【推荐1】In Britain you may often hear “Drop in any time” or “Come to see me soon”, but you can’t really do that. People just say those things to make you feel welcome. It is better to telephone before visiting someone at home. If you receive a written invitation to an event that says “RSVP”, you should reply to let the person who sent the invitation know whether or not you plan to go.
You should never accept an invitation unless you really plan to go. You may refuse by saying, “Thank you for inviting me, but I will not be able to come.” If, after accepting, you are unable to go, be sure to tell those who are expecting you as soon as possible that you will not be there. Although it is not necessarily expected(期望) that you give a gift to your host, it is considered(被认为) polite to do so, especially if you have been invited for a meal. Flowers, chocolate, or a small gift are all appropriate(合适的). A thank-you note or telephone call after the visit is also considered polite and is an appropriate way to express your appreciation(感谢) for the invitation.
1. What can you do when a British friend says “Drop in any time”?

A．Visit him or her at any time.	B．Say “no time” to him or her seriously.
C．Telephone him or her before visiting.	D．Visit him or her soon.

2. What does the underlined word “RSVP” probably mean in Chinese?

A．请自便。

B．请回复。

C．请审阅。

D．请来访。

3. What should you do if your British friend sends you an invitation but you do not want to go?

A．Do not give him or her an answer.

B．Tell another friend to go instead of you.

C．Tell him or her that you can’t be there for some reason.

D．Tell him or her that you don’t want to go there.

4. Which of the following is considered impolite in Britain?

A．Buy small presents when invited.	B．Refuse the invitation without telling anyone.
C．Write a thank-you note after a visit.	D．Give a telephone call after a visit.

5. Where would you probably see this passage?

A．In an invitation.

B．In a guidebook.

C．At a party.

D．In a story book.

【推荐2】When talking about Australia, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? This summer, Chinese people will have the chance to closely experience one unusual symbol of Australian Aboriginal (原始的，土著的）culture--- bark painting.

Bark painting is thought to be one of the most famous Aboriginal art forms. Most bark paintings come from northern Australia. They are highly stylized, very colorful and beautiful. These paintings show the life and activities of local people.

With over. 2,000 works of art on bark, the National Museum of Australia (澳大利亚国家博物馆）takes place the world’s largest and richest collection of bark paintings. Earlier, this year,the museum decided to hold an exhibition (展览）tour of bark paintings in China. The exhibition will open at the National Museum of China in Beijing this July. It will later open in cities including Shanghai, Chengdu and Shenzhen It will also be the first time that the bark paintings are exhibited outside Australia.

Art is a very good belt to link people from different countries together. If your city is part of the tour, why not visit the exhibition and experience Australian Aboriginal culture with your families and friends during the holidays? This is a rare chance.

1. Most bark paintings come from__________

A．Eastern Australia	B．Western Australia
C．Southern Australia	D．Northern Australia

2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic (特征）of bark painting?

A．Colorful.

B．Boring.

C．Stylized.

D．Beautiful.

3. The exhibition of bark paintings will open at the National Museum of China in_________

A．Beijing

B．Shanghai

C．Chengdu

D．Shenzhen

4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．Bark paintings are considered as one of the most famous Aboriginal art forms.

B．Bark paintings show the life and activities of the Aborigines.

C．The exhibition of bark paintings will later open in cities including Nanjing and Shanghai.

D．The bark paintings have never been exhibited outside Australia before.

5. From the passage, we can learn that_________can link people from different
countries together very well.

A．Music

B．Sports

C．Love

D．Art

【推荐3】
Weddings are quite different——from nation to nation, from area to area, and from the past to the present. However, all people consider weddings to be important and happy events.
People in the Western world go to church for their weddings, while some tribes（部落） in Africa hold their weddings in the open around a campfire, with much dancing.
In China, weddings are different from those abroad. People in the countryside used to carry the bride in a sedan chair from her parents’ house to her new home. Now sedan chairs are seldom seen. Instead, the bridegroom may take the bride to their own new house by bicycle or by tractor（拖拉机）. In the city the bride usually prefers a car, brightly decorated(装饰) with flowers and a Chinese character(汉字) meaning double happiness. However, a wedding dinner is necessary in both the countryside and the city. Relatives(亲戚) and friends who are invited to the dinner usually drink to the happiness of the bride and bridegroom.
1. What do people all over the world think of weddings?

