【推荐1】根据材料内容，从方框中选择合适的句子填入文中空白处，使材料完整、通顺。其中有一个句子是多余的。

Michelle Giaquinto is from Australia. She is working as a cook in a restaurant in Italy. She has traveled to over 30 countries. She is having a talk with a reporter about her travels.

(Q=Question; A=Answer)
Q: What's the most beautiful place you've ever been to?
A: It's difficult to choose "the most beautiful" place I've visited, because every place is beautiful in its own way. But I have very good memories of the Himalayan mountains in Nepal.
Q:     1    
A: I stayed in a beautiful hotel in Marrakech, Morocco. It wasn't very big, but it had a green yard with a fountain (喷泉) in the middle. The colorful tiles (瓷砖) everywhere were fantastic.
Q:     2    
A: Fried crickets (油炸蟋蟀) on the street in Bangkok, Thailand. And they weren't bad.
Q:     3    
A: I have always been very lucky in my travels, but someone stole (偷) my bag on a train when I was in India. Getting very ill in a lonely part of Pakistan wasn't very nice, either.
Q:     4    
A: Indonesia, a country with a very interesting culture. I plan to go there next year.
Q:     5    
A: Australia has so many interesting places to visit, as it's so large. But my favorites are the sights (风景) along the Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland. I also love the big, open spaces of our deserts and national parks, especially Uluru National Park.

A．What's the most interesting place you've visited in your own country?

B．Which country have you always wanted to visit?

C．Have you ever made any friends while traveling?

D．What's the nicest hotel you've ever stayed in?

E．What's the strangest thing you've ever eaten in your travels?

F．Have you had any bad experiences while traveling?

【推荐3】Lily went to China for a holiday with his parents last summer. Their first destination (目的地) was Beijing. They arrived in Beijing on 8th, August. According to the travel plan, can you guess what they did in Beijing?

A four-day Tour to Beijing for $280 each
Day 1 (L)	Arrive in Beijing. Take a bus to the hotel. Have a city tour to the Summer Palace.
Day 2 (B, L)	Full day trip to the Tian’anmen Square, the Palace Museum, and the Temple of Heaven. See Beijing Operas in the evening.
Day 3 (B, D)	Full day trip to the Great Wall, Ming Tombs and Beihai Park. Enjoy a famous Beijing Roast Duck Banquet (宴会) for dinner.
Day 4 (B, L)	Visit Hutong and the Silk Market. Take the afternoon flight to the next destination.

(B: Breakfast L: Lunch D: Dinner)
1. They paid ________ for the Beijing tour.

A．$840

B．$560

C．$470

D．$280

2. On which day did they see Beijing Operas in the evening?

A．The first day.

B．The second day.

C．The third day.

D．The fourth day.

3. How many places of interest did they go to on their third day?

A．One

B．Two

C．Three

D．Four

4. When did they leave Beijing?

A．10th, August

B．11th, August

C．12th, August

D．13th, August.

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．They stayed in the hotel for 4 nights.

B．They visited the Palace Museum on the first day.

C．They tasted Beijing Roast Duck for lunch on the third day.

D．They went to the next destination by plane on the fourth day.

【推荐1】Have you noticed your life becoming a little easier? Now, when you go to a certain shopping mall, you can enjoy its free Wi-Fi there. When you want to take a taxi, you can book (预定) one with your phone. In fact, all these can be seen as the basic parts of a smart city.

The idea of a smart city was brought up by US company IBM in 2010. Generally, a smart city is a city that uses digital technologies such as the Internet to improve city planning, save money and resources, and make our life convenient. How smart can a city be? Here are great examples that we can learn from.

In 2009, Dubuque became the first smart city in the US. The city used smart water meters to take the place of traditional water meters. They can detect (探测) water waste and leakage (泄漏) and send data to let the house owner know. The same system is used for other city resources like electricity and natural gas. This way, people know how they use their resources and are glad to help reduce waste.

Santander in Spain also gives us a look in the future. If people point a phone toward a nearby bus stop, the phone immediately shows all bus lines that serve the stop as well as their arrival times. The government organized a research team and provided an App (应用程序) that collects data on almost everything: light, temperature, and the movements of cars and people. Opening the App near a supermarket provides immediate information on special offers.

1. The underlined word “convenient” is the closest in meaning to ________.

A．useful

B．normal

C．suitable

D．easy

2. Compared to traditional water meters, smart water meters do better in ________.

A．cleaning water

B．supplying water

C．saving water

D．producing water

3. The example of Santander shows the use of smart systems in aspects (方面) EXCEPT ________.

A．business

B．health care

C．traffic controlling

D．public transportation

4. According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?

A．Digital technologies are used in smart cities.

B．An English company first raised the idea of a smart city.

C．A smart city is mainly made up of free Wi-Fi and phones.

D．A smart city is still an idea and hasn’t come into being.

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Digital technologies help improve city planning.

B．Smart cities will make our future life better and smarter.

C．Smart cities are very common in both Dubuque and Santander.

D．Spain and the US take the leading position in building smart cities.

【推荐2】The question whether there is life on Mars (火星) has made the public think a lot for more than a century. The closest look showed Mars to be a dusty, cold world, covered by air too thin to breathe. A British spaceship and Europe’s Mars spaceship plan to land on Mars or enter orbit (轨道) around it. One of the NASA’s (美国宇航局) spaceships is expected to land on January 3, the other is going to land on the opposite side of Mars on January 24.

Since 1960, over twenty spaceships sent to Mars have failed. Most have been lost on flying up or landing because those are the most difficult times of any flights.

