【推荐2】A)根据短文内容填表格，一空一词

Taking more walks

Sitting and studying all the time will raise your grades. Getting some exercise may help, too. New scientists say that taking walks makes kids pay attention better.

Earlier research report had shown that mice learn, remember, and pay attention better after they exercise on a running wheel for several weeks. Mice which exercise have more blood run to the head than those who don’t. And they can think faster.

Scientists from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wanted to find out if the same thing is true for humans. First, they examined the health of 41 adults, aged 58 to 77, after each person walked 1 mile. Then, they input their information onto the computer and worked out the results. They looked at arrows(箭头) on the computer screen and had to use the computer and arrows to show which direction was special.

Adults who were healthy were faster at the arrow task, and their answers were just as right as those who were less healthy, the scientists found. The healthy persons also had more blood run to a part of their head responsible for paying attention and making decisions.

In a second study, 15 old people who finished a 6-month training class were faster at attention tasks compared with 14 students who did few simple exercises for the same amount of time.

So, even going for a walk every 3 days for just 10 minutes can help. That may be good news for your grandparents as well. The results of exercising on the brains of younger people haven’t been studied yet. Still, it’s useful to take unusual study breaks, go for a walk or run with your friends. You might even do better in school after that.

Taking more walks
How to raise your grades	Sitting and studying for a long time will raise your grades. Getting some exercise is also     1    . For example, walking     2     kids’ attention.
Why walks help	Earlier research report had shown that mice learn, remember, and pay attention better after several weeks of     3    . More blood can make them think faster.
The special research on humans	①Scientists wanted to find out     4     the same thing is true for humans or not. First, they examined the health of 41 adults, after they walked 1 mile. Then, they looked at     5     on a computer and study which direction was special. ②The scientists found that     6     adults were faster at the arrow task. More blood runs to a part of the persons’ head responsible for     7     attention and making decisions. ③In another study, 15 old people who finished a period of training class can think faster than the students who did few     8     exercises for the same time.
Conclusion	Even going for a walk twice a week for just ten minutes can help.     9     that’s good news for your grandparents as well. The results of exercising on the brains of the young haven’t been studied yet. But taking unusual study breaks,     10     or running with your friends may also help you raise your grades in school.

【推荐3】Here are some ideas on listening exams. We hope they can help you.

    1     Before you start to listen to something, you need to relax. Don’t get nervous or excited. This will help you with your listening.

    2     The first sentence tells a lot about the passage. For example, at the very beginning, if you hear “Many shops in China decided to take away all kids of Japanese goods off their shelves, but some people say it’s not a good idea. Our reporter says...”, you know you will hear a piece of news, not a children’s story or a science report.

    3     When you’re listening, try to do something. For example, you can think of the questions: What happened? When? Where and how? What does the speaker want to tell us? By this way, you may understand the passage better.

    4     It’s important for you to get some important facts. For example, if the passage is a science report, you should try to remember its findings.

    5     You may hear some words that you don’t know, but don’t spend too much time on thinking about them. Very often, you’ll find out what they mean later when you go on with the listening. Some words or sentences will help you understand these new words.

（a）根据短文内容, 从方框中选出每段的主旨大意。

A. Remember some important facts. B. Don’t spend too much time on new words. C. Think when you are listening. D. Don’t be nervous and relax yourself. E. Listen to the first sentence carefully.

（b）根据短文内容, 补全下面的表格, 每空不超过两词。

▲How to do well in     6

▲It’s better for you to     7     when you begin to have a listening exam

▲Pay attention to the first sentence. It will tell you a lot about the passage

▲Trying to think of some questions that can help you understand the passage     8    .

▲When you are listening, it’s     9     for you to remember some facts.

▲You mustn’t     10     about one or two words for too long when you are listening.

【推荐1】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）。

Wilderness survival (赖以生存的) skills were necessary in the past, but now, people hardly use them. Teachers at the Deep Green Bush School in New Zealand think this might not be right. What if one day people have to live a primitive (原始的) life? So, the school hardly teaches reading, writing or math classes. Instead, students go out to learn how to find food, cook and learn about plants and animals.

Teachers and students at the school believe that if you can survive in the wild, you can survive anywhere. But are these wilderness survival skills really important? After all, we now live in a modern world.

In today’s world, people need to learn many other skills to be successful, such as how to find a job, drive a car or speak a foreign language. It seems that most of us don’t learn survival skills because we don’t need them anymore.

In fact, survival skills change along with time and the development of society. And it’s useful for people to have many skills. So why not learn some wilderness survival skills? At least, you will learn more about nature and yourself.

1. What skills do people hardly use now?（不超过5个词）
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2. Why do people learn many other skills in the modern world?（不超过10个词）
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3. What does the writer want us to do?（不超过10个词）
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【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后1-10小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
Weekends are short. They are only two days out of a seven-day week. To make your weekends look longer, you need to plan it better. Here are some ideas.
★Get up at your usual time. The biggest mistake(错误) is to think that the weekend is a good chance(机会) for getting up late. So getting up early can make you feel the weekends are longer.
★Finish homework as quickly as possible. Nobody wants to do homework, but we have to do it. The earlier you do it at the weekend, the better you will feel. You can do homework from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.on Saturday morning. After doing your homework, you can plan your weekends well.
★Go out to enjoy weekends. Weekends feel longer if you get out and enjoy them. Think about what you like to do. Plan a sports activity, for example, playing football in the park. You can also plan to go to a museum or a zoo.

How to spend your short     1    ?
Some     2	★ To make you feel weekends are     3    , you should get up at your     4    time though(虽然) weekend is a good chance to     5    up late.
	★ The earlier you do it at the weekend, the better you will feel. So you should finish your homework as     6    as you can. Then you can plan your weekends after you     7    your homework.
	★     8    a sports activity, for example, playing football in the     9    . You can plan to go to a museum too. It’s also a     10    idea to plan to go to a zoo. If so, you will feel weekends are longer.

【推荐3】Sleep plays an important role in our life. A lack of sleep can influence our ability to work and study.
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Normal people need 7 to 9 hours of sleep every night. But for teenagers, a healthy amount (数量）is about 8 to 10 hours. Sadly, only 1/3 of people manage that.
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Tiredness usually reaches its highest twice a day, at 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. That explains why students easily fall asleep in afternoon classes. So sleeping at noon for a while helps us work better in the rest of the day.
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People can make mistakes if they don't get enough sleep. Students cannot pay attention in class or do well in sports. Drivers who have fallen asleep while driving have caused 1%-10% of the traffic accidents in our life. And we can imagine what will happen if a doctor feels sleepy at the operating-table!
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There are several ways that can help us sleep better, such as avoiding drinks that make us excited late in the day, going to sleep at the same time each night, and sleeping in a comfortable place that is dark, quiet and warm.
A. Bad influences     B. Sleeping hours     C. The most tiring moments   D. Good sleeping habits
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2. ______
3. ______
4. ______
5. The passage mainly encourages us to ___________ .(不得超过5个单词）