As a girl, I've spent a great deal of my time on earth concerned about my weight. So I do know something about exercise. Let me tell you about the calorie-burning activities I've tried or will try.
Salsa (萨尔萨舞)
I try to maintain my weight through dancing. Dancing improves my coordination and sense of rhythm in addition to burning calories. I'm personally interested in salsa, which I find sexy and expressive(有表现力的). But I have not yet to start classes, because classes are very expensive, and I cannot find a dance partner.
Ping-Pong
Ping-pong is the national sport of China, so how could I know nothing about it?
My father is a ping-pong fan, and a really good player. He's won several informal (非正式的) matches. My relationship with ping-pong has always been on-and-off. I'll get into it for a while, and then lose interest. The reason is because I can’t find a good partner. Some stronger can depress you, while someone weaker (or just as weak) can make the game boring.
Tae Kwon Do （跆拳道）
I've recently decided to try tae kwon do as my regular exercise activity. There’s a story behind this choice: A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a bus, concentrating on a book. Suddenly, the bus became very quiet except for the sound of a woman’s crying. I looked up to see what had happened and overheard whispers that she had just quarreled with a man, and the man slapped(拍打) her face. No one on the bus dared say anything because the man looked really strong. Even now I feel ashamed I was among the silent.
That’s why I've made up my mind to learn something that will help me protect others and myself. We can guess that the girl is _____ according to the passage.
| A．too thin | B．a little fat | C．careful | D．brave |
Why doesn’t the girl want to go to learn salsa?
| A．The dance is too difficult to learn. |
| B．Nobody wants to dance with her. |
| C．She has no time to join the classes. |
| D．She finds it sexy and expressive. |
She is interested in ping-pong because ________.
| A．she can play it well |
| B．it is the national sport |
| C．her father plays it well |
| D．she finds a good partner |
She has made up her mind to learn Tae Kwon Do mainly because______.
| A．she wants to lose weight |
| B．she wants to protect others and herself |
| C．she wants to win some matches |
| D．she wants to beat a strong man |
We can learn from the passage that________.
| A．the girl has learnt salsa for a long time |
| B．the girl has played ping-pong many times |
| C．the girl was brave enough to beat the man |
| D．she has learnt tae kwon do well |
Money, jewels and important documents may not be the only valuables placed in banks these days. Some mothers store their breast milk (母乳) in banks.
There are ten breast milk banks across the United States, where mothers can donate their extra milk for other women’s babies.
Experts say breast milk is the best food for babies. The World Health Organization says it is the only food babies should get during the first six months of life, in most cases. Breast milk is especially important for babies born too early. Sometimes these premature babies must stay in the hospital for many weeks.
James Cameron is a doctor who treats newborns at Lutheran Children’s Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He says breast milk is almost like medicine. Doctor James Cameron says, “The fact is that there are so many different proteins and specialized sugars in the breast milk that the mom’s able to make that help provide immunity (免疫力). It’s very important for the health of the newborn.”
Lucy Baur lives near Fort Wayne. She breastfed both her children and always had more milk than they needed. She wanted to donate to the Indiana Mothers Milk Bank in Indianapolis. But freezing and shipping milk can be costly. Then, a donor station opened near her home.
Milk donations in the United States work like this. Donors must be willing to provide almost three liters of breast milk. They freeze the milk and take it to the station. There, employees warm the milk and mix it with other mothers’ milk. Then, the milk is heated to kill bacteria. After that, the technicians test samples of all the milk to make sure it is safe and healthful. The milk is re-frozen and sent to the main milk bank. The milk bank transports the milk to hospitals to feed premature or sick babies.
Donors are tested for diseases before any milk is accepted. They are not permitted to smoke tobacco, use illegal drugs or drink too much alcohol.According to the passage, which thing can also be stored in banks except money, jewels and important documents?
| A．Notes. | B．Diamonds. | C．Valuable papers. | D．Breast milk. |
From the text we learn .
| A．Lucy Baur wanted to donate her milk to the donor station near her home |
| B．the milk is frozen and sent to the milk station after killing bacteria |
| C．the milk bank transports the milk to babies’ home to feed them |
| D．James Cameron is a doctor who feeds the babies on the milk in the milk station |
The breast milk is important for newborns because .
| A．only it can stop babies from developing diseases |
| B．it contains rich nutrients (营养) babies need |
| C．it is the only food suitable for babies |
| D．it benefits babies as the best medicine |
Who is allowed to donate her extra milk of the following women?
| A．A heavy smoker. | B．A heavy drinker. |
| C．A fruit lover. | D．A drug user. |
The purpose of setting up breast milk banks is to .
| A．store extra fresh milk for some school children |
| B．provide milk to the children who go hungry |
| C．help other mothers donate milk to their own babies |
| D．offer breast milk to early born and unhealthy babies |
I have a neighbor we call “Happy”. I have never seen her angry at anything and never heard her say a harsh word to anyone or about anyone.
