【推荐1】Primary schools start to have labor education (劳动教育). In many primary schools, for example, some think that it is a useful skill for students, while others think it’s a waste of time.

Good cooking is an art form. The truth is that it’s much more than that. When talking about different foods or cultures and histories of dishes, students are connected to the world and learning history and culture in a new field. When learning cooking, students measure (称量), or find oil and water don’t usually mix, learning maths and science in practice.

The importance of failure in making food is as much as success. Li Mei, 11, wanted to make a cake on her own. But when taking her cake out (沮丧的) to find that the cake was hard and black. Her father told her when he was 13, he tried to make cakes, Li Mei found out what had gone wrong and succeeded in making one. Li Mei learned in the failure of cooking, and could be braver to face failures.

Apart from the practical skills, cooking builds character. By cooking, students put down their phones and work together with family members in the kitchen. By cooking, cooking is a way to teach kids some vital skills for the 21st century, such as creativity and teamwork.

1. What’s the structure of the passage?

A．	B．
C．	D．

2. What can you learn from the example of Li Mei?

A．Cooking can help people avoid failure.

B．There is no failure without success.

C．Failure is as important as success.

D．Cooking can make people braver.

3. What does the underlined word “vital” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Necessary.

B．Difficult.

C．Interesting.

D．Simple.

4. Which of the following is the best title?

A．Cooking a Waste of Time

B．Cooking—an Art Show

C．Cooking—More Than a Skill

D．Cooking—a Way to Make a Living

【推荐2】Studies show that language learning in babies is improved when parents speak more than a few simple words and use a wider vocabulary(词汇). Earlier research found that the style of speech used by parents to communicate with their baby could increase language development.

One such speaking style is known as "parentese". Research has shown that babies react (反应) better to this kind of language in the first months of life. Generally, "parentese" requires adults to speak in a higher voice and at a slower speed. The language is made easier to understand, while sentences are short and often repeated.

Can parents be taught good ways to improve their "parentese" skills? Patricia Kuhl, a professor of speech and hearing sciences, carried out a study on it. She says the purpose of the study was to find out whether a parent can be "trained" to create their own speaking style to improve language learning in children.

Naja Ferjan Ramirez helped lead the study. "Most parents know that the amount(数量) of language their child hears is important," Ferjan Ramrez said. "What we shared with them through training is that how they talk to their baby may matter even more."

For the study, parents were given a small recording device(设备), which they put inside a piece of their baby's clothing. All spoken communication from parents and the child was recorded. The recordings were made at three different periods of the child's life: when the child was six, ten and fourteen months old. The parents were divided into two groups: a control group and an intervention(干预) group. Those in the intervention group received training after their six and ten month recordings.

The study found that between the ages of six and fourteen months, trained parents increased the amount of speech directed to the child and their use of "parentese" by 15 percent. Parents in the control group showed less growth in those areas, about 7 percent.

1. What can parents do to improve their baby's language learning?

A．Communicate with their baby with a few simple words.

B．Communicate with their baby with a wider vocabulary.

C．Communicate with their baby using longer sentences.

D．Communicate with their baby in a gentle voice.

2. What can we learn about "parentese" from the text?

A．It means that adults talk with their babies in a lower voice.

B．It means that the language parents use becomes more difficult.

C．It means that adults talk with their babies more quickly.

D．It means that the sentences parents use are short.

3. According to Ferjan Ramirez, what do the researchers want parents to know about through training?

A．The importance of the amount of language their child hears.

B．The importance of the type of language their child understands.

C．The importance of the way parents talk to their children.

D．The importance of high and low voices when parents talk to children.

4. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．What the study needed.	B．How the study was carried out.
C．The reason why the study was carried out.	D．The advantages of the study.

5. What can be concluded(推断) from the study mentioned above?

A．Trained parents are more likely(可能的) to improve their children's language learning.

B．Six to fourteen months is the best time to improve children's language learning.

C．Parents in the control group used more "parentese" than in the intervention group.

D．Trained parents needed to use "parentese" for at least fourteen months.

