【推荐1】Because earthquakes happen without warning, it’s important to take steps now to prepare.
Because you don’t know where you will be when an earthquake happens, prepare some supplies for your home, workplace, and car.
1. Water.
A person needs at least 1 or 2 gallon of water daily just for drinking. Store at least 1 gallon of water per person per day and be prepared for a 72-hour period. It is suggested that you buy bottled water. Keep bottled water and do not open it until you need to use it. Also, do check the “use by” date.
2. Food.
It’s always a practical idea to keep food that can be stored easily. Have an enough supply of canned food, powdered milk, dried fruits, non-salted nuts and canned juices for at least 72 hours.
3. Flashlights(手电筒) and spare batteries.
Keep a flashlight beside your bed, at your place of work, and in your car. Do not use matches or candles after an earthquake. Maybe it’s dangerous. Prepare a battery-powered radio and spare batteries. Most telephones will be out of service, so radios will be your best thing of information.
4. Clothes.
If you live in a cold place, you must think about warmth. You might not have heat after an earthquake. Think about your clothing and bedding supplies.
1. Why should people prepare themselves for an earthquake?

A．Because earthquakes can be known before they happen.

B．Because earthquakes take place without warning.

C．Because earthquakes take place at times

D．Because it’s people’s daily work to prepare the earthquakes.

2. From the prepared water, we may know that          .

A．A person should prepare 0.5 gallon of water for one day.

B．You’d better use your own bottle to keep water.

C．We should drink water after the “use by” date.

D．You shouldn’t open the bottled water until you need it.

3. According to the article we know that           .

A．we can keep some fresh fruits for at least 72 hours.

B．a telephone is the most important prepared thing.

C．flashlights but not matches are first used after earthquakes.

D．clothes are used to protect your head.

【推荐2】You are walking down the street. Suddenly it starts to rain and you don’t have an umbrella. What do you do? Run or walk?

Most people would choose to run because it will get you out of the rain faster. But if you run, you also run into more raindrops. So what should you do?

Things are more complicated than you might think. Franco Bocci, a professor at the University of Brescia in Italy, found that whether you should travel slowly or quickly in rain depends on the wind’s direction and your body’s shape, according to the BBC.

When there is no wind, and the rain lands directly on you, Bocci suggests that you should run and hide as fast as possible. But if the wind comes from behind and blows the rain onto your back, the best thing to do is walk at the same speed as the wind. This way, both your front and back will stay mostly dry.

This is not all. When the wind blows in from the side, you’ll have to think about one more thing—your body shape. Thinner people are hit by fewer raindrops. In this case, a fatter person had better run while a thinner person should still try to match their speed to the wind.

“In general, the best thing is to run, as fast as you can—not always, but in general,” Bocci told BBC News. “If you’re really thin, it’s more probable that there will be an optimal speed. Otherwise it is better to run fast.”

Now you know what to do next time the rain catches you in the middle of the street. But the best way to stay dry is still-to carry an umbrella.

1. According to Franco Bocci’s study, whether you should run in the rain depends on ________.
①how fast you can run       ②how heavy the rain is       ③your body’s size ④the wind’s direction

A．①②

B．③④

C．①③

D．②④

2. What does the underlined word “optimal” in paragraph7 probably mean?

A．fastest

B．slowest

C．best

D．possible

3. According to the article, which is the best way to stay as dry as possible on a rainy day?

A．If there is no wind, walk at your usual speed.

B．If the wind is from behind, run as fast as you can.

C．If the wind is from the front, fat people should match the speed of the wind.

D．If the wind is from the side, thin people should match the speed of the wind.

【推荐3】It is late at night. A car stops in the middle of a forest. After dropping off their three teenagers, the parents say "good luck" and drive away.    1    .

It may sound crazy to you, but this is a special tradition in the Netherlands(荷兰) called “dropping”. Dutch(荷兰的) people believe that children should not depend too much on their parents.    2    American parenting writer Lenore Skenazy said, “When you let children out doing some things by themselves, all the good things happen -the self-confidence and happiness."

Although the Dutch enjoy this tradition, other people think it's a bad idea.     3    “I don't think it's a nice thing for kids," said one parent from the US. “It's late and long and kids might be scared."

People have many different opinions about parenting.     4    They worry too much about their children and pay attention to everything they do - like something flying over their children. In their eyes, children need to be protected all the time.

What is a good parenting style? An American Parenting expert kenneth Ginsburg says “    5    ”. As Ginsburg writes “parents should make sure their children don't crash (碰撞) against the rocks, yet allow them to ride the waves, even if they get a little choppy (波涛汹涌的) sometimes”.

