【推荐1】An apple a day keeps a doctor away. Have you ever heard anyone say this? Do you think if people eat one or two apples a day they won’t get sick? Last year some scientists wanted to find out if this old saying is true. They divided a college class into two groups. The first group ate 2 apples a day. The second group didn’t eat apples. After six months they added up the times the young people got sick. The apple eaters turned out to be healthier than those who hadn’t eaten apples. It seemed to show that an apple a day does keep people healthy.

根据短文内容，判断正（A）误（B）。
1. An apple a day can make you strong enough to drive a strong doctor away.
2. If people eat an apple a day without eating other food they won’t get sick at all.
3. Scientists found out that the old saying is true
4. The second group was not as healthy as the first group.
5. Nowadays the old saying doesn’t work any more.

【推荐2】Everyone knows that healthy eating habits are important.     1    

Drink plenty of water. Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.     2    

Don’t miss （错过）breakfast.     3     You can have more energy（精力）after eating breakfast.

Eat light （清淡的）lunch every day. If you don’t have enough time to have a big meal, take some bread with you for a quick lunch. Don’t eat lunch which has too much oil. If you don’t have lunch, that will be bad for your health.

    4     We should eat fruit and vegetables every day. Add a banana to your breakfast, have salad for lunch, and eat some vegetables at dinner. If someone doesn’t like to eat vegetables, he or she can eat some fruit instead.

Don’t eat dinner late.     5     Your body needs time to digest（消化）most of the food before you rest for eight hours.

根据短文内容，将下面方框内的句子还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺（每个选项只能用一次）

A．Eat fruit and vegetables.

B．Breakfast is the most important meal of a day.

C．Try to have dinner at least three hours before you go to bed.

D．Here are five good eating habits for you.

E．You may need even more water when you are exercising.

【推荐3】Tomatoes, sweet and juicy, are one of the world’s oldest foods. They were discovered by the Indians of South America thousands of years ago. The first tomatoes were very small. By the time the Europeans brought them to Europe in the 1500s, they were larger. They looked more like the tomatoes we eat today.

The history of tomatoes is interesting. When they first arrived in Italy, they were known as “love apples”. Italians believed that if one ate a tomato, he would easily fall in love with it.

However, in the United States, people believed that one would lose his life after eating a tomato. In 1820, Robert Johnson decided to prove people wrong. He announced that he would eat a tomato in the town square. Everyone was shocked at the news. That morning, about 2,000 people showed up to watch. They were sure that Mr Johnson was going to die. Of course, he didn’t. and from then on, tomatoes became popular in America.

In the beginning, people argued whether tomatoes were fruit or vegetables. From a scientific point of view, they were fruit. A fruit was the ripened ovary of any plant that made seeds. However, this didn’t stop most people from calling them vegetables, They said that tomatoes were eaten with the main meal-just like vegetables. So, they thought tomatoes must surely be vegetables.

Whether tomatoes are vegetables or not, they won’t disappear any time now. They are just delicious, for everyone to eat.

1. Italians used to call tomatoes “love apples” mainly because of their     .

A．size

B．taste

C．shape

D．smell

2. People felt     when they heard Robert Johnson would eat a tomato.

A．surprised

B．sad

C．angry

D．excited

3. What does the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph mean?

A．A few people stopped eating tomatoes.

B．Tomatoes became the most popular vegetables.

C．Most people still believed tomatoes were vegetables.

D．Most people stopped calling tomatoes vegetables.

4. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To tell us how tomatoes grow.

B．To advise us to eat more tomatoes.

C．To show us why people love tomatoes.

D．To tell us interesting facts about tomatoes.

【推荐1】【语篇来自二十一世纪学生英文报·试题原创】

Changing who you are

As time goes by, are you still the same person you used to be? Many of you would think you are. But according to a new study, your personality can change greatly. You could be a completely different person at 77, compared to when you were a 14-year-old, reported The Huffington Post.

Psychologists at the UK’s University of Edinburgh did the study on a group of Scottish people. The research found that almost everyone’s personality changed when they grew old. The findings are published in a journal called Psychology and Aging.

The research is based on a study that began in 1950. A group of teachers gave more than 1,200 14-year-old students personality tests. They tested six basic personality traits: self-confidence, conscientiousness, perseverance, desire to excel, creativity and moods.

In 2012, researchers successfully found 174 of the 1,200 students, who were 77 years old on average at the time. They agreed to take a personality test similar to the one they had completed 63 years earlier.

Researchers then compared the then-and-now test results. They were surprised to find great changes to all six personality traits of these people. Moods and conscientiousness had changed less. But there were still not too many similarities between the two results.

The younger and older self seemed to be totally different for each person. It was “as if the second tests had been given to different people,” the study’s authors noted.

In the past, personality was widely believed to be stable. William James, the father of American psychology, said that personality is “set like plaster”. This new study may bring some fresh ideas to the theory.

1. Psychologists at the UK’s University of Edinburgh did a study on________.

A．Chinese people	B．Scottish people
C．British people	D．American people

2. In the study in 1950, teachers gave more than 1,200 14-year-old students________ tests.

A．sight

B．language

C．personality

D．oral English

3. How many basic personality traits did the teachers test in 1950?

A．One.

B．Five.

C．Six.

D．Seven.

4. According to the study, we can learn that________.

A．there are too many similarities between the younger and older self

B．the younger and older self are different for each person

C．the younger and older self are similar for each person

D．there is no differences between the younger and older self

5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．Personality is stable.	B．Everyone has the same personality.
C．Personality may change as people grow older.	D．The results of the study are the same.

【推荐2】Thousands of years ago, Chinese poet Qu Yuan wrote the poem Tianwen, in which he came up with many questions about the sky, stars, nature and the world around us. The poem showed his doubts about traditional ideas and the spirit of finding the truth.

