【推荐1】A man once bought a parrot. The man let him fly freely all over the house instead of putting him in the cage. The parrot was pleased with that and flew from room to room，screaming with happiness.
       "Who on earth are you?" said a voice from below. "Don't make that terrible noise any more."
       The parrot saw a cat staring(盯着)up at him from the floor.

"I'm a parrot. 1've just arrived and I'm to make as much noise as I can，”he said.

       "Well，I've lived here all my life, " answered the cat. "I was born in this house and I learnt from my mother that it is the best to keep quiet here."
       "Keep quiet then，" said the parrot happily. "I don't know what you do around here, but I know my job. My master bought me for my voice and I'm going to make sure he hears it."
1. The underlined word "master" means "     " in Chinese.

A．爸爸

B．主人

C．哥哥

D．亲戚

2. There are           kinds of animals in the passage.

A．four

B．three

C．two

D．one

3. The cat asked the parrot to

A．listen carefully	B．keep noisy
C．keep quiet	D．do his job

4. From the passage we know         .

A．everyone should do his job

B．the cat sleeps every day

C．the parrot is not free

D．the cat has just arrived at the house

【推荐3】Once there were several scientists in a forest. They were trying to study the rarest animal in the world. Everyone was excited and wanted to be the first one to photograph and study it. 

The animal only came out at night, so the scientists did some other studies in the day.     1     Every day, he would spend an hour sitting at the desk and putting all his equipments in the right place.     2     But other scientists laughed at him because they thought Walter was just wasting time.

One night, the animal appeared suddenly.    3     But the call didn't last long. The animal was scared by the noises made by the scientists while they were looking for their cameras and notebooks.

On the next morning, the scientists compared their findings. Some recorded its call, others   noted down how it moved, and the luckiest one photographed parts of its tail and legs.

    4     However, when they saw what Walter had, they were very surprised.

He took several complete photos, the record of the animal's cry and notes about the animal. They ran to congratulate Walter.     5     Because of that, Walter could find everything quickly in the dark. 

根据短文内容，从方框中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

A．The scientists heard its call.

B．Among them, there was a famous scientist named Walter.

C．They now understood the importance of keeping things in order.

D．They all congratulated(祝贺) each other on what they found.

E．He did this carefully.

【推荐1】Sarah ran in, shouting, “Look what I found!”   Over the top of the paper I was reading; came a terrible thing that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin found in our garden.
“Isn’t it beautiful?” said my seven-year-old daughter.
I opened my eyes widely and looked at the snake skin in fear. I didn’t think it was beautiful, but I learned never to appear nonchalant(冷漠的)with children. Everything they see for the first time is important to their sense of beauty; they see only excellence in the world.
“Why does it do this?”   Sarah asked.
“Snakes shed(蜕) their skins because they need to renew themselves,”   I explained.
“Why do they need to____ themselves?” Sarah asked.
“We often need to shed our skins, those coatings that we cover ourselves with,” I said to my daughter. “We leave some things and find other thing unwanted or unnecessary. This snake no longer needs this skin. It is probably too little for him, and he probably doesn’t think he looks as smart in it as he once did. “
As we talked, I knew that she began to understand. Although she couldn’t understand clearly, she would know that renewal is part of progress; that we need to take a good look at ourselves, our rooms, schoolwork and spirit, and see what we need to keep and what we need to leave.   I was careful to tell that this is a natural way, not one to be forced.
“Snakes don’t peel off their skins when they like them. “I explained. “It happens as a natural thing of their growth. “
“I see, Dad,” said Sarah as she held the snake skin, and then ran off.
I hoped she would remember this; we need to throw some away because they are worthless or unnecessary. Then we can store them as memories m our deep hearts.
1. Father jumped up when her daughter came to him with a snake skin because ＿＿＿＿＿＿.

A．he didn’t want to read any more

B．he was in great fear of it

C．he wanted to praised her daughter

D．he hated snakes

2. Father’s patient explanation shows that ＿＿＿＿＿＿.

A．his daughter didn’t want to listen to him at all

B．he knew children saw only excellence in the world

C．his daughter couldn’t follow him at all

D．he wanted to teach everything to her

3. In this reading the underlined word ‘renew’ means ＿＿＿＿＿＿.

A．to begin to do something again

B．to make something newer than before

C．to replace something old with something new

D．to cover something old with something new

4. We learn from the reading that＿＿＿＿＿＿.

A．the girl seemed to understand what her father said

B．the girl wasn’t interested in the explanation

C．the father was good at raising snakes

D．the father liked the snake skin better

5. Which of the following titles is the best for the reading?

A．Snake Skin	B．Renew Ourselves
C．Father and Girl	D．Great Discovery

【推荐2】You may find it easy and fun to use smartphones. But for many old people, it takes much time and hard work, and more importantly, older people can easily forget what they’ve learned.

