【推荐1】根据短文内容, 从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。其中有两项为多余选项。

Long ago, as people got older, there was something wrong with their teeth and it would be very painful.     1    

Later people learned that cleaning their teeth was important, but they didn’t have toothpaste（牙膏）at that time.     2    

About 100 years ago, someone finally created a kind of cream to clean teeth. Not long after that, the toothpaste tube（管子）was invented, so people could press（挤压）the toothpaste right onto the toothbrush!     3    .The army gave brushes and toothpaste to all the soldiers, and they learned to brush teeth twice a day. At that time toothpaste tubes were made of metal.     4    

Now there are plenty of toothpaste choices: lots of colors and tastes to choose from, and some kinds of toothpaste are made just for children. When you’re choosing a kind of toothpaste, make sure it has fluoride（氟化物）.     5     When you brush your teeth, you don’t need a lot of toothpaste: just press out a bit.

A．They used lemon juice, salt or other things to clean their teeth.

B．Tooth brushing became popular during the World WarⅠ.

C．Fluoride makes your teeth strong and healthy.

D．Today they’re made of soft plastic and are much easier to use!

E．To avoid toothache, they had their teeth pulled out.

F．The use of a toothbrush to keep tartar（牙垢）down is very helpful.

G．We use toothpaste and tooth brushes to clean our teeth.

【推荐2】Robots have built a big house in Switzerland using 3D-printed materials (材料). It is the first house made by robots for people to live in. It is better for the environment and safer than man-made houses.

The creators (创建者) say the big house will improve the future of building. “This is a new way seeing architecture(建筑),” said one of the creators. “How you build is important.”

The big house was built completely from robot-made materials. It used 60% less cement (水泥) than a man-made house. Its ceilings　(天花板) were made with a 3D printer. There are 35 parts in the house and each one was built in 60 to 90 minutes. It was so surprising that the robots could build the full house in such a short time.

It is not the first time for robots to build houses. The Chinese used 3D printers to build 10 houses in a day in 2014. They built a building the next year. And last year Italians built a house in just 48 hours.

Scientists say one day they could send robots to build houses on the moon. We are ready to know about how we’re building for the future.

1. What were the 35 parts of the big house built from?

A．Man-made cement.	B．Old stone ceilings.
C．Robot-made materials.	D．New architecture materials.

2. What does the underlined word “It” refer to?

A．The first man-made house.

B．The house made in Italy last year.

C．The first house made with a 3D printer.

D．The house made of 3D-printed materials.

3. Who may build houses on the moon in the future?

A．Creators.

B．Robots.

C．Scientists.

D．3D printers.

【推荐3】How many hours do you spend sitting in a chair every day? Eight hours in the office plus (加) three hours in front of the TV after work is the norm (常态) for many people. You probably don't need an expert to tell you that sitting too much is not good for your health.

An article in the New York Times reported that a 2010 study of nearly 9,000 Australians found that for each additional hour of television a person watched per day, the risk of dying rose by 11 percent.

Another study tracked the health of 123,000 Americans between 1992 and 2006. The death rate(率) for men who spent six hours or more per day sitting was about 20 percent higher than for men who sat for three hours or less. The death rate for women who sat for more than six hours a day was about 40 percent higher.

In other words,       ▲      .

So what can we do about it? Health experts suggest we break up those many hours spent sitting with more hours spent standing.

The BBC and the University of Chester in the UK conducted a simple experiment with a small group of 10 volunteers who usually spent most of the day sitting. They were asked to stand for at least three hours a day. The researchers found blood sugar leveled off（持平）after a meal much more quickly on the days when the study subjects stood, compared to the days they spent on a chair. Standing also burned more calories (卡路里）---- about 50 calories an hour. Over the course of a year that would add up to about 30,000 extra calories, or around 3.63 kilograms of fat, which would be the equivalent（相等的）of running about 10 marathons a year. John Buckley, a member of the research team said. “Just by standing up three or four hours in your day at work can help us to keep our all-important blood sugar under control.”

The researchers believe that even small changes, like standing while talking on the phone, going over to talk to others rather than sending e-mails, or simply taking the stairs instead of the elevator, will help.

