【推荐1】You will never imagine sending a message can be disastrous. But in fact it is dangerous to write message on your phone while walking. A study shows that it is more dangerous than doing that over driving. Researchers found that there are more people hurt for walking than driving. The survey shows that walking is not as easy as it is. It is a little difficult. We have to pay close attention to many things around as at the same time to walk safely in a straight line. The researchers said that people forget how to walk properly, so dangerous things always happen to them. They run into walls and other people. They walk into cars, fall over things in the street, and even fall into holes or downstairs. A researcher said walking is a difficult action. There two reasons why sending messages make walking dangerous. One is that people cannot see the street. The other is that their attention is always focused on their phones instead of their feet. Their minds are somewhere else instead of thinking about walking safely. It is said that more than 3,000 people visited the hospital last year because of sending messages with a phone. He said the worst cases are head hurting. When a walker fell into the air, he or she has nothing to protect the hand. The damage can be serious. So we’d better stay away from smart phones when driving.

1. What does the writer think of sending messages on the phones?

A．dangerous

B．serious

C．interesting

D．easy

2. What are the reasons why sending messages makes walking dangerous.

A．One is people cannot see the street.

B．The other is their attention is focused on their phones.

C．A and B

D．I don’t know

3. What does the underlined word disastrous mean?

A．灾难性的

B．危险的

C．敏感的

D．有隐患的

4. How many dangerous things are mentioned in the text?

A．5

B．6

C．7

D．8

5. What is the best title for the text?

A．Are you sending messages when walking?	B．It’s time to stay away from smart phones.
C．Watch your phone.	D．Smart phones change the world.

【推荐2】阅读短文，从下面每题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

According to a 2018 study from San Francisco State University, nearly 2. 4 billon people around the world used a smartphone in 2017. By the end of 2018, more than a third of the global population will be using a smartphone.

However, smartphone technology can be a double-edged sword (双刃剑). On the one hand, it sends us lots of information. On the other hand, using a smartphone may become an addiction (瘾).

Erik Peper and Richard Harvey are both health education professors at San Francisco State University. They led the study. Peper explains that smartphone addiction forms connections in the brain that are similar to drug addiction (毒瘾). And these connections form slowly over time. Also, addiction to social media may affect (影响) our emotional state (情绪). The two professors asked 135 university students about their habit of smartphone use and their feelings. They found that students who used their phones were feeling lonelier and more nervous.

Peper and Harvey don't blame (责怪) users for their technology addiction. The researchers warn that workers in the technology industry know how to control our brains and turn us into addicts.

But the researchers say that we can train our brains to be less addicted to our phones and computers. Erik Peper suggests turning off our phones before we sleep or do something important. The researchers also suggest taking control of when and where you answer texts or emails. You don't need to answer them all. And you certainly don't need to answer them as soon as you get them. They also suggest setting limits (设限) on the time you spend.

1. What can we infer from Paragraph ?

A．Smartphone use has become very common.

B．Most young people can't live without smartphones.

C．Smartphones make our life more colorful and convenient.

D．Most people think smartphones are the greatest invention.

2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means smartphone technology ________.

A．has a bright future	B．can be better than most people think
C．has both advantages and disadvantages	D．can give us lots of information

3. What did Erik Peper and Richard Harvey find about smartphone use?

A．It can beat loneliness.	B．It's more popular with students.
C．It's preferred by young people feeling lonely.	D．It can harm students' emotional state in many ways.

4. What does the last paragraph mainly want to tell us?

A．Social media isn't that important to us.	B．We can train our brains to do many things.
C．We shouldn't become addicted to our smartphones.	D．There are ways to deal with smartphone use addiction.

【推荐3】TV has already entered thousands of households, and TV is a window. Primary school students like watching TV. It can make them understand the important events at home and abroad, open their eyes, and grow knowledge. Besides, they have been very nervous at school. After school, relaxation is very necessary. And watching TV is a very good way. When some programs are educational, they have both fun and increased knowledge. TV gives primary school students the growth and development of brains. We asked 1,000 pupils from different schools. The following are the results of the survey about what kind of TV programs pupils prefer.

In modern society, it is impossible and it is not necessary to stop children from watching TV. But parents can guide them to choose good programs, to choose proper time, and even to see the suitable programs together. You can discuss with them after reading, and turn entertainment to train your child’s mind, enrich your child’s emotions (情感).

Ways to guide children:

※ We should go into the world of students, find out their preferences and teach them what to watch.

※ Educate pupils to develop good viewing habits and teach them how to enjoy them.

※ Teach students to reflect by watching, and to extend (扩展) the meaning of educational TV programs.

根据材料内容，选择最佳答案。
1. How many pupils like action movies?

A．750.

B．50.

C．450.

D．600.

