The weather is getting hotter. You are thirsty playing basketball or riding home from school. A cold drink may be just the thing. But be careful what you are drinking. Something that looks cool may not be good for your health.
There are plenty of "energy drinks" on the market. Most of them have beautiful colors and cool names. The lists on them tell you they are helpful to your health. Sounds great!
But after a careful check you may find that most energy drinks have lots of caffeine (咖啡因) in them. These drinks are especially aimed at young people, students, busy people and sports players. Makers sometimes say their drinks make you better at sports and can keep you awake. But be careful not to drink too much.
Caffeine makes your heart（心脏）beat fast. Because of this, the International Olympic Committee has limited(限制) its use. Caffeine in most energy drinks is at least as strong as that in a cup of coffee or tea. Possible health dangers have something to do with energy drinks. Just one box of energy drink can make you nervous, have difficulty sleeping and can even cause heart problems. Scientists say that teenagers should be discouraged from taking drinks with a lot of caffeine in them.The main reason for people not to drink too much energy drinks is that they may cause .
| A．heart problems | B．nervousness |
| C．sleeping difficulty | D．possible health dangers |
The underlined word "discouraged" can be replaced(替换) with "________".
| A．encouraged | B．stopped | C．helped | D．disliked |
From the passage we can know that _________.
| A．advertisements are important in getting people to buy energy drinks |
| B．energy drinks are helpful to teenagers' study |
| C．sports players need to drink a lot of energy drinks |
| D．energy drinks are especially aimed at teenagers |
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Football is, I suppose, the most popular game in England. In some important matches, you can see the rich and the poor, the young and the old all there, shouting and cheering for one side or the other.
One of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has photographs of them and knows the results of a large number of matches. He will tell you who he expects(预料) to win such and such a match(诸如此类的比赛).
The schools arrange(安排) games and matches for their pupils. Football is a good game. It is good exercise for our body. It needs skills(技能) and wisdom(智慧) and it is popular and cheap. As a result, it is the school’s favorite game in winter.
根据短文内容判断下列句子的正(T)误(F)。Many people in England like football.
It is the strangest thing in England about football that people shout and cheer for oneside or the other.
The reason why the schools arrange football games for pupils in England is that it’s very interesting.
Even the smallest boy seems to have a great knowledge of football.
Football is a good game, but it is not cheap.
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Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the U.S.A. Children play baseball in sports field or in parks.
At summer picnics, there is often an informal baseball game. Boys and girls, the young and the old, take turns to beat. Each team has 9 players.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are on TV and members of the important baseball teams become America’s heroes. At the end of season, the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go along to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the radio and watch television. People seem to talk only about the result and the players.
American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the U.S.A. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball when there is an important game. Thousands of people sit beside the radio or in front of the television set to hear or watch the result. According to the passage, ____ may be the most popular sport in the U.S.A.
A. baseball B. soccer
C. American football D. volleyball There will be ____ players in a baseball game match.
| A．9 | B．18 | C．10 | D．16 |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Americans always become heroes in September. |
| B．Some baseball players become famous during the match time. |
| C．Americans enjoy baseball the best. |
| D．It seems that people have no interest in sports. |
The baseball fans can enjoy game by ____.
| A．watching game |
| B．listening to the radio |
| C．watching TV |
| D．all above |
The football season begins ____.
| A．in spring | B．in summer |
| C．in autumn | D．in winter |
I can’t remember the date when I started collecting litter. But it was when I got tired of seeing litter near my home and realized that nobody else was going to pick it up.
I live close to a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there within three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was so much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest.
I made my first trip to clean the forest one afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes later, my bag was full of cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers.
Since that first trip three years ago, I’ve been to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I’m often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment.
After each trip, I look at all the litter I’ve found. If any of it is recyclable(可回收的)，I’ll keep it. I can’t understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it.
I know I can only do a small bit to help the earth, but I still think it is important.When did the writer begin to collect litter?
A.When he was very young.
B.After his home moved to a new place.
C.When he got tired of seeing litter near his home.Where does the writer live?
A.He lives in a forest.
B.He lives in a place with much litter.
C.He lives near a forest.The writer collects litter________.
A.in order to make the place clean
B.in order to make fun
C.in order to make moneyWhere does the writer collect litter?
A. In the forest B. In the street C. In the park.From the passage we infer(推断) __________
A．the writer always collects a lot of litter
B .the environment will be more beautiful if everyone tries to protect it.
C. the writer will go on collecting litter.
A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing(爆炸) destroyed her home and killed her mother.
Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad(巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they leave their homes in Baghdad.
“Dad, why are the Americans fighting us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.
He tries to comfort him by saying ,“The bombs（炸弹） are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed.
“All we do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu, “We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear(恐惧). We feel hopeless and helpless. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”During the war, children are ______________.
A.studying at school B.safer than their parentsC.in great dangerThe children have to flee(逃离) their homes because_________.
A.it’s dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing.
B.their parents are not at home
C.they want to get food and water.Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because___________.
A.he doesn’t want to tell him the real reason
B.he doesn’t want to tell a lie.
C.he doesn’t know how to explain it clearly.“sleeping pills” are __________.
A. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war.
B.a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep
C.a kind of food to make them strongAccording to the passage we know that__________.
A. all the children in Iraqi are looking for something to eat.
B. all the children in Iraqi are thinking about something to solve the war problem
C. the children in Iraqi are feeling fearful, helpless and hopeless during the war.
Most people in Britain live in small family groups. More than a quarter of homes in Britain have only one person living in them. Some of these persons are old but some are of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone. 35% of homes have two people living in them, and another 17% have three people. 15% have four people living in them, and the other homes have five or more.
The families in Britain are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are about eighteen or nineteen, they leave their parents’ home, and they often go to other cities. Sometimes they only visit their parents two or three times a year.
根据短文内容，判断正(A)误( B)。The passage is a report.
35% of homes in Britain have 3 people living in them.
The families in Britain are large.
Some are people of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone.
The passage mainly tells us the population in American.