1. How many researches are mentioned in the passage?

A．Two

B．Three

C．Four

D．Five

2. Which of the following sentences can be put into the ▲ ?

A．sitting is killing us	B．we should stand more
C．let's watch TV less	D．the death rate goes down

3. The experiment by BBC and the University of Chester shows that          .

A．we should spend more time sitting than standing

B．we must always stand while making the telephone calls

C．we can take 10 marathons a year to burn 30,000 extra calories

D．simple movements can help us control our blood sugar level

4. You may read this article in the column（栏目）of        in a magazine.

A．News Report

B．New Products

C．Science Research

D．Food

【推荐1】①Do you wear clothes with colorful patterns? People usually use machines to make these patterns. But how did ancient (古代的) people make them?

②Ancient people used tie-dye (扎染). Tie-dye is a very old way of dyeing clothes in China—it’s more than 1, 000 years old! It is popular in Yunnan. People first put cloth (布料) into the blue dye (染料). Some parts of the cloth become blue, but other parts have a lighter color. When you open out the cloth, you’ll see beautiful patterns.

③Now, the tie-dye skill is China’s national intangible cultural heritage (国家级非物质文化遗产). Anning in Yunnan is famous for tie-dye.

④Yang Cheng, 52, learned tie-dye from his mother in the 1980s. Yang got the old skills. At the same time, he studied tie-dye in other countries, such as Japan, India and France. It once took Yang two years to make two tie-dyed dresses! He used many skills of Anning tie-dye. Some patterns on the dress are traditional, while some are modern. He used images of Dianchi Lake and eight popular flowers in Yunnan. “I want to put all the beautiful things into tie-dye works,” Yang said.

⑤Now Yang is still dyeing and taught his daughter tie-dye. “We have the duty to pass down the skill to younger generations.” Yang said. Yang now teaches tie-dye in schools, communities, and companies. More than 100, 000 people learned from him.

⑥Some worry that tie-dye may die out because using machines is fast and cheap. But Yang said, “Machines can’t take the place of our creative hands.”

1. What can tie-dye help people do?

A．Make cloth.	B．Grow popular flowers.
C．Make colorful patterns.	D．Practice skills.

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

A．Tie-dye is going to die out.

B．We can find tie-dye only in China.

C．Yang Cheng not only uses traditional patterns but modern ones.

D．Younger generations learn tie-dye to make beautiful clothes for themselves.

3. The last paragraph shows that tie-dye is _______.

A．not so useful as before.	B．popular with young people.
C．hard to see in other places.	D．still meaningful to us.

4. Which of the following is the best structure of this passage?
(①＝Para. (自然段)1；②＝Para. 2；③＝Para. 3；④＝Para. 4；⑤＝Para. 5； ⑥＝Para. 6)

A．

B．

C．

D．

【推荐2】As a schoolgirl, I’m not beautiful at all. I don’t have big eyes. I’m not tall. And I’m very heavy. My face is big. There is a scar（疤痕）on my face. It makes me sad. However, my father often encourages me. Here is his advice（建议）for me.

Don’t be sad. Try to hold up（抬起）your head when you walk on the street. No one cares about（在意）what you look like.

Get on well with your classmates and teachers. Please help them when anyone needs help. Helping others is helping yourself. It can make you happy.

Work hard at your lessons. If you do well in your tests, you will feel very confident（自信的）. Play sports and have a healthy body. Have some good eating habits and try to play sports every day. Then you will have lots of energy to study.

1. What does the writer look like when she is a school girl?

A．She’s short with small eyes.	B．She has big eyes and a big face.
C．She is tall and thin.	D．She’s heavy with a big face.

2. What does the underlined word “it” refer to?

A．Helping others.	B．Writer’s father’s advice.
C．Having good eating habits.	D．The scar on the writer’s face.

3. The father gives the writer ________ pieces of advice.

A．three.

B．four.

C．five.

D．six.

4. What's the best title for this passage?

A．A middle school girl.	B．How to have good eating habits.
C．A father’s advice for his daughter.	D．Helping others is helping yourself.

【推荐3】

Name: Julia			Name: Paul			Name: Linda
From: Cuba			From: England			From: America
Look: Long brown hair, round face, big gray eyes			Look: short blond hair, long face, small blue eyes			Look:    long red hair, round face, big brown eyes
Clothes: green dress, white shoes			Clothes: yellow jacket, blue pants, brown shoes			Clothes: white dress, brown shoes
QQ:     374636025			QQ:     736485125			QQ:       510538674
Tel:       5437520			Tel:       8745996			Tel:        4358390

1. Where is Julia from?

A．Cuba.

B．England.

C．America.

D．Japan.

2. What’s Julia’s telephone number?

A．374636025.

B．5437520.

C．8745996.

