【推荐3】阅读下面的材料，然后根据材料内容回答问题。

Arctic fox(北极狐) is a kind of small fox that lives in the Arctic. It grows about 50 cm long, not including its tail, 30 cm tall and weighs from 3 to 7 kilos.

The Arctic foxes are white or blue in color. The white ones are white in winter, but gray-brown in summer. The blue ones are blue-gray all year round. The Arctic foxes have long, thick hair that is called fur. And the long fur covers their whole bodies, including both their cat eyes and rabbit feet, to keep them warm in the low temperature in the Arctic.

The Arctic foxes feed mainly on birds, birds’ eggs and other small animals. Teamwork is the way they look for food, and they don’t like to do that alone.

Baby Arctic foxes are very lovely. They don’t open their eyes until a week after their birth. For the first half of the year, their parents offer them food. They begin to look for food on their own when they are about six months old. The next year they can live alone.

Today the number of the Arctic foxes is becoming smaller and smaller, because people kill them for their fur to make beautiful coats for money. Something must be done to protect the Arctic foxes.

1. What is the weight of an Arctic fox?
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2. What is an Arctic fox’s long, thick hair called?
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3. How do the Arctic foxes look for food?
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4. When do baby Arctic foxes begin to look for food on their own?
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5. Why is the number of the Arctic foxes becoming smaller and smaller?
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【推荐1】根据短文内容完成句子（所填内容可能是单词、短语或句子）。

Brush your teeth every day, dentists say. In the south of Africa, some people brush their teeth with sticks first.

They keep a small stick in their mouth to chew(咀嚼) or scrub(洗刷) their teeth all day. People cut the sticks from trees. They are the African toothbrushes. People there are used to brushing their teeth with sticks.

Africans think the sticks work better than toothbrushes. The sticks come from nature, and it is said that there is something special about them. The special thing may stop many kinds of tooth problems. “If you have a bad tooth, it is a medicine,” said Diop, a seller in Africa.

The sticks also cost less than toothbrushes.

In Senegal(塞内加尔), the chewing stick is called “sothio”. It means “to clean” in their language. In east Africa, the stick is called “mswaki”. It’s their word for “toothbrush”.

Nowadays, some nice health stores in the United States start to sell chewing sticks. They think that the stick is natural kind of tooth care.

1. Some people ____________ brush their teeth with sticks first according to the passage.
2. Africans keep ____________ in their mouth to chew or scrub their teeth all day.
3. The sticks ____________ than toothbrushes.
4. “Sothio” means “____________” in Senegal’s language.
5. The special thing in the sticks may help ____________.

【推荐2】阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

Trends (潮流) come and go. Many things that people buy to follow the fashion end up in the rubbish bin. Now, young Chinese people are giving these things a second life. Nowadays, we can see many “stoopers” in big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. They pick up idle (闲散的) things and reuse them.

Chen Jiaorong, 27, is one of them. She has been stooping since June 2022. At that time she found that many people were letting go of things hardly used after the COVID lockdown (封闭管控) in Shanghai. After that, she often “hunted treasures (寻宝)” in her free time. Now, her small apartment holds things redesigned (重新设计) from the idle things she collected, including tables, chairs and clothing.

“Some say stooping means collecting rubbish,” Chen said. “But for me, it is about making the best use of things.” That’s why she wanted to share the trend with others. Sometimes Chen also puts eyeball-shaped stickers (小贴纸) on idle things that she doesn’t need and posts pictures of them on social media (社交媒体) for others to find.

With a hobby of keeping things since childhood, Huang Xiaohe from the Xishan High School in Kunming also loves stooping. Though the 12-year-old has few chances to go stooping in her city, Huang often looks for idle things around school. Then, she cleans and redesigns them, turning them into fun things at home. The cotton from a found toy bear dresses a cloud lamp, bottles become decorations (装饰) and old facial masks (面膜) are used to make clothes for her Barbie dolls.

“I believe that any waste can be turned into treasures,” said Huang. She also added that stooping is an action to fight over-buying.

1. When did Chen Jiaorong start stooping?
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2. What does stooping mean for Chen?
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3. Does Huang Xiaohe have many chances to go stooping?
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4. How does Huang Xiaohe turn idle things into treasures?
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5. What will you do to turn waste into treasure?
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【推荐3】阅读短文, 根据要求完成问题。

Everybody knows that cats like to sleep. They spend more than half their lives sleeping and enjoy every minute of it. Other animals have different sleeping habits, however. Horses may not look like they are asleep. But they are! Horses spend about six hours sleeping every day and they do it standing up!

Fish also sleep every day but they have a strange (奇怪的) habit. They don’t close their eyes when they are sleeping. When ducks sleep they keep one eye open and half of the brain awake. It helps them stay alert (警觉的) and watch out for dangerous animals.

