【推荐1】In China, lots of students often use much of their time to study their lessons, and don’t help with housework at home. Some students don’t think they need to do housework. Some parents don’t let their children do it. As a result, students are all in need of basic skills (基本技能).

Luckily, things are changing. In 2021, many schools began to teach students life skills.

Guangming Middle School in Sichuan built some farming clubs. There students learnt to plant vegetables. “At first I thought I could only grow some vegetables here, but in fact, I learnt a lot about vegetables.” said Chen Jia, a girl at the school.

In Hope Middle School, students have a special life skill class. They learn to make dumplings in different kinds of shapes. “I couldn’t make dumplings before, but now I am good at doing it. I really love my life skill class. It’s my favorite class.” said Zhang Yan, a boy at the school.

As we know, learning life skills is as important as learning Chinese and math, because it helps us prepare for our future life. Boys and girls, do you help your parents do housework at home? If not, maybe you should get started now.

1. What do many Chinese students spend most of their time doing according to the passage?

A．Doing housework.	B．Growing some vegetables.
C．Learning to make dumplings.	D．Studying their lessons.

2. What club did Guangming Middle School build?

A．Some farming clubs.	B．Some dumpling clubs.
C．Some Chinese clubs.	D．Some math clubs.

3. Which of the following does Chen Jia probably (可能) learn at school clubs?

A．To feed chickens.

B．To milk cows.

C．To ride a horse.

D．To plant potatoes.

4. What is Zhang Yan good at now?

A．Farming.

B．Learning Chinese.

C．Making dumplings.

D．Planting vegetables.

5. Why is learning life skills as important as learning Chinese and math?

A．Because it is fun to learn life skills.

B．Because students need life skills in the future.

C．Because parents tell their children to learn life skills.

D．Because teachers teach their students to learn life skills.

【推荐2】A SCHOOL REPORT
Name: Edward Scott               School: Revin Grove State High School
Grade: 7                                 Term ending: 6 May
Subjects (科目):
Mathematics
He is a little weak (弱) in this, but he has tried his best to catch up with others.
Science
He can work out many difficulties. Well done!
French
He is the best in the class. Keep it up.
History
He is not so good at this, but has done better than before.
Geography
He is familiar (熟悉的) with the names of many places in the world.
Music
He doesn’t like pop songs, though he sings very well.
Conduct: Fair No.in class: 9               Absences (缺席): 8
Remarks(评语): Edward has the ability to do a lot better. More work is needed next term.
Class teacher: Ivy
Principal: M.L.Martin
School reopens (开学): 11 September
1. After reading this, we know this is ___________.

A．a studying plan of Edward Scott

B．a teaching plan of Ivy

C．a school report of Edward Scott

D．a working plan of M.L.Martin

2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned (提到) in the passage?

A．P. E.

B．Music.

C．Mathematics.

D．History.

3. Edward’s best subject is __________.

A．science

B．English

C．geography

D．French

4. Edward is NOT so good at __________.

A．science and geography	B．mathematics and history
C．history and French	D．music and English

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

A．Edward can’t sing songs very well.

B．Edward doesn’t do well in science.

C．Edward can do better if he works harder next term.

D．Edward learns two foreign languages in school.

【推荐3】

Time Day	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7:30 ~ 8:10	Chinese	Maths	Chinese	Maths	English
8:20 ~ 9:00	English	History	English	History	Chinese
9:10 ~ 9:50	Maths	Chinese	English	English	Maths
10:10 ~ 10:50	PE	English	Art	Chinese	PE
11:45 ~ 1:30	Noon break (午休)
1：30 ~ 2：10	Music	Maths	Maths	English
2:25 ~ 3:05		Music	Math	Art

1. Every morning Peter has ___________.

A．Chinese and Music	B．Maths and Chinese
C．English and Chinese	D．English and math

2. He finishes(完成) his morning lessons at ______________.

A．7:30a.m	B．10:50a.m
C．1:30 p.m	D．3:05 p.m

3. He has a noon break _____________.

A．from 11:45 a.m to 1:30 p.m

B．from 3:05 p.m to 3:45p.m

C．from 10:30 a.m to 11: 00 a.m

D．from 11:00 a,m to 2:00 p.m

4. How many English lessons does Peter have in a week? _____________.

A．Four	B．Five
C．Six	D．Seven

5. They have no lessons on ______________.

A．Monday mornings	B．Friday mornings
C．Friday afternoons	D．Monday afternoons

【推荐1】Rubbish is a kind of environmental pollution. Each person produces two kilograms of rubbish every day, but most of us throw away the rubbish directly. Have you ever wondered where your rubbish goes after you throw it away? Cleaners have to collect the waste, move it to landfills(垃圾填埋地) and then sort(分类) it out to see if it should be burned(燃烧), buried(埋葬) or recycled(回收利用). So if we can sort it out first, it can make a big difference.

