【推荐1】Most people don’t take first aid training because they are busy. Some even think only doctors need to learn first aid. But in fact it is useful. Here are the good sides of learning first aid.

Save lives

First aid helps save lives. Giving someone first aid can help him or her get better fast. First aid training teaches how to keep calm in emergencies.

Help someone feel better

Not every accident or injury needs a visit to the hospital. But it doesn’t mean you should not try to help someone injured, even though the injury isn’t very serious. You can use first aid to help anyone in need, for example, a person who doesn’t feel well because of a fever.

Keep a situation from getting worse

Sometimes, if a person doesn’t get first aid in time, his or her situation will get worse soon. If you give him or her simple care, you will help him or her feel better and keep things from getting worse.

1. Many people don’t take first aid training because they don’t have ________.

A．money

B．plans

C．time

2. The underlined word “emergencies” means ________ in Chinese.

A．紧急情况

B．美好瞬间

C．安全状态

3. From the passage, we can know ________ can’t benefit from first aid training.

A．A 17-year-old girl who is not happy.

B．A 28-year-old man who has a fever.

C．A 45-year-old cook who is injured.

4. The material mentions ________ good sides of learning first aid.

A．two

B．three

C．four

【推荐2】请阅读下面短文，根据语篇内容，从所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余项。

Want to be happier? Well, you can do something about it. Some experts believe that 40% of your happiness is the result of your own choices and personal attitude. So you have a lot of control over how happy you feel.     1    

Spend time with the persons who will encourage, support and cheer you up when you’re down.     2     That helps you see the best in yourself. That’s also true for the people that we work with. You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.     3    

Your schoolwork doesn’t have to be perfect before you can be happy. Your relationship with your parents, your friends, your bicycle, your clothes...nothing has to be perfect.     4     If you want perfection all the time, you will never be satisfied or happy. Think of where you are today as a step towards tomorrow. Don’t try to be perfect, just try to do things well.

    5     There will always be someone smarter, or better looking or more successful than you. What you should do is to work towards being a better yourself than you were last month or last year. That way you will be pleased with the progress that you are making. And you will feel a lot happier with, and about yourself.

A．They see the best in you.

B．You can think about the meaning of life.

C．And remember that nothing can ever be perfect.

D．Compare yourself to yourself, not to other people.

E．Choose people who make your life better and happier.

F．The key is to make choices and develop habits that make you happier.

【推荐3】Are you good with money? Do you get pocket money from your parents or do you work to make money? Read on to find out about British teenagers and their money!

Pocket money

Most teenagers in Britain get pocket money from their parents. They might have to do some housework to get their pocket money.     1    

Part-time work

A part-time job is a way for teenagers who don’t have pocket money or who want to make more money. About 15 percent of teenagers have a job.     2     Popular part-time jobs include babysitting, shop work and restaurant work.

Children in Britain can work two hours a day at most on a school day but not during school hours.     3    

Bank account（账户）

Some children and teenagers have a bank account.     4     But a bank manager（经理）can decide whether（是否）to open an account for a child or a young person. Parents can put pocket money into their child’s bank account. Most banks have a prepaid bank card for young people. So many teenagers are getting experience of working part-time and dealing with banks.     5    

These are all steps towards becoming a person who is able to make and look after your own money.

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，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

A．Only children over the age of 13 can work.

B．They can open a bank account without the age limit（限制）.

C．The housework can include cleaning, cooking and washing dishes.

D．They can also decide whether to save or spend their money.

E．During weekends and school holidays, they can work longer hours.

【推荐1】①When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

②People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry (=unclear). Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near-sighted.

③People who are far-sighted(远视) suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.

④Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

⑤Having two good eyes is important for judging(判断) distances(距离). Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object’s relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.

1. We should look after our eyes well ________.

A．only when we can see well	B．only when we cannot see perfectly
C．even though we can see well	D．only when we know how important our eyes are

2. When things far away seem unclear, one is probably ________.

A．near-sighted	B．far-sighted
C．astigmatic	D．suffering from cataracts

3. Having two eyes instead of one is especially useful for ________.

A．seeing at night	B．seeing objects far away
C．looking over a wide area	D．judging distances

4. Which of the following shows the structure (结构) of the passage?

A．

B．

C．

D．

【推荐2】Many of us don’t pay much attention to the importance of eye care. It is said that if you take care of your body, then you can surely be healthy. That is why our eyes should be given a lot of care. Natural eye care should be put in a number one place.

