【推荐1】Answer the questions. 根据短文内容回答问题。

Every country has its own way of saying things—its own special expressions (表达). Many everyday American expressions are based on (基于) colours.

Red is a hot colour. Americans often use it to express heat. When people use “red hot”, they want to say that they are very angry about something.

Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are “in the pink” when they are in good health. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink colour that shows they are healthy.

Blue is a cool colour. Blue is slow and sad. Someone who is blue is very sad.

The colour green is natural (天然的) for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural colour for humans. A person who has a sick﹣feeling stomach may say he feels “a little green”. A passenger (乘客) on a boat who feels sick may look very green.

The colour black is used often in expressions. People describe (描述) a day in which everything goes wrong as “a black day”.

1. What are many everyday American expressions based on?
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2. What colour expresses heat?
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3. Why do we use pink to describe good health?
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4. Is Green natural for humans?
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5. When can you use the colour black?
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6. What is your favourite colour? Why?
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【推荐2】There are(有) four pencils in the box. They are red, orange, green and black. They are Ben’s, John’s, Mike’s and Alice’s. Can you help me find their owner(物主)?

I know Ben likes green, but the green pencil is not his. What color is John’s pencil? I don’t know. But I know his pencil isn’t green. Ben and Mike tell(告诉) me, “Our pencils are not orange.”Alice tells me，“My pencil is black.”

What color are their pencils?

根据短文内容, 完成任务。
1. 任务一：完成句子，每空一词。
The four pencils have different ______.
2. 任务二：将画线的句子译成汉语。
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3. 任务三：完成下面的表格。

Pencil	Color
Ben’s	___________
John’s	___________
Mike’s	___________

【推荐3】Hello, I am Julie. Four people are in my family. They are Bill, Mary, Judy and me. Bill and Mary are my parents. Judy is my twin (双胞胎) sister. We look the same (相同的) but we are different (不同的).

We like different colours. My favourite colour is purple. I have a purple pen and a purple pencil. And my desk and chair are purple. I like yellow,too. And I have a yellow cat. What is Judy’s favourite colour? She likes white best. She has a white dog and a white bag. And her telephone is white too.

We like different sports. I like ball games. And I can play basketball and football. But my favourite is table tennis. I’m good at it and I often (经常) play it with my classmates after class. What about Judy? She doesn’t like ball games and she can’t play them. She likes swimming very much. She often goes swimming with her friends in summer.

阅读短文，根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. What colour does Julie like?
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2. How many kinds (种类) of ball games can Julie play?
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3. Who does Judy go swimming with?
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4. What does the passage mainly talk about?
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【推荐1】Most of us use alarm clocks or mobile phones to wake up at the right time for school or work. We look at our watches to know the right time for the bus or train. However, there is also a right time to eat, sleep, exercise, and take medicine. We can’t look at a clock for the right time for these activities. We must listen to the clock inside our bodies, the biological clock.

Barbara Wells exercised every morning. She woke up at 6:00 a. m. She ran about two miles before she went to work. But Barbara's legs and back started to hurt. She did some exercise before she ran. But her legs and back still hurt. She ran slower, but the pain didn’t stop. Barbara talked to her doctor. The doctor said, “Don’t run in the morning. Try to exercise later in the day. That is the time when your body is at the right temperature for exercise after work. Her legs and back didn’t hurt any more.

Today, doctors are learning more shout chronobiology(生物钟学)，the study of biological docks. They are learning about the importance of time for our bodies. For example, it is best for people to go to sleep on time every right and to eat only when they’re hungry. Also, doctors discovered that some illnesses, such as heart attacks, occur (v. 发生) most often in the morning. This information tells them that the best time to take heart medication may be at night. When patients take heart medication at night, they may prevent a heart attack in the morning.

Many doctors believe chronobiology can help us live healthier lives. It may be the right time to listen to these doctors!   

根据短文内容，请用完整句子回答下列问题。
1. What clocks do you all have inside your bodies?
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2. How far did Barbara Wells run every morning?
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3. What are the doctors learning about for our bodies?
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4. What is the right time for the person who has a heart attack to take heart medication?
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5. What can we learn from the passage?
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【推荐2】请阅读下面的非连续性文本，根据语篇内容，回答问题，并将答案写在相应的位置上。

Most of us compare ourselves with others. Comparisons can help to make decisions and make us active. According to a study, 12% of our daily thoughts have something to do with making comparisons.

