【推荐1】Most children don’t enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games better than cleaning the rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert’s mother, Mrs. Black, has good and proper ways to get her children to do housework. Here is an example.

“Mom, have you worked out next week’s housework? Let Jim and me choose the cards. I can’t wait. It’s fun!” When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there are some words like these, “sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mom cook, wash vegetables, make the bed,” and many others. Jim and Robert each choose two cards every day from Monday to Friday. Then they hang them on the weekday task board. Jim likes to clean, so he picked up the card “clean the bathroom”. Robert loves to make the bed, so he picked up his favorite card. Soon the two boys were happy to take away all the cards.

To make the children do housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the parents do the housework on weekends and leave Jim and Robert two free days.

1. From the passage we know that most children like ________.

A．doing housework

B．playing computer games

C．doing homework

2. Jim and Robert each choose ________ cards for housework from Monday to Friday.

A．two

B．eight

C．ten

3. What kinds of chores does Jim like to do?

A．Cleaning the bathroom and helping mom cook.

B．Cleaning the bathroom and sweeping the floor.

C．Helping mom cook and sweeping the floor.

4. Who does the housework on weekends?

A．Two children.

B．The whole family.

C．The parents.

【推荐2】Parents helped us in all sides when we were very young. As we grow older, we may help them. Families can succeed in reaching goals when all family members help one another.

What makes real family members? Whoever we are, our family members are the most important in our lives. Family members support each other in many ways besides money or helping around the house. On the one hand, we can share our hopes, dreams or problems when we communicate with them. On the other hand, we can get a strong feeling of satisfaction and confidence with their help.

How to build good family relationships needs a lot of effort. Firstly, everyone in the family needs to get along well with each other and shouldn’t have conflicts (冲突). Secondly, family members should share thoughts and feelings while eating meals, traveling or working together. Thirdly, we should talk with each other about our worries and then solve them together because family members can encourage one another to set goals and achieve dreams. Finally, we are supposed to spend time listening to family members. Listening shows we care about them as much as they care about us.

In a word, family members can make us full of energy and power all the time.

1. Who helped us in all sides when we were young?

A．Teachers.

B．Friends.

C．Classmates.

D．Parents.

2. What’s the most important in our lives according to the passage?

A．Money.

B．Dreams.

C．Family members.

D．Problems.

3. What can our family members encourage us to do?

A．To set goals and achieve our dreams.	B．To get good grades.
C．To spend time traveling.	D．To avoid arguments with others.

【推荐2】

The Tulip Festival in Ottawa
Origin	Began in 1954.
Time	Host in the first 2 or 3 weeks of May each year.
Development	Has become the world’s largest tulip event.
Influence	JAttract hundreds of thousands of tourists. JTulip is a symbol of friendship and friendly diplomatic(外交的) relations.

1. Which of these sentences is TRUE?

A．You can join the Tulip Festival on International Labour Day in 2014.

B．The Tulip Festival started in 1955.

C．Tulip isn’t a symbol of friendship.

2. Which city has the world’s largest tulip event?

A．Canada

B．Ottawa

C．Newsland

【推荐2】Mr. Li is a teacher from Xi’an. He asked his students to send their homework through a QR code(二维码). “We spent an hour or two in class learning how to make the codes, and finally everything gets easier,” said Mr. Li.   “When students finish the homework, they keep it on Wechat. Then, each student makes his own QR code and sends it to me. So I can check their homework everywhere using my computer or telephone.”

Students can send their QR codes to Mr. Li by e-mail, QQ and Wechat. When Mr. Li scans(扫描) his students’ QR codes, he can check their homework on his phone. He finds that their homework becomes more creative(有创造力的), with many pictures, music and even videos.

Mr. Li’s students like the new way and think it is interesting. “We are living in the information age. Many students like to work with computers. It makes learning more fun.” said Zhang Ming, a student of Mr. Li.

“The paper is not easy to keep, but the code is easy to keep and share.” Mr. Li said, “It is great to try new ways in education(教育). Education itself is a kind of creation. I don’t want my students to fall behind the times.”

However, some parents are worried. They are afraid that their children will spend too much time on computers or telephones and communicating（交流）with friends online. But in fact, there is no need to worry about that. Students still need to look up information in books and write it down when they do their homework. They only use the code when they send their work, and it doesn’t take them too much time. Also for teachers, it allows them to check the students’   work at any time. And its also an easy way to share homework with other students.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. How long did they spend learning to make the QR codes?

A．1 hour or 2.

B．2 or 3 hours.

C．3 or 4 hours.

2. What do students think of the new way to send homework?

A．Interesting.

B．Important.

C．Strange.

3. Which sentence is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Students can only send their QR codes by Wechat.

B．The code is easier to keep and share than paper.

C．Students don’t need to use books any more when doing homework.

4. Why do some parents worry about their children?

A．They think their children won’t know how to use the code.

B．They think their children will never communicate with teachers.

C．They think their children will spend too much time on computers or telephones.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Homework and QR codes

B．Mr. Li and his students

C．Mr. Li’s life story

【推荐3】

When you meet Esther Okade, she seems like a common 10-year-old child. She loves dressing up as Elsa From Frozen（《冰雪奇缘》）, playing with Barbie toys and going to the park or shopping. But what makes the British youngster stand out is the fact that she’s also a university student.

Esther, from Walsall, a town of the UK, is one of the country’s youngest college student. The talented 10-year-old girl enrolled（入学）at the Open University in January this year and is already top of the class.

“It’s so interesting.” she says. “It was super easy. My mom taught me in a nice way.” She adds, “I want to finish the course in two years. I want to have my own bank by time I’m 15 because I like numbers and I like people and banking is a great way to help people.”

