【推荐2】Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse. He said, “Do come and see me at my house in the country.” So the City mouse went. The City mouse said, “This food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city.”

The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat, they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried, “Run! Run! The cat is coming!” They ran away quickly and hid.

After some time they came out. When they came out, the Country mouse said, “I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy than to be rich and afraid.”

1. What does the City mouse think of the Country mouse’s life?
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2. How did the mice escape(逃脱) being caught by the cat?
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3. If you were a Country mouse, would you like to live in the city? Why?
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【推荐3】Butterflies at Risk

What's causing problems for these beautiful insects?

Something is harming the monarchs. One of the largest butterflies in North America, monarchs are famous for their long migrations（迁徙）covering thousands of miles. Yet the number of monarchs is dropping. Bad weather conditions, putting the butterfly population in danger. Some butterfly experts say that the number of monarch butterflies has been cut by 25 percent. In recent years, unusually cold temperatures and rain have caused monarchs to die in large numbers. These conditions have also caused new butterflies not to hatch（孵化）.

Will they return?

Monarchs are very sensitive（敏感的）to change because of the long distances they travel. They cover thousands of miles each year, flying between their winter homes in Mexico or Southern California and their summer homes in the Midwest. Other animals also migrate. And many travel much farther. A bird called the Arctic tern goes round trip between the Arctic and the Antarctic every year. Like the Arctic tern, a type of gray whale has a long migration. It travels 12,400 miles from Baia California in Mexico to waters off Alaska and back. The longest migration ever recorded is by the sooty shearwater. Every year this bird flies 40, 000 miles from New Zealand to the northern part of the Pacific Ocean to find food.

The monarchs don't travel as far as animals like the Arctic tern and the sooty shearwater, but their journey isn't safe. Every year as many as 100 million monarch butterflies leave Mexico for the first leg of the migration. It's hard to imagine that such a large number might be in danger. Yet many scientists tell us that the danger is very real.

In Mexico people are destroying the natural environment. They cut down the trees where millions of monarchs. spend the winter and use chemicals to kill the milkweed, the monarch's favourite food. Monarchs spend the winter in Mexico and California. In both places, development is destroying these winter homes. Unless steps are taken to protect their habitats, the monarchs' migration could become a thing of the past.

"If we lose the whole migration, we lose one of the nation's most magnificent phenomena, " said Chip Taylor, a professor at the University of Kansas. These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity（生物多样性）.

1. Are monarch butterflies famous for their long migrations?
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2. What are putting the butterfly population in danger?
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3. Where are monarchs' winter homes?
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4. In Paragraph 2, what animal has the longest migration?
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5. What can people do to protect monarch butterflies?
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【推荐1】根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

When most people think of “beautiful”, they think of movie stars. I used to be one of them. But now my opinion of beauty has completely changed.

I was with my parents and little brothers at the McDonald’s (麦当劳). Since there are only tables with four chairs, I’m always the one to sit at a nearby table by myself. Usually, I’m a little unhappy, but not this time.

A woman was sitting at a table, two tables away. She was young and pretty, not the traditional beauty, but a warm one. She had thick dark-brown hair and wore common clothes, but none of those was why she was so beautiful to me.

Her children spread the ice-cream all over their clothes, and she just kissed them and that’s all. She didn’t get angry. The love and warmth this woman generated (产生) completely changed my view of beauty. She generated warmth like the sun, and her children were little planets around her.

She made a difference to her children’s lives. Instead of making them feel bad about themselves, she made them feel great about everything. That is true beauty: to make a positive difference to another’s life through warmth and caring.

1. Where did the writer meet the mother?
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2. What did the mother look like?
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3. After children spread the ice-cream all over their clothes, what did the mother do?
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4. Why was the mother so beautiful to the writer?
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5. In the writer’s opinion, who are the beautiful people?
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【推荐2】根据短文内容，完成图表中所缺信息。

I am Jimmy. I have two nice photos. The first is a photo of my family. These are my grandparents. My grandfather’s name is Henry. My grandmother is Betty. They are 80 now. They have two sons and a daughter. My father is Jack. Allan is his brother and Gina is his sister.

My good friends and I are in the next photo. The boys are Frank and Tony. They aren’t in my school. They are from Beijing No. 10 Middle School. The girl in red is Molly and she is 13. Her family name is Smith. My family name is Smith, too. Well, Molly is my cousin—my uncle’s daughter. We are classmates.

Jimmy’s     1
The number of people in the photos	2
In the first photo	Jimmy’s grandparents Henry and Betty Jimmy’s     3     Gina and his     4     Allan Jimmy’s father Jack
In the next photo	Jimmy’s     5    : Frank and Tony Jimmy and his     6     Molly

【推荐3】阅读短文，根据短文内容回答文后的问题，并将答案填在答题卡(纸)的相应位置。

Dale is in the classroom now, but he can’t find his schoolbag. Where is it ? Is it lost ? No! It is in his home. He doesn’t bring (带来) it to school. He calls his sister Sally and asks her to take (把……带去) his school things (东西) to school. Here are his school things.

His schoolbag is on the chair. His pencil box is under the chair. His notebook is on the desk. His dictionary is on the bed. His pencil isn’t in the pencil box. It’s on the sofa.

Oh, Sally, don’t forget (忘记) to take his baseball. Where is his baseball? Oh, it’s under the table.

1. Where is Dale now?
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2. What does Dale ask Sally to take to school?
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3. Where is Dale’s pencil box?
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4. What’s on the sofa?
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5. Is Dale’s baseball under the chair?
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