【推荐1】Have you ever watched a movie with your partners on the weekend? Do you know what you should do and what you shouldn’t do in the cinema? If you want to figure out the answers, you are supposed to have a look at your film ticket before you go into the cinema. That will tell you everything you want to know.

Here is a ticket from Friendship Theatre.

Friendship Theatre
Name of the film: So Long for Love	Time: At 6 p.m. on December 1, 2023.
Number: 18 Row 8, 2nd F	Price: ¥33
Notice: 1. Children below 1.3m are free. Children above 1.3m should enter with tickets. 2. Please check the date and seat number before you go in. Please sit in the right seat. 3. Don’t smoke in the hall. Smokers should go to the smoking area. It’s at the corner beside the restroom. 4. Cameras, videos and tape recorders are not allowed in the theatre. 5. Please set your mobile phones to vibration mode (振动模式) and keep silent while enjoying the film. 6. Keep the theatre clean. If you have rubbish, you should throw it to the dustbin. 7. If you arrive late, please wait outside the hall and then enter quietly into the hall during the interval and take a free seat.

1. Which of the following film can you enjoy in Friendship Theatre on December 1, 2023?

A．So Long for Love.	B．A World Without Thieves.
C．Harry Potter Four.	D．Rush Hour.

2. How much should you pay for the tickets if you want to see the film with two friends?

A．¥33.

B．¥66.

C．¥99.

D．¥132.

3. You mustn’t ________ in the hall.

A．smoke

B．take photos

C．arrive early

D．bring your mobile phone

4. What should you do if you arrive late?

A．Enter quietly into the hall at any time.	B．Find your seat at once.
C．Wait outside the hall first.	D．Walk into the hall directly.

5. What can we know from the passage?

A．Children under 1.2m are free.	B．People can smoke in the theatre.
C．Rubbish should be thrown onto the floor.	D．People can’t talk loudly while seeing the movie.

【推荐2】Meet Young Sheldon

Sheldon Cooper is a boy genius. He is just 9 years old, but he is going to enter high school and study in Grade 10. He has an elder brother George, who is 5 years older than him, and a twin sister Missy. They live in Texas, the US. Sheldon studies at the same school with his brother George and they are classmates.

Sheldon is good at math and science. He is so smart, but it doesn’t help him to fit in（适应）at school. He has to learn to get along with（与……友好相处）his “elder” classmates.

Things are not easy at home. His dad, brother and sister are nothing strange. They are just normal people. Sometimes they look at him like he is an alien（外星人）.

What problems will Sheldon meet at school? What will he do? You can find the answers in the US comedy（喜剧）Young Sheldon.

1. How many family members in Sheldon’s family are mentioned（被提及）in the passage?

A．2

B．3

C．4

D．5

2. How old is Missy?

A．5 years old.

B．9 years old.

C．10 years old.

D．14 years old.

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Sheldon studies at the same school with his sister.

B．George is good of math ind science at school.

C．Missy’s life at home is much easier than at school.

D．Sheldon has to learn to get along with his classmates.

4. What is the writer’s purpose（目的）in writing this passage?

A．To introduce something about aliens.	B．To show it is difficult to fit in at school.
C．To ask more people to watch the comedy.	D．To help the parents know more about kids.

【推荐3】He creates fantasy worlds with witches (女巫), floating castles and flying pigs. He is Hayao Miyazaki, also known as “Japan’s Walt Disney”.

In 2016, the 75-year-old returned to make Boro the Caterpillar (《毛毛虫菠萝》), a computer-generated (CG) short movie, into a feature film.

“Miyazaki … will keep making films until he dies”, Toshio Suzuki, an experienced producer at Studio Ghibli, told Variety magazine. For Boro, Miyazaki, who has always used hand-drawn 2D animation, will work with computer technology.

The animation may be different, but Miyazaki’s movies always have something in common.

Many themes are seen again and again in his films.

Two of these themes are the sky and water. From his early film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (《风之谷》, 1984) to his popular 2004 movie Howl’s Moving Castle (《哈尔的移动城堡》), Miyazaki’s films are full of flight. The water is another place where gravity doesn’t work. Miyazaki loves quickly filling spaces with clear water, leaving things to float.

Another repeated idea in Miyazaki’s work is the Earth’s fragility (脆弱性). He often criticizes (批评) development and pollution. Princess Mononoke (《幽灵公主》) shows villagers cutting down a forest to provide fuel for their iron factory, while natural forces fight against them.

In his movies, there is often no clear good or evil. Miyazaki has explained that he sees the 21st century as a complex time. Simple stereotypes cannot be accepted, he said, even in children’s films.

1. Hayao Miyazaki was born ________.

A．in 1940

B．in 1941

C．in 1942

D．in 1943

2. In which film did Miyazaki show his attitude?

A．Boro the Caterpillar

B．Howl’s Moving Castle

C．Princess Mononoke

D．Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

3. What does the underlined word “complex” in the last paragraph mean?

A．easy	B．modern
C．standard	D．difficult to understand

4. What do we know from the passage?

A．Miyazaki learnt to draw from his mother.

B．Miyazaki has given up drawing animation by hand.

C．Miyazaki is starting to focus on protecting the environment

D．Miyazaki doesn’t like using simple stereotypes in his films.

