【推荐1】Set goals（目标）, reach them and then set new goals.     1     As a student, do you have a goal in your learning? Today I want to talk about something about learning goals.

    2     Learning is a long and difficult process（过程）. It can be easier if you set goals. Goals can help you learn things step by step（逐步地）and then you will feel it easier to make it.

What kinds of learning goals should you set?     3     For example, someone may set a goal like improving his English pronunciation（发音）in a week. It is too difficult to reach in such a short time. So please set the learning goals that you can reach.

    4     First, know what you want to learn. That means you should know your goal clearly. Then, finish your task day by day.     5     Don’t worry about that. Just study hard every day and you will reach your goal at last.

根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

A．Usually you can’t reach your goal in a short time.

B．Why should you have a learning goal?

C．How to set a learning goal for yourself?

D．This is a good way to be successful.

E．Many students set difficult and even unreasonable goals.

【推荐2】阅读下面的短文，从所给的A~F六个选项中，选出正确的答案填空，使短文通顺，内容完整，并填涂在答题卡上，其中选项中有一项是多余的。

Some students don’t like math.     1     But others think it is easy and interesting. And here is what you can do.

Listen well in class.

The math teacher knows much. When you listen well, you can know much, too.     2     And you can ask your math teacher for help if you don’t know in class.

    3     Your math teacher isn’t always with you. When you find a problem is too difficult, you can ask your classmate, too. A classmate is a good friend.     4    

Practice it every day.

Do you want to be good at math? It needs time. You can’t learn it well in a day.     5     Math is a great subject. Let’s learn it well.

A．Ask your classmate for help.

B．They think it’s difficult.

C．He or She must be happy to help you.

D．So be a careful student and listen well.

E．So practice it every day, and you can find it easy.

F．We should help each other.

【推荐3】It was a nice winter day. After dinner, Ms. Lee checked（查看） her e-mails as usual. One e-mail caught her eye. It was from Mary, a girl who sat at the back of the classroom. She answered questions a lot in class.

Ms. Lee,

I love you and your classes. They are always interesting and full of surprises. Wish you a good holiday! Well Steve, Ella and I want to improve our English during the holidays. We have no idea what to do. Any good advice?

Stopping here, Ms. Lee began to think carefully. “Steve spends lots of time remembering words, but always forgets most of them quickly. Ella didn’t do well in the final exam. She has to go over her lessons a lot. Mary will go to a writing competition. She needs to read more and improve her writing in a short time.”

Just then, her phone rang. It was a message from her best friend, an English teacher in another middle school. Her friend proposed a trip to Hong Kong. Ms. Lee told her she was available, but she wouldn’t like to travel because she still had no idea on how to help her students. Her friend laughed and soon sent her a picture with a QR code（二维码）in it. “It’s all you want,” her friend said. Ms. Lee scanned（扫描） the code and found it was an English homework project （项目） for the coming winter holiday. As she read it, a big smile appeared on her face.

1. We can know about Mary from the passage that __________.

A．she was quiet in class	B．she enjoyed her English classes
C．she dreamed of a relaxing holiday	D．she forgot to write her English homework

2. Mary wrote the e-mail mainly to __________.

A．say sorry to Ms. Lee	B．give advice to Ms. Lee
C．ask Ms. Lee for help	D．make friends with Ms. Lee

3. What was Steve’s problem?

A．He read too little in English	B．He was afraid of English exams
C．He didn’t do well in English writing	D．He couldn’t remember English words well

4. The underlined word “proposed” in the last paragraph means “__________” in Chinese.

A．申报

B．庆祝

C．提议

D．取消

5. Ms. Lee might think the homework project was __________.

A．useful

B．common

C．difficult

D．boring

【推荐1】Body image—the way people feel about their appearance—is a big problem for many young people today. According to two different studies, more than half teenage girls in the United States think they should be on diet, and almost one in five teenage boys are worried about their bodies and their weight.

But what’s the cause? Many complain about the media. Turn on the TV, and you’ll likely see beautiful models, handsome actors, and fit sports stars. Open a magazine or newspaper, search the Internet, and it’s unlikely to be any different.

Many young people feel stressed to look like these “perfect” people. But for most, this is just not possible. In the United States, for example, the average woman is 163 centimeters tall and weighs 64 kilograms. The average model is 180 centimeters tall and weighs 53 kilograms.