A．interesting and easy	B．important and fun
C．happy and important	D．interesting and happy

2. What’s the English for “大花轿” in the passage?

A．a bride

B．a bridegroom

C．a sedan chair

D．a church

3. Where can the wedding be held in the open air in the world after you read the passage?

A．In China	B．In Western countries
C．In the countryside	D．In Africa

4. According to the passage, how many ways can the bridegroom usually take the bride to their new home now?

A．2

B．3

C．4

D．5

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Introduce the Western weddings.

B．Introduce the African weddings.

C．introduce the Chinese weddings.

D．Introduce different weddings.

【推荐1】Yesterday,I overheard our 9-year-old son,Aaron,talking to his friend,Zach.
“Oh，God！”Zach began，looking in Aaron’s closet “Where are all your toys？”
“Oh，we are doing something called Simplicity plan，so I basically got rid of 80% of my stuff（物品）. ”
“What？ Did your mom and dad make you do this？”
“No， Idecided to do it because I wanted to.When I give away a lot of my things，I make room for family activities. I did it because I wanted to live differently and have less stuff in my life.”
“But still,why would you choose to get rid of most of your toys？”
“Part of the reason is that my parents were doing it with their stuff .And my mom talked to me about it and explained how they felt happier afterwards. And I thought maybe I really had spent a lot of my time in my room playing with toys instead of spending time with my parents and sister.”
“Seriously？”
“I feel proud because I am a person who has just what I need and not more. And I’m starting
new activities like writing how I feel,reading more,and spending more time doing housework around the house.”
“OK.Let me get this. You have fewer toys，more housework,and you feel happier？”
“Well, it’s not that the housework is fun ,But I do it with my parents. We talk and connect while we are doing it, so that is the fun.And we’ve been doing more activities together, like reading aloud at night. And on weekends,we have conversations(交谈)or go out together, instead of my dad being at his computer,my mom cleaning and me playing with my toys.”
1. Why did Aaron give away most of his toys?

A．Because he didn’t like them.

B．Because his parents made him do it.

C．Because he had no time to play with them.

D．Because he wanted to spend more time with his family.

2. After Aaron’s parents got rid of some of their stuff,they          .

A．hoped Aaron wouldn’t do it

B．decided to buy some new stuff

C．found it was good for them

D．felt upset and wanted it back

3. We can learn from the passage that Aaron       .

A．used to enjoy reading

B．will get his toys back soon

C．used to write a lot about his feelings

D．enjoys doing housework with his parents

4. What can infer(推断)from the passage?

A．Zaron will not get rid of his toys.

B．Aaron doesn’t like going out with his parents.

C．Members in the writer’s family now feel closer.

D．His father still likes being at his computer on weekends.

【推荐2】Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She followed her mother wherever she went, hangin g onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She copied their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs by herself, like milking the cows. She even learned to recognize people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet.
When she was seven, she invented over 60 different signs which she could talk to her family. For example, if she wanted some bread, she would pretend to cut a piece and put some butter on it. If she wanted some ice cream, she put her arms around herself and pretended to shiver.
Helen soon learned to read and write in Braille. She also learned to read people’s lips by pressing her finger-tips against them and feeling the movement. She also learned to speak, a major achievement for someone who could not hear at all.
He len graduated with honors from a college in 1904. While she was still in the college, she wrote “The Story of My Life”. This was an immediate success and she made enough money to buy a house.
She gave lecture after lecture all over her country. Many people wrote books, made several plays and films about her life. She became so famous that some people invited her to go abroad and many foreign university gave her a lot of honors. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.
1. From the passage, we can learn that Helen________.

