Some people like to get up late, but some do not. In fact, it is really good for us to get up early every day. Maybe those who don’t like getting up early will not believe this, but it is true.
Scientists made a survey in about one thousand people, and then they found that early rising people had less disease than late rising people, and early rising people also looked healthier than late rising people, and so on.
So we may know early rising is helpful in more than one way. First, it helps to keep us healthy. We all need fresh air. But air is never as fresh as early in the morning. Besides, it is useful to do morning exercises.
Secondly, early rising helps us in our studies. In the morning we learn more quickly and find it easier to understand what we learn.
Thirdly, early rising can give us a plan of our work for the day. We cannot work well without a good plan.
Fourthly, early rising gives us enough time to get ready for our work^ such as to wash our hands and faces and eat our breakfast.
Late risers may find it difficult to form the habit of early rising. They have to make an effort (努力)to do so. As the English proverb says, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise?”
Judge the following sentences true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.People don’t always agree on whether to get up early.
In the passage the writer gives four reasons for early rising.
Early rising makes people happier according to the passage.
Early risers don’t look as healthy as late risers.
The writer encourages people not to sleep late.
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阅读短文,根据其内容,选择最佳选项完成下列各题。
Paragraph 1: Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus(柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal(谷物), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.
Paragraph 2: People in different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at 11 o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
Paragraph 3: There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.From the first paragraph we know noodles belong to a kind of ______ food.
A.vegetable | B.fruit | C.meat | D.cereal |
According to the scientists, which of the following groups is the healthiest for your lunch?
A.chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages | B.potatoes, rice, bread, carrots |
C.oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes | D.beef, pork, fish, milk |
People in different places of the world ______.
A.have the right kinds of food to eat | B.cook their food in the same way |
C.have their meals at the same time | D.eat food in different ways |
Which of the following is NOT true?
A.People in some places don’t have enough to eat. |
B.There are too many people in the world. |
C.One of the problems is that no one is hungry. |
D.The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy. |
If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?
A.When people eat their meals. |
B.What to do with the two problems. |
C.How to cook food in different ways. |
D.Why people in different places eat different kinds of food. |
A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maiyuwa, a small village. They lived with the man’s big family-his parents, his brothers, their wives and husbands and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.
Three months later, having quarreled with her husband, the woman went back to her parents’ home. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heartbroken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal .So she went back to her husband’s home. The woman left her new home ______.
A.to visit her own parents in Maiyuwa |
B.to see if the elephant would follow her |
C.because she was angry with her husband |
D.because she was tired of the large family |
The word “disappeared” in the reading means “______”.
A.ran away | B.lost | C.hid | D.remained |
After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant______.
A.returned to the forest | B.was sad because it missed her |
C.went to look for a new home | D.was sick because nobody fed it |
How did the elephant express its feeling when it saw the young woman?
A.It waved its trunk and smiled. | B.It touched her with its trunk. |
C.It touched her and cried. | D.It waved its trunk and ran around her. |
The writer wrote the story in order to______.
A.show that elephants are very clever |
B.tell how a woman trained a wild animal |
C.show that women care more for animals than men do |
D.tell how an animal got a husband and a wife together again |
When we talk of plants, most of us will think of things that grow from the ground and have green leaves, but there are plants that do not look or act like other plants. Some of these belong to a special class of plants called fungi.
Fungi may appear almost everywhere. ①They commonly grow in wet places where they can get food and water easily. Because fungi do not have green leaves to make their own food, fungi must take their food from animals, other plants or water. Some fungi live on dead or rotting wood, while others grow on living trees or in dirt or moss(苔藓). Mushrooms(蘑菇) are the best-known fungi.
②There are many kinds of mushrooms appearing in all shapes and sizes. For example, cauliflower mushrooms are found in forests from July to October. They can grow to be as heavy as fifty pounds! They grow at the foot of trees. Squirrel’s bread(松茸) is another kind of wild mushroom. Its appearance and use can explain its name. These fungi look like small golden cakes. Squirrels can easily eat them or carry them off to their hole to eat later.
③食品店里的蘑菇是人们精心种植的,可安全食用。People are warned never to touch or taste wild mushrooms, because some of them are deadly. Even less dangerous ones can still make a person very sick.将①句译成中文。
_________________________________________________________________将②句译成中文。
_________________________________________________________________将③句译成英文。
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回答问题:From what can fungi take food?
_________________________________________________________________What is squirrel’s bread? How to understand the name?
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No Car Day was first started by 34 cities in France on September 22, 1998. It was started to protect the environment. By now, more than 1,000 cities around the world have had a No Car Day.
The first No Car Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. Other cities, including Taipai, Shanghai and Wuhan, also support the day.
In Beijing, more and more people are joining the campaign. It asks drivers to leave their cars at home for one day each month and walk or ride a bike to work. It also calls on Beijingers not to use cars on June 5(World Environment Day). The slogan for the day is, “If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day.”
So far, more than 200,000 drivers have shown their support. “We can’t control the weather, but we can choose not to drive,” said Wu Zonghua, a car club chairman. Beijing is trying to have 238 blue sky days this year. In the first quarter of 2012, Beijing only had 52 blue sky days. This was 11 days less than the number for the same period the year before. Much of the dust comes from the desert, but cars cause most of the air pollution. We must do more for No Car Day.The first No Car Day fell on _______.
A.February 2nd | B.June 5th | C.July 5th | D.September 22nd |
_______ was the first city to have No Car Day in China.
A.Beijing | B.Chengdu | C.Shanghai | D.Wuhan |
What does the underlined word “slogan” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A.目的 | B.原因 | C.意义 | D.口号 |
How many blue sky days did Beijing have in the first quarter of 2011?
A.63. | B.52. | C.41. | D.238. |
Which of the following statements is True?
A.China is the first country to start No Car Day. |
B.No Car Day is World Environment Day. |
C.No Car Day has been supported by over 1,000 cities around the world so far. |
D.Much of the dust in the air comes from cars. |