【推荐2】根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项使短文意思通顺、内容完整。
Beating the winter Blues
Does your mood (情绪) change with the seasons?
Some people find that when temperature goes down, so do their spirits. Those people sometimes feel sad for no reason. They eat more and put on weight. They have trouble sleeping. They can't think clearly. This is the winter blue.
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Get out in the sun. Some experts say that the winter blues happen because we get less sunlight in winter than we do in other seasons. They say that the decrease (减少) in sunlight can make us feel bad.     2     .
Get some exercise. Taking a walk or doing some exercise will make chemicals (化学物质) called endorphins in your body. Endorphins are natural "feel good" chemicals.
    3     Avoid having too much sugar. If you prefer sweet food, like cookies or candy, it may be a sign that you need more protein, like meat, chicken, or fish.
Reduce stress. Cut back if you have to many things to do. Make sure you have some quiet time to yourself.     4     . Don't be so busy that you get run down.
Get help. If you feel sad all the time and the feeling won't go away, you may have a bigger problem than the winter blues.     5     , or get help from a doctor.

A．Get some rest

B．Eat healthy food

C．Talk to a friend you trust

D．Here are some ways for you to beat the winter blues

E．Getting more sunlight each day can help you feel better

【推荐3】Can you imagine a cloud floating in the middle of your room? Do you want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird? Here, we have picked out four interesting inventions to share with you.

Talking Gloves

Four foreign students have created a pair of gloves, and it helps people to communicate with people who have hearing and speaking problems. The gloves are equipped with sensors (传感器). They recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smartphone. Then the smartphone changes the text to spoken words. Thus you can understand sign language easily.

Google Glasses

Google Glasses are like a computer built into a pair of glasses. Then the glasses allow you to surf the Internet and make calls without even lifting a finger. The glasses also have a camera and GPS mapping system. Users can take and share photos, check maps and surf the Internet just by looking up, down, left and right.

Indoor Clouds

That’s a real world. An artist, Smilde managed to create a small but perfect white cloud in the middle of a room using a fog machine. But it required careful planning — the temperature, humidity (湿度) and lighting all had to be just right. The cloud only lasted for a short while, though.

Wingsuits

The suit realizes your dream of flying like a bird. Well, not exactly flying, but gliding (滑翔) through the air. It increases the surface area of the human body, which makes it easier for people to float in the air. Fliers wearing wingsuits can glide one kilometer in about 30 seconds.

1. What do “Talking Gloves” help people to understand?

A．Spoken words.

B．Sign language.

C．Written words.

D．The text on the smartphone.

2. How can users of “Google Glasses” surf the Internet?

A．By speaking to the glasses.	B．By tapping the keyboard.
C．By lifting a finger.	D．By moving the eyeballs.

3. How did the artist create a white cloud in the room?

A．With a fog machine.	B．With right temperature.
C．With a fog machine and careful planning.	D．With a fog machine and right lighting.

4. Which of the following can help you fly?

A．Talking Gloves.

B．Wingsuits.

C．Google Glasses.

D．Indoor Clouds.

5. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Four Interesting Inventions	B．Four Famous Inventions
C．The Advantages of Four Inventions	D．Four Dreams of the Future

【推荐1】You can travel alone, with friends, or with a tour group. They all have strong points and weak points.

The best thing about traveling alone is that you can do what you want to do. No waiting around in places you aren’t interested in, no missing a bus because your friend was late, etc. This may sound selfish, but this is your experience. Your experience will be greatly improved by traveling alone. The main worry is loneliness, but believe me, it’s not difficult to talk to and meet people. Just remember everyone is in the same boat; everyone wants to meet new people, have fun and be friendly! There’s a problem of safety in some countries, especially for women traveling alone. You should always check the foreign office of your country for advice on safety. Buying a personal alarm is a good idea for women traveling alone.

Traveling with a friend does sound nice, but it depends on how well you get on. If you have similar interests or travel ideas, it should be wonderful. You will find it much cheaper to cook food in developed countries and share a room. However, a lot of people meet traveling together don’t seem to be having as much fun and often go their separate (各自的) ways.

Tours are great when they go well. Some of my best memories have been with tour groups. The key there is when they go well. A terrible tour guide, quiet group and terrible food can ruin (毁掉) your time. My advice would be never to do a tour that is too long except in countries with safety problems or poor transport.

All in all, traveling alone is the best, but it is good to mix it up. Invite a friend from home to meet you for a few weeks. Try a tour or two — some people love them — perhaps start with a day tour.

1. What is the writer’s advice on traveling with friends?

A．Live in different rooms.	B．Always follow their travel ideas.
C．Choose those who think similarly to you.	D．Cook food when traveling in developing countries.

2. What should a woman do if she wants to travel alone?

A．Get a personal alarm.	B．Check the map often.
C．Do not talk to new people.	D．Ask friends for safety advice.

3. What advice does the writer give in the last paragraph?

A．Always to travel alone.	B．To start with a one-week group tour.
C．Mix your friends up in the tour.	D．Try different ways of traveling.

4. Which of the following shows the structure of the text? (P=Paragraph)

A．

B．

C．

D．

【推荐3】Everyone worries about some things in the life. But how do you deal with your worries? Whether (是否) your worries are big or small, you can take these three ways to deal with your worries.

