Good health is the most valuable thing a person can have, but one cannot take good health for granted. It is important to remember that the body needs proper care in order to be healthy. There are three things that a person can do to help stay in good shape: eat right food ,get enough sleep, and exercise regularly.
Proper nutrition (营养) is important for good health. Your body cannot work well unless it receives the proper kind of “fuel”(燃料).Don't eat too much food with lots of sugar and fat. Eat plenty of foods high in protein (蛋白质) ,like meat, fish, eggs and nuts. Vegetables and fruits are very important because they provide necessary vitamins (维他命) and minerals. However, don't overeat. It is not helpful to be overweight.
Getting the proper amount of sleep is also important. If you don't get enough sleep, you feel tired and easily get angry. You have no energy. Over a long period of time a little a amount of sleep may even result in a change of personality (人的个性).Be sure to allow yourself from seven to nine hours of sleep each night. If you do, your body will feel strong and refreshed, and your mind will be sharp.
Finally, get plenty of exercise. Exercise firms the body, strengthens the muscles, and prevents you from gaining weight. It also improves your heart and lungs. If you follow a regular exercise program, you will probably increase your life-span (寿命).Any kind of exercise is good. Most sports are excellent for keeping the body in good shapes: basketball, swimming, bicycling, running and so on are good examples. Sports are not only good for your body, but they are enjoyable and interesting, too.
If everybody, were to eat the right foods, get plenty of sleep and exercise regularly, the world would be a happier and healthier place. We would all live to be much older and wiser.According to the passage,_________.
A.we should always keep fit |
B.if we were healthy, we could spend our days in doing things with less sleep |
C.one can eat a lot to stay in good shape |
D.one needn't take any exercise if he is healthy |
In order to keep good health, ___________ .
A.we should eat a lot of sweets |
B.one needs a large amount of fat |
C.people should eat according to the foods nutrition |
D.we must try to sleep now and then |
Eating more and sleeping less________.
A.can keep healthy |
B.is no good for you |
C.gets you more energy |
D.will keep your personality |
The writer explains ________in this passage.
A.how to eat |
B.the importance of doing exercise |
C.how to keep healthy |
D.what to eat |
The title of the article should be___________ .
A.Eating and Exercising |
B.How Vitamins Work in Man's Body |
C.Staying Healthy |
D.Sleeping Well |
40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the yearly games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London, His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.
In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part .The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1990 the first Olympics for the disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years games for the disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville, In the 1984 Wheelchair Olympic Games, 1,064 wheelchair athletes form about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.
The games have been a great success in helping the progress of international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can’t enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at the Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to persuade those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should be included.The first games for the disabled were held ___ after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrived in England.
A.40 years | B.21 years | C.10 years | D.9 years |
Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in_____.
A.New York | B.London | C.Rome | D.Los Angeles |
What do we know about Sir Ludwig Guttmann from the passage?
A.He is an early organizer of the games for the able-bodied |
B. He is welcomed by the British government |
C.He is an injured soldier. |
D.He is from England. |
From the passage, we may know that the writer is_____.
A.in favor of holding the games for the disabled |
B.against holding the games for the disabled |
C.a disabled person who once took part in the games |
D.one of the organizers of the games for the disabled |
It is estimated that some seven hundred million people, about half the world’s adult population, are unable to read or write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more whose level is so slight that it is hardly called literacy(有文化).
Recently the attack on illiteracy had been stepped up. A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade(十年计划),and an international conference of the subject has also been held. UNESCO stresses that functional literacy is the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship, the ability of reading notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, price-lists to keep simple records and accounts, to select the importance of the information gathered, and to fill in the forms.
The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In Africa there are at least one hundred million illiterate people, which is eighty to eighty-five percent of the total population. In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million; most of them are in Sothern Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal, Yugoslavia heading the list (the United Kingdom has about seven hundred thousand).
UNESGO is eager for each country in the world, poor or rich, to wipe out illiteracy.The author implies that this world plan is to______.
A.be carried out in the major areas of illiteracy like Africa. |
B.be realized in the years |
C.be drawn up by Parisian experts |
D.be discussed at an international conference |
The world plan mentioned in the passage aims at____.
A.asking African countries to take the lead in attacking illiteracy |
B.strengthening the function of the UNESCO |
C.helping illiterate people learn functional reading and writing |
D.training responsible citizens |
According to the passage, which of the following countries has the most illiterate people?
A.England | B.France | C.Sweden | D.Spain |
Which of the statements is true?
A.The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. |
B.In the USA there are at least one hundred million illiterate people, |
C.the United Kingdom has about seven hundred million illiterate people |
D.In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million; most of them are in Northern Europe. |
A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the finding of a study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed(消费) at least an ounce of salt water fish per day compared to those who never ate fish.
The Dutch research is one of three human studies that give strong scientific support to the long held belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart.
Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000deaths occurring from heart attacks each year. But previous research has shown that the level of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans do. There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption averages more than 3 ounces.
For 20 years, the Dutch study followed 852 middle-aged men, 20 percent of whom ate no fish.
At the start of the study, average fish consumption was about two-thirds of an ounce each day, with more men eating lean fish than fatty fish.
