【推荐1】       For many Chinese people, potatoes are considered as a kind of vegetable. But in the future, this will no longer be the case（情况）. Potatoes will be added to China’s list of food products, like rice, wheat and corn. And potato starch（淀粉） will be mixed into bread, steamed buns（馒头）and noodles to suit（适合） Chinese people’s tastes and eating habits.

In fact, potato is more than just a main food of diet in America. In many ways, it’s an integral（不可或缺的）part of the American pop culture.

“Mashed Potato Dance” began in 1962. The name of the dance came from the song, Mashed Potato Time. American R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp sang this song. The move(舞步) is something like Twist dance style.

“Hot Potato!” is an action puzzle video game released（发行）in 2001. In the game the player must drive a bus and clear the road of alien potato begin at the same time. The potato beings are either red or blue. When two like-coloured potatoes touch each other, they disappear. Over the years, this game has been welcomed by many players, especially children.

“Mr Potato Head” is an American toy invented by George Lerner in 1949. The toy is made up of a plastic potato model and plastic parts like hands, feet, ears and a mouth. In 1952, this toy became the first toy advertised on television.

阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的表格，每空一词。

Potatoes in China	Many Chinese people consider potatoes as a kind of vegetable. In the future, bread, steamed buns and noodles with some popato starch will     1     at dinner table as main food.
Potatoes in America	A kind of main food of diet
	An integral part of pop culture	Mashed Potato Dance	Its name came from the song , Mashed Potato Time,     2     by Dee Dee sharp. The move of the dance is something like the Twist dance style.
		Hot Patoto	The game has been played since the     3     of the 21st century. The players have to obey the game rules while playing. The game is popular     4     children.
		Mr Potato Head	The     5     of the toy was George Lerner. The toy is made up of a plastic potato model and some plastic parts. It was the first toy advertised on TV.

【推荐2】请阅读下面非连续性文本, 按要求完成所给任务, 并将答案写在答题卡相应的位置上。

In the past, working people in Britain only had holidays on holy（神圣的）days: Sundays, Christmas and Easter. Now most people have about four weeks holiday every year plus public holidays (also called "bank holidays"）.

British people usually have their holidays in summer, in July or August. Many working people take a two-week holiday during the summer. School children are on holiday from about the end of July to the start of September.

The holiday break in winter or in spring is also becoming more popular in the UK. In winter some people go skiing in Europe, and in spring, visits to capital cities such as Paris, Amsterdam or Barcelona are popular.

The most popular holiday locations for British people include Spain, France, Greece and the USA. Lots of people buy a package holiday. It includes flights（机票）and a hotel or an apartment. Cheap flights to warm places mean that many British people are able to spend two weeks a year relaxing in the sun abroad.

Flights and package holidays are much cheaper during school term time and the British government（政府）is worried that some young people are missing school to go on holiday. Parents who take their children on holiday during term time can now pay a fine of up to 100 pounds.

1. How long do most people in Britain have for holiday every year?
2. Please translate the underlined（划线的）sentence into Chinese.
3. In the passage, the underlined word "it" refers to
4. What will happen to parents if they take their children on holiday during term time?
5. How do you usually spend your summer holiday? Why?

【推荐3】阅读短文，并按要求完成下面小题。

The Danes（丹麦人）are among the happiest people in the world. Denmark is neither the richest country nor the biggest one. What makes its millions of people so happy?

Denmark is widely known for its health care and education. Besides, Danes’ lifestyle is also a reason why they are so happy.

Have you heard of the word “hygge”? In English, the word means coziness（舒适）. In fact, many things can bring people coziness, such as having a tasty meal with family, talking with friends in the sunshine on weekends, enjoying classical music or having a movie night. All these things can be called hygge, which is Danes’ everyday life.

Danes also have a healthy habit. They like riding bikes. In Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, riding bikes often takes up about 50 percent of their time on the way to school or to work. Riding bikes is not only helpful in reducing pollution, but also good for people’s health. It is reported that just 30 minutes of riding bikes every day can add an average of one to two years to a person’s life expectancy（预期寿命）.

Trust is also important to Danes. They even trust people they don’t know. In Aarhus, the second biggest city of Denmark, we can see people buy flowers when the owner isn’t there. People put money in an empty flowerpot.

“Danes are happy with what they have,” said Kaare Christensen, a university teacher.

1题完成句子；2，3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第四段的主题句；5题将文中划线句子译成汉语。
1. Danes are so happy because of their health care, education and ________.
2. What things can bring people coziness according to the passage?（至少写出两点）
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3. How do people pay for the flowers when the owner isn’t there?
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4. ______________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，根据其内容完成后面各项任务。

Bella and her family live in Africa. They are the tallest animals on land. They have long necks and legs. They are gentle and polite. They never fight with other companies. Bella is thirteen years old now. And she lives on grass.

Joy comes from Africa. She and her family are the biggest animals on land. They live together. They can play with water. ①And they can carry things for people. Their ivory is rare and expensive, so some people hunt (捕猎) Joy and her family for it. She lives on grass and leaves.

Bob lives in South Africa. He is nineteen years old. He and his family often find food at night. Bob is 3.1 meters long. His tail is one meter long. He is brown. ②它以肉为生。

Channy is black and white. It is from China. They have been in the world at least 800 years. They are cute animals. They live in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. And they live on bamboo. There are only ③more than 1,000 left in China. We must save them.

