【推荐2】I don’t have to explain to you why sleep is important. Our bodies have a need for daily and deep relaxation. However, many people suffer（遭受）from disruptive sleep（失眠）through night after night. If that’s you, the following can help you get some good sleep.

Rest with the sun

When the sun goes down, it’s a sign for you to begin to relax. Of course, You don’t have to go to sleep at once, but begin to relax your body. Rest with some light reading or by relaxing on your sofa. You’d better not take high-energy activities, such as playing basketball at night.

Make your bedroom the room for rest

The bedroom isn’t the room for you to play or study. Or at least it shouldn’t be. When you put your televisions or computers in your room, they make it difficult for you to fall asleep. Put away any unnecessary things and make it a place mainly for relaxation.

Don’t eat too much at bedtime

When it’s time to sleep, your body prefers to sleep and doesn’t like to do anything else. When you eat too much before going to bed, your body will work hard to digest（消化）all that food. It can’t get the best preparation（准备）for sleep. So experts（专家）say it’s better to have about three hours between dinner time and bedtime.

Clear your mind

Worry is the sleep thief, too. It’s hard to relax when your mind is still working. Make some space at night for your own quiet time. Read something that will encourage you to let your problems go. When you stop worrying, you will sleep better.

1. We should take high-energy activities ________ according to the passage.

A．before the sun goes down	B．after the sun goes down
C．when the sun goes down	D．as soon as the sun goes down

2. Put away any unnecessary things and make it a place mainly for relaxation. Here “it” refers to（指的是）________.

A．your dinning room	B．your reading room
C．your bedroom	D．your sitting room

3. If you go to bed at 10: 00 o’clock in the evening, you had better have dinner at about ________.

A．6: 00 o’clock

B．7: 00 o’clock

C．8: 00 o’clock

D．9: 00 o’clock

4. How many ways of getting good sleep does this passage tell us?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

5. The best title（标题）of this passage is ________.

A．How to clear your mind	B．The importance of sleeping
C．Some ways to get a good night’s sleep	D．Where to put your televisions or computers.

【推荐3】Most friendships die a nature death: people move, change jobs, or start different stages of life. Other friendships, however, end unexpectedly. When a friendship is over and you don't understand why, it can be especially painful. Sometimes a friend ends your relationship without telling you why.

The loss of friendship might be worth reflecting on. Knowing when a friendship is over and why it ends may help you build stronger friendships in the future.

●See if you can find a problem.

When a friendship is over, examine your relationship. Perhaps you remember your friend complaining that you're always late. Maybe you seldom return your friend's phone calls. When a friend ends your relationship, try to find out the reasons why the friendship is over.

●Write a letter to your friend.

Express your feelings about the friendship. Do you miss seeing them? Do you have any regrets? Would you act differently if you were still friends? Make it an honest communication.

●Express your feeling of being hurt or anger.

Write or talk about how you feel in a letter. When a friendship is over, it's important to communicate exactly how hurt you feel and why. Write until you have nothing left to say. When a friend ends your relationship, you do have the right to express yourself.

●Communicate that you are open to pick up the friendship.

When a friendship is over and you want to reconnect some day, send Christmas, or birthday cards. Say hi and send greetings through mutual(共有的)friends. When a friendship is over, don't give up until you're ready.

●Decide to make your present friendships better.

An adviser once told me that simply talking about your relationship strengthens your relationship. Talk to your present friends. Are they happy with your friendship? If a friend ends your relationship, learn something from it.

1. The underlined phrase "reflecting on" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.

A．thinking about

B．giving up

C．keeping on

D．getting angry

2. What can we know from "See if you can find a problem"?

A．You are always late when you and your friend plan to go out.

B．You often refuse to answer your friend's phone calls.

C．Your friend is fond of complaining all the time.

D．Perhaps your friendship is over because of your problem.

3. When a friendship is over, you may do all the following EXCEPT ____.

A．write a letter to your friend to tell your regrets

B．talk about how you feel about your friendship

C．ask your friends whose mistake on earth it is

D．send your greetings to your friend before giving up

4. The purpose of this passage is to_____________.

A．explain why you lose a friendship	B．suggest what to do when a friendship is over
C．tell you when a friendship is over	D．advise how to end a friendship

【推荐2】You can see waste（浪费）everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree with them.
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources（资源）, we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It is reported（据报道） that we will have no coal （煤）or oil to use in 100 years. Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life, we can do many things to stop waste . For example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom and try not to order more food than we need. Little by little, everything will be changed. We can stop waste one day if we do our best to form（养成）the habit of saving.
1. From the passage we know that some students often _________ in the school.

