【推荐3】Nowadays parents and their children are spending less time together.     1     How to help parents and their children stay connected? Below is a list of helpful tips for family life.

Eat and chat

Sharing a meal together lets parents and their children have time to talk about each other’s lives.     2    

Read often

For parents, it is important to read to their children. Reading to your children develops an interest for knowledge.     3     Look for books that your children like reading. After their reading, ask questions about the books are about.

Plan an outing (短途旅行)

    4     Jump into the family car and go for a trip to the beach. Also, visit to a zoo, a park or a museum will lead to a long discussion.

Help with schoolwork

A great way to spend more time with kids and light a fire of learning is to help kids with their schoolwork.     5    

根据短文内容，将下面的选项还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺。每个选项只能用一次，其中有一个选项是多余的。

A．This is also a time for parents to listen to and give advice to their children.

B．A parents’ help will cause a kid to become interested in school and to improve his or her grades.

C．It also helps their attention last longer.

D．Sometimes getting out of the house is important.

E．As a result, many children are getting less love than their parents once got.

F．Parents are not very busy.

【推荐1】Many people work or study from Monday to Friday. The weekend is usually a time for rest. But today many Chinese students can’t rest on weekends.

A study shows that 24% of the Grade 7 students in Beijing have classes at the weekend. Over 40% of the junior high school students have less than (少于) eight hours’ sleep each night because of study. And this doesn’t happen only in Beijing. Ji Chunying is a Grade 8 student in Guangzhou. The 14-year-old girl has to get up at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday. Then she has classes all the day. On Sunday, she goes to extra (额外的) classes for math and science. But she doesn’t complain. She says her classmates all work very hard.

Some students are finding time to have fun. Zhao Ming, 13, is from Zhejiang. Zhao’s weekend is not very busy. But he studies in his school on Saturday. On Sunday, after doing his homework, he plays basketball. “I am happy because I have time to do the things I like,” he says.

Some students are lucky. Ding Yi a Grade 8 student from Shandong, is one of them. On weekends, Ding usually gets up at 8:00 a.m. Then she does her homework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV. “My teacher says learning well at school is enough,” Ding says, “I am very lucky.”

1. Over 40% of junior high school students have less than eight hours’ sleep each night because of ________.

A．playing computer games

B．playing with friends

C．watching TV

D．busy study

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Some junior high school students can enjoy their weekend.

B．All the students in China are busy studying at the weekend.

C．Ding Yi has to go to extra classes at the weekend.

D．Ji Chunying always complains about her busy weekend.

3. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A．students should do more homework at the weekend

B．all the students must have extra classes at the weekend

C．today many Chinese students can’t rest on weekends

D．no student can play with his friends out of class

4. What’s the passage about?

A．Chinese students’ after class activities.	B．Chinese students’ weekends.
C．Chinese students’ sleeping time.	D．Chinese students’ hard work.

【推荐2】       Our new neighbours are the Browns. They have two children, a boy and a girl. The boy is Jack and the girl is Alice. Jack is 11, and he is one year older than me. Alice and my sister Nancy are 8 years old.
       At weekends, Nancy and I like to go to play with Alice and Jack. Both Jack and I really enjoy playing computer games. Sometimes the girls join us, but the games they enjoy are different from the ones we like.
       There is a big park near our house. Sometimes, when the weather is fine, the four of us will go for bike rides there. We often stop at the huge playground to have some fun. Jack and I like to play basketball, but the girls prefer to sing and dance.
       Our families often have dinner together. On some days, they come over to our house and on other days, we go over to theirs. Mr Brown and his wife cook really well.
       Nancy and I are very glad to have the Browns next door. It’s great to have friends living so near.
1. Who are the writer’s new neighbours?

A．A family of three.	B．The Browns.
C．Jack and Nancy.	D．Alice and Nancy.

2. How old is Alice?

A．8

B．9

C．10

D．11

3. The girls prefer to ______ at the playground in the park.

A．listen to music	B．play basketball
C．sing and dance	D．play computer games

4. Where do the two families have dinner together?

A．At a park nearby.	B．At a restaurant.
C．In a forest.	D．At their houses.

5. The writer thinks it’s ______ to be friends with the new neighbours.

A．boring

B．great

C．difficul

D．safe

【推荐3】①Tomorrow is Saturday. Our teacher will take us to a farm and do some outdoor activities (户外活动) there. It’s a good place for us to have fun. We can sing songs, dance, fly kites and have a picnic there. Today our teacher tells us some rules (规则). Please look at them.

②Rule 1：You shouldn’t (不应该) run fast when doing the outdoor activities.

③Rule 2：You shouldn’t climb trees or walls on the farm. You may hurt your legs or arms.

