【推荐1】My mother is fifty-five years old. She retired (退休) just two months ago. After that, she was bored and didn't know what to do every day. She was kind to us before, but recently she was easy to get angry. She often argued with my brother and me with no reason. Also, relations between my parents became difficult. My mother got into trouble and didn't know how to deal with it. My brother thought of a good idea to help my mother. He bought her a new smart phone and taught her how to use Wechat (微信). My mother's life changed a lot from then on. No matter where she went and whatever she did, she always used it. She took photos with her new smart phone and always shared her photos in her friend circle to express how happy she was. As a result，she often did something by mistake. She often forgot to turn off the gas (煤气) and the food she was cooking usually got burnt. My father tried to stop her, but it didn’t work.

This afternoon, my mother prepared to make dumplings for dinner. She took a lot of pictures in order to post them into her friend circle. After dinner, we took out smart phones and waited to the photos she had taken. To our surprise, we didn't find any pictures of her dumplings. At last, my father couldn't help asking her, “Why don't you share your delicious dumpling in your friend circle today?” My mother looked embarrassed and said, “My smart phone was boiled in the pot.” “Oh, my God! I have to spend more money buying a new one!” cried my brother.

1. What is the matter with the writer's mother after she retired?

A．She got angry easily.	B．She argued with one of her friends.
C．She cared about her children too much.	D．She had a bad relationship with her parents.

2. How did the writer’s brother help his mother?

A．He took photos for his mother.	B．He cooked some food for his mother.
C．He taught his mother how to use the gas.	D．He bought his mother a new smart phone.

3. What happened after the mother began to use Wechat?

A．She often forgot to cook dinner.	B．She felt it difficult to use Wechat.
C．She enjoyed using Wechat very much.	D．She did not know how to turn off the phone.

4. Why didn't the mother share the dumplings in her friend circle?

A．She had no time to take pictures.	B．Her phone was dropped in the pot.
C．Her family didn't like the dumplings.	D．She waited to do it with her new phone.

【推荐2】An important question about eating out is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this, “I’m afraid it’ll have to be someplace cheap, as I have little money.” The other person may say, “OK, I’ll meet you at McDonald’s.”
This means that the two agree to go Dutch, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh, no, I want to take you to lunch at Smith’s,” or “I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They are great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards this person, you can go with him and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you. That would be very nice.”
American custom(风俗) about who pays for dates(约会) are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay her way during the date. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means “Come, as my guest(客人).” So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning.
1. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A．how to eat out

B．where to eat out

C．what to eat out

D．who pays for the meal in different situation

2. The underlined phrase “go Dutch” in this passage means “________” in Chinese.

A．去订餐

B．共同就餐

C．去饭店

D．各自付款

3. Sometimes your friend takes you to lunch. It means _________.

A．he’s going to pay for your meal

B．he’s going to lend some money to you

C．he can’t understand you

D．he’ll be angry with you

4. In America, some girls and women _________ now.

A．ask men to pay for their clothes

B．try to pay for their own meals

C．never have anything outside

D．try to pay for the men’s meals

5. We can infer(推断) if a man asks a woman for a dance outside the working hours _________.

A．the man will pay for it

B．the woman will pay for it

C．they will go Dutch

D．another person will pay for them

【推荐1】Do you keep a diary（写日记）? Do you know keeping a diary is good for children’s writing? Many scientists are studying about children’s diary writing. After they study over 30,000 children age between 8 and 16, they find something interesting. The study shows that if a child keeps a diary, he or she can write better. About 27% of children who keep diaries are better writers than others of that age.

You may ask, “What should I write in a diary?” Wilson, a very popular writer of children’s books from the UK, has some advice. She says, “You can write about people you love, or people you don’t like. You can also write about your hopes and great dreams. And if you are really good at sports and watch a lot of games, why not write about them in your diary?”

Are you ready to start to keep a diary every day?
1. The writer uses two ________ to start the topic （话题）.

A．questions

B．games

C．songs·

D．stories

2. What does the underlined word “advice” mean?

A．批评

B．评论

C．建议

D．提纲

3. What does Wilson tell us?

A．How to write a good diary.	B．What to write in a diary.
C．Why to write about games.	D．Who can write a good diary.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Over 30,000 children aged between 8 and 16 find writing boring.

B．If a child keeps a diary, he or she can go to a better school.

C．We can write what we like and dislike in the diary.

D．The students who are really good at sports can write better.

5. What is the best title （标题） of the passage ?

A．Keeping Diaries Is Good for Writing

B．Writing Helps You Live Better

C．Children Aren’t Ready（准备） for Keeping Diaries

D．Everyone Should Keep a Diary

【推荐2】What was discovered by accident? The answer is penicillin (青霉素). It kills germs（细菌）. By killing germs, it saves lives. Suppose you are sick. You go to a doctor. She examines you. She says you have a “staph” infection (葡萄球菌感染). She gives you some medicine. You take it. The medicine knocks out the staph. Soon you are well. Before penicillin, this would not happen. Staph was almost sure death.

