【推荐1】阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的选项中选出能填够入短文空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺连贯，其中有两项是多余选项。

    1     It is the skin of the Earth. It supports all forms of our life. Nearly all our food comes from the soil. Some of us cat meat, some eat vegetables, but most animals live on plants.     2    

Plants grow in soil with a dark color. The dark soil is humus(腐殖土壤). Dead leaves, dead plants and animals’ waste make it, but it takes a long time.     3    

All soil needs food. Animals’ waste is the best food for the soil, but chemical fertilizers(化肥) are also very useful. The same crop should not be grown in the same place every year.     4    

When the soil is dry, the wind blows it away. Sometimes heavy rain carries the humus down to a river.     5     It takes hundreds of years to make humus, so we must save every bit of it. Without soil, how can we live?

A．When the humus has been made, plants can grow well in it.

B．People should grow more trees and grass to stop wind from carrying the humus away.

C．A change of crop and the use of a good fertilizer will keep the land in good condition.

D．What is soil?

E．Sometimes it will take a long time to make humus.

F．If there are no plants, we will have no vegetables, no animals and no meat.

G．How can we live without soil?

【推荐2】How do you feel about nature? After spending hours indoors, do you feel better when you visit your local park? Most people think that nature is good for our bodies and brains. However. humans are spending more time inside and less time outside. For example, the number of visitors to Canada’s national parks is getting lower every year. And in countries such as the USA, only 10 of teenagers spend time outside every day. Many doctors feel that this is a problem in the twenty-first century.

As a result, some doctors are studying the connection between nature and health: one example of this is the work of Dr. Matilda in Sweden. The doctor gave people a maths test. During the test, their heart rate (心率), were fast. After the test, one group of people sat in a 3D-virtual-reality (虚拟现实) room for fifteen minutes with pictures and sounds of nature. Their heart rates were slower than people’s in the other group.

The virtual touch with nature helped them feel more relaxed. Another good example of how nature is good for health comes from Canada. In Toronto, researchers studied 31,000 people living in the city. In general, they found that healthier people lived near parks.

Because of studies like these, some countries and cities want nature to be part of people’s everyday life. In Dubai (迪拜), for example, there are plans for a new shopping mall with a large garden, so shoppers can relax outside with trees, plants and water. In Switzerland, “forest schools” are popular. Schoolchildren study their subjects in the forests and do lots of exercise outside. And South Korea (韩国) is another good example: it has new forests near its cities and around 13 million people visit these forests every year. So after building cities for so long, perhaps it’s now time to start rebuilding nature.

1. What does Paragraph One mainly talk about?

A．Feeling about nature.	B．How much time we spend outdoors.
C．Visiting your local park.	D．Teenagers’ problem in the 21st century.

2. Match the countries or cities with the information and choose the right answer.
① the USA          ②Dubai        ③ Switzerland        ④South Korea
a. Children study in the forests and do lots of activities outside.
b. About 13 million people visit new forests near its cities every year.
c. A new shopping mall with a large garden will be built.
d. 10% of teenagers spend time outside every day.

A．①-a   ②-d   ③-b   ④-c	B．①-d   ②-c   ③-a   ④-b
C．①-a   ②-c   ③-d   ④-b	D．①-d   ②-c   ③-b   ④-a

3. What do the results of the studies show?

A．More and more Canadians will live near parks.

B．The maths test is difficult and makes people nervous.

C．Nature can help people feel more relaxed and be healthier.

D．People’s heart rates get slower in a 3D-virtual-reality room.

4. What can we infer from the last sentence of the passage?

A．Nature is more important than cities.	B．People have lived in the cities for so long.
C．Country life is healthier than city life.	D．Nature should be part of people’s daily life.

【推荐1】Living and dealing with kids can be a difficult job these days, but living and dealing with parents can be even more difficult. If I have learned anything in my 16 years, it is that communication is very important, both when you disagree and when you get along. With any relationship, you need to let the other person know how you are feeling. If you are not able to communicate, you drift apart. When you are mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn’t solve anything. Communication begins with the concerns（关心）of another. It means that you can’t just come home from school, go up to your room and take no notice to anyone. Even if you just say “Hi”, and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing. If you look up the word “communication” in a dictionary, it will say “expressing ideas and feelings or giving people information: a letter or a message”.

