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Host: Boys and girls, welcome to Teen Talk. Do you often make friends on the Internet? Do you have difficulties when you are chatting with your net friends? What problems make you puzzled（困惑的）? Today, David Smith is here. He will give us some advice.
Problems	Advice
Peter: If my net friends want to know my phone number, what should I do?	David: You’d better not tell strangers your phone number. Knowing your phone number, they might know where you live, and they can call you or your parents often. Sometimes it will bring you much trouble.
John: Sometimes, I meet some adults. I have nothing to chat with them. What should I do?	David: If you don’t like talking with them, skip it. And look for some information you like. But sometimes, adults may give you some useful advice.
George: If they want to visit my home or invite me to their homes, what should I do?	David: If you want to see them, make sure that at least one of your parents can go to meet them, too. Inviting them to your house is good, or let a parent take you over to their houses. Be sure you have a parent along with you.
Victor: Then, what else should we pay attention to?	David: If someone asks you not to tell your parents about him/her, you must tell your parents at once. If they don’t tell you much about themselves, maybe they’re not the ones they say they are.
Host: It’s time to end the program. Thank you.
David: Boys and girls, if you are often online, be careful. Don’t let strangers know you very easily.

1. This passage is a _______.

A．talk show

B．piece of news

C．speech

D．class

2. What’s the problem with the kids?

A．They don’t know how to talk with David Smith.

B．They don’t know what to do on the Internet.

C．They don’t know how to look for information on the Internet.

D．They don’t know what to do when their net friends ask them to do something.

3. The underlined words “skip it” mean “_______” in Chinese according to the passage.

A．忍受

B．不用理会

C．跳起来

D．安静地听

4. If your net friends want to invite you to their homes, according to David’s advice, _______.

A．you should be friendly to them

B．you could meet them alone

C．make sure a parent is along with you when you meet them

D．make sure a friend is along with you when you meet them

5. What’s David’s opinion?

A．Don’t tell much about yourself to strangers on the Internet.

B．Don’t make friends on the Internet.

C．Don’t chat with adults too much online.

D．You should believe in what your net friends say.

【推荐2】Each team has three players. The basketball players are running and jumping in the hot sun. Music is all around. In just twelve minutes, the game is over. But a new one starts right away. How exciting!
This is street-ball. It’s much like basketball. But it’s faster. People play it outside and it’s interesting. Usually, children play street-ball on an open court. They use only half of the court. What they need is a basketball goal (球框). Children love lots of things about the game. “It’s very nice to be outside in the sun. And the music is great”, said Jane, fourteen, a girl in Beijing.
Some say street-ball was from Europe (欧洲), others say it came from America. But now, boys and girls in many countries like to play it. Street-ball is a game for all.
1. Street-ball is much like _________.

A．basketball	B．tennis
C．football	D．badminton

2. What is the meaning of the underlined word court ?

A．院子

B．球场

C．宫殿

D．法院

3. Which one is NOT right?

A．The game is over in twelve minutes.

B．People usually play a street-ball outside.

C．Only girls like to play the game.

D．They use only half of the court.

4. What’s the best title（题目）of this passage?

A．Different Ball Games

B．Street-ball: An Exciting Game

C．How to Play Street-ball

D．Street-ball And Basketball

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Dear Lucy, I have problems with my study. At school, I can’t listen to teachers carefully because I always feel tired and sleepy. I don’t spend time with friends after class either, because I think it’s not interesting. I even miss writing some answers in the English test. At home, I can’t get my homework done every night. I always feel it’s boring. So I have to get up early the next morning to finish it. How can I solve these problems? Yours, Lily

Dear Lily, When you have problems listening to teachers carefully in class, you can ask your deskmate to remind you often. Then spending time talking about many different things with friends can make you happy. It’s very interesting. As for homework, when it’s hard to get it finished, you can have a short rest first, then you can do it again. Yours, Lucy

1. Why did Lily write the letter to Lucy?

A．Because she missed Lucy very much.

B．Because she wanted to ask Lucy for help.

C．Because she wanted to share her happiness with Lucy.

D．Because she wanted to know more about Lucy’s problems.

2. What might Lily’s deskmate remind her?

A．To sleep for a minute.	B．To play together.
C．To stop talking.	D．To listen carefully.

3. Which one is true according to the passage?

A．Lily didn’t do well in her English test.

B．Lily is good at learning all of the subjects.

C．Lily likes to play with her classmates after class.

D．Lucy advises Lily to do her homework in the morning.

【推荐1】Education is not an end, but a way to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.