Everyone wanted a medicine. Laboratories worked and did experiments day and night. In laboratories, they grew the staph in small dishes. Then they tried to kill it. However, nothing worked.

The laboratory dishes had covers on them. They kept things from falling into dishes. Molds (霉菌) were a big worry. They are always in the air. You can’t see them. They’re too small. There are thousands of different molds. Molds can make an experiment fail. That’s why dishes are covered.

Dr. Alexander Fleming was working to kill the staph germ. He worked for years. One day he took a cover off a dish. He looked inside. There was a thick growth of staph germ. There was also some mold. Then he saw something strange. Where the mold was, there was no growth of staph. This is what Fleming probably thought. “By accident, I found a mold to kill the dreaded staph.”

This is how penicillin was found. But here’s the real miracle. There are thousands of kinds of molds. But only one kind can kill staph. The mold must have fallen into the dish a few days before. The cover was probably off only a few seconds (秒). In those few seconds the right mold fell into the right dish. Another man might have thrown the dish away. But Fleming was very careful and smart. He understood what the mold did. How lucky the humans were!

1. Which is true about the experiment?

A．the dishes were not covered	B．staph and mold were put together
C．mold was kept in small dishes	D．staph was grown in small dishes

2. What does the underlined word “dreaded” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Famous

B．Scary

C．Helpful

D．Dead

3. The last paragraph suggests that ________.

A．accidents happen to everyone	B．the careful person does not have accidents
C．the careless person will miss great chances	D．luck is enough when doing scientific experiments

4. This passage is mainly about ________.

A．How to use the medicine for the staph infection	B．How to discover germs by accident
C．How Dr. Fleming kill the molds	D．How Dr. Fleming discovered penicillin

【推荐3】At the beginning of human history, people could only eat food they found. But then people learned to find more ways to get food. About 10,000 years ago, people started to farm the land. After that, people developed farming skills.

People eat different food in different areas. In China, rice is the main food for people in the south while the people in the north eat noodles. People who live in European countries near the sea eat lots of fish. But in Central Europe, people are away from the sea. So they don’t eat so much fish. They eat more meat instead.

People eat food with different tools in different areas. In China, people always like using chopsticks while in North America, Australia and Europe, people always like using knives and forks. To our surprise, in India and the Middle East, people always pick up food with their own fingers.

Now people can eat different food from different areas. As we can see, it is possible to convey food easily from one part of the world to another. We can almost eat whatever we like at any place of the world. For example, people in Britain can eat bananas from Africa and rice from India. Food is becoming a very big business now.

1. People ________ at the beginning of human history.

A．could only eat food they found	B．started to farm the land
C．developed farming skills	D．started to build factories

2. People living in Central Europe don’t eat so much fish because ________.

A．they are near the sea	B．they are away from the sea
C．they like eating noodles	D．they like eating meat

3. The underlined word “convey” in the passage means “_________” .

A．cook

B．wash

C．carry

D．push

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．People in Central Europe eat a lot of fish.

B．People in Britain can only eat rice from Africa.

C．People in the south of China eat bananas as their main food.

D．People in India and the Middle East always pick up food with their own fingers.

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

A．People’s Hobbies	B．People’s Eating Tools
C．People and Food	D．People and Human History

【推荐1】“Don’t tell anyone”. we hear these words when someone tells a secret to us.

    1     We’re often tempted to (忍不住的) “spill the beans”, (说漏嘴) even if we regret it later.

According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well “become a burden(负担)”.     2         

An earlier study, led by Anita E. Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted (受委托的) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.

    3     Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. “Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone,” according to Shah.

He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out (泄露). But this doesn’t mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people.     4     To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.

Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you’d better put yourself in their position.     5     Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone’s secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn’t so secret anymore.

A．Keeping secrets is a burden.

B．Otherwise, the God will know.

C．But it can be hard to keep a secret.

D．A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside.

E．But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all?

F．Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn’t give the information away.

G．This is because people often have an “obsessive and anxious urge to share it with someone”.

【推荐3】
1. ________ A small change in your daily routine can bring about noticeable improvements for the situation of sub-health（亚健康）. The following are simple suggestions for students to fight sub-health. 5 to 7 am: This is the best time to get up. Getting up early and having a good breakfast is the easiest way to raise your energy and fight tiredness.
2. ________ A study shows that drinking water before work and study improves cognitive(认知的) ability. Drinking two liters of water can circulate（使循环）the levels of oxygen and minerals in the body.
3. ________ Take your eyes off the book or screen every two hours and look into the distance. The eyes can affect brain and heart functions if overused, which can lead to a risk of sudden death.
4. _______ Working out for one hour every day is important for students to remain healthy. Taking part in group sports is also a good way to reduce pressure.
5. ________ Reading paper-based books is good for improving concentration. A consistent amount of information allows you to memorize more efficiently. 10 pm to 11 pm: This is the suggested bedtime.