To keep a good relationship with your parents, you must keep communication strong. Let them know how you feel, even if it’s just by writing a note. When dealing with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing as a parent. If you are trying to make them see something as you see it, tell them that you’ll listen to what they have to say, and ask them politely to listen to you. Shouting or walking away only makes the situation worse.

Here is an example: one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends.

She knew she had to be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she didn’t feel she could just ask to go home. That would be rude. After all, they had been nice enough to take her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were mad at first, but when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren’t as mad and let it go. Communication is the key here. If Sophie’s parents had not been willing to listen, Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble. Communication isn’t a one-way matter: it goes both ways.

Just remember: if you get into a situation like Sophie’s, telling the other person how you feel—listening is the key to communication.

1. What can we learn from the passage? ________

A．Writing a letter is the first step of communication.

B．Keeping silent is a good way for you to solve problems.

C．Asking your parents for help is the best way to communicate.

D．Communication helps us build a good relationship with our parents.

2. The underlined words “drift apart” in Paragraph 1 mean ________.

A．are different from others	B．get close to each other
C．keep away from others	D．become interested in new ideas

3. Paragraph 2 is mainly about ________.

A．how you get along well with your parents

B．when you start to communicate with your parents

C．what good parents should do to deal with problems

D．why you should make your parents feel good

4. The writer uses Sophie’s example to show that ________.

A．playing outside late is dangerous

B．communication is the key to problem-solving

C．Sophie should be polite to her parents

D．Sophie’s parents should listen to her explanation

【推荐2】It’s never too late to develop good study habits. Follow these good habits, and they will help you become better students.

Plan your time carefully. Make a list of your weekly tasks. Make a plan of your time. Then decide on a good time for studying. This weekly plan may not solve（解决）all of your problems, but it will make you know how to spend（花）your time.

Find a good place to study. Choose（选择）one place for studying. It may be a desk or a chair at home or in the school library, but it should be quiet. When you begin to work, you should be able to focus on the subject.

Make good use of your time in class. Listening to what the teacher says in class means（意味着）less work later. Sit where you can see and hear well. Taking notes helps you remember what the teacher says.

1. The underlined（划线）word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to（指的是）“______”.

A．the desk

B．the school library

C．the place

2. What helps you make use of your time in class?

A．Developing good study habits.

B．Listening to the teacher carefully.

C．Making a list of your weekly tasks.

3. According to the text, which of the following is right?

A．It’s important to take notes in class.

B．The weekly plan can work out all your problems.

C．The place must be a desk or a chair to study at home.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Plan your time carefully

B．Make good use of your time

C．How to develop good study habits

【推荐3】If you always put off doing things you should do or would like to do, you have experienced procrastination(拖延症).

Do you have procrastination because you are lazy? In fact, lazy people don’t do anything and are just fine with it. Procrastinators, however, want to do something but can’t force(促成) themselves to start.

There’s a goal in your brain, for example, what are the tasks to be completed today? What goals need to be achieved this year? Everything is in control.

But at the same time, your brain will also have a love of freedom, know how to enjoy yourself. Whenever you secretly make up your mind to complete a task, this “you” will give you a list of temptations. And you will fall step by step.

So if you are a procrastinator, perhaps you spend lots of time watching TV, playing video games, checking WeChat, eating, cleaning or walking back and forth through the room. Afterwards, you feel powerless and have the feeling of guilt(内疚) and trouble.

We all have procrastination more or less. __________ For example, it took Da Vinci(达·芬奇) sixteen years to complete the smile of Mona Lisa. In the middle of the delay(拖延), he went to study and changed his idea of light and shadow.

Excellent people also need to procrastinate, so that inspiration(灵感) has more time in their heads to collide(冲突) with each other. So procrastination is not always terrible. What’s terrible is that we don’t know why we procrastinate. The best way to deal with procrastination is to really understand your heart and find out the reason why it’s not easy for you to start. Some people procrastinate to think, while others procrastinate to escape(逃避).

Do you have the habit of procrastination in your daily life? What is the reason?

1. If you are a procrastinator, you might spend much time doing many activities EXСЕРТ __________.

A．checking WeChat

B．doing the task now

C．walking around the room

D．playing video games

2. The underlined word temptation in Paragraph 4 means “__________” in Chinese.

A．打击

B．快乐

C．诱惑

D．计划

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

A．However, you are more procrastinating than those successful people.

