【推荐3】Kids’ Summer Jobs

We are looking for people to join us as a camp counselor at Cuya Outdoor School. We connect children to science through nature. Our camp counselors are energetic and supportive, and more importantly, caring team members. This is an eight -hour everyday job in the ten-day-long program during the summer.

Hours:9:30a. m. —5:30p. m.            Pay: $ 10 per hour

LEGO Engineering Instructor

Do you enjoy taking things apart and then putting them back together? If so, then tins may be your dream job! We are looking for smart and creative LEGO engineering instructors.

Hours:2:00p.m. —5:00p. m.            Pay: $ 15 per hour

Teacher’s Aide

We are looking for part-time teacher’s aides for our Inspire Kids Pre-school in Newburgh. Teacher’s aides need to prepare materials, help children finish activities and create a safe environment.

Hourts:8:00 a.m. —11:00a. m.            Pay:$ 100 per week

Summer Care Giver

I’m looking for someone careful and patient to watch my kids when I’m working from 11: 00a. m. to 3: 00p. m, I have t 7-year old daughter, and a 5-year old son. I am also asking you to prepare snacks and clean up the rooms.

Pay:$ 150 per week

1. How much can a camp counselor mike in total?

A．$10

B．$100

C．$150

D．$800

2. To be a LEGO engineering instructor, one has to be_____.

A．caring

B．creative

C．energetic

D．patient

3. What does a teacher’s aide need to do?

A．Help children do activities.	B．Teach children science.
C．Play LEGO with children.	D．Prepare snacks for children.

4. What summer job can Jerry apply for if he is free from 10:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m.?

A．Teacher’s aide.	B．Summer care giver.
C．Camp counselor.	D．LEGO engineering instructor.

5. Where can you probably find this text?

A．On a website.

B．In a dictionary.

C．In a guidebook.

D．In a picture book.

【推荐1】Helen Keller was a very bright, beautiful girl. At the age of six months, she could already say a few words. But when she was two years old, she got badly ill. She could not see or hear, and soon she could not even talk. Since then Helen had to fight for what she wanted. When she was six, her parents invited a teacher for her. With the help of the teacher, she began to see and hear the world around her through her hands. She learned to read books for the blind. The teacher took Helen for long walks, and told her about all the beautiful sights (风景). Helen touched flowers, climbed the trees and smelled a rain storm before it came. She also learned how to swim and ride a horse. After she grew up, she became a famous writer in America. Her first and most famous book is The Story of My Life. Her story has brought new hope to many blind and deaf people. It has given light to those in darkness and encouraged them to live and work.

1. How old was Helen Keller when she got badly ill?

A．Two years old.

B．Three years old.

C．Four years old.

D．Five years old.

2. Who helped Helen Keller to begin to see and hear the world through her hands?

A．Her mom.

B．Her dad.

C．Her teacher.

D．Her friend.

3. When Helen Keller grew up, what did she become?

A．A teacher.

B．A doctor.

C．A writer.

D．An actor.

4. According to the passage, which statement is right?

A．Helen Keller could climb the trees with the help of her teacher.

B．Helen Keller was an ugly girl.

C．Helen Keller’s story hasn’t given light to people in darkness.

D．We can learn nothing from Helen Keller.

【推荐2】Dear friend, do you know the boy in the picture? He is Wang Yuan, a member of the Chinese boy band, TFBOYS. Do you want to know more about him? Follow me, please.

Wang Yuan was born on November 8th, 2000 in Chongqing. His English name is Ray. He is a senior high school student now. He is good at singing, dancing and playing the piano. He can also write songs alone. He and two other boys formed the boy band TFBOYS in 2013. They are very popular with the young girls and boys in China now.

On February 10th, 2017, Wang Yuan made a short speech on good quality education（ 优质教育） in English at the United Nations in front of 500 people from around the world. It’s great. As for middle school students, we should learn from Wang Yuan, and put our hearts into what we are doing to make a difference in our daily lives.

1. Wang Yuan was born ________.

A．on November 8th, 2013	B．on November 18th, 2001
C．on November 8th, 2000	D．on November 8th, 2013

2. Wang Yuan’s English name is ________.

A．Jay

B．Ray

C．Lay

D．Kay

3. Wang Yuan is a talented boy, he can ________, sing and play the piano.

A．play the drums

B．drive

C．paint

D．dance

4. Wang Yuan made a short speech in ________ in 2017.

A．Chongqing

B．Beijing

C．Shanghai

D．the United Nations

5. What can you learn from the passage?

A．Working hard can make a difference.	B．Being a star can make a lot of money.
C．Wang Yuan sings well but can't write songs.	D．Four people are in the band.

【推荐3】Vicky is a pretty young woman. She comes from a rich and famous family. She has almost everything. The problem is that everyone else in Vicky’s family is busy and they have no time to be with her. She is very lonely.

So Vicky spends a lot of time on her QQ. She uses the name Linda and has made a lot of friends and they chat with each other quite often.

Last year Vicky made a very special friend called David on QQ. He lived in England. They both like rock music and dance. It always took them hours to talk happily on QQ. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself. He was a tall, good looking young man with a big smile.

