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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(谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.
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People in different countries and 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 a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
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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.According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?
| A．chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages | B．potatoes, carrots, rice, bread |
| C．oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes | D．beef, pork, fish, milk |
It is important for people to eat _______.
| A．three times a day | B．dinner at twelve o’clock |
| C．cooked food all the day | D．something from each of the seven kinds of food every day |
People in different countries and different places of the world _______.
| A．has the right kinds of food to eat | B．cooks their food in the same way |
| C．has their meals at the same time | D．eat food in different ways |
If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?
| A．When people eat their lunch | B．What to do with the two problems |
| C．How to cook food in different ways | D．Why people eat different kinds of food |
Among growing concerns about rising food prices and global warming, many Americans are taking a closer look at what they do and don’t eat.
Research in the US estimates that at least 14 percent of purchased food ends up in the garbage.Some way view this as a call to return to the”clean your plate” atiitude, which was popularized in the mid-twentieth century, but this would be unwise.With a rising overweight population and a growing national health crisis, it’s time for a new approach.Instead,we should view these figures as motivation to reduce waste,cut grocery costs and maintain our health by shopping and eating smarter.
Food waste reportedly makes up about 12 percent of waste material.Aside from the costly operation budgets of the equipment,the environment is paying the real price.As organic material(like vegetables,fruits and grains)decompose in the garbage,they release the greenhouse gas methane(甲烷)into the environment.
In fact,garbage is the largest source of methane emissions(散发)in the US.While composting plant food, which does not produce methane,is one solution,strategies for wasting less food shoule also be explored.
According to a survey in the UK,one major source of food waste is “over shopping”.Buying more food than we need is easy to do when we shop without a list or when “buy one,get one free”offers tempt us to put food that will often go to waste into our shopping baskets.
The solution: shop smarter.Check your refrigerator to see what needs to be used or frozen before it becomes bad.Check your calendar to see if there are meals that you know you will be eating away from home.
Before you go to the store,decide how many days worth of food you need.Then ,take a few minutes to prepare a shopping list.Don’t make things different—no need to decide what will be served each day—just plan enough breakfast,lunch and dinner meals to last until your next grocery run.How does food waste influence the environment?
| A．It makes up about 12 percent of waste materials |
| B．It costs a great deal to operate the equipment |
| C．It contains organic materials |
| D．It release the greenhouse gas |
How many solutions are mentioned to solve the food garbage problem?
| A．One |
| B．Two |
| C．Three |
| D．Four |
What can we know according to Paragraph 5?
| A．We usually buy some unnecessary food. |
| B．We tend to buy a lot of food that we can’t afford. |
| C．We usually buy one thing and are given one more for free. |
| D．We get the free food and soon throw it into the garbage |
The purpose of writing this passage is to ___.
| A．tell us what healthy foods should be bought |
| B．remind us to eat smarter to provide energy for our body |
| C．advise us to check our refrigerator before eating out |
| D．expect us to make efforts to avoid food waste |
Many English students did not realize that phrases such as “get off of” and “she was stood” were grammatically incorrect. It’s feared that the use of social networking websites and mobile phone text messaging is damaging children’s literacy(读写) skills.
Ministers have also complained that many young people spend too much time playing video games and watching TV instead of reading books.In the lastest study,Cambridge Assessment,one of the country’s biggest examination organizations,surveyed more than 2,000teenagers in 26 English secondary schools.
They were presented with various phrases and asked to mark out those with non-standard English. Only 41 percent realized that an adjective had been used in place of an adverb in the phrase “come quick”.
Fewer than six-in-ten pupils correctly identified “get off of” and “she was stood” as ungrammatical. Around a quarter of students failed to spot errors in the phrases “ it wasn’t me who done it” , “ couldn’t hardly move”, “Tom had gotten cold” and “three mile”. At least a fifth failed to recognize that “more easier” was incorrect. And most one-in-ten students failed to spot the use of a double negative in the phrase “I didn’t break no vase”
Ian McNeilly,from the National Association for the Teaching of English, told the Times Educational Supplement, “For a lot of people—not just young people—their daily use of English is in new media,where non-standerd grammatical constuctions are more acceptable.That’s unavoidably going to lead to an increased lack of awareness of more standard constructions.”
