【推荐1】Michael Jordon is the greatest basketball player till now. Once he was making a television advertisement, all he needed to do was to miss a shot.

For Michael, this was difficult. He had conditioned(定位) himself to succeed whenever he was throwing the ball. Every time he threw a basketball, it went in. Every time he tried to miss a shot, he couldn’t. It took him over 20 attempts(尝试) before he missed a shot.

For Michael, success is a strong habit. It took him a lot of time to break it. Just like drinking, smoking and collecting things, success is also a habit. Once it is formed, it is difficult to break. Many people think that success is difficult to keep. They feel that it will be hard work and will need too much action and focus. The truth is that it is simply a habit and as easy to keep as any other habit.

Spend some time making success a habit in your life. Once you have developed it, it is not something you want to change again.

1. In the advertisement Michael Jordon needed to ________.

A．miss a shot

B．throw the basketball in

C．keep his habit

D．develop his skills

2. The writer used the example of Michael Jordon to tell us ________.

A．he is the best basketball player of all time	B．he had worked very hard to be successful
C．success is a strong habit	D．success is a habit that is not difficult to break

3. If you want to succeed you must ________.

A．miss the shot

B．make success a habit

C．keep throwing

D．make an advertisement

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Even though I just had lunch not long ago, I was felling hungry again. I went to the kitchen to look for something to eat. That was when I discovered the pudding in the fridge. It was made from milk, sugar, eggs and fruits, and it looked so yummy. I noticed that there was only one left.
I was putting the pudding on a plate when my brother came into the kitchen. He found the pudding and asked for it. “It’s mine! I was the only one who found it!” I shouted. “You are my elder brother, You should give it to me!” said he. Then he started pulling the plate towards himself and I did the same.
Suddenly, the plate moved to one side and the pudding slipped (滑动) out of the plate. It landed on the floor and turned into a yellow mess. My brother and I both looked at each other, feeling amazed and disappointed at the same time. It was such a waste!
To my surprise, Ollie, our pet dog, walked over to the mess on the floor. It began to ____ the pudding happily, Within minutes, the mess on the floor was gone. Ollie licked (舔) its lips when it was done.
After watching Ollie finishing the whole pudding by itself, we realized _____ . If both of us had shared the pudding, we would both have got to eat half of it. It was because of our greed (贪婪) that we ended up with nothing. That day, my brother and I learnt a good lesson.
1. The writer’s brother thought he should get the pudding because _____ .

A．he found it by himself	B．he made it by himself
C．he was hungrier	D．he was younger

2. The underlined part “lap up” in Paragraph 4 is the closest in meaning to _____ .

A．share	B．move
C．eat	D．pull

3. Which of the following can be put in the blank in the last paragraph?

A．how foolish we had been

B．how happy we both were

C．it was wrong to keep a pet dog

D．the pudding was not yummy

【推荐3】One morning, a blind boy sat on the ground with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.”

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man walked by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see how things were going. The boy asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.” What he wrote was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. The first sign simply told people the boy was blind, while the second told people they were lucky for they were not blind. That means creative thinking can always be the key to a better situation.

1. The man ________ when he saw the blind boy.

A．wrote some songs on the sign	B．took away the sign
C．asked others to help him	D．took out a few coins and dropped into the boy’s hat

2. What happened after the man wrote something on the sign?

A．More people wanted to give the boy money.	B．The hat was filled up with food.
C．People came to see the boy.	D．Nobody wanted to see the new sign.

3. The man came back that afternoon to ________.

A．put some coins into the boy’s hat	B．see if the boy changed the sign
C．write something on the sign	D．see how things were going

4. People probably felt ________ when they saw the second sign.

A．angry

B．excited

C．moved

D．nervous

【推荐2】China successfully hosted the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing this year. There were many great moments during the competitions. There were also many active volunteers and lovely athletes.

“Welcome to China!” This simple greeting from volunteer Sun Zeyu warmed the heart of a US snowboarder（单板滑雪运动员）Tessa Maud at the Olympics opening ceremony（开幕式）. “The volunteers who said “Welcome to China” really make me tear up every time because they are so nice. We feel so welcomed.”said Maud in the video she shared on TikTok. Maud also shared her Chinese travels on social media. She became a big fan of Chinese food. Maud shared what she ate every day on TikTok — fried rice, Kung Pao chicken and Peking duck. What to eat each day was a hard choice for her. “Everything is so good,” she said.

Jenise Spiteri is also a snowboarder. She is from Malta. She became known as the “red bean bun girl”（红豆包女孩）in China after she took a big bite while waiting for her score. “Goodbye to the amazing workers who served our food every day,”she wrote on social media when she left the Olympic Village. In the picture, she holds a big red bean bun.

Another volunteer, Yang Jinhe, 18, started to work on COVID-related matters in mid-December. Back in 2008, he liked listening to the song You and Me very much. Now he said he really understands the meaning of “you and me” as well as the Olympic spirit（精神）of togetherness. “Even though the pandemic（流行病）is going on, we are standing here in Beijing 2022,” he said on the show Youth Power.

1. Why did Maud cry over her video?

A．Because she wanted more care.

B．Because she got hurt in the game.

C．Because she was touched by the volunteers.

D．Because she missed her family.

2. Who became known as the “red bean bun girl”?

A．Sun Zeyu.

B．Ibssa Maud.

C．Yang Jinhe.

D．Jenise Spiteri.

3. What does Maud think about Chinese food?

A．She seldom chooses to eat it.	B．It’s just like the food at home.
C．It all seems good to her.	D．It is hard but tasty enough.

4. What do we know about “Yang Jinhe”?

A．He was a volunteer at the 2008 Olympic Games.

B．He sang “You and Me” in the 2008 Olympic Games.

C．He understands the Olympic spirit better after volunteering.

D．He took part in the 24th Winter Olympic Games as an athlete.