A．was very lazy when she was a child

B．could do everything easily as the usual people

C．couldn’t see with her eyes, so she had to explore the world with other senses

D．was so shy that she followed her mother wherever she went

2. She even learned to know some people by______ their faces or their clothes.

A．remembering	B．learning
C．feeling	D．writing

3. Helen could do the following things except________.

A．milk the cow

B．want some bread by her ways

C．want ice cream by putting her arm around herself and pretended to shiver

D．drive cars by herself

4. The Chinese meaning of the underlined word “achievement” is_______.

A．成就

B．运动

C．利益

D．原因

5. The best title of the passage is________.

A．A Shy Girl	B．Helen—A Brave Girl
C．The Story of My Life	D．Explore the World

【推荐3】判断 阅读下面的材料，判断下列句子是否符合短文内容。符合内容的写（T），不符合的写（F）。（T="True," F= False）
Different people have different skin（皮肤）. Some have black skin. Some have yellow skin, and some have white skin. There was a woman in Alaska. Her skin was orange. It was almost the color of orange juice.
How did her skin become orange? She ate lots of tomatoes, carrots, and squashes (南瓜). She ate too many orange things. That’s why her skin turned orange.
The woman didn’t want her skin to be orange, so she went to see the doctor. The doctor said. “Stop eating orange things. Eat some green things.” The woman did so, and her skin wasn’t orange any more.
1. The woman in this story had orange eyes and hair.
2. The woman’s skin was orange because she ate orange food.
3. This story is mainly about a woman in Alaska.
4. The woman saw a doctor because she didn’t like the color of her skin.
5. The doctor told her not to buy any green vegetables.

【推荐1】Have you ever been afraid? Do thunder and lightning make your heart beat faster? Maybe your mouth goes dry when your teacher says you will be given a test, or your palms（手掌）sweat when it’s your turn to give your report in front of the class. Perhaps you get butterflies in your stomach when you see the bully (欺负人的人) who chooses you.

We all have fears sometimes. That’s true no matter how big we are or how brave we can be. Fear of getting too close to a campfire may save you from a bad burn. And fear of getting a bad grade on a test may make you study hard. Being nervous can also sharpen your senses and help you perform better during a track meet. Some people even enjoy being a little scared. That’s why they like to watch scary movies.

Usually, our bodies go into fight only when there is something to fear. However, sometimes this happens when there doesn’t seem to be anything to be frightened about. When you feel scared but there doesn’t seem to be a clear reason, that’s called anxiety. For some kids, the feeling of anxiety or worry can happen at any time. For others, it might appear only at certain times, like when they are leaving their home or family to go somewhere. For some people, this feeling of anxiety happens almost all the time and gets in the way of what they want to do.

Tell your parents if your anxiety becomes strong and is getting in the way of what you want to do. Your parents can take you to a doctor, who can help to find out if a medical problem is making you feel anxious. But you can also try these ways to kill the feeling yourself.

1. What does the underlined phrase “get butterflies in your stomach” (Paragraph 1) probably mean?

A．Get angry.

B．Get nervous.

C．Get hurt.

D．Get excited.

2. What does the writer want to show in the second paragraph?

A．Brave people won’t feel fear whatever happens.	B．Children are easier to show fear than adults.
C．Fear is a sign of being sick and unhealthy.	D．Fear can be good to people sometimes.

3. According to the passage, we can learn that anxiety _________.

A．often appears before an important exam	B．appears when people face some frightening things
C．can’t be treated once it begins	D．sometimes doesn’t seem to have a clear reason

4. What would be talked about in the next paragraph?

A．The great harm fear does to people’s health.	B．Who to turn to for help when people feel anxious.
C．Some good ways to help people deal with fear.	D．What kind of people can easily feel anxious.

【推荐2】People often say that an Englishman’s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than in flats, and many people own their homes. They can paint and change them in any way they like. In a crowded city everyone knows that he or she has private space that is only for himself or herself and for invited friends.
People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting on a beach or a train or in a library? If you are on the beach you may have spread your sands around you; on the train you may have put your coat or a small bag on the seat beside you; in a library you may have one corner or chair which is your own.
Once I was traveling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us. The man sitting opposite me had his bag on the table. There was no space on my side of the table at all. I was made rather angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table! I took some newspapers out of my bag and put them on his. When I did this he sat up straight at once, opening his eyes wide. I had invaded（侵占）his space! A few minutes later, I took my newspapers off his bag in order to read them. He at once moved his bag to his side of the table.
1. The English call their homes “castles” because ____________.

A．they don’t make friend with others

B．they are very important persons

C．they don’t want to stay with others

D．homes provide them with their own space

2. The word “private” in the first paragraph means _____________.

A．私人的

B．公共的

C．相邻的

D．隐蔽的

3. According to the passage, if an Englishman is on the beach, he will probably ________ to show his own space to others.

A．cover himself with sands

B．sit in another person’s chair

C．spread sands around him

D．talk loudly with his friends

4. Why did the writer get angry ? Because ____________

A．the man’s bag fell on the writer’s foot.

B．the man’s bag was on the writer’s seat.

C．the man didn’t leave space for the writer on the table.

D．the man’s bag prevented the writer looking out of the window.

