【推荐1】We all know that recycling rubbish is very important. But sometimes it is not so convenient （方便的）when we can't find a recycling bin anywhere.

Now a team of middle school students from the US has solved that problem by designing their Recycling Bin app (应用程序).This app encourages people to recycle. It provides users with a map of local recycling centers. And it allows them to save places as favorites on it. This app also reminds (提醒) users to recycle.

The group of nine sixth-graders is from STEM Center Middle School. They came up with the idea as part of a school project for the Verizon Innovative App Competition. Their school provided after-class app training. It gave 10 teams Samsung tablets (平板) as prizes.

The competition wanted to develop students' interest in science. In this competition, students showed an app design that could solve a problem in their school or city. The nine students came up with the idea for Recycling Bin when they saw a need for more recycling.

We thought that this would really help a lot of people”, Jaden Hilkemann, 12, told Time For ids.

They kept their design easy so that anyone could use it. Now the free Recycling Bin app has been put into use in the Google Play store for Android phones or tablets.

I was so excited when it went up at the app store," Seralyn Blake, 12, said, “A lot of my family members downloaded our app. It was pretty cool."

1. The underlined (划线的) word "bin” probably means in Chinese.

A．储物室

B．工作坊

C．垃圾箱

D．加油站

2. The Recycling Bin app is helpful for people to _______

A．produce less waste	B．find recycling centers
C．divide the rubbish	D．keep a healthy environment

3. The Verizon Innovative App Competition was held to______

A．encourage people to recycle	B．meet people's need for recycling
C．offer students app training	D．develop students' Interest in science

4. Seralyn Blake's words showed that_____.

A．he was surprised at the result

B．he was proud of their design

C．their design has been used widely

D．their design can be downloaded for free

5. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A．A Winning App	B．Special Way to Recycle
C．Time for Recycling	D．Cool Apps Improving Life

【推荐2】A Small Invention, Big Help

An invention is an invention—big or small. A big invention makes us feel it all the time, such as the TV and the computer. There are also several small things around us even if we seldom pay much attention to them.

A paper clip helps hold pieces of paper together without making a hole. A big paper clip was put up in Norway to help people remember the inventor of the paper clip, Johann Vaaler. He invented the paper clip in 1900 when working in Germany. A paper clip is in fact a piece of wire（金属丝）that is made in such a way that it can hold together many pieces of paper. Now millions of them are made and sold all over the world.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by a Hungarian, Laszlo Biro. Biro had been trying to find another use for the quick drying ink and designed this pen. Later, a Frenchman, Marcel Bich thought up the idea of making a use-and-throw pen and sold it cheap. It was named BIC and became very popular.

1. Where was the paper clip invented?

A．In America.

B．In France.

C．In Germany.

D．In Norway.

2. How many years was the paper clip invented earlier than the ballpoint pen?

A．Sixty-five.

B．Fifty-six.

C．Eighty-three.

D．Thirty-eight.

3. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．How to invent small things.	B．Who invented the small things.
C．Small things are very useful.	D．Two small inventions.

【推荐3】On April 26, 2017, a big Chinese ship caught the eyes of the whole world. China’s first homemade aircraft carrier（航空母舰）hit the water in Dalian, Liaoning.

The new big ship is China’s second aircraft carrier. It was designed in China and built in China, too. It is about 315 meters long and 75 meters wide. That is a bit larger than three soccer fields.

An aircraft carrier is like an airport on the sea. It can carry planes and troops to war. Planes fly from the carrier and land back on it, and soldiers work and live on it, too. But building an aircraft carrier is so hard and expensive. It costs a lot of money and needs a large amount of steel and other special materials. For example, a basic aircraft carrier is made of 60,000 tons of steel. It also uses complex（复杂的）technologies, including radar, electrics, mechanics and weapons. Finally, it takes years to build one. Today, not many countries own an aircraft carrier or have the ability to build one. China has become the seventh country in the world that can build an aircraft carrier by itself, after the USA, Russia, England, France, Italy and Spain.

1. In which year did China’s first homemade aircraft carrier hit the water？____

A．In 2017．

B．In 2016．

C．In 2018．

D．In 2019．

2. What’s the best title of this passage？____

A．An Airport on the Sea	B．China Has Bought the Second Aircraft Carrier
C．China’s Homemade Aircraft Carrier	D．The Sixth Country to Build an Aircraft Carver

3. What is not needed to build the aircraft carrier？____

A．special materials

B．technologies

C．steel

D．wood

4. How does the writer feel about the homemade aircraft carrier in China？____

A．proud

B．worried

C．upset

D．hopeless

【推荐2】James Michener, a famous American writer, donated(捐赠) at least 90 percent of what he earned from his 43 novels. He seemed to donate more than this. At his death, in October 1997, he had given $117 million away to the US.

Michener set a good example, not just in how much he gave, but in his style of giving. The writer worked hard at doing good(行善). He usually followed up(跟踪) his donations to see how the money was used and he had a lot of fun in doing so.

Michener was 90 when he died. He was the only writer on the list of America’s top 25 philanthropists(慈善家). He gave his donations to the college he went to. Michener gave ＄72 million to his college Swarthmore. He said, “I am from a family without any money, but the college made me from darkness into light.”

Michener was married three times, but he had no children. For his last 15 years, he lived quietly in Austin, Texas. He moved there to write the 1, 000-page novel. The film called South Pacific was inspired by his first book, Tales of the South Pacific, written when he was 40.

1. Michener died in ________.

A．1991

B．1994

C．1997

D．2000

2. Michener cared about ________ after he donated.

A．how much money he gave away

B．how the money was used

C．when the money was given back

D．how much fun he had

3. Michener came from a ________ family.

A．rich

B．poor

C．big

D．small

4. He wrote his first book ________.

A．when he moved to Austin

B．in his last 15 years

C．when he was married for the third time

D．at the age of 40

【推荐3】Zhang Guimei is one of the most beautiful teachers in China. She was born in Heilongjiang in 1957. She came to Yunnan at the age of 17. Now she is the headmaster of Huaping Senior High School for Girls.

About 20 years ago, she saw a 13-year-old girl sitting on the hill. The girl told Zhang she would get married but she wanted to go to school. After hearing that, Zhang went to her house and tried to persuade her parents to let her return to school. However, they didn’t agree. After that, Zhang decided to build a free school for girls who can’t go to school.

After years’ trying, in September 2008, Huaping Senior High School for Girls was built in Lijiang. To help girls from villages to go to universities, for many years, Zhang has walked thousands of kilometers, visited students’ families and asked girls to go back to school. So far, more than 1,800 girl students have entered the universities.

Girls called her “Mom Zhang” because she has changed their lives. Also, her moving stories inspired(鼓舞) thousands of people.

1. Where is Zhang Guimei’s hometown?

A．Yunnan.

B．Lijiang.

C．Heilongjiang.

D．Huaping.

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

A．想象

B．劝说

C．依靠

D．适应

3. When was Huaping Senior High School for Girls built?

A．In 1957.

B．20 years ago.

C．In 2008.

D．In 2021.

4. What did Zhang do to help girls go to universities?

A．She walked thousands of kilometers.	B．She visited students’ families.
C．She asked girls to go back to school.	D．A, B and C.

5. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A．Zhang is a great teacher who moves many people

B．Zhang is the headmaster of Huaping Senior High School for Girls

C．Zhang helped 1800 girls

D．Zhang helped a 13-year-old girl