【推荐2】Jenny, Cindy, Alice and I are in the same grade. Cindy swims very well. She wants to join the swimming club. Then she can swim on weekends. Alice wants to join the art club because she likes drawing. Jenny is a pop music fan. She can dance well. So, she wants to join the music club. She wants to be a musician when she grows up. I want to join the music club because I can play the piano very well. I also like volleyball. So I can join the sports club. We often help our classmates do their homework at school and we make many friends.

1. What club does Cindy want to join?

A．The art club.

B．The English club.

C．The swimming club.

D．The guitar club.

2. When can Cindy swim in the swimming club?

A．On Tuesday.

B．On Sunday.

C．On Friday.

D．On Monday.

3. Why does Alice want to join the art club?

A．Because she draws very well.	B．Because she likes the art teacher.
C．Because she wants to make friends.	D．Because she likes drawing.

4. What does Jenny want to be when she grows up?

A．An artist.

B．A farmer.

C．A musician.

D．A teacher.

5. Why does the writer (作者) make many friends?

A．She can swim.	B．She can dance well.
C．They are in the sports club.	D．They often help classmates with their homework.

【推荐3】根据短文内容判断句子的正（T）误（F）。
Dear Diana,
Thanks for your e-mail(电子邮件).
Five people(人) are in my family — my mother, my father, my grandparents and I. My parents are workers (工人). I have an aunt. I have(有) no uncles, brothers or sisters. I am in Yuxin Middle School. My telephone number is 540-4862.
I have a good friend. Her name’s Mary Brown. Her mom is an English teacher. Her father is a worker. Mary is in Yuxin Middle School, too. Her telephone number is 362-7586. She has an uncle and two cousins.
Your friend,
Zhang Yao
1. Five people are in Diana’s family.
2. Zhang Yao’s father is a worker.
3. Zhang Yao has one aunt and one uncle.
4. Mary Brown is Zhang Yao’s friend.
5. Mary and Diana are in the same(相同的) middle school.

【推荐1】Hello, everyone! I'm Liu Dongdong. There are three people in my family, my father, my mother and me. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student. I like reading, enjoy reading science books. I like sports too. Basketball is my favorite sport. I often play it with my friends.

My father is a worker. He works very hard. He gets up very early and gets home late every day. He likes reading. He usually reads newspapers after supper.

My mother is a nurse. She works in a hospital. She likes reading story books in her spare time. She always buys some books for me. She likes cooking too. She cooks delicious food for us.

I love my parents. I have a very happy family.

1. How many people are there in Liu Dongdong's family？

A．Four.

B．Five.

C．Three.

2. What's Liu Dongdong's favorite sport?

A．Football.

B．Basketball.

C．Badminton.

3. What does Liu Dongdong's father do?

A．He's a worker.

B．He's a teacher.

C．He's a doctor.

4. Where does Liu Dongdong's mother work?

A．In a school.

B．In a hospital.

C．In a factory.

5. Liu Dongdong and his parents have the same hobby. What is it?

A．Cooking.

B．Running.

C．Reading.

【推荐2】下面的材料A-F分别介绍了六种手机软件（App），请根据Sophia、William、Derek、Ben、Ann的实际情况，帮助他们选出适合他们使用的软件。

1     Sophia is busy doing housework after work and seldom has time to take care of her 2-year- old son, so she needs an app for him to learn and count.     2     William’s teacher gives him a list of books to read. He has just had an eye operation (手术) and needs a rest now. He needs an app to read books aloud for him.     3     Derek finds it difficult to remember all the new words from the English textbooks. He wants to learn words in an interesting way.     4     Ben enjoys traveling. He needs an app to help him buy train or airline tickets in an easier way.     5     Ann is going to have a long railway trip. During the trip, she needs something like games to kill the time.