D．4358390.

3. What color is Paul’s hair?

A．Black.

B．Blond.

C．Brown.

D．Red.

4. What color are Linda’s shoes?

A．Green.

B．Blue.

C．Yellow.

D．Brown.

5. Which is right?

A．Julia and Linda look the same.

B．Julia, Linda and Paul are from different countries (国家).

C．Paul and Linda have short hair and big eyes.

D．Julia and Paul have the same QQ number.

【推荐1】The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conducted in Youngstown, Ohio, for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another, employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants.

The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have taken it a step further—changing the actual composition (构成) of plants in order to get them to perform different, even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors (传感器) printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect chemicals in groundwater. “We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to change the functions of the things that we use every day,” explained Michale Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.

One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow (发光) in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a weak light for 3.5 hours. The light, about 1000th of the amount needed to read by, is just a start. “The technology,” Strano said, “could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps.”

In the future, the team hopes to develop a kind of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves only once but would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are also trying to develop an on and off “switch” where the glow would slowly disappear when the day breaks.

Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity used in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source—such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway—a lot of energy is lost during transmission (传输). Glowing plants could reduce this distance and therefore help save energy.

1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A．A new study of different plants.	B．Benefits from green plants.
C．A big fall in crime rates.	D．Employees from various workplaces.

2. The underlined word “detect” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A．put up

B．give out

C．find out

D．slow down

3. What can we expect of the glowing plants in the future?

A．They might help reduce energy use.

B．They will speed up energy production.

C．They may transmit electricity to the home.

D．They could take the place of power plants.

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Can we grow more glowing plants?

B．How do we live with glowing plants?

C．How are glowing plants made pollution-free?

D．Could glowing plants take the place of lamps?

【推荐2】Choose the best answer (根据以下内容，选择最恰当的答案)

“Peanuts! Get your red-hot peanuts!”

Americans have loved the crunchy taste of peanuts ever since 1870. That was the year when P.T. Barnum introduced hot peanuts as a snack. He sold them at his circus. Soon everyone wanted peanuts to eat.

But many people around the world ate peanuts long before that. Peanuts have been a popular food in Africa for hundreds of years. In South America, scientists found clay pots which were filled with dried peanuts. These pots were over 3,000 years old! Ancient dried peanuts have also been found in China.

African slaves (奴隶) probably brought peanuts to the USA in the 1700s. At first, farmers grew peanuts as food for their cows. But a man named George Washington Carver thought that peanuts could be useful in other ways. George was born during the Civil War (内战). His parents were slaves on a farm. From boyhood, George showed great interest in plants. Later, he got an education and began studying plants. He worked hard and became a famous botanist.

George used peanuts to create over three hundred products, such as soap, ink, plastic and paint. He also helped make peanuts an important crop. He was famous for his work. There is a monument (纪念碑) to him in Missouri where he was born.

The peanut plant produces many small yellow flowers. When the flowers die, their stems (茎) begin to dig into the soil in which peanuts grow. When the peanuts are ripe, it’s time to dig them out of the ground. The peanuts must be harvested at the right time. If the soil is too wet or too dry, many of the peanuts will remain stuck in the ground. After harvesting, peanuts are dried, then they are sent to factories where they are packaged as snacks or made into other products.

Next time you go to a circus or a baseball game, listen carefully. You may hear someone shouting, “Peanuts! Get your red-hot peanuts!”

1. Hot peanuts were introduced to Americans as a snack ________.

A．in 1870

B．3,000 years ago

C．in the 1700s

D．during the Civil War

2. According to the passage, a botanist is probably ________.

A．a slave who works on a farm	B．a farmer who grows peanuts
C．a scientist who studies plants	D．a person who created soap

3. People set up a monument to George in Missouri because ________.

A．he was a famous farmer who was born there	B．he spent a long time studying peanuts
C．he made peanuts useful in many ways	D．he created soap, ink, plastic and paint

4. Peanuts must be harvested when ________.

A．the flowers die

B．they are ripe

C．the soil is very dry

D．the soil is very wet

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The Chinese began eating peanuts after Barnum sold peanuts at a circus.

B．African slaves were the first to bring peanuts to South America.

C．At first, peanuts were grown as an important crop.

D．Hot peanuts are popular at a circus or a baseball game.

6. The writer’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.

A．ask people to buy more hot peanuts

B．introduce George Washington Carver

C．give readers some information about peanuts

D．tell us peanuts can be made into other products