【推荐1】A: Hello! Can I help you?
B: Yes, please. I want to order (预定) a cake for my mother’s birthday.
A: Your mother’s birthday?     1    
B: Forty-five.
A: What kind (种类) of cakes do you want?
B:     2    
A: What about this one?
B: It looks nice. How much is it?
A: Eight dollars.
B: Great! I’ll take it.
A:     3    
B: It’s September 14th.
A: OK. What’s your name?
B: Jane Smith.
A:     4    
B: It’s 235-7809.
A: OK.     5    
B: Thank you!
A: You’re welcome.
根据对话内容，从方框中选出五个句子填入文中空缺处，使对话内容通顺完整。

A．And what’s your telephone number?

B．I want a big one.

C．How old is your mother?

D．When is you mother’s birthday?

E．How do you spell it?

F．Please take it at four in the afternoon.

【推荐3】Mr. Smith has a clothes store. He sells nice clothes to people. The clothes are always at very good prices.

One day, a boy comes to Mr. Smith’s store. He sees so many nice clothes in yellow, blue, orange and black. He looks very happy. When he looks at a blue skirt, he asks, “Excuse me, how much is the blue skirt?” “It’s $30,” Mr. Smith says. “Oh, that’s too expensive,” the boy says. He looks very sad. Mr. Smith asks the boy, “Who do you want to buy this skirt for?”

“For my mother. Her birthday is coming. She must look nice in this skirt. But I only have $10. I can’t buy it for her.”

“Well, the skirt is on sale these days. It’s only $10. You can have it now.”

“Oh, that’s great! I’ll take it! Thank you!” the boy says. He looks happy now.

“Good boy! I’m sure your mother can have a happy birthday,” Mr. Smith says.

1. The boy wants to buy a ______ skirt in the Mr. Smith’s store.

A．yellow

B．blue

C．orange

2. The underlined word “expensive” means ______ in Chinese.

A．便宜的

B．昂贵的

C．漂亮的

3. The boy wants to buy a skirt for his mother because ______.

A．he has much money

B．his mother looks very sad

C．his mother’s birthday is coming

4. At last, the boy buys the skirt for ______.

A．$10

B．$20

C．$30

5. From the passage, we can know ______.

A．Mr. Smith doesn’t want to help the boy

B．the boy often gets money from his mother

C．the boy’s mother is very happy to get the skirt

【推荐1】My Volunteering

       We are middle school students and we are busy with our lessons. So some people think we should pay more attention to our studies. If we volunteer to help others, it’s a waste of time. But I think volunteering is great.
       I not only feel good about helping others, but also get to spend time doing what I love to do. And from volunteering, I have learned many things that I have never learned in class. So if I have an opportunity, I’d like to visit old people’s houses to clean up for them. I’d also like to help sick kids in hospital. I love kids and I plan to put my love to good use by working in hospital.
       In a word, I will help people who need help. If everyone helps out a bit, the world will be more colorful.
1. The writer thinks volunteering is ________.

A．great

B．a waste of time

C．not good

2. The writer has learned ________ that she has never learned in class.

A．some things

B．no things

C．many things

3. Which is NOT mentioned as the volunteering?

A．Cleaning up for old people.

B．Playing chess with old people.

C．Helping sick kids in hospital.

4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．Primary school students are busy with their lessons.

B．The writer only feels good about helping others.

C．The world will be more colorful if everyone helps out a bit.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
C
Nearly half of elementary and high schools in the US use the Presidential Fitness Test．It checks kids’ fitness levels．Students are tested at least twice a year．In 1956, US President Eisenhower created the test, and it has been a tradition in schools since 1966．
There are five activities in the test: sit-ups(仰卧起坐), push-ups(俯卧撑), sit and reach, endurance run or walk and shuttle run(折返跑)．Students who get scores at or above 85 percent on all the activities can get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award．
The test encourages students to live a healthy and active life．Students taking the test are really testing their limits, according to the US National Association for Sport and Physical Education．
China has a similar test: the physical education(PE) test．Beginning at the age of 7, students in China are tested twice a year to check if they are healthy and strong．They also finish activities like the endurance run, sit-ups and the shuttle run．
However, unlike students in the US who get awards, Chinese students get points in PE tests．The highest score is 100．For junior school students, the PE test is more important because it is worth 30 to 40 points in the entrance exam for senior high school．In order to get a good score, most students begin to prepare for the test in their junior one year．
1. Who can get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award?

