【推荐2】Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world. It is popular among people, especially among children. Many people choose it as a birthday gift. When a child gets a box of chocolate as a gift, he may feel very happy.

Chocolate tastes nice. People eat chocolate candy, chocolate cake, and chocolate cookies. They also drink hot chocolate.

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans(可可豆). Here are some interesting things about cocoa beans.

In the past，the Mayas and the Aztecs used cocoa beans as money because they were small，easy to carry，and not easy to find. A turkey cost ninety cocoa beans and a small rabbit cost thirty cocoa beans. They also cooked the beans and   mixed(混合)them with water. Sometimes they added corn or hot pepper. They did not add sugar. The drink was very expensive. Only rich people could afford it.

1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned(提到) in the passage?

A．Chocolate candy.	B．Chocolate cake.
C．Chocolate cookies.	D．Chocolate ice cream.

2. If a person wanted to buy two turkeys and three rabbits，he needed to pay        for them.

A．120 cocoa beans	B．240 cocoa beans
C．270 cocoa beans	D．360 cocoa beans

3. When people cooked the beans，they added some things EXCEPT          .

A．corn

B．hot pepper

C．sugar

D．water

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

A．The chocolate is not popular among children.

B．People never drink hot chocolate.

C．The Mayas and the Aztecs added sugar to the beans.

D．The Mayas and the Aztecs mixed the beans with water.

【推荐3】Chinese noodles have a long history. They were first mentioned in the Eastern Han dynasty, over 1,900 years ago. At that time, noodles were called “cakes”. They were “cakes” that were boiled in water.

From the beginning of the Easten Han dynasty to the Qing dynasty, there were written records about noodles. “Mian” became the name of noodles in the Song dynasty. Before that,there was no specific name for this kind of food.

There are all kinds of noodles, such as cold noodles, warm noodles and fried noodles. There are also all kinds of noodle-making methods（方法）, such as brushing. pressing, rolling and pulling.

China is where all noodles originated（起源）, including the noodles, such as spaghetti （意大利面条）, that we think came from other countries. In the Yuan dynasty, Marco Polo came to China. He learned to make noodles, and then taught the method when he went back to his country. In 1912, the traditional Chinese method of noodle making was brought to Japan. Japanese noodles were first called “Dragon Noodles”, meaning food eaten by the Chinese—the descendants（后代） of the Dragon.

Among all Chinese noodles, the most special type may be Yi Noodles （伊府面）. They were created by a chef in the Qing dynasty. Yi Noodles are made in both southern and northern China, but Fujian and Jiangxi Provinces are most famous for making Yi Noodles. Yi Noodles can be served dry or with soup. Since Yi Noodles are similar to modern instant noodles, they are considered to be the father of modern instant noodles.

1. In which dynasty did “Mian” become the name of noodles?

A．Eastern Han.

B．Tang.

C．Song.

D．Yuan.

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．There are only two kinds of methods of noodle-making

B．Marco Polo came to China in the Yuan dynasty.

C．Noodles were not boiled in water in the Eastern Han dynasty.

D．Japanese noodles are more famous than Chinese noodles.

3. From the fourth paragraph, what can we learn?

A．There were no written records of noodles until the Yuan dynasty.

B．In ancient China, only poor people ate noodles.

C．Chinese noodles came from Italy.

D．It is believed that the Chinese are descendants of the Dragon.

4. Yi Noodles ________.

A．are not special	B．were created by a person in the Yuan dynasty
C．are similar to modern instant noodles	D．are only made and eaten in the south of China

5. What would be the best title for the text?

A．The Culture of Chinese Noodles.	B．The Legend of Instant Noodles.
C．The Methods of Noodle-making.	D．The History of Yi Noodles.

【推荐1】New Payment Methods for Online Shopping in China

Payment Ways	Alipay	Tenpay	Yeepay	WeChat pay
Appearing time	Dec. 12th, 2004	Sept. 9th, 2005	Aug. 8th, 2003	Jan. 21st, 2011
Companies	Taobao	Tencent	Yeepay	Tencent
Description	A transfer（中转）station（a third account（账号）between sellers and buyers）			Buyers’ money goes directly to the sellers.
Ways	Through computers or mobile phones.			Mobile phones.
The number of cooperative banks	180	5	9	11
The number of users	30000000	3000000	100000	30000000

1. ________ is put into use earliest.

A．Alipay

B．Tenpay

C．Yeepay

2. ________ are from the same payment service company.

A．Tenpay and WeChat pay.

B．Yeepay and WeChat pay.

C．Alipay and Tenpay.

3. We can use WeChat pay to pay for online shopping through ________.

A．computers

B．mobile phones

C．both computers and mobile phones

【推荐3】It is easy for us to tell who our family members are, but do plants recognize(识别) their own family? Some do, scientists say, according to a report by Science News in early 2010.
Guillermo P. Murphy and Susan Dudley are two plant scientists from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. They did a few experiments with Jewelweeds, a kind of flower that grows in wet, shady spots. They found that the flowers seem to know their own flower family. In their experiments, Murphy and Dudley planted jewelweeds in pots with either siblings or strangers.
When jewelweeds were planted in pots with strangers, the plants started to grow more leaves than if they had been planted alone. This response(反应)suggests that plants are competing with strangers for sunlight, since a plant with more leaves can receive more light and make more food. Jewelweeds usually grow in the shade, where sunlight is not enough.
When jewelweed seedlings(幼苗)were planted with siblings, they grew a few more branches than they usually would if they were alone – but they did not start growing lots of extra leaves. This behavior suggests the plants are more likely to share resources, rather than compete.
According to the Science News report, Jewelweeds are not the first plants that plant scientists have studied for family recognition. In 2007, Dudley and her team studied the Great Lakes sea rocket, a plant that grows on the beach – where it may be hard to get fresh water. In that experiment, the scientists found that when sea rockets were planted with siblings, they tolerated each other. But when they were planted with strangers, the sea rockets reacted by working extra hard to grow lots of roots.
Dudley says this just because sea rockets, on the beach, get plenty of sun but struggle for water – so when they’re threatened, they compete for water. Jewelweeds have plenty of water but have to compete for sunshine, so they grow more leaves.
1. What does the underlined word siblings mean?

A．Flowers come from foreign countries.

B．Plants growing in different environments.

C．Flowers planted with lots of strangers.

D．Plants that are the same kind.

2. In the text, the writer mentioned the experiments of Jewelweeds to         .

A．make a comparison	B．introduce a topic
C．describe a pretty flower	D．build a new theory

3. According to the passage, flowers planted alone will         .

A．grow more leaves than those planted in groups

B．become taller than those with more branches

C．grow fewer leaves than those planted with strangers

D．become ill easily because they can’t get enough shade

4. What can be the best title for the passage?

A．New Discoveries about Plants

B．How Plants Compete with Each Other

C．Family Recognition among Plants

D．Jewelweeds and the Great Lakes Sea Rockets