④Rule 3：There are many trees and much grass on the farm. Each child can’t play with fire or cook food. They are dangerous.

⑤Rule 4：A river is near the farm. Many fish are in it, but you shouldn’t fish in the river.

⑥Also, our teacher asks us not to go anywhere alone.

⑦These are the rules. We should follow our teacher’s rules on the farm tomorrow.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. What can the students do on the farm?
a. Play with animals.   b. Dance.     c. Fly kites.   d. Climb the trees.   e. Draw pictures.

A．abc

B．bed

C．bce

2. Which picture can show the meaning of Rule 4?

A．

B．

C．

3. The underlined word “follow” means “________” in Chinese.

A．跟随

B．遵循

C．顺从

4. How many rules are there in the passage?

A．3.

B．4.

C．5.

5. Which of the following shows the structure (结构) of this passage?

A．①②③④⑤/⑥⑦

B．①②/③④⑤⑥/⑦

C．①/②③④⑤⑥/⑦

【推荐1】I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature(文学) class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I was sure of my ability to hold their attention and I was confident that they would admire(钦佩) my ability to teach them literature well in English.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “stand up!” The whole class rose as I entered the room and I was somewhat unclear about how to get them to sit down again, but once the embarrassment(尴尬) was over, I quickly gained my calmness and admiration again. I went back, to my office with the rosy glow which came from a strong sense of achievement(成就).

My students kept diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was slowly replaced(取代) by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today perhaps her next lecture(讲座) will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each saying something about a similar theme. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the whole Western philosophy(哲学) and laid the historical background for all the works we will study in class,” I complained. “How should they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

It was a long term, and it slowly became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

However, I also learned a lot; and the experience with my Chinese students has made me a better American teacher, and I knew how to teach in a different culture.

1. Which country does the writer of the passage come from?

A．The UK.

B．The USA.

C．China.

D．Canada.

2. We can know that on the first day the writer ________.

A．was worried about her students’ performance	B．was very confident in her students
C．felt she didn’t teach them much	D．felt very confident in herself at first

3. The underlined phrase “the rosy glow”, probably means ________.

A．feeling embarrassed and strange	B．feeling happy and interesting
C．feeling successful and proud	D．feeling angry and unbelievable

4. The students said the writer didn’t teach them anything because ________.

A．they didn’t get enough exact facts	B．they didn’t get used to her teaching
C．they didn’t understand the lesson	D．they didn’t like her teaching

【推荐2】In China, most of the students like doing their homework in a quiet place. But some don’t.     1     This is study habit.

    2     Some are good ones, others are not.     3     If you have good habits, you can learn things well. You can remember them easily.

    4     That is not a good place to study in because it is usually very noisy. You need to study in a quiet place such as your study or bedroom.     5     So find a quiet place and study carefully, and you’ll do well in your lessons.

A．Some students like to study in the living room.

B．A quiet place can help you learn better.

C．All the students need to have good habits.

D．They always listen to music when doing their homework.

E．There are many different kinds of study habits.

F．Grandparents love children.

G．OK.

【推荐3】

Chat GPT is really popular these days and many people want to try it. In fact, Chat GPT is a clever AI chatbot (聊天机器人) made by a US company. When it comes to education, some people hold different opinions about it.
	In my opinion, Chat GPT has helped me a lot, from giving cooking tips to writing emails, but I’ve never used it in my education. Because we sometimes are not sure whether the information is correct. Also, depending on it to do our homework will just make us stop thinking. So I think Chat GPT isn’t useful in students’ education.
	Whether Chat GPT is good or bad for education, I think it all depends on how students use it. If students use it to help them better understand certain topics in detail, I think it can really help their learning. However, if Chat GPT is simply used for homework or cheating (作弊) on exams, I think it will do no good.
	I think Chat GPT is terrible for education. This is because it’s powerful enough to allow lazy and hardworking people to achieve the same level of excellence with the same level of education. This makes students become lazy.
	AI chatbots like Chat GPT can provide much support. In addition, by solving hard tasks, AI chatbots can free up students’ time to help them work on higher-value work. So I think the best way is to show them how to use Chat GPT properly, rather than just banning (禁止) it or seeing it as an easy way to copy homework.

1. What’s Anna’s opinion about Chat GPT?

A．Chat GPT isn’t useful in her daily life.

B．Chat GPT always offers her some wrong information.

C．Chat GPT gives her much help.

D．Doing homework by Chat GPT can make students learn better.

2. ________ think that Chat GPT is helpful in education if students know how to use it.