A．Students who finish all the activities．

B．Students who finish first on the test．

C．Students who make the greatest progress in the test．

D．Students who get scores of 85 percent or above on all the activities．

2. The Chinese PE tests and the American Presidential Fitness tests are similar in ____

A．Students are tested twice a year．

B．Students get awards．

C．Students get scores．

D．Students must finish push-ups．

3. What’s the purpose of the test?

A．To encourage students to live happily and actively．

B．To help students prepare for college entrance exams．

C．To encourage students to get good scores．

D．To help students learn how to overcome difficulties．

【推荐3】Most high schools in the United States publish a yearbook once a year, usually in the spring. It is a record of the school year—a “book of memories” for the students. They have photos and text that tell the stories of how students grow up. Students can see how they and their classmates have changed over the years.

However, editors at Spanish River High in Boca Raton, Florida, found it hard to make their yearbooks this year. COVID-19 has emptied schools. There are no sports meetings, concerts or plays. Most students are learning from home.

“It was really difficult to interview people,” said yearbook editor Sean Delaney. “So we had to be creative.”

They decided to focus on personal stories during the pandemic. They found that a student who’d had a car accident was still exercising every day. They also wrote about students who started their own businesses, such as shoe designing or baking.

To get more photos, the editors asked students and teachers to send in their own pictures. These were often of poor quality, so the editors made creative use of large headlines(头版头条) and text.

“I hope the yearbook brings a positive light on the situation we’re in,” Delaney said. “It shows that even though we’re in a pandemic, we’re still doing all these amazing things.”

根据短文内容，判断正(T)、误(F)。
1. A yearbook is used to record how school grows up in most high schools in the US.
2. It was hard to make the students’ yearbooks this year, so they paid more attention to personal stories.
3. Although most students learned at home, they started business like baking, clothes designing and so on.
4. The photos taken by students and teachers were so clear that the editors got enough photos.
5. COVID-19 has made a difference to their life, but the editors still created a yearbook in their own way.

【推荐1】The best thing to start your day is a good breakfast. “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a poor person", as the old saying tells us, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It provides us with energy after a long night without food.

If people don't have breakfast in the morning, they will feel tired and get angry easily. Breakfast helps children stay more focused（专注的）in school. A study showed that children who eat breakfast regularly get higher test results in most subjects. Breakfast is also important for weight loss（减少）. If you have a balanced breakfast, you will eat less throughout the day.

A healthy and balanced（均衡的）breakfast should include some protein（蛋白质）like eggs, milk or a little meat, which makes you energetic all day. Carbohydrates（碳水化合物）like rice or bread keep you active. Vegetables and fruit have the vitamins（维他命）that humans need.

In China, breakfast is different from area to area. Porridge with pickles（腌菜）, baozi, noodles, soybean milk and youtiao are common throughout the whole country. Although western culture has influenced China a lot, most people still prefer traditional Chinese breakfast. They think that porridge and noodles are not only easily digested（消化）, but also can provide enough energy in the morning.

1. What does “Eating breakfast like a king” mean?

A．Eat breakfast very early.

B．Eat expensive food.

C．Eat well for breakfast.

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Eating too much for breakfast will make people tired.

B．Eating breakfast helps students do better at school.

C．Eating less for breakfast helps people lose weight.

3. If a person often eats banana and apples, his or her body will be rich in__________.

A．protein

B．carbohydrates

C．vitamins

4. Why do most Chinese choose traditional Chinese breakfast?

A．Because Western culture hasn't influenced China a lot.

B．Because most Chinese like many kinds of traditional breakfast.

C．Because most Chinese think they can provide enough energy.

5. Where can we probably read this passage?

A．In a health magazine.

B．In a newspaper.

C．In a story book.

