【推荐1】

Food	Drinks	Desserts
Hamburger   $3.50 Hot dog   $2.85 Turkey   $4.05 Bread and butter   $3.10 Egg sandwich   $3.60 Beef sandwich   $3.80 Vegetables   $5.10	Coke   small $1.65 large $1.85 Orange juice   small $1.95 large $2.15 Coffee   $2.10 Tea   $2.00	Ice-cream   $3.05 Chocolate   $3.10 Apple pie   $4.15 Fresh fruit   $3.80

1. If you have only three dollars, what food can you buy?

A．A chocolate.

B．An egg sandwich.

C．A hot dog.

2. Jeff has ordered a hamburger, a large orange juice and two apple pies. How much will he have to pay?

A．$13.95.

B．$ 13.75.

C．$ 13.65.

3. If you want to eat healthily, which is the most proper meal?

A．Some vegetables, sandwiches and fresh fruit.

B．Lots of chocolate and some coffee.

C．Some fresh fruit and lots of ice-creams.

【推荐2】Americans began their days by eating whatever was most easily available from the earliest days of the United States. These foods often included bread, eggs or leftovers (剩饭).

Today, the feeling of relaxed and comfortable without worries is still an important reason when it comes to breakfast. However, what people eat has changed over time. And some of today's common breakfast foods, such as cereal (燕麦), are the result of advertising (广告).

"People created advertising to sell cereal," says the writer of the book Breakfast: A History. Arndt Anderson adds, "One of the first ways that advertising was successfully used was to make mothers believe that it was okay for their children to eat these instant cereals (速溶谷物食品). It gave working mothers a chance to let kids take care of themselves in the morning."

____________ also played an important part in orange juice becoming a morning drink. In 1916, farmers grew more oranges than usual, so advertisers began saying, "Drink an orange." They wanted to make people believe that drinking orange juice was a healthy way to start the day.

As for coffee, it became so popular that some people carried coffee beans with them everywhere in the 1930s.

Researchers think people made pancakes in the morning because they are much quicker to prepare than bread. Cooks could then have to make fresh bread for dinner.

Arndt Anderson hopes more Americans will see leftovers as a breakfast food. She adds that leftovers taste good and are a great way to make less waste.

1. What can be put back into the blank?

A．Mothers

B．Children

C．Advertising

D．Farmers

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Arndt Anderson is the writer of the book Breakfast: A History.

B．Orange juice became a morning drink because it's cheap.

C．Arndt Anderson disagrees Americans to eat leftovers for breakfast.

D．Advertising made great difference to making kinds of food become breakfast.

3. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

A．①/②/③④⑤⑥/⑦

B．①/②③/④⑤⑥⑦

C．①/②/③④/⑤⑥⑦

D．①②/③④/⑤⑥/⑦

4. What's the best title of the passage?

A．Different kinds of breakfast foods.	B．The history of American breakfast.
C．Americans' favorite food for breakfast.	D．Some ways to make less waste.

【推荐3】

Once upon a time carrots were purple, there were no pineapples in Asia or lemons in America, and many people thought potatoes were poisonous (有毒的). Many types of fruit and vegetables like chili grew only in one place. So why are they all over the world?

Five thousand years ago, carrots only grew in Afghanistan and most were purple. Only a few were orange as they look like today! Farmers in the Netherlands were looking for a fruit or vegetable to stand for their king, William of Orange, and orange carrots were just what they were looking for—they became the grandfather of all modern carrots.

Many plants only grow in certain places on Earth, often deep in the forest. The home of potatoes is in the mountains of the Andes in South America. Bananas come from Papua New Guinea and lemons grow wild in China. Corn isn’t from China, but South America.

But once people realized that many of these plants were good to eat, they took them far from the places where they grew. Fruit, especially, interested thirsty travelers. Arab businessmen transported different fruits and vegetables around the world, such as oranges, which they took from Asia to countries far away such as Spain. The Spanish returned from South America with many new types of food, including chocolate and chili.

People were not often sure what to do with these new fruits and vegetables, or used them for different purposes from today. Carrots were used not as food but as medicine to protect people from poison or even (it was believed) to make people fall in love. The first tomatoes and pineapples were grown not as food but to make the garden look pretty. And many people were worried about potatoes—although they are good for us, their leaves are poisonous and poorer people believed they could be used for black magic. In Germany, people only began eating potatoes when the king ordered that people who did not eat them would have their ears and noses cut off!