Scientists wanted to find out whether there was water in Mars. In October, a team of scientists reported that Mars had been a dry wasteland. But weeks later, a second team reported differently that they had found some marks showed clearly that they were made by the rivers. Such marks told us that Mars was a warmer place billions of years ago—just as life first appeared here on Earth. Scientists at once raise a question: if what they said is true, what happened on Mars? Then what about the earth?

1. Which is right about Mars?

A．It’s cold without dust.	B．There is no water or air.
C．It’s warm with some thin air.	D．It’s a dusty, cold world almost without air.

2. Two NASA’s spaceships ________.

A．will land on the different sides of Mars	B．will land on the same day
C．will enter orbit around Mars	D．will land with a man

3. A team of scientists reported that there might be ________ in Mars.

A．nothing but air	B．nothing
C．water billions of years ago	D．thick air and lakes

4. What are scientists worried about when they raise the question?

A．Life disappeared on Mars.	B．Spaceships can’t land on Mars.
C．The air on the earth gets less and less.	D．The earth might be changed like Mars.

【推荐3】Read and judge whether the following sentences are true or false.（判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示）

Perhaps we will see a kind of little car in the streets in the future. Most of people will like this kind of small cars better than the big ones. The car is as small as a bike but it can carry two people in it. Everybody can drive it easily, just like riding a bike. Even children and old people can drive them to schools or parks.

If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution in the air. There will be more space for all the cars in cities, and there will also be more space for people to walk in the streets. These little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour, so driving will be safer. They will not be useful for a long trip.

1. All the people can drive the new kind of small cars.
2. The kind of small car is smaller than a bike.
3. Driving the kind of small cars can make the air dirtier.
4. The kind of small cars can make more space for other cars and people.
5. The kind of small cars will be useful if you travel from Shanghai to Yunnan.

【推荐2】

“Add oil,” a popular Chinese phrase has been officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED 牛津英语词典).

“Add oil” is a direct English translation of the Chinese phrase “jiayou”, an exclamation used very often across China to express encouragement or support for someone else. The phrase, “jiayou” in Chinese, literally (字面上) means put petrol to an engine. Chinese often speak it loudly in games and competitions to encourage players.

It was Hugo Tseng, an English professor at Taiwan’s Soochow University, who first noticed the entry (条目). Tseng said excitedly that for more than 10 years he had been often checking for the phrase following each OED quarterly update (更新).

Long before, a number of other Chinese phrases have been included in the OED, such as Guanxi (personal connections that are good for business) and Lucky money (cash given in red envelopes).

In 2014, the American Urban Dictionary(城市词典) collected several Chinese internet buzzwords, such as “no zuo no die” (which translates into English as “if you don’t do stupid things, they won’t come back and bite you in the back”), “you can you up, no can no BB” (which means “if you can do it you should go on and do it, instead of criticizing others’ work”).

The process for adding new words to the Oxford English Dictionary is as follows.

•       Dictionary compilers(编著者) notice a word’s widespread and repeated use by people.

•       Degree of shared use and easy understanding will influence the consideration.

•       Qualifying buzzwords from different languages are placed on a “watch list” for consideration.

•       New additions first appear in the dictionary’s official web databank before hard copies are printed. The online version(版本) is renewed every three months. The next update is in December.

1. When Chinese speak “jiayou” loudly in games, it doesn’t mean________.

A．encouraging the runners to catch up

B．supporting for the players

C．adding energy to the cars

2. How might Professor Hugo Tseng feel when he noticed “add oil” was collected into the OED?

A．Nervous

B．Excited

C．Interested

3. What does the underlined word “buzzwords” mean?

A．中式英语

B．网络语言

C．流行语

4. According to the passage, many Chinese buzzwords have been added into the OED EXCEPT________.

A．no zuo no die

B．Lucky money

C．Guanxi

5. What is the passage mainly about?

A．A new Chinglish phrase appeared in the Oxford Dictionary.

B．Chinglish is no longer a problem for Chinese students.

C．The process for adding new words to the Oxford English Dictionary

【推荐3】Practicing yoga (瑜伽) is a helpful, popular way to keep fit. It has many followers around the world. There are many kinds of yoga. You may have heard of “hot yoga” before. Now, in India, a new kind of yoga, water yoga, is becoming more and more popular among the local people.

In the city of Agra, people practice yoga in water. It is more difficult to practice yoga in water than on land. But practicing yoga in water can be good for your flexibility (灵活性).

Harish Chaturvedi, a lawyer, teaches people water yoga for free―even the poor people can learn from him. “Water yoga can become more popular than other kinds of yoga, because the body does not get tired so quickly,” he said. “Everybody can learn to swim, but if they learn yoga at the same time, they will never feel tired.”

“The level of Oxygen (氧气) is very high in water, and you will not have any breathing problem,” he added.

Harish believes that water yoga really helps people to keep away from illness. He mainly trains children. He has classes at the swimming pool of a local sports room regularly. Many children are interested in it and come to team from him.

“Harish is very good at performing yoga in water,” said Sudhir Narayan, a water yoga student. “He is teaching children free of cost and that is a very good thing.”

1. What is Harish Chaturvedi?

A．A student.

B．A lawyer.

C．A doctor.

D．A swimmer.

2. Why is water yoga more popular than others?

A．Because it feels cool in water.	B．Because you don’t learn to swim.
C．Because it can keep people fat.	D．Because you don’t get tired quickly.

3. There are more ________ than ________ in Harish’s yoga class.

A．children; adults

B．adults; children

C．women; men

D．olds; adults

4. The underlined phrase “for free” in the passage means ________.

A．快乐地	B．免费地
C．自由地	D．规律地