【推荐2】TGBWP (the Great Books Winter Program) is an experience like no other in American education. For the past eleven years, TGBWP has gathered outstanding high school students from across the world to read the greatest works of literature, experience college-level lectures, join in lively discussions and enjoy winter camp fun with other literary-minded students.

Here is a sample of what you will get at Great Books:

Membership in an international community of excited young learners and excellent college teachers who read and discuss great books and big ideas. You will discuss the likes of Plato, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Dickens, and Tolstoy with other teens from around the globe who love literature just as much as you do!

Find your voice in the classroom. TGBWP gives students the opportunity to grow academically and socially as they prepare for high school and college. Open discussions encourage students to express themselves and give power to their ideas. Students gain confidence in their ability to read a text closely and express their ideas clearly both orally and in writing.

Experience time away from home and spend it at a top college—choose from two campus settings: Amherst College in Massachusetts and Stanford University in California. This is the perfect chance for high school students to enjoy life on a college campus in advance!

Don’t miss this opportunity to join the students from 47 states and 28 countries in this unique learning environment.

Categories	Reading/Writing Arts/Travel/Touring Academic/Pre-College
Ages	11—18
Types	Overnight/Residential

More information: CLICK HERE

1. What do we know about TGBWP?

A．It’s a program on giving lectures.

B．It’s a program suitable for teen literature lovers.

C．It’s an education program for American students.

D．It’s a camp program to study American literature.

2. What does TGBWP offer its members according to the text?

A．College-level art education.

B．Free literature courses and literature works.

C．Opportunities to experience college life beforehand.

D．Chances to be accepted into world famous universities.

3. Suppose this text is an ad, what else must be included in “More information”?

A．Contact details.	B．Membership advantages.
C．Age limit.	D．Activity arrangements (安排).

【推荐1】

HQ’s Volunteer Project      Do you want to care for people with special needs? In HQ’s Volunteer Project, you will have chances to give disabled people care, attention and education to help them grow as members of their community.

First Day      On your first day of volunteering, you will be taken to the office. Then you will go to your workplace and meet the staff you will work with. After that, you will be led to your accommodation (住处).

Weekdays      Volunteer days are usually as follows：      7:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m. Breakfast.      8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Get to your workplace to join the staff. Start time and daily workload (工作量) depends on the project that you are taking part in.      12:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Lunch break. All workplaces have a lunch break for about 2 hours. You are welcome to stay at your place or in the office. All places will offer you food.      4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Your daily work usually ends.      4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Dinner at your workplace. Then you are free to do something to relax yourself.

Weekends      During the weekends, volunteers have spare time to relax instead of working continually. You can go shopping, do sports

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Which of the following is a volunteering job of the project?

A．

B．

C．

D．

2. Where will you go first if you join the project?

A．To your workplace.	B．To some famous places.
C．To the office.	D．To your accommodation.

3. When do volunteers probably work on weekdays?     　     　
①6:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
②9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
③2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
④4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

A．①②

B．②③

C．③④

D．②④

4. What can volunteers do on weekends according to the text?

A．Relax themselves.	B．Receive some staff training.
C．Help work in the office.	D．Offer food at the workplace.

5. What is the main purpose of the text?

A．To list the reasons for working in HQ’s Volunteer Project.

B．To introduce different places in HQ’s Volunteer Project.

C．To compare different activities in HQ’s Volunteer Project.

D．To give some information about working in HQ’s Volunteer Project.

【推荐2】

Welcome to the Palace Museum! Here are some rules. Please follow them.

▲Firstly, come here from Tuesday to Sunday.

▲Secondly, you must have your ID card.

▲You can’t eat, but you can bring some water to the museum.

▲Don’t touch the exhibits (触摸展品). You can’t take your pet to the museum.

▲When taking children here, please don’t let them run or make a noise.

1. When can’t we go to the Palace Museum?

A．On Sunday.

B．On Saturday.

C．On Monday.

D．On Tuesday.

2. You can’t take ________ to the museum.

A．ID cards

B．food

C．water

D．children

3. Which is right in the passage (文章)?

A．We can take pets to the museum.	B．People can sing in the museum.
C．Children can run in the museum.	D．We can’t touch the exhibits.

4. If David wants to visit the Palace Museum, he can ________.

A．go with his little brother	B．bring some fruit to eat
C．make a noise	D．listen to music loudly

5. The passage is from a ________.

A．history book

B．museum book

C．science story

D．Chinese map

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Here is a charity sale (义卖) for the poor kids in the mountain area. We’ll give away the money we raise in the charity sale. Come and see our things.

Nick: I have a music player. I have had it for half a year. It still works very well now. It stays with me whenever I feel sad. And I have downloaded some pop songs in it. I hope it can be with you when you are unhappy. It costs 180 dollars. Now, you can take it with 60 dollars.
Karen: I’d like to sell some of my books. I started to buy books when I was twelve years old. My favorite book is Treasure Island. I believe anyone like me will learn a lot from this book. Each book only costs 20 dollars. You can get the second at half price.
Mandy: I have some soft toys to sell. The toy bear is my fourteenth birthday present. I have had it for one year. It still looks very new. Its original price is 50 dollars. You only need to pay 15 dollars for it now. Other toys are very new but cheap, too.
1. What may Nick do when he isn’t happy?

