【推荐1】The world has developed quickly these years, but there are still many people in need of help all over the world. In 1942, a group of people started an organization (组织) named Oxfam to help these people. In fact, everyone can do something to help if he or she likes. Here are some simple ways to help Oxfam.

Raise Money

You can raise some money for Oxfam. For example, you can help to have a fashion show or a sporting game at your school and sell tickets. You can make cakes or sweets and sell them to people. You can sell old books to raise money.

Buy an Oxfam Gift

When you buy an Oxfam gift, your friend will get a card and Oxfam will send a gift to a child who lives in a poor country. The gift can be something like a schoolbag, some clean water, a young tree or a coat. If some friends put their money together and buy a big gift, it may help to build a small library for a poor village.

Tell the People around You

Tell your ideas to your family and friends so that they can understand you better. And you can get their support and maybe they would like to join you. If you want to change the world, talking to people is the first step to make things happen. You can find people with the same ideas and work together with them to make the world a better place.

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1. Oxfam is ________.

A．a factory

B．a hospital

C．an organization

D．a country

2. Which way to raise money isn’t mentioned (被提到) in the passage?

A．Organizing concert at your school.	B．Organizing a sporting game.
C．Making cakes or sweets.	D．Selling books.

3. Which sentence is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Oxfam was started more than 90years ago.

B．Oxfam is an environment protection organization.

C．The passage tells us four methods to help Oxfam.

D．Everybody can help Oxfam if he or she likes.

4. The first step to change the world around you is _______ according to the passage.

A．joining the music club	B．talking to people
C．making more friends	D．caring about others more

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．How to Help Oxfam	B．What Oxfam is about
C．How to Change the World	D．Why to Organize Concerts

【推荐3】Mark began to introduce the guest speaker to the listeners， but then stopped for a while. He had forgotten her name.
Barbara hid her valuable things when she went on vacation. When she came back， she couldn’t remember where she’d put them.
Perhaps you’ve had such experiences like these. Most people have. But most of them haven’t realized that they have a memory problem. Neither do they know a simple but important fact: Memorycan be improved. If you’ll just accept that， the following will show you how.
First， relax. If you are over worried about remembering something， you’ll forget it. If you keep telling yourself that your memory is bad， your mind will come to believe it and you won’tremember things. When you forget something， don’t follow up with sayings like “Oh， my God! Ialways forget things!” Such words will have a bad result on you and your memory.
But relaxing isn’t enough. To improve your memory， you’ll need to take an active role. Like your body， your memory can be made strong through exercise. Look for opportunities to exercise your memory. For example， if you’re learning a language， try to actively remember a lot of newwords.
If you don’t take notice of things actively， you won’t remember them. So， you can make pictures of what you see in your mind every day. For example， don’t just put your keys down! If you want to find them again， make a mind picture of the place where you’re putting them.
1. The first two paragraphs just tell us ________.

A．Barbara was a very rich person

B．Mark often forgot his friends’ names

C．examples of memory problems

D．language problems of two persons

2. When you forget things， you ________.

A．must be too careless

B．shouldn’t lose heart about your memory

C．must accept the fact

D．shouldn’t take notice of the result

3. The word “opportunities” in the fifth paragraph means “________”.

A．places

B．activities

C．positions

D．chances

4. According to the passage， ________ can make your memory better.

A．realizing your memory problems

B．talking to your friends

C．making mind pictures of what you see

D．doing sports every day

【推荐1】In China， many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities， because the countryside is much poorer than the city， and often there isn’t much work there. Services such as hospital and transport are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.
But in the big cities of Europe like London or Paris， people are moving out of the city. These rich families want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city， and they are tired of the crowded streets， crowded trains and buses. They don’t want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside， and breathe the fresh air there.
So they move out of the cities. Some don’t go very far， just a little way out of the city， to the towns near the cities; other people move to the real countryside with sheep， cows and green fields. There， they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years， many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don’t make so much money and there isn’t much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren’t always very friendly.
As a result， quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. “_______________________________” they say.
1. Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?

A．The countryside is much poorer than the city.

B．People in the countryside have nothing to eat.

C．People in the countryside don’t have much work to do there.

D．Services in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside.

2. Why do some rich families in Europe move to the countryside?

A．Because they will find good jobs.

B．Because they are tired of living in the city.

C．Because they can make more money there.

D．Because they like feeding sheep and cows in the green fields.

3. What’s right about the people who move to the countryside？

A．All of them feel happy.

B．None of them feel happy.

C．Only a few of them stay at the countryside at last.

D．Some people in the countryside always fight with them， so they hate the countryside.

4. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph show?

A．They are happy to move back to the city.

B．They miss their friends in the countryside.

C．They still want to move to the countryside.

D．They are tired of the noise and the crowded streets in the city.

【推荐2】Tiffany，a 16-year-old girl，was very shy. Last September，her best friend，Sophie，moved abroad with her family because she had to continue her studies in America. She even said she would not come back for at least a few years.     1     "I was really sad the moment I heard the bad news and I didn't know what to do，"Tiffany recalled. "I shut myself in my room for a whole week. It was then that my aunt took me to a sports club one Saturday and I saw so many young people playing different kinds of sports there. I signed up for a beginners' course in volleyball and since then I have been playing this sport. Now I practice twice a week there. It is wonderful playing sports in this club and I have made lots of friends as well.     2     "

The most basic aim of playing sports is that you can improve your health even if you are not very good at sports. Besides，you can get to know a circle of people at your age while playing sports.     3     Since she joined the sports club，she has opened up herself and now she has become very active and enjoys meeting and talking with others.

For most people，that is one of the reasons why they join a sports club.     4    You don't have to sit down and talk to strangers. You go in for sports and it is easier to understand your partners on the same team. Now Tiffany is quite popular with her friends and she has also become more confident.

    5    The mind needs exercise as well as the body.

根据短文内容，从下列选项中选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

A．Try to do some sports.

B．You can get to know other young people who have similar interests.

C．Tiffany used to be a very quiet girl.

D．Tiffany became lonely and helpless.

E．I think I'm good at singing and dancing.

F．What's more，I feel I am much healthier than before.