A．Some parents don't think it is responsible (负责任的) parenting.

B．The teenagers, totally lost, have to find their way back home by themselves.

C．And they should learn how to solve problems through activities like “dropping”.

D．Good parents need to find a balance between protecting their children and letting go.

E．The teenagers have fun singing and dancing together and don't want to go back home.

F．In China, some parents try too hard and become "helicopter parents”, which is basically the opposite of "dropping”.

【推荐1】Choose the best answer(根据以下内容,选择最恰当的答案. )

Summer is a great time to improve your child’s reading!Reading over the summer can help your child keep up his reading gains during the past school year AND also help prepare him for the next year!

How to sign up:
We are inviting you to sign up for free to help your child be an active reader this summer!
Go to www. readfun org
Select "Parent" ( NOT "Teacher" )
Click on the blue "Sign Up"
What we provide:

We provide you with thousands of free, high-quality articles with questions and activities. To make summer reading easy, we have selected interesting and knowledge-filled articles of different levels. You can go to www. Readfun.org/summer-reading to download and print the articles for free.

How to use:
TIP 1: Articles for summer reading should be accessible, so be sure to choose articles at your child’s reading level. Don’t be afraid to star with articles of lower grade levels. The important thing is that he reads, reads, reads!
TIP 2: It’s also important to help your kid develop good reading habits. Help him keep a good record of his summer reading. Besides, encourage him to discuss what he has read with family members. That way, you will all have a good time.
We wish you and your family a great summer!
1. The first two sentences of the text above are about________.

A．different types of books	B．the coming school year
C．the importance of summer reading	D．good places for summer reading

2. One of the steps for parents to sign up on www. readfun.org is to______.

A．select “Parent "     B .finish a test        C. choose a tip       D. print an article

3. What does www. readfun.org provide?

A．Online teachers.	B．Pen friends' information.
C．Interesting videos	D．Articles of different levels

4. The underlined word "accessible" in the text means" easy to_____”.

A．write

B．discuss

C．understand

D．compare

5. According to TIP 2, parents should help their kids develop ___ good reading habit(s).

A．1

B．2

C．3

D．4

6. The text above is written to ____.

A．introduce a reading programme	B．sell books to school kids
C．encourage parents to read more	D．share reading experience

【推荐2】

Reading for pleasure is the easiest way to become a better reader in English. Some students say they don't want to read for pleasure. They want to spend their time in doing some exercises on listening, grammar and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy and it is not helpful.
Many experts(专家)say pleasure reading is very important for learning English. Dr Stephen Krashen, a famous expert on learning language, says that pleasure reading helps students learn many important things about English. Students can learn more grammar and words. They can also use excellent sentences when they do some writing. Dr Krashen says pleasure reading helps each student in a different way, because each student has his own learning skills or levels. Pleasure reading makes it possible for each student to learn what he or she needs. Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you can choose your favourite books，and don't have to remember everything. You don't have any pressure because there are no tests about it.
In general, reading for pleasure can help：
◆make students read faster in English；
◆find examples of good writing in English；
◆learn new words and grammar；
◆know about the English native speakers' reading habits.
1. Why don't some students like reading for pleasure?

A．Because they think it takes them a lot of time.

B．Because they don't know what to read.

C．Because they think it is easy and unhelpful.

D．Because they think it is difficult and boring.

2. What does Dr Stephen Krashen do?

A．A doctor.	B．A language expert.
C．A teacher.	D．A writer.

3. Which is NOT true about reading for pleasure?

A．It helps students in the same way.

B．Students can learn more grammar.

C．It is helpful for students' English writing.

D．It is important for English study.

4. What does the underlined word “pressure” mean?

A．精神

B．信仰

C．潜力

D．压力

5. How many advantages does reading for pleasure have according to the passage?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

【推荐3】Some teenagers think that newspapers are boring and only for adults. But that’s not true. There are many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to make clear what you are looking at. “I spend about half an hour reading newspapers every day,” said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing. “I’m interested in things happening at school.” School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. There’s also world news from international problems to pop stars. Read the newspaper carefully, we’ll find different types of articles on the pages.

News stories — these stories are about events. Reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper has lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers’ ideas.

Opinion writing — opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn’t just facts. Here writers add their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back up their ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth. This is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. Go to “Speak Out” on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.

Advertisement — Don’t get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!

