【推荐1】No doubt that teens should also care about the world that we live in. Martinez is one of the most active environmentalist among the young people. When most teens are busy with sports, friends, and online games, he is working to save the planet.

So how does a teenager become a well-known environmentalist? “I grew up in a family where people were always thinking about the environment,” says Martinez. When Martinez was just 6 years old, he decided he had to do something about climate (气候) change--a serious environmental problem. Scientists have been studying climate change for many years. They know that Earth’s climate changes on its own over time. But right now, it is changing more and more quickly than usual because of pollution created by people--by the cars, trucks and planes we ride in, and by the coal and oil we burn for electricity.

Martinez points out that climate change is a serious problem. “People may think they are helpless about climate change, like there is nothing they can do,” he says. But that is not true. “Humans caused climate change.” Martinez says. “And we can try to solve it.”

Martinez began looking for solutions (解决办法) when he was just a little kid. His elder brothers and sisters ran an environmental group called Earth Guardians, which was started by their mom. First, he listened when they had meetings. Soon, he was traveling around the country and the world. His goal? To educate and raise people up to face the “war” of climate change.

Today, Martinez runs Earth Guardians. The group works with thousands of kids around the world. He speaks to students in classrooms about steps they can take to help the planet. And he writes and performs hip-hop songs about the environment. Martinez believes that if many people change their habits, the climate change can be cut down.

1. According to the passage, Martinez is influenced a lot by ________.

A．the online games

B．his family

C．his favorite sports

D．the scientists

2. In paragraph 3, the underlined word “that” refers to ________.

A．the change of climate	B．the pollution created by people
C．the climate change caused by people	D．the idea that people can do nothing about climate change

3. Martinez traveled around the world to ________.

A．look for a better place to live in	B．learn more knowledge about climate change
C．encourage people to fight against climate change	D．make friends with young people around the world

4. What’s the writer’s purpose to write the passage?

A．To express the love for Martinez.	B．To show the importance of family influence.
C．To encourage people to protect the environment.	D．To introduce Martinez’s fight for our environment.

【推荐2】

Earth is our home. What should we students do to save our Earth? Here are four little things we can do.

Use reusable(重复使用的) bags

When you’re getting ready to leave the shops, a common question in the checkout line is this: “Paper or plastic(塑料)?” In fact, whatever you’re choosing(选择) between paper and plastic, you’re still choosing “wrong”—because there is a better thing: a reusable bag.

Save electricity(电)

Use save energy-efficient light bulbs(节能灯泡) instead of common bulbs. They last longer, which will save you some money too. Make sure you turn off lights, the TV, and other appliances when you are not using them.

Save water

Water is wasted more often than we can see. Turn off the faucet(水龙头) as you are brushing your teeth. Don’t turn your shower on until you’re ready to get in and wash your hair. Try your best to use less water as you wash dishes. Changing old habits will be quite good for the environment.

Walk or cycle

Driving is one of the biggest causes(原因) of pollution. So walk or use your bicycle if the travel is a short one.

It’s high time each and every one of us took action. Let’s do it together.

1. What should we choose to protect the Earth?

A．Reusable bags.

B．Plastic bags.

C．Paper bags.

2. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “appliances”?

A．厨具

B．家具

C．电器

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Driving too often can cause lots of pollution.

B．The environment must be worse and worse in the future.

C．Changing old habits will be good for the environment.

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

A．Students can help save our earth with four ways.

B．The biggest causes of pollution.

C．The environment around us is becoming worse and worse.

【推荐3】People depend on plants. We use plants for food, cloth, shelter (住处), and even the air we breathe. Plants keep our air and water clean. Green plants give us oxygen (氧气). Oxygen is part of the air we breathe.

Plants are also part of the water cycle (循环). Most of the water that a plant takes in goes back into the air.

Plants give us lots of the food on the earth. Fruits, vegetables, and grains (谷物) come from plants. Without plants, we would not have bread, rice, carrots, apples, oranges, or bananas! Many people are growing plants to eat in their own gardens at home. Having your own garden helps the earth as well.

When you grow your own fruits and vegetables, you help cut down on pollution because big trucks don’t need to take your food to shops. You also help cut down on the amount of rubbish because you don’t need to use bags for packing your food. You can just pick it out of the ground or off a plant and put it into a basket!

Trees are an important plant resource (资源). Trees provide wood to build homes and furniture. Trees are used to make lots of things around your home and at your school. And trees provide fruits that are good for you. Without trees, the earth would be a very different place.

1. ________ is part of the air we breathe.

A．Sunlight

B．Water

C．Food

D．Oxygen

2. What happens to most of the water that a plant takes in?

A．It goes back into the air.	B．It stays in the plant.
C．It goes into the ground.	D．It stays in the river.

