【推荐1】My mother is cool—much cooler than most people. I give her full credit (功劳) for making me the person who I am today. To thank her, I’d like to share some of the things she taught me.

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No matter how hard things got, my mom could always joke about them. It has taught me things are never, ever, end-of-the-world kind of bad. I’m sure this has made me a more relaxed person.

Self-expression leads to self-achievement.

    2    . Soon enough, people asked her to make clothes, and it turned into a full-time business. That shows me how you can set up your own business by expressing yourself truthfully.

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As a creative, my mother always encouraged us to do imaginative things for enjoyment and discouraged TV. We dressed up in costumes(戏服), drew pictures, and sang at the top lungs (肺). Today, I am a very fun person to be with.

Independence is important.

My mom has always pushed me towards becoming independent. Not for her good, but for mine. I made my own decisions without her trying to manage me. Because of this,     4    .

Mistakes are OK as long as you learn from them.

    5    . Instead of saying “I told you so”, my mom always let me work things out myself. She was also there to help me pick up the pieces, if I ever needed help.

For all that you’ve done and everything that you are—thank you, Mom!

阅读短文，把A~E五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整。

A．Imagination has no end

B．I grow up to be completely independent

C．My mother made her own clothes she felt like wearing

D．Growing up, I’ve made my fair share of mistakes

E．Being hopeful is the key to turning things around

【推荐2】It was a hot summer day and I had just pulled into the gas station to fill up my car. After filling it up, I started to walk inside to pay. That is when I noticed them. Two elderly women were standing back from their car. There was fear on their faces. I looked and saw what they saw: five yellow jackets (小黄蜂) building a nest around their gas cap. I suddenly felt scared (惊恐的). I shared the ladies’ fear.

Yellow jackets have never been friends of mine. Several times these wasps (黄蜂) have attacked (攻击) me while I was cutting the grass, stinging (蛰) me each time I ran over their nests. The worst time, however, was when I was a young boy. A friend of mine and I were playing in my backyard. I must have stepped on one of their nests again because before I knew it, both of us were being chased and stung by the yellow jackets while we ran away screaming. I ran to my mum with tears in my eyes. She ran a cold bath (浴盆) and put us both in it to ease (减轻) the pain before giving us medicine to help us feel better.

Still, I knew I couldn’t let fear stop me now. I reached into my pocket for a paper towel I had there, took the nest down and stepped on it while the wasps buzzed around me. Both of the ladies thanked me for what I did.

You can’t let the fear of being stung keep you from doing what is right. We need to love each other and change the world for the better. And the only way you can do this is through helpful acts and kindness. Don’t let the yellow jackets in your life hold you back.

1. Why was there fear on the women’s faces?

A．They saw a fire in the gas station.	B．They were scared of yellow jackets.
C．They were too old to drive the car.	D．They couldn’t find their way out.

2. The writer tells his experiences in Paragraph 2 to show ________.

A．what his childhood life was like	B．how his mum loved him
C．why he was sacred of the wasps	D．how to deal with yellow jackets

3. What did the writer’s mother do first after the writer got stung?

A．She gave him some medicine.	B．She asked him to step on the nests.
C．She took him to see a doctor.	D．She put him into a cold bath.

4. What did the writer do to save the two women?

A．He drove away the yellow jackets.	B．He ran away from the gas station.
C．He broke down the yellow jackets’ nest.	D．He told them to take a cold bath.

5. The story mainly tells us that ________.

A．animals are harmful to human beings	B．elderly people always need our help
C．a friend in need is a friend indeed	D．we shouldn’t let fear hold us back

【推荐1】Boom! A clap of thunder（一声霹雳）made the old house shake. Ramon stayed under his bed. A flash of lightning（一道闪电）lit up the room. “I hate this house,” Ramon thought. It was his first night in his new home.

The house had belonged to his grandma. It was very, very old. It looked really scary at night. The trees outside his windows looked like monsters（怪物）in the dark. The branches（树枝）looked like long arms. They waved（飘动）when the wind blew. The storm made everything even scarier. Ramon hated storms, and it seemed worse in the old house.

