【推荐1】Sitting on a chair all day in school can make anyone want to move around. So, more and more teachers are letting students have a ball. By sitting on exercise balls instead of chairs, teachers find students’ posture (姿势) and attention improve.

Dottie Pownall, a fifth-grade teacher in West Virginia, USA, has been using balls as chairs since December 2008. “The students love them,” she says. Pownall took a survey of her students. She found that 80% of the students thought sitting on the balls helped them pay more attention to what they were learning.

The teacher, Pisa Witt, felt so strongly about the use of balls as chairs, she started Witt Fitt. This company encourages the use of the balls. And the company educates not only teachers but also students on how to use them. “Our products are used in 24 states, three provinces in Canada, Puerto Rico (波多黎各) and Japan,” says Witt. “Research shows that sitting on the balls makes them sit up straighter. You can slouch (低头垂肩地坐) on a ball,” says Witt, “but it feels awful.” Because the students are moving, their blood (血液) increases. That carries more oxygen (氧气 to the brain (大脑), so the kids have more energy and can focus longer.

“Furthermore, they’re fun.” says Pownali.

1. What will happen if a student sits on a chair all day in school? The student will ________.

A．pay more attention to his lessons	B．be fun
C．like to move around	D．sit up straighter

2. How long has Dottie Pownall used the balls?

A．About fifteen years.	B．Only one year.
C．In 2008.	D．Since he was a fifth-grade teacher.

3. In how many countries are the balls used as the students’ chairs?

A．Four.

B．Three.

C．Two.

D．One.

4. Teachers choose balls instead of chairs because sitting on balls helps the kids ________.

A．improve the students’ posture and attention	B．slouch on the chairs
C．have fun	D．Both A and C are correct answers.

5. Which is better for kids to study in class, sitting on a chair or sitting on a ball?

A．Sitting on a chair.	B．Sitting on a ball.
C．They are the same.	D．We don’t know.

【推荐2】阅读短文，从文后所给的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有一个多余的选项。

Many people drive their cars to school or work now.     1     Sometimes, it’s not easy for you to get to school or work on time (准时). Then you want to take a plane to school or work.     2     Yes!

Four people in Germany (德国) make a new plane—Lilium Jet.     3     Many people think it looks funny. The nice “egg” can take two people and “run” about three hundred kilometers an hour.

The Lilium Jet is not very big. So it doesn’t need an airport. A small place is OK.

Some people also call the Lilium Jet “a flying car”. It’s not difficult for you to learn to drive it.     4     Maybe you can buy one in 2030 if you like it. Your trip to school or work must be great.

A．It doesn’t look like a plane but an egg.

B．So there are lots of cars on the streets.

C．You can drive it like driving a car.

D．Can your dream come true?

E．Every family will have a small jet.

【推荐3】Humans’ Greatest Achievements

The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, but the humans have lived on it for just 200,000 years. In that short time, we have achieved some amazing things.

    1     The list is almost endless. The invention of the airplane has changed our lives. The discovery of antibiotics( 抗生素 ) has saved the lives of millions of people. Can you imagine living without electricity? What about the printing press(印刷术) ? Without the printing press, you wouldn’t be reading this. In the last 50 years, there have been great achievements in communication, such as radio, TV, computers, the Internet. and smartphones(智能手机).     2       

What about the arts? The arts have brought pleasure to many people, but are the Beatles and Bach more important than antibiotics?     3    

Finally, we must not forget humans’ early achievements.     4     We can’t imagine modern life without cooked food and cars.

What are humans’ greatest achievements? To answer the question, we need to decide what we mean by “great”.     5     Or is it just something that makes us say “Wow”, like the Great Wall? What do you think?

根据短文内容，将正确的选项还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺（每个选项只能用一次）。

A．Is it something that makes us rich or happy or saves lives.

B．They used fire for cooking and heating and invented the wheel.

C．Many of humans’ great achievements are in science and technology.

D．And is Mickey Mouse as important an achievement as going to space?

E．We could probably live without them, but life wouldn’t be as interesting.

【推荐1】When throwing away rubbish,do you know which bin it should go into? Have you ever noticed the differently-colored bins on the street.

