【推荐1】

The Experience of a Lifetime! Swim with the dolphins in our Ocean Park, Guangzhou. ●Experienced and knowledgeable trainers. ●Relaxed interaction* with dolphins ●Shows every half-hour from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. year-round ●Free bus from your hotel to the Ocean Park

1. What can we do in the Ocean Park?

A．Play with the dolphins happily.	B．Take a class with the trainer.
C．Watch a dolphin show at 18:30.	D．Share your food with dolphins.

2. The following items are included in the prices of the Dolphin Swim EXCEPT ________.

A．towels

B．photos

C．snacks

D．lockers

3. How much does it cost if we order an extended dolphin swim on the Internet?

A．8.

B．12.

C．72.

D．108.

【推荐2】Everybody has a home. People have homes. Animals have homes. People live in many different kinds of houses. Animals have different kinds of homes, too. Some animals live in holes under the ground. The woodchuck (美洲旱獭) lives under the ground. His home has two doors. If any enemy (敌人) comes in through one door, the woodchuck will go out through the other. Some animals live in holes in trees. Some squirrels (松鼠) build their nests (窝) high in trees. Most of the birds live in nests in trees.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. People live in _______.

A．different kinds of houses	B．holes
C．different kinds of mountains	D．all kinds of trees

2. The passage (短文) is about _______.

A．some trees	B．animals’ living
C．the homes of some animals and birds	D．different animals

3. _______ live under the ground.

A．All the animals	B．The woodchuck and the squirrel
C．Some birds	D．Some animals

4. How many doors the woodchuck have in his house?

A．Two.

B．One.

C．Three.

D．No one.

5. Animals’ homes are _______.

A．the same

B．in trees

C．in holes

D．not the same

【推荐3】Chuck was not an ordinary frog.He did love eating flies, but he didn't like catching flies himself.He didn't like snapping them from the air while they were flying around.Some frogs thought Chuck was lazy.Others thought he was strange.

That didn't matter to Chuck.Each morning, Chuck hid himself under the spider web between the cattails.Then when Lady Eightlegs went off, Chuck took flies from her web.

One morning while Chuck was enjoying the flies, Lady Eightlegs returned and caught him.She cried, “Go and catch your own”.Chuck jumped back into the pond.

Now there was an idea! Why not make his own web? Chuck got some vines.He put them together until they looked like a spider web.He worked on his web for hours until mid-night.And then he fell asleep.When he woke up the next morning,he was stuck inside and couldn't move.

“Help!” he yelled.

Lady Eightlegs got there and saved him.

“No matter how hard I try, I can't make a spider web, Chuck said.

“Of course not, Lady Eightlegs said”. “You're a frog.Frogs can’t make spider webs any better than spiders can swim, I guess.How I wish to swim to the middle of the pond and float peacefully under the sun like you!”

Chuck smiled. “I have an idea.”

From that day on, Chuck carried Lady Eightlegs out to the middle of the pond, where they floated and played together.When they returned to shore, they shared a breakfast of flies.It wasn't exactly an ordinary friendship.

1. The underlined word “snapping” means________.

A．catching

B．eating

C．hiding

D．beating

2. Lady Eightlegs was___________.

A．lazy

B．strange

C．ordinary

D．kind

3. Chuck got his food by___________.

A．hiding himself between cattails.

B．using his own web to catch flies.

C．working hard till night.

D．taking flies from the spider web.

4. The story tells us_______.

A．No pains, no gains.

B．Practice makes perfect.

C．Never do things by halves.

D．Team work increases the success.

【推荐1】In many English homes, people eat four meals (餐) a day. They have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread and drink tea or coffee for breakfast. Lunch comes at one o’clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and most Englishmen have dinner at 7:30 p.m. First they have soup, then they have meat or carrot with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are very simple (简单).

1. Many English people have ________ meals a day.

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

2. People may have ________ for their breakfast.

A．tea and eggs	B．tea and hamburgers
C．coffee and salad	D．eggs and carrots

3. People have lunch at ________.

A．3:00 p.m.

