【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根据其内容完成后面各项任务。

Earthquakes always happen suddenly, so it is difficult to warn people about them. Usually people have little or no idea about what to do during an earthquake, so here is some advice:

Inside

1. Do not jump out of high buildings.

2. Hide under a table. Stay away from windows and heavy furniture. Keep clear of fires.

3. ①Leave the building quickly when the ground stops shaking, but do not use the lift.

4. Keep calm, especially when you are with other people. Be brave and be helpful.

Outside

1. Move away from buildings, because parts of a building may fall on you.

2. Do not stand near street lights or under lines.

3.Stay away from bridges and trees. If you are in a bus or car, stay in it.

4. ②在山区要当心滚落的岩石。

5. On a beach, run away from the sea and move quickly to higher ground.

In short, follow what you learnt in school. You can be safe and you can also help save others.

1. 请将①处句子译为汉语。
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2. 请将②处句子译为英语。
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3. Why is it difficult to warn people about earthquakes?
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4. 请在文中找出与所给句子意思相同的句子。
Because of the falling of some parts, keep away from buildings.
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5. What’s the topic of the passage?
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【推荐3】There are many people who are less lucky than us. Volunteering our time to help these people is a good way to spend our free time. But how can we help others through volunteering? Here are some ideas for you.

1 When people get older, it becomes harder to do many things, from walking to the store to doing the housework. Old people living alone can also feel lonely. As a volunteer, you can do a lot to help the old in your neighbourhood, you could visit them to help them with their housework or just talk to them.

2 Many people with disabilities need help. You could volunteer to read books to the blind or deliver (递送) something for people who can’t get around too well.

3 There are a lot of volunteer jobs to do in hospitals and health care centres. As a volunteer, you can make beds, deliver flowers and gifts, help serve meals, make the patients happy and do lots of some other important jobs.

4 Some families don’t have enough money to buy food and clothes for their kids. Some people don’t have places to live in at all. To help these people as a volunteer, you can give clothes, food or money to, or collect money for charities.

5 Sometimes people need more help when holidays come. Holidays are happy, but for people who are alone or unlucky, they can be a lonely, hard time. As a volunteer, you can deliver holiday dinners to less lucky people, visit lonely old people and serve food to the homeless.

(a) 根据短文内容，从方框中选出每段的主旨大意，把选项填入文中空白处。

A. Helping poor families.	B. Helping the disabled.
C. Helping some people during holidays.	D. Helping your old neighbours.
E. Doing the hospital work.

    1               2               3               4               5    
(b) 根据短文内容，补全下面的语段。每空不超过两个词。

Volunteering is a great way to help different people in trouble. We can help some old people     6     their housework. The old people who live alone usually feel lonely. We can often visit them and     7     them. We can also help those disabled people. We can read books to the blind people or deliver things for those who can’t walk or use their hands     8    . Sometimes we can go to the hospital to     9     the patients. We may also give away some clothes, money, food to the homeless people. Especially     10     holidays, they need more help, so we can do more for them at this time.

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，完成表格。（横线上所填内容词数不限）

Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems to be a crazy idea from a science-fiction movie. But it could happen in the near future.

Canadian biophysicist（生物物理学家）Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear. He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future.

Scientists have been trying to grow organs（器官）in labs to replace injured or dead organs. But it is hard to do. For example, liver cells（肝细胞）can be grown in a lab, but the cells still need things like blood vessels（血管）to actually work. These things have to grow inside a “scaffold（支架）”called the extracellular matrix（细胞外基质）.

In the past, scientists have used man-made materials, animal parts and even dead human tissue as scaffolds. But that has proven to be complicated（复杂的）and expensive.

Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy-to-use scaffold. They first cut an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used some of the apple’s cells to create a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple and watched it grow. “You can implant（移植）these scaffolds into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and they can help keep these things alive,” Pelling said during a TED Talk.

Title: An ear made out of an apple
    1     having an ear made out of an apple is crazy, but it could happen in the near future.

Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear.	2     for people to use fruit and vegetables to repair human body parts in the future.
Scientists have been trying to grow organs in labs.	◆It is hard to do.. For example,     3     the cells still need things like blood vessels to actually work. ◆In the past, scientists have used man-made materials, animal parts and even dead human tissue as scaffolds.
Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy-to-use scaffold.	◆First, an apple     4     the shape of an ear. ◆Then they used some of the apple’s cells to create a scaffold. ◆The team then added human cells to the apple and watched it grow. If you implant these scaffolds into the body,     5     the cells and a blood supply, they will be alive.

【推荐2】任务型。

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, words, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do? ” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at   a time, what is your translation (翻译)? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It’s important to learn the rules for word order( 顺 序 ) in the study of English, too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

“She only likes apples.”        “Only she likes apples.”

“I usually have vegetables for lunch.”        “Usually have vegetables for lunch”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

1       to learn English
2     way of learning English	Put a    3    into English word for word.
Some    4    things about learning English	Learn the       5    for word order. It is    6    for the listener to understand the sentence if the speaker     7    words in a wrong order. Sentences may have the same meaning when the word order is changed, while   others may have    8       meanings.
Conclusion	When learning English, we should try our best to: Get the     9    of English. Try to use it in the       10    way as English speakers.

【推荐3】Greg Woodburn, a university student, spends a lot of time cleaning sports shoes. Some of them once were his; some were his friends'. But soon the shoes will have new owners, poor children in the USA and 20 other countries, thanks to Greg's Share Our Soles(鞋底) (S. O. S)charity (慈善团体).

Greg was a high school running star in a small own in California. He had to stop running for months because his knee hurt badly. "I started thinking about all the things. I got from running, the health, the friendships and the confidence," he said. "And I realised there were children who didn't even have shoes."

Greg collected his own sports shoes and then called his friends and the town. His aim(目标) was to have 100 pairs by Christmas. When the number climbed to more than 500 pairs, Greg knew that he could collect sports shoes all the year round.

Now he has set up collection boxes in his town. So far, S. O. S has collected and donated(捐赠) more than 3, 000 pairs of shoes. And Greg has cleaned almost all of them. "People think of it as dirty work," he says, "but I like doing it, because I feel happy when I'm doing it. It's not work I want to pass on to someone else."

In just three years, Greg has started three branches(分部) of S. O. S and there are more and more sports shoes.

For many poor children, receiving the shoes means opportunity(机会). Two young boys in southern California had to go to school on alternate days(隔日) because they both shared a pair of shoes. They were too big for one boy and too small or the other. Thanks to S. O. S, each brother received his own pair of shoes. The boys now go to school every day. When they graduate(毕业), they say they will help others, just as Greg helped them.

1. Greg will donate these sports shoes to ________________.
2. From running Greg got health, friendships and confidence, and he realised ________________.
3. According to the passage, S. O. S has collected and donated ________________ pairs of shoes
4. Greg likes to clean the donated shoes because ________________.
5. What did the two boys in southern California learn from Greg?
They said they would ________________.