Some of you might not be able to answer this question. However, it's quite important to know how to sort(分类)your waste. Not knowing how to sort waste can make it harder to save energy and protect the environment. If you don't sort your waste, all of it will go to a landfill and be buried( 埋葬)together. These landfills can take up large areas of ground that could be used for planting trees.The electronic waste you throw away, such as batteries(电池), can pollute the land and groundwater. Other piece of rubbish, like the metal part of a pen, can be used to make into other things if they are properly recycled(循环利用).

With this in mind, our school is now asking every student to form a habit of sorting the waste. Here in our school yard we lay four different colors of rubbish bins for different kinds of rubbish. The red is for harmful waste which includes things like medicine, batteries and so on. The blue is for waste like paper, metal, glass and other things that can be recycled. The green is for kitchen waste which is known as wet waste, such as food and soup left after having meals. The yellow is for other dry waste like plastic bags. Dry waste is not wet, recyclable or harmful.

Now that you know this, perhaps you can do your part to protect the environment and encourage others to sort their waste.

1. A landfill is a place________.

A．to plant trees

B．to bury waste

C．to save enery

D．to sort waste

2. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us________.

A．the importance of sorting waste	B．the use of batteries
C．the ways of burying wasle	D．the value of landfills

3. Which bin should glass be put in? ________

A．The red bin

B．The blue bin.

C．The green

D．The yellow bin

4. Used plastic bags belong to________.

A．wet waste

B．recyclable waste

C．dry waste

D．electronic waste

5. What is the purpose(目的)to the passage? ________

A．To ask people to recycle waste.	B．To introduce differently-colored bins.
C．To tell us the pollution caused by waste.	D．To encourage people to sort waste

【推荐2】There is good and bad news about the number of trees on our planet. The good news is that there are seven times more trees than we thought. A few years ago scientists believed that the world had 400 billion (十亿) trees. However, a new study from Yale University shows that there are around three trillion (万亿) trees. That’s a three followed by 12 zeroes. That means there are about 420 trees for everyone in the world today.

The bad news is that thousands of years ago, the earth had six trillion trees. Humans cut in half the number of trees on the planet. Take Europe for example, it was a large forest thousands of years ago. Now much of it is cities and towns. And another 15 billion trees are lost each year.

Dr. Thomas Crowther is one of the scientists from Yale University. He said the new number of trees from their study would change nothing. “The study only shows we need to do more to protect (保护) our forests,” he said.

1. The passage is about a study of ________ in the world.

A．the kind of trees	B．the number of trees
C．the kind of animals	D．the number of animals

2. ________ is one trillion.

A．10,000,000,000,000	B．1,000,000,000,000
C．10,000,000,000	D．1,000,000,000

3. In the past, we thought everyone had about ________ trees.

A．400

B．12

C．60

D．420

4. What can we learn from Dr. Thomas Crowther?

A．We still have enough trees to cut down.

B．We can find more trees in the future.

C．We should do more to protect forests.

D．We should stop cutting trees down now.

【推荐3】Earth Helpers

Goodwillie School is in Michigan, the US. It's a green school where the kids love the earth and work together to help the environment. They're all great earth helpers. Here are what they're doing to help to save the earth.

    1    

Boys and girls do not waste things. They often use their things again and again. For example, some students' schoolbags are made of old clothes. Some use the water to clean the floor after finishing washing clothes.

    2    

In school, the kids help to collect different kinds of rubbish and find something useful. During class, students find ways to make some interesting things out of some useful waste.

    3    

On weekends, kids in the school join groups to clean the river or the park. Sometimes they put up signs on the street and ask more people to do the same things to save the earth.

    4    

After class, they visit the park or the zoo. There they learn about plants and animals. They discuss the beauties of nature, or talk about what they see and how to help plants and animals.

    5    

A green school is good for the Earth. Green schools use less light than other schools. Green schools can save money. So we should try to change our school into a green one.

A．Care about plants and animals

B．Go outside to ask more people to do the same.

C．Try to set up a green school.

D．Reduce (减少).

E．Recycle (回收).

F．Reuse (再使用).

【推荐1】When you want to go somewhere, you can easily find your way by using a map app on your smartphone. Your smartphone “knows” where you are and can tell you where to go. This is possible with the help of satellite navigation (satnav) systems.

