【推荐1】Do you know Gu Ailing, a sports player? She is also known as “Frog Princess”.

Gu’s father is American and her mother is from Beijing. On September 3, 2003, Gu was born in San Francisco, the US. Though Gu grew up in America, she often calls herself “Chinese Girl” and in 2019, she became a Chinese citizen ( 国 民 ). Amazing culture, beautiful cities, and delicious food make her love this wonderful country.

Gu’s mother was a ski trainer. Because of her mother, Gu liked skiing very much. When she was 3 years old, she started to learn about skiing and fell in love with it. And in 2011, she started to learn freestyle skiing. By 15, she had won many gold medals (金牌) in all kinds of games. In 2021, Gu became the first free skier to win two golds at the FIS Freeski World Championships.

As time went by, her eager to compete (竞争) for China grew stronger. Then in 2019, her dream came true. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she won two gold medals and a silver one.

Gu is a clever student with excellent grades. She made full use of her free time to finish all her subjects in senior high school. She did more things in 12 hours than most people can do in 16 or 18 hours in a day. The hard work finally paid off (回报).   In December, 2020, she successfully got the chance to study at Stanford University with excellent grades.

For Gu, skiing is not about winning, but about doing “impossible things” in many people’s opinion through thousands of hours of hard work.

1. Which is the right event order about Gu Ailing?
① She got into Stanford University.
② She began to learn freestyle skiing.
③ She became a Chinese citizen.
④ She took part in the 2022 Winter Olympics.
⑤ She won two golds at the FIS Freeski World Championship.

A．①②③⑤④	B．③①⑤②④
C．②③①⑤④	D．①②③④⑤

2. What do the underlined words “her dream” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Winning gold medals.

B．Competing for China.

C．Studying at Stanford University.

D．Becoming the youngest Olympic champion.

3. What’s the main reason for Gu Ailing’s success?

A．Her skills at skiing.	B．Her family’s support.
C．Her good luck.	D．Her hard work.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．The successful Winter Olympics.

B．Gu Ailing and her family life.

C．Gu Ailing—a rising sports star.

D．Gu Ailing’s school life.

【推荐2】① Sometimes, I wasted a lot of time doing foolish things. I tried to make a canoe from a tree trunk (树干). I chopped down a huge tree which took me thirty-four days. It took a month to shape it into a boat and another three months to make it hollow (空心的), I was pleased to see that it was large enough to carry twenty men. I could easily take all my things with me.

② The canoe was only one hundred metres from the water, but I could not move it. It was too heavy. I thought I could dig a canal (运河) to the boat. I later worked out that it would take ten tears to dig this canal! This was too long, I thought. “I should have thought of this before I started.”   ③

④ I thought how happy I would be if I could run away from the island. When I realized that I could not move the boat and get it into the water, I changed my mind. I had a very nice home. I had more than enough food. I also thought that it might be dangerous to go to the land that I had seen from the other side of the island. There were probably savage people there that might kill me and even eat me. Perhaps they were cannibals (食人族). I knew that cannibals lived in this part of the world. I decided that it was probably better to stay on the island. At least I was safe there.

1. How long did Robinson spend finishing the canoe? ________

A．Thirty-four days.

B．A month.

C．Three months.

D．More than five months.

2. Robinson thought he could ________ to put the canoe into the water.

A．move it by hand	B．dig a canal
C．work out the length of the canoe	D．make a special tool

3. It’s better to put “While working on the boat, I always thought about one thing.” in ________.

A．①

B．②

C．③

D．④

4. From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________.

A．Robinson would continue digging a canal

B．Robinson would try to make another boat

C．Robinson would probably stay on the island for a period of time

D．Robinson would go to the land where savage people lived

【推荐3】

Mrs Brown is very fat (胖).

“Don’t eat meat or cakes,” her doctor says to her.

“I’m going to stop her eating them, doctor,” her husband (丈夫) says.

The next morning, Mrs Brown makes a nice cake, and her husband eats half of it. After he goes out, Mrs Brown cuts (切) a very small piece of the cake and eats it. It is very good. She cuts a bigger piece and eats it. In a few minutes she finishes the cake. “My husband is going to be very angry (生气),” she says. “What am I going to do?”