2. What kind of program is the most popular?

A．Comedy.

B．Cartoon.

C．Children program.

D．Soap opera.

3. What’s the writer’s opinion about primary school students watching TV?

A．The writer thinks it’s necessary to stop pupils watching TV.

B．The writer thinks watching TV is a waste of time.

C．The writer thinks it can make pupils only understand the important events.

D．The writer thinks adults should guide children to watch proper TV programs.

4. How many ways does the writer give to guide the children to watch TV?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

5. Which is true according to the passage above?

A．If the programs are educational, pupils can’t have fun.

B．More primary school students prefer competition programs.

C．If possible, parents should watch proper programs with children together.

D．Adults can educate pupils to develop good learning habits by watching TV.

【推荐1】For those of us who are studying at school, the time of exams is very stressful and difficult. Some people find exam times so bad that they become ill, because they are afraid of failing; they are afraid of letting their parents and family down.    1    Talk to someone about it. Maybe you can speak to a friend, or someone in your family, or teachers at your place of study. If one person doesn’t help you, ask someone else.

    2    Here is some advice:

Ask a teacher or tutor about how to review your lessons, and exam skills—how to work when you are in an exam.

Take short rests during your time of work. If your mind is tired, it will not remember well.

Plan your work: study at times when you know you will work at your best.

Get enough sleep, and eat healthy food.

You need exercise to work well.    3    

Stop thinking about the future and failing.

If you feel ill, talk to someone about your worries. But don’t be too relaxed! Some stress over exams makes you work hard for them.

If it upsets you to talk to your friends about an exam when it is finished, don’t do it! In fact, don’t even think about the exam you have finished. What is done is done.    4    

To this advice, we could add:

If you are studying in the evening, don’t go straight to bed. Your mind will still be “going round and round”—thinking too much.    5    Choose something that will relax you, and make you think of other things.

A．If exams are really making you ill or worried, don’t hide your feelings.

B．Do something else, maybe walk or get exercise.

C．How to get through exams?

D．You cannot change what you have written!

E．Walk, run and play sport—whatever you enjoy.

【推荐2】Mr. Guo is a teacher from Xi’an. He asked his students to hand in their homework through a QR code(二维码). “We spent an hour or two in class learning how to generate(使产生) the codes, and in the end everything gets easier ,” said Guo, “    1     Then, each student makes his own QR code and gives it to me. So I can check their work everywhere using my computer or telephone.”

    2       When Guo scans(扫描) his students’ QR codes, their homework appears on his phone. He finds that their homework becomes more creative with many pictures, music and even videos.

    3       “We are living in the information age. Many students like to work with computers, which makes learning more fun,”said Tingting, a student of Guo’s.

“The paper is not easy to keep, but the code is easy to keep and share,” Guo said. “It is worth trying to use new technology in education. Education itself is a kind of creation.     4     ”

However, some parents are worried. They are afraid that their children will spend too much time on computers and less time communicating with teachers. But in fact, it’s unnecessary. Students still need to look up information in books and write it down when they do their homework. They only use the codes when they hand in their work, which doesn’t take them too much time.     5     And it’s also an easy way to share homework with other students.

A．The QR codes can be sent to Mr. Guo by e-mail, QQ and WeChat.

B．But some students don’t like WeChat or QQ.

C．Also for teachers, it allows them to check the students’ work at any time.

D．The students want to work harder this term.

E．When students finish the homework, they keep it on WeChat.

F．I don’t want my students to fall behind the times.

G．Guo’s students like the new way and think it is interesting.

【推荐3】Do you have to wear uniforms to school every day? Do you like them or you just want to wear your own clothes? Many students just wonder why they can't wear whatever they like, for teenagers want to be different from others.

In fact, there are several reasons why school uniforms are a good idea. First of all, uniforms help the school look smart. The students feel that they belong to a particular (特别的)group. When every student in the school wears the uniform, nobody has to worry about fashion. Everybody wears the same style of clothes. Uniforms can be useful in unexpected ways. A school in Ireland has introduced an interesting new uniform. On the edge (边缘)of the jacket, there is a piece of cloth which gives off light in the dark. When the children are walking or cycling to school on dark mornings, car drivers can easily see them.

But can uniforms help improve school standards? The answer to this question is not clear. One study in America found that students5 grades improved a little after the school introduced uniforms. But some students didn't want to wear the uniform. Other American studies showed that uniforms have nothing to do with the school performance.

School uniforms are traditional in Britain, but some schools are starting to get rid of them. Students of some very good schools do not have to wear uniforms now. However, uniforms are still popular. Pupils at about 90 percent of British secondary schools wear uniforms.

1. Where are the interesting and useful uniforms from according to the passage?

A．Ireland.

B．America.

C．China.

