【推荐1】请阅读下面非连续性文本，按要求完成所给任务。

You have been familiar with the learning environment in your middle school, and it feels like home. So it is not always easy to say “bye-bye” to middle school.

After entering high school, you may face some new challenges. The schoolwork may become more difficult and require greater skills. Most students need support. Teachers and parents may give you a hand.

◆ Who do you prefer to ask for help with the schoolwork: your teachers or your parents?

Nick: My teachers. They know what I’m good at and what I’m poor at. They can always give me useful advice on my problems.	Lucy: I prefer to ask my teachers for help. They are always patient with me.
Jack: My parents. My teachers are so strict that I’m afraid to ask them questions.	Alice: I often turn to my parents for help. They are nice and never get angry.

Well, you can’t depend on others all the time. What can you do to succeed in your schoolwork? Here are some suggestions.

★ Understand what kind of learner you are. Do you need silence to focus? Then make sure the TV is not on when you are studying. Provide yourself with a quiet learning environment at home. Some students focus better in the morning; others at night. Find the right time so that your efforts will work well.

★ Learn to be better organized. It might be helpful when you get used to making a to-do list of all your schoolwork, and checking each item off when it is completed. Try to divide your work. This will create smaller, more manageable tasks out of the larger ones. Big projects seem less difficult if they are done step by step.

★ Form good reading habits. Read every day—the more, the better. It doesn’t matter what you read. Reading newspapers regularly is a good choice. Newspapers provide plenty of details and background. In addition, information you get from newspapers is usually official and true.

High school life can be enjoyable. Old friendships might come undone and new ones will develop. Hope you will feel confident and perform well in high school!

1. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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2. Why do some students prefer to ask their teachers for help with the schoolwork?
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3. What can we infer about Jack from his words?
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4. What does the underlined word “This” refer to?
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5. Please complete the chart. What else can you do to be successful in your schoolwork?
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6. Are you looking forward to high school life? Why?
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【推荐2】回答问题。 请阅读关于我的梦想房子的文章，根据所提供的信息回答后面的问题。

I want to tell you something about my dream house.

In the future, my house will be very big. In summer, it will be cool and in winter it will be warm, so it will be comfortable. There will be a beautiful garden in front of it. We can see many trees and flowers in it. And we can change the seasons from spring to winter in the garden as we like.

We can also travel everywhere with our houses. The house will be very light and it will be easy for us to move like a vehicle (交通工具). In the houses robots will do the heavy jobs, so we’ll have a lot of free time to relax ourselves.

Will these houses be very expensive? No, it will be very cheap. Everyone can buy it. We don’t need to worry about the money.

1. When will my house be warm?
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2. What will be in front of my dream house?
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3. What can we see in the garden?
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4. Will it be easy to travel everywhere with our houses?
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5. What will robots do if we want to have a lot of free time to relax?
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【推荐3】阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

What subject do you worry about the most at school? Many students worry about math. Some students can’t sleep well the day before a math exam. Others may feel very nervous during the exam itself. But there might be a way to make the subject less stressful (压力大的).

“For people who are worried about math, posture (姿势) makes a big difference, ”Erik Paper from San Francisco State University told the Daily Mail. That’s right—sitting up straight can help you do better on math exams.

Scientists tested 125 college students. They asked them to do a simple math exam while sitting in a slumped-over (趴倒的) posture, or sitting up straight. 3. After the test, 56 percent of students said the exam was easier to do if they were sitting up straight.

Slumping over is a defensive (戒备的) posture. It can bring about bad memories in the body and brain. This can stop you from thinking clearly, Paper said.

4. Students who were not nervous about taking the math exam did not necessarily benefit (受益) from better posture. But they did find that doing math while slumped over was more difficult, Science Daily reported.

Good posture isn’t just helpful for taking math exams. Sportspeople, musicians and public speakers can all benefit from better posture. When you feel stressed out, you can also try to sit up straight or stand tall. It can help you feel more certain and focus better.

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. According to the passage, what is the way to make the subject less stressful?
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2. Is slumping over a good posture for an exam? Why?
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B. 将短文中画线的句子译成汉语。
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C. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题
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【推荐2】

The Globe Theater（环球剧场）in London is very famous because people can see most of William Shakespeare’s plays there. It has a history of more than four hundred years. At that time, the theater was an open air playhouse. Shakespeare wrote many plays for it. There were three floors in the theater. It had about 3,000 seats. And there was a pit for poor people. What was a pit? It was a place around the stage（舞台）. Its tickets were cheaper. People could pay only a penny to stand there to watch a drama. The seats in the three-floor building were for rich people because the tickets were much more expensive.

In 1613, a fire damaged（毁坏）the theater. Later people repaired（修复）it for some time. In 1977, a new globe theater came out. It is the same size as the old one. There is also a shopping center there. You can do some shopping before the plays start or after the plays end.

1. Why is the Globe Theater very famous?
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2. How many seats were there in the Globe Theater?
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3. Why did the poor go to the pits to watch a drama?   
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4. What happened to the theater in 1613?
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5. What can you do before or after the plays?
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【推荐3】A name, which lets you look forward to, lets you daydream, and lets you have a very deep memory is Tsinghua University.

Tsinghua University is one of the most famous universities in China, and it lies in the northwestern part of Beijing—the capital city of China. It was built on the site (位置) Of “Tsinghua Yuan” in 1911.

Now the whole campus (校园) can be divided into east parts and west parts. It has a very comfortable campus environment. Walking in Tsinghua University, you can enjoy buildings of both Chinese and Western styles.

Tsinghua University is also one of the state “Project 211” universities. And it is a mational key university with science, history, education, medicine and so on. The university’s motto (校训) “Self-discipline and Social Commitment (自强不息，厚德载物) ” has been encouraging lots of Tsinghua teachers and students to work for the great development of China.

Please remember the name—Tsinghua University, because it is a place which will make you proud of yourself in all your life.

根据短文内容完成表格，每空一词。

Tsinghua University—     1     the most famous universities in China
The position of Tsinghua University	In the     2     of Beijing
The     3     on the campus of Tsinghua University	Of both Chinese and Western styles
The motto of Tsinghua University	“Self-discipline and     4     Commitment”
The     5     why you should remember the name of the university	It is a place which will make you proud of yourself in all your life.