A．Anna and Alice

B．Alice and Jack

C．Jack and Carol

D．Carol and Anna

3. Alice thinks that Chat GPT can make some students become ________.

A．lazy

B．hardworking

C．clever

D．helpful

【推荐1】短文，根据短文内容，从下面各小题所给的四个备选项中，选出最佳选项。

Three-Two-One, Fire!

At the moment of 9:43 a. m, on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (卫星发射中心) in Sichuan Province, the last satellite of the third-generation network (第三代导航系统) was sent into space. It is the 55th member in the family of BeiDou. It belongs to China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS北斗卫星导航系统). So far, 59 satellites, including the first four test ones, have been launched from Xichang. With the development of China, we have already owned three other famous satellite launch centers—Jiuquan, Taiyuan and Wenchang.

After a period of tests in space, this new satellite has started to work with other Beidou satellites together. It is designed to work for at least 12 years. So far, China has completed the third-generation network of China’s BDS. It was a new milestone in the nation’s space research work. The launch showed our country has completed our largest space-based system. It’s one of four global navigation networks, including the United States’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo.

BDS has been widely used as public resources in our daily life. It has been shared by the whole world. It will offer more services around the world. BDS is the common wealth of the development of human beings.

1. When was the last satellite of the third-generation network (第三代导航系统) sent into space?

A．On May 21st, 2019.	B．On June 23rd, 2020.
C．On July 22cd, 2020.	D．On September 23rd, 2020.

2. How many members are there in the family of Beidou?

A．50.

B．55.

C．59.

D．114.

3. What does the underlined word “milestone” mean in Chinese?

A．记录

B．事业

C．里程碑

D．起点

4. The global navigation network—GLONASS belongs to _________.

A．China

B．the United States

C．Russia

D．the European Union

5. According to the passage, what can we know?

A．The last satellite of BDS was launched at 9:43 p.m. June 23rd, 2020.

B．The new satellite is designed to work for at most 12 years.

C．BDS is shared only by China as public resources.

D．So far, China has completed the third-generation network of China’s BDS.

【推荐2】John Smith was a good math student at a high school. He loved his computer. He came home early every day. Then he worked with it till midnight. But John was not a good English student, not good at all. He got an F in his English class. One day after school, John joined his computer to the computer in his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students: the math grades, the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and grades in English. He found his English grade. An F! John changed his English grade from F to A. John’s parents looked at his report card. They were very happy. “An A in English!” said John’s Dad. “You are a very clever boy, John. ”
John is a hacker. Hackers know how to take information from other computers and put new information in. Using a modem, their computers are connected to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank computer account（帐户）and put it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called hackers.
1. John changed his English grade with the computer in ______.

A．the classroom	B．the school office
C．a bank near his house	D．his own house

2. When John’s parents saw the report, they were happy because ______.

A．John was good at math

B．John loved computers

C．John could join one computer to another

D．they thought John was not poor in English any longer.

3. Who are worried about hackers in the story?

A．John’s parents

B．School headmasters, teachers and the police.

C．The police.

D．School headmasters and teachers.

4. What should the hackers know well, do you think, after you read this story?

A．Information	B．Bank computer accounts
C．Computers	D．Grades

5. The last paragraph is about _______.

A．John

B．computers

C．hackers

D．modem

【推荐3】A new report shows what life might be like in 100 years now. It describes skyscrapers that are much taller than today's buildings, underwater "bubble" cities and holidays in space. The report is from a company. It asked experts(专家) on space and architecture as well as city planners to give their ideas on the life in 2116. They said the way we live and work and play will be totally different to how we do these things. The experts used the Internet as an example. They said that 25 years ago people could not imagine how the Internet and smart phones would change our lives. The Internet has completely changed the way we communicate and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more unbelievable.

Researchers questioned 3000 adults about the prediction (预言) they thought were most likely(很可能的) to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future few people will go to an office but will work from home and have work meetings online. People will have highly developed 3-D printers that will let you download (下载) a design for furniture or a food recipe and then "print" the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less need for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health instrument that will tell us what the problem is and give us treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used on Earth. A prediction that is missing is whether people will still need to study English.

1. The writer uses the example of the Internet in Paragraph 1 to show ________.

A．the Internet was often used	B．the Internet has developed fast
C．people will not believe the changes	D．technology will change peoples’ lives

2. With the help of highly developed 3-D printers a way to get a sofa in 2116 is to ________.

A．buy one in a shop	B．ask somebody to make one
C．download a design and "print" one	D．design and make one by oneself

3. According to the passage the missing prediction is ________.

A．how people will work	B．where people will get resources
C．what people will have at home to treat illness	D．whether people will still need to learn English

4. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．the life in 2116

B．holidays in space

C．the history of the Internet

D．medical treatment

5. The passage is most probably from ________.

A．an advertisement

B．a newspaper

C．a detective story

D．a health report