Each year, China produces about 300 million tons of rubbish. Only about a quarter of that waste is recycled. Most rubbish is buried in landfills or burned without being sorted. Landfills take up a lot of space. There’s also a risk of polluting the nearby land and water. In order to solve this problem, China has been developing rubbish sorting these years. Shanghai, for example, announced(宣布) a “sorting for prizes” plan earlier six months ago. According to the plan, people get shopping cards or even money as prizes by sorting out the rubbish.

In some other countries, the recycling rate of rubbish is higher because of their sorting system(系统). ________. People must put the right rubbish in the right place at the right time. The rubbish is usually sorted into eight kinds: burnable, non-burnable, plastic bottles, recyclable plastic, other plastic, paper, harmful(有害的) and then hard rubbish like desks and old TV sets. So in Japan, burning the waste becomes more easily with careful sorting.

With the World Environmental Day coming, our school is now requiring every student to develop a habit of sorting the waste. Here in our school we lay four different colors of rubbish bins for different kinds of rubbish. The red is for harmful waste; the blue is for waste that can be recycled; the green is for kitchen waste; the black is for other waste.

It is not WASTE until it is WASTED.

1. How much rubbish can be recycled each year in China?

A．About 75,000,000 tons.	B．About 150,000,000 tons.
C．About 225,000,000 tons.	D．About 300,000,000 tons.

2. Which of the following can be put in the “________” in Paragraph 3?

A．Burning waste is another idea to protect the environment.

B．Here is how the Shanghai “rubbish sorting for prizes” plan works.

C．In Japan, for example, there are strict rules for throwing away rubbish.

D．To reduce the influence that rubbish causes, simply recycling is not enough.

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Waste paper should be put into the green rubbish bin.

B．People in Shanghai can get prizes by sorting out rubbish.

C．Rubbish burning is easier in Japan because of less rubbish.

D．Each cleaner has to collect two kilograms of rubbish every day.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Recycling Rubbish	B．Sorting Out Rubbish
C．Reducing rubbish	D．Throwing away rubbish

【推荐2】It’s nothing new to learn on the Internet, but since 2012, a new kind of online education has become more and more popular. Do you know what it is? It is called MOOC (大规模在线公开课程).

In 2012, two Stanford professors, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, decided to offer their lessons for free online. To their surprise, more than 160,000 students in 190 countries took their lessons. This led them to build Udacity.com, the first website for MOOC. In less than a year, other MOOC websites, such as Coursera.com and EdX.com, were also set up.

MOOC is different from usual online learning .Professors have been trying to keep it similar to a real class. You should sign up (报名) to take the class. You can communicate with other students in many different ways. You have to answer some questions when, you watch videos, and you will have some homework to do after class. If you take the class on time, do all the homework, and pass the final test, you can get a certificate in the end.

Some people believe MOOC will change the traditional education style. In the future, anyone at any age in any place can take cases for free. These classes are all from the best teachers of the best universities in the world!

1. MOOC started in the year ________.

A．2009

B．2010

C．2011

D．2012

2. ________ is the first website for MOOC.

A．Udaciy.com

B．Learing.com

C．Coursera.com

D．EdX.com

3. From the passage, we can know that ________.

A．MOOC is like a real class

B．people needn’t do homework when taking MOOC

C．people can’t communicate with other students when taking MOOC

D．people should pay for MOOC

4. The underlined word “certificate” probably means “________” in Chinese.

A．奖章

B．职位

C．通知

D．证书

【推荐3】We all know that the computers changed our life in the 1980s and the Internet changed our life in the 1990s. Can you predict(预期) that the robots will change our life in the new century(世纪)? It’s not a dream to have a robot in every home in the future.

Now, robots are able to help people do some housework. They can also help the doctors do the difficult operations, play chess with people and some other things.

It is really funny to have a cooking robot. It can cook all the dishes on the menu(菜单). What you only need to do is just choosing your favourite dish and waiting for two to four minutes. How cool!

In the future, the robot will be a home helper. He can look after us like a nurse, protect(保护) us like a policeman or give us lesson like a teacher. He will become parts of our family and help us any time.

We all look forward to the new robot age.

1. ________ changed our life in the 1990s.