Today, we are so used to our different types of food that we don’t think about where they came from. But for each pineapple, potato or carrot we eat, there is a long history!

1. Why are carrots we see today orange?

A．Because people didn’t like the color of purple carrots.

B．Because orange carrots were the grandpa of modern carrots.

C．Because there were some connections with William of Orange.

2. South America is the home of ________.
① carrots   ② lemons   ③ chili   ④ potatoes
⑤ bananas   ⑥corn   ⑦ oranges   ⑧ chocolate

A．①③⑤⑧

B．②④⑥⑦

C．③④⑥⑧

3. Who played the most important role in making the food worldwide according to the passage?

A．Thirsty travelers.

B．Arab businessmen.

C．The Spanish.

4. About the purposes of food, which statement is TRUE?

A．People used to take carrots as poisonous medicine.

B．Pineapples were planted to make gardens beautiful.

C．Potatoes were used to bring bad luck to poor people.

5. The main idea of the passage is ________.

A．how the food spread

B．where the home of food is

C．what food was used for

【推荐1】

As the days get colder, the flu season comes. The sneezes (喷嚏) from people who have a cold sometimes smell unpleasant. Where does the smell come from?   

In fact, the thing we sneeze out is mostly our saliva (口水). Saliva is 99.5 percent water and 0.5 percent other things like protein (蛋白质) and minerals (矿物质). When some bacteria (细菌) come into your mouth, they break down some protein in your saliva. This process sometimes produces gases (气体) like volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs, 挥发性硫化物) a group of unpleasant gases. Normally, they stay in the saliva. But when we sneeze out saliva, the water evaporates (蒸发) quickly in the air, letting out the gases and setting free bad smells.

Moreover, when we sneeze, it’s not only saliva that comes out but also some things in the nose and throat. For those who have a cold, there are probably snot (鼻涕) and sputum (痰) filled with bacteria in their noses and throats. Pushed by the air pressure from sneezing, they may get out together with saliva, providing a mix of different bad smells. That’s why you can smell more unpleasant sneezes in the classroom during the flu season.

Anthony G. Del Signore, a senior medical expert from Israel, told livestrong. com that different smells of sneezes have different causes.

Diabetes (糖尿病) might lead to sweet smelling sneezes. Bacteria and infections (感染) inside the nose would result in smelly ones. And teeth illnesses are likely to cause sour smells. Serious diseases that include liver (肝) and kidney (肾) problems may cause sneezes to smell really bad, like a toilet.

Does this worry you? A smelly sneeze every now and then is common. But if your sneezes smell bad for a long time, it's time to go to a doctor.

THE BEST WAY TO SNEEZE

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (美国疾控中心) says that you should cover your nose and mouth with a tissue (纸中) when sneezing and then throw the tissue straight into the bin (垃圾桶). But if you don’t have a tissue at hand, sneeze into your elbow (肘) instead of your hand. After all, you won’t greet others and touch things around using your elbow! This helps lower the risk of making the people around you sick.

1. Why do sneezes from people who have a cold smell unpleasant?

A．Because they sneeze out more saliva.

B．Because protein smells bad in the air.

C．Because VSCs are given off with saliva.

D．Because bacteria are sneezed out.

2. What does the underlined word “they” refer to in Paragraph 3?

A．Saliva.	B． VSCs.
C．Noses and throats.	D．Snot and sputum with bacteria.

3. Which is the correct match of sneeze smell and its disease?

A．sweet-smelling sneeze-liver disease

B．toilet-smelling sneeze-nose infections

C．sour sneeze -teeth illness

D．smelly sneeze -diabetes

4. What is the structure of this passage?

A．

B．

C．

D．

【推荐2】Many people can use the computers, but few of them know how to look after them.     1    

Keep your computer in a cool , dry(干燥的) room. Too much or too little heat is bad for computers.    2     Most computers work best at a temperature of 5℃~30℃.

Do not let people smoke near your computer. All kinds of smoke do harm to computers and they can cause many problems.

    3     If you eat near the computer, there will be pieces of food in the keyboard. And a little water may be terrible.

Make sure the glasses are right for your eyes. If you wear glasses, make sure these glasses are good for using the computer.     4    

Keep your screen clean and do not have it too bright.     5     A very bright screen can also be bad for your eyes. If you can afford one, buy a computer screen. It will be better for you than using the screen of a TV set.