During the next two decades, 78of the men died from heart disease , The fewest deaths were among the group who regularly ate fish, even at levels far lower than those of the Japanese of Eskimos, This relationship was true regardless of other factors such as age, high blood pressure, or blood cholesterol(胆固醇)levels.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.The Dutch research has proved that eating fish can help to prevent heart disease. |
B.People who regularly eat fish never suffer from heart disease. |
C.Heart disease causes more deaths in America than any other disease. |
D.There is a low level of heart disease in such countries as Japan and Greenland. |
The passage is mainly about______.
A.the changes in people’s diet |
B.the daily fish consumption of people in different cultures. |
C.the high death rate of disease in some countries. |
D.the effect of fish eating on people’s health |
We can infer from the passage that there are fewer heart disease deaths____.
A.in Dutch |
B.in America |
C.in countries with high consumption of fish |
D.in countries with good production of fish |
The phrase“this relationship (paragraph 6) refers to the connection between ____ and the level of heart disease.”
A.the amount of fish eaten |
B.regular fish-eating |
C.the kind of fish eaten |
D.people of different areas |
I was 230 pounds this spring and I decided to get down to a healthier 200.In a house full of food,including snacks bought for my 7yearold sons,I had a hard time cutting calories. Then I noticed my neighbors were having diet meals (减肥餐).I decided to do the same,knowing I would never be able to stick to a diet if I had to do the buying and cooking myself. I was looking for food that I could afford but I might take a diet more seriously if it hurt me in the wallet.
After online searches,I decided to compare the offerings of four companies:Zone Manhattan,Chefs Diet,NuKitchen and eDiets. All four would send the meals to my door. Three send food daily,while eDiets sends a large package once a week. There were dozens of companies I could have chosen.Research suggests that the economic crisis has made diet programs less tempting.Consumers prefer doityourself diets with foods bought from the supermarket.
NuKitchen regards itself as the “personal chef”.I ordered the fiveday plan ($230.53) and the taste was disappointing. I neither lost nor gained weight on the food.
eDiets promises “healthy,delicious meals sent to your door”.I ordered five breakfasts,five lunches and five dinners. My total cost was $119.70,or less than $25 a day. Overall,the food from eDiets was better than that from NuKitchen.
Chefs Diet charged $380.99 for seven days,making it the most expensive of the four services.I never tasted anything terrible,but I never tasted anything that made me want to renew for a second week.
Zone Manhattan charged $349.80,with tax,for a week’s supply of food,or about $50 a day.I liked the food so much that I lost six pounds in the first four days on the diet.When the author began to have diet meals,she________.
A.was 200 pounds |
B.didn’t have any children |
C.worked as a cook in a company offering diet meals |
D.didn’t believe she could stick to a diet if she had to cook herself |
What does the underlined word “tempting” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Attractive. | B.Expensive. | C.Delicious. | D.Useful. |
Which of the four companies’ food cost the least daily?
A.Zone Manhattan’s. | B.Chefs Diet’s. |
C.NuKitchen’s. | D.eDiets’. |
We can learn from the passage that________.
A.the author gained weight on the food from Nukitchen |
B.the author would choose the food of Zone Manhattan |
C.the food from eDiets was the worst of the four |
D.Zone Manhattan sends food once a week |
Many parents watch the news or other shows as children play nearby. But new research shows that even when the television is just background noise,it may be disruptive to a child’s normal development.
It’s estimated that 75 percent of very young children in the United States live in homes where the television is on most of the time,even though the kids often aren’t watching it. The University of Massachusetts researchers recently studied how TV background noise might affect young children. The study looked at 50 1,2and 3yearolds. Each child came to a lab with a parent and was allowed to play for an hour with various toys. For half the time,a television was on in the room,showing the adult game show as well as advertisements. During the other half hour,the TV was turned off.
As expected,the children paid little attention to the adult television show,glancing at it for less than a few seconds at a time,and less than once a minute. Even so,the distraction (分心) of the background noise had a significant effect on how children at every age played. When the television was on,the children played with each toy for far shorter periods of time,and focused attention during play was also shorter compared to how they played when the TV was off.
Researchers said that even though the children aren’t interested in the show,background TV affects their ability to do various types of play. The finding is important because many wellmeaning parents who wouldn’t let their young children watch television may not realize that even adult programs that don’t interest children still can have an effect.
“Background TV is potentially a chronic (长期的) environmental risk factor affecting most American children,” said the lead author of the study. “Parents should limit their young children’s exposure (接触).”We know from the passage that________.
A.background TV noise has little effect on adults |
B.most young children in America live in homes exposed to TV noise |
C.the effect of background TV noise on children is immediate |
D.most parents in America wouldn’t let their children watch TV |
The underlined word “disruptive” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to________.
A.harmful | B.important | C.similar | D.related |
In the study,the children________.
A.were all 3yearolds | B.were asked to watch adult TV shows |
C.played for an hour while the TV was on | D.played with more than one toy |
What does the study show?
A.Children pay much attention to adult TV shows. |
B.Children should be allowed to watch TV for kids only. |
C.The background TV noise affects children’s ability to focus. |
D.The more toys a child has,the shorter time he plays with each one. |