When Vicky’s father was going on a business trip to England, Vicky asked him to let her go with him. She wanted to give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favourite rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in England, she found that her special friend was a twelve year old boy named Jim!

1. Vicky spends a lot of her time on QQ because she is ________.

A．Rich

B．famous

C．young

D．lonely

2. What’s Vicky’s name on QQ?

A．Vicky.

B．David.

C．Linda.

D．Jim.

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

A．Don’t believe or go to meet those you get to know on QQ so easily.

B．People always use their real names on QQ.

C．You can go to meet those you get to know on QQ.

D．People often tell their real information to others on QQ.

【推荐1】Hi, I am Simon. This is my school. It is very beautiful and modern. My classroom is very bright and big.
There are a lot of nice students in my class. Daniel is my best friend. He is good at math. At lunchtime, we often sit under the tree to chat with each other. Peter is my English teacher and he is very good. I like him best and so I like English best.
Our school starts at 8:25 a.m. and is over at 3:45 p.m. Before the first class, we do morning exercises. All the students have lunch at school. Before school is over, we are all on the playground to have activities.
I like my school very much.
1. How is Simon’s school?

A．It is big and bright.	B．It is modern but small.
C．It is big and beautiful.	D．It is modern and beautiful.

2. What is Daniel good at?

A．Math

B．English

C．Chinese

D．PE

3. Where do Daniel and Simon often chat at lunchtime?

A．In the classroom.	B．On the playground.
C．In the dining hall.	D．Under the tree.

4. When does Simon’s school start?

A．At 8:00.

B．At 8:10.

C．At 8:20.

D．At 8:25.

5. Which is TRUE about Simon’s school?

A．Simon’s school is over at 4:00 p.m.

B．In Simon’s school, students do morning exercises first.

C．Some students go home for lunch in Simon’s school.

D．Peter is Simon’s Math teacher.

【推荐2】Our village carpenter（木匠）, John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill（账单）for the job.   

My wife said to me quietly, “That’s his sixth cup of tea today.” But she said in a loud voice, “It’s a beautiful table, dear, isn’t it?”

“I’ll decide about when I see the bill.” I said.   

John laughed and gave me his bill for the work. I read:

One dining table: 10 November, 2007

Cost of wood（木头费用）: $17. 00

Paint（油漆）: $1. 50

Work, 8 hour（ $1. 00 an hour）: $ 8. 00

Total（合计）: $ 36. 50

When I was looking at the bill, John said, “It’s been a fine day, hasn’t it? Quite sunny.”

“Yes,” I said. “I’m glad it’s only the 10th of November.”

“Me too.” Said John. “You wait—it’ll be a lot colder by the end of the month.”

“Yes. Colder-and more expensive! Dining tables will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won’t they, John?”

John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? I gave his bill back to him.   

“If it isn’t too much trouble, John,” I said, “please add it up again. You can forget the date.”

I paid him $26. 50 and he was not happy to get it.

1. Why did John talk about the weather when the writer was looking at the bill? Because ________.

A．he didn’t want the writer to read the bill carefully

B．it was really a fine day

C．he wanted the writer to check（核对）the bill carefully

D．he wanted to tell the writer what the weather was like

2. Why did the writer say that dining tables would be $20 more expensive on November 30th? Because ________.

A．it was difficult to make dining tables in cold weather

B．the paint would be more expensive

C．the cost of wood would be more expensive

D．he thought John would almost certainly add the date to the cost of the dining table

3. The writer thought John would ask for ________ if he made a dining table on the last day of November.

A．$20. 00

B．$46. 50

C．$56. 50

D．$26. 50

4. When the writer gave him the money, John was not happy because he didn’t get ________.

A．what he should get for his work	B．much more money for his work
C．the money easily	D．money as much as he wanted

5. From the story we know that ________.

A．John made a mistake in the bill

B．John wanted to get more money for his work

C．John wrote out the bill before the writer got home

D．John still wanted to get $ 36. 50 for his work in the end

【推荐3】Lily was a French girl who moved to America with her family. She left school at the age of 16. She had to work to support her family. Her English was very poor. She didn't have the courage to ask for a job.

One day,Lily saw a sign at a company. "Help wanted." the sign said. She walked up to the office and knocked on the door. She was met by the office manager,Margaret Costello. In her broken English. Lily told her she was interested in the secretarial position. Margaret knew something wasn't right,but decided to give the girl a chance.

Margaret sat her down at a typewriter and said,"Lily, let's see how good you really are." She let Lily type a letter and then left. Lily looked at the clock: it was 11:40 a.m. Everyone would leave for lunch at noon. She thought that she could slip away in the crowd. But she thought she should at least try to type the letter. She got through one line. It had five words and she had made four mistakes.

She pulled the paper out and threw it away. The clock now showed 11:45. Lily tried again. She got through a full paragraph,but she still had made many mistakes. Again. she pulled out the paper,threw it away and started over. This time,she typed the whole letter,but there were still many mistakes. She looked at the clock:11:55. Just then,Margaret walked in. She read the letter and then said. "Lily, you did a good job." Lily was surprised. With those simple words of encouragement, her confidence began to grow. She thought,"Well,if she thinks it's good,it must be good. I think I'll stay."