So what about humans? Well, most people sleep for about a third of their lives. The number of hours you sleep, however, has to do with your age. Most newborn (新生的) babies sleep a lot. They spend about 75% of their time sleeping every day! As you get older, you need less sleep. Children need about eleven hours of sleep and adults sleep about eight hours every night. So, yes, you spend many hours a year doing nothing—just sleeping in bed!

But you’re not just asleep—you’re not really doing nothing. Your body and your mind relax during this time, and a lot of things happen during sleep. Dreams are one way that the mind relaxes after a busy day. A person spends about 20% of every night dreaming. That means you have about four or five dreams every night and about 1, 600 dreams a year.

1. How do horses sleep?
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2. How long do most newborn babies sleep one day?
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3. How many hours do adults sleep less than children?
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4. How many animals are mentioned (提到) in the passage?
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5. What is the passage mainly about?
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【推荐1】根据短文内容，完成表格。

The Arctic is home to over 21,000 kinds of animals and plants. Two thirds of it is the Arctic Ocean. In winter, it is completely covered with sea ice. In summer; nearly 50 percent of the sea is ice.

goggles                 igloo                           reindeer

It’s also home to about 4 million people, a group of whom are Inuit. Jim is an Inuit boy. At 6:30 am, he wakes up and gets ready to go to school in his fur （毛皮）coat. It keeps him warm in the freezing weather. Half an hour later, he gets to school on a ski or snowmobile. Some of his friends go by car instead. At 11:30 am, it’s time for lunch. There’s fish and other meat in his lunchbox. He sometimes eats them uncooked. These foods give him enough energy. Besides local food, some people eat Western food. At 5:00 pm, the snow outside makes everything bright, so he wears snow goggles on his way back home, or his eyes may be hurt badly by the strong light. From December to March, the sun never rises. However, it always shines in the sky during the summer. At 10:00 pm, he goes to bed. Sometimes he stays in an ice house called igloo. It looks cold but it’s warm inside. Many local people live in houses made of wood.

The Inuit mainly make a living by hunting and fishing. Now, their life is greatly influenced by climate (气候) change. For example, many animals they hunt for food are disappearing. There is less food for the reindeer they keep, too. They face more terrible weather, such as snowstorms. Hunting becomes more dangerous. Hunters may accidentally fall into water if the ice becomes too thin. Actually, the temperature in the Arctic is 18℃ higher than it was 125 years ago. All Arctic ice may disappear during the summer in less than 100 years.

The Arctic

The facts of the area	1    : *50% of the Arctic Ocean is covered with ice. *The sun always shines. In winter:    *100% of the Arctic Ocean is covered with ice. *The Arctic is     2     all the time from December to March.
The daily life of a young Inuit	Clothing:    *a fur coat to keep warm *snow goggles to     3     the eyes Transportation:    *a snowmobile *a ski     4    : fish and some other meat (sometimes without being cooked) Housing: * a wooden house * sometimes an ice house
The problems that the Inuit face	Some wild animals are disappearing. Animals, food is running out. The weather is more terrible. The hunters aren’t sure about their own safely because of     5    .

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

We need animals. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. We should try to help save the animals.

Some people think zoos are good places. The zoos give animals the comfortable and safe living places. If animals get hurt or ill, people will take care of them. The zoo is a good place to know the rules in the wild world. We can be much closer to nature. We can know about the animals in the zoos by watching, listening even smelling.

Some people don’t think animals feel happy in the zoos. Animals like pandas, wolves（狼）and bears usually live in the wild. They play and find food by themselves. They are free and happy in the wild. If they are in the zoos, food is enough and rooms are comfortable. They do not need to do their best to find food to eat or places to stay in. They will walk around, sleep day and night, but they are not free at all.

I think people should build national parks as wild life nature reserves（保护区）to protect animals. If we do nothing, animals will get fewer and fewer.

1. What do the zoos give animals in Paragraph 2?
The zoos give animals ________________.
2. How can we know about the animals in the zoos?
We can know about the animals in the zoos by ________________ even smelling.
3. Where do pandas, wolves and bears usually live?
They usually live in the ________________.
4. What will the life be like if pandas, wolves and bears are in the zoos?
If they are in the zoos, they will ________________, but they are not free at all.
5. What does the writer think people should do to protect animals?
The writer thinks people should ________________ as wild life nature reserves to protect animals.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，按要求完成各下题。

Even though the advantaged of recycling have been widely told in recent years, many people still don’t recycle anything at all. Recycling is good for you, for manufacturers (制造商) and for our environment. Here are some good reasons why everyone should recycle.

It’s rather easy. Putting something in a recycling bin is as easy as putting it in a rubbish bin. So there is no good excuse not to recycle things that can be recycled. If you don’t have a recycling bin at home or at work, just get one!

Many resource (资源) will be used up one day. Many of them cannot be used endlessly. For example, making plastic require oil. And oil will run out sooner or later. The sooner we can use renewable energy source, the better. At the same time, we should not forget the importance of recycling.