(1) Try to find out what you are worried about

Sometimes, you will know what you are worried about. Other times, you might not. Try to find it out first. If you can’t, you can ask for help.

(2) Think of ways to make it better

There is always something you can do to help you feel less worried. Sitting there worrying is no fun and it cannot help you. Grades at school are often top worries for kids. If you’re worried about grades, you can ask yourself these questions:

Why are grades important? What do grades mean to me? How do I get ready for class? Do I go over (复习) my notes even when there is no test? Do I have a good place to do my homework? Have I tried different ways of studying?

If your worry is about a fight with a friend, you might write down all the things you could do. For example, write a note to him or her, invite him or her to a basketball game, and say sorry to him or her.

(3) Ask for help

When you’re worried, you can ask your parents, friends or teachers for help.

1. When you don’t know what you are worried about, ________.

A．you should try to find it out	B．you can’t ask for help
C．you don’t need to think of ways	D．you can sit there worrying

2. If you’re worried about grades, you can ask yourself these questions EXCEPT （不包括） “________”

A．Why are grades important?	B．What do grades mean to me?
C．How do I get ready for class?	D．Why don’t my friends like me?

3. According to the passage, what can you do if you have a fight with your friend?

A．Make a new friend.	B．Don’t talk to him or her any more.
C．Have another fight with him or her.	D．Invite him or her to a basketball game.

4. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A．who is often worried	B．when people are worried
C．how to deal with our worries	D．what kind of worries people have

【推荐1】Do you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.

Eskimos live near the North Pole. There are only two seasons there, winter and summer. There is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can’t see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there’s no night.

Eskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins(皮) of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes. Near the North Pole trees can’t grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stones. When they go out in storms(暴风雪) and can’t get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these snow houses when the storm is over.

1. Near the North Pole there are ________ in a year.

A．two seasons — winter and summer

B．two seasons—spring and autumn.

C．four seasons

D．two seasons sometimes and four seasons sometimes

2. How long does the longest day or night last(持续) near North Pole?

A．24 hours.

B．Over a week.

C．A month

D．Over two months

3. Eskimos use skins to make ________.

A．clothes

B．houses

C．trees

D．both A and B

4. There are no ________ near the North Pole.

A．days

B．nights

C．trees

D．animals

5. Eskimos make houses of snow to protect themselves from ________.

A．animals

B．storms

C．snow

D．rain

【推荐2】There is good and bad news about the number of trees on our planet. The good news is that there are seven times as many trees for everyone as we thought. A few years ago, scientists believed that the world had 400 billion (十亿) trees. However, a new study from Yale University shows that there are around three trillion trees. That’s a three followed by 12 zeroes. That means there are about 420 trees for everyone in the world today.

The bad news is that thousands of years ago, the earth had six trillion trees. Humans cut in half the number of trees on the planet. Take Europe for example, it was a large forest thousands of years ago. Now much of it is cities and towns. And another 15 billion trees are lost each year.

Dr. Thomas Crow is one of the scientists from Yale University. He said the new number of trees from their study would change nothing. “The study only shows there is much to do to protect our forests.” he said.

1. The passage is about a study of ________ in the world.

A．the kind of trees

B．the number of trees

C．the change of trees

D．the importance of trees

2. In the past, we thought everyone had about ________ trees.

A．400

B．12

C．60

D．420

3. Nowadays, ________ cover(s) (覆盖) Europe.

A．many mountains

B．a large sea

C．a large forest

D．many cities and towns

4. What can we learn from Dr. Thomas Crow?

A．We still have enough trees to cut down.	B．We can find more trees in the future.
C．We should do more to protect forests.	D．We should stop cutting trees down now.

【推荐3】Scientists believe the Earth is 4.6 billion years old. However, the mountains, valleys (山谷), hills, rivers, deserts and forests we see today are much younger than that. For example, Mount Qomolangma is about 60 million years old and the Amazon rainforest is only 10 million years old. The youngest sea in the world is the Baltic Sea, at about 15,000 years old.

The Earth is always changing because of volcanoes (火山), earthquakes and of course, wind and rain. Some of these changes are very slow and others are quick. Water and ice can make very great changes to the planet. For example, glaciers (rivers of ice) can cut through mountains and make lakes and deep valleys. Many volcanoes are under the oceans and sometimes they become new islands. This is happening in the South Pacific, near Tonga.

It’s normal for our planet to change, but at the moment, scientists think it’s changing faster than usual. Some deserts are growing and many forests are getting smaller. The weather is getting wetter in some places and drier in others, and there are more big storms. According to the research, the sea level will continue to rise in the next hundred years. As a result, many cities will possibly be covered by water and much of the most productive farming areas will be lost. Some island countries are likely to disappear on the map of the world.

These changes will bring great harm to the planet. However, they can be beneficial to some people. For example, as the Arctic is getting warmer, some people in Greenland now own businesses and sell vegetables they grow on their land. That wasn’t possible in the far north 50 years ago. Farmers in Greenland like the warm weather and hope it will continue.

1. How does the writer describe the changes of the Earth in Paragraph 2?

A．By giving examples.	B．By listing numbers.
C．By telling stories.	D．By using sayings.

2. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A．The age of the Earth.	B．Problems for the planet.
C．The life of the farmers.	D．Influences on the mountains.

3. What does the underlined word “beneficial” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．harmful

B．normal

C．helpful

D．uncomfortable