【推荐1】“Love is still alive!” Wang Zhiru from Jiangxi Academy of Forestry, said excitedly when receiving a picture of a white crane on January 3^rd 2019. The white crane they named Love was saved and set free in early 2018.

Love was first found on April 24^th 2018, when Li Zengming, a farmer, drove past a reservoir in the countryside of Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province. Seeing it trying to fly but falling again and again, Li thought that it might be hurt. He drove to the shore and went into the water to rescue it. “I saw the white crane with dull eyes and a weak body. It was probably hurt. If I let it alone, it would be in danger,” Li recalled. After more than half an hour, Li finally took the white crane back to the shore.

Then he called his uncle, an experienced animal saver. for help. “Come over immediately and let’s send it to the police station right away” said his uncle. When seeing the weak wild crane, Jiang Qingchun from the Five-Star Police Station, put down his work and checked it carefully.

“At the end of April, migratory (迁移的) birds usually return to the north. It's abnormal for a white crane to still be living nearby. It may be left behind because of its poor health.” Jiang said. He contacted Wang at the Jiangxi Academy of Forestry for help. Wang's team found Love did not seem to be hurt or have illness, but it suffered from hunger and tiredness. After five days' treatment, its weight rose from 3.75kg to 4kg.

Being kept for long will be bad for birds' ability to survive in the wild. Wang's team decided on May 2nd to set it free at a place in northern China so that it could join the migrating group heading for Siberia in Russia. On May 8th, Love was set free at the Momoge National Nature Reserve.

1. When did the farmer find Love for the first time?

A．On May 2nd,2019.	B．On May 8th,2019.
C．On April 24th,2018.	D．On January 3rd,2019.

2. The underlined word “abnormal” in Paragraph 4 means _______.

A．unhappy

B．unusual

C．unknown

D．unlucky

3. What was wrong with Love?

A．It was hurt.	B．It was weak and lost.
C．It was dead.	D．It was hungry and tired.

4. Why was Love set free in northern China?

A．Because Love was able to fly again.	B．Because Love lost his ability to fly.
C．Because Wang's team couldn't keep it any more.	D．Because Love could join the migrating group there.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Love hurt

B．Love lost

C．Love found

D．Love gone

【推荐2】Man has a big brain (脑子). He can think, learn and speak. Scientists (科学家) once thought that man is different from animals because he can think and learn. They now know that dogs, rats and birds can learn too. They are beginning to understand that man is different from animals because he can speak. Animals can not speak. They make noise when they are afraid or unhappy. Apes (类人猿) can understand something more quickly than man. One or two of them have learned a few words. But they cannot put them together to make sentences. They cannot think like us because they have no language (语言).
Language is a wonderful thing. Man can build a modern world because he has language.
Every child can speak his own language very well when he is four of five, but no animal learns speak. How do children learn it? Scientists do not really know. What happens inside our body? They do not know. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.
1. Man is different from animals because ________________.

A．man can understand things quickly

B．man can learn

C．man has a brain

D．man has learned to use language

2. Apes cannot ________________.

A．speak like man	B．make noise
C．understand things	D．learn words

3. Scientists now know ________________.

A．how children learn to speak

B．why apes can learn a few words

C．what happens inside his body when man speaks

D．man’s brain helps him learn to speak

4. Which of the following is not true?

A．Some animals can learn.

B．Apes can understand some things more quickly than man.

C．Apes can put the words together to make sentences.

D．Apes have no language though they can learn some words.

5. The best title (标题) for this passage is ________________.

A．Animals’ Learning	B．Man and Ape
C．Brain and Language	D．Man’s Brain

【推荐2】In many people’s eyes, plants are quiet. They can’t talk. They can’t walk. And they can’t think like us.

Or can they? A new TV show gives us a new look at plants. Shown on Jan. 10 on Bilibili, it tells the secret lives of plants, and the wonderful and unbelievable ways that plants work.

Plants compete against each other to live. In the rainforests, different kinds of plants race for sunlight. The forest floor is described as a “battlefield”. Only two percent of the sunlight gets through it. Some plants spread their big leaves to reach light. But other plants may catch them up and get a lift. Finally, they are both overtaken (超过) by a fast-growing tree. Similarly, some trees may give out something to protect themselves.

Plants also help each other and even communicate. In deserts, if a tree finds water, it will share it with others. Studies also show that plants use fungus (真菌) in the soil as a way to “talk” to each other. It’s kind of like how Wi-Fi works. If a tomato plant gets a leaf disease, it can tell nearby plants about it.

The TV show not only makes us amazed at the plant world but pushes us to understand that plants are important. “Plants are the needs of all life, including ourselves. We depend upon them for every mouth of food that we eat and every lungful of air that we breathe.”, said David, the director of the show. It’s time to look after wild plants just as carefully as our houseplants.