Later the thunder（雷）became quieter. Ramon climbed into bed and fell asleep. When he woke up, the sun was shining through his windows. Ramon climbed out of bed.

The trees outside didn’t look like monsters anymore. The branches had nice green leaves growing on them. Ramon could see a bird sitting on one of the branches. It was singing a happy song. The yard looked pretty nice in the daylight. A stream（溪）ran across the yard. A swing（秋千）hung from one of the trees. Many flowers grew next to the trees. Butterflies（蝴蝶）flew around the flowers.

“Maybe living here won’t be so bad after all,” Ramon thought.

1. How did Ramon probably feel during. the thunderstorm（雷雨）?

A．Excited.

B．Relaxed.

C．Scared.

D．Tired.

2. What can we know about the house?

A．Ramon grew up in it.	B．Ramon’s grandma pulled it down.
C．It was really dark inside.	D．There are some trees outside it.

3. What does the underlined word “They” refer to?

A．The trees.

B．The branches.

C．The monsters.

D．The long arms.

【推荐2】Microsoft founder Bill Gates has talked about to be a good parent, saying that 13 is a right age for a child's first mobile phone. The 57-year-old father of three said on the Today show that his children Jennifer and Rory were not allowed phones until             their thirteen birthday and his youngest daughter Phoebe is still waiting for one.
“We've made a rule in our family that it's 13 when you get a phone.” He also said as a resulthischild often returned homefromschool complaining, “All the other kids have it, I'm the only without it, it's so embarrassing.”
Asked if he keeps passwords (密码) to his son and daughters’ e-mail and Facebook accounts(帐号) . Mr Gates said that he doesn’t for Jennifer, 16, who he says is “old enough”.
Besides their wealth Mr and Mrs Gates ,who live in Lake Medina, have said they want to raise their three children as usually as possible. It is said that their kids have to do housework at home after school and aren't given much pocket money.
And in 2010Mr Gates said that he wanted to give most of his $61 billion away rather than hand it down. “That wouldn't be good either for my kids or society,” he said.
Mr Gates left Microsoft in 2008 to put his heart to charity. During the Today interview with host Matt Lauer, he said that helping others made him feel happy as creating software.
“ What you really feel is what you’ve achieved. If a piece of software gets out there and lots of people love it—it lets them get their work down in better ways—that’s exciting.” he replied.
1. How old is Phoebe?

A．Maybe 11years old	B．Maybe 13years old
C．Maybe 14years old	D．Maybe 15years old

2. What do Mr Gates children think of their not having phones?

A．They feel it interesting .

B．They don’t think it exciting

C．They feel it embarrassing .

D．They think it funny

3. Mr Gates doesn’t keep a password to Jennifer’s email because        .

A．Jennifer doesn’t like him to do so

B．Jennifer is already sixteen years old

C．he thinks children should be free

D．parents can’t know kid’s password

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Bill’s children like his idear about a child’s first cell phone.

B．Bill Gates is still working for Microsoft.

C．Bill’s children have to do housework after school.

D．Bill’s children are given much pocket money

5. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Bill Gate’s school life

B．How Bill Gates is working for charity.

C．Bill gate’s work in Microsoft

D．How Mr and Mrs Gates raise their children

【推荐3】One morning, the students are having an English lesson. Mr. Zhang finds Li Lei doesn’t listen to him. He goes to Li Lei and has a look. Oh, Li Lei is drawing a boy. The teacher asks Li Lei to stand up. “Do you like drawing?”

“Yes, Mr. Zhang,” answers Li Lei, “And I draw very well.”

“You can draw after class, I think,” says the teacher, “You can’t draw anything in class.”

“You are wrong, Mr. Zhang. I can draw when I have an art class. And I like it very much,” says Li Lei with a smile.

“You are right. And you must draw one hundred boys before the class is over,” says the teacher angrily.

After five minutes, Li Lei finishes drawing and puts up his hand. The teacher looks at the picture and asks, “I ask you to draw one hundred boys, but you draw only two. One is standing at the door and the other is standing in front of the window. Where are the others?”