A．The robots

B．The computers

C．The TV

D．The Internet

2. The underlined word “operations “ means ________ in Chinese.

A．发明

B．手术

C．农活

D．研究

3. The writer thinks what the cooking robot can do is ________.

A．difficult

B．cool

C．quick

D．funny

4. According to the passage, the robot will be ________ in a family in the future.

A．a home helper

B．a policeman

C．a nurse

D．a teacher

5. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．a funny cooking robot	B．the Internet age
C．the importance of computers	D．the robot age

【推荐1】It's not easy to find a person with the qualities it takes to be a hero. I didn't really understand the meaning of the word “hero” until my third year in the college.

If you saw her, you wouldn't think she really looks the part, but she is stronger than Superman could ever be. Her name is Sandra Keicrleber. I first met her at volleyball tryouts（选拔赛）, but didn't notice anything special at first. As the week passed, however, she showed she had more heart than anyone. She stood out because she never gave up, no matter what.

Sandra isn't the tallest or the fastest—in fact, this was her first time playing volleyball—but that didn't stop her. She was always the first to arrive and the last to leave. By the end of tryouts she had found a place in everyone's heart. When the name list for new members was put up, we all waited nervously as she checked. When she stood at the door and smiled happily, all we could do was to cheer.

After Sandra made the team, she worked even harder to improve her game. When she asked for help. we gladly taught her. She also became our fan, joining almost every school game and even joining us in the city games. We all like her, because she never thinks about doing things the easy way, or loses that smile. Because of her great efforts, she makes herself a true hero—and my hero, too.

1. What did the writer think of Sandra Keierleber at the beginning?

A．Common

B．Helpful

C．Special

D．Strong

2. Sandra began to play volleyball when ______.

A．she was tall enough	B．she was at college
C．she became a hero	D．she met the Superman

3. Which of the following is true about Sandra?

A．She was born a volleyball player.	B．She is popular with her teammates.
C．She does things in an easy way.	D．She isn't the tallest but the fastest.

4. Why does the writer think of Sandra Keicrieber as a true hero?

A．She did very well at the tryouts.	B．She asked for help from her teammates.
C．She took part in the city matches.	D．She worked hard and never gave up.

【推荐2】In Britain, when people meet each other for the first time, they talk about things like family, work, school, or sports. They ask question like “Do you have any brothers or sisters?” “Where do you work?” “What school do you go to?” and “Do you like sports?” They also ask questions like “Where do you come from?” and “Where do you live?”. These are polite questions. They are not personal or private. But some things are personal or private, and questions about them are not polite. People don't ask questions about a person's salary(薪水), politics(政治) or party(政党). They don't ask a woman's age or whether she is married.

1. In Britain, people don't ask questions about a person's ________.

A．interest

B．work

C．salary

D．family

2. Which is a polite question in Britain when people meet?

A．How's your family?	B．Ms. Li, why are you not married?
C．How much does your boss pay you?	D．What do you think of the Labor Party?

3. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．people in Britain

B．working

C．politeness

D．family

【推荐3】

Li Ziqi has about 20 million fans on Sina Weibo and seven million fans on YouTube. Many foreigners say they have got to know traditional Chinese culture through her videos.

It is the spirit of thecraftsmanbehind her works that makes Li's videos fascinating. She strictly follows the traditional steps in making traditional Chinese food and hand-made works, such as peach flower wine（桃花酒）and bamboo beds. She can even make paper by herself. Also, she tries her best to make sure her videos are perfect. Sometimes she spends several months producing one of her videos.

Li has been showing traditional Chinese culture to video watchers in a rather creative way. Her videos never have any “analysis（分析）” that makes people feel bored. They just show details（细节）of traditional Chinese culture, so the people watching the videos can know how Chinese people live their beautiful and peaceful lives. After all, many people want to live a life like that. That's why her videos are so popular.

Thanks to Li's efforts, many examples of intangible cultural heritage（非物质文化遗产）that were only in memories and written records have now appeared before our eyes.

With the growth of the Chinese economy（经济）, people abroad are showing greater interest in traditional Chinese culture. Li has shown how to satisfy（满足）that interest in a good way, namely by showing the best parts of traditional Chinese culture with her heart.

To present the beauty of Chinese culture to the world, we need more people like Li Ziqi.

1. Li Zigi is famous for her________

A．knowledge

B．books

C．videos

D．beauty

2. The underlined word “craftsman" means in Chinese

A．工匠

B．创新

C．探险

D．求知

3. According to the passage，what is Li Ziqi able to make?
①peach flower wine②bamboo beds③paper④paper-cut

A．①②③

B．①②④

C．①③④

D．②③④

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Few people know Li Ziqi abroad.

B．It just takes Li Ziqi a little time to make a video.

C．People can learn a lot from the analysis in Li zigi's videos.

D．People can see examples of intangible cultural heritage in Li Zigi's videos.