3. What does the phrase “cut down on” mean in Paragraph 5?

A．引起

B．接受

C．减少

D．除了

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．A Different Place	B．The Uses of Plants
C．Food on the Earth	D．Gardens at Home

5. You would find the passage in _________.

A．an interesting novel	B．a book about animals
C．a popular play	D．a book about nature

【推荐2】My name is Robinson Crusoe, and I was born in the city of York in 1632. My father was a successful businessman. I had two elder brothers. One of them worked in the army and was killed during the war against Spain. The other was missing one day, and we never knew what had happened to him. My father gave me a good education and wanted me to be a lawyer（律 师）.

However, I wanted to be a sailor and go to sea. My father was very angry with me. He didn't understand why I wanted to leave his house, where I would have an easy and comfortable life.

"Two kinds of people go to sea," he said. "They are the very poor people and the very rich people. The poor are foolish, having no other way to live. The rich own ships and can make money with them. You are neither too poor nor too rich. You are in the middle, so you should choose a middle way for your life. Stay at home with your mother and me. Your elder brother didn't listen to me, and now he is dead. If you do not listen to me, you will have a difficult life!"

I tried to do what he wanted me to do, but I couldn't. I spoke to my mother.

"Please ask Dad if he will let me have one voyage by sea," I asked her. "When I return, I will live the life he wants me to live."

Mum was angry. "Your father will not let you go. I don't want you to go to sea either. It's dangerous."

I argued with my parents for another year. Then, I went to Hull with a friend who was going to London by ship. He invited me to go with him, and I agreed. I did not even tell my parents before leaving. I just went. That was how all my bad luck began.

1. What did Robinson's father want him to do?

A．To be a lawyer.	B．To be a sailor.
C．To be a soldier.	D．To be a businessman.

2. Which is the right order of what happened in the story?
a. Robinson went sailing with a friend without telling his parents.
b. Robinson argued with his parents for one more year.
c. Robinson's mother stopped him going sailing.
d. One of Robinson's brothers was missing.
e. Robinson's father asked him to choose a middle way for his life.

A．ecdba

B．dceba

C．decba

D．acbed

3. What can we infer（推断） from the passage?

A．Poor men could make a lot of money by sailing.

B．Robinson's mother could understand him well.

C．Robinson would have a difficult life after he started sailing.

D．Robinson's parents had to let him go sailing with a friend.

【推荐1】How do you go to school? Do you take a bus or ride a bike? For many students, it is easy to get to school. But for some children in one small village in Hunan, it is very difficult. There is no road between the village and the school. The children have to climb down ladders(梯子) to get to school.

Yu Xinxin is an 8-year-old girl. She climbs the ladders every day. "My parents are good at it and they tell me how to do it, and now I don't think about too much about how high it is," she says.

It is hard for the villagers to get in and out of the village, too. Their dream is to have a road.

1. For the students in the small village, it is __________ to get to school.

A．fun

B．boring

C．easy

D．difficult

2. The students in the small village __________ to get to school.

A．cross a river

B．ride bikes

C．take the bus

D．climb down ladders

3. 划线单词"they"指代的是"__________"。

A．Yu Xinxin's teachers	B．Yu Xinxin's classmate
C．Yu Xinxin's parents	D．Yu Xinxin's sisters

4. 划线单词"high"的中文意思是"__________"。

A．重的

B．高的

C．宽的

D．直的

5. 下列哪项陈述是正确的?

A．Yu Xinxin is seven years old.	B．Yu Xinxin's parents can climb ladders.
C．The villagers don't want to have a road.	D．It is easy for the villagers to get out of the village.

【推荐2】A farmer lived in a small village and he had bad pain in his heart. This never seemed to get any better. The farmer decided that he would go to see a doctor in the nearest town. But as he was a mean (小气的) person, he first wanted to find out how much he would have to pay the doctor. He heard that a patient (病人) had to pay three pounds for the first visit and one pound for the second visit. The farmer thought about it for a long time and then he decided to go to see the doctor.

As he walked into the doctor’s room, he said, “Good morning, doctor. Here I am again.” The doctor was a little surprised. Then he asked the farmer a few questions, checked his heart and later he took the pound — the farmer insisted (坚持) on giving him. After that the doctor said with a smile, “Well, sir, there’s nothing now. Please go on taking the same medicine I gave you the first time.”

根据语篇内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的在答题卡上将“T”涂黑，错误的在答题卡上将“F”涂黑。
1. The farmer decided to see a doctor because his heart hurt.
2. A patient had to pay the doctor four pounds for the first and second visit.
3. The doctor was not surprised to see the farmer.
4. The doctor didn’t take anything from the farmer.
5. The doctor asked the farmer to keep taking the same medicine.