D．Britain.

2. Why can the new uniform be useful?

A．The whole jacket can give off light in the dark.

B．Students can wear it on dark mornings.

C．Students can wear it to walk or ride bikes.

D．It can make drivers see the students easily in the dark.

3. What’s the meaning of the underlined phrases in the last paragraph?

A．喜欢

B．使用

C．摆脱

D．改变

4. How does the writer start this passage?

A．By asking questions.	B．By listing facts.
C．By showing numbers.	D．By giving examples.

【推荐2】In 2018, Science Magazine asked some young scientists what schools should teach students. Most said students should spend less time remembering facts and have more space for creative activities. As the Internet grows more powerful, students can get knowledge easily. Why should they be required to carry so much of it around in their heads?

Civilizations (文明) develop through forgetting life skills that were once necessary. In the Agricultural Age, a farmer could afford to forget hunting skills. When societies industrialized, the knowledge of farming could be safe to forget. Nowadays, smart machines help us to get most human knowledge. It seems that we no longer need to remember most things. Does it matter?

Researchers have realized several problems that may happen. For one, human beings have biases (偏见), and smart machines are likely to increase our biases. Many people believe smart machines are necessarily correct and objective (客观的), but machines are trained through a repeated testing and scoring process (过程). In the process, human beings still decide on the correct answers.

Another problem relates to the ease (容易) of getting information. When there were no computers, efforts were required to get knowledge from other people, or go to the library. We know what knowledge lies in other brains or books, and what lies in our heads. But today, the Internet gives us the information we need quickly. This can lead to the mistaken belief—the knowledge we found was part of what we knew all along.

In a new civilization rich in machine intelligence (智慧), we can easily get to smart memory networks where information is stored. But dependency on a network suggests possibilities of being harmed easily. The collapse of any of the networks of relations our health depends upon, such as food and energy, would produce terrible results. Without food we get hungry; without energy we feel cold. And it is through widespread loss of memory that civilizations are at risk of falling into a dark age.

We forget old ways to free up time and space for new skills. As long as the older forms of knowledge are stored somewhere in our networks, and can be found when we need them, perhaps they’re not really forgotten. Still, as time goes on, we slowly but unquestionably become strangers to future people.

1. Smart machines are likely to increase our biases because ________.

A．they go off course in testing and scoring	B．we control the training process on them
C．we offer them too much information	D．they overuse the provided answers

2. The ease of getting information from the Internet ________.

A．frees us from making efforts to learn new skills

B．prevents civilizations from being lost at a high speed

C．misleads us into thinking we already knew the knowledge

D．separates the facts we have from those in the smart machines

3. The underlined word “collapse” in Paragraph 5 probably means “________”.

A．a sudden failure

B．the basic rule

C．an unhappy start

D．the slow development

4. The writer’s main purpose in writing this passage is to ________.

A．question about the standards of information storage

B．discuss our problems of communication with machines

C．stress the importance of improving our remembering ability

D．remind us of the risk of depending on machines to remember

【推荐3】

If you’ve always wanted to be a high flier, then skydiving is the right sport for you! Skydiving is the activity of jumping from a plane or other aircrafts at about 4000m and falling through the sky before opening a parachute.

The actual history of skydiving started with Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who made successful parachute jumps in 1797 from a hot air balloon. Later, more people took it up and had regular competitions, which led to it becoming an international sport in 1952. For some people, skydiving has become a sport they enjoy doing for a lifetime through which they meet new friends, learn, progress and even compete.

The sport of skydiving has a whole range of training methods. Tandem skydiving is the most common way for beginners to get started in this exciting sport. During a tandem dive, the student is connected to an instructor. The student is able to enjoy the sensation of free fall, while the instructor takes control of vital activities such as opening the parachute and performing a safe landing. While falling through the sky, the “arch” position is the best body position for beginners. The shape of a banana is similar to the body position. To feel the sensation of the “arch”, you can lie face down on the ground and extend your arms out while keeping them off the ground. Do the same thing with your legs — legs extended with knee bend and keeping them off the floor. This “arch” position allows for a smooth free fall.

Today, skydiving has become a popular activity around the world. Why not take the chance to skydive in your coming vacation?

1. According to the passage, skydiving ________.

A．helps us jump higher in the sky	B．was first practiced by an Englishman
C．has a history of over 500 years	D．is a lifetime hobby for some people

2. While doing tandem skydiving, students ________.

A．dive with a group of people	B．control the parachute before landing
C．experience free fall in the sky	D．land on the ground by themselves

3. Which picture shows the “arch” position?

A．

B．

C．

D．

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

A．Come and Join Us in Skydiving	B．A True Story about Skydiving
C．Secrets Behind an Excellent Skydiver	D．Get Started with Tandem Skydiving