【推荐1】When you are about to do something brave, a cheerful wish of “Good luck!” from a friend can be helpful. But if you think you need lots of luck, what else might you do?

In the UK and the US, there are some strange traditions for bringing yourself a little more good luck. Some are hundreds of years old and some are much newer.

Have you heard the saying “When you wish upon a star”? If you are looking up at the sky on a clear night and you see a sudden flash of light, it is probably a shooting star! Seeing one doesn’t happen very often. The saying goes that if you see one, you have been very lucky, and so if you make a wish, it will come true.

Maybe you have heard of the lucky rabbit’s foot. Some people believe that rabbits are lucky animals, so they carry a special part of the rabbit, its foot, for good luck. There are all kinds of strange, unclear rules about which of the rabbit’s feet is the luckiest. It is said that this good luck tradition is the oldest one of all. However, as the funny saying goes, “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit!”

People in Britain love trees. If it is autumn and leaves are falling from the trees, some people try to catch the leaves as they fall because they think each leaf they catch will bringthema lucky month in the following year—they will need to catch 12 falling leaves to have a whole year of good luck!

1. ________ is mentioned in the oldest good luck tradition.

A．A shooting star	B．A falling leaf
C．A cheerful wish from friends	D．A rabbit’s foot

2. From Paragraph 3, we know that________.

A．shooting stars can often be seen

B．people can see a shooting star on a rainy night

C．you will be lucky when you see a shooting star

D．people believe that it’s unlucky to see a shooting star

3. British people try to catch 12 falling leaves because________.

A．the leaves fall in autumn

B．there are so many leaves to catch

C．they want to have a whole year of good luck

D．the leaves can bring them lucky month

4. In Paragraph 5, the underlined word ‘them’ refers to (指)________.

A．trees

B．people

C．leaves

D．years

【推荐2】America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don ’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship .This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand . Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China ,we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends .It is opposite in America , Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes , the welcome will be full , warm and real. For Americans , it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!
1. The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may mean “_______”.

A．keep out

B．give up

C．pay no attention to

D．continue

2. Which of the following is the typical （典型的）way of   American hospitality?

A．Treating friends at home.

B．Taking days off to be with friends.

C．Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.

D．Sharing everything they have.

3. Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A．Americans are always generous with their time.

B．Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.

C．Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.

D．Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships.

【推荐3】Do you think only Chinese love drinking tea? In fact, many people in western countries like drinking tea. Some tea can make people healthy and can help people become thin. Of all the kinds, black tea, green tea and oolong tea are the most popular in western countries.

Green tea: Some people love it for its good taste, while others love it because it is good for our health. The taste of green tea has the sweet and the mellow. The sweet tea is good for digestion, and it can help you make the food into smaller pieces. The mellow one can stop you from feeling tired.

Black tea: It’s famous for its taste, and it’s able to go well with many Western foods, usually sweets (甜点) and creamy (奶油的) foods.

Oolong tea: It’s famous as “blue-green” tea or “wulong”. Because of its special taste, both tea-drinkers and tea-learners love it. It’s able to help us become a little thin.

In latest years, western people start enjoying white tea and pu’er tea.

1. The passage talks about ________ kinds of tea.

A．four

B．five

C．six

D．seven

2. Which of the following foods can go well with black tea?

A．

B．

C．

D．

3. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “digestion” in the second paragraph?

A．降压

B．分泌

C．除湿

D．消化

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Only Chinese love to drink tea.	B．The sweet green tea can stop us feeling tired.
C．The taste of green tea has three kinds.	D．Oolong tea can help people to become thin.

5. The writer wrote the passage to tell us ________.

A．how to know good tea and bad tea	B．to drink some tea every day
C．some popular tea in western countries	D．the history of some kinds of tea