【推荐1】The haze（雾霾）season is back. How much do you know about haze? Haze can also be called “smog”. The word “smog” is from the words “smoke” and “fog”, it first appeared in the early 20th century. It is a kind of air pollution（污染）caused（导致）mostly by cars and factories.

Smog will do great harm（伤害）to your health, especially lungs（肺）. It can make you cough and cause skin and eye problems. It seems that we can do nothing to stop it, but only wait until the wind blows all the smog away. However, there are some easy ways to prevent it hurting you. Here are some of them.

①Don’t do exercise in the open.

Exercising in the open makes you breathe（呼吸）deeply, and you will take in the particles（颗粒物）deep into your lungs.

②Stay indoors and keep the air clean.

If you can, just stay in your room and keep the doors and windows closed. Remember to air your room twice a day, you can open the window at noon or at night for half an hour.

③Wear a mask.

Paper and cotton masks can not help you in the haze weather. Some special masks, such as N95 masks, can keep you from breathing in the particles in the air.

④Change your diet.

Scientists find that vitamin A, C and E can greatly help protect your eyes, nose and lungs.

So eat more green vegetables and fresh fruit everyday. What’s more, do not eat food with too much fat（脂肪）, it’s bad for your lungs.

The haze weather
What is haze?	It’s     1     smog, a kind of smoky and     2     weather. It is a kind pollution caused by cars and     3    .
What is the harm?	It is     4     for our health.
5     to prevent the haze?	Don’t     6     outside. Stay indoors as long as possible with the doors and windows     7    . Remember to open the windows for a while to keep the     8    clean.     9     a mask to prevent taking in the particles. Change your diet. Vitamins can make you healthy. So, please eat more vegetables and fruit and     10     meat.

【推荐3】阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

While you eat, you use them to help chop up (切碎) food. When you smile, you show them off to look your best. Sept 20th is National Teeth Care Day in China. It’s the perfect time for us to learn some tips on how to protect our teeth.

First of all, we need to pick a good toothbrush. Softness is the key. Brushes with hard bristles (刷毛) can hurt your teeth and gums (牙龈). Choose one with soft bristles and rounded ends. Also, a brush with a small head can easily reach all your teeth, since they can squeeze into (挤进) the small spaces of your mouth.

Next, we need to learn the correct way to brush our teeth. The American Dental Association (美国牙医协会) and dentists around the world suggest the Bass brushing technique (贝氏刷牙法).

Charles C Bass (1875-1975), an American medical doctor, invented this method. When Dr. Bass was young, he had serious gum disease and was told to get all his teeth pulled out. He didn’t. Instead, he invented the Bass method to save his teeth.

The method suggests brushing your teeth along the gum line at a 45-degree angle (角度) with very small back-and-forth vibrating motions (颤动). Bad bacteria (细菌) usually hang out where the gums and teeth meet. We can effectively clean the area and prevent tooth decay (蛀牙) and gum disease with this method.

After a good brush, you need to floss (用牙线清理) your teeth for a deeper clean. Put dental floss into the space between two teeth and use a careful back-and-forth motion. It helps get food out of the spaces. But don’t move the floss too hard, or it may hurt your gums.

1. When is the National Teeth Care Day in China?
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2. How should you brush your teeth according to the Bass brushing technique?
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3. Why did Charles C Bass invent the Bass brushing technique?
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4. How many tips are mentioned to protect our teeth in the passage?
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5. How do you protect your teeth in your daily life?
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【推荐2】阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题（请注意每小题后面的词数要求）。

On a farm lived a father and a son. The father always got up early and read books outside the house. One morning, the son came up to his father and said, “Dad, I read books at night but forgot most of them the next morning. What’s the good of reading?”

The father didn’t answer the question. He gave his son a basket that was used to carry coal (煤). He said, “Get some water, from the river with the basket and then I’ll tell you the answer.”

The son felt surprised but he did as his father said. He tried many times but every time the water leaked (漏掉) from the basket.

An hour later, the son came back with nothing and told his father it was hard to get water with the basket. The father said with a smile, “Yes, you’re right, my son. The basket can’t carry water. But can you see the basket is different?” The son then found the dirty basket became clean. The father said, “Reading is like carrying water with the basket. Although we can’t remember all we read, we have changed when we read.”

