【推荐1】I can’t remember when I started collecting litter（垃圾）. But it was when I got tired of seeing litter near my home and realized that no one else was going to pick it up.
I live close to a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there in three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was so much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest. I wanted to feel happy going there again.
I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes after starting to pick up litter, my bag was full! It had cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers in it.
Since that first trip three years ago, I’ve gone to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I’m often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment.
After each trip, I look at all the litter I’ve found. If any of it is recyclable（可回收的）, I keep it. I can’t understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it.
I know I can only do a small bit to help the earth, but I still think it is important.
1. ．When did the writer begin to collect litter?

A．When he was very young.

B．After his home moved to a new place.

C．When he realized no one else was going to pick it up.

2. ．Where does the writer live?

A．He lives in a forest.

B．He lives near a forest.

C．He lives in a place with much litter.

3. ．The writer collects litter       .

A．in order to make money

B．in order to get a prize

C．in order to make the place clean

4. Where does the writer collect litter?

A．In the forest.

B．In the street.

C．In the park.

5. From the passage we infer（推断）     .

A．the writer will go on with collecting litter

B．the writer always collects a lot of litter

C．the writer thinks he does a great thing

【推荐2】

Now people are trying to make the world a better place for birds to live in. People in China start the Bird Loving Week. Students from all parts of the country have been doing something to care for birds.

Meng Yiru, a 16-year-old student from Nanyang Model High School in Shanghai, asked people to protect birds: Never put birds in cages. Go to visit them in the wild if you really love them. "I'll never forget the sparrow(麻雀) I kept in a cage," said Meng. “It stopped eating after I caught it and soon died.” Meng and her classmates put many of their ideas in their 300-word report to ask people to take better care of birds.

China is the home of more than 1, 000 kinds of birds because the country is large and has almost every weather type to suit (适合) them.

But not everyone knows how to take good care of them. Some cut down trees and destroy the birds' homes. This has made the number of the birds go down quickly. A study shows that one out of eight birds, more than 1, 200 kinds, in the world could die out. This includes 95% of albatrosses(信天翁) and 60% of cranes. Some birds you see every day, like pigeons and parrots, are also in danger!

To help them, people have set up 7,500 reserves(自然保护区) which are suitable and safe for the birds. In China, there are big reserves like the ones near the Dongting Lake in Hunan and the Poyang Lake in Hunan and the Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. Is there anything that you can do for birds? Take care of their homes. Feed them with something delicious. Well, think it over and begin to do it now!

1. Meng Yiru kept a sparrow and             .

A．soon it died	B．it lived in the cage happily
C．then set it free	D．then gave it to her classmate

2. China is the home of many kinds of birds because             .

A．people in China love birds	B．people in China don't eat birds
C．there are a lot of trees in China	D．birds can find the suitable climate here

3. A study show that             of the birds in the world may die out.

A．12.5%

B．50

C．60%

D．95%

4. In the last paragraph, the underlined word"ones" refers to             

A．birds

B．homes

C．lakes

D．reserves

5. The writer writes the passage to             .

A．ask people not to cut down trees

B．tell people what kinds of birds are in danger

C．call on people to do something to protect birds

D．make people lean about the Bird Loving Week

【推荐3】In order to make our city cleaner, our school suggests that students help make less pollution, so now they all join environment clubs.    1    

Here are the things students often do.

    2     Do you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty tons of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river!   In environment clubs. Students mend those broken toilets.

    3    On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car—neither the students nor the teachers! Cars put pollution in the air, so remember: walk, jump, bike or run. Use your legs! There’s lots of fun!

    4     How much litter do you throw away at lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage to report them to the whole school!

We love our environment.     5     Please come and join us.

A．No-car Day.

B．Turn off the water.

C．Let’s work together to make it cleaner!

D．Students work together to keep the environment clean in the club.

E．No-garbage lunches.

【推荐1】Today’s kids like staying indoors and watching TV, playing computer games, and doing their homework better than going outside to play. Playing outdoors is so important to kids—not only to help them stay healthy but also to help them to make friends. Here are some ideas for kids that they can follow.

Take a Walk or Play a Game

You can take a walk around the block(街区) or go hiking in the forest. Playing a game can make kids active. It can help kids like the outdoor activities.

Ride a Bike

Kids’ feet can take them further when they’re riding bikes. Besides being an easy way of transportation, bicycling makes for a fun whole-family outdoor activity. Exploring(探索) quiet streets in the neighborhood can make kids happy.

