【推荐1】Have you ever used shared bikes? What do you think of this new “fashion”? Shanghai is one of the first cities in China to have shared bikes. Shared bikes can now be found all over the city. They are popular, in fact, not only among adults but also among teens. On streets wide and narrow, there are some accidents involving shared bikes. These accidents warn us that shared bikes are not for everybody.

One of the most serious accidents took place in March. One Sunday afternoon, a boy was cycling on an ofo bike. He was hit by a bus and later died. The boy’s parents are not by his side. Besides, the boy was considered too young to ride a bike. He was only about 10 years old.

The good news is that Shanghai has been trying to regulate bike sharing. The regulations are still being discussed, but some of the rules have been decided upon. For example, only people aged between 12 and 70 can ride shared bikes. Users must be between 1.45 and 1.95 meters tall.

However, it could be hard to put these regulations into effect. Young children can still be seen riding ofo bikes. That’s because many ofo bikes use manual locks. If a user did not lock the bike properly after using it, anyone can ride it away. Ofo has developed electronic locks. However, it will take some time for the company to install the new locks on all of its bikes. I hope we can do more work to make sure the accident like this never happen again.

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。
1. What does the underlined word “involving” mean in Chinese? ______

A．影响

B．涉及

C．移动

D．破坏

2. Which of the following statements about the accident mentioned in paragraph 2 is NOT true? ______

A．The accident took place in Shanghai.

B．A primary school student died in the accident.

C．The boy’s parents were not with him when the accident happened.

D．The boy learned to ride a bike just one day before the accident happened.

3. What is ofo going to do in order to prevent such an accident from happening again? ______

A．To stop children under 12 from using its service.

B．To ask everybody to park and lock its bikes properly.

C．To ask Shanghai’s traffic police for help.

D．To replace all of its manual locks with electronic ones.

4. According to Shanghai’s new bike sharing regulations, which one of the following people can ride a shared bike in Shanghai? ______

A．Linda 10 years old 1.4 m tall 46 kg

B．Sam 14 years old 1.57 m tall 53 kg

C．David 72 years old 1.66 m tall 60 kg

D．Betty 13 years old 1.44 m tall 48 kg

5. Why does the author write the passage? ______

A．To introduce us to the popularity of bike sharing services in Shanghai.

B．To teach readers how to use a shared bike.

C．To ask readers to make efforts so that young children cannot ride shared bikes.

D．To show us the development of the bike sharing services in Shanghai.

【推荐2】In 2011, when British photographer David J. Slater was visiting a park in Indonesia, his camera was taken away by a group of black monkeys. The result was hundreds of monkey selfies (自拍照). The best ones show a female monkey smiling toothily for the camera. Slater then sold the photos and they became popular on the Internet.
Nobody knew they would create a copyright battle three years later.
Last month, Wikimedia Commons put the monkey selfies online under a collection of free photos without Slater’s permission. Slater asked the website to take them down since he owns the copyright.
However, Wikimedia Foundation—the organization behind Wikimedia Commons—refused Slater’s request. They said that according to US copyright law, whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright to the photo. It was the monkeys but not Slater that pushed the button.
What’s more, monkeys don’t own copyright. “US copyright law says that works that come from a non-human source can’t ask for copyright,” said Katherine Maher, Chief Communications Officer of Wikimedia.
Slater argues that the pictures belong to him as they were taken from his camera. He said he bought the cameras; he spent a lot of money to travel to Indonesia; and it was his carelessness that allowed the monkeys to take his cameras away. All these have made him the author of the picture, no matter who pushed the button. In a sense, the monkeys could be regarded as his assistant, Slater said.
As of now, there has been no result in the Monkey Selfie case. Who do you think will win this interesting battle?
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Some monkeys grabbed Slater’s camera.

B．Slater took photos of the monkeys and sold them.

C．The photos taken by Slater became popular on the Internet.

2. The underlined word “copyright” in the second paragraph probably means “______” in Chinese.

A．网络

B．版权

C．材料

3. The copyright battle of the photos began in ______.

A．2011

B．2012

C．2014

4. Who owns the copyright of the photos according to Wikimedia?

A．The monkeys.

B．David J. Slater.

C．Nobody.

5. What is the story main about?

A．A copyright battle over photos taken by monkeys.

B．Why Wikipedia refused to take down some photos.

C．How the photos taken by monkeys became popular online.