Dr Beth Black,author of the latest report,said,”It is possible that these less well-recognized nonstandard English forms will find their way into standard English,especially given the view that teenagers are linguistic innovators(语言创新者) who bring about change in standard dialect”.According to the first paragraph, what do people worry about?
| A．Text message cost students too much money |
| B．students can’t use standard English grammer |
| C．Students are annoyed through social networking websites. |
| D．Students become violent by playing video games |
From the result of the survey, about 10 percent of the students failed to___.
| A．understand the correct use of the tense |
| B．know the proper place of an adjective |
| C．know the use of the adverb |
| D．find the misuse of a double negative |
According to Ian McNeilly, which of the following caused the spread of non-standard grammer?
| A．Poeple use English in new media |
| B．People spend little time reading books |
| C．People didn’t learning grammar well at school |
| D．Poeple are too careless in their writing |
From the last paragraph, we can infer that___.
| A．standard English will probably be destroyed by teenagers |
| B．teenagers are likely to become experts in English language |
| C．non-standard English forms will probably be widely accepted |
| D．people will probably not use the standard English grammar |
On a cold evening of April our ship was sailing for Ireland. Suddenly a violent storm rose and overturned our ship. Fortunately I held a board and was washed up on an island.
It was completely dark. On reaching the island，I found a smooth place to lie down. Quite tired I slept for a long time. I woke up with a start when I was dazzled (使目眩) by glaring sunlight. How I felt hungry and thirsty！The island with its beautiful landscape at dawn appeared before my eyes.
I began to explore the island. It was an uninhabited island surrounded by trees. Yellow fruits on the trees made me feel hungry. I tasted one. How sweet and delicious it was！I ate greedily a lot then I lay down comfortably on the soft grass. Around me were fragrance (芳香) and singing of birds. There, far away, on the right, a waterfall was falling down the mountainside. I rushed toward it. In the afternoon when I was wandering around the island, I happened to find out a cave hidden behind the thick forest. It was convenient for me to turn it into a place for sleeping for the night.
Day in day out,nearly two weeks passed by. My food was mere fruit and some fish caught from the stream. Sometimes I tried to hunt some wild animals but in vain. Had I been equipped with necessary things，I would have enjoyed remaining here for food.
One morning I caught sight of a boat. I signaled and shouted loudly. I was rescued but so far I have had the memories of a fairy land which I had once happened to discover!What did the author do first after he was washed up on the island?
| A．He looked for a passing ship. |
| B．He found something to eat. |
| C．He found a place to take a rest. |
| D．He made the island clean. |
What is the RIGHT time order of the following things?
A.HE wandered around the island
B.He was dazzled by glaring sunlight
C.He ate a lot of wild fruits
D.He found the island’s landscape was beautiful
A.bdac B.cdab C.acdb D.bdcaWhat does the underlined part “an uninhabited island”in Paragraph 3 mean?
| A．An island with beautiful scenes but no fruit. |
| B．An island without humans living on it. |
| C．An island that no humans have visited. |
| D．An island with fresh air and trees. |
What does this passage specially describe?
| A．How the author overcame difficulties on the island |
| B．How the author spent the first night and the first day on the island |
| C．How the author got to the island |
| D．How the author escaped from the island |
The author wrote his experience in a ________ tone.
| A．light | B．serious | C．scared | D．sharp |
Theangelshavefinallybeenconnected together and the bows have all been carefully fixed across the branches.After three months of hard work, 16-year-old Suzy Jordan’s tree is finally appearing at the yearly Festival of Trees in honor of her best friend, Emily Austin.
“All that’s needed now is a real angel,”says Suzy,”to help 13-year-old Emily recover from a recent bone marrow transplant(骨髓移植)and finally remove the leukemia(白血病)”
“Emily is the strongest person I know.There’s always such brightness about her,”says Suzy,a student ar Orem High School.