1. The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means that the readers ______.

A．should understand interesting news stories	B．should know which kind of things to read
C．need to look at the school news first	D．must know the contents of all the news

2. Writers use some facts in opinion writings because they want us ______ their opinions.

A．to understand

B．to remember

C．to agree with

D．to speak out

3. We can not find the facts of an event ______.

A．in advertisements

B．in the school news

C．in opinion writing

D．on the front page

4. In the writer’s opinion, we’d better be ______ advertisements in newspapers.

A．interested in

B．against

C．worried about

D．careful of

5. This passage mainly discusses how ______.

A．reporters write different kinds of news	B．teenagers get interested in newspapers
C．readers can read newspapers in better ways	D．readers can deal with different kinds of news in newspapers

【推荐1】When you are online, you can be anyone or anything. You can create your own image and a new personality. These digital identities (身份), known as avatars, are a key part of how people use the Internet to communicate and express themselves.

The first simple 2D avatars appeared in role-playing computer games in the 1980s. Yet, very few people knew that future avatars would have such a wide variety of forms and uses. By the late1990s, they had been used in web chats like instant messenger (即时通讯).

When people started creating their own avatars, they found that they were going to have the power to create new identities that did not look or act like their real selves at all. They could dress their avatars in fancy clothes, or they could try being someone of the other sex, and call themselves “Andy” instead of “Anna”! When Internet users realized that their avatars would be seen by many people, not just their friends, they started having more than one avatar:a proper one for work; a friendly, good-looking one for meeting people; and a silly one for having fun. Avatars let you express yourself and they give you lots of room for creativity.

Of course, the avatar you choose says a lot about your personality. If your blog avatar is a picture of a cute cat, your message is “I like relaxing and having fun”. Well-known cartoon characters say “I am a really funny person”. Most people create avatars that have similarities to themselves and that look more or less like them and act like them.

Nowadays, although avatars are everywhere, the use of avatars has also caused a few concerns. Some users worry that they are spending so much time in virtual (虚拟的) worlds that they are becoming afraid of meeting people in the real world. The use of several avatars can also be a risk, as people can use avatars to cheat others online. However, other users view avatars in a more positive light. They look forward to a time when their avatar will act like a real person and travel around bigger,more exciting virtual worlds.

1. According to the passage, avatars are ________.

A．your own image and personality in real life

B．your digital identities on the Internet

C．some role-playing games in the 1980s

D．web chats like instant messenger

2. Which of the following shows how people use avatars?
①People create avatars that did not look or act like themselves.
②People use one avatar all the time.
③People use avatars to show their own personality.
④People create avatars that are similar to them.

A．①②③

B．①②④

C．①③④

D．②③④

3. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Some problems caused by avatars.

B．Different views about avatars.

C．The biggest risk of avatars.

D．The possible future of avatars.

4. The overall tone (整体基调) of this reading is ________.

A．personal and scientific	B．informative but silly
C．impersonal and informative	D．sad and scientific

【推荐2】In 1987, a small company named Huawei was started in Shenzhen. After more than 30 years of development, the company has now beaten Apple and become the world’s second-largest maker of smartphones behind Korea’s Samsung. It has also become the world’s largest supplier （供应商）of 5G.

But recently, Huawei faced some difficulties. The U.S. government ordered a ban （禁令） on its sales in America. American officials said Huawei gave information that it collected to the Chinese government. At the same time, the U. S. government planned to stop selling parts and services to Huawei, which was believed that Huawei’s business would be hurt.

“We have never received such a request（要求）from the Chinese government and we have never tried to get into other systems to collect information.” Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and president said. “This ban from the U.S. would have little effect （影响）on our company. Huawei has enough ability to deal with the problems.” Ren added.

In an interview several years ago, Ren Zhengfei said, “I started Huawei with only ￡4,000 at the beginning, but now it has become a $100 billion company. The experience was not as romantic（浪漫的）as you imagine.”

Facing the ban of the U.S., Huawei is growing. Huawei’s smartphone sales around the world rose 50 percent compared to a year earlier in the first three months of 2019. At the same time, sales from both Samsung and Apple fell. So far, Huawei has grown into the world’s largest telecommunications equipment （电信设备）supplier, selling in 170 countries! It may beat Samsung as the largest smartphone maker in the near future.

1. Which company is the largest supplier of 5G in the world?

A．Samsung.

B．Huawei.

C．Apple.

D．Nokia.

2. Why did the U.S. order a ban on Huawei?

A．Huawei’s sales in America were growing faster than Apple.

B．Huawei refused to supply services to the U.S. government.

C．They didn’t want Apple to sell parts and services to Huawei.

D．They thought Huawei collected information for the Chinese government.

3. From what Ren Zhengfei said, we can learn that _____.

A．Huawei can solve the problems they are facing

B．Huawei is asked to supply information to China

C．Huawei has got into the system of the U.S.

