【推荐1】One day when I was about 12, I went to a restaurant for dinner with my family.     1    .

When my mom and I walked to the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother came up to us.     2     My mom immediately (立即) asked where they kept their things. “That old car across the street.” said the girl, “Six of my family live in it.”

My mom said she had something to do, and after giving them a few dollars, we said goodbye.     3     But she didn’t come.

About one hour later, my mom came. She said she went home and brought some food and clothes to the girl.     4     She told me that we were lucky and that girl’s family wasn’t so lucky. I remembered that girl—she was the same age as me, but we looked so different. I was wearing new clothes but her clothes were so old.     5     “My mom did the right thing.” I thought to myself.

Until now, I still remember that night. On that night, my mom taught me one of the best lessons I ever learned.

A．They asked if we had any spare change (多余的零钱).

B．It was a cold day, and the wind was blowing strongly.

C．And I had my bedroom but she had to stay in an old car with 5 other people.

D．I asked her why she helped those people.

E．Then, my dad and I went to the restaurant.

【推荐2】It was Mother’s Day, but the young mother was a little unhappy, because she was 800 miles away from her parents. In the morning, she phoned her mother to wish her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful lilacs（丁香）in the garden.

Later that day, when she told her husband about the lilacs, he said, “I know where we can find all that you want. Get the children and come on.” So they went out, driving down the country roads.

There on a small hill, they saw a lot of beautiful purple lilacs. The young woman ran quickly to enjoy the flowers. Carefully she picked a few here and a few there. On their way home there was a smile on her face.

When they were passing a nursing home（养老院）, the young woman saw an old granny sitting in a chair. She had no children with her. They stopped the car and the young woman walked to the old woman, put the flowers in her hands, and smiled at her. The old granny thanked her again and again. She smiled happily, too.

When the young mother came back to her car, her children asked her, “Who is that old granny? Why did you give our flowers to her?”

“I don’t know her,” their mother said. “ but it is Mother’s Day, and she has no children. I have all of you, and I still have my mother. Just think how much those flowers mean to her.”

1. The young woman was a little unhappy on Mother’s Day because ________.

A．she didn’t have a present	B．she was a long way from her mother
C．she didn’t know it was Mother’s Day	D．she wanted to see her father

2. The young woman gave the flowers to the old granny because ________.

A．she wanted the old granny to be happy	B．she didn’t like those flowers
C．her mother asked her to do so	D．she was her mother

3. What can you learn from the story?

A．After giving roses to others, fragrance（香味）keeps with your hands.

B．Like mother, like son.

C．Rome was not built in a day.

D．Never too old to learn.

【推荐3】Monty Robert’s father’s job was to train horses. As a child, Monty often went from one farm to another with his father. Sometimes they didn’t have enough money to pay for food, but Monty still kept hoping to own a horse farm.

When he was in school, his teacher asked him to write a paper about his dream. He wrote a seven-page paper. He wanted to have a horse farm one day. He even drew a picture of a horse farm on the paper.

The next day he handed it in (上交) to his teacher. Two days later, he got his paper back. On the front page was a large red “F” with the words “See me after class”. So the boy did and asked his teacher, “Why did I get an ‘F’?” The teacher said, “You need a lot of money to own a horse farm. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for a lot of things. There is no way you could ever do it.” Then the teacher added, “If you write this paper again with a simpler dream, I will give you a good grade.”

After school he thought hard about it. At last, he decided to hand in the same paper, making no changes at all. He wrote, “You can keep the ‘F’ and I’ll keep my dream.”

Many years later, Monty had his own large horse farm. His dream came true.

So don’t let anyone take away your dreams. Go after (追求) your dreams, no matter what they are.

1. From Paragraph 1, we learn that _________.

A．Monty’s father didn’t believe him	B．Monty’s family was poor
C．Monty hoped to be a horse trainer	D．Monty changed his mind all the time

2. What was Monty’s attitude (态度) towards his paper?

A．Serious.

B．Careless.

C．Joking.

D．Funny.

3. What does the red “F” mean?

A．The teacher didn’t like Monty.	B．The teacher agreed with Monty’s dream.
C．It means “See me after class”.	D．Monty didn’t pass his writing work.

4. Monty’s teacher gave him a red “F” because he thought ________.

A．Monty’s handwriting (书写) was too bad

B．Monty copied (抄袭) from another student

C．Monty’s dream was so hard that it couldn’t come true

D．Monty was not working hard enough to let his dream come true

5. What does the story want to tell us?

A．Don’t take away others’ dreams.

B．Go after a realistic (现实的) dream.

C．Anyone with a dream will be successful.

D．Never stop going after your dream.

【推荐1】Every year, a lot of young people in Britain finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they help with environmental protection（保护）.

Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to a university to study Spanish, but now she is living in Belize, a small country in Central America. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to protect the coral reefs（珊瑚礁）in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is polluted. the coral will die. I’m helping to study the coral and the fish that live around the reels. All over the world, coral reels are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.

“I’m staying with a family here. They are very friendly and I help with the cooking and the cleaning. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I have learned a lot about the people of Belize—and myself. When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I plan to visit other countries in Central America, too.”

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. From the passage, we can know that Pauline _______.

A．comes from Belize

B．is good at Spanish

C．helps clean up the beach

D．is away from her family

2. Which kind of the following volunteer work does Pauline do?
①helping in a hospital
②helping to study fish
③protecting coral reefs
④teaching in a school

A．①②

B．②③

C．①④

D．③④

3. What does Pauline probably think of her volunteer work?

A．Useful.

B．Relaxing.

C．Difficult.

D．Tiring.

4. What is Pauline going to do after she finishes her volunteer work?

A．Start work.

B．Go traveling.

C．Study English.

D．Learn to swim.

5. Where is the passage most probably from?

A．A storybook.

B．A guidebook.

C．A news report.

D．A science report.

【推荐2】One day, a man saw an old lady sitting inside her car at the side of the road. Though it was dark, he could see she needed help. So he stopped his car and walked towards her. The old lady was worried, even though she noticed the smile on his face. Was he going to hurt her? “I’ll help you start your car, Madam. By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson,” he said.

While Bryan was fitting a spare tire（备胎）to her car, the old lady began to talk to him. She thanked him so much for coming to help.

Bryan just smiled as he put his tools away. The old lady asked how much she should pay him. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give them the help they needed. He waited until she started her car and drove off.

A few miles down the road, the old lady saw a small restaurant. She went in and a waitress came over with a sweet smile. The old lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant （怀孕的）, but she never let the pains and aches change her smile when she served the old lady.

The old lady finished her meal and paid with a hundred-dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change, but the old lady was gone when she came back. The waitress wondered where the old lady could be. Then she found there was a note on the napkin, “You don’t need to give me anything back. Somebody once helped me out the way, I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do - do not let this chain of love end with you.” Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

1. Why did Bryan tell his name to the old lady?

A．Because he wanted to check if the old lady knew him.

B．Because he hoped that may help relax the old lady.

C．Because he thought he could be paid back one day.

D．Because he wanted to leave his name for doing good things.

2. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．The old lady and Bryan.	B．The people who need help.
C．The old lady and the waitress.	D．The people who help others.

3. Which is the right order of the old lady’s feelings?
①Thankful ②Happy ③Worried ④Helpless ⑤Being ready to help

A．④③①⑤②

B．④①③②⑤

C．③②①⑤④

D．③①④⑤②

4. What can be inferred （推断） from the last paragraph?

A．The old lady never helped others before.	B．The meal cost the old lady 400 dollars in total.
C．The waitress will probably help someone later.	D．The waitress will no longer work in the restaurant.

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

A．The Value of Strangers	B．The Power of Smile
C．The Chain of Love	D．The Note of Kindness

【推荐3】Doing voluntary (志愿) work is an easy way to help others, and it’s also a great way to help yourself. Helping others in your community is a great way to bring joy to others and get the most out of life. You’ll feel good for spending your time helping others.     1    

Doing voluntary work is good for your health, too. A new study has found that people who do voluntary work for at least 200 hours a year are healthier than those who never do.     2     Doing voluntary work helps to stop sitting too long and makes you do more exercise.

You can choose to become a volunteer by giving away some of pocket money to people in need.     3    You will feel really happy by helping others.

Sometimes voluntary work is boring, but it can help you a lot. It can help you keep healthy, improve your skills and make you become a confident person.     4     Please join them and work together for a shared future.

A．You can also donate (捐献) your clothes or books.

B．So let’s do more voluntary work so that we can be healthier.

C．It’s also possible for you to make friends with people around you.

D．Now more and more people are offering to do some voluntary work.

E．It’s very good for people who sit too long every day.

【推荐1】Jim Davidson said reading played a “very, very important role” in his children’s lives as they were growing up. During his twenty years as a writer, the father of four became worried about illiteracy (文盲) in America and decided to do something about it.

Davidson started “Bookcase for Every Child” project (项目) in his hometown of Conway, Arkansas, USA in 2005. The project provides low-income (低收入的) children with bookcases, and a starter set of books to encourage reading.

Davidson’s project is different from other projects. Instead of raising money from the public, he gets many people personally to take part in the project.

“We decided to build 50 bookcases each year and give them to low-income children,” said Davidson. “I can promise you this is the nicest piece of furniture (家具) in most of these low-income children’s homes.”

