【推荐2】One weekend, Taylor, an eight-year-old girl, went shopping with her parents. She asked her parents to buy a toy she wanted. Instead of giving her money to buy the toy, Taylor’s father encouraged her to make money by herself. “How can I make money?” Taylor thought for a while and had an idea, “Why not make cakes and sell them at church to raise money to buy the toy?”

The next day, Taylor started her plan. She first needed some money for tools and materials. So she borrowed $40 from her parents and promised to pay it back. Then she began to make cakes by herself. To her parents’ surprise, she made $175 by selling the cakes that Sunday.

Everyone thought Taylor would buy the toy she wanted. She certainly had made enough money for it, but she didn’t. Instead, Taylor decided to buy business cards and had her father’s phone number on them. Then she began handing the cards out. More people knew Taylor and came to buy her cakes. Even large companies began to try buying her delicious cakes.

Though Taylor has made a lot of money, she still works hard at school. She also likes to take part in other activities. So Taylor must carefully manage her time. For example, instead of watching TV after school, Taylor might have to bake (烘焙) a lot of cakes for customers. When she has dance lessons on some days, she needs to get her baking done on time so she isn't late for class.

Making cakes may take time and be hard work, but Taylor sees the fun in it. “I think making cakes is mostly my hobby,” she says. She also decorates the boxes that are used to pack the cakes. Taylor uses all kinds of decorations to make sure each box looks special for her customers. People love the extra feeling Taylor gives them by decorating the boxes, so more and more people come for her cakes.

Taylor’s cakes are becoming very popular. She achieves a sweet success.

1. Why did Taylor start selling cakes?

A．Because she loved baking cakes very much.

B．Because she wanted to make a lot of money.

C．Because her parents encouraged her to sell cakes.

D．Because she needed money to buy the toy she wanted.

2. How mainly did Taylor tell people about her cake business?

A．By handing out business cards.

B．By selling her cakes at church.

C．By advertising at her dance class.

D．By inviting large companies to buy her cakes.

3. What is the author’s main purpose to write the article?

A．To explain how to make money to buy a toy.

B．To teach us how to make good cakes.

C．To show us that it is fun to sell cakes.

D．To introduce a girl who is talented in business.

【推荐3】Why did Chinese people have more than one name in ancient times?

In ancient China, people’s names had three parts, their family name, given name and courtesy name. Take famous poet Li Bai for example. His family name, which came from his father’s name, was Li. His given name was Bai, and his courtesy name was Taibai.

People used their given names when they were among family members. But in social life, they called each other by their courtesy names to show respect. This was mostly done among people of similar age. If you were talking about yourself, or if your elders were talking about you, the given name would be used instead of the courtesy name.

Men would get their courtesy names when they turned 20. It was a symbol of adulthood (成年礼). Women would get their courtesy names after getting married.

One’s courtesy name often had something to do with one’s given name. For example, the name of Mencius was Meng Ke. His courtesy name was Ziyu. Both Ke and Ziyu mean “carriage (马车)”. Zhuge Liang’s given name was Liang, which means “bright”. His courtesy name was Kongming, which means “very bright”.

1. How many parts are there in people’s names in ancient China?

A．3.

B．4.

C．5.

D．6.

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

A．名

B．姓氏

C．字

D．昵称

3. Why did people call each other by their courtesy names in social life?

A．To show their love.	B．To show their good relationship.
C．To show their kindness.	D．To show their respect.

4. What would be used if your elders were talking about you according to the passage?

A．Family name.

B．Nickname.

C．Given name.

D．Courtesy name.

【推荐1】A new school year has started. Across China, 280 million students and 20 million teachers are going back to school, Xinhua reported. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the new semester has been a concern.

To safeguard the health of students and teachers, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and National Health Commission have put forward a few measures. Let’s take a look at some of them.

1. Should students wear masks at school?

Middle school students in low-risk areas don’t have to wear masks at school. But they still need to carry masks with them just in case. For example, if a student in the class suddenly has a fever, all of the other students should put on their masks at once, CCTV News noted.

2. Will schools be locked down?

Primary and middle schools will be under closed management after reopening. Parents and other visitors won’t be allowed to enter schools. This is to cut down the risk of spreading COVID-19.

However, this doesn’t mean that schools are fully closed. Students or teachers are able to leave if they need to get something done outside. But they have to report where they go.

3. Could students travel around?

The National Day holiday will arrive soon. Many students might want to take a trip with family members. Can they travel to other cities and provinces?

