【推荐1】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入各小题的正确答案。

Question: What’s the best way to travel from London to Amsterdam?

I want to travel from London to Amsterdam next month.     1     Could you please tell me about the ways to get there? Could you please tell me about the trains or ships to get there? The more information, the better. Thanks.

Best answer: There are four ways to travel

It is more relaxing to go there by train than by bus, but it is a lot more expensive as well.     2     It is usually cheaper.

You can go by car and by ship across the North Sea. This is the most comfortable way to travel but also the most expensive. Remember to book (预定) your ticket before you book your hotel.

    3     This is usually the cheapest, but in summer the buses sometimes get crowded! And it takes you about twelve hours to get there.     4    

At last, you can fly. It is the quickest and the second cheapest.     5    

Well, I hope this helps! Have a great trip!

A．When you go by train, buy your ticket a long time before you travel.

B．To me, the best way of traveling is to go on foot.

C．How long does the trip take and what is the best way to travel?

D．However, it won’t cost as much as going by train.

E．The third way is by bus.

F．But you may have to wait for hours at the airport (机场) because of the bad weather.

G．It is the best way to go there by bus.

【推荐3】In Tianjin, China, a group of people are waiting at the bus stop. Soon, the special bus comes to the bus stop. It looks like a panda with black ears and black eyes. After getting on the bus, people only need to buy their tickets by scanning（扫描）their hands! About one minute later, the bus begins itself-driving mode. When the traffic lights turn red or when it reaches the bus stop, it stops automatically. There is also a robot on the bus. People can talk to it and ask it for help. If there is a bad person on the bus, the robot will call the police. “It’s very convenient,” says a woman taking the bus. “And kids love it.”

A company called Deep Blue Technology makes this kind of buses. They’re working in ten cities all over China. More cities in China will put this kind of buses into use this year. I think soon you can take the bus in your city.

Now smart buses are no longer buses in the future. Would you like to take a ride on the smart bus?

1. What does the bus look like?

A．A cat.

B．A duck.

C．A panda.

D．A bear.

2. What does the underlined word “automatically” in the first paragraph mean?

A．快速地

B．自动地

C．突然地

D．缓慢地

3. What can the robots do on the bus?
①Call the police.   ②Talk to people.   ③Play with kids.   ④Drive the bus.

A．①②

B．①④

C．①③

D．②④

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Buses in the future.

B．A modern city.

C．Deep Blue.

D．A new kind of bus.

【推荐1】Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The program works because everyone's eyes are different．So in the future you won't have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank．You'll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are. This is eye-recognition program.
Meanwhile，scientists are working on other systems．Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We have already had machines that can tell who you are from your voice or from your finger mark．
Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don't change as you get older，or get dirty like hands or fingers．And even twins have different eyes，so the program can be up to 94% correct，depending on how good the technology is．Some programs may only be 51%．However, the correct rate(准确率) of eye-recognition grogram will be reduced in the dark.
The eye-recognition(眼睛识别) program is being tested in shops and banks in the U.S.A.，Britain，Spain，Italy and Turkey．In Britain，it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of recognizing(认出) you by your eyes．Soon this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are．
1. What will people have to do so that machine can tell who they are?

A．People have to remember a number and type it.

B．People have to leave their finger marks on the machine.

C．People only have to look at the machine.

D．People have to speak to the machine.

2. Which recognition programs are in use now?

A．Remembering eyes and smell.

B．Remembering finger marks and voices.

C．Remembering faces and voices.

D．Remembering hands and faces.

3. Eye-recognition program doesn’t work very well when _______.

A．people get old	B．people’s hands are dirty
C．it is in a bright room	D．it is in a dark room

4. What’s the highest correct rate of the eye- recognition ?

A．94 %

B．91%

C．51%

D．100%

5. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The voice-recognition grogram.

B．The eye-recognition program.

C．The finger mark-recognition program.

D．The face-recognition program.

