【推荐1】根据短文内容，判断正误。正确T，错误F。

Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some traditions are rather similar from one country to another: candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are some:

Argentina (阿根廷): In Argentina, as in many Latin American countries, one of the most important birthday parties is a girl’s fifteenth. When girls reach the age, they can have a huge party and dance first with their fathers, and then the boys at the party.

China: The birthday child receives presents from others. Friends and family members are invited to dinner, and noodles are served to wish the birthday child a long life.

Holland (荷兰): The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also put flowers or balloons on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.

India: Indian children usually wear white to school. However, the birthday child wears colored clothes to school and gives out chocolates to everyone in the class. His/ Her best friend helps do this.

Japan: The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certainly, birthdays are more important than others, especially the third and seventh birthdays for girls and the fifth for boys.

1. In Argentina, when the children reach fifteen, they can have a huge party and dance with their fathers, and then the boys at the party.
2. Chinese children always eat noodles to wish a long life on their birthdays.
3. A birthday child usually wears white to school in India.
4. In Japan, only the third and the seventh birthdays are important for kids.
5. The passage is mainly about similar birthday traditions in some countries.

【推荐2】Do you like eating wontons(馄饨)? It is not only popular in China, but also around the world. You can find it in North America, Southeast Asia and Australia.

Wontons are like dumplings, only smaller. They are a kind of traditional food from northern China. It is said that during the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, an ancient tribe in northern China, had conflicts(冲突) with local people on the border(边界). Hunshi and Tunshi were the two leaders(领导) of the Xiongnu. So people began to call their food “huntun” and wish for the end of the conflicts.

In different parts of China, a wonton has different names. In the north, it is called “huntun”. In Guangdong, it is called “yuntun”. People in Sichuan call it “chaoshou”, while in the southeastern province of Fujian, it is called “bianshi”.

People usually eat wontons with soup. Sometimes they also deep fry(油炸) them. You make a wonton with a square wrapper. You put some fillings in the wrapper. Then, you push the outside of the wrapper together with your fingers. The most popular fillings are pork and shrimp.

1. Wontons are actually a kind of traditional _______ food.

A．North American

B．Southeast Asian

C．Northern Chinese

2. Where does the name “huntun” come from?

A．A great king of northern China.

B．Two leaders’ names of the Xiongnu.

C．A war(战争) on the border.

3. Put the following steps of making wontons in the correct order: ________.
a. Boil or deep fry wontons.                                  b. Make a square wrapper.
c. Push the outside of the wrapper together.            d. Put some fillings in the wrapper.

A．a—b—d—c

B．b—d—c—a

C．b—d—a—c

4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．When people usually eat wontons.

B．Food to eat with wontons.

C．How to make and eat wontons.

【推荐3】Before you go to country, it will be much help if you know the language and some of the customs of the country.

When people meet each other for the first time in Britain, they say “How do you do?” and shake hands. Usually they do not shake hands after they haven’t met for a long time or when they will be away from each other for a long time.

Last year, a group of German students went to England for a holiday. Their teacher told them that the English people hardly shook hands. So when they met their English friends at the airport, they kept their hands behind their backs. The English students had learned that the Germans shook hands as often as possible, so they put their hands in front and got ready to shake hands with them. It made all of them laugh.

1. How did the German students go to England?

A．By bus.	B．By train.
C．By air.	D．By sea.

2. English people usually shake hands when they________.

A．meet every time

B．meet for the first time

C．say goodbye to each other

D．say hello to each other

3. Usually English people don’t shake hands ________.

A．when they will be away for a short time

B．when they say "How do you do?

C．when they just meet after a long time or will be away from each other for a long time

D．after they have met for a long time

4. Which of the statements is TRUE?

A．German people shake hands as often as possible.

B．English people like shaking hands very much.

C．German people hardly shake hands.

D．They don’t like shaking hands.

5. This story is about ________.

A．shaking hands	B．languages
C．customs	D．languages and customs

【推荐1】Television is good. You'd like to watch it all day and all night. But too much TV is a very bad thing. Scientists found that kids who watch much TV may have more trouble learning to read. They can't focus(集中) on their work.

Kids learn language skills best by reading, talking and playing with others. If they spend too much time watching TV, they'll have less time for those things.

Watching too much TV is bad for people's health. People don't move much while watching TV. What's more, they may eat a lot of food while watching. This can make them fat. We call these people couch potatoes.

Fighting on TV is a big problem for kids. Young people are good at following. Scientists have found that those who watch a lot of fighting shows are more likely to fight.

1. Scientists say if kids watch too much TV, they will      .

A．learn language skills more easily	B．be healthier
C．find it hard to learn to read	D．eat less food

2. Kids learn language skills best by      .

A．reading

B．talking

C．playing with others

D．all of the above

3. While watching TV, what DON’T people do?

A．Eat a lot of food.	B．Have less time for reading
C．Move little.	D．Focus on their work.

4. Couch potatoes are people who watch too much TV and become      .

A．thin

B．fit

C．fat

D．strong

【推荐2】下面的材料A~F分别介绍了六个不同的极限运动方式。请根据六幅图片相匹配，其中有一项为多余项，选择最相匹配的运动方式。

Want to enjoy some extreme sports (极限运动)? Here are a small number of the extreme sport clubs across universities in the UK.

    1     Oxford, York, Aberdeen and Warwick are only some of the universities that offer this rather unusual sport. Anyone who is able to swim can play. It is played by two teams of six players. Everyone wears a mask and carries a small wooden stick.

    2     Nearly every university in the UK has a skiing and snowboarding club. For example, Brumski & Board Club of Birmingham University has run for 30 years and has about 500 members. They hold Christmas and Easter ski trips every year and take part in competitions.

    3     Warwick University is home to the Longboarding Club. A Longboard is two or three feet longer than a usual skateboard and has a wider wheel base. Instead of offering club T-shirts, the Longboarding Club lets members have their personal socks.

    4     The University of Lincoln offers BASE jumping. In BASE jumping, players jump from fixed objects and use a parachute (降落伞) to break their fall. They go on weekly trips to Skydive Hibaldstow.

    5     Rock climbing is a popular hobby that many people enjoy doing. You can do it indoors on special walls or outdoors on real mountains. There are many advantages of rock climbing—it is fun and it also helps people forget worries. If you are a beginner, it’s best to have lessons. A climber with experience can help you a lot in the beginning.

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【推荐3】Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑橘) fruit and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruit and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and food made from milk; (6) bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.

People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Food are cooked and eaten in different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day, in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw (生的) or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4’clock in the afternoon or at 11 o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

There are two problems in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your meals?

A．Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages.	B．Beef, pork, fish and milk.
C．Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes.	D．Potatoes, carrots rice and bread.

2. It is important for people to eat ______.

A．three times a day	B．dinner at twelve o’clock
C．cooked food all the time	D．something from each of the seven kinds of food every day

3. People in different countries and different places of the world ______.

A．eat food in different ways	B．cook their food in the same way
C．have their meals at the same time	D．have the right kinds of food to eat

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．There are too many people in the world.

B．People in some places don’t have enough to eat.

C．One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D．The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.

5. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?

A．When people eat their lunch.	B．What to do with the two problems.
C．How to cook food in different ways.	D．Why people eat different kinds of food.