【推荐1】

Mid-autumn Festival Singing Competition (比赛) 2020 Come and enjoy the music! Date of Event:                 Place: City Town Hall September 28th, 2020                 191 Zhongshan Road Time: 1:30 p.m.— 5:30 p.m.          Website: www. singing 2020. com Competition Rules: ◆All singers must be between 13 and 25 years of age. ◆All singers should bring their own CDs, prepare 2 songs. ◆All singers must arrive at least 30 minutes before the start of the competition. Late comers mustn’t lake part in the competition ◆Singers aged 16 or younger need the permission (同意) of their parents to take part in the competition. Prizes (奖励、奖项): ◆lst Prize —￥100 (one person only) ◆2nd Prize —￥600 (two persons) ◆3rd Prize —￥300 (five persons)

1. How long will the competition last?

A．Four hours.

B．Three hours.

C．Two hours.

D．Half an hour.

2. If you want to know more about the competition, you can ________.

A．write a letter

B．visit the website

C．send an e-mail

D．make a phone call

3. How many singers will get prizes in total?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Five.

D．Eight.

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

A．All singers must arrive at 1:30 p. m.

B．If you’re late, you can still win the prize.

C．A 12-year-old singer can take part in the competition.

D．16-year-old singers can’t be in the competition if their parents don’t agree.

5. The passage is probably ________.

A．a letter

B．a story

C．a poster

D．a piece of news

【推荐2】Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a ＄10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access(入口) to the Internet. Besides, they will be able to use e-mail to "speak" with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees-anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable(可行的). As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. Besides, the portable(手提的) computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.
At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, "Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we're giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything."
1. The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to _____.

A．use for their schoolwork	B．access the Internet
C．work at home	D．connect them to libraries

2. Why is the word "speak" in the second paragraph in quotation marks (引号)?

A．They don't really talk.	B．They use the computer language.
C．Laptops have speakers.	D．None of the above reasons is correct.

3. Which of the following is true about Westlake College?

A．All teachers use computers.	B．1500 students have laptops.
C．It is an old college in America.	D．Students there can do everything.

4. What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A．The program is successful	B．The program is not workable.
C．The program is too expensive.	D．We don't know the result yet.

【推荐3】We have four classes in the morning. Between the second class and the third class, we have twenty minutes' rest(休息). Now it's the rest time. Look! Many of us are playing. Some students are on the playground. They are playing basketball. Oh! A boy is running with the ball. And another is trying(尽力)to stop him. They look so cool. And there are some girls watching the game. Some students are in the classroom. Most of them are talking. Four are reading and doing homework. There's a tree not far from the classroom. Look! A girl is looking at the birds in the tree. She must think the birds are interesting because she is smiling(微笑)．
What are the teachers doing? Some of them are working in the office. And some are talking with students. Everyone is doing his or her things, busy but happy!
1. Where are the students playing basketball?

A．In the office.	B．In the classroom.
C．On the playground.	D．In the tree.

2. A girl is looking at the birds and she is ________．

A．smiling	B．cool
C．interesting	D．speaking

3. What are the teachers doing?

A．Working or talking with students.

B．Having a basketball game.

C．Playing with the students.

D．Looking at the birds.

4. There are ________   students in the classroom.

A．no

B．some

C．four

D．many

5. The passage is about ________．

A．students	B．a basketball game
C．rest time activities (活动)	D．teachers

【推荐2】

The Spring Festival is on February 10th this year! Boys and girls like it very much because they don’t go to school in the Spring Festival. They can have new clothes and lucky money. And they can eat jiaozi, yuanxiao, hamburgers, milk, ice-cream, chicken…, but jiaozi is their favorite food.

But some boys and girls in Liangshan, Sichuan are not happy. They don’t have nice food and warm clothes. Some of them can’t see their parents. Their parents can’t go home because they are busy with their work. So the boys and girls need much help. Do you want to help them? Please call us at 0834-3200950.

1. This year, the Spring Festival is on ______.

A．January 18th

B．January 24th

C．February 20th

D．February 10th

2. Boys and girls ______ in the Spring Festival.

A．must go to school	B．can’t go home
C．don’t go to school	D．must help their parents

3. What food do boys and girls like best in the Spring Festival?

A．milk

B．jiaozi

C．hamburgers

D．yuanxiao

4. In Liangshan, Sichuan, some boys and girls don’t have ______.

A．parents

B．nice food

C．warm clothes

D．B and C

5. In Sichuan, some boys’ and girls’ parents can’t go home because ______.

A．they need much help	B．they don’t have money
C．they are busy with work	D．they don’t want to go home

【推荐3】New data (数据) coming out recently shows that over half of Chinese students have experienced hair loss problems during their university years. According to a survey by China Youth Network, nearly 56% of respondents (调查对象) from 643 colleges across the country said they were experiencing hair loss.

Reasons for the trouble can be many. Some doctors believed staying up late, long-time mobile phone use and too much junk food were main causes. Huge pressure from work and school could also lead to receding hairlines (发际线).

Today, baldness (秃头) is becoming increasingly common among university students in China. A report earlier found that 250 million Chinese were troubled by hair loss. Most of them were aged between 20 and 40. Among this population, men were 160 million. That’s nearly 23 percent of Chinese men. And many of them started to deal with hair loss at 30, twenty years earlier than the generation (一代) before. “Many people around me worry about hair loss,” said a college student in Beijing. Yet she believes that many young people do not actually meet baldness. Instead, they use the words as a way to joke about their stressful lives.