D．the ban from the U.S. has much effect on the company

4. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 4?

A．It is romantic to start a company with ￡4, 000.

B．Huawei’s developing experience was hard.

C．The romantic experience was a large amount of wealth.

D．People can understand Huawei’s developing experience easily.

5. What does the writer want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．Huawei will grow slowly.	B．Huawei’s sales will be doubled.
C．Huawei is full of hope.	D．Huawei is the largest smartphone maker.

【推荐3】For thousands of years, tea is loved by many people around the world. It has finally received top-level global recognition as a shared cultural treasure of our humans. On November 29, 2022, traditional tea processing techniques and their related social customs in China were added to UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (联合国教科文组织人类非物质文化遗产名录). Following “Wangchuan Ceremony (送王船)” in 2020, this project is the 43rd one to be successfully added to the list and there are 44 sub-projects in total belonging to this main project.

Chinese tea culture began as early as over 5,000 years ago. It’s said the ruler Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink by accident. But during the Three-Kingdom Period, people paid more attention to its medical value. In the Tang Dynasty, tea-tasting became an important part for poets’ life. Bai Juyi wrote 64 poems about tea in his lifetime.

According to UNESCO, in China traditional tea processing techniques are closely connected to location and natural environment. The area of tea planting in China is about between 18°-37° N and 94°-122° E. Tea-related customs are not only found across the country, but also influenced the rest of the world through the ancient Silk Road. In western countries, tea firstly became popular in Britain in the 17th century, and then the whole of Europe. When it came to the late 18th and 19th centuries, 10% of a British person’s income at the time was spent on tea, making it one of the most important expensive goods.

1. Which city is the most impossible to grow tea in the map of China?

A．A

B．B

C．C

D．D

2. Who might spend 10% of the income buying tea according to the passage?

A．Shakespeare	B． Defoe
C． Dickens	D． Orwell

3. Which of the following statement is true?

A．One project of China can be added into the list every year.

B．Tea was used as a kind of medicine when Shen Nong discovered it.

C．In total, there are 44 projects from China on the list now.

D．Tea travelled to the west by the Silk Road in ancient times.

4. Which book can you possibly read the passage in?

A．Big Ceremony.	B．Western Culture.
C．Accidental Invention.	D．Travelling in China.

【推荐1】Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy. After climbing up a hill or a panoramic (全景的) view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then decided to take the best photo of this panorama.

Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman appeared from behind, and stood right in front of my view. Like me, this woman was here to stop, take a break and appreciate the view.

Patient as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would finally take, I grew frustrated. Was it too much to ask her to move so I could take just one picture of the scenery? Sure, I could have asked her, but something prevented me from doing so. She seemed to be lost in her observation (观察) I didn't want to mess with that.

Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored. The woman was still there. I decided to take the photo anyway. And now when I look at it, I think her appearing in the photo is what makes the image interesting. The beautiful scenery on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes because this woman is engaging with it.

This photo, with the special beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who "ruined" it, now hangs on a wall in my bedroom. What would she think if she knew that her figure is captured (捕捉) and frozen on some stranger's bedroom wall? A bedroom, after all, is a very private space, in which some woman I don’t even know has been immortalized (使…永存). In some ways, she lives in my house.

Perhaps we all live in each others’ space. Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.

That photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken conversation between two women, separated only by a thin square of glass.

1. What happened when the writer was about to take a photo?

A．Her camera stopped working.	B．A woman blocked her view.
C．Someone asked her to leave.	D．A friend appeared from behind.

2. The underlined word "paused" in the passage may mean________.

A．continued

B．stopped

C．prepared

D．tried

3. According to the writer, the woman was probably ________.

A．enjoying herself	B．losing her patient
C．waiting for the sunset	D．thinking about her past

4. In the writers opinion, what makes the photo so alive?

A．The rich color of the scenery	B．The perfect position of the camera
C．The woman's appearing in the photo	D．The soft sunlight of that summer day

5. The passage can be seen as the writer's opinion of ________.

A．a particular life experience	B．the pleasure of traveling
C．the art of photography	D．a lost friendship

【推荐2】Chinese scientists have used lasers（激光）to accurately identify space debris（碎片）in the Earth's orbit.

The team applied a specially developed set of rules to laser-ranging telescopes, which enabled them to identify space junk more effectively than previous techniques. “After improving the pointing accuracy of the telescope through a neural network（神经网络）, space debris with a cross sectional area of one square meter at a distance of 1500 kilometers can be detected,” Tianming Ma, an author of the study from the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, said in a statement.