And when people think her parents have pushed her into starting university early, Esther disagrees. Esther actually wanted to start when she was seven. But her mom thought she was too young. After three years of asking, mother Efe finally agreed to take the idea.

Esther’s mother noticed her daughter’s naturally ability（能力）for math shortly after she began homeschooling her when Esther was only three. At first, Esther’s parents had enrolled her in a private（私人的）school. But after a few short weeks, Esther cried out in tears and she said, “I don’t ever want to go back to that school. They don’t even let me talk!”

“In the UK, you do not have to start school until you are five. Education is not compulsory（义务的）until that age so I thought OK, and we’ll be doing little things at home until then. Maybe by the time she’s five she will change her mind.” said Esther’s mother.

1. According to the passage, Esther Okade ________.

A．likes playing with Elsa	B．hardly goes shopping
C．is a college student	D．loves wearing dresses

2. The third paragraph mainly tells us about ________.

A．Esther’s favorite subject	B．Esther’s dream in the future
C．Esther’s way to help others	D．Esther’s plan to make money

3. We can see from the passage that Esther hoped to go to university when she was ________.

A．3

B．5

C．7

D．10

4. Which is the right order of the following statements?
a. Esther didn’t like learning at school.
b. Esther went to the Open University.
c. Esther began learning in a private school.
d. Esther went back home and learn from her mother.

A．a-c-d-b

B．c-a-d-b

C．b-d-c-a

D．d-b-a-c

【推荐1】My name is Sam. I joined a club called “passing help” last month. Now let me tell you why I joined it.

One evening this May, on my way home my old car broke down (出故障). It was 25 miles from my home. I wanted to get a ride (搭便车), but there was no car. It was also hard to take a taxi. I decided to take a bus home. I went to a bus stop nearby.

After a while, a bus came, but it did not go to my town. The bus driver was a young woman. She was kind and she told me which bus I should take. I waited there for about thirty minutes, but no bus came. At last a car came to me and a woman came out of the car. She was just the bus driver.

“When I reached the bus station, I got to that the bus to your town couldn’t come, so I returned here. I just can’t leave you here,” she said, “Get in my car and I will take you back to your home.”

“It is a long way.” I said.   

“Come on, sir,” she said, “Let’s go.”

On the way she told me a story. A few days ago, there wasn’t gas (汽油) in her car. An old man drove her up to a gas station and then back to her car.

When we got to my home, I wanted to give her some money to thank her, but she didn’t accept her.” I only want to help others and do something nice for somebody. Pass it along.” She said.

1. What happened to Sam one evening this May?

A．He lost his way.	B．His car broke down.
C．He was hurt in an accident.	D．He couldn’t reach the gas station.

2. Sam didn’t think of going home ________ that evening.

A．by train

B．by bus

C．by car

D．by taxi

3. From the passage, we know that the young woman was ________.

A．a club boss

B．a taxi driver

C．a bus driver

D．a gas station worker

4. The young woman wanted Sam to ________.

A．give her some money	B．get on her bus
C．take her to her house	D．help others just as she did

5. The best title (题目) of the passage is ________.

A．kind old man	B．Getting a ride
C．Passing help	D．A broken car

【推荐2】阅读短文，从短文下面的六个选项中选择五个还原到短文中，使短文通顺完整、衔接自然。

We live in a small town and almost everyone knows each other. It used to be very quiet.     1     However, these days, something unusual is happening in our town. Victor, a teacher at my school, is really nervous. When he was interviewed by the town newspaper, he said, “Every night we hear strange noises outside our window. My wife thinks that it could be an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers having fun. My parents called the policemen, but they couldn’t find anything strange.     2     I don’t think so!”

Victor’s next-door neighbor Helen is worried, too. “    3     but I couldn’t see a dog or anything else, either. So I guess it can’t be a dog. But then, what could it be?” One woman in the area saw something running away, but it was dark so she is not sure. “I think it was too big to be a dog.” she said, “    4    ”

Everyone in our town is feeling uneasy, and everyone has his or her own ideas.     5     but what is it? We have no idea. Most people hope that this animal or person will simply go away, but I do not think that is going to happen. The noise-maker is having too much fun creating fear in the neighborhood.

A．Maybe it was a bear or a wolf.

B．They think it might be the wind.

C．At first, I thought that it might be a dog.

D．Nothing much ever happened around here.

E．In the middle of the night, I heard a strange noise outside.

F．There must be something visiting the homes in our neighborhood.

【推荐3】It’s exciting to start a new life in a new city. Let’s read Daniel’s story together.

Daniel’s blog

Saturday, 16th March. Today I got my dream job in New York! However, it’s far away from my hometown and I’ve never even visited New York before. Yesterday I took the train here and one of my workmates met me at the railway station. Then he showed me to the company. There they had a welcome party for me. Great! My company offered no living place, so I had to find somewhere to live. I stayed in a hotel while I looked for a new home.

Monday, 1st April. I’ve found the perfect flat. It’s small but very nice. It’s near my office, so I can walk to work. The only problem is that it’s $1000 a month. That’s too much for a young man like me! I’ve soon got used to life here. I love it! There’s a supermarket nearby and some restaurants I can go to when I do not want to cook. My workmates and new neighbors are friendly. Cool!

1. What is Daniel’s flat like?

A．It’s far away from his office.

B．It’s quite cheap.

C．It’s very big.

D．It’s very nice.

2. Why doesn’t Daniel cook for himself sometimes?

A．Because there’s a flat near his home.	B．Because there are some restaurants nearby.
C．Because there’s a supermarket by the river.	D．Because there’s an office nearby.

3. What does NOT Daniel tell us?

A．Whether he has visited New York before.	B．Where he stayed before he found a flat.
C．Why he had a party on April Fool’s Day.	D．What his workmates and new neighbors are like.