When people don’t match up to these standards, many may develop low self-esteem. Some stop eating properly in order to lose weight. Others lose so much confidence that they start to run away from classroom activities at school.

Body image problems do not disappear as we get older, either. In the United Kingdom, for example, women over 50 spend more money on cosmetics（化妆品）than any other age group. Older men spend large amounts of money trying to avoid hair loss.

Is there a solution to the problem? A 2013 study in the United Kingdom recommended that body image lessons should be provided in schools. Others believe it’s a problem that all of society needs to face. As self-esteem advocate Meaghan Ramsy says, “we need to start deciding people by what they do, not what they look like.”

1. According to the passage, if there are 1,000 boys students in the United States, ________ worry about their bodies and weight.

A．200

B．50

C．500

D．51

2. From this passage, “perfect people” are most unlikely ________.

A．super models with charming bodies	B．common people who use cosmetics
C．TV stars with nice looks	D．athletes with fit bodies

3. Which word has the closest meaning of self-esteem?

A．admiration

B．confidence

C．ugliness

D．energy

4. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．British women older than 50 spend the least money on cosmetics among all ages.

B．body image lessons teach people how to become “perfect” people like models

C．Meaghan Ramsy advised people to judge people by their personalities

D．the average American women is shorter but lighter than models

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Get a balance diet	B．Say “No” to social media
C．Welcome to out body image lesson	D．You don’t need to be “perfect”

【推荐2】Imagine the world without bridges. How would people get across rivers? How about visiting someone in another city? Life without bridges would not be easy, as we know. Bridges are an important part of our transportation (交通) ways.

The first bridges were built as a result of a need to make life and travel easier. The first bridges were built in the form of trees falling across small rivers. The wood was strong enough to hold the weight of a person or two at a time.

Later, people made bridges by putting rope (绳子) lines across an open area. In China and other places, rope bridges are still used.

Then, people built arch bridges (拱桥) with large blocks of stones. Arch bridges are among the strongest and longest lasting. Some built more than 1,500 years ago are still used. Even today, people build arch bridges, but usually with wood or other things.

Another kind is the cantilever bridge (悬臂桥). Canada’s Quebec Bridge is one of the world’s longest, about 1,800 feet (549m) across the St. Lawrence River.

A suspension bridge (悬索桥) is over even more space. Probably the most famous suspension bridge is California’s Golden Gate, about 4,200 feet (1,280m) long. When finished in 1937, it was the world’s longest, but in 1964, New York’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge beat that with about 4,260 feet (1,298m) long. Then in 1981, England’s Humber Bridge beat that with about 4,626 feet (1,410m) long. And since 1998, Japan’s Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge has held the record, about 6,532 feet (1,991m) long.

1. How many kinds of bridges are mentioned in the passage?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

2. The first bridge were built because ________.

A．they could make life and travel easier	B．people visited someone in another city
C．trees fell across small rivers	D．the wood was strong enough to hold the persons

3. According to the time, which order is RIGHT?
①England’s Humber Bridge②Japan’s Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
③California’s Golden Gate ④New York’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

A．①-④-②-③

B．③-④-②-①

C．③-④-①-②

D．③-②-④-①

4. The best title for the passage is ________.

A．Ways of Transportation	B．How to build bridges
C．The First Bridges	D．The History of Bridges

【推荐3】Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can’t deal with easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.

Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. Yet many of their children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing karaoke, so many teachers and parents complain that computers cannot help children study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in some ways by parents.

In some other countries, even some scientists hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness?

It will be decided by today’s students themselves!

1. We say the computer is a useful machine because ________.

A．our country asks us to learn it	B．it can help us a lot
C．we can use it to play games	D．it can help us to find jobs

2. Many teachers and parents complain that ________.

A．their students and children use computers to play games

B．computers let them lose their jobs

C．computers make their students and children fall behind

D．computers bring people a lot of trouble

3. In this passage we know computers ________.

A．also bring us trouble	B．bring us happiness only
C．are hated by people	D．are bad for people’s health

4. Can computers really help children to study?

A．Yes, they can.

B．It’s hard to say.

C．No, they can’t

D．Of course not.

5. The last sentence of this passage means that ________.

A．computers are used by people

B．people can live well without computers

C．one must decide how to use computers properly

D．computers are strange machines