【推荐1】Perhaps you’ve seen the English letters “WC” in your city. They show public toilets. But do you know it is far from elegant (优雅的) English? In fact, foreigners from English-speaking countries rarely use the letters.
Workers in our city are changing “WC” signs all over the city. The government is spending much money changing all the bad English on signs and restaurant menus. Many other places in China are following our steps.
“WC, or water closet, is old-fashioned English. It sounds dirty to me,” says Charlie Shifflet, a young man from the US. The old sign will become “Gents/Men” and “Ladies/Women”.
“I see lots of poor English in everyday life, and not only on signs,” he says. “I know what they mean. But they are Chinglish(中式英语), not real English. For example, when someone says to me ‘My hometown is Henan Province’, I know he should say: ‘My hometown is in Henan Province’. ‘Hometown’ is a smaller place in a province.” The common mistakes he picked up include “Not Entry”, which should be “No Entry”, “Direction of Airport” should be changed to “To the Airport”. And it is “room rate”, not “room price”. And remember to “Keep off the grass”, rather than “Care of the green”.
1. What does the writer think of the use of “WC”?

A．He doesn’t think it means water closet.

B．He doesn’t think it old-fashioned English.

C．He doesn’t think it proper（正确的）for a sign.

D．He thinks it elegant English.

2. Charlie Shifflet ____________.

A．is a Chinese living in America

B．thinks Chinese people are sometimes using incorrect English

C．likes to hear or see Chinglish

D．sometimes uses Chinglish

3. The last paragraph is about ____________.

A．why there are so many Chinglish signs

B．examples of Chinglish

C．where Chinglish signs are

D．who uses Chinglish signs

【推荐2】A Chinese song could be heard in a classroom in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen（也门）, where around 20 Chinese—learning children in the Languages Model School were singing.

Teacher Mohammed al—Ansi, who learnt the language and received a university degree in China. told the importance of learning the Chinese language. “It is the language of the future and it is necessary for all people to get advantages from the great development in China.”, he said.

Like many other private schools in Yemen, the Chinese language is a basic part of the Languages Model School’s courses, where the students study Chinese as actively as math and science subjects. They like the simple and interesting language.

Al—Ansi expects that Yemen and China will work together to set up centers and schools for teaching the Chinese language in Yemen so that many young Yemenis can learn. “I hope that a branch of the Confucius Institute（孔子学院） could be built in Yemen to teach the language and spread the Chinese culture and language.”, he said.

Many Yemenis see that learning a foreign language may open a way of hope to a new life, to get a job, to make more money and to pave the way to a bright future in the country that has experienced war for years.

1. From the passage, we can learn that Mohammed al—Ansi _________.

A．has a private language school

B．has got a university degree in Yemen

C．thinks it important and necessary to study Chinese

D．is good at singing Chinese songs

2. How do the students in the Languages Model School like Chinese?

A．Difficult but important.	B．Easy and interesting.
C．Nice but nothing.	D．Difficult and bored.

3. What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “pave”?

A．强化

B．打造

C．铺（路）

D．撤销

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．More and more Yemenis are going to China to get a better job.

B．Many Yemenis try to learn Chinese well to stop war in their country.

C．Learning Chinese well can’t make young Yemenis rich and successful.

D．Many young Yemenis see learning Chinese as a good chance for a better future.

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

A．A New Way of Hope.	B．China and Yemen.
C．Mohammed al—Ansi.	D．A Private School.

【推荐1】Dogs are known for their sense of smell. They can find missing people and things. Now a study shows that the animal can even find bladder cancer（膀胱癌）.

Cancer cells can produce chemicals with unusual smells. Scientists think dogs have the ability to smell these smells, even in very small amounts, in urine （尿）.

For example, a dog showed great interest in the growth of its owner’s legs. The man was later found to have skin cancer. Carolyn Willis and some scientists trained different kinds of dogs for the experiment. The study used urine collected from bladder cancer patients （病人）, from people with other diseases and from healthy people. Each dog was tested 8 times. In each test there were 7 examples for the dog to smell. The dog should show the one from a bladder cancer patient by lying down next to it.

Their results later appeared on the British Medical Journal. In all, 36 bladder cancer patients and 108 other people attended. During the training, all the dogs even found cancer in a person who had been tested healthy before the study. Carolyn Willis said dogs could help scientists find the chemicals produced by bladder cancer. The information could then be used to develop machines to test for the chemicals. The team also plans to use dogs to help find other kinds of cancer.

1. Why did the writer give the detailed experiment in the third paragraph?

A．To introduce the first paragraph.	B．To support the second paragraph.
C．To teach us to do some experiments.	D．To let us know the reason of the experiment.

2. What would the dog do when it found the right urine?

A．It would make some noises.	B．It would lie down next to the urine.
C．It would take the urine to the scientists.	D．It would lie down next to its owner’s feet.

3. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Dogs can smell cancer.	B．Dogs can be used in experiments.
C．Dogs have a good sense of smell.	D．Dogs can help people become healthy.

4. Who may be most interested in reading the passage?

A．Dog owners.

B．Singers.

C．Pet lovers.

D．Doctors.

【推荐2】We are often told to pay attention to what our mothers tell us. Most of us enjoy listening to our mothers speak. Scientists have found that compared to other people’s voices, our brains greatly prefer the voices of our own mothers.

Scientists at Stanford University, US, recently studied this. The scientists examined 24 children aged 7 to 12 and asked their mothers as well as two mothers whose children were not studied to record three nonsense words. They scanned (扫描) children’s brains while they were listening to different sounds, including their mothers’ voices. They found that 97 percent of the time, children could recognize(认出)their mothers’ voices at once.

Hearing their mothers’ voices makes children’s brains more active. We usually just use one part of our brain to deal with sounds when we hear something. But when we hear our mothers’ voices, many parts of the brain start to work as well.

Why do we respond (反应)so strongly to our mothers’ voices? It starts even before we’re born. When children are still inside their mothers or have just been born, they hear their mothers talking. This makes babies feel comfortable and teaches them language and social skills, even though they are still very young. The babies learn to recognize their mothers’ voices as a rewarding(有益的) sound. Later, when this sound is heard again, more attention is paid to it.

Some sounds are necessary for our survival (生存) or bring us pleasure. These sounds are recognized by our brains as rewarding sounds. Most human voices are not recognized in this way, since we hear them so often. But mothers’ voices are different. They bring us a lot of comfort.

1. How many mothers were invited to enter the study?

A．12.

B．24.

C．26.

D．48.

2. What will happen when children hear their mothers’ voices?

A．Many parts of their brains become active.

B．They will need time to recognize the voices.

C．Their language skills start to improve.

D．They will remember some bedtime stories.

3. According to Paragraph 4, why do children pay more attention to their mothers’ voices?

A．Because they can recognize their voices quickly.

B．Because their voices make them more comfortable.

C．Because they can get a gift for doing so.

D．Because they can get love from their mothers.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Mothers prefer the sounds from their children

B．97% of the children could recognize their mothers’ voice at once.

C．When we hear our mothers’ voice, many parts of the brain start to work as well

D．Babies can’t recognize their mothers’ voice most of the time.

5. What is the story mainly about?

A．Why we should listen carefully to our mothers.

B．Why we prefer to hear our mothers’ voices.

C．How we recognize our mothers’ voices.

D．How we respond to different kinds of sounds.