【推荐2】Sam likes eating fish very much. He often buys fish in the shop and takes them home. One day his wife sees the fish and thinks, “Good! Now, I can ask my friends to have lunch and we can eat the fish. They like fish very much.”
When Sam comes home from work in the evening, the fish is not there and his wife says, “Oh, your cat eats it.” And then she gives him some bread for his supper. Sam is angry. He thinks his wife ______ He takes the cat and his wife to a shop near his house and weighs(称) the cat. Then he turns to his wife and says, “My fish weighs one kilo. The cat weighs one kilo, too. My cat is here, you see, then, where is my fish?”
1. Which is RIGHT according to(根据) the story?

A．Sam doesn’t like eating fish at all.

B．The friends of Sam’s wife eat the fish.

C．Sam often buys some fish for his cat.

D．Sam’s cat always eats fish before he comes back.

2. What does “tells a lie” mean in Chinese?

A．摆事实

B．讲真话

C．撒谎

D．开玩笑

3. How much does the cat weigh?

A．One kilo.	B．Two kilos.
C．One and a half kilos.	D．Half a kilo.

4. Who gets very angry?

A．Sam’s wife.	B．Sam’s friends.
C．Sam’s wife’s friends.	D．Sam.

【推荐3】

Characters: Buck—a dog Judge (法官) Miller—Buck's owner

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would know that trouble was coming.

In fact, trouble was on its way for every strong dog with warm long hair. This was because men, going throw the Arctic (北极的) darkness, had found a yellow metal—gold. And because shipping and transportation companies were advertising the discovery, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted heavy dogs, with strong muscles for working and thick coats to protect them from the cold.

Buck lived at Judge Miller’s house in the sunny-kissed Santa Clara Valley. There were big stable (马厩), long grape fields, fruit gardens and a big swimming pool. Buck ruled over the whole kingdom. Here he was born and here he had lived the four years of his life. He protected the judge's sons and daughters on long midnight or early morning walks. On cold winter nights, he lay at the Judge's feet in front of the warm library fire. He was king—King over everything, crawled (爬行), walked, or flew at Judge Miller's place, including humans.

Buck was this kind of dog in the autumn of 1897 when the discovery of gold in the Klondike pulled men from all over the world into the frozen North. But Buck did not read the newspapers. He did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener's helpers, was not to be trusted. Manuel loved to gamble (赌博). He believed he could win but he was doomed (注定) to failure.

On the night of Manuel's betrayal (背叛), no one saw him and Buck go off through the fields. Buck imagined it to be a relaxing walk. They arrived at a little train. A man talked with Manuel and money passed between them. Manuel tied a piece of thick rope around Buck's neck. Buck accepted it quietly. To be sure, it was unwanted, but Buck had learned to trust men he knew. However, when the ends of the rope were placed in the stranger's hands, he barked. Then, the rope tightened (收紧) painfully, his tongue hanging out of his mouth. Then his strength disappeared, his eyes grew dim (浑浊), and he knew nothing when the train pulled up. Two men threw him into the baggage car.

(Adapted fromThe Call of the Wildby Jack London)

1. Why were thousands of men rushing into Northland?

A．Because they could live a better life there.

B．Because they might discover gold there.

C．Because they could find the dogs they needed there.

D．Because they wanted to enjoy the beautiful views there.

2. Which description about Buck is NOT TRUE according to the story?

A．The Judge's family betrayed him so he ran away quietly.

B．He had lived in Judge Miller's house since he was born.

C．Life before the autumn of 1897 was enjoyable for him.

D．Manuel could take him out of Miller's house because he trusted Manuel.

3. The story is mainly about ___________.

A．animal's trust in humans	B．people's discovery of gold
C．Buck's early life at Judge Miller's	D．the turning point of Buck's life

【推荐1】Beauty sleep is a real thing, researches have shown that people who have enough sleep look more attractive (有魅力的) to others.

A few bad nights is enough to make a person look especially more ugly, their sleep experiments show.

The researchers asked 25 university students to join in their seep experiment. They were asked to get a good night's sleep for two nights.

A week later, they were asked to sleep for only four hours every night for two nights in a row.

The researchers took make-up free (素颜) photos of the volunteers after both the good and the bad sleep.