A. Mito Xiu Xiu is a fantastic app for photo-taking. There are different filters (滤镜) in this app for users to choose. By using it, you can take great photos even you are in a dark place. B. Himalayas Reading has millions of books including poems, short stories and even fairy tales for children. You can even download book recordings and listen to them. C. Vocabulary Hero may help you learn more English words while you are playing games. So if you have problems remembering the new words when you learn English, use it! D. Rall Friend can be the best helper if you have trouble buying train or airline tickets easily. You can buy tickets anywhere at any time. E. World of Tanks Blitz, an online game with over 40 million quick-fire tank fights. “A lot of tanks, a lot of people and a lot of fun.” It is the best choice to kill your time. F. Baby Bus is a good friend for children under 3 years old. Kids can learn to speak, understand numbers and draw pictures with the help of this app.

【推荐1】Do you still remember the summer holiday last year? When you think back on it, you might think of many of your happy times. But how do you store these things in your mind? By using your memory. Memory is the ability to remember things. Memorizing happens in a special area in our brain. When something happens, your brain records (记录) the important information and puts it in that area. That is what we call “memory”.

Scientists say that there are two kinds of memory—short­term memory and long­term memory. Your short­term memory can only last for a few seconds to a few minutes. But long­term memory is able to save information for a long period of time. People usually remember with short­term memory, and then forget things quickly after they experience them. They learn about something one day, but forget half of it the next day. A week later, they remember just a third of what they have learnt. So people forget things easily without memorizing again and again.

Scientists agree that people remember things in different ways. Some remember things better with the help of pictures. Others remember better when they take in the information by hearing it. But one thing is for sure, if you remember things with different ways together, you can get a better result. For example, try imaging pictures with English words, and at the same time listening to recordings of the words. Maybe studying English won’t be a difficult thing.

1. The underlined word “store” in Paragraph 1 means ________.

A．keep

B．carry

C．discuss

D．imagine

2. What can we learn about the long-term memory from the passage?

A．Long-term memory is the most important way of memorizing.

B．Long-term memory lasts shorter than short-term memory.

C．Long-term memory can save information about one week.

D．People can get long-term memory by memorizing again and again.

3. According to the scientists, how can people remember things better?

A．By connecting sounds with pictures.

B．By taking in information with smell.

C．By connecting pictures with English words.

D．By remembering with the help of pictures and sounds.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Some different types of memory.	B．Some difficulties in learning English.
C．Some interesting facts about memory.	D．Some ways to improve memory.

5. In which section of the newspaper would you probably read this article?

A．Fashion.

B．Sports.

C．Science.

D．Stories.

【推荐2】Hello, I’m Frank. What’s this? It’s a pen. It’s my red pen. My black pen is in my bag (在我的包里). My bag is orange. And my key is in it. It’s blue. This is my ruler. It’s white. It’s on my desk (在我的桌子上). And my orange is on the desk, too.
1. Frank has (有) _______ pens.

A．1

B．2

C．3

D．4

2. What are in Frank’s bag?

A．A pen and a key.	B．A pen and an orange.
C．An orange and a ruler.	D．An key and a ruler.

3. What’s the meaning of (……的意思) "orange"?

A．大码的

B．淘气的

C．橙色的

D．亲切的

4. What color is the ruler?

A．Red.

B．Black       .

C．White.

D．Blue.

5. Where (在哪里) is the orange?

A．in my bag

B．on my desk

C．on the chair

D．in the desk

【推荐3】Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right. Study found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.

The findings came from a Gallup Survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped greatly after people arrived at their fifties. Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.

The study also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns (情感模式) as they grow older. However, women at all ages were reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.

So why would happiness increase (增长) with age? One theory (推测) is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

1. How many adults are there in the study?

A．300.

B．40,000.

C．340,000.

D．34,000.

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

A．压力

B．健康

C．挑战

D．成功

3. What can you learn from the findings of the study?

A．People become happier and feel less worried before age 50.

B．People are happier with their life at 18 than they are at 85.

C．Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the least stress.

D．The kids and those in their early seventies feel the happiest.

4. Why does happiness increase with age?

A．Because old people have no emotions.

B．Because when people get older, they seldom have bad experiences.

C．Because when people get older, they own more than before.

D．Because old people are more thankful for what they have.

5. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Differences Between Men and Women

B．Differences Between Young People and Older People

C．Relationship Between Stress and Happiness

D．Relationship Between Age and Happiness