There are several causes leading to poor eyesight like food shortage, genes (基因) and aging (老化). Televisions, computers and reading are also the causes of having poor eyesight. If you work in front of the computer, it is best to take a break every once in a while. Something dirty can cause eye redness and they will make you feel uncomfortable. It is bad for your eyes, too. If this happens, the best way is to clean your eyes by using cold water. You must also try your best to protect your eyes from harmful things. For example, sunglasses are not just for fashion but they can also serve as a great way to protect your eyesight from ultraviolet rays.

Eating healthy foods will do good to your eyesight. Remember that vitamins A, C and E are good for eyes. Try to eat food groups that have these vitamins. And you should do eye exercises because exercise protects your eyesight, too. If a person exercises regularly（定期地）and eats the right kind of food, his eyes will stay in good condition for a long time.

All above are natural ways of eye care that help us keep healthy eyes. Being happy all the time can be helpful to a person’s eyesight, too. In a word, eye care is very important, no matter how old a person is.

1. Being happy all the time is the most important way to protect our eyes.
2. People will have bad eyesight as they grow old.
3. After using the computer, you’d better clean the eyes by using cold water.
4. The underlined words “ultraviolet rays” refer to something that can do harm to people’s eyes.
5. The best title of the passage might be Ways of Eye Exercises.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，从所给选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺，结构完整，其中有一项是多余选项。

Straight or arched, thick or thin eyebrows (眉毛) come in many shapes and sizes. But what are eyebrows even for? They don’t keep us warm like our hair, or help us breathe like our noses.     1     Researchers from the University of York in the UK believe that eyebrows helped us communicate better when we were still evolving (进化).

Early humans had large brow ridges (眉骨).     2     Later, as the human face evolved to become smaller and flatter, our eyebrows allowed us to express complex emotions, as well as better understand others’ emotions. For example, a quick flash of the eyebrows is a sign that someone is willing to interact with others, while pulling our eyebrows up in the middle is an expression of sympathy.

If you still find this hard to understand, just draw a simple face on a piece of paper and draw a line above the eyes.     3     You will find that it is very easy to show anger, fear or surprise on a face.

But this is not the only purpose of our eyebrows.     4     Their arched shape can help to move rain or sweat around to the sides of our faces, keeping our eyes dry, the BBC reported. Together with our eyelashes (眼睫毛), eyebrows can also help to keep dust and other things out of our eyes.

    5     In that case, some researchers believe that we would have evolved some other facial feature to perform the same functions. That could make us look quite different.

A．So why do we have them?

B．They can also protect our eyes.

C．What if we didn’t have eyebrows?

D．This helped them show their strength.

E．Let’s take rolling one’s eyes as an example.

F．You can draw lines in different shapes and directions.

【推荐1】Every morning, my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day, I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on the wall in my bedroom before I go to sleep. Can you imagine the life without paper or printing?

Paper was first created about 2, 000 years ago in China. After it was invented, people started to write on paper to make books. In those days, and they were expensive. Only a few people had the chance to read books.

Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties(朝代). The development of printing made it possible to produce books more quickly and cheaply. More and more people can read books. Knowledge and ideas spread(传播)faster than before.

The Internet was created in the twentieth century. Although the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast and becomes powerful. A much larger amount of information can be stored in different forms on the Internet. We can find it much more easily than that in books.

Nowadays computers and the Internet are used in classrooms. And newspapers and magazines can be also read online. Will there be paper and printing in the future? Let’s wait and see.

1. Why does the writer talk about his family’s activities in the first paragraph?

A．To talk about the kinds of paper.	B．To show how his/her family loves paper.
C．To show that paper is better than the Internet.	D．To give examples about the importance of paper.

2. In ancient China, more people could read books because ________.

A．Internet was created at that time	B．more people liked writing books
C．the ways of printing books developed	D．knowledge and ideas spread faster than before

3. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in the fourth paragraph?