A．eat too much	B．don’t work hard
C．waste things	D．throw rubbish everywhere

2. Which is NOT mentioned（提及） in this passage?

A．Fresh water.

B．Forest.

C．Oil.

D．Coal.

3. What may happen （发生）in 100 years?

A．We may still have enough oil.	B．We may still have enough coal.
C．We may have a little oil.	D．We may have no coal or oil to use.

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Waste brings problems.	B．Waste won’t bring problems.
C．China is rich in fresh water.	D．Students never waste things.

【推荐1】Chinese Traditional Culture

Name	Erhu	Weiqi	Calligraphy	Beijing Opera	Chinese Kungfu
History (year)	1,000	4,000	5,000	200	1,500
Famous Character (人物)	A Bing	Nie Weiping	Wang Xizhi	Mei Lanfang	Huo Yuanjia
Famous work	The Moon over a Fountain (泉)	/	Lan Ting Xu	Drunken Beauty	/
Group of people who prefer	The old	People at any age	The old	The old	The young

1. _____ came out the latest of the five.

A．Erhu

B．Chinese Kungfu

C．Beijing Opera

2. ______ was good at calligraphy.

A．Nie Weiping

B．Wang Xizhi

C．Mei Lanfang

3. When people meet the information about ______, they will think of Erhu.

A．Lan Ting Xu

B．Drunken Beauty

C．The Moon over a Fountain

4. There are ______ kinds of culture about music.

A．two

B．three

C．four

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the information above?

A．Chinese Kungfu has a longer history than Erhu.

B．The young are fond of Weiqi.

C．Mei Lanfang liked Beijing Opera because he was old.

【推荐2】Volunteers Needed

Sunny Children's Hospital ●Two people are needed ●Be good with kids ●Play fun games with kids ●Spend four days a month Tel: 5938-6357

Home Love ●Help old people repair things ●Have skills in repairing ●Spend thirty hours a month Tel: 5742-3625

Blue Water Beach ●Collect and carry rubbish ●Clean up the beach every Sunday

1. How many volunteers does Sunny Children Hospital want?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

2. Home Love needs volunteers to ________.

A．collect and carry rubbish	B．help old people repair things
C．play games with kids	D．work two hours a day

3. The material(材料) is probably from a ________.

A．dictionary

B．newspaper

C．storybook

D．diary

【推荐3】It’s said that dogs are man’s best friends. But for Frikkie Von Solns, his best friend is a lion.

The lion’s name is Zion and he is 16 years old. He was born in a zoo because his mother was there when she gave birth to him. Zion was taken away from his mother because his father might kill him.

Frikkie got Zion legally (合法的). He took him home and brought him up. When Zion was very young, Frikkie had to feed him every four hours. In order to take good care of Zion, Frikkie even shared a bed with him at times.

“I have learned so much from Zion,” Frikkie said. “For me, it is a special experience to grow up with a lion. Zion is a gentle (温和的) big cat. He has never hurt a human. I trust him.”

Frikkie often takes Zion out for a walk. Before they go walking, Frikkie always takes off his shoes because Zion doesn’t like the noises the shoes make.

The friendship between Frikkie and Zion is really special. But as normal people, we should be careful when we get close to lions and other wild animals.

根据语篇内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的为“T”，错误的为“F”。
1. Zion was taken away from his mother because he was too weak to stay in the zoo.
2. Frikkie had to feed Zion six times a day when he was a baby.
3. Frikkie take off his shoes before he and Zion take a walk because Zion hates the noises from the shoes.
4. From the text, we can know Frikkie is a zookeeper.
5. The text is about a special friendship.

【推荐1】Do you use a calendar to help you organize your life? By listing what your need to do on any special day, you can make sure to keep all for your meeting and not worry whether you’ve forgotten something, Calendars are also useful for reminding (提醒) people what day a certain holiday is on and what days you might have off from work. Besides, they are used for planning fun things like vacations and outings.

A calendar is usually divided into twelve parts, and each one stands for a month with all the days laid out in a grid-like (网格状的) form. A block of space usually is for a day, and there is enough space for you to write down what you need to do that certain day. You probably use all different kinds of calendars. A calendar on your cell phone screen is easy to use, and so is a large paper calendar that hangs on your wall.

1. What is the main idea of the first paragraph？

A．What calendars are used to do.	B．Why people worry about time.
C．Who reminds people to have a holiday.	D．How people plan vacations and outings.

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

A．A calendar is usually divided into two parts.

B．Many kinds of calendars have no grid-like forms.

C．People often write down their special days on the wall.

D．A calendar on the mobile phone is as easy as a paper calendar to use.