B．1:00 p.m.

C．5:00 p.m.

D．7:00 p.m.

4. People don’t have ________ for their dinner.

A．soup or meat	B．meat or carrot
C．bananas or apples	D．porridge

5. Most Englishmen have dinner ________.

A．at one

B．at noon

C．at any time

D．in the evening

【推荐2】

A community in Pudong Area, Shanghai, has a “mobile library” with the help of community planners.

The mobile library is a tricycle. The yellow tricycle carries a pink bookshelf. The bright color catches people’s eye easily. On the bookshelf, there are lots of books. Every weekend, the mobile library goes around the community. People can give away or read books.

“Now, people are often too busy to go to the library and read,” Lu, a community planner, said. “So we bring books to their doorsteps. We hope they can enjoy reading instead of spending lots of time on mobile phones.”

To start the mobile library project, the community planners invited eight families in the community to work together. They designed the library, fixed the tricycle, painted the bookshelf and picked books.

Now the mobile library has hundreds of books, and the number is increasing. Many people in other communities give away books to the mobile library and come to read. “I really enjoy reading here. I often bring my family along with me,” a child said.

People of different ages like it very much. It allows people to enjoy reading at their doorsteps and bring great convenience to them. The mobile library also brings parents and children closer and makes the community a warmer place. It is just the ideal place for people to read, learn and relax!

1. What is the “mobile library” like?

A．Big and bright.	B．Yellow and pink.
C．Black and white.	D．Heavy and fast.

2. What’s the purpose of starting the mobile library project?

A．To teach people to enjoy reading books.

B．To stop people from using mobile phones.

C．To encourage people to spend more time on books.

D．To raise money to buy more books for the community.

3. Which is TRUE about the mobile library?

A．It is only popular with children.

B．People from other communities can't use it.

C．The community planners built it by themselves.

D．It will have more and more books in the future.

4. What does the underlined word“ideal”in the last sentence mean?

A．Perfect.

B．Usual.

C．Only.

D．Same.

5. Which can be the best title for the text?

A．Giving away Your Books.	B．Popular Libraries in Shanghai.
C．Reading at your Doorstep.	D．Building a New Community.

【推荐3】Primary school children in the UK have little choice over what they eat for lunch. Either their parents pack their lunchbox, or they choose from only one or two options（选择，选项）on a hot dinner menu. However, secondary schools let students make their own meal choices freely.

In the past, this has led to problems. There is a 2004 survey called School Meals in Secondary Schools in England. It showed that many schools offered unhealthy menus. For example, on four or five days of the week, 76 percent of schools served chips and other potatoes cooked in oil, while 86 percent served high fat meals like burgers and fried chicken. And when offered such dishes, most students were picking them：48 percent chose high fat main dishes; 48 percent chose chips or similar and 24 percent chose cakes or muffins（松饼）. Fruit, fruit juice, vegetables and salads were the least popular choices.

In his 2005 television series Jamie’s School Diners, famous chef Jamie Oliver began working with school cooks on providing more healthy meals. At first, many students and parents were against the idea. But the tide began to turn and Jamie’s effort has led to a general improvement in nutritional standards（营养标准）for school meals.

More recently, online systems like “Parent Pay” give parents more control over what their children are eating at school. They can set daily spending limits and see exactly what their kids are buying each day.

1. How do students in secondary schools in the UK eat lunch?

A．They must take lunchboxes prepared by cooks to school.

B．They only have different kinds of food to choose on a menu.

C．They can choose what they like for their lunch.

D．They make their meals all by themselves.

2. The 2004 School Meal Survey showed ________.

A．whether schools used oil to cook meals

B．whether schools provided healthy meals

C．what kind of fried food schools offered

D．which school had popular food for students

3. What can we know from paragraph 2?

A．Few students liked to have fruit and vegetables.

B．Students liked fruit and vegetables most.

C．Schools didn’t have fruit on their menu.