5. The writer put his newspapers on the man’s bag in order to ___________.

A．invade the man’s space

B．let the man move his bag to his side

C．take the man’s seat

D．let the man read the newspaper

【推荐3】Considered as one of the English language’s most talented poets, John Keats wrote poems that focused on imagination, human nature, and life. Although Keats didn't receive much education on literature, his own studies and interests brought him much success. Also, his own life situation made a great difference to his poems.

Growing up as a young boy in London in a lower middle­class family, the young John didn't attend a private school, but went to a public one. His mother was not well educated. His teachers and his family’s friends considered him as a common boy who preferred playing and fighting much more to minding his studies. After his father’s death in the early 1800s, followed by his mother's because of tuberculosis(肺结核), he began seeing life differently. He wanted to keep away from the world and did so by reading anything he could get his hands on.

At around the age of 16, the teenage John Keats began studying medical treatment so that he too might become a doctor. However, his literary dream had taken too much of his life，especially with his love for the poems of Ehmund Spenser. He was able to have his first full poem published in the Examiner in 1816, named O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell. Within two months in 1817, Keats had written another full poem, but was sharply criticized (批评) by a magazine. However, it didn’t stop his dream of poems．

John Keats’ next work was Endymion, which was published in May 1818. The story includes a farmer who falls in love with the moon and leads him to a trip of one boy's hope to deal with the limitations (限制) of being human. Following Endymion, however, he tried something more story­based and wrote Isabella. During this time, John Keats began seeing his limitations in poetry because of his own limit in life experiences. He would have to have the “knowledge” connected to his poems. His next work was Hyperion that would like to mix all that he learned together. However, a bout (发作) with tuberculosis while visiting Italy would keep him from his work and finally take his life in 1821.

1. John Keats' thoughts about life changed because of __________ .

A．Edmund Spenser's poetry	B．the deaths of his parents
C．the criticism of a magazine	D．his early education from school

2. What is the common thing between John Keats and his mother?

A．They received little education.	B．They went to a private school.
C．They died of the same disease.	D．They showed strong interest in poetry.

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Keats once had a chance of becoming a doctor.

B．The poem Hyperion wasn’t completed by Keats.

C．Edmund Spenser was the greatest poet in Keats’ time.

D．Keats’ family must have been very poor when he was young.

【推荐1】Social Bond of Animals

Friendship is an important part of human life. Friends can share our joys and our hardships. We aren’t alone. Many different animals also make friends.

Recently _, a British research team finished an eight-year study of Indo-Pacific dolphins off the coast of Western Australia. These dolphins can use different tools to search for food. The researchers found that these dolphins are more willing to hang out with partners that like the same tool. Other factors, like family closeness or sex, have no influence on this relationship.

“It suggests that dolphins form social bonds （纽带）based on shared interests,^w UK biologist Simon Allen told Science Daily. "Using different tools is time-consuming （耗时间的）” for dolphins to cooperate.

Apart from dolphins, elephants, horses and bats are also known to form friendships. Are friendships only limited to the same species? Of course not, The

Atlantic reported in 2015, a goat Timur was originally left in the tiger Amur's enclosure （围场）as a meal. But instead of eating Timur, Amur likes to play with it and gets jealous when others are close to his friend.

The Atlantic said it’s not unusual among captive （圈禁的）animals. That's because in captivity, animals don’t need to spend much time and energy marking their territory （领地）or looking for mates the way they would in the wild. They are actually more likely to feel bored. " In this particular situation, the animal's motivation to engage （参与）socially and playfully may be higher than eating. ⁿ

More interestingly, animals not only make friends but also try to keep lasting friendships. Take bats for example. In 2011, scientists found bats prefer to hang out with a few certain friends, keeping loose ties to the rest of their group.

Humans aren't so different. “We do not work, play and live together with the same friends all the time，" Swiss zoologist Gerald Kerth explained. “ But nevertheless, we are able to maintain long-term relationships …despite our often highly dynamic （动态的）social lives."

1. What did the recent British research find about dolphins?

A．They form a group to look for food together.

B．They form friendships based on family closeness.

C．They are likely to make friends based on interests.

D．They are better at building friendships than other animals.

2. What can we infer from Gerald Kerth’s words?

A．Animals like to hang out with different friends.

B．Animals might feel bored with friends of the same species.

C．Humans are better at keeping long-term bonds than animals.

D．Humans and animals make and keep friendships in similar ways.

3. What's the passage mainly about?

A．How animals form and keep friendship.

B．The importance of friendship for animals.

C．How to build strong ties with your friends.