1. Where did the father always read? (不超过5个词)
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2. What was the boy’s problem when he read books? (不超过15个词)
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3. What did the father ask his son to do? (不超过15个词)
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【推荐3】阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，完成下面各题。

There is no doubt that speed-reading is an important skill in the fast-paced information age. We need to quickly get key words to find what really need. Speed-reading is quite helpful in some situations, for example, during an exam. It seemed we read more, we enjoy less pleasure of reading than before. Besides, some of us even have lost the ability of enjoying reading, enjoying the beauty of the language and understanding the meaning of it.

So today, the idea of “slow-reading” has become popular. People are encouraged to shut off their computers and mobile phones for at least half an hour each day. Therefore, they can enjoy the pleasure of reading a good book slowly! Of course, it’s different. When I am reading a fiction slowly, I am relaxed. I feel like I am with the character and see the world through their eyes. This helps me learn about the world around me. Since the age of ten, reading also provide me with a kind of education.

In a word, we’re supposed to choose the way that works best for us.

1. What is speed-reading?
It is to find what we really need by ________ quickly.
2. How many disadvantages of speed-reading are mentioned in the first paragraph?
There are ________ disadvantages.
3. What are people encouraged to do to support slow-reading?
They are encouraged to ________ for at least half an hour each day.
4. How does the writer feel when he/she reads a fiction slowly?
The writer feels ________ when he/she reads a fiction slowly.
5. Why does the writer say “In a word, we’re supposed to choose the way that works best for us.” at the end of the passage?
Because ________.

【推荐1】Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines (航空公司) offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.

However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high attitude (海拔) we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure (气压) reduces one third of the sensibility (感觉) of our taste buds. So our taste buds (味蕾) become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don’t know it.

All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy (辛辣的) food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

1. In Paragraph 2, “this problem” means _____________________.
2. 从文中找出“If they don’t do that, the food could taste nothing.”的同义句。
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3. 根据阅读内容完成下列短文，每空不超过2个单词。

Nowadays many scientists are trying their best ____ the food on the plane taste better, but it is ____ than they thought. Scientists ask the volunteers to lie that way ____ they can write down what they ____ about the food taste.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成句子。

Maybe you pride yourselves on only sleeping a few hours a night. However, are you feeling tired and sleepy in the day? Do you have a hard time keeping your eyes open as you study? Have you nodded off while driving? If you can answer “Yes” to any of these, it shows you could not have enough sleep.

It is suggested that most adults (成人) need seven to nine hours’ sleep. As for teenagers, they need even more. If you aren’t getting enough sleep, you should:

◆Avoid caffeine

You should avoid drinking caffeinated drinks such as coffee, tea and soda for at least 10 hours before you go to bed.

◆Avoid eating big meals before sleeping

Eating a big meal can make you feel sleepy, and it can make you feel uncomfortable and prevent you from sleeping well.

◆Build a healthy sleep environment

With the light on, can you have a good sleep? Of course not, and you’d better keep your bedroom dark and cool.

◆Avoid using electronics before bed

The light from electronics can keep you from falling asleep. Try reading or listening to quiet music instead.

Please get enough sleep from now on.

1. If you are feeling tired and sleepy in the day, it shows you could not ________.
2. Most adults need ________ hours’ sleep while teenagers need even more.
3. If you aren’t getting enough sleep, you should ________ caffeine.
4. You shouldn’t eat ________ before sleeping, or you will feel sleepy.
5. Try reading or ________ instead of using electronics before bed.

【推荐3】Our teachers work very hard. They get up early in the morning and work very late. How to help our teachers?

First, we must try to learn our subjects well to make our teachers spend less time on us and let them have more rest.

Second, we must clean the blackboard and the teacher’s desk very often. If we do so, our teachers will work better and of course they will be happier.

Our teachers often have to speak for a long time and they are very tired. At this time, it is better for us to bring them some water. When our teachers drink the water, they will speak more clearly(清楚的). After our teachers correct(批改) our exercise books, we can help to hand them out. If we do so, our teachers can have a short rest.

We all know that our teachers care about our marks(分数) most, so we should try to go over(复习) our lessons to get high marks. If all of us can get high marks, our teachers will feel very happy.

根据文章内容，完成下列表格。（每空一词）

How to help our teachers
Ways(方法)	Results(结果)
Do well in our subjects.	Our teachers can have     1     time to have a rest.
Often help the teachers     2     the blackboard and the teacher’s desk.	They can work better and feel happier.
Bring them some water when they are very     3    .	They can speak more clearly.
Help them hand out our exercise books.	They can     4     for a short time.
Try to go over our lessons to get high marks.	If each of us     5     high marks, they can feel very happy.