Happy and her husband Ben, 70, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together working on it. Most of the neighbors watched interestingly as Ben doubled the size of their garden. As the cost of food climbed faster than Ben’s beans, we all wished we also had such a large garden. As the rest of us spent our dollars at the market, Happy could be seen picking beans in her back yard.
Last month, Happy and Ben invited most of the neighborhood over for an “all-day food festival”. We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn’t know what was about to take place.
By 9:00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra, and squash. By 10:00 am, there was lots of laughter. We shared a lot of stories. By five o’clock, everyone was a little drunk from the wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty of the day, already packaged and frozen. What a delightful gift!
Well, the point wasn’t so much about the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying one another’s company. None of it would have happened if it had been for Happy and Ben’s garden. Now they have a blog about gardening in case we decided to plant a garden. And I am so proud of my tomato plants!According to paragraph 2, people wished they also had a garden so that .
| A．they could spend happy times together with their family in it |
| B．they could grow vegetables and sell at the market |
| C．they could invite their neighbors and hold parties in it |
| D．they didn’t have to spend so much money on food |
Which of the following is the same as the underlined word “bounty”?
| A．Present. | B．Kindness. | C．Laughter. | D．Happiness. |
For what purpose did Happy and Ben invite the neighbors to their garden?
| A．To ask them to attend a birthday party |
| B．To help them get to know each other. |
| C．To let them enjoy what they grew in the garden. |
| D．To ask them to share some interesting stories. |
What did the writer most probably think of the time he spent in the garden?
| A．He thought it was too short but enjoyable. |
| B．He thought it was wonderful. |
| C．He thought it was not as good as he thought. |
| D．He thought it was too terrible. |
We can infer that .
| A．Happy and her husband Ben don’t like spending time with others |
| B．Happy and her husband Ben sometimes quarrel with each other |
| C．Happy and her husband Ben are a generous and warm-hearted couple |
| D．Happy and her husband Ben live on the food they grow in their garden |
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YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve. When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.
| A．Saturday morning | B．Sunday morning |
| C．Saturday night | D．Sunday night |
Why did many people hurriy home after the earthquake.
| A．They wanted to provide rescue to the hit area and give other people a helping hand as volunteers. |
| B．They wanted to find out the situation of their home. |
| C．They felt it too dangerous to stay where they had been. |
| D．There weren’t enough soldiers in the hit-area. |
What does the underlined sentence mean?
| A．Xu Yan didn’t make it through the stairs. |
| B．Xu Yan get out of the dorm quickly. |
| C．Xu Yan felt the earthquake shaking the stair. |
| D．Xu Yan was scared that he wouldn’t be able to catch up with the stair. |
Which of the following is NOT true.
| A．Tens of thousands of students were killed in Ya’an. |
| B．The earthquake also influenced some other cities. |
| C．The government took very quick actions. |
| D．Most buildings has collapsed in Longmen. |
Where would you most probably read this passage?
| A．Reader. |
| B．A History of China’s Earthquakes |
| C．How to Survive(求生) in an Earthquake |
| D．China Weekly |
The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.
When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.
A bell went off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well, he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the sppeadeotoned policeman. “Well, who can I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.
Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the interstate（州际公路） highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs. Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.
“But how can people see it when they whiz（快速移动） by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month.
The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.How long has the cat been missing?
| A．More than a month | B．More than two months |
| C．More than three months | D．It’s been back. |
Who did the old lady finally turn to for help?
| A．A billboard company | B．The police |
| C．The phone company | D．The interstate telephone line |
How is the old lady like?
| A．Stupid | B．Loving | C．Smart | D．Decisive(有决断力的) |
The underlined word was mistyped（打错了）. But we can still guess it’s most probable meaning:____________.
| A．angry | B．surprised | C．happy | D．excited |
What’s the best title for this passage?
| A．An advertisement | B．A missing cat |
| C．A pet’s story | D．Life without cat |