5. The best title for the passage would be “________________”

A．Traditional Chinese Food

B．Chinese Culture Shown to the World

C．The Development of the Chinese Economy

D．Li Ziqi's Talent for Hand-made Works

【推荐1】Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight en route from Boston to Los Angeles when a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?”

Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn’t understand what he needed.

Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her dyslexia（诵读困难症）and knew she’d be able to finger spell into the man’s palm. So she unfastened her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the aisle seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she signed, “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.

“I could just feel it when he reached out for me,” said Clara. So for the next hour, that’s what they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future（she wants to be a politician）. Cook told Clara how he had gradually become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. “Even though he couldn’t see her, she looked attentively at his face with such kindness,” a passenger said.

“Clara was amazing,” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could tell Tim was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel.”

Cook’s reaction: “Best trip I’ve ever had.”

1. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Cook was nervous when he was talking to Clara.

B．Clara studied ASL for many years because of her illness.

C．Clara was staying with Cook all the time during the flight.

D．The attendants found it difficult to communicate with Cook.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Cook was hopeless and needed help.

B．Cook was lonely and desired to talk.

C．Cook was upset and wanted to give up.

D．Cook was confused and couldn’t understand her.

3. Why did Cook think it the best trip he had ever had?

A．Because he had a pleasant talk with Clara.

B．Because the flight service was satisfying.

C．Because the passengers thought he was kind.

D．Because the attendants took good care of him.

4. Which of the following words can best describe Clara?

A．Active and funny.	B．Brave and clever.
C．Helpful and gentle.	D．Determined and positive.

【推荐2】Films in Sunshine Theater This Week

	Wolf Warriors Ⅱ A Chinese action film Director: Wu Jing Stars: Wu Jing, Frank Grillo, Wu Gang and Zhang Han Time: 6:00 p.m. (Monday-Wednesday) Price:￥38
	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets An English-language French action film Director: Luc Besson Stars: Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne Time: 9:00 p.m. (Wednesday-Friday) Price:￥45
	Gyilty of Mind A Chinese crime film Director: Xie Dongshen Stars: Wan Qian and Liao Fan Time: 6:30 p.m. (Friday-Sunday) Price:￥31
	Cars 3 An American animation film (动画电影) Director: Brian Fee Time: 9:30 a.m. (Tuesday-Saturday) Price: ￥29 (Half on Saturday for children)

1. ________ films will be on in Sunshine Theater this week.

A．3

B．4

C．5

D．6

2. You can see three films either on ________ or on ________.

A．Wednesday; Friday

B．Tuesday; Wednesday

C．Thursday; Friday

D．Friday; Monday

3. If a man with his child goes to Sunshine Theater on Sunday, he will pay ________ for the film.

A．￥31

B．￥45

C．￥62

D．￥90

4. If you are free on Friday morning, you can see the film ________ in Sunshine Theater.

A．Wolf Warriors II	B．Cars 3
C．Guilty of Mind	D．Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

5. The ticket price for ________ is the highest.

A．Wolf Warriors II	B．Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
C．Guilty of Mind	D．Cars 3

【推荐3】E-DA World is the largest vacation resort in southern Taiwan. Besides hotels and restaurants, it has a big mall with eight floors of shopping. Many people go to E-DA to relax, shop and have fun. E-DA World Resort also has a theme park. At the theme park, people enjoy the rides, play games and make some great memories.

Many theme parks have a parade(游行), and E-DA has a nice one. You can see Da-E and Donkey in the parade. They’re two of E-DA World’s characters. Like many theme parks, the E-DA World theme park is divided into several sections. There are rides and fun things to do in each section. Each section is inside a castle. It’s the perfect place to spend a few hours if it’s too hot outside or if it starts to rain.

The best part of the theme park is the rides. E-DA World has many fun rides. Some go up and down and all around. There are water rides where people get wet. There are fast and slow rides and a big swing. The Flying Theater “Feeling Taiwan” lets you fly over Taiwan to see its many beautiful sights. And be sure to play in E-DA World’ big VR station! It’s a lot of fun. There is a ride for everyone to enjoy at E-DA World.

1. E-DA World has a big mall with________ floors of shopping.

A．six

B．seven

C．eight

D．nine

2. After reading the passage, we can know Da-E is ________.

A．a character in the parade	B．the name of a restaurant
C．the name of the theme park	D．the manager of E-DA World

3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned according to the third paragraph?

A．Water rides	B．The Flying Theater
C．The VR station	D．The 5-D theater

4. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To explain why people love vacation resorts.	B．To invite more people to visit E-DA World.
C．To advise people to do some shopping.	D．To encourage young people to work for E-DA World.

5. Where may you read this passage?

A．In a TV show

B．In a restaurant menu

C．In a guidebook

D．In a storybook