【推荐1】Storytelling

Storytelling has caught the human imagination for thousands of years. People everywhere have told stories to amuse, to teach, to remember, and just to pass the time. People started telling stories long before writing was invented.    1    But people all over the world still tell one another stories out loud. A person who can tell a good story nearly always finds listeners.

Before people developed writing, storytelling was the most important way to pass along information. Anything a culture wanted to protect一its beliefs, its history, and its traditions—had to be told out loud. Each generation would tell the culture’s stories to the next.    2    Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition. Even cultures that know how to write still pass along some information in this way.

    3    In other cultures only special storytellers were trusted to do this important job.A culture’s best storytellers had good memories. They could also make the stories very interesting, so people would listen and remember them. Sometimes people would sing the stories or tell them in the form of poems.    4    

However, stories told aloud change over time as different people tell them. A storyteller might change a story in order to make it better. Or a teller may simply not remember all the details of a story. Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one person.     5    Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.

A．In this way the stories were passed along.

B．In some cultures everyone would pass along the stories.

C．Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember.

D．Instead, a whole culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history.

E．Today stories are also written down in books and acted out in movies, TV shows, and plays.

【推荐2】Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, while others read newspapers as soon as they have spare time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines(标题) of the passage.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest number of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 2lst Century as they bring us more and more information together with the Internet.
1. People read newspapers in order to _____.

A．read the short stories

B．find the morning news

C．learn the latest news

D．meet their own different needs

2. From the passage we can see that _____ when people get newspapers.

A．they just read the headlines

B．not everyone reads all the pages

C．they have no time to read them

D．they read them very carefully

3. Newspapers have so many pages because _____.

A．newspapers become cheaper

B．more pages mean more money

C．more and more people like to read them

D．people enjoy reading something different

4. Newspapers _____ are the most popular in the world.

A．in Chinese	B．in English
C．in other language	D．with many pages

【推荐3】Chinese people used to greet each other with "Have you had your meal? to show their friendliness. Recently, however, a new greeting has emerged in many Chinese cities, namely "Have you lost weight?"

Chen Xin, a manager of a company in Hangzhou, succeeded in losing weight. "Following instructions from my coach, I went on a diet(饮食) and lost 10 kilograms," Chen said with a satisfied smile.

In recent years, food-delivery(食物速递) services have been growing fast and entering every corner of Chinese cities. Also, Chinese people can easily get different kinds of foods from all over the world. But people are paying more and more attention to their health. Food written with "low calories" and "light food" are becoming popular. More people are becoming familiar with healthy ideas like "sugar cut-off" and "low-calorie Fast Diet plan".

Except for healthier diets, many people believe, to lose weight, it is not enough if you only control your food intake. Doing sports is also of great importance.

Jiang Yichen, a teacher at a university in Beijing, does sports in a training center if he finishes work early. "Doing sports provides me with energy, and energy brings me a lot of pleasure," Jiang said. Like Jiang, many people like sports, and some even take fitness equipment(健身器材) home.

Over the past two years, the online sales of fitness equipment have increased quickly, especially among women who believe that it's important to manage the body, according to a 2019 survey on Tmall.

People even like to run marathons. In China's big cities, holding marathons has become a fashion. According to the China Marathon Annual Report, 1,828 marathons were held nationwide in 2019, covering 31 provinces, with 7.12 million players.

1. The underlined word "emerged" in Paragraph 1 has the closest meaning to ________.

A．appeared

B．continued

C．changed

D．improved

2. Paragraph 3 mainly tells us that in China ________.

A．food-delivery services are growing fast	B．new ideas are changing people's life greatly
C．people begin to care more about their health	D．it's easier to enjoy food from different countries

3. The example of Jiang Yichen is taken by the writer to show ________.

A．controlling food intake is very important	B．most teachers are interested in doing sports
C．fitness equipment helps to manage our body	D．sports become a part of many people's lives