“The others are sitting in the classroom. You can’t see them,” answers Li Lei.

1. Mr. Zhang is ________.

A．a Math teacher	B．a Chinese teacher
C．an English teacher	D．an Art teacher

2. Mr Zhang finds Li Lei is drawing ________.

A．two boys.	B．ten boys.
C．one boy.	D．one hundred boys.

3. How many boys does Mr Zhang ask Li Lei to draw? ________

A．Two.	B．One hundred.
C．Three.	D．One.

4. What do you think of the boy? ________

A．Kind.	B．Clever.
C．Happy.	D．Lazy.

【推荐2】I was on a train in Switzerland. The train came to a stop and the conductor’s (乘务员的) voice over the loudspeaker delivered a message in German, Italian, and French. I’d made the mistake of not learning any of those languages before my vacation.

Everyone started getting off the train and an old woman saw that I was confused and stressed. She could speak some English and told me that an accident had happened on the tracks (轨道) . She asked me where I was trying to get to, then went and talked to some workers, and came back to tell m that we’d have to hop trains three or four times to get there.

I was really glad she was heading the same way because it would have been impossible for me to figure it out on my own. So we went from one train station to the next, getting to know each other along the way.

She was really the sweetest woman. It was a 2.5-hour journey in total, and when we made it to the final destination, we got off and said our goodbyes. I had made it just in time to catch my train to Rome. She told me she had a train to catch as well. I asked her how much farther she had to go and it turned out that her home was two hours back the other way.

She had jumped from train to train and traveled the whole way just to make sure that I made it. I was in shock. A woman spent her whole day sitting on trains and taking her hours away from her home just to help out a confused tourist visiting her country.

No matter how many countries I visit, I’ll always say the most beautiful country in the world is Switzerland.

1. The author had to get off the train because ________.

A．she got on the wrong train by mistake

B．she couldn’t understand the conductor

C．there was an accident on the tracks

D．an old woman invited her to travel together

2. What does the underlined word “hop” probably mean in the passage? ________

A．To visit a place.	B．To change from one to another.
C．To deliver something.	D．To walk along.

3. How many extra hours did the old woman spend traveling that day? ________

A．About two hours.	B．About two and a half hours.
C．About four hours.	D．About five hours.

4. Why did the old woman help the author? ________

A．To make sure the author wouldn’t get lost.

B．To practice her English with the author.

C．To kill time with a foreigner on the train.

D．To guide the author around her country.

5. What can we infer about the author from the story? ________

A．Her hometown is Rome, Italy.

B．She made a mistake so she only learned English.

C．She was not satisfied with her trip in Switzerland.

D．She thinks people in Switzerland are quite nice.

【推荐3】I am my mother’s third girl. When I was born, the doctor gently explained to my mother that my left arm was missing, below the elbow (肘). Then he gave her some advice, “Don’t treat her any differently from the other girls.” And she did!

There were five girls in our family and we all had to help out. Once when I was about seven, I came out of the kitchen, “Mom, I can’t peel (削……皮) potatoes. I only have one hand.” “You get back to peel those potatoes, and don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”

Of course I could peel potatoes with my good hand and my other arm. “Jenny, if you try hard enough,” she said, “you can do anything.”

Once in the second grade, our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bar (攀爬架). When it was my turn, I said “No”. Some kids laughed. I went home crying.

The next afternoon, Mom took me back to the school playground. “Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She praised me when I made progress (进步). I’ll never forget when I was crossing the bar, the kids were standing there with their mouths open.

It was the way with everything. Mom had the courage (勇气) to face anything. And she taught me I could, too.

1. How many younger sisters do I have?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

2. What did the doctor’s advice mean?

A．My arm could be all right soon.	B．The other girls had the same arms as me.
C．My mom should look after me differently.	D．My mom should treat me the same as the others.

3. Why did mom take me back to the school playground the next day?

A．She wanted to tell me I could do anything.

B．She wanted the teacher to let me try again.

C．She would punish the kids who laughed at me.

D．She would like to praise me before the other kids.