【推荐3】What to Read on Holidays

The Diamond Necklace	Writer: Maupassant It's a story about a woman who is beautiful but poor. Her husband asks her to go to a party, so she borrows a diamond necklace(项链) from her rich friend. But she loses the necklace. Later she has to work hard to pay for it. The necklace changes her whole life.
The Cop and the Anthem	Writer: O. Henry It tells the story about Soapy, a New York City hobo(无业游民). At first, he wants to be caught by the policeman so that he can be a guest of the prison instead of sleeping out in the cold winter. Although he makes efforts, the policeman doesn't send him to prison. But when he wants to dead up his life, he is sent to prison.
The Ransom of Red Chief	Writer: O. Henry It's the story about two men and a boy. The two men catch a ten-year-old boy and ask the boy's father to ransom(赎回) him. But the man are bored with the naughty boy's behaviour. Finally, the men have to pay the boy's father to take him back.
The Million Pound Note	Writer: Mark Twain It tells experience of a poor young man Henry Adams after he surprisingly gets a one-million bank note from two rich men. His life changes completely because of the one-million bank note.

1. The diamond necklace ________.

A．is borrowed from a friend of the woman's husband

B．is stolen from a rich friend

C．changes the whole life of the woman's friend

D．changes the woman's whole life

2. Why does Soapy want to be caught by the policeman at first?

A．Because he is crazy.

B．Because he wants to clean up his life.

C．Because he doesn't want to sleep out in the cold winter.

D．Because he regrets what he has done.

3. Who created the character Henry Adams?

A．O. Henry.

B．Mark Twain.

C．Maupassant.

D．Jack London.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Henry Adams gets a one-million bank note from a rich man.

B．Soapy isn't sent to prison finally.

C．The Diamond Necklace was written by Maupassant.

D．The Ransom of Red Chief was created by Mark Twain.

【推荐1】Building a country is never easy. It takes hard work from generation (一代人) to generation. But how to make it disappear? A new report said long time of climate(气候) change can do that. 

The report said Tuvalu (图瓦卢) will be the first country to be completely lost due to climate change.

Tuvalu is a Pacific island nation with nine islands and 12,000 people. It has long been at risk from rising sea levels. By the end of the century, it is believed that all the islands will be underwater, reported Reuters. So many people in Tuvalu have often moved around the country and even to other countries.

To help with the problem, the country plans to build its country in the virtual space (虚拟空间). This news made many people in Tuvalu excited. The virtual country will recreate the same scene and keep its cultural and historical records. No matter where they live in the real world, the people in this country will have their ID cards and “live” in its online cities and villages. The government hopes to manage and serve them in this virtual space.

“Though the virtual nation belongs to Tuvalu, it still brings some problems.” said Li Zuxi, director of virtual space lab of Qingbo Intelligent Technology, He gave us an example. If people from other countries enter the space of the virtual country but just show their names, how do people know if they do or do not truly belong to that country? 

Li added that instead of trying our best to build virtual nations, it’s better to pay attention to saving the real world now.

1. Tuvalu will disappear because of ________.

A．climate change

B．virtual space

C．other countries

D．the Pacific

2. In the virtual space, the people can’t ________.

A．have their ID cards	B．“live” in its online cities and villages
C．keep their own culture	D．know who truly belongs to that country

3. According to the passage, the writer ________.

A．agree to create virtual country	B．disagree to create virtual country
C．is a worker of virtual space lab	D．is a person in Tuvalu

4. The structure of the passage may be ________.

A．①/②③/④⑤⑥

B．①②/③④/⑤⑥

C．①②③/④⑤/⑥

D．①/②③④/⑤⑥

【推荐2】The coldest and most difficult place in the world in which to live is Antarctica (南极洲). Antarctica is the land of snow and ice near the South Pole (南极). Most people do not think there is much life in the icy water around it. They are wrong.

Antarctica’s seas are full of life. There are many kinds of fishes, water birds, seals and whales. They eat the plant life in the sea and the smaller water animals. Some whales, for example, eat more than a ton (吨) of food every day.

The most famous animal of Antarctica is the penguin. It walks around the icy beaches as if it were a movie star walking down the street.

根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）误（F）。
1. Antarctica has much ice.
2. Around Antarctica there is little life.
3. Some whales eat lots of food every day.
4. The most famous animal of Antarctica is the whale.
5. There are many kinds of fishes, water birds, trees and flowers in Antarctica.

【推荐3】In many people’s eyes, plants are quiet. They can’t talk. They can’t walk. And they can’t think like us.

A new BBC documentary series, The Green Planet, gives us a new look at plants. It tells us the wonderful ways that plants behave.

“The Green Planet tells us the secret lives of plants. It is in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans,” editor Elle Hunt wrote in New Scientist.

Plants compete against each other to live. Each has its own ways. In rainforests, different kinds of plants race for sunlight because only two percent of the sunlight goes through the rainforests. Some plants spread their big leaves to reach light. But some vines（藤蔓）try to catch them to take a ride. Finally, they are both beaten by balsa wood, one of the fastest growing trees. As the tree has slippery hairs on its leaves, the vine can’t get a hold.

Plants also help each other and even communicate. In deserts, the roots（根）of Euphrates poplar（胡杨）, a kind of tall straight tree with soft wood, are connected. If a tree finds water, it will share it with others through the roots. Studies also show that plants use fungus（真菌）in the soil as a way to “talk” with each other. It’s kind of like how Wi-Fi works. If a tomato plant gets a leaf disease, it can tell nearby plants about it through fungus.

The show not only lets us know about the plant world but pushes us to understand that plants are important. Plants are the basis of all life, including ourselves. We depend on them for food that we eat and air that we breathe. It’s time to look after wild plants just as carefully as our houseplants.

1. What is the show The Green Planet about?

A．Plants.

B．Animals.

C．Food.

D．Oceans.

2. The underlined word “slippery” probably means “________” in the text.

A．ugly

B．smooth

C．wide

D．hungry

3. How can tomato plants communicate with each other?

A．By insects.	B．By wind.
C．By using strong roots.	D．By using fungus in the soil.