D．There were very few choices of fruit for students.

4. What did Jamie bring to school students?

A．A very good chef.	B．A popular TV series.
C．Healthier food.	D．Nutritional standards.

【推荐1】Better Time for Teenagers to Keep Healthy

Things to do	Brushing teeth	Drinking milk	Going to bed	Eating fruit
Common time	After getting up and before sleeping	During breakfast	Around 23: 00	After meals
Time from experts’（专家的）suggestion	Three minutes after meals	Before sleeping	Around 21: 00	An hour before meals
Advantage（优点）	To reduce germs（细菌）in the mouth	To keep bones strong and help sleep well	To be good for a deep sleep	To keep the body strong
Warm tip（提示）	Brush the tongue（舌头）while brushing teeth	Don’t drink it when having a stomachache	Sleep for at least 8 hours every night	Wash carefully before eating them

1. Teenagers usually drink milk _________ according to the information above.

A．before sleeping

B．during breakfast

C．three minutes after meals

D．after dinner

2. Teenagers often go to bed _________ hour(s) later than the time the experts suggest.

A．one

B．two

C．three

D．four

3. In which part of magazine can we read the text?

A．Travel.

B．Sports.

C．Health.

D．Culture.

【推荐2】In our solar system (太阳系), there is only one planet that is full of lives. It is our Mother Earth.

Just like mothers look after everything in homes, Mother Earth looks after everything around the world. Do you know when Mother Earth’s birthday is? It is April 22. People call the day the Earth Day. People around the world celebrate this day by making it very special for her. How do you think she will feel special? She will feel special if all of us love nature, keep it clean and use all of her seas, mountains and other natural resources (资源) in a right way.

Here are some other ways to keep her happy and healthy:

★Walk or ride a bike. Cars, trains and planes make Mother Earth sick (病的), because they make pollution.

★Don’t cut forests — animals’ home. Animals are children of Mother Earth like us.

★Plant trees. Trees help keep the air clean.

1. Earth is the only one planet that is full of lives in our solar system.
2. April twelfth is the Earth Day.
3. People around the world celebrate the Earth Day by making it very special for her.
4. Walking or riding a bike are bad for saving the earth.
5. Forests are animals’ home and animals are children of Mother Earth like humans.

【推荐3】What do astronauts eat in space? Do they eat special food? What will astronauts eat when a space trip takes years?

“Lots of fresh vegetables,” says Dr. Janet Williams, whose team have spent the last 10 years learning how to grow plants in a space station. And it’s a good thing that she has already started her work, because space gardening can be really hard.

As usual, astronaut George White looked into the closed plant room. He had planted Dr. Williams’s quick-growing seedlings in it, but none of the stems were growing. He opened the room to check and found the problem. The stems weren’t growing upward and the roots

weren’t growing downward. On Earth, gravity helps a plant’s stems and roots to find “up” and “down”. However, in the space station, there was no gravity.

Dr. Williams suggested a solution: give the plants more light, as plants also use sunlight to find their way. And it worked. When the plants had more light, the stems turned up and the roots went down.

Now Dr. Williams was free to worry about the next problem: Would her baby   plants live to flower? Can we grow food on a space journey?

Many plants died in the space station. Dr. Williams thought she knew the reason: the space plants were hungry for air. Plants live by taking up CO2 from the air. Since a plant uses it up in the air around, the plant needs moving air to bring more CO2 close to its surface. On Earth, the air is always moving. Gravity pulls down cold air, and warm air rises. And with these air movements, plants get enough CO2.

Many earlier experiments with plants in space had used closed rooms. Dr. Williams tried a new greenhouse that had a fan to keep the air move. The plants loved it. They flowered and even produced more seeds. Using Dr. Williams’s method, astronaut George completed the first seed-to-seed experiment in space, and moved one plant closer to a garden in space.

“And this,” says Dr. Williams, “is good news for long-term space travel.”

1. Why have Dr. Williams’s team tried to grow plants in space?

A．To produce fresh air for astronauts.