Liu Siyuan from Beijing 101 Middle School noticed the problems and tried to solve them with a guidebook. The 16-year-old built a volunteer group called SilverHair. Its seven members spent around half a year writing a 300-page guidebook called May I Show You How to Use Smartphones.

The group talked with many old people and found out what the older people cared most about with smartphones. “How to use WeChat” topped the list. This became one part of the book. The other nine parts include the basic functions（功能） of phones, online shopping, using online maps and more.

To make the book more friendly to older readers, Liu also made the pages light yellow and the Chinese characters big. “The old people can look in the book any time they need, just like using a dictionary,” said Liu.

The SilverHair members have printed out 500 copies of the guidebook using their own money and handed them out. They’ll soon work on the second book, which will have more guidance. But they hope that people can give money to them so that they can print more copies and help more old people.

1. What do old people think of using smartphones?

A．Convenient.

B．Fun.

C．Unimportant.

D．Hard.

2. How long did the volunteer group spend finishing the guidebook?

A．Around 3 months.

B．Around 6 months.

C．Around 9 months.

D．Around 12 months.

3. What makes the guidebook friendly to older people?

A．Its low weight.

B．Its few pages.

C．Its green colour.

D．Its big characters.

4. What will the volunteers do next?

A．Give money to the old.	B．Write a new guidebook.
C．Copy other guidebooks.	D．Sell the book for money.

5. What can we know from the passage?

A．Old people need more care.	B．WeChat is difficult to use.
C．Printing books is expensive.	D．Smartphones are helpful.

【推荐3】【语篇来自二十一世纪学生英文报·试题原创】

What can you do to help out?

Are there any environmental problems in your city? What causes them? Are there ways to stop them?

One winter morning, Tapiwa Chiwewe was driving to work in Johannesburg, South Africa. He noticed a haze (薄雾) hanging over the city and it didn’t take long for him to realize that it was an enormous cloud of air pollution.

At that moment, Chiwewe felt an urge to do something about it, but didn’t know what. He was a computer engineer and knew little about environmental science.

He first did research on air pollution and found that it is the world’s biggest environmental health risk. He decided to work on it in a cooperative (合作的) way. He talked to scientists, officials, and engineers who helped him develop a deeper understanding of the situation, as well as an idea to improve it.

Through years of work, Chiwewe and his coworkers from South Africa and China created an online air quality decision support system (系统). Based on historical and real-time data, the system can accurately (精确地) predict air pollution and air quality, which can help people make better decisions about their daily movements, as well as help officials better manage their operations.

Chiwewe learned an important lesson –“a lesson we all need to take into heart if we are to work towards a better future. Even if you’re not an expert in a particular field, your outside expertise (专业知识) may hold the key to solving problems within that field,” he said.

What if Chiwewe hadn’t bothered to research the problem and do something about it? What if he had just hoped that someone, somewhere, was taking care of the matter?

As Chiwewe said: “Why not just go ahead and deal with the problem as well as you can, in your own way? You may be pleasantly surprised.”

1. Tapiwa Chiwewe worked in________.

A．China

B．America

C．South Africa

D．Japan

2. What was Tapiwa Chiwewe’s job?

A．He was a teacher.	B．He was a computer engineer.
C．He was a doctor.	D．He was a scientist.

3. Chiwewe found that________ is the world’s biggest environmental health risk.

A．water pollution

B．land pollution

C．air pollution

D．light pollution

4. What can we know from the passage?

A．Chiwewe is a person with a sense of social responsibility.

B．Chiwewe knew more about environmental science.

C．Chiwewe worked on air pollution by himself.

D．The system can reduce air pollution.

5. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Chiwewe’s colorful job.

B．Use professional knowledge to solve problems.

C．The process of creating a system.

D．Take immediate action to protect the environment.

【推荐1】David, a famous scientist, has made several important medical breakthroughs(突破), a reporter interviewed him asking why he was able to be so much more creative than most people.

David said that it all came from an experience with his mother that happened when he was about four years old. He tried to remove a bottle of milk from the fridge and it fell, spilling the milk all over the kitchen floor - a real sea of milk!