A．Information.

B．Form.

C．Internet.

D．Book.

4. According to the fourth paragraph, Internet is ________.

A．difficult and grows slowly	B．powerful but difficult to use
C．young and small	D．young and powerful

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

A．Internet is better than books.	B．What will happen in the future?
C．Will Internet replace(代替)books?	D．The history of paper and printing.

【推荐2】Stress (压力) is everywhere in our daily life. Not only adults (成年人) but also young people have it.

Some important causes of stress are having exams, making money, getting married, moving, changing jobs, ending friendships and so on.

How do you know whether you have stress?

Give your answers to the following questions.

Stress Test
Do you	Yes	No
easily get angry?
often sleep badly?
often get headaches a lot?
take sleeping pills?
find it difficult to relax?
usually hide your feelings?
smoke and drink a lot?
find it difficult to put your heart into something?

If you answer “Yes” to more than two of these questions, you are one of those people under stress. So what can you do about it?

Doing relaxing exercises, talking with friends and listening to relaxing music are all usual ways of relieving (减轻) stress. However, doctors now say that there are easier ways—people can laugh and smile and even ______, because crying is the natural way of relieving stress.

1. Which of the following is NOT the cause of stress?

A．Taking exams.	B．Changing jobs.
C．Taking sleeping pills.	D．Making money.

2. According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?

A．Young people never have stress.

B．Stress is common in our daily life.

C．People who answer “No” to all of the questions have great stress.

D．People who answer “Yes” to more than two of the questions have no stress.

3. The blank in the text should be filled with the word “______”.

A．cry

B．laugh

C．smile

D．smoke

4. What’s the easier way to relieve stress?

A．Talking with friends.	B．Listening to soft music.
C．Doing relaxing exercises.	D．Laughing, smiling and crying.

5. The text mainly tells us ______.

A．about stress and how to relieve stress

B．that there are many reasons for having stress

C．that laughing and smiling more can help relieve stress

D．that doing the stress test is a good way to help you live a better life

【推荐3】The Yangtze River is the longest river in China. For of years, a lot of people have made their living along the river. Many of them are fishermen.

However, since January 1, 2020, China has begun a 10-year ban (禁令) on fishing in conservation areas (保护区) along the Yangtze River. And from January 1, 2021, fishing is not allowed in all natural waterways of large lakes connected to the Yangtze such as the Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake for 10 years.

The Yangtze River used to have high biodiversity (生物多样性). However, human activities such as overfishing and pollution have made fish fewer and fewer in the river. In recent years, the number of fish caught every year from the Yangtze has fallen greatly from more than 420,000 tons in the 1950s to less than 100,000 tons. Fish from the river used to take up 60% of the country’s total fish production. But now the number is less than 0.2%. So the fishing ban is a key move to protect the river’s biodiversity.

The fishing ban will affect (影响) about 280,000 fishermen along the river. The government has taken action to help those fishermen. For example, it provides them with money and job training so that they can find new ways of living.

Yang Zhiming, a fisherman in Hunan Province, now manages business at a local market. Yang bought a place at the market with 20,000 yuan from the local government years ago. “Now, the 10-year fishing ban has started. My family don’t have to worry too much because we can do some business at the market,” he said. “The Dongting Lake is home to us fishermen. We stop fishing to protect our home.”

1. To know what the fishing ban is, you can read ________.

A．Paragraph 2

B．Paragraph 3

C．Paragraph 4

D．Paragraph 5

2. The writer explained the problem of the Yangtze River in Paragraph 3 by ________.

A．telling a story	B．listing experts’ opinions
C．comparing numbers	D．describing a personal experience

3. Because of the fishing ban, ________.

A．about 20,000 fishermen are affected

B．few people will live along the Yangtze River

C．the government has taken action to help the fishermen

D．fishing along the Yangtze River is no allowed for the next 20 years

4. What do Yang Zhiming and his family think of the fishing ban?

A．They support it.	B．They think it’s unfair.
C．They think it’s too strict.	D．They don’t care about it.

5. In which part of a newspaper can we find the passage?

A．Health.

B．Education.

C．Science.

D．Environment.