Recycling is good for your wallet. Reusing old things costs less than buying new ones. In most states in America, it’s actually more costly to throw away waste than to recycle. Some recycling factories buy waste from neighborhoods for their recycling activities. This brings you more money.

Everyone can make a difference. If you think that it makes no difference whether you recycle or not, think again! More than half of the waste that each of us created each year can be recycled. But a lot of it ends up being buried (埋). When each of us takes action, it all adds up and makes a real difference. After all, many hands make light work.

1、2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中划线句子译成汉语。
1. Putting something in __________ is as easy as putting it in a rubbish bin.
2. Oil helps to make plastic, but it will ___________ one day.
3. What brings you more money according to Paragraph 4?
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4. _________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________

【推荐1】C)阅读下面的短文，并根据短文内容回答所提问题。

In September 1991, two German tourists were on holiday in the Alps (阿尔卑斯山脉). One day, they were walking along a road when they saw something in the ice. They stopped and looked. It was part of a body. They thought it was a climber, but they were wrong. This body was over 5300 years old. It was a man from the Stone Age (石器时代).

Ötzi, as the archaeologists (考古学家) called him, lived between 3350 BC and 3100 BC. He came from northern Italy and he was about forty-six years old. He was about 1.6 meters tall, and he had blue eyes and long, dark brown hair. We know that he was a farmer because scientists found pieces of corn in his clothes.

He changed our ideas about the Stone Age. Before Ötzi, archaeologists thought that copper (铜) didn't arrive in Europe until 2000 BC. However, Ötzi was carrying a copper ax (斧头) 1, 300 years earlier. He was also carrying a knife and some wooden tools. He was wearing warm clothes. These things show that Stone Age people were more amazing than we had thought.

1. How old was the body that the two German tourists found in the ice?
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2. Ötzi was about sixty years old when he died, wasn't he?
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3. What was Ötzi's height?
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4. Why was Ötzi thought to be a farmer?
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5. What was Ötzi carrying when he died?
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【推荐2】USA? Britain? Which country is better to study in? We often hear such discussions. As China opens its door, it is a dream for many Chinese students to study abroad. They want to learn about the outside world.

It’s true that studying abroad can help students develop themselves. Their foreign language skills will be improved and it may be easier to find jobs.

But there are problems that should be considered. Language is the first. Students must spend a lot of time learning another language.

Students must also learn to live without parents’ care and deal with all kinds of things they haven’t had to do before, like looking after themselves. There are reports about Chinese students abroad running into an ocean of difficulties and giving up finally. When they have to take care of themselves, it is hard for students to study well.

Finally, studying abroad brings a heavy burden（负担）to the family. For most Chinese parents, the cost of studying abroad is very high. But is it worth it?   

We know that there are many famous people who have achieved success through their hard work in China. Liu Xiang is a good example. Once an American teacher invited him there, but he refused. He kept training hard with his Chinese teacher. He surprised the world when he won a gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games. So when you wonder which country is better to study in, think whether studying abroad is the right choice.

Studying at home or abroad
Phenomenon（现象）	Studying abroad has become a     1     for Chinese students.
Advantages	*It is     2     to the future development of Chinese students. *It helps to     3     foreign language skills. *It enables Chinese students to find jobs more easily.
Disadvantages	*It takes Chinese students too much time to learn another foreign language. *It’s hard for Chinese students to get used to the life abroad     4     parents’ care. *The cost of studying abroad is high.
Purpose: To tell us studying abroad is not the only way to be     5     by describing Liu Xiang’s example.

【推荐3】阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

How do we know the time? A clock, a watch or a mobile phone can help us. However, many years ago there were no clocks and knowing the time was not so easy. Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time.

About 5, 500 years ago, the Egyptians invented (发明) the sun clock. This was a tall stone building. Its shadow (影子), 500 years ago. It was smaller than the sun clock and could let people know the time for half a day. On cloudy days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial. Water clocks were the first clocks not to use the sun. The idea is simple. Water flows (流动) from one bottle to another. When the water reaches a certain level, it shows the hours. The Egyptians used water clocks about 3,400 years ago. But people can’t know the exact time with it.

In the 13th century, the mechanical clock was invented. This was more exact, but it was expensive to make one. Over the next few centuries it was improved. For example, springs (发条) were added around 1500. This enabled people to get the correct time and allowed clocks to be smaller. In 1927, the first quartz clock was developed. Clocks became cheaper to build. It was also cheaper for people to own a clock.

There has been a lot of improvement in timekeeping. Clocks are always changing but some things never change. Many of us still have trouble getting out of bed on time and not being late for school or work.

1. When did the Egyptians invent the sun clock?
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2. Did water clocks use the sun? 　          　
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3. Who used water clocks about 3400 years ago? 　                              　
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4. Why did many families begin using clocks in 1927? 　                              　
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5. What’s the passage mainly about? 　                              　
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