In some modern countries, it has been fashionable to think that by free education for all, one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough, and we find in such countries a larger number of people with university degree refuse to do what they think “low” work. In fact, working with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way. Firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability. Secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed(耻辱) of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

1. The writer of the passage thinks that ________.

A．education can solve most of the world’s problems	B．free education for all probably leads to a perfect world
C．free education won’t help to solve problems	D．not all the social problems can be solved by education

2. The purpose of education is ________.

A．only to educate children	B．to solve all the problems of society
C．to let children receive education fit for him	D．to build a perfect world

3. What does the underline word “fashionable” mean?

A．new

B．old

C．popular

D．possible

4. The writer wants to prove(证明) that ________.

A．our society needs all kinds of jobs	B．our society needs free education for all
C．a farmer is more important than a professor	D．work with hands is the most important

5. The passage tells us about ________ of the education.

A．the kind

B．the system

C．the value

D．the type

【推荐3】Many people work or study from Monday to Friday. The weekend is usually a time for rest. But today many Chinese students can’t rest on weekends.

A study shows that 24% of the Grade 7 students in Beijing have classes at the weekend. Over 40% of the junior high school students have less than（少于）eight hours’ sleep each night because of study. And this doesn’t happen only in Beijing. Ji Chunying is a Grade 8 student in Guangzhou. The 14-year-old girl has to get up at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday. Then she has classes all day. On Sunday, she goes to extra（额外的）classes for math and science. But she doesn’t complain. She says her classmates all work very hard.

Some students are finding time to have fun. Zhao Ming, 13, is from Zhejiang. Zhao’s weekend is not very busy. But he studies in his school on Saturday. On Sunday, after doing his homework, he plays basketball. “I am happy because I have time to do the things I like,” he says.

Some students are lucky（幸运的）. Ding Yi, a Grade 8 student from Shandong, is one of them.

On weekends, Ding usually gets up at 8:00 a.m. Then she does her homework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV. “My teacher says leaning well at school is enough,” Ding says, “I am very lucky.”

1. Over 40% of junior high school students have less than eight hours’ sleep each night because of ________.

A．playing computer games	B．playing with friends
C．watching TV	D．busy study

2. What does the underlined word “complain” in Paragraph 2 probably mean in Chinese?

A．同意

B．抱怨

C．喜欢

D．投诉

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

A．Some junior high school students can enjoy their weekend.

B．All the students in China are busy studying at the weekend.

C．Ding Yi has to go to extra classes at the weekend.

D．Ji Chunying always complains about her busy weekend.

4. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A．students should do more homework at the weekend

B．all the students must have extra classes at the weekend

C．today many Chinese students can’t rest on weekends

D．no student can play with his friends out of class

【推荐2】“The serious flooding has left much of our city under water. It is a direct result of climate change,” the mayor (市长) of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, says.

The highest water level in the region in more than 50 years will leave “a permanent (永久的) mark on the city,” Brugnaro said.“Now, the government must listen,” he added. “These are the effects of climate change——the costs will be high.”

The waters in Venice peaked at 1.87m, according to the tide (潮水) monitoring center. Since official records began in 1923, only once has it been higher, when it reached 1.94m in 1966. St. Mark’s Square-one of the lowest parts of the city - was one of the worst-hit areas. St. Mark’s Basilica was flooded for the sixth time in 1,200 years. According to church records, four of these floods happened within the past 20 years.

Brugnaro said the damage had been “devastating” “The situation is dramatic. We are asking the government to help us,” he said, adding that schools would remain closed until the water level subsided. He also urged local businesses to post photos and videos online. This, he said, would be used for asking for financial (财政的) help from the government.

A number of businesses were affected. In shops, workers tried to move their goods away from the water to prevent any further damage. One shopkeeper, who was not named, told Italy’s public broadcast Rai, “The city is on its knees.” Even though three waterbuses had been sunk as a result of the flooding, tourists tried to continue their sightseeing. One French couple told joumalists that they had “effectively swum” after some of the wooden platforms had overturned in the waters.

1. What caused the serious flooding?

A．A heavy rain.

B．An earthquake.

C．Climate change.

D．A strious thunderstorm.

2. In the past twenty years, St. Mark’s Basilica was flooded for ________ times.

A．three

B．four

C．five

D．six

3. Which of the flowing statement is true?

A．St. Mark’s Square is often seriously hit when there is a flood.

B．Workers in shops tried to take goods home to avoid further damage.

C．Tourists couldn’t continue their sightseeing because all the water buses had been sunk.

D．The mayor asked the local buinesses to post photos online in order to remember the flood.

