.

What’s more, living in space is not just all work and no play.     5     And they can also enjoy themselves by watching movies, reading books, playing cards and talking to their families during their free time.

A．They get lots of difficult training before going to space.

B．Almost everyone has a question or two about living in space.

C．Astronauts eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

D．A popular way for them to relax is looking out of the window.

E．When they wake up, they wash their hair and brush their teeth.

F．You may want to learn how astronauts travel into space and come back again.

G．At the same time, the control center on Earth sends messages to the astronauts.

【推荐3】Sending astronauts to Mars is a big challenge. Astronauts will have to ate everything they need, including food, air and water. The room inside the spaceship is too limited to hold many things. So packing a spaceship is a huge challenge for a trip to Mars.

Six astronauts on an eight-month tip to Mars will need at least 18,000 kilograms of water for drinking and washing. They’ll also need water to protect themselves from space rays which can pass right through spaceship walls and harm astronauts’ living cells. But a layer of water placed around the ship can stop the harm.

That’s a lot of water. And sending water into space is too expensive. It costs $33,000 to send one cup of water to Mars. The more you take, the more it costs. We have the technology to get to Mars, but the problem is that it’s too expensive.

But Flynn, an engineer at NASA, thinks he has a way of solving the problem. Instead of building a heavy spaceship and packing it full of stuff (物料), why not use the stuff as part of the spaceship?

Imagine a spaceship that blows up like a balloon. Inside, the walls have pockets like a big honeycomb (蜂巢). These hold lots of plastic bags filled with water, dried food and algae. All these make hard walls and great radiation (辐射) protection. And stopping radiation does not influence the food or water itself — it is safe to eat and drink. And what if the same water could be reused again and again? Flynn and his team call their packed-pocket idea Water Walls.

Making oxygen and taking away CO₂—the waste gas you breathe out—is another problem in space. “Water Walls will take away CO₂ the same way it’s done here on our Earth—with living plants,” Flynn says. Living plants make in CO₂ to make their food, and give off oxygen. “Plants are hard to grow in a spacecraft, so we use algae,” he says.

Algae are tiny plants that live in water. The algae will live in bags in the walls too, fed by human waste and sunlight, eating up CO₂ and making oxygen for the astronauts to breathe.

Flynn thinks his onboard recycling system has many advantages. He hopes it will help make flying to Mars a reality very soon.

1. What does the underlined phrase “limited ” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?

A．Small in size.	B．Including only a part.
C．Different from other parts.	D．Being freely used.

2. What is the advantage of Flynn’s system?

A．Food is saved.	B．Cost is saved.
C．Travelling time is saved.	D．Plastic bags are saved.

3. What is one of the purposes of Flynn’s idea of Water Walls?

A．To produce water in the spaceship.

B．To make the whole spaceship stronger.

C．To prevent space rays during the space trip.

D．To control the temperature in the spaceship.

4. Why are algae put in the plastic bags?

A．To serve as food for astronauts.

B．To provide oxygen for astronauts.

C．To prevent water from being polluted.

D．To help other plants grow in a spaceship.