【推荐2】According to a famous optical expert(光学专家)，Alexander, who recently visited Shanghai, the developed countries in Europe（欧洲） and America have made rules that children must wear resinous(树脂) glasses instead of the traditional glasses made of glass. This is because the glasses are more likely to do harm to children’s eyesight.

Alexander pointed out, wearing the right glasses as soon as possible is still the best way to cure and put right children’s eyesight problems.

In America and Japan, the resinous glasses have taken up 80 percent of the glasses market. And some European countries and America have made it a law that children, teenagers and drivers must wear resinous glasses.

Now, about 10 million children in China have different eyesight problems and they need timely treatment.

But still, too many parents are buying the traditional glass glasses for their children. This is mainly because many parents know little or nothing about the good points of the resinous glasses. Besides（而且）,the price for the new glasses is a little higher than the traditional ones.

1. This text mainly wants to tell us that________.

A．Alexander visited China and introduced a new kind of glasses

B．resinous glasses are very popular in Europe and America

C．we should wear resinous glasses instead of glass glasses

D．glasses can be made of other materials besides glass

2. The underlined words “ timely treatment”(paragraph 4) mean _______.

A．stopping to wear glass glasses any more

B．wearing suitable resinous glasses at the right time

C．buying a pair of glasses and wearing them right away

D．buying glasses made in Europe, Japan, or America if possible

3. It can be inferred（推断）from the text that _______.

A．resinous glasses are not on sale in China yet

B．resinous glasses are not acceptable（可接受的）at all in China

C．glass glasses have disappeared on Western market

D．glass glasses are the first choice in China not only because they are cheaper

【推荐3】Have you watched the recent TV Three-Body? Changed by Liu Cixin’s science book The Three-Body Problem, the show is very popular with people. One of the most exciting part must be Operation Guzheng.

In order to find the important information on a huge ship, people plan to cut the ship into pieces. They set up many thin strings (线) across the river, which are made by high technology. Looking like Guzheng, the strings quietly cut the steel ship into pieces as if the ship was soft tofu!

Is it possible to cut ships with thin strings in real life? In fact, strings are very good at cutting. For example, the egg cutting machine uses thin strings to cut eggs into pieces. A kite line can easily hurt people if it gets circle around their necks. This is because the thin strings have a very small contact area, leading to a high intensity of pressure (压强) when they cut things.

In the program, the strings are as thin as human hair. To cut the ship, the pressure needs to be 200 MPa. How strong is that pressure? Imagine an elephant standing on a string! In real life, scientists won’t be able to make such thin strings that wouldn’t easily break, at least for years to come. The cutting will also create lots of heat. We don’t have the things to bear (忍耐) that high temperature while it’s also thin enough to cut through. It’s still far away from the technology in the program.

1. What is the purpose of Operation Guzheng in the program?

A．To find a huge ship.	B．To turn the ship into soft tofu.
C．To get important information.	D．To cut the ship into pieces.

2. What does “steel” in Paragraph 2 mean in English?

A．huge

B．hard

C．soft

D．smooth

3. How does the writer tell us “strings are very good at cutting”?

A．By telling stories.	B．By explaining rules.
C．By showing numbers.	D．By giving examples.

4. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 want to tell us?

A．Making thin strings is easy.	B．People break strings with machines.
C．Cutting things must use strings.	D．People need strong pressure to cut ships.

5. Which part of the newspaper may this passage be taken from?

A．Music & Fashion.	B．Sports & Games.
C．Science & Technology.	D．Culture & Nature.