A satnav system uses groups of satellites (卫星) to find out where people are. It sends information to a receiver, such as a smartphone. The more satellites a system has, the more accurate (精确的) it is. On June 23, the last satellite of China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System was sent into space.

Beidou, China’s own satnav system, is one of four global navigation systems, along with US’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo. On July 31, 2020, Beidou started providing services for the world. More than 120 countries are now using Beidou. Since 2000, China has sent 59 Beidou satellites.

Beidou can be used in areas that include farming, public services and business. This summer, people along the Yangtze River used Beidou-based device to monitor (监测) floodwaters.

根据文章内容，判断句子正（T）、误（F）。
1. It’s not easy for you to find your way by using a map app on your smartphone.
2. Satellite navigation (satnav) systems make it possible to tell you where you are.
3. More satellites help to make the information more accurate.
4. Beidou is not China’s own satnav system.
5. Beidou is one of four global navigation systems, and it is used in farming, business and so on.

【推荐2】Ancient (古代的) China produced many types of beautiful works of art. Among them, calligraphy (书法), poetry (诗歌) and painting were the most famous. Often they would be put together in art. These became important starting with the Song dynasty.

Calligraphy is the art of handwriting. In the old time the Chinese considered writing as an important form of art. Calligraphers (书法家) would practice for years to learn to write perfectly, but with style. Each of over 40, 000 characters needed to be written correctly. And each stroke (笔画) in a character had to be written in a certain order.

Poetry was also an important form of art. Great poets were famous all over the country, but all educated people were expected to write poetry. During the Tang dynasty poetry was so important that writing poetry was part of the examinations to become a civil servant (文官) and work for the government.

Chinese painting was often connected with calligraphy. It is one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world. The most traditional way of Chinese painting is known as “national” or “native painting (国画)”, which is quite different from Western painting. People can draw mountains, homes, birds, trees and water on it.

1. Calligraphers needed to write over ________ characters correctly in the old time.

A．10, 000

B．20, 000

C．40, 000

2. What was part of the civil service (文官) examinations during the Tang dynasty?

A．Painting.

B．Calligraphy.

C．Writing poetry.

3. The underlined word “it” refers to “________”.

A．Calligraphy

B．Chinese painting

C．Western painting

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Calligraphy, poetry and painting were the most famous works of art.

B．Poetry was more important than calligraphy.

C．Chinese painting was often connected with calligraphy.

5. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Chinese art.

B．Chinese examinations.

C．Chinese history.

【推荐3】Here are new four clubs in our school because of Double Reduction Policy (“双减”政策) this term. Welcome to join them.

	Paper Cutting Club Paper cutting has been around for over 1,500 years. But long before that, when paper wasn't invented, Chinese people already used similar skills to make cutouts (剪切图) on leaves, leather and silk. It reached the top during the Qing Dynasty (1636—1912). Do you like it? So please come!
	Chinese Knots Club Chinese knots, begun in Tang and Song Dynasty (618-1279), have the meanings of reunion (团聚), friendliness, warm, marriage, love etc. And each shape has its own meaning. People can use ropes of different colors to make a Chinese knot, but they usually choose red because it means good luck. Want to know more? Join us!
	Beijing Opera Club Beijing Opera is one of the Chinese traditional drama art forms and it is the largest Chinese opera form. Having a history of more than 200 years, it is developed from many other dramas, mostly from the drama “Huiban”. It was especially popular in southern part of China during the 18th century. Interested in it? Please come and watch!
	Shadow Puppet Plays Club The shadow puppet play has a long history. It dated from the Western Han Dynasty, prevailed (盛行) in the Tang and Qing Dynasty and spread to West Asia and Europe during the Yuan Dynasty. It tells us about historical stories, passing on customs and traditional culture. Want to know more? Come, please!

1. Which part of a Chinese knot mainly shows its different meanings?

A．The colour.

B．The shape.

C．The rope.

D．The size.

2. What do we know about Beijing Opera?

A．It has a history of less than 200 years.	B．It is developed from the drama “Huiban”.
C．It is unpopular in northern part of China.	D．It is a Chinese traditional drama art form.

3. What's the main purpose (目的) of the four short paragraphs above?

A．To make a short introduction to Chinese history.

B．To give some details (细节) about traditional Chinese culture.

C．To explain why people like traditional Chinese culture.

D．To encourage some students to take part in their activities.