【推荐3】Who’s building the new China? It’s not the factory owners or the business men．It’s someone else．
We see them every day．They work day and night in the terrible working places and weather．They build the roads，the theaters，the cinemas and the supermarkets．They even clean up our rubbish．They are China’s migrant workers(民工)．
Over 140 million workers left their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in big cities around China．They hope to be rich，but they find they have many difficulties in making enough money．And one of the difficulties is the pride and discrimination(歧视)from the people in cities．
When night falls．I see the sad faces of the migrant workers．Many are living far away from the people whom they love.
Yes，they dress differently，they speak differently，and they have different habits，but they work hard．The people in cities think they are outsiders，and most governments refuse（拒绝） to give them medical care(医疗) and public schooling for their children．
If China hopes to move into the future．many things need to change．The first is discrimination! We need to stop our discrimination against the migrant workers of China! They may not make as much money as some people in cities，but they are good people just trying to survive. These workers are very important and necessary to China’s economic development(经济发展)and play an important role in changing Chinese society（社会）．They are building the new China，so we should help them．
1. The writer thinks _______ is building the new China．

A．the factory owners of China

B．the business men and women of China

C．the migrant workers of China

D．the people in Chinese cities

2. China’s migrant workers work _______．

A．only at night	B．in good working conditions
C．day and night	D．when the weather is fine

3. The word“survive”here in Chinese means“_______”．

A．服务

B．活下来

C．放弃

D．阻碍

4. Which one is NOT TRUE about China’s migrant workers according to the report?

A．The people around the country should help the migrant workers ．

B．More than 140 million migrant workers are in big cities to make money．

C．The people in cities welcome migrant workers though they are outsiders．

D．China’s migrant workers are important in changing Chinese society．

【推荐2】McDonald’s is one of the biggest restaurant chains（连锁餐厅）in the world. It has restaurants in more than 100 countries.

The story of McDonald’s started in the 1930s in Los Angeles, USA. Two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald, wanted to go into business（经商）. First, they tried opening a movie theater. ▲ Next, they set up a food stand（设立了一个食品摊位）to sell hamburgers and orange juice. Although the food stand was successful, the brothers wanted something bigger.

At that time, more and more people had cars. So the brothers decided to open a restaurant for drivers. The restaurant was called McDonald’s Barbeque. Its workers brought food like sandwiches to people who would wait in their cars.

Soon after opening McDonald’s Barbeque, the McDonald brothers had to face competition from many similar restaurants nearby. They needed to think about how to make their restaurant different. The answer was to serve food faster and more cheaply. They also gave their restaurant a new name—McDonald’s. That made their restaurant popular.

Soon, other people wanted to copy（复制）their business plan. The brothers sold franchises（特许经销权）to open more restaurants. Later, Ray Kroc worked with the brothers. Kroc had big plans and wanted to open as many McDonald’s as possible across the country. With lots of hard work, he helped turn McDonald’s into a famous restaurant chain.

1. The best sentence for “ ▲ ” is “_______ ”

A．Soon it became very crowded.	B．But it wasn’t successful.
C．They liked watching movies.	D．It was a dream come true for them.

2. Drivers could buy food in McDonald’s Barbeque _______.

A．at any time	B．without leaving their cars
C．without talking to its workers	D．more cheaply than people who didn’t drive

3. Different from its competitors（竞争者）, McDonald’s had _______.

A．bigger space	B．more delicious food
C．shorter waiting time	D．more hard-working workers

4. We can infer from the passage that _______.

A．it was easy to copy McDonald’s success

B．Americans didn’t like eating fast food in the 1930s

C．Kroc played an important role in helping McDonald’s grow

D．few restaurants had a franchise for fast food like McDonald’s Barbeque

【推荐3】The United Nations put out the most complete report on the problem of food waste. It found that the world wastes about 17% of all the food. That’s about a billion (十亿) tons of food a year. A billion tons is a lot of food—it’s about 931 billion kilograms. The report said that the food wasted is about twice as much as earlier studies had suggested. The study looked at several different ways in which food is wasted—at home, in restaurants and in stores.

It turns out that most food waste—about 61%—happens at home. The food thrown at home works out to about 74 kilograms for each person every year. Restaurants caused about 26% of the food wasted. The other 13% was thrown away by stores.

Food wasted was at about the same rate (比率) in all but the poorest countries. Many people thought rich countries were more likely to waste food than countries that were less rich. That turned out not to be true. In fact, some richer countries wasted far less food than common countries. But people in richer countries may waste less food at home because they are eating out at restaurants more often. That certainly seems to be the case in the US, which has low waste numbers for homes, but quite high numbers for restaurants.

The report points out that hundreds of millions of people are hungry every year. And wasting food is also really bad for the earth. Farming creates between 10% and 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions (温室气体排放), which make the environment worse.

The report says that it’s important for countries to study food waste more carefully in order to make out ways to sew up the problem. Some possible uses for food waste include making food for animals and burning food wastes to create energy. The important thing is to keep food from simply going into rubbish bins.

根据上文内容判断正 (T) 误 (F)
1. The report shows ‘‘People in rich countries pay most attention to the taste of food.”
2. According to the report, people in rich countries don’t actually waste more food than others.
3. The underlined expression “sew up” in the last paragraph means “avoid”.
4. Paragraph 4 mainly shows the problem of hunger is difficult to solve.
5. The report suggests that countries should study how to reuse food waste carefully.