Last year,when Emily’s cancer was in remission,she helped Suzy and other students decorate a red-and-white Christmas tree for Primary Children’s Medical Center at the Festival of Trees.
“It was so much fun for her,”says Emily’s mother, Laurie,”she’s seen the inside of the hospital more than a school since she was 5”.
But the good conditions didn’t last long.In August, Suzy learned that her friend’s leukemia returned, becoming worse.And she knew exactly what to do show her support.
“Emily was so excited about helping out with the festival tree last year that I decided to surprise her by giving away a tree of my own,”she says.
Because of being in hospital, Emily won’t be able to see the tree.”But I’m taking pictures to surprise her,”says Suzy.”I want her to know that she’ll always be an angel to me.”
Suzy’s tree has given Emily’s family hope for a miracle(奇迹).”It has given Emily hope that she has a chance to be a normal girl and do all the things other girls do,”says Laurie Austin.
Suzy’s greatest hope is that she’ll be able to give away more trees to the festival, with one big difference.”The best wish of all,”she says,”is that Emily will be there with me, putting on the decoration.” What’s the best title for this passage?
| A．A christmas tree gives hope for a miracle |
| B．Friends’ help means a lot |
| C．A Christmas tree for a hospital |
| D．The best hope of Suzy Jordan |
Suzy Jordan decorated a tree to ___.
| A．help Emily realize her dream |
| B．prepare for the Festival of Trees |
| C．show admiration for Emily Austin |
| D．call on more people to help Emily |
The underlined phrase”in remission”in Paragraph 4 probably means”___”.
| A．less serious |
| B．much worse |
| C．as bad as before |
| D．fully cured |
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．Emily probably got the leukemia eight years ago |
| B．Emily is excited and surprised to see the Christmas tree |
| C．Emily is fond of decorating Christmas trees |
| D．Emily faces her illness actively and strongly |
How to say hello in Japanese depends on when you say it. This is very much like different greetings used in English at different times of the day or night. In Japanese culture, it also depends on whether you are on the phone or meeting somebody or whether you are close to the person you are greeting. We don’t get formal with our close friends. We seldom greet them with “Good morning” or “Good evening”. A “Hi” is enough.
Although the most popular and most well-known translation for “Hello” is still “Konniqiwa”, it is not exactly how to say hello in Japanese. Perhaps it is not the most suitable word for it. Actually, the correct greeting in English for “Konniqiwa” is “Good day” or “Good noon”, and I am sure you wouldn’t like to greet people with a “Good day” at any time, and neither do Japanese like saying “Konniqiwa” when they want to say “Hello”.
So what to do? Let’s do it in the way the Japanese do. Use “Ohaiyo Gozaimasu” for “Good morning”, “Konniqiwa” when it’s noon and “Konbanwa”to greet somebody in the afternoon. Things differ when you are on the phone. Just say “Moshi, Moshi”, which is actually similar to saying “Hello” over the phone, because one hardly ever uses “Good morning” or “Good afternoon” or “Good evening” right after picking up the phone. It is invariably the sweet old “Hello”.
Next time, I’ll tell something about my life in Japan. What is the best title for this passage?
| A．How to say hello |
| B．How to greet close friend in Japanese |
| C．How to greet people in Japanese |
| D．Some differences between English and Japanese |
Japanese people greet each other by saying “___” in the afternoon.
| A．Moshi, Moshi |
| B．Konniqiwa |
| C．Ohaiyo Gozaimasu |
| D．Konbanwa |
In the writer’s opinion, ____.
| A．Japanese culture is similar to American culture |
| B．Japanese people don’t like using “Konniqiwa” as a greeting for the whole day |
| C．people don’t need to be polite to their close friends |
| D．Japanese people are very friendly to each other |
The word “invariably” in the third paragraph means “___”.
| A．Probably |
| B．Always |
| C．Sometimes |
| D．Likely |