【推荐1】These days, we see a lot of shopping festivals. For Chinese shoppers, Singles’ Day is a big one, and it’s on November 11th．In the United States, Black Friday is the most well-known one.

Black Friday always falls on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday. On this day, stores give special deals (特别折扣). Shoppers wake up very early. They wait in line (队伍) at stores before they open, but they might start to wait in line as early as 2 or 3a. m. Sometimes there are too many people. They are not able to get inside the store. Black Friday is not the only shopping festival in the US. Another similar (类似的) holiday is Cyber (网络的) Monday. This day always falls on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Personally, I don’t like any of these holidays. They place too much importance on buying things. I like Buy Nothing Day. The “holiday” falls on the same day as Black Friday. It is an international holiday that is against the trend (趋势) of over-consumption (消费过度).

What do you think about these holidays?

1. On Black Friday, people usually__________ .

A．get up early and wait in front of stores

B．stay at home to keep away from bad luck

C．stay up overnight to shop online

D．get together to celebrate the holiday

2. What does the writer think of these shopping holidays?

A．He doesn’t care about these holidays.

B．He hopes to celebrate these holidays on another day

C．He likes these holidays and celebrates them every year

D．He thinks they can cause the problem of over-consumption.

3. How many holidays are mentioned (提及) in the story?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six

【推荐2】Recently, the headmaster at No. 1 Middle School did a survey (调查) about how the students of Grade Eight spend their weekends. 600 eighth-grade students gave their answers. At the same time, they asked these students’ parents what they want their children to do at the weekend. Here are the results.

Different choices have different reasons for the children. For example, the students who choose to go back home to study believe that studying at home helps them relax and work better. And outdoor-activity lovers think that taking exercise is a wonderful way to refresh (使恢复精力的) themselves so that they can try to study at school. And students living far away from school want to stay at school to save every minute to study. For some parents, grades are the most important, but some parents think that students should have time to relax themselves when they are free.

根据短文和图表 (Diagram) 内容，选择最佳答案。
1. The headmaster at No. 1 Middle School asked ______ questions.

A．parents and teachers	B．students and their parents
C．teachers and their students	D．doctors and their patients

2. ______ eighth-grade students would like to take outdoor activities.

A．12

B．90

C．108

D．390

3. ______ of the parents want their eighth-grade children to stay at home.

A．11%

B．18%

C．40%

D．31%

4. Some students choose to stay at school to study because ______.

A．their home is far from school	B．they can’t study at home
C．they want to study together with friends	D．they don’t like their parents

5. We can learn ______ from the passage.

A．there are 600 student in No. 1 Middle School

B．teachers want their students to relax at the weekend

C．most parents want their children to do sports with them

D．13% of the parents want their children to do outdoor activities with them

【推荐1】In the 13th century, the famous Italian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China. During his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things. One of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In Western countries, people didn't use paper money until 15th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 7th century.

A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago. He put these pieces of paper together and made them in a book.

Now paper comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. So how can we save paper? We can use both of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes. We can choose drinks in bottles instead of those in paper packets (小包). We can also use handkerchiefs (手帕) and not paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give you a paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.

Everyone can help to save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. We should do it now before it is too late.

1. When Marco Polo was in China, he ________.

A．discovered Cai Lun invented paper

B．learned to make paper

C．discovered Chinese people used paper money

2. People in Western countries first used paper money in the ________ century.

A．17th

B．15th

C．7th

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The Chinese people used paper money later than the people in Western countries.

B．A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper money about two thousand years ago.

C．If we keep on wasting paper, we will have no paper to use.

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Saving Paper

B．The History of Paper

C．Cotton Handkerchiefs Back Again

【推荐2】There are four seasons in a year. They are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Spring is a beautiful season. It is from March to May. In spring, the trees turn green, and the flowers come out. Everything looks new.

Summer is a happy season. It is from June to August. In summer, we can swim and eat a lot of ice cream. Of course, we have a long holiday, summer holiday! At that time, we can join the summer camp. That’s great.

Autumn is a colourful season. It is from September to November. In autumn, the leaves on the trees turn yellow. Sometimes they are red. The colours are beautiful.

Winter is a cold season. It is from December to February. In winter, it begins to snow in most places of China. Snow is white, and everything looks white. The children like playing with snow.

1. How many seasons are there in a year?

A．Six.

B．Five.

C．Four.

D．Two

2. What do the underlined words “come out” mean in Chinese?

A．开放

B．鲜艳

C．出版

D．出来

3. In ________, everything looks new.

A．winter

B．autumn

C．summer

D．spring

4. Winter is from ________ in China.

A．September to November

B．March to May

C．December to February

D．January to March

5. Which is NOT right?

A．It is often cold in winter.	B．The leaves on the trees turn green in autumn.
C．We have a long holiday in summer.	D．Summer comes after spring.

【推荐3】

The construction（建设）of high-speed railways in China began with the building of the Qinhuangdao-Shenyang High-Speed Railway（HSR）in 1999. Now the high-speed rail network in China is the largest in the world. So far, there have been about 1,700 kilometers of HSR in service, along with trains of an average（平均）speed of 220 km/h.

Now Chinese government plans to spend $300 million building the largest and fastest HSR system in the world by 2022. It’s said that the trains can run 400 km/h and create new business for China and other countries through the Belt and Road.

It’s predicted that the HSR network in China will reach 30,000 kilometers and it will be like a grid, which is mainly made up of 8 long-distance high-speed rail lines: four north-south HSR lines and four east-west HSR lines. Except（除了）for the Qingdao-Taiyuan HSR, all HSR lines of the rail grid are longer than 1,000 kilometers.

Feng Hao, an expert, says “Many markets along the Belt and Road, especially in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern European countries, are planning to build HSR lines.”

1. China is going to build the largest and fastest HSR system in the world by ________.

A．2020

B．2021

C．2022

2. Which picture can best describe the underlined word “grid”?

A．

B．

C．

3. _______ is shorter than 1,000 kilometers.

A．The Qingdao-Taiyuan HSR

B．The Beijing-Shanghai HSR

C．The Qinhuangdao-Shenyang HSR

4. Where can we most probably read the passage?

A．In a newspaper.

B．In a storybook.

C．In a picture book.