1. 根据短文内容，将下列图片与相关信息匹配，将字母代号写在横线上。
A.      B.      C.     D.
Bella ________   Joy ________   Bob ________ Channy ________
2. 请把文中①处划线英语句子译为汉语。
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3. 请把文中②处划线汉语句子译为英语。
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4. Why do some people hunt Joy and her family?
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5. 用一个词替换划线③处的短语。
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【推荐2】任务型阅读理解：根据短文内容，用简洁的句子或短语完成下列表格。

This is a photo of Kangkang’s family. There are 8 people in his family. Look! The young woman in a red dress is his mother. She is a nurse in a hospital. The man in a black coat is his father.

He teaches English in NO.1 High School. The young man in a blue shirt is his uncle. He drives a bus in our city(城市). The young woman in a yellow T-shirt is his aunt. She works in an office. They have a daughter. Her name is Rose, she is only four years old. His grandparents look after Rose at home. The boy in a white shirt is Kangkang. He is a student in No.1 High School. He has a happy family. He likes them very much.

Family members	Colthes	Jobs	Workplaces
mother	1	a nurse	a hospital
father	a black coat	a teacher	2
uncle	a blue shirt	3
4	a yellow T-shirt	an office worker	an office
Kangkang	5	a student

【推荐3】Wilderness survival (荒野求生) skills were necessary in the past, but now, people hardly use them. Teachers at the Deep Green Bush-School in New Zealand think this might not be right. What if one day people have to live a primitive (原始的) life? So, the school hardly teaches reading, writing or maths classes. Instead, students go out to learn how to find food, cook and learn about plants and animals.

Teachers and students at the school believe that if you can survive in the wild, you can survive anywhere. But are these wilderness survival skills really important? After all, we now live in a modern world.

In today’s world, people need to learn many other skills to be successful, such as how to find a job, drive a car or speak a foreign language. It seems that most of us don’t learn survival skills because we don’t need them anymore.

In fact, survival skills change along with time and the development of society. And it’s useful for people to have many skills. So why not learn some wilderness survival skills? At least, you will learn more about nature and yourself.

1. What skills do people hardly use now?（不超过5个词）
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2. Why do people learn many other skills in the modern world?（不超过10个词）
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3. What does the writer want us to do?（不超过10个词）
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【推荐1】阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

You see people in movies celebrating a white Christmas in England or the United States. But Christmas in Australia is different.

The holiday, celebrated on Dec 25, comes at the hottest time of the year in Australia. The temperature is usually about 30°C in most cities and can even be over 40°C. There is certainly no white Christmas in Australia.

Because it is so hot, the tradition is to have a lunch outside and to swim in the pool or beach. Most people have a one-week holiday during this time, so they will travel to meet their family for Christmas lunch. Christmas lunch is usually a big meal of ham, turkey, salad and fresh seafood. (3) Family members all cook something different to bring to the big meal. I always enjoy Christmas lunch because there are lots of good cooks in the family. One year my aunt even made a delicious gingerbread house (姜饼屋) that we ate for dessert.

Children get presents from “Santa Claus” and are always excited to play with them. (4) It is a fun time to play or swim in the pool with the other members of your family.

The sport of cricket (板球) is very popular in Australia and another tradition is to play a game of cricket in your backyard. I always enjoyed playing with my uncle and cousins when I was growing up.

So Australia might not have a white Christmas. But it is still a very exciting and fun time of the year.

请务必将1-5小题的答案写在答题卡的相应位置！
(一) 根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. Why is there no white Christmas in Australia?
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2. What sports are mentioned in this passage?
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（二）将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
3. _____________________________
4. _____________________________
（三）请给短文拟一个适当的题目。
5. _____________________________

【推荐2】读下面有关愚人节的文章，在各小题后做简单的笔记。

April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.

One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.

Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said yes, he replied, “April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.

One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.

1. What many people do on April Fool’s Day:
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2. The reason why the supermarket sold out spaghetti on April Fool’s Day:
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3. The thing that the TV show said the special water could do:
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4. The time Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars landing on the earth:
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5. The reason why so many people believed Orson Welles:
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【推荐3】根据短文内容回答问题。

More and more young people from China begin to celebrate Father’s Day. They send fathers presents, or invite them for a nice dinner. But do you know how Father’s Day started?

While Mrs. Dodd, from America, was listening to a talk about Mother’s Day in a church in 1909, she had an idea of having Father’s Day to honor her father, William Smart. Mr. Smart was a soldier. His wife died when she gave birth to her sixth child. Mr. Smart had to raise his six children alone. They lived a hard life. After Mrs. Dodd grew up, she wanted to thank for her father for what he had done. She wrote a letter to church and asked for the third Sunday in June to be Father’s Day. The church agreed with her.

The first Father’s Day was celebrated on June, 19th, 1910 in Washington. Children made special desserts and did other things to make their fathers happy. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father’s Day. People all over the country began to celebrate Father’s Day. Finally, in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made the third Sunday in June Father’s Day.

This year, Father’s Day is on June 16^th. What will you do for your father?

1. Where was Mrs. Dodd from?
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2. How many children did Mr. Smart have?
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3. Do more and more young people from China begin to celebrate Father’s Day?
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4. Who supported the idea of a national Father’s Day in 1924?
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5. When is Father’s Day in 2019?
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