【推荐1】When you hear the word “volunteering”, what do you think of it? You may think volunteering is to help others, giving them money or things.     1     It can also help you. If you’re sad about something that has happened, doing something volunteering can be a great way to do with your bad feelings.

    2     Sometimes it’s easy to worry about some things like grades and health or get angry because you don’t have the newest computer games. Volunteering lets you spending some time doing other things for a while.

Lots of people and kids really enjoy volunteering.     3     For example, you might know that just on the other side of your town, there are some kids who really need winter clothes.     4     You’ll know that, thanks to you, some of kids have warm coats, hats, and shoes. So whether (不论) it’s winter clothes, food for the hungry, or homes for some homeless pets, doing volunteering work means one very important thing.     5    

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A．You make a difference in the world.

B．It is true that volunteering can help others.

C．It feels good to be able to meet a need like that.

D．Volunteering also lets you see your own life in new ways.

E．Voluntary experiences often put you in a different environment.

【推荐2】People don't run for health every time. A running event (活动) took place in Washington D.C. on Saturday morning.     1    They wanted to raise money for eight students at the Washington Latin School.

The students are planning a 10-day trip to China. They have learned Chinese for years.     2    But long-distance travelling is expensive, so the students need money.

Christina teaches Chinese in the school and she is the trip organizer (组织者).     3     So she came up with the idea-the running event.

People needed to pay $20 each if they took part in the event. In the end, the students raised $3,000 in total.     4    

Rose began to learn Chinese six years ago. She is always active in Chinese class. She is excited about making friends with Chinese people.     5    

The students will go to Beijing, and then Changsha, in central China's Hunan Province. They will stay in a school, visit food markets and have a cooking lesson there.

A．They are interested in Chinese culture and want to learn more.

B．She is even teaching herself how to use chopsticks now.

C．Many people took part in the event.

D．She hoped people could give a hand to make the students' dream come true.

E．And their school would also give them $500.

【推荐3】Bags of Love
Last year, I worked in a middle school near my mother’s house, and I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her do some housework and buy some food.
After the first week, I noticed that the food was eaten up very quickly. Then I began keeping an eye on my mum. To my surprise, I found that she would put some of the food into a paper bag and go out with it at about nine every morning. And finally, I decided to follow her. I saw her taking the food to the street children. She would also spend a lot of time talking and playing with them.
One day, I talked to a neighbor and found out that my mum was well-known in the area. The children were very friendly with her and even thought of her as their own mother. Then it hit me – why wouldn’t she want to tell me about it? Was she worried that I would stop buying food if I found out?
When my mum got home, I gave her a big hug (拥抱).I told her she didn’t need to keep it a secret from me. And she told me something about the children. Some of them lived with an old lady in a small house. Others slept on the street. For years, she was helping the poor street children by giving them food. After she told me everything, I was so moved by how selfless (无私的) she was. She helped others in need. As her son, I was so proud of my mum.
I continued to buy food for my mum after that. But I always added one more bag for her other children.
1. After the first week, the writer noticed that _____.

A．the food was put into a big box	B．his mum followed the children
C．the food was eaten up quickly	D．his mum stopped buying food

2. The street children thought of the writer’s mum as their _____.

A．old grandma

B．own mother

C．new neighbor

D．dear teacher

3. How did the writer feel about his mum after she told him everything?

A．He was proud of her.	B．He was confident in her.
C．He was angry with her.	D．He was worried about her.

4. The writer added one more bag of food to _____.

A．make friends with the children	B．get a hug from his mother
C．become well-known in the area	D．help the poor street children

5. What do you think of the mother?

A．She is a poor woman	B．she is a thief .
C．She is very bad .	D．she is a kind woman.

【推荐1】Did you ever see a fish with its very own lights? Some fish have built-in lights. That is, the lights are really part of the fish’s body! One such fish lives in the Red Sea. It is called the “flashlight fish” because it has special body parts, or organs, that give off light.

The flashlight fish has one light organ underneath (在下面）each eye. These lights are bright and greenish in color, and they are always “on”. But a flashlight fish can hide its lights by raising an extra (额外的）piece of skin up over each organ. Then, when the fish lowers the skin,the lights can be seen again.