According to the American Hair Loss Association, going bald is now a global problem. It says that 66 percent of US people started to lose their hair before the age of 35.

1. If 1,000 college students are surveyed by China Youth Network, how many of them are probably having hair loss trouble?

A．About 230.	B．Nearly 560.
C．About 660.	D．Nearly 1,000.

2. The followings are the reasons for the trouble of hair loss EXCEPT ________.

A．eating too much junk food

B．having lots of work to do

C．going to sleep at late night

D．traveling for too longtime

3. From Paragraph 3, we know ________.

A．the generation before probably experienced hair loss at the age of 40

B．now most people with hair loss trouble are less than 20

C．among 250 million Chinese, 90 million women are troubled by hair loss

D．many young people refuse to accept their hair loss trouble

4. What’s the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?

A．To tell us it’s time to deal with hair loss.

B．To point out there are lots of people experiencing hair loss.

C．To call on the government and society to pay more attention to hair loss.

D．To compare the number of the people with hair loss in China to that in the US.

5. Where does the passage probably come from?

A．The Internet.	B．A notice.
C．An advertisement.	D．A poster.

【推荐1】One day after school, I went to the teacher's office to see my teacher, but nobody was there. As I was about to leave, I noticed a piece of paper on the floor. I picked it up and saw the words "FINAL-TERM EXAMINATION " at the top. I put the paper into my school bag secretly and ran out of the room.

After I came back home, I took out the paper quickly. It was the exam paper of my worst subject, History. I felt excited. My heart beat fast. I took out my History book and started working on the answer. I had never answered any questions so seriously.

On the day of the History exam, I went into the exam hall confidently. When the paper was sent to me, I dreamed of getting the highest mark in the whole grade and could not help smiling. "My History teacher always encouraged me to work hard and get better grades, but I let him down time and time again. This time I will give him a big surprise," I thought.

When the teacher said we could start, I turned the paper over. To my surprise, all the questions were different. Later I felt nervous. In the end, I almost left the paper undone. After the exam. I ran to the toilet, took out the paper and carefully read it from the top. Oh! It was last year's exam paper. I read all the questions but I hadn't read the date.

This is a lesson in which I know I have to put my feet on the ground. I regretted doing such a silly thing. After that, I told my teacher the truth and I promised to be honest. From then on, I worked harder than ever before.

1. The writer always ________ in his History exams.

A．got high marks

B．did silly things

C．let his teacher down

D．left the paper undone

2. The writer felt ________ when he first saw all the questions were different.

A．surprised

B．excited

C．nervous

D．crazy

3. What might the writer write in his diary?

A．I'm glad that I did very well in the exam. I gave my teacher...

B．After the exam, my teacher asked me to go to his office. My heart...

C．When I turned over the paper, I couldn't help smiling. My teacher...

D．I'm truly sorry for what I did. Everyone should be honest. I'll ...

【推荐2】Yesterday my grandpa told me about his early days. When he left school at the age of 20, he found a job in a post office. He worked hard in the post office. Soon he had more money than his friends because of his hard work. It seemed that his future would be bright.

When he was 25 years old, however, he began to dislike his job. He wanted a more exciting one, so he left the post office. Two months later he found a new job in a big company. Workers in this company usually traveled a lot. At first he really enjoyed the traveling. But after a year, he began to hate it. He had to move around and he was always in a car or on a train. The worst thing was that he couldn’t make any new friends. Even so, his boss was not satisfied with him. Two years later he left the company.

He was poor at that time so he sold his house. He had to do a part-time job in a book shop. He was surprised to find that he loved it. He made new friends every day and he enjoyed reading books. Three years later, he married the shop owner’s daughter. Soon they had their first child. In the next ten years, they had another two children and three more book shops. He became very rich indeed.

“Life is wonderful,” he told me. “The most important thing is that you should always try your best. Never give up!”

根据短文内容判断正误（正确的选A，错误的选B）
1. The other day, the writer heard the story about his grandpa.
2. Grandfather tried three different kinds of jobs in less than ten years.
3. The part-time job in the book shop changed grandfather’s life and he became rich at last.
4. The main reason why grandfather left the company was that the boss disliked him.
5. From the passage, we know that the secret to success is not to give up friends easily.

【推荐3】An artist went to a beautiful part of a country for a holiday. He stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his brushes and painted from morning to evening. When it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.
At the end of the holiday, he wanted to pay the farmer. But the farmer said, “ No, I don’t want any money, but give me one of your pictures. What is money? In a week it will all be finished, but your painting will still be here.”
The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his paintings.
The farmer smiled and answered, “ It is not that, I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes here next month, I will show him your picture. And then he will not want to be an artist any more, I think.”
1. The artist went to the countryside to ____________________.

A．visit his old friend	B．spend his holiday
C．visit the farmer	D．thank the farmer

2. Every day, the artist _________________.

A．went out to help the farmer to do some farming

B．went out to visit his friends

C．painted pictures

D．enjoyed the beautiful scenery( 风景)

3. The artist wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer ___________________.

A．wanted much more money

B．want nothing

C．didn’t need any money at all

D．wanted one of his pictures instead of(代替) money

4. After hearing the farmer’s words, perhaps the artist would be __________.

A．very relaxed	B．very happy
C．very thankful	D．very disappointed