Next, they asked 122 strangers to have a look at the photos and judge (评价) them on attractiveness, health, and sleepiness, as well as asking them: How much would you like to make friends with this person in the picture?

The strangers were good at judging if the person they were looking at was tired, and, if they were sleepy, their attractiveness score was low.

The strangers also said they wouldn't want to socialize with the tired students. The researchers say this is natural for people. An unhealthy-looking face makes people run away. In other words, people don't want to hang around (闲逛) with people who might be ill.

Dr. Brewer, an expert at the University s of Liverpool said: Judgment of attractiveness is often unconscious (无意 识的) but we all do it, and we are able to judge on even something small like whether someone looks tired or unhealthy. This study is a good reminder of how important sleep is to us.

1. When did the researchers take make-up free photos?

A．After two nights’ good sleep.	B．After two nights’ bad seep.
C．Before the sleep experiment.	D．After two nights’ both good and bad sleep.

2. The researchers asked the strangers to do the following except _________.

A．telling who looked healthier	B．telling who was attractive
C．telling who didn't have many friends	D．telling who missed a lot of sleep

3. What kind of friends did the strangers like to make?

A．People who were tired.	B．People who were sleepy.
C．People who were unhealthy.	D．People who were attractive and energetic

4. What does the underlined word socialize mean in Chinese?

A．交往

B．竞争

C．合作

D．共事

5. According to the passage, which of the following is the best title?

A．Less Sleep, Fewer Friends	B．Beauty Sleep, More Attractive
C．More Sleep, More Friends	D．No Attractiveness, No Friends

【推荐2】Stop reading for a minute and think about what you see when you look up at the sky on a clear night. You probably see many stars. Long long ago, farmers watched some stars to know when to plant their crops. Travelers did so to find their way in the dark.

Today stars are still important to some people. Scientists find that most stars are very big. Actually, some stars are so far away that it would take millions of years to get to them even by spaceship. Another thing we know today about stars is that some are made up of (由…组成) hot gases (气体). The gases are so hot that they send out light. If you watch a star carefully, you may notice that it twinkles (闪烁) sometimes. As you may understand, light from a star must shine through the air before you can see the star. Air is always moving, it makes light from the star move back and forth. When the light moves, it makes the star twinkle. Stars also have different colors. The colors of a star depend on how hot it is. To our surprise, the cool stars are red and the hottest stars are white.

1. Farmers watched stars to ________.

A．find their way in the dark	B．know when to plant crops
C．travel by spaceship	D．know more about stars

2. Red stars are ________.

A．hot

B．cold

C．warm

D．cool

3. What is the meaning of the underlined word “forth”?

A．向左

B．向右

C．向前

D．向后

4. Why does a star sometimes twinkle?

A．Its light travels through the moving air.	B．Its light is too bright.
C．It is made up of hot gases.	D．It is too dark.

5. What can you infer from the passage?

A．Today stars are not important to people at all.

B．It takes us a short time to get to the stars by spaceship.

C．You can see the star before it shines through the air.

D．Not all stars are made up of hot gases.

【推荐3】As the capital and largest city of Austria, Vienna is also Europe's main cultural(文化的) center. Because of its good climate, beautiful environment, high standard(水平) of living. Vienna is also one of the most livable cities in the world.

In Vienna, most people speak German. There are many places of interest and more than 100 art museums. That makes it possible to have over eight million visitors every year.

Vienna is also a city where people can not live without music. Just take a simple walk along the street and you can feel the rhythm of musical notes. Many gifted(有天赋的) musicians spent most of their lifetime here, and made a lot of beautiful music.

If you are a music lover, come and have a look! I'm sure you will get something in this journey.

1. Which of the following is RIGHT?

A．Vienna is the capital of Austria.

B．Vienna is the largest city of Australia.

C．Vienna is Asia 's main center.

D．Vienna is the most livable city in the world.

2. What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．Vienna is piece of music	B．Vienna is a city without music
C．In Vienna, many people like music	D．In Vienna, music can not live well

3. Who can make lots of beautiful music?

A．lots of musicians	B．A lot of teachers
C．Many famous actors	D．Many students and doctors