A．Listen to music.

B．Play with toys.

C．Read his favorite book.

2. Nancy will pay __________ dollars if she buys two books from Karen.

A．twenty

B．thirty

C．forty

3. Who may get the money raised from the charity sale?

A．A poor family with four kids.

B．A homeless man from the countryside.

C．The poor kids in the mountain area.

4. The underlined word “original” in this passage means “__________” in Chinese.

A．优惠的

B．现在的

C．原始的

【推荐1】Dear World,

My son starts school today. It’s going to be strange and new to him for a while, and I hope you will be nice to him.

You see, until now, he is the boss of his home. I am always around to take care of him and make him feel better.

But now, things are going to be different.

This morning, he is going to walk down the front steps himself, say goodbye and start a new journey (征程) that will be difficult.

To live his life in the world will need love and bravery (勇气).

So, World, I hope you will take him by his young hand and teach him the things he will have to know.

Give him quiet time to think about why there are birds in the sky and flowers on the green hill.

Teach him that for every villain (恶棍), there is a hero (英雄); that for every enemy (敌人), there is a friend.

Teach him how wonderful reading can be.

Teach him that it is better to fail than it is to cheat (作弊).

Teach him to believe in himself, even if everyone tells him that he is wrong.

Teach him gently, World, but don’t protect(保护) him from everything. Facing difficult situations will make him strong.

This is a big order, World, but see what you can do.

Yours,

A worried mother

1. Who is the mother writing to?

A．Her son’s teachers

B．Her son’s friends

C．The world

D．Her son’s enemies

2. How different will life be for the son?

A．He will not be the boss of his home.	B．He will make friends and become a hero.
C．He will learn to face difficulties on his own.	D．There will be many enemies around him.

3. Which idea might the mother disagree(不赞同) with?

A．Reading is a good habit to have.	B．Her son should get more protection than before.
C．It is important to believe in oneself.	D．Facing difficulties can be useful.

4. From the text, we know that _____.

A．the son is going to a middle school	B．the mother will send the letter later
C．the mother is the headmaster of the school	D．nobody will actually get the letter

5. What is the letter mainly(主要的) about?

A．A mother’s suggestions(建议) to her son’s teacher.	B．A mother’s worries and hopes for her son.
C．Why school is so difficult sometimes.	D．A housewife’s boring life at home.

【推荐2】Wildwood School Library Guide
This will offer you some information about our school library. You can use this guide to help your kids use our library.
Service hours:
3:00 pm—5:30 pm on school days; 8:30 am—11：00 am on weekends
On school days, your kids may borrow or return books during opening hours only when his classroom teacher allows him to. At the weekend, our library is open to both you and your kids.
Borrowing:
Each student can borrow one or two books at a time: More books can be borrowed only for class reading activities and school research.
Returning:
Books borrowed from the library can be kept for 15 school days. The books must be returned before the due (到期的）date or the kid can not borrow other books.
Damaged(受损的） or Lost Books:
When a book is returned in a damaged condition, the kid will have to pay three dollars for the damage. Full price must be paid if a book is lost. We encourage students to carry their library books in plastic bags to protect them from rainy weather.
Please call us at 3362—1323 for more information.
1. This library guide is for_______.

A．teachers from Wildwood

B．workers in Wildwood School Library

C．visitors to Wildwood School

D．parents of the Wildwood School students

2. ________must be paid when a student loses the book he borrows.

A．Three dollars	B．Half the price of the book
C．Full price of the book	D．Twice the price of the book

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The library is open for two and a half hours every day.

B．Students can borrow more books to do school research.

C．Students can go to the library during opening hours as they like.

D．Students can keep the books that they borrow for fifteen school days.

【推荐3】Tea bag drinking is most Westerners' favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about?
The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added(增加) hot water. The tea tasted good, and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again.
Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular, they were changed from silk to gauze (薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85%of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags.
However, many people still prefer loose-leaf tea.   This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers, tea bags are still the easy and tasly way to go.
1. Who invented the tea bag?

A．An English tea seller.	B．Chinese.
C．Lipton.	D．Thomas Sullivan.

2. The tea in silk bags was welcome because________.

A．the tea in bags was free and very good

B．the tea tasted good and the cup was easy to wash

C．people were happy, with the loose tea

D．people didn't know any better way to enjoy the tea

3. The material of the tea bags is usually_________now.

A．silk

B．gauze

C．paper

D．plastic

4. The underlined sentence "Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK" probably means “_______in the UK”.

A．Tea bags soon became popular

B．Tea bags surprised everyone very much

C．Tea bags kicked the loose-leaf tea out of the market

D．Tea bags weren't allowed to be sold

5. The reading mainly talks about________.

A．the invention of tea

B．the way of drinking tea

C．the history of tea bags

D．people' s favorite tea in the world