D．The different ways humans and animals socialize.

【推荐2】It's reported that a Chinese company has created a new facial recognition system that can identify (识别) people even if they are wearing masks. Developers began working on the new system in January 2020 when the novel coronavirus appeared in China. The fast spread of the virus has led most people to wear masks in public to protect themselves and people around.

China is regarded as a world leader in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). According to engineers at the Beijing-based Hanwang Technology Ltd, this system is the first to be created to identify people wearing face masks. A team of 20 engineers completed it in about a month, adding a collection of about 6 million unmasked faces and a smaller collection of masked faces," the company said.

Hanwang is now selling two main kinds of products using the new technology. One performs single channel recognition (单通道识别), which will be used at the entrances to buildings. The other product is a multi-channel (多通道识别) recognition system that uses groups of cameras. It's said that the multi-channel system can identify a person in a crowd of up to 30 people within a second.

When people wear a mask, the recognition rate   can reach about 95 percent," said Huang Lei, Hanwang's vice president. The system's success rate for people without wearing a mask is about 99. 5 percent."

Nowadays the new system is trying to identify people with both sunglasses and a mask. In such cases, all of the key facial information is lost, making recognition hard," Huang said.

1. What does Paragraph 1 mainly want to tell us?

A．The truth that people should wear masks in public.

B．The reason why a new facial recognition system was created.

C．The time when the novel coronavirus appeared in China.

2. How is the facial recognition system able to recognize masked faces?

A．After many unmasked and masked faces are stored in it.

B．After just a large collection of masked faces are added to it.

C．After 20 engineers work hard for a month.

3. What do we know about the multi—channel recognition system?

A．It can identify people with sunglasses and masks.

B．It can be found at the entrances to buildings.

C．Many cameras are used at the same time.

4. Which part of the head does the system mainly pay attention to when a person wears a mask?

A．The hair.

B．The ears.

C．The eyes.

5. The writer wrote the passage to________.

A．show the rapid development of China

B．explain the popularity of AI

C．introduce a new recognition system

【推荐3】Is Technology Changing the Way Kids Develop Relationships?

Technology is redefining（重新定义）the meaning of relationships. For example, technology has enabled people who have never met nor will ever meet to call themselves friends. It makes the line between connections and real friends become unclear.

Because of technology’s omnipresence（遍在；无所不在)in the lives of most children, it is shaping how children feel about and develop relationships without fully consideration of the influence that it has on children’s relationships. Because of this growing influence of technology on them, children need to really understand where they are learning about relationships and whether what they are learning is healthy and will lay the groundwork for a future of positive relationships.

It’s necessary to recognize these changes because relationships play such a central role in who children become and the quality of the lives they lead. Relationships provide children with a foundation of values, love, security, and support. The quality of children’s early relationships acts as the model on which their future relationships are modeled and built. Later relationships with peers, teachers, and other influential people shape children’s beliefs about the world and the direction that their lives will take. In fact, there is no aspect(方面)of children’s lives that remains untouched by relationships.

At the same time, many of the changes in relationships caused by technology have been positive. Technology has also been a good thing to keep already-established（建立） relationships. If you have family or friends who live at a great distance, they no longer have to rely on the telephone or snail mail to stay connected. They can contact through email, texting and so on.

As with all value-neutral（价值中立的）advancements, there are both benefits and costs, positive uses and unhealthy misuses. My worry focuses on how children come to define relationships and the role that technology is playing in that process(过程). For example, I hear many young people talking about all of the “friends” they have made on the web. There’s no doubt that the web has enabled people everywhere to connect and communicate like never before, but I would argue that connection alone can not make a relationship.

1. The line between connections and real friends has become unclear because ________.

A．technology brings new change

B．it’s difficult to find real friends

C．it’s wise to connect with strangers

D．technology gives kids more free time

2. What do you know about children’s relationships from the passage?

A．Relationships are easy to develop for children.

B．Children can understand relationships correctly.

C．Relationships connect with every part of children’s lives.

D．Children’s later relationships are more important than their early ones.

3. The writer probably agrees that ________.

A．children can’t make friends on the web

B．technology is changing children’s lives

C．technology can’t cause positive influence

D．children dislike the growing influence of technology

4. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A．To list the changes in relationships caused by technology.

B．To introduce a new type of relationships in kids’ daily life.

C．To tell the kids to develop their relationships with the help of the technology.

D．To remind the kids of thinking about the influence of technology on their relationships.