Why is it so easy to compare yourself with others?

Whether it’s the number of goals you’ve scored at football or how many books you’ve read, it’s easy to compare yourself with someone else. Scientists say it’s a natural behavior. Humans live in a circle and do something in common, but they act differently and get the results more or less. Although comparing can be good for you, it’s not always helpful and you can find yourself stuck in a comparison trap (陷阱). This is when you always compare yourself with others and base (建立) your feelings on how well they seem to be doing.

Can comparisons be good for you?

Comparisons can make us feel good and bad about ourselves. “Comparing up” means seeing someone do better than you and using that to inspire (激励) yourself to make higher goals and try harder. “Comparing down” is when you see someone who doesn’t seem to be doing as well as you. It can stop you from wanting to improve.

Get out of the comparison trap.

Notice how people make you feel and spend time with friends who celebrate your strengths rather than compare themselves with you. If you follow social media accounts (账号) that make you feel you are failing in any way, stop following them. The best person you can compete with is yourself. Here are some tips for making healthy comparisons.

(Chart II)

1. What does the study result in the first paragraph show?
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2. Why do scientists think it’s natural to compare with others?
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3. Which kind of comparison does May’s idea belong to? What does it mean?
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4. Who should we stay with to get out of the comparison trap?
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5. What’s the best subtitle (小标题) of Tip 2?
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6. How do you like comparing with others? How will you improve yourself through comparisons?
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【推荐3】信息归纳

Venus (金星) is close to the earth. It is the second planet from the sun. The earth is the third planet from the sun. Venus is similar (相似的) to the earth in size and mass (质量). It is often described as the earth’s “sister”.

Scientists have been learning about Venus for a long time. First they looked at Venus through telescopes (望远镜). But Venus is covered with thick clouds. Scientists could not see Venus well through the clouds. So they made guesses about it.

For a long time, scientists thought that Venus had water and plants. They thought Venus might have animals too. But they didn’t know for sure.

Then scientists found a way to learn more about Venus. In the 1960s, they began sending probes (航天探测器) to Venus. The probes flew through the thick clouds. They took pictures of Venus up close. They found out many things too. The probes sent the pictures and things they found out back to the scientists.

The scientists learned a lot from the probes. First they learned that most of their guesses were not right. And they learned that Venus is very hot.

After that, scientists knew they could not send people to Venus. But they still wanted to know more about it. So they sent new probes. These new probes took great pictures of the planet. The pictures showed that Venus has plains (平原) and mountains! And in some ways, Venus looks like the earth.

1. How are Venus and the earth similar?
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2. Why is it hard to see Venus well through a telescope?
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3. When did scientists begin to send probes to Venus?
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4. Can the scientists send people to Venus?
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5. What does Venus have?
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【推荐1】The life of the animals in the zoo is different from that in the wildlife park.

In the zoo, most of the animals are very sad. They have to stay in cages all day and wait for the zoo keepers to feed them. They can’t go out of the cages, so they have to walk round and round.

However, the wildlife park is a good place for them. All the animals there live in the open air. They can run, jump and play happily.

The most important thing is that they are free and happy in the wildlife park.

Most of the animals in the wildlife park are friendly. But some are scary, such as lions, wolves and tigers. Don’t worry. A special bus can take you to see the animals. You are quite safe inside the bus. How exciting it is if a tiger or a lion watches you through the window!

1—2.题完成句子；3.题简略回答问题；4.题找出并写下全文的主题句； 5.题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The animals in the zoo have to stay ________ all day.
2. The wildlife park is ________ for animals.
3. Where do the animals live in the wildlife park? ______________________________________
4. ______________________________________
5. ______________________________________

【推荐2】If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid. It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones. Each stone weighs about two and a half tons. The biggest ones even weigh fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Nobody can tell just how the men cut, carried and lifted the huge stones without our modern machines. The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life. But they never thought that about 5,000 years later their bodies would be on show in museums.

1. You can see lots of ________ in ________.
2. People ________ twenty years ________ the Great Pyramid.
3. Pyramids were built for the ________.
4. The kings had the pyramids built to ________ their bodies ________ until they came back to life.
5. The kings didn’t think their bodies would be ________ in museums 5,000 years later.