【推荐3】Do you often get angry? Anger often makes us uncomfortable. Seeing our child’s anger can be especially   uncomfortable. In order to relieve (减轻) this feeling, parents often encourage children to “stop crying” or say things like “it’s nothing to cry about.” It just plants the seeds of unhealthy anger. The “stop crying” parents are just doing what they were taught by their own parents, who were probably taught that by their parents on and on. However, we should learn how to create healthy anger in our kids.

If a child never sees his or her parents express anger, he or she will never express anger, either. But if parents always express their anger loudly, their child may start to think of anger as something that is always frightening. They may be sacred to speak to parents again.

The first thing you can do to create healthy anger in your children is to practice creating healthy anger in yourself. Once you’d better at experiencing anger and expressing it in a healthy way, you’ll be able to set a good example for your kids.

Stopping kids from expressing their feelings is wrong. We need to raise them in an environment where it is safe to express feelings. Once you feel more comfortable with your own anger, you can teach your children why anger is a helpful feeling. When your kids express anger, help them examine what it is that has made them angry. Why did it make them angry? How did it do that? Then, you can teach them that those feelings are never wrong and our expressions of our feelings are within our control.

Anger is natural and normal, and it can be experienced and expressed in a healthy way.

1. Why do parents say “It’s nothing to cry about.” to their children?

A．To relieve their anger.

B．To encourage them to stop crying.

C．To make them uncomfortable.

D．To plant the seeds of unhealthy anger.

2. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A．Parents should get angry with their children.

B．Parents have a great effect on their children.

C．Expressing anger loudly is right, not wrong.

D．Children can express anger like their parents.

3. Parents should set a good example for children by ________.

A．raising them in a very safe environment

B．stopping them from expressing their anger

C．letting them know they are right or wrong

D．expressing their own anger in a healthy way

4. What does the underlined word “frightening” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Safe.

B．Simple.

C．Scary.

D．Polite.

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Parents should create healthy anger in their kids.

B．Parents should create healthy anger in themselves.

C．Anger often makes us and our children uncomfortable.

D．Children should never express their anger with parents.

【推荐1】Kangaroos live in Australia. They can’t walk. But they can jump. They can jump very fast. Baby kangaroos are very small — only three centimeters(厘米) long. They can’t jump or see. A young kangaroo is always in its mother’s pouch(育儿袋) for the first six months. They can see when they are nine weeks old. They can jump when they are eight months old.

Camels(骆驼) live in a desert. They can close their long noses to keep out the sand.

Camels have humps(驼峰). Humps do not carry water. They carry fat(脂肪). If a camel is hungry, its hump will get smaller. A thirsty camel can drink a lot of water. If it drinks a lot of water, it won’t drink again for over a week.

1. A young kangaroo is in its mother’s pouch for _______.

A．six months

B．eight months

C．nine weeks

D．six weeks

2. When the young kangaroos are nine weeks old, they can ______.

A．walk

B．run

C．see

D．jump

3. What does the underlined word "desert" mean in Chinese?

A．湿地

B．沙漠

C．森林

D．湖泊

4. Camels’ _______ can close and keep out the sand.

A．pouches

B．long noses

C．teeth

D．humps

5. There is ________ in a camel’s hump.

A．food

B．water

C．fat

D．meat

【推荐3】Day

Every morning when we wake up (醒来), it is a new day.   A new day starts (开始) at 0:00 in the morning and ends at 12:00 at midnight.

Week

Seven days make a week.   These seven days are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.   And after Sunday, it is Monday again (又)!

Month

There are twelve months! Usually, a month has 30 days, but some months are longer.   The long months are January, March, May, July, August, October and December.   They each have thirty-one days.   April, June, September and November each has thirty days.   February only has twenty-eight days or twenty-nine days.

Year

12 months make one year.   There are 365 days in a year, but some years have 366 days.

1. When does a day start?

A．At 1:00 in the morning.	B．At 12:00 at noon.
C．At 1:30 in the morning.	D．At 0:00 in the morning.

2. How many long months are there in a year?

A．Five.

B．Six.

C．Seven.

D．Eight.

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

A．交换

B．结束

C．进行

D．构成