【推荐2】   

If you live in Shanghai, you might have taken a “lesson” in sorting (分类) garbage, as the city introduced new garbage-sorting regulations (规章) on July 1, 2019.

As China’s first city to carry out strict regulations on garbage sorting and recycling, Shanghai requires its residents (居民) to sort garbage into four categories (类别), namely recyclable, harmful, dry and wet waste. If people fail to sort their garbage properly, they can be fined up to 200 yuan.

Since the regulation took effect, the amount of total daily waste in Shanghai has been reduced by an average of 15,500 tons, dropping 26 percent from the end of 2018, while the average daily weight of recyclables hits 4,500 tons, five times higher than the end of 2018, according to the Shanghai Landscaping and City Appearance Administrative Bureau.

The city also rebuilt 21,000 waste-sorting stations and more than 40,000 waste bins have been updated (更新). The city’s waste collection and transportation system (运输系统) is complete, according to the bureau.

“Proper waste sorting protects the environment and saves natural resources,” said Deng Jianping, director of the bureau. “Led by the central government, Shanghai is making efforts to develop long-term solutions to garbage management.”

However, there have also been some problems. Some people complained that it is difficult to deal with wet garbage, as they are asked to remove wet garbage from its bag when dumping (倾倒). According to the sorting rules, the wet garbage must go in the wet waste bin and the bag must go in the dry waste bin.

This separation is necessary, as it ensures that the wet garbage will decompose (分解) properly and become useful organic (有机的) waste, the bureau said.

Plastic bags can affect this process. Some people in Shanghai are instead using paper bags that can biodegrade（生物降解）or plastic containers that can be washed and reused, according to Xinhua.

1. People in Shanghai are asked to sort their garbage into the _____ categories.

A．recyclable, dry, harmful and kitchen waste

B．recyclable, kitchen, dry and “other” waste

C．harmful, recyclable, dry and “other” waste

D．harmful, recyclable, dry and wet waste

2. What does the third paragraph tell us?

A．The garbage-sorting regulation has already brought improvements.

B．Recyclable waste comes out to two-thirds of the total daily waste.

C．In 2019, people produced less waste than in 2018.

D．Shanghai needs stricter rules to deal with waste.

3. According to Deng Jianping, Shanghai _____.

A．has added more than 40,000 waste bins

B．has had problems with garbage management

C．will help other cities make garbage-sorting regulations

D．is still looking for long-term solutions to deal with garbage

4. What does “this process” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The process of sorting garbage.

B．The process of dumping wet waste.

C．The process of decomposing wet waste.

D．The separation of wet waste and dry waste.

5. This article tell us_______.

A．why Shanghai must sort their garbage.

B．how Shanghai sorts their garbage

C．the reason of the garbage-sorting regulation and some achievement.

D．how to protect our environment

【推荐3】On January 27, in order to win the new pneumonia Resistance War (抗击新型肺炎战役), the Ministry of Education issued (公布) a notice on putting off the start time of school in spring 2020. It was said that school should not start before February 17. The exact start time of school will depend on situations and further notices.

However, many parents are very worried that putting off the start of school may affect children's studies. If they have such a long winter holiday, children will not learn any knowledge at all. They may forget what they have learned before. Staying at home for a long time will make them keep eating, sleeping and playing, which seriously affect their physical and mental health.

In short, the close of school influences learning and develops bad habits, so how should we avoid these problems? Local education departments have also issued a notice, that is, to organize online teaching and create a network platform, where necessary courses will be shown every day, and online teaching will be given by excellent teachers of the subjects, and students can learn at home through computer or mobile network.

It should be said that such a method is very good. It can not only keep students indoors and not worry about the infection (感染) of the disease, but also make them study at home, and truly achieve "no suspension of classes". Both the platform and the recorded lesson resources are more useful, and are welcomed by parents and teachers.

Of course, except for learning at home, it is also necessary to teach children about health knowledge, especially how to keep away from touching virus; at the same time, it is necessary for children to do some physical exercises.

1. Why are parents worried about putting off the start time of school?

A．Because they have no time to look after their kids.

B．Because they don't like the idea of online learning.

C．Because children's study may be affected.

D．Because children may be infected by virus.

2. What is also necessary EXCEPT for learning at home according to the writer?

A．Playing online games.	B．Meeting different people.
C．Doing some physical exercises outside.	D．Teaching children about health knowledge.

3. What does the underlined word "suspension" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Plan.

B．Increase

C．Change.

D．Stop.

4. What's the passage mainly about?

A．A New War with a New Chance	B．A Special Way to Learn at Home
C．A Way to Keep Mentally Healthy	D．A Method to Make Parents Worried