B．To help astronauts relax themselves.

C．To provide food for long space journeys.

D．To make the space garden more beautiful.

2. How did light help solve the problem mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．It caused the gravity to change.

B．It encouraged the plants to grow faster.

C．It helped the plants to grow in the right direction.

D．It showed the astronauts where to plant vegetables.

3. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refer to?

A．The moving air.	B．The fan.
C．The closed room.	D．The space.

【推荐1】Kindergartens may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.

The boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign:" F, U, R, N, I, T, U, R, E. " But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route 22. The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.

"He just thought his dad needed help," Dancy's mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. "It's surprising for him to get off the highway and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick," she said.

Shine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. "Dancy's spelling skills helped him seize(抓住)the moment, " he said. "And that's the real value of education."

根据短文内容判断正、误。(正确的写A,错误的写B)
1. When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were in a shopping center.
2. Dancy called 911 for help when his father couldn't speak.
3. Dancy's mother thought Dancy's father was a hero because he got off the highway and got himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick.
4. Shine sent Dancy's father to hospital.
5. From the passage, we know that Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills learned in the kindergarten.

【推荐2】As we know, all living things have to eat food. For a man, a tiger, a fish, a bird, or even a worm, food is necessary. Generally speaking, all living things are sure to die without food. In every part of the world, many different kinds of animals share living places and live in communities(群落) together. They are connected in a food chain(链).

In a food chain, some living things are producers and some are consumers(消费者). Plants are producers(生产) because they use sunlight, soil and other things to make their own food. Animals are consumers because they have to eat other animals or plants.

There are four different kinds of consumers in the animal kingdom. A carnivore is an animal that only eats other animals. An herbivore is an animal that only eats plants.

There are four different kinds of consumers in the animal world. A carnivore is an animal that only eats other animals. A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants. An omnivore is an animal that eats plants and animals. A scavenger is an animal that eats dead animals.

Here is a picture of a food chain. The food chain shows how animals eat each other in a community. In the picture, you can see what an animal or a plant is food for another animal. See? The grass is food for a rabbit, which then becomes food for a hungry tiger. In this way, all of these animals are connected.

1. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Different kinds of foods for animals.

B．Different kinds of consumers on the earth.

C．The differences between producers and consumers.

D．The food chain and how it connects animals and plants.

2. What does the underlined word "omnivore" mean in Chinese?

A．食腐动物

B．食草动物

C．杂食动物

D．食肉动物

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．All kinds of animals are connected in a food chain.

B．Some plants or animals can live without eating food.

C．Every Consumer eats both plants and animals.

D．Snakes eat rabbis in the picture of the food chain.

4. Where might you read this passage?

A．In Story Time.	B．In Science Around Us.
C．In News Today.	D．In Travel Together.

【推荐3】The Spring Festival is coming. You will buy new clothes and a lot of food. There are always some old clothes you don’t want. And there is always some food you don’t eat. What can you do? Send them to the two places.

	Wall of Kindness（友善之墙）You can see Wall of Kindness in many cities now, like Shanghai, Beijing, Xiamen and Qingdao. People hang（悬挂）their old clothes on the wall. If some people need the clothes, they can take them away. You can always see jackets, sweater, coats and so on on the wall.
	Share Fridge（分享冰箱）China has its first Share Fridge. It’s in Shanghai. There is a lot of food in it, like cakes. The food is from some restaurants and stores. Some people don’t need to buy the food because it’s free. They can take it home.

1. What does the underlined word “them” refer to?

A．Cities.

B．Clothes.

C．Fridges

D．Walls.

2. Where can you find China’s first Share Fridge?

A．Xiamen.

B．Qingdao.

C．Beijing.

D．Shanghai.

3. What can we infer（推断）from the above material（材料）？

A．January or February is on the way.

B．People never buy too much food for themselves.

C．Wall of Kindness tells people not to buy many clothes.

D．People cook food at their kitchens for Share Fridge.