A．Some people use a different pair of glasses when they use a computer.

B．Here are some ways.

C．A dirty screen can hurt your eyes.

D．Be careful when you use the computer.

E．The wet environment is also bad for them.

F．Put the computer everywhere.

G．Do not eat or drink when you are near your computer.

【推荐3】There are many ways to help improve your health like eating healthy food. Taking exercise and getting medical help. But the easiest and cheapest way to improve your health is just to sleep eight hours or more every night.

The problem with sleep is that more and more people in the world are not sleeping enough. According to the World Health Organization over half the people in the world may be sleep-deprived. Having less sleep not only makes people feel tired but also causes accidents. Also sleep problems can cause medical problems such as high blood pressure(血压).

Why are so many people sleep-deprived? Part of the reasons may be cultural. In the American culture, people put a higher value on work than on sleep. It seems that the less you sleep, the more work you’ll do.

How do we teach these people to learn the value of sleep? Perhaps they may listen to the advice of Dr. James Maas an expert (专家) in sleep. He says , “Sleep is like a credit (信用卡) card. When you sleep less. you are only borrowing time. You always have to pay it back. The more hours you don’t sleep, the more hours you should sleep to ‘pay back’ the hours on your ‘sleep credit card. ’”

For those who value work more than sleep, they should listen to what a famous person once said. “Don’t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the night. That is a foolish(愚蠢的) idea which is held by people who have no imagination. You will be able to do more.”

1. According to the writer, the easiest and cheapest way to improve health is to ________.

A．eat healthy food every day	B．take exercise as much as possible
C．get medical help whenever necessary	D．sleep eight hours or more every night

2. What does “sleep-deprived” mean in Paragraph 2?

A．Having a good sleep.	B．Excited about sleep.
C．Having less sleep.	D．Interested in sleep.

3. What do the words of the famous person mean in Paragraph 5?

A．Sleeping during the night is foolish.	B．Sleeping during the night is helpful.
C．People have no courage.	D．People always do less work.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．The Value of Sleep	B．The Value of Study
C．The Ways of Eating Less	D．The Ways of Making Money

【推荐1】Malaria (疟疾) has been a big problem for humans since ancient times. Usually, people get malaria when infected mosquitoes (被感染的蚊子) bite them. Many people have died from the disease. Luckily, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou found an effective drug (药) called qinghaosu (青蒿素).

In 1969, Tu became the director of a national project to develop the medicine to treat malaria. They studied books about classical Chinese medicine. After reading more than 2,000 old remedies (药方), Tu and her team collected over 600 plants and listed almost 380 possible remedies for malaria.

One remedy, which is 1,600 years old, uses sweet wormwood (青蒿) as a treatment. Tu found it worked and tried to extract (提取) the qinghaosu from it to make a drug. The extraction failed at first, so Tu returned to the classical books again and finally found a way.

She used a low - temperature method to extract the qinghaosu and finally succeeded in 1972. After her team showed that qinghaosu could treat malaria in mice and monkeys, Tu and two of her coworkers decided to test the drug on themselves before trying it on human patients. It turned out that qinghaosu was safe, and all patients in the test got better. Gradually, qinghaosu became the first - line treatment for malaria recommended (推荐) by the World Health Organization (WHO), saving millions of lives around the world.

In 2015, when Tu was given the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, she refused to take all of the praise. Instead, she praised her coworkers and Chinese traditional medicine. She once said, “Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.”

1. Many people died from malaria in the past probably because ________.

A．many animals were infected	B．they drank polluted water
C．people knew nothing about it	D．they were bit by infected mosquitoes

2. In the fourth paragraph, what does the underlined word “it” refer to?

A．Malaria.

B．The drug.

C．The monkey.

D．The mouse.

3. Where did Tu find a solution after the extraction failed at first?

A．From classical medical books.	B．From foreign remedies.
C．From tests on animals and humans.	D．From different plants.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Tu Youyou found the drug qinghaosu in an old remedy.

B．Qinghaosu was safe for people because it could treat malaria in mice and monkeys.

C．WHO recommended qinghaosu as the only treatment for malaria.

D．It was Tu Youyou’s dream to do something helpful for the world.

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．A Deadly Disease Called Malaria	B．The Best Treatment for Malaria
C．The Road to Qinghaosu	D．A Nobel Prize Winner

【推荐2】Welcome to your future life!