According to NASA, orbital debris is any man-made object in orbit around the Earth that no longer serves a useful function. Debris can include non-functional spacecraft, abandoned launch vehicle stages, and other mission-related space junk. It poses a significant risk to astronauts and spacecraft in orbit above the Earth as it travels very fast—up to 18,000 miles per hour, which is faster than a bullet. Worryingly, there are estimated to be many millions of tiny debris pieces in low-Earth orbit, and tens of thousands times larger than a softball, the space agency said. Fortunately, there have been surprisingly few collisions.

In the study, Ma and his team used two different neural networks to help identify space debris with the laser-ranging telescope. They then tested this method against more traditional techniques. According to the team, this is the first time that neural networks have been used to significantly improve the pointing accuracy of a laser-ranging telescope. They say the latest findings could have significant implications for manoeuvring spacecraft in orbit.

Laser-ranging technology has previously been used to detect space junk. However, these systems have limitations when it comes to accurately identifying small, fast-moving pieces. In fact, previous laser-ranging methods have only been accurate to about 0.6 miles. In an attempt to overcome the inaccuracies of laser-ranging techniques，the Chinese team used so-called neural networks to improve the effectiveness of their telescope system. Neural networks are computing systems which are inspired by biological networks in the brain and have the ability to learn to become better at tasks without being given a specific set of rules to follow.

1. How have Chinese scientists made progress in identifying space debris?

A．By improving the accuracy of laser technology.

B．By adopting newly developed telescope systems.

C．By upgrading the advanced traditional technology.

D．By applying neural networks to laser-ranging telescopes.

2. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The introduction to orbital debris.	B．The advantages of neural network.
C．The threat of space junk to the Earth.	D．The importance of detecting space debris.

3. What is the purpose of the fourth paragraph?

A．To add some background information.	B．To provide some advice for scientists.
C．To summarize the previous paragraphs.	D．To introduce a new topic for discussion.

4. What do we know about neural networks from the last paragraph?

A．They can speed up computing systems.

B．They can learn to perform better independently.

C．They can detect space junk in low-Earth orbit.

D．They can perform tasks accurately under a set of rules.

【推荐3】Choose the best answer (根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案)
Dear Arizona,

My brother is so lucky. Good things are always happening to him. Do you believe in luck? And if so, how can I get more of it?

Yours,

Looking for luck

Dear Looking,

It began one morning. I wore my brother, Tex’s hat and walked to school. That day, I didn’t miss the bus, because the bus was even later than me---that never happens! The luck went on. In the English class, I did well in spelling all the new words.

Then, when I came back to home, I asked Tex to borrow this hat one more day, because I had an audition（试镜）for the school play the next day. Tex agreed, and I gave him a warm hug. My audition was great. It was a super lucky day for me.

“Wow, Arizona!” said my friend Maria, “I can’t believe how amazingly you just did!”

“Thanks!” I said. “But honestly, the only reason is that I had a lucky hat.”

“What lucky hat?” asked Maria.

“This one,” I said, reaching into my backpack（背包）, where I thought I’d put Tex’s hat. But it wasn’t there! “Oh, no!” I cried. “It’s gone! What am I going to tell Tex?”

Maria helped me look for it. Luckily, we found Tex’s hat in my locker（寄物柜）. Also luckily, I discovered that I could be lucky with or without a hat.

“So it wasn’t the hat,” said Maria. “This is just a wild guess, but maybe it was all those hours you spent practicing over the past month.”

So, dear Looking, I guess you could say that luck is the result of being well prepared, believing in yourself, and maybe just a bit of magic! In other words, luck may come your way, but you have to be ready for it when it does!

Yours,

Arizona

1. Arizona didn’t miss the bus because ______________.

A．he had a lucky hat	B．he got up earlier than before
C．the bus was waiting for him	D．the bus was late

2. Why did Arizona borrow Tex’s hat one more day?

A．Because he needed luck for his audition the next day.

B．Because he needed a hat for his audition the next day.

C．Because he had a spelling test the next day.

D．Because he thought Tex’s hat was beautiful.

3. Where was Tex’s hat when Arizona was having his audition?

A．In Arizona’s backpack.	B．In Arizona’s locker.
C．In Tex’s backpack.	D．In Tex’s locker.

4. Which of the following sentence is not the writer’s opinion(观点) about luck?

A．Luck is being prepared.	B．Luck is believing in yourself.
C．Luck is a bit of magic.	D．Luck is natural.

5. What is the best title for this passage?

A．A lucky hat.

B．Looking for luck.

C．My lucky day.

D．My brother’s luck.