According to the MOE, those who travel to low-risk areas must show a green health code to be able to return to school. Those who come back from medium-risk or high-risk areas need to take a nucleic acid test (核酸检测). Some schools will also ask students to report beforehand if they are going to take a trip.

1. What is the mask rule for students in low-risk areas?

A．They must wear masks indoors.

B．They should wear masks on the playground.

C．They don’t have to carry masks.

D．They should carry masks with them.

2. During closed management, _______.

A．parents should enter schools to pick up their kids

B．students can’t leave school for any reason

C．teachers don’t need to report where they go

D．parents and other visitors can’t enter schools

3. When returning from a low-risk area, students should _______.

A．take a nucleic acid test

B．show a green health code

C．report where they went

D．stay at home for two weeks

4. What can we learn from the measures?

A．Safety is the main concern of the new semester.

B．People should stay home during holidays.

C．COVID-19 will soon be over.

D．People will wear masks for a long time.

【推荐2】Would you like to go to Beijing, our capital? It's far away from Guangdong. It's 2313 kilometers from Beijing to Guangdong. The city of Kunming is 2216 kilometers away from Guangdong. It's always very warm there. But it's very hot in summer in Wuhan. It's 1084 kilometers from Guangdong to Wuhan. Changsha is near Guangdong. It’s 726 kilometers from Changsha to Guangdong. Do you know which city is the biggest in China? It’s Shanghai. It’s 1811 kilometers from Guangdong to Shanghai. If you travel (旅行) by air, you'll find it very interesting and fast enough to fly from Guangdong to Beijing. It only takes you about four hours and you’ll get there easily, safely and unhurriedly(从容不迫)．But traveling by train is quite different. You have to stay on the train for over thirty hours to arrive in Beijing. More and more people like to travel by air. You can see why, can't you?
1. How far is it from Changsha to Guangdong?

A．1084 kilometers	B．2216 kilometers
C．726 kilometers	D．706 kilometers

2. If you go to Beijing, our capital, you'll know _________.

A．It's not far away from all the other cities in China.

B．You have to travel long by train from Guangdong to Beijing.

C．It's not far away from us all.

D．It's not far away from Guangdong.

3. From the passage, we know ______ has the longest way to Guangdong except Beijing.

A．Wuhan

B．Changsha

C．Shanghai

D．Kunming

4. Which one is WRONG?

A．Wuhan is very hot in summer.

B．It's as warm in winter in Kunming as Beijing.

C．It's 1084 kilometers from Wuhan to Guangdong.

D．It's warm in winter in Guangdong.

5. It takes more than 30 hours to arrive in Beijing from ______ by train.

A．Guangdong

B．Kunming

C．Changsha

D．Shanghai

【推荐3】Have you ever read the book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants? It talks about how AI is helping us to understand animals.

All around the animal kingdom, there are sounds that we can hardly pick up and decipher (破译). Elephants, for example, talk with each other, but we can’t hear—far below our human sound. Coral in the ocean also sends sound waves (波) to pull baby coral to safer areas to grow. This is surprising as coral doesn’t have any ears! Scientists have placed listening equipment (设备) into these environments to pick up the sounds humans cannot hear.

After the sounds are recorded, AI can study their meanings. For example, researchers used AI to translate bats’ 15, 000 calls. They found that more than 60 percent were arguments about four things: food, sleep positions (姿势), personal space, and unwanted love.

This technology can not only understand the animals but communicate back to them. For example, bees use dances to communicate. A research team in Germany, therefore, put the bee language AI system into a robot bee. They asked the robot to create a dance routine (路线) to tell the bees where the nectar (花蜜) was.

1. What is the book mainly about?

A．How AI helps people do translations better.	B．How AI helps people better understand animals.
C．Why animals need help from human beings.	D．Why AI can help people research animals.

2. What do we know about the sounds made by animals?

A．Some of the sounds are too low to be heard by humans.

B．Corals can hear all animal sounds with ears.

C．Elephants talk with each other by the sound of touching.

D．They can help animals get used to their environments.

3. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．An example of scientists’ study on animals’ sounds.

B．Bats’ living habits and their communication.

C．How bats argue with each other.

D．Why AI can translate bats’ sounds.

4. How did scientists tell bees where the nectar was?

A．By training other bees to lead them there.

B．By asking a robot bee to teach them a new language.

C．By creating a certain sound with AI.

D．By making a robot bee tell the bees about the route by dancing.