【推荐1】"Earworms", some people call them. Songs that get stuck in your head go round and round, sometimes for days, sometimes for months. For no clear reason you cannot help yourself from humming or singing a tune by Lady Gaga.
To a psychologist, the most interesting thing about earworms is that they show a part of our mind that is clearly outside of our control. Earworms arrive without permission and refuse to leave when we tell them to. They are parasites (寄生虫) living in a part of our minds.
If you have got an earworm you can suffer an attack of it simply by someone mentioning the tune, without having to hear it. This proves that earworms are a part of long-term memory. Humans have an "inner ear", for remembering phone numbers, for instance. When it gets infected with earworms, rather than review our plans for the day, or lists of things to remember, the inner ear gets stuck on a few short bars of music or a couple of phrases from a song. A part of us that we normally do not have to think about, that should just do what we ask, has been turned against us, upsetting us with a request that we never asked for. The mind is an inner world which we do not have complete knowledge of, or have control over.
Fortunately psychology can provide some advice on how to deal with an uncontrollable mind. Consider the famous "don’t think of a white bear" problem, which tells you to try not to think about white bears, or to do something else, to avoid both thinking of the white bear and not thinking of the white bear. For earworms, the solution may be the same. Our inner ear has become infected with an earworm. This is a part not under our control, so just sending in instructions to "shut up" is unlikely to be of much help (and has been shown to make it worse). Much better is to employ the inner ear in another task. If your mind is poisoned by Brittany Spears’ Toxic, for instance, then try singing Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out Of My Head. Let me know if it works!
1. According to the passage, earworms are ______.

A．songs that keep going round in our mind

B．worms that live in a part of our brain

C．tunes by pop singers like Lady Gaga

D．parasites clearly under our control

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Singing songs may get earworms out of your head.

B．Earworms are used for keeping long-term memory.

C．Humans do not have complete control over their mind.

D．You won’t suffer from earworms unless you hear the song.

3. What does “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The instruction to shut up your mind.

B．“Don’t think of the white bear” problem.

C．Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out Of My Head.

D．Using the earworm-infected inner ear in another task.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The causes and influences of earworms.

B．What earworms are and how to deal with them.

C．How to clear earworms out of your head.

D．The relation between earworms and popular songs.

【推荐2】阅读判断

A Chinese holiday is getting worldwide popularity. In recent years, the Dragon Boat Festival has become an international holiday celebrated by people who may know little about the holiday’s origins（起源）.

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of three major Chinese holidays, along with the Spring Festival and the Moon Festival. Of the three, it is possibly the oldest, dating back to Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the service of the Chu Emperor. Being sad about the government’s corruption（腐败）, Qu threw himself into a river. Then, hoping to get hungry fish away from his body, the people threw some rice into the water.

Over the years, people celebrate the festival through the traditions of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi. The races have interested people from all over the world. Every spring there are nearly 60 dragon boat races held outside of China in many cities in the world. It’s an unusual sport because of great team spirit in a dragon boat team.

根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。
1. Many people in the world celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival these years after they know about the holiday’s origins.
2. The Dragon Boat Festival may be older than the Spring Festival and the Moon Festival.
3. Qu Yuan really hated the corruption at that time.
4. People threw some rice into the water in order to get hungry fish away from Qu’s body.
5. Every spring there are nearly 60 dragon boat races held in many cities in China.

【推荐3】Many people don’t think that TV shows are educational. It is true that lots of shows are meaningless. However, some shows are good and we can learn many things from them. Here are a few of my favorite shows.

Blue Peter When I was a child, this was the only show I could watch. I watched it on Monday, Wednesday and Sunday every week. You can learn about different countries around the world from it. As the show is for children, the language in it is easy.

The Great British Bake Off This show is about making bread, cakes and so on. The show wants to find Britain’s best amateur baker (业余烘焙师). You can watch the show and learn how to bake different kinds of bread and cakes by following their steps.

Frozen Planet This show is about life in cold places. There are many special animals in this show. I love this show not because of the cute animals, but because it teaches us why we have these animals and what we need to do to save them.

Pointless This show is great for you to think. It is a quiz (知识竞赛) show. It may be about sports, weather, movies and so on. I learnt lots of things from this show.

根据短文内容, 选择最佳答案。
1. The writer watched Blue Peter ________ when he was a child.

A．twice a week

B．three times a week

C．three times a month

2. According to the passage, we can know ________.

A．Pointless is a quiz show only about sports

B．The Great British Bake Off tells about how to bake bread

C．the writer likes Frozen Planet because the language in it is easy

3. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage? (P=Paragraph)

A．

B．

C．

4. The passage is mainly written for ________.

A．children

B．teachers

C．TV lovers