1. We can learn from the passage that plants ________.

A．can’t talk with each other	B．aren’t able to walk
C．can help each other in need	D．are in great danger

2. Paragraphs 3 and 4 tell us that ________.

A．plants with small leaves get sunlight more easily

B．about 2% of plants can live in rainforests

C．plants in desert keeps water all by themselves

D．plants will know about the closer plants’ illnesses

3. The writer develops Paragraph 3 by ________.

A．showing numbers	B．giving examples
C．raising questions	D．making discussions

4. In the last paragraph, David probably agrees that ________.

A．plants are difficult to study	B．houseplants also need our attention
C．plants play a big role in our lives	D．many wild plants are endangered

【推荐3】According to a recent survey, British teenagers are damaging（伤害） their health by not getting enough sleep because they are prevented from doing so by electronic gadgets (电子设备) in their bedrooms.
According to the Sleep Council, "junk sleep" could compete with eating unhealthy junk food as a main worrying lifestyle for parents of teenage children.
Among the l, 000 students aged 12 to 16 who were tested in the survey, 30 percent just slept for 4 to 7 hours a day. Almost a quarter said they fell asleep, more than once a week, while watching TV, listening to music or using other electronic gadgets.
"This is a quite worrying trend（潮流）”， said Dr Chris Idzikowski of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre. "What we are seeing is the appearance of terrible junk sleep - sleep that is of neither the length（长度） nor the quality it should be."
Nearly each of the teenagers had a phone, music system or TV in his or her bedroom, with around two-thirds owning all three. Almost one in five of the teenage boys said the quality of their sleep had been influenced by leaving their TVs or computers on. The survey also found that 40 percent of youngsters felt tired each day, with girls aged 15 to 16 feeling the worst.
"Teenagers need to wake up to the fact that to perform（表现） well. They need to do something about their sleep. I'm shocked（震惊） that so few teenagers have noticed__________," said Idzikowski.
1. Among the students tested in the survey, about_______ of them fell asleep while using their electronic gadgets.

A．200

B．250

C．300

D．400

2. Which of the following kinds of sleep is thought to be "junk sleep"?

A．A long sleep of good quality.

B．A short but good sleep.

C．A sleep with many dreams.

D．A short sleep of low quality.

3. The underlined part "the close connection" means the connection between_______.

A．hard work and good performance

B．good feelings and good performance

C．good sleep and good performance

D．good sleep and good looks

【推荐1】There are always some mysterious creatures (生物) that interest people around the world, especially those which have confused (困惑) or scared people for centuries. Here are some of them.

The Jersey Devil	Described as looking like a kangaroo (袋鼠). This creature is hardly seen today. However, in 1909, within the Pine Barrens, the Jersey Devil was reported several times in one week. During the whole week, the locals closed shops and schools and stayed at home.
The Chupacabra	The Chupacabra stones began on an island in the Caribbean Sea. It's said that the creature killed and ate livestock (牲畜) and other animals such as cats, rabbits, dogs and chickens. It was about 5 feet tall with short legs and had red glowing eyes. This mysterious creature was even discovered further north in Texas and New Mexico.
The Creepy Gnome	The mystery of the Creepy Gnome began in 2008 when a local man and his friends were discussing their last fishing trip. As they were talking, they heard a sound. They thought it was a dog, but as they looked more closely, they quickly realized that it was a gnome. After they shared the news with the local newspaper, many other locals came out saying they had also seen the gnome themselves.

1. How did the local people feel about the Jersey Devil?

A．Interested.

B．Scared.

C．Surprised.

D．Excited.

2. From the first and the second stories we can know ________.

A．why the two creatures appeared

B．when the two creatures appeared

C．what the two creatures looked like

D．what people thought of the two creatures

3. The local man was ________ when he found the gnome.

A．looking for his own dog

B．taking a trip with his friends

C．discussing the gnome with his friends

D．talking about a trip with his friends

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The Chupacabra was found in different places.

B．The gnome was first seen by a local man in 2008.

C．The Jersey Devil was discovered about 200 years ago.

D．These are three stories made up by the local people.

【推荐3】Large gatherings such as weddings and meetings can be socially flooded with people. Learning people's names only adds to the stress. A new facial-recognition app could come to the rescue, but experts suggest people should be careful while using it.

The app, called SocialRecall, connects names with faces through smartphone cameras and facial recognition (识别), avoiding the need for formal introductions. "It breaks down these social barriers we all have when meeting somebody," says Barry Sandrew, who created the app and tested it at an event attended by about 1,000 people.

After receiving an invitation to download SocialRecall from an event organizer, the user is asked to take two selfies and sign in through social media. At the event, the app is active within a previously set geographical area. When a user points his or her phone camera at an attendee's face, the app identifies (识别) the person, displays the person's name, and links to his or her social media information. To protect Privacy (隐私), it recognizes only those who have agreed to use. And the app's creators say it automatically removes users' data after an event.

Ann Cavoukian, an expert who runs the Privacy by Design Center of Excellence praises the app's creators for these protective measures. She added, however, that when people choose to share their personal information with the app, they should know that "there may be unexpected results down the road with that information being used in another situation that might come back to bite you."

The start-up project has developed the app for people who suffer from prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," a condition that prevents people from recognizing people they have met. To use this app, a person first receives an image of someone's face, from either the smartphone's camera or a photograph, and then tags it with a name. When the camera spots or recognizes that same face in real life, the previously entered information is displayed. The collected data are stored only on a user's phone, according to the team behind the app.

1. Social Recall is used to                .

A．take photos	B．identify people
C．organize events	D．make friends

2. Paragraph 3 is mainly about              .

A．how the app works

B．how the app was created

C．what makes the app popular

D．what people can do with the app

3. SocialRecall helps people with prosopagnosia by            .

A．giving names to the photos kept in their smartphones

B．collecting information previously entered in the phone

C．providing the information of a person when they first meet

D．showing the person's information when it spots a stored face

4. What can we learn about SocialRecall from the passage?

A．It may put people's personal information at risk.

B．It has caused many unexpected results.

C．It can stop people recognizing people they have met.

D．It is praised by users for its protective measures.