What are these special lights for? The light organs help the fish find food at night along the Red Sea reefs (暗礁).They also help the fish run away. Usually,the lights are flashed “on” and “off’ about once every 20 seconds. But when the fish is worried, it will blink (眨眼）its lights about 75 times in 1 minute. Can you imagine 20 or 30 flashlight fish blinking their lights all at the same time?

1. In the passage,the underlined word “organ” means _____.

A．an extra piece of skin	B．a special body part
C．a kind of eye	D．a kind of ear

2. The flashlight fish uses its lights to hunt for food and to      .

A．change color	B．hide its eyes
C．run away from danger	D．catch other fish

3. When a flashlight fish is worried, its lights will         .

A．flash more slowly	B．flash faster
C．turn bright green	D．blink many times

4. How often are the lights usually flashed?

A．Three times a minute.	B．Twice a minute.
C．About 75 times a minute.	D．Once a minute.

【推荐2】

In the modern world, being able to speak English is often a way to get power. However, this is not true for English speakers in Cameroon. To know why things are different in this African country, we need to go back one hundred years.

In 1919, Kamerun (the name of Cameroon at the time) was cut into two parts: one belonged to France, and the other belonged to the UK. In 1960, the French Cameroon became the Republic of Cameroun, and the UK’s part joined it in 1961. The new country changed its name to the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Although both French and English are Cameroon’s official languages, only around 20% of its people speak English. Also, the government has been in French speakers’ hands since the two parts became one country.

For a long time, Cameroon’s English speakers have felt they are not welcome in their own country. For example, it is very difficult for them to find jobs in the government, and they are often asked to speak French in business and at official events. They have become angry at the government and decided to fight for themselves. Since 2016, the English speakers have tried to build their own country. They said in a public meeting in October 2017, that they were not part of Cameroon any more and they were a new country, “Ambazonia”. When the police tried to stop the meeting, at least eight people were killed.

1. Which map is most likely the map of Cameroon in 1962?

A．

B．

C．

D．

2. What can we learn about Cameroon?

A．It’s a small country in America.	B．Ambazonia is its another name.
C．French is used more in this country.	D．Most people there speak English.

3. The writer mainly wants to tell us __________.

A．how the two parts of Cameroon became one country

B．why English speakers in Cameroon have less power

C．how English speakers in Cameroon fight for themselves

D．why only 20% of the people in Cameroon speak English

【推荐3】There's much to see under the sea, but you need to remember that light behaves differently in water than in air. The objects appear closer to you than they exactly are. You might find yourself reaching out to touch something and completely missing it.

Objects under water will appear larger than they would on the surface, too. Be careful not to tell any stories about the big fish that got away. That fish might not be so big after all! It's just because sometimes things can seem to be as much as about 33 percent bigger in water!

What's more, in deeper water, colors just don't seem as bright. In fact, it looks as if some colors are missing. Remember the color of an object results from the wavelengths (波长) of light that are reflected (反射) from its surface. And light is taken in as it moves down through the water.

Swimmers wear wet suits to keep warm underwater. Let's take a bright red, yellow, and blue wet suit as an example. These colors are hard to miss on the surface of water. Watch carefully the changes in color as you descend in the water. The red part now looks almost black because the red light wavelengths, the longest among these three colors, are missing. As you go down deeper, the same thing will happen to the yellow part and in the end to the blue part. Even at a place of about 6 to 9 meters underwater, you will look terrible, like a ghost! And you have to wait for your return to the surface to enjoy the bright colors again!

1. You miss the object underwater when you want to touch it because________.

A．your eyesight is quite poor

B．you are not quick enough

C．it is not as close as it seems

D．it disappears very quickly

2. The example of the wet suit is used to explain the change of________of an object underwater.

A．the color

B．the size

C．the position

D．the weight

3. The underlined word "descend" probably means________ in this passage.

A．go out

B．go up

C．go in

D．go down

4. Which of the following is true?

A．The wavelengths of red light are longer than those of blue light.

B．A four-meter-long fish looks three meters long underwater.

C．Much water will be taken in by the swimmer deep in the water.

D．You will see a ghost if you go as deep as 6 to 9 meters into the sea.

5. The best title of this passage is________.

A．The Standard of Color Underwater	B．The Direction of Light Underwater
C．The Brightness of Color Underwater	D．The Behavior of Light Underwater