B．Procrastination is always a good thing to everyone.

C．There are many ways to deal with procrastination.

D．Excellent people may be more procrastinating than you.

4. The writer thinks __________.

A．sometimes people need to procrastinate	B．procrastinators don’t want to do meaningful tasks
C．people have procrastination because they are lazy	D．procrastination always gets in the way of success

【推荐2】

Last week, a fire happened in Rapa Nui National Park on Chile’s Easter Island. The fire caused serious damage (损坏) to several of the large, ancient stone statues (雕像) that the island is famous for.

Easter Island is home to about 900 large stone statues. The large statues were created over 500 years ago by the Rapa Nui people. There are still many questions about how they were able to create, move,and stand up such statues.

Hundreds of stone statues are standing near the Rano Raraku volcano (火山) inside Rapa Nui National Park. The area has been named by the United Nations as an area that’s important to protect. Sadly, that’s also where the fire was the strongest.

A fire spread quickly through the Rapa Nui National Park on October 4. Park workers and firefighters worked for hours. But the fire spread easily through the grassland around the area. It wasn’t until late the next day that the fire was brought under control. The park says it didn’t have enough volunteers to fight the fire more quickly.

Experts (专家) are still examining, but it’s clear that the fire has damaged some of these stone statues.

The cause of the fire isn’t known yet. But Mr Edm unds Paoa, the mayor of Easter Island, believes the fire didn’t start naturally. “All the fires on Rapa Nui are caused by humans,” he said. He believes the island needs more government support to be able to deal with situations like this one.

The stone statues have made Easter Island a very popular tourist site. Easter Island has about 160,000 visitors a year, and it has now been closed as experts try to learn more about the damage caused by the fire.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What is Easter Island famous for?

A．The Rapa Nui people.	B．The beautiful grassland.
C．The ancient stone statues.	D．The Rano Raraku volcano.

2. Why wasn’t the fire controlled quickly?
① There weren’t enough volunteers.
② Park workers found the fire too late.
③ The grassland made fire spread easily.
④ Fire fighters left after working for hours.

A．①②

B．②③

C．①③

D．②④

3. What’s the experts’ attitude (态度) towards the cause of the fire?

A．Hopeful.

B．Worried.

C．Doubtful.

D．Uncertain.

4. What does the underlined word “it” refer to?

A．The fire.

B．Easter Island.

C．The government.

D．Pacific Rim Natural Park.

5. What is the text?

A．A news report.

B．A book review.

C．A diary entry.

D．A science survey.

【推荐3】Have you ever been to Hong Kong Disneyland? Hong Kong Disneyland is Asia’s second Disneyland and the world’s fifth one. But it is the only Disneyland in the world that has real mountains and sea as a background. To make the park more beautiful, more than 18,000 trees have been planted in Hong Kong Disneyland. There are more than 300 different kinds of trees in Hong Kong Disneyland. The trees are mainly from Australia, Thailand and Malaysia. The oldest one is 100-year-old Brachychiton Rupestris（昆士兰瓶树）that can only found in Australia.

Ticket Price
—Adults: regular HK $295, peak HK $350
—Children（age 3 to 11）: regular HK $210, peak HK $250
—Senior（age 65 to above）: regular HK $170, peak HK $200
Children under 3: free
★ Peak（高峰期） days include weekends, summer holidays in July and August, and public holidays.
1. In Hong Kong Disneyland, you can see _______.

A．snow

B．sea

C．a lake

D．a river

2. To make Hong Kong Disneyland more beautiful, _______ have been planted there.

A．the trees from the USA	B．the trees from Japan
C．more than 18, 000 trees	D．less than 300 different kinds of trees

3. The Brachychiton Rupestris is _______ in Hong Kong Disneyland.

A．the biggest tree

B．the tallest tree

C．the youngest tree

D．a 100-year-old tree

4. How many Disneylands do we have in Asia?

A．Only one.

B．At least two.

C．Four.

D．Five.

5. Mr. Brown is thirty years old. His son is two years old. They went to Hong Kong Disneyland last Sunday. They paid _______.

A．HK $100

B．HK $170

C．HK $295

D．HK $350