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1、单独成册：对应学生用书第294页.阅读理解AMost people agree that eating healthy food is important.But sometimes making good food choices can be tough.Now，there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their diets and their dining out experiences.OpenTableOpenTable helps people choose resta
2、urants when they want to go out to eat.Its a free service that shows users restaurant availability based on where and when they want to dine.Its users can also make restaurant reservations directly through the app.It gives users points when they make reservations.The points can add up to discounts o
3、n restaurant visits.When users make reservations through OpenTable they get an email confirmation.Cheese & Wine PairingWine and cheese can be a great combination，but which kind of wine goes best with which kind of cheese？Cheese & Wine Pairing app can help.It provides free information about hundreds
4、of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each.Over 3，000 possible combinations can be found based on 600 different cheeses.EpicuriousEpicurious is a free app to help users find recipes and become better cooks.It has over 30，000 recipes and can create a shopping list based on the ingredie
5、nts(原料)in a recipe.Users can search by ingredients or by vegetables in season.Users also provide advice about making the recipes.Each recipe has a list of ingredients，preparation time，instructions and a photo of the finished meal.LocalEatsRestaurant chains，like McDonalds，can be found almost anywhere
6、 a person might travel.But sometimes travelers want to eat local foods.LocalEats is designed for that.It lists locally owned restaurants，so users can find local foods easily.The app costs about a dollar.语篇解读本文是一篇应用文。文章主要向读者推荐了几款提供健康食谱或餐厅信息的应用软件。1What can we do with OpenTable?AReserve restaurants.BCr
7、eate shopping lists.CLook for local restaurants.DImprove the skill of cooking.解析：细节理解题。根据文中OpenTable部分的“Its users can also make restaurant reservations directly through the app.”可知，用户可以利用OpenTable来预订餐馆。答案：A2Which app can offer help if you want to eat like the natives?ALocalEats.BEpicurious.COpenTabl
8、e.DCheese & Wine Pairing.解析：细节理解题。根据LocalEats部分的内容可知，这款应用软件为游客推荐当地特色餐厅。答案：A3What do the four apps share?AThey are all free of charge.BThey recommend healthy recipes.CThey help people find good restaurants.DThey are helpful in providing food choices.解析：推理判断题。根据文中对这四款应用软件的介绍可知，它们在食物或餐厅的选择方面可以为用户提供帮助。答
9、案：DBWhen he was a little boy his uncle called him “Sparky”，after a cartoon horse named Spark Plug.School was all but impossible for Sparky.He failed every subject in the eighth grade.And his record in sports wasnt any better.Though he did manage to make the schools golf team，he lost the only importa
10、nt match of the season in no time.Throughout his youth，Sparky was awkward socially.It wasnt that other students disliked him；it was just that no one really cared all that much.Sparky was a loser.He，his classmates.everyone knew it.So he learned to live with it.He made up his mind early that if things
11、 were meant to work out，they would.Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be his mediocrity(平庸)One thing was important to Sparky，howeverdrawing.In his senior year of high school，he sent some cartoons to the yearbook.The editors rejected his ideas.Despite that，Sparky was convinced o
12、f his ability.He decided to become an artist.So，after completing high school，Sparky wrote to Walt Disney Studios.They asked for samples(样本)of his artwork.Despite careful preparation，he was rejected.But Sparky still didnt give up.Instead，he decided to tell his own lifes story in cartoons.The main cha
13、racter would be a little boy who symbolized the continuous loser and chronic(长期的)underachiever.You know him well.Because Sparkys cartoon character went on to become a cultural phenomenon of sorts.People readily identified with this “lovable loser”He reminded people of the painful and embarrassing mo
14、ments from their own past，of their pain and their shared humanity.The character soon became famous worldwideCharlie Brown.And Sparky，the boy whose many failures never kept him from trying，is the highly successful cartoonist Charles Schultz.His cartoon strip(连环漫画)，“Peanuts”，continues to inspire books
15、，Tshirts and Christmas specials，reminding us that life somehow finds a way for all of us，even the losers.语篇解读本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。Charles Schultz在上学的时候，各方面表现得都很差，失败与他如影随形，但是他对画画的坚持最终让他成为一个漫画家。4What do the first two paragraphs want to tell us about Sparky?AHe was a bad boy in school.BHe behaved strangely in da
16、ily life.CHe felt hopeless faced with the failures in life.DHe performed badly almost in every aspect when young.解析：推理判断题。从第一、二段的内容可知，小时候的Sparky可以说是一无是处，在所有人的眼里，他是个失败者。答案：D5Before Sparky started his Charlie Brown cartoon，_Ahis artwork was rejected time and againBhe thought himself really bad at drawingCsome editors enc