Today, the project has spread to eight communities (社区) in five states. He said the project’s early success belonged to the community members. “I knew a lot of people all over the community and was able to choose a group of people to do the job,” said Davidson. The group included members such as librarians and a workman.

Davidson’s love for the project grew deeper after his wife died in May, 2013. For him, spreading the bookcase project all over the country is the best way to remember her. And he hopes to have at least one project in every state in his country.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Jim Davidson started “Bookcase for Every Child” project ________.

A．because of his wife

B．because of his children

C．because he worried about illiteracy in the USA

D．because he wanted more children to become writers

2. Jim Davidson started “Bookcase for Every Child” project ________ year(s) ago.

A．1

B．4

C．18

D．15

3. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 4 refers to ________.

A．books

B．bookcases

C．projects

D．money and furniture

4. Jim Davidson hopes to ________.

A．make every child have a bookcase	B．spread the project all over the USA
C．spread the project all over the world	D．make every community have a bookcase

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Jim Davidson’s wife died last year.

B．Jim Davidson worked as a writer for many years.

C．Jim Davidson’s project raises money from the public.

D．Many community members took part in Jim Davidson’s project.

【推荐2】Weekday mornings are very busy for US middle school students. When your school doesn’t have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool (拼车). A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility (责任) of driving to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns to drive the kids in their cars.
Someone’s car smells like wet dogs. Some kids get to eat desserts (甜点) for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed. When your mom or dad drives the carpool, your classmates get a close-up look at how strange your parents can be. It might be your first sociological (社会学) study and your first time to work with others.
Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It’s a great lesson in responsibility. Imagine (想象) sitting in the car outside of a classmate’s house, watching the clock and counting the seconds. Then you start to understand how your carpool friends might feel when you are still inside the house at 7:48. You really begin to learn all your real life lessons just moments before the start of school—in the carpool.
1. What is a carpool?

A．Parents take turns to drive their kids to school.

B．Parents drive kids to schools on their way to work.

C．Kids go to school in their parents’ cars.

D．Kids drive their own cars to school.

2. What can students learn from a carpool?

A．How to drive a car.	B．How to get along with others.
C．What to do with parents.	D．Real teamwork.

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．If kids live far away from school, they are always late for school.

B．US children enjoy carpooling better than taking a school bus.

C．Kids can learn real life lessons in a carpool.

D．Kids often have enough time to study in a carpool.

【推荐3】One morning in September 2018, after a bad thunderstorm. I found a baby bird on the ground outside of our home. His eyes were tightly(紧紧地) shut and he was shaking. The poor little bird was left behind by his flock(鸟群). Clearly, he was too young to be able to survive on his own, placed him in a cardboard box with tea towels. I stayed up all night that day to research how to care for him.

The next day, he woke with his mouth wide-open to let out a sharp hunger call. I fed him termites(白蚁) and chirped(叽喳叫) at him. He chirped back, jumped into my hand and then fell asleep in my palm(掌心). To him, I was a mama bird.

For the next 84 days, the cute little thing lived on me. Wherever I went, he would fly alongside me. He would make short flights from my hand to my head and then slide(滑行) down from my long hair to hand to rest again. He went into hiding in my clothes while I learned his different calls. I never named him because he didn’t belong to me—I had to remind myself that he needed to return to the wild.

Almost three months later, he was stronger, more confident and flying farther from me. His flock returned to the grasslands. It was time for him to go. Before I flew back to England in November for the holiday season, I decided that the bird should be allowed outside to fly daily. I took him out to the flock three times. On the fourth day, the bird flew away with them.

When I returned in January, I would watch out for him whenever the finches(雀科小鸟) flew past. I still cry when I think of him. I wrote our story into a book, Fledgling. That, along with the lesson that any tiny animal can make a difference, will be his legacy(遗留的影响).

1. According to the article that the baby bird liked to rest ________.

A．on the ground	B．in a cardboard box
C．on the tea towel	D．inside the writer’s hand

2. What can we know about the baby bird?

A．The baby bird mainly lived on termites and snails.

B．The baby bird was left behind by his flock after a thunderstorm.

C．The baby bird was able to survive on his own without others’ care.

D．The baby bird could make a flight from house to grasslands at first.

3. The writer didn’t name the bird because ________.

A．she considered it strange to name a bird

B．she could not come up with a satisfying name.

C．She knew the bird would sooner or later fly back to its flock

D．she was sure that birds could not understand human language

4. What was the writer’s purpose of writing the article?

A．To introduce a kind of baby bird.	B．To tell us how to take care of a baby bird.
C．To call on people to care for tiny animals.	D．To encourage people to look for baby birds.