【推荐1】Dear humans,

It’s the first time I write to you, my children. I once sent you many messages, but you never cared about them. So I decided to write you a letter.

First, let me tell you more about our family. Besides you, my dear humans, I also have many other children. Some of them fly in the sky, some of them swim in water and some of them run in forests. Some of them are small and some of them are large.

They might be very close to you, or even live in your house. But there are also others that maybe you will never meet.

You bring them home to be your pets, friends, and helpers. You put them in zoos. You kill them for their meat or parts of their bodies. And you even hunt (猎杀) them for fun. They bring you money and happiness. But they also bring you disease and death (死亡).

I hope you can remember that wild animals are not your food or clothes. They are not killers, either. They are, in fact, your brothers and sisters. ________

Humans, you are smart and hardworking. You can decide where you go, as well as I go.

But you don’t listen to me. Instead, you are polluting me—my air, my forests, my rivers. You ask for so much of me, more than what I can give you. I’m worried that one day you will have no place to live in.

So, humans, I hope you and all my other children can live happily in my arms.

Yours,

Mother Earth

1. According to the passage, it’s the ________ time for Mother Earth to write to humans.

A．first

B．second

C．third

D．fourth

2. In Mother Earth’s heart, “many other children” ________.

A．will never meet humans	B．won’t bring humans death
C．are humans’ food and clothes	D．are as important as humans

3. Which of the following sentences can be put in the ________?

A．They can be your servants (仆人).

B．They are dangerous for you.

C．You should grow up together.

D．You should put them in zoos.

4. Mother Earth writes the letter to tell us humans that ________.

A．she sent us no messages before

B．we should do something to protect wild animals and her

C．she can give us far more than she has

D．we are kind enough to her other children

【推荐2】

Should Schools Have Mental (心理的) Health Days? Some schools in the US decided to offer students some days off for Mental Health Days because many children are facing mental health problems. Here are some students’ opinions on School Mental Health Days:

Bibi van Tooren, 11 Schools should give kids days off for mental health because mental health is just as important as physical health. Besides, if kids have long school days, they could feel stressed. What’s more, they don’t have much experience in dealing with mental health problems.

Johnny Gabel, 9 I don’t think schools should give students days off for their mental health. Having too many days off can influence our grades. And many parents have to go to work. If students get too many days. off, they might get left home too much. This could make some kids’ mental health problems worse.

Hailey Young, 12 The weekend was created to give us time off, but people don’t make full use of those 48 hours. Sometimes, we can’t finish our schoolwork on weekdays. Besides, schools would need students to make up mental health days. They would probably do so during real breaks and this will also cause mental health problems.

What’s your opinion on it? If you are willing to share your ideas, please email us:TFK@foxmail.com. For more different opinions, you can surf our website:www.timeforkids.com.

1. How many reasons does Bibi give?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

2. Both Johnny and Hailey think that having School Mental Health Days ________.

A．will make parents busier	B．will influence students’ grades
C．may cause mental health problems	D．will help students learn time management

3. What can we know from the passage?

A．Many children in the US have mental health problems.

B．Schools in the US know how to protect children’s mental health

C．All US schools will offer students days off for School Mental Health Days.

D．Only three students have given their opinions on School Mental Health Days.

4. How can you share your opinions on School Mental Health Days?

A．By writing a letter.	B．By surfing the website.
C．By making a phone call.	D．By writing an email.

5. Where can you probably find this passage?

A．On a website.	B．In a science magazine.
C．In a notebook.	D．From a museum noticeboard.

【推荐3】Monday, July 15th

I arrived in Penang in Malaysia this morning with my family. It was sunny and hot, so we decided to go to the beach near our hotel. My sister and I tried paragliding. I felt like I was a bird. It was so exciting! For lunch, we had something very special Malaysian yellow noodles. They were delicious! In the afternoon, we rode bicycles to Georgetown. There are a lot of new buildings now, but many of the old buildings are still there. In Weld Quay, a really old place in Georgetown, we saw the houses of the Chinese traders from 100 years ago. I wonder what life was like here in the past. I really enjoyed walking around the town.

Tuesday, July 16th

What a difference a day makes! My father and I decided to go to Penang Hill today. We wanted to walk up to the top, but then it started raining a little, so we decided to take the train. We waited over an hour for the train because there were too many people. When we got to the top, it was raining really hard. We didn’t have an umbrella, so we were wet and cold. It was terrible! And because of the bad weather, we couldn’t see anything below. My father didn’t bring enough money, so we only had one bowl of rice and some fish. The food tasted great because I was so hungry!

1. The writer was ________ to walk around Georgetown.

A．happy

B．terrible

C．wonderful

D．exciting

2. It started to rain when ________.

A．they arrived in Penang

B．they got to the top

C．they were on the bus

D．they got to Penang Hill

3. Which of the followings is TRUE?

A．They went to Weld Quay on July 16th.

B．They walked up to the top of Penang Hill.

C．They saw many old buildings of Chinese traders in Georgetown.

D．They had special Malaysian yellow noodles in Georgetown.

4. These two passages are probably from ________.

A．a storybook

B．a newspaper

C．a magazine

D．a diary