4. This passage is probably taken from ________.

A．a news report

B．a scientific report

C．a historical novel

D．a science ficion

【推荐3】根据短文内容，从短文后所给的选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How does the tea plant grow? This term, some students got their answers in the school’s roof garden. Many schools have built small gardens on their teaching building’s rooftop. Some students planted tea plants there.     1     Some students want to learn how to make egg soup and sandwiches. Most students learned to cook in an after-school cooking club.     2    

In the past, Chinese children were sometimes busier after school because they had to take many after-school classes. Now, students join all kinds of clubs. It is because China has introduced the “double reduction” policy.     3     Students’ lives have changed a lot since the policy was carried out. On the one hand, their homework is clearly less than before.     4     This is a much better way than just hitting the books. On the other hand, students spend more time attending after-school clubs, they get lots of life skills from these colorful clubs and have enough time to relax and think for themselves.

    5     They believe that the “double reduction” policy makes a difference to students’ lives.

A．Most parents agree with this policy very much.

B．They also did experiments to learn more about tea.

C．There are more books about how the tea plants grow.

D．It hopes to reduce homework and after-school classes.

E．So teenagers can have more time to stay with their parents.

F．To parents’ surprise, their kids could cook some simple dishes.

G．Teenagers have more chances to get knowledge from the real life.

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The coast redwood is the unchallenged tallest of North American's trees. But do you know it grows from a seed (种子) that is smaller than a pea?

What's special about redwoods?

Redwoods are special for a couple of reasons. The first is their size. Imagine standing next to a tree which is the height of a 30-floor building. The second is their age. Redwoods usually grows to about 600 years old. Some are even more than 2000 years old.

Where do redwoods grow?

To find a coast redwood, you'll have to go to Oregon or California. The land along the west coast, about 450 miles long and up to 35 miles wide, is home to the redwoods. Coast redwoods do not grow anywhere else in the world.

Why do redwoods grow there?

The coast of the Pacific Ocean provides a special environment for the redwoods. Cool, wet air comes from the ocean and keeps the trees wet all year. That is important because most of the rain falls between October and May. During the dry summer months, the trees depend on the wet air over the coast.

How do redwoods survive?

Redwoods have a couple of protection systems(系统). The skin of an adult redwood tree can grow to as thick as 12 inches. The thick covering protects the lower part of the tree from fire damage. Also, most of a redwood's branches and leaves are high up on the tree. This keeps them safe from forest fires. Redwoods are safe from insect damage because the wood has a bitter-tasting chemical.

What should I do?

If you ever get a chance, visit a redwood forest. Look among the tree trunks and imagine who might have camped there a thousand years ago. Look upward and just imagine how high the trees might grow if we protect them.

1. To see a redwood tree, you should go to _______.

A．the west coast of North America

B．the coast of the Atlantic Ocean

C．South American coast

D．anywhere in the world

2. What is important for redwoods to grow in dry seasons?

A．Rain fall.

B．Sea water.

C．Wet air.

D．Ocean life.

3. Redwoods are safe from forest fires because of

A．their taste

B．their chemical

C．their systems

D．their colors

4. If you want to know how big coast redwoods are, under which question should you look?

A．What's special about redwoods?

B．Where do redwoods grow?

C．Why do redwoods grow there?

D．How do redwoods survive?

5. What is the author's main purpose for writing this passage?

A．To praise.

B．To suggest.

C．To introduce.

D．To question.

【推荐3】Very often, when we see young people sitting there, looking at the screen of a mobile phone and smiling, we may think nothing is wrong. But when we come to the question “how much time do they actually spend on media（传播媒介）daily?”, the answer is surprising: young people spend about nine hours every day using media, and this only includes media used for enjoyment.

Today’s young people seem to have become crazy multitaskers. They often use media when doing other activities. Some watch TV when doing homework, some text, and some others listen to music. But what do young people think of this? A survey showed that two thirds of them believed watching TV or texting had no influence on their schoolwork. Half of them thought using social media made no difference. However, researches have given a different answer: “media multitaskers” did worse in tests.

Scientists did research among more than 400 students. It showed that those who texted a lot had more trouble sleeping and did worse in their study. In another research, students who didn’t text during a lesson took down a lot more notes than those who were texting. Similar research also found that students who texted when doing schoolwork had lower overall（总体的）grades.

According to research, if a kid uses social media a lot, especially at night, he or she will sleep worse and feel more nervous and depressed. On the one hand, young people stay up late to check messages and information. They may also be woken up by messages they receive. On the other hand, even the light from a screen could influence their sleep. Some other researches also show that children who use media at night go to bed later, get fewer hours of sleep each week, and become sleepy more easily during the daytime.

1. The underlined word “multitaskers” in Paragraph 2 refers to people who ________.

A．ask a lot of questions	B．use different media for learning
C．have several mobile phones	D．do several tasks at the same time

2. From the passage we can learn that a kid will probably ________ if he or she uses social media a lot at night.

A．become more worried

B．get more excited

C．take fewer notes in class

D．sleep much better

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Social media is very popular among young people.

B．Using media too much has a bad influence on young people.

C．The use of social media has both advantages and disadvantages.

D．Mobile phones are the main tools students use for school learning.