You get up in the morning and look into the mirror. You look young. In 2135, many people can live to be about 150 years old. So at the age of 40, you’re not old at all. And your parents look the same age as you!

You say to your shirt, “Turn red.” It changes (改变) from blue to red. In 2135, “smart clothes” can change the color or style (样式) as you like.

You walk into the kitchen. You pick up the milk, but you hear the voice (声音), “You shouldn’t drink that!” Your fridge remembers the information about the milk. It knows that the milk is not fresh. In 2135, every household appliance (家用电器) is like your secretary (秘书).

It’s time to go to work. In 2135, cars drive themselves. Just tell your “smart car” where to go. On the way, you can call a friend with your watch. Such “smart technology” is all around you.

So will all these things come true? “All these things will come true, even better,” says a scientist. I agree with the scientist. I am looking forward to the new life.

1. In the kitchen, where is the “voice” from?

A．The watch.

B．The secretary.

C．The milk.

D．The fridge.

2. What are the cars in 2135 like according to the passage?

A．They run in the sky.	B．They don’t need gas (汽油).
C．They don’t need drivers.	D．They can talk with people.

3. Which of the following is TRUE about the life in 2135?

A．People don’t need to go to work.	B．People don’t need to wear clothes.
C．People don’t need to have breakfast.	D．People can say to the shirts to change the styles.

【推荐3】People in Poland(波兰) have their ways of spending free time. They have many different hobbies (爱好)，which help them to get away from their everyday problems and spend their free time happily.

Many Polish people like travelling. They look for new places that they have never been to. Some like to climb mountains and others like to go to the sea or a lake to swim. These activities can make them get exercise and are good for their health.

Many Polish people also like to do sports in their free time. They are usually crazy about (对……着迷）football, because football is the Polish national sport. Many football fans may support (支持）a team, so they go to watch every match of the team they support. They also buy many things that have to do with the team. Watching sports and doing them are both good ways to relax.

And what's more, doctors say that doing sports is very good for health. Many people in town, especially young men, often go to the gym to take exercise classes to keep fit.

Polish people also have many other ways to spend their free time. And they really enjoy their free time.

1. Polish people have many different hobbies so they can_________ .

A．solve their everyday problems

B．finish all their work on time

C．make some friends

D．relax themselves in their free time

2. Why do some Polish people like climbing mountains?

A．Because they dislike travelling.

B．Because they can get exercise from it.

C．Because they can find a new place.

D．Because it is comfortable and funny.

3. Which of the following sports is NOT mentioned (提及）in the text?

A．Playing football.

B．Climbing mountains.

C．Skating.

D．Swimming.

4. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A．Football is many Polish people's favorite sport.

B．Young Polish people often go to the gym.

C．All the Polish people do sports in their free time.

D．Most Polish people like watching sports.

5. What can we learn from the text?

A．Polish culture is colorful.

B．Polish people have many ways of spending their free time.

C．A doctor can give you good advice.

D．There is no need doing free time activities.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

These days, teenagers have a lot to deal with, from study pressure and family expectations to concerns about social media and self-image. When pressure takes over, it’s easy to neglect self-care.     1    .

Set aside some time each day to do pressure-reducing activities.

Meditation（冥想）is a good choice because it increases relaxation and concentration（专注）.     2    . Yoga helps reduce physical tension（紧张）and strengthen the mind-body connection. If meditation and yoga aren’t your cup of tea, then try strength training or running. Such exercises have benefits of improving your physical fitness and reducing your anxiety（焦虑）.

    3     .

Most young adults require eight to nine hours of sleep a night to function at their best. Sleep and wake up at regular times as well so that your body can follow a regular sleep schedule.

Connect with nature.

Time spent outdoors can help you lift your mood and look at life from a different angle. So go on a hike, ride your bike, or simply take a walk in the park.     4    .

Pay attention to your diet.

When it comes to self-care, you should pay special attention to the importance of proper nutrition（营养）.     5    , while a good one energizes you. Try to cut snacks and fast food from your diet, which are typically loaded with salt, sugar, and solid fats. Eat more energy boosting foods like fresh nuts, fruits, and vegetables.

These self-care steps don’t require a lot of time or effort. However, they will do wonders for improving your mental and physical health.

A．Try to get enough sleep

B．You could add yoga to it too

C．A poor diet can leave you feeling weak and unhappy

D．Take your eyes off your phone and look at the trees and sky

E．Here are some tips for keeping your body and mind healthy