Instead of shouting at him, giving him a lecture or punishing him, his mother said, “What a great and wonderful mess you have made! Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?”

Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “David, whenever you make a mess like this, which do you prefer to use, a sponge, or a mop?” He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the floor.

His mother then said, “You have a failed experiment in how to successfully carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it.” The little boy then learned that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it.

This famous scientist said he had learnt a lot from that little accident. It was at that moment that he knew mistakes were not something bad at all. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just chances for learning something new, which is, we still can learn something valuable from it.

1. What is NOT true about David?

A．He is a well-known scientist in medicine.

B．He is considered to be unusually creative.

C．He keeps his fantastic achievements as secrets.

D．Many people wonder how he got his success.

2. Which picture can best describe the underlined word “spilling” in Paragraph 2?

A．

B．

C．

D．

3. After the milk accident,   his mother did the following EXCEPT________.

A．asking him to play in the milk

B．cleaning up the floor with him

C．encouraging him to find a new way

D．teaching him how to carry a big bottle

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．A wise mother.	B．A wonderful lesson.
C．A fantastic scientist.	D．A failed experiment.

【推荐2】A small man goes to the cinema. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out. He buys a second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys a third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out a third time and asks for another ticket. But the girl says to him, “Why are you buying all these? Are you meeting friends in the cinema all the time?”

“No, I’m not doing that,” the small man says. “But a big woman always stops me at the door and tears (撕掉) my tickets up. ”

1. The small man goes to the cinema to_________.

A．see a film

B．watch TV

C．meet his friends

D．have a rest

2. The small man_________ a ticket.

A．takes

B．buys

C．brings

D．tears

3. After a few minutes the small man _________ again and buys a third ticket.

A．gets

B．tears up

C．comes out

D．goes in

4. “No, I’m not doing that,” means that_________.

A．he isn’t seeing a film

B．he isn’t meeting his friends

C．he wants to buy the tickets for the big woman

D．the big woman doesn’t let him in

5. From the story we can guess(猜) _________.

A．the small man is the first time to go to a cinema

B．the big woman at the door doesn’t like him

C．the small man is afraid of the big woman

D．the small man doesn’t want the big woman to tear his tickets up

【推荐3】Whenever I look at this photo, I think of an afternoon fishing with my grandfather.

My grandfather loves fishing. When we were younger, he tried to get my brother and I excited about it. “It’s a wonderful way to spend the afternoon together,” he told us. Every Saturday he asked us to go with him. At first we would, but fishing seemed so boring to us. At last we told him that fishing wasn’t our thing.

One Saturday afternoon not long ago, I changed my mind and decided to go with him. I thought that maybe I would enjoy fishing more now that a few years have passed. So down to the water we went. We got in the water, threw the line, and waited, and waited. After three hours all we had was a single tiny fish.

“Grandpa, why do you like standing out here for hours like this?” I asked. “You’ve done nothing all afternoon!”

“Well” he said. “When I was a boy, fishing wasn’t ‘nothing’. In fact, it was everything. I didn’t have TV, or video games, or smart phones. So I fished. Now, when I fish, I go back to being that boy. It was a happy time.”

This photo really changed how I see my grandfather. He is the man who has seen many changes and has had many experiences. Looking at the photo also reminds me that opinion of fishing changed that afternoon. Right after I took the picture, Grandpa felt a strong pull on his line. In a few seconds the two of us were struggling to bring in the biggest fish I had ever seen! It was really exciting. From then on I went fishing with him whenever I could.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Why did the writer decide to go fishing with his grandpa that day?

A．Because it was Saturday again.

B．Because his brother wouldn’t go.

C．Because he knew he’d catch a large fish.

D．Because he came up with a different idea.

2. In the writer’s grandpa’s opinion, fishing used to be ______.

A．a wonderful way to make friends	B．part of his happy childhood
C．not much fun without his family	D．more boring than a smart phone

3. It is clear that ______.

A．the writer lives and fishes with Grandpa

B．the writer’s brother had no interest in fishing

C．Grandpa likes thinking in the water for long hours

D．Grandpa always shows his fishing skills to others

4. The underlined words “that boy” refers to ______.

A．the writer	B．the writer’s brother
C．Grandpa himself	D．nobody

5. What can we infer from the text?

A．The writer’s brother finally learned fishing gradually.

B．The writer was finally willing to fish with his grandpa.

C．This photo reminded the writer of the comfortable life at present.

D．It’s more popular for teenagers to go fishing than playing with smart phones.