【推荐3】There was once a young man called Paul in a village in the USA. Paul was very lazy because his father was a rich farmer and he didn’t have to work. Mr Smith, a neighbour of his, was a blacksmith (铁匠). He used to work in his shop all day. Paul spent hours and hours watching how the blacksmith worked every day. “Young man, why don’t you try your hand to make a shoe tack (铁钉), even it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith one day, “ Maybe it will be useful to you some day.” Finally, the lazy boy began to have a try. After practicing some times, he became skilled and could make very nice tacks.
Years later, Paul’s father died and he lost all the things because of a war (战争). He had to move to another country and live by himself. It happened that there were many shoemakers paying high prices to buy tacks for the shoes, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers’ shoes. Paul went to talk with them. He told them that he would make the tacks if they could help him find a workshop in the village. The shoemakers agreed. Then Paul made a lot of money by making tacks. “How funny it is!” he said to himself, “Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich.”
1. Why didn’t Paul have to work?

A．Because he couldn’t do anything.

B．Because he was too lazy.

C．Because his father was very rich.

D．B and C.

2. What’s the Chinese meaning of skilled?

A．熟练的.

B．适应的.

C．自信的.

D．巧妙的.

3. What did Paul do after his father died because of the war?

A．He travelled to another country.

B．He moved to another country.

C．He learned to make shoes.

D．He started a workshop.

4. How many kinds of people appeared in the story except Paul ?

A．Five.

B．Four.

C．Three.

D．Two.

5. What can we learn form the story?

A．Making tacks is important.

B．Wars can make people hard-working.

C．Nothing is difficult to learn.

D．Everything you learned may be useful.

【推荐1】Now many children are in Mrs Read’s house. They’re having a birthday party for Mrs Read. They are from different countries(国家) and they are of different ages. They all call Mrs Read “Mum” though(尽管) she isn't their own(自己) mother. Mrs Read looks after(照顾) them very well, and they all love her.

Sam is an eight-year-old American boy. He is a student in Mrs Read’s class. Diana is ten years old. She’s an English girl. She is in Mrs Read’s school, but she is in Grade Six. Jack is a Chinese boy. He and his sister Sarah are both in Mrs Read’s class. There is also a Japanese boy in Mrs Read’s class. His name is David. He is nine years old.

“Our parents are all very busy with their work. Mrs Read is very nice. She cooks for us and she helps us with our study. She is just like our mother. We all love her.” says Sam.

1. What are the children doing in Mrs Read’s house？

A．Having a party.

B．Playing games.

C．Having a class.

D．Having dinner.

2. What’s the main idea(主要) of Paragraph 2?

A．Something about Mrs Read’s class.	B．Something about Mrs Read’s “children”.
C．Something about Mrs Read’s everyday life.	D．Something about Mrs Read’s family.

3. What can we know from Sam’s words?

A．Mrs Read doesn’t have daughters or sons.	B．Sam doesn’t want to study in Mrs Read’s class.
C．Sam’s parents don’t have much time to look after him.	D．Sam doesn’t like Mrs Read or her husband.

4. What is the best title(最佳标题)?

A．A birthday party

B．A big family

C．A great day

D．A good friend

【推荐2】
1. How many chapeters are there in the Contents?

A．98

B．6

C．5

D．7

2. What's the main idea of "How It All Began"?

A．Pancakes have a long and interesting history.	B．Pancakes are made from butter and eggs.
C．People needn't make pancakes today.	D．Pancakes were eaten only in the past.

【推荐3】Nanjing—a 3D-printed public toilet, covering an area of 200 square meters, is drawing attention in Suzhou. Located in Sun Mountain National Forest Park, the beautiful green-and-wood-colored toilet has been named "little box in forest". It was made from rubbish using 3D printing technology. The great invention was made without any steel, but is even stronger than other toilets.

As part of China’s “toilet revolution", Suzhou has been using new technology in its toilets. At some places, tourists can scan QR codes（二维码）with their mobile phones to receive 80 cm of toilet paper each time. They can scan the codes twice for more paper, but they have to pay for the third time. Pu Zexin, a general manager of Suzhou Chuzhibao Internet of Things, the inventor of the toilet paper machine, said the invention was intended to prevent toilet paper being wasted. Staff at the Humble Administrator's Garden tourist site said, the technology can help save nearly ¥9,000（$ 1,361）per toilet yearly. It is said that the machines have helped reduce the use of toilet paper in the city's public toilets by an average of 80 percent. More toilets will be built with the machines.

Suzhou is also using new technology to improve the management（管理）of public toilets. An online service has been given in tourist areas, allowing users to quickly find the nearest toilet and be given with the proper length of paper. All the tourists feel very convenient with the new technology.

1. What does the underlined word "It" in paragraph 1 refer to?

A．The forest

B．The toilet

C．The 3D technology

D．The park rubbish

2. How many toilet papers can tourists get for the second time by scanning QR codes?

A．80 cm

B．160 cm

C．200 cm

D．40 cm

3. What does the article mainly tell us?

A．The 3D technology helps the tourists travel better and feel convenient.

B．The 3D-printed public toilet, made of green wood, isn’t that strong.

C．By scanning QR codes, tourists can use toilet paper freely

D．Some new technologies are being used in the public toilet in Suzhou.

4. Where is the article probably from?

A．A newspaper printed in Suzhou.

B．A storybook about science.

C．A diary written by an inventor

D．A notice for the tourists.