Fly a Kite

When you fly a kite, you often end up running like the wind—which makes this an excellent outdoor activity for kids. Simple kites are inexpensive to buy and easy to operate(操作). Still intimidated? Walk to an outdoor field on a windy day and watch other people’s kites fly in the air.

Play Soccer

It’s known as a super starter sport for kids. When kids play soccer with their friends or family, they may have fun and it can help them to be healthy.

1. Why is playing outdoors so important to kids?

A．To help them stay healthy and make friends.	B．To help them become smart.
C．To help them become weak.	D．To help them study skills.

2. What does the underlined word “further” mean in Chinese?

A．更好

B．更多

C．更远

D．更重

3. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．When kids do outdoor activities.	B．How kids ride bikes.
C．Where kids take a walk.	D．Some outdoor activities for kids.

【推荐2】When Sunday is over, the boring office may be the last place you think of, but the Apple Park in Cupertino, California may give you a different feeling.     

Apple Park is like a huge landed UFO, which covers an area of 708,000 square metres. The round four-storey main building has hundreds of rooms. It covers an area of up to 260,000 square metres. The outer walls are made up of huge pieces of glass. Many of them can be opened like the windows in your home, and the whole building can “breathe” like a human being. With this special ventilated system, it only needs to use air conditioners for three months of the year. There are 75,000 square metres of solar arrays on the roofs of the building. They provide electricity for the whole Park. The Apple Park building is a bright, comfortable and convenient place for all the 12,000 Apple people to work inside.   

Apple Park is not only a fantastic working place. There is a huge dining hall for all the — Apple people to have meals together at once. There is a four-storey cafe, a sports center and a l,000-seat theatre to offer relaxing services. There are 2,000 bicycle parking spaces, so people can ride their bikes to work. The company also provides l,000 bikes for Apple people to get around all over Apple Park. In the middle of the round building is a huge park. Over 9,000 trees, including many fruit trees, are planted to make it a mini forest. It’s an ideal place to make Apple people feel better and more energetic.

Apple Park is a gift for all the Apple people.

1. The main building of Apple Park is ________.

A．12,000 square metres	B．75,000 square metres
C．260,000 square metres	D．708,000 square metres

2. Apple Park gets electricity from its ________.

A．outer walls

B．solar arrays

C．rooms

D．trees

3. Why does Apple Park offer many services? ________

A．To keep Apple people busy.

B．To invite tourists to have fun there.

C．To make itself a better gift to Apple people.

D．To build itself a better place to enjoy nature.

4. Which of the following is TRUE? ________

A．There are over 9,000 fruit trees in the Park.

B．Apple people can do exercise in Apple Park.

C．Apple Park can “breathe” for three months of the year.

D．The outer walls of the main building are made of wood.

【推荐3】“The delivery man (送货员) has your food and is on his way.” This is a message you might get after you order food online. We know that delivery men bring your food to you. ________ That sounds interesting, doesn’t it?        

Now Baidu and Meituan are working together to develop self-driving technology to deliver food. They are going to make some self-driving cars. People will mainly use the self- driving cars to send group orders. For example, if a company orders food for its workers, a self- driving car will bring all of their orders to the company.

Online food ordering is developing rapidly in China. So far, 300 million users have used different apps to order food online. Some experts say that self-driving cars will be a revolution (革命) of the food delivery.        

Some people think there must be some problems about using self-driving cars to deliver food. For example, self-driving cars can drive well on flat roads, but can they drive well if the road is not flat? Some experts say that problems must be solved before using self-driving cars.

There will be self-driving delivery service soon, but it doesn’t mean that delivery men will lose their jobs. After all, self-driving delivery service cannot bring food to everyone in every city.

1. What are Baidu and Meituan working together for?

A．Making new kinds of cars.

B．Using a new kind of technology to deliver food.

C．Finding more and more delivery men to work for them.

D．Attracting more users to use their online food service.

2. Choose the best sentence to fill in the blank “________” in Paragraph 1.

A．Maybe there will be smart robots sending food to you in the future.

B．It’s pretty convenient because you don’t need to cook by yourself.

C．Can you imagine that self-driving cars will bring food to you in the near future?

D．Baidu and Meituan are planning to choose some people to be delivery men.

3. What does the underlined word “rapidly” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Successfully.

B．Quickly.

C．Quietly.

D．Comfortably.

4. In which part of a magazine can we read the passage?

A．The science world.

B．The school life.

C．The food safety.

D．The driving safety.

5. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Online food service in China	B．The future of delivering food.
C．The future of delivery men.	D．Advantages (优点) of self-driving cars.