She makes another cake very quickly, eats half of that, and leaves half on the table.

Her husband comes back later. He sees the half of the cake on the table and he is very happy.

1. The doctor tells Mrs Brown not to eat meat or cakes because ________.

A．Mrs Brown likes them

B．meat and cakes can make her fatter

C．Mr Brown tells the doctor to say so

D．meat and cakes are not good food

2. The next morning Mrs Brown makes a cake for ________.

A．her husband	B．her children
C．her sister	D．the doctor

3. Mr Brown eats ________ that morning.

A．one cake	B．half cakes
C．half a cake	D．many cakes

4. Mrs Brown makes another cake because ________.

A．she is good at making cakes

B．her husband likes cakes

C．she wants to eat more cakes

D．if her husband knows she eats the half of the cake, he will be angry

5. Why is Mr Brown very happy when he sees the half of the cake on the table? Because ________.

A．he is angry

B．Mrs Brown likes cakes very much

C．the cake is nice and delicious

D．he thinks Mrs Brown begins to stop eating cakes

【推荐2】When Brody Roybal was a baby, he didn’t have legs. But that didn’t make him feel sad or stop him from trying any sports. He tried different kinds of sports. When he tried sled hockey (雪橇曲棍球) at the age of 7, he found his favorite hobby.

He is now 16 years old and a student in high school in Chicago. Roybal joined a sled hockey team. By the age of 12, Roybal was very good and he started playing in an adult (成人) team. This was a big challenge because it’s much harder. Now Roybal is the youngest U.S. Paralympics (残奥会) player. He’s a member of the sled hockey team in his county. O’Connor, an old player, says, “Roybal is very good.” Everybody dreams of going to the Olympic Games and winning the game, O’Connor says. “That’s something that I couldn’t do, but Roybal can. He is lucky enough to go to the next Olympics.”

It’s true that when God closes a door, he opens a window for you.

1. What’s the problem with Roybal?

A．He has no legs.

B．He can’t see.

C．He has no arms.

2. Roybal began playing in the adult team when he was ________.

A．7

B．12

C．16

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

A．挑战

B．奖励

C．机遇

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Roybal started playing sled hockey when he was 9.

B．O’Connor can only take part in the Olympics once.

C．O’Connor thinks Roybal is very good and lucky.

5. What’s the best title for this passage?

A．A Best Sled Hockey Team.

B．Different Kinds of Sports.

C．A Special Sled Hockey Player.

【推荐3】Jane was from a small village in South Africa. Her family was poor and noodles were their only food. Her parents couldn’t afford to pay the electricity bill, so she had to study by candle light.

What was worse, to live on, her parents moved to a faraway village with other four children. As for Jane, she didn’t want to give up learning and she dreamed of entering a famous university. She stuck to (坚守) living alone in her village.

After Jane’s parents left, she lived a difficult life. Having no place to live in, the homeless girl had to sleep on the back seat of the school bus. Luckily, Mrs. Brown, a school bus driver, learnt about Jane’s situation and invited Jane to live with her family. Soon, Jane found a job in her school. She helped in the school kitchen from 6:00 am to 7:40 am before the first school bell rang. She also swept floor and picked up rubbish in the afternoons. With the money she got from the work, she paid for her education. And she stayed up late in the evenings studying for all kinds of exams day after day.

Jane’s hard work made a difference to her life. She finished high school in Cape Town and was accepted by Harvard, one of the most famous universities in the world, with full scholarship (奖学金). The 18-year-old girl surprised the world.

1. Why did Jane stick to living alone in the village?

A．She could eat enough food in the village.	B．She had to pay the electricity bill herself.
C．She didn’t want to give up her dream.	D．She didn’t want to leave her friends.

2. According to the passage, which is NOT right?

A．Mrs. Brown helped Jane find a good job on the bus.

B．Jane was invited to live with the school driver’s family.

C．Jane paid for her education with the money she got from the work.

D．Jane was accepted by Harvard when she was 18 years old.

3. What have we learnt from the passage?

A．Harvard has changed Jane’s life.	B．Any success is depended on one’s effort.
C．Jane’s success belongs to the bus driver.	D．A girl born in a poor family is easier to succeed.