Lily did stay at the company for 51 years—all because someone gave her courage when she knocked on the door.

1. Lily left school because _________.

A．her family was poor	B．her English was good
C．she was 16 years old	D．she was from America

2. What job did Lily want to get in the company?

A．A secretary.

B．A manager.

C．A director.

D．A gatekeeper.

3. When did Lily finish typing the whole letter?

A．At 11:40.

B．At 11:45.

C．At 1l:50.

D．At 11:55.

4. Which of the following best describes Margaret?

A．Well-dressed.

B．Kind-hearted.

C．Hard-working.

D．Good-looking.

5. What can be learned from the text?

A．Failure is the mother of success.	B．Mistakes are often the best teachers.
C．Encouragement makes confidence.	D．Without confidence, there is no friendship.

【推荐1】She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 110 pounds, but Miss Bessie was a towering presence in the classroom. She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf and think for a few stupid days that I liked it. From 1938 to 1942, she taught me English, history—and a lot more than I realized.

I shall never forget the day she scolded (批评) me into reading Beowulf. “But Miss Bessie," I complained, “I ain't much interested in it.”

Her large brown eyes became sharp. “Boy," she said, “how dare you say ‘ain't' to me! I've taught you better than that."

“Miss Bessie," I said, “I'm trying to join the football team, and if I go around saying "it isn't' and "they aren't,' the guys are gonna laugh me off the team.”

“Boy,” she replied, “you'll play football because you have guts (勇气). But do you know what really takes guts? Refusing to lower your standards to those of the crowd. It takes guts to say you've got to live and be somebody fifty years after all the football games are over."

I started saying “it isn't" and “they aren't," and I still joined the team without losing my friends' respect.

Negroes, as we were called then, were not allowed in the town library, except to sweep floors or clean tables. But with the help of some nice whites, Miss Bessie kept getting books out of the white library. That is how she introduced me to the Bronte’s, Byron and Keats. “If you don't read, you can't write, and if you can't write, you might as well stop dreaming," Miss Bessie once told me.

So I read whatever Miss Bessie told me to, and tried to remember the things she insisted that I store away. It could be embarrassing to be unprepared when Miss Bessie said, “Get up and tell the class who Frances Perkins is and what you think about her." Forty-five years later, I can still recite her “truths to live by".

Miss Bessie noticed things that had nothing to do with schoolwork, but were essential to a youngster's development. Once a few classmates made fun of my worn-out hand-me-down overcoat. As I was leaving school, Miss Bessie patted me on the back of that old overcoat and said, “Carl, never worry about what you don't have. Just make the most of what you do have — a brain."

No child can get all the necessary support at home, and millions of poor children get no support at all. This is what makes a wise, educated, warm-hearted teacher like Miss Bessie so essential to the minds, hearts and souls of this country's children.

1. The underlined words "towering presence” in the first paragraph means _________.

A．Miss Bessie was strong enough to influence her students

B．Miss Bessie was watching the students all the time

C．the students thought she was tall and heavy

D．the students felt nervous in front of her

2. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Carl's friends came from poor families.

B．Carl hated to read Beowulf in public.

C．Miss Bessie wanted Carl to be a better man.

D．Miss Bessie didn't want Carl to play football.

3. Miss Bessie asked Carl to read a lot because_________.

A．his parents were too poor to afford books

B．he was not allowed into the library

C．the whites didn't want the blacks to read

D．she expected him to have a goal in life

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A．Dreams Go with Education	B．An Unforgettable Lesson
C．Unforgettable Miss Bessie	D．Reading Makes a Full Man

【推荐2】In December or early January, almost everyone wants to plan for a wonderful new year! We plan vacations, and we hope that we can achieve our goals. We make New Year’s resolutions and set big goals! If you carry out(实施) your plan successfully, you can improve your life or break your bad habits. Here are some tips for New Year’s resolutions:

·Think about the resolution you made last year. Have you succeeded? If not, why? Find out the reason and try this year.

·Do not make too many resolutions at a time. You had better go with one at a time.

·Let it be for the whole year not a day.

·Set goals that you need to do for the whole year, instead of a few days. Once you have made up your mind, try your best to achieve them.

1. When do we usually make New Year’s resolutions?

A．Always on January 1st.	B．Only in December.
C．At any time of the year.	D．At the end or the beginning of a year.

2. Why do we make New Year’s resolutions?

A．Because they’re exciting.	B．Because we have to do that.
C．Because they’re relaxing.	D．Because we hope to improve our life.

3. How should we make New Year’s resolutions?

A．We should make new resolutions every day.

B．We should make lots of resolutions at the same time.

C．We should make a resolution for the whole year.

D．We should plan the resolution that we can do in a very short time.

4. What does the underlined phrase instead of mean in Chinese?

A．可是

B．而不是

C．只是

D．但是

5. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．When to Make New Year’s Resolutions	B．Try Your Best in the Whole Year
C．Remember to Make A Plan on New Year’s Day	D．How to Make New Year’s Resolutions