【推荐1】Are you looking for something new to eat? Check out one of these hot new restaurants.

Cheesy Bites A restaurant that only serves cheese, but hundreds of cheeses from many countries and in lots of different forms. The lunches are reasonably (合理地) priced but dinner can be expensive. Lovely food and a very beautiful dining room, looking like an amazing flower garden.	The Chocolate Box The owner of this small restaurant used to cook all kinds of food, but then she realized she preferred desserts to anything else. If you want meat or fish, don’t come here. They only do desserts! Chocolate lovers will be excited by so many kinds of chocolate cakes.
Last Days of the Raj An Indian restaurant in the city center is perfect for eating before or after a movie or a show. The most popular dish is chicken cooked with mild (轻微的) medium or hot spices (辣的香料). For brave customers, it is super hot!	Musical Chairs This new restaurant has live music shows every night except Sunday, and excellent food to go with them. Great fish dishes, steak (牛排) and pizza. Monday is a classic rock night. See you there!

1. What do we know about Cheesy Bites?

A．It only serves cheese.

B．Its dinner can be cheap.

C．Its customers can eat in a garden.

D．It can serve hundreds of customers a day.

2. The owner of The Chocolate Box ________.

A．doesn’t eat fish or meat

B．runs one more restaurant

C．loves doing desserts best

D．doesn’t come to the restaurant often

3. Last Days of the Raj is well-known for its ________.

A．pizza

B．fish

C．steak

D．chicken

4. Musical Chairs provides live music shows ________ nights a week.

A．four

B．five

C．six

D．seven

5. We can find the material in the part of ________ in a newspaper.

A．health	B．local life
C．sports	D．world news

【推荐2】After learning Unit 6, Zhang Peng checked how well he mastered listening, speaking, reading and writing by himself. His English teacher would give him some advice according to his self-check.

Self-check Unit 6 When was it invented? Name: Zhang Peng        Score: 25/32
Listening	4	3	2	1
★I can listen for the useful information in the listening tasks.	√
★I can take some notes while listening.	√
Speaking	4	3	2	1
★I can talk about the history of inventions.		√
★I can use the passive voice correctly.		√
Reading	4	3	2	1
★I can find out the main ideas of the passages quickly.	√
★I can draw mind-maps according to the passages.		√
Writing	4	3	2	1
★I can write a description of an invention with the help of the mind-map.			√
★I can use the passive voice correctly in the writing.			√
Comments 28~32 Excellent!       24~27 Very Good!       15~23 Not bad!       Below 14 Work harder!

1. Which skill is Zhang Peng really good at from the chart?

A．Listening.

B．Speaking.

C．Reading.

2. What comment can Zhang Peng get in Unit 6?

A．Excellent!

B．Very Good!

C．Not bad!

3. What would Zhang Peng’s teacher most probably ask him to do?

A．Draw more mind-maps.

B．Practice writing more often.

C．Memorize more English words.

【推荐3】This is today’s weather report for four big cities in the world.

City	Temperature	Weather
Shanghai	2℃~8℃
New York	2℃~7℃
London	5℃~10℃
Toronto	-9℃~3℃

1. Mary lives in New York. What does she need most if she goes outside today?

A．A book.

B．A toy.

C．A computer.

D．An umbrella.

2. It’s ________ in London today.

A．rainy

B．windy

C．cloudy

D．snowy

3. Which city is the coldest today?

A．Shanghai.

B．New York.

C．London.

D．Toronto.

【推荐1】The French artist Georges Seurat created many paintings in his short lifetime, among which A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte is the most famous one. People are attracted by this painting for three reasons.

First, Seurat created this painting in a new way called “pointillism (点彩画法)”, which used small points of paint. By putting two colors next to each other, people could see a third color.

Second, this painting is full of details (细节) about French life in the 1880s. There are several women wearing nice clothes and carrying parasols (遮阳伞). One woman is even walking a monkey. Others are enjoying themselves dancing and singing. Many of the men are dressed up with jackets and hats. And we can see dogs running around and children playing. There are boats on the water. It looks like a perfect summer day.

Third, this painting makes people feel very calm. Even though a park like this could be a noisy place, Seurat makes it feel peaceful. He paints people sitting quietly in the shade (阴凉处). There is a girl smelling the flowers. She looks so beautiful. People in the painting are relaxing themselves on the cool, green grass and enjoying a beautiful day.

It took Seurat two years to finish this beautiful painting. People are thankful that he completed it. It is a very peculiar painting because of Seurat’s use of pointillism, his attention to details, and the peaceful feeling he created. In a word, there are so many people who like this painting.

1. Why were people interested in his painting at first?

A．Many girls were picking flowers.

B．Many children were playing on a boat.

C．Seurat drew the picture with three different colors.

D．People had never seen paintings in this style before.

2. Which of the following picture is mentioned in the passage?

A．

B．

C．

D．

3. Which of the following can be seen in this painting?
①Some old men.   ②Boats on the water.   ③Several women wearing beautiful clothes.   ④Some dogs playing around a tree.   ⑤Some people sitting in the shade.

A．①②③

B．①③④

C．①③⑤

D．②③⑤

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．It mainly talks about pointillism used in the painting.

B．It mainly talks about the French artist Georges Seurat.

C．It mainly talks about how the writer feels about the painting.

D．It mainly talks about Georges’ painting style and why people like his painting.