Inspired by the great poet, China has named its next planetary exploration tasks (行星探测任务) after the poem. The first one—a Mars (火星) exploration task—has been named Tianwen 1.This shows China’s strong wish to explore space and discover its secrets.

Up to now, China has been making great progress in space exploration. As early as 1970, China sent its first man-made Earth satellite (卫星) into space, becoming the fifth country in the world. Since 2003, China has carried out six Shenzhou tasks and sent two space labs into Earth’s orbit (轨道). In December 2018, China became the first country to send the probe (探测器) Chang’e 4 to the moon’s far side, which people can never see from Earth.

In the future, the Tianwen will follow the Shenzhou and Chang’e and move further into space. The first step is to send a Mars probe this year, which will mark the start of China’s exploration of the Mars. The probe is expected to move around, land on and explore Mars in one task. If it sueceeds, it will be the first to complete all of these in one task.

After this task, China plans to visit Mars again in 2028, in order to collect soil from the surface and bring it to Earth. Around 2030, China will explore Jupiter. There is no doubt that China’s space exploration will have a bright future.

1. “If it succeeds, it will be the first to complete all of these in one task.” shows _______.

A．China will become the first country in the world to explore Mars

B．No probe has moved around, landed on and explored Mars in one task

C．Great progress has been made by China in exploring the Mars

D．Tianwen l is going to move further into space and explore Mars

2. The structure of the passage may be ________.

A．	B．
C．	D．

3. According to the passage, Picture ________ can show the progress made by Chang’e 4.

A．	B．
C．	D．

4. The best title of the passage may be “________”.

A．China’s Space Exploration Project	B．Tianwen—Moving Further into Space
C．Development of Tianwen Series	D．Cultural Meaning Behind Tianwen

【推荐3】Potatoes grew in South America five hundred years ago. But they only became popular in other places two hundred years ago.

The Spanish （西班牙人） went to South America in the 16^th century. They learned of potatoes and took some back to Spain. By 1580, people in Portugal （葡萄牙） and Italy were also growing potatoes.

From Spain, potatoes traveled to France. In France, however, people were afraid to eat this new vegetable. They thought they were poisonous （有毒的）. Louis XVI, the king of France, tried to let French people eat potatoes. He even served them at the palace. But for many years, the French still refused to eat potatoes.

Potatoes reached England in a different way. In 1586, an Englishman stopped in Colombia. There he probably picked up some potatoes and took them back to England. At first, the English refused to eat potatoes, too. Instead, they fed them to their pigs and chickens.

From England, the potatoes traveled to Ireland. The potatoes grew well in the poor soil of Ireland, and soon it became the main food. In 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. Two million people died of hunger.

Today, each country has its potato dish. Germans eat potato salad, and the United States has the baked （烤） potato. And, of course, the French invented French fries. Now they can be seen all over the world.

1. Which is the correct order of the potato traveling?
（SA=South America E=England Ir=Ireland It =Italy P=Portugal Sp=Spain F=France）

A．

B．

C．

D．

2. People outside South America didn’t know about potatoes until ________.

A．1580

B．1845

C．1586

D．the 16th century

3. What happened to potatoes in France?

A．Soon the French followed their king’s advice.

B．The king encouraged his people to eat potatoes.

C．The king was not afraid of the poison in potatoes.

D．People refused to eat them because they were poisonous.

4. In the middle of the 19 century, two million people died in Ireland ________.

A．because of a disease	B．because they had no potatoes to live on
C．because they grew too many potato plants	D．because they had potatoes as their main food

5. From the passage we can see that ________.

A．French fries are made only in France

B．today people all over the world eat potatoes as their main food

C．different countries in the world have different ways to eat potatoes

D．when the potato reached Europe, it was popular with the people there

【推荐1】Parents often find children watch cartoons for at least three to four hours a day. Studies show that kids start watching cartoons on TV at an early age of six months, and by the time they reach the age of two or three, they become cartoon fans and they would like to spend much time on it. Parents often look upon this as a problem because most of the kids are found to become addicted to（沉迷于）watching cartoons. Parents think if kids spend too much time on cartoons, they will fall behind in study.

Some people think cartoons are worth watching. It helps the working parents the most because they can do a lot of work by getting their kids involved with（涉及）cartoon programs on TV.

When they watch educational cartoons, they get to learn many things. Kids learn many things by watching such cartoon programs. They also help to improve their language. Educational cartoons help them to try different languages. Kids can learn English well with the help of those cartoon shows. At the same time, some kids can learn about the friendship and teamwork from the cartoons. It is good for them to get along well with their friends and classmates.

So sometimes it is meaningless to stop kids from watching cartoons, but parents should make sure that their kids are watching the right things.

1. When do kids start to watch cartoons on TV?

A．When they are six months old.	B．When they are two years old.
C．When they are three years old.	D．When they are six years old.

2. Why are kids addicted to TV?

A．Because they have nothing to do at home.	B．Because they are not cartoon fans.
C．Because they like to watch cartoon programs.	D．Because their parents don’t take care of them.

3. Why is it good for children to watch cartoons according to the passage?

A．Because children know how to use their time.

B．Because children know how to care for others.

C．Because children know how to keep healthy.

D．Because children know how to make cartoons.

4. Who is the passage mainly written for?

A．Teachers.

B．Children.

C．Cartoon producers.

D．Parents.

5. What is the writer’s opinion about cartoons?

A．Kids can’t watch any kinds of cartoons.

B．It’s meaningful to stop kids from watching cartoons.

C．Kids can spend time watching cartoons on weekends.

D．Parents should let their kids spend some time watching the right cartoons.