This is not a diet. It’s a simple way to lose *weight. And you don’t even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you’ll become thin.
(1) Wake up
When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, *bend forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn about 10 *calories.
(2) Start with soup
When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, you’ll eat less when the main food comes.
(3) An apple (or more) a day
Apples are full of *fiber and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three apples a day lose weight.
(4) Stand up and walk around
Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on a *average two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn fifty or more calories.
Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.What should we have first if we want to eat less main food?
| A．Soup. | B．Ice cream. | C．Salad. | D．Cheese. |
Why does eating apples make one’s stomach want less food?
| A．Because apples are delicious. |
| B．Because apples are full of fiber and water. |
| C．Because apples are sour. |
| D．Because only apples are filled with calories58. |
Stand up and walk around when you use the mobile phone because it will burn ___________ or more calories.
| A．30 | B．40 | C．50 | D．60 |
Which of the following may the author disagree?
| A．Sitting up slowly without using your hands helps burn calories. |
| B．Eating apples every day is good for people’s health. |
| C．You have to join a gym if you want to lose weight. |
| D．It’s good to walk around while talking on the mobile phones. |
There was once a young man called Paul in a village in the USA. Paul was very lazy because his father was a rich farmer and he didn’t have to work. Mr Smith, a neighbour of his, was a blacksmith (铁匠). He used to work in his shop all day. Paul spent hours and hours watching how the blacksmith worked every day. “Young man, why don’t you try your hand to make a shoe tack (铁钉), even it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith one day, “ Maybe it will be useful to you some day.” Finally, the lazy boy began to have a try. After practicing some times, he became skilled and could make very nice tacks.
Years later, Paul’s father died and he lost all the things because of a war (战争). He had to move to another country and live by himself. It happened that there were many shoemakers paying high prices to buy tacks for the shoes, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers’ shoes. Paul went to talk with them. He told them that he would make the tacks if they could help him find a workshop in the village. The shoemakers agreed. Then Paul made a lot of money by making tacks. “How funny it is!” he said to himself, “Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich.”What’s the Chinese meaning of skilled?
| A．熟练的. | B．适应的. |
| C．自信的. | D．巧妙的. |
How many kinds of people appeared in the story except Paul ?
| A．Five. | B．Four. | C．Three. | D．Two. |
What can we learn from the story?
| A．Making tacks is important. |
| B．Wars can make people hard-working. |
| C．Nothing is difficult to learn. |
| D．Everything you learned may be useful. |
I began to send e-mails when I was 17. I discovered Google 5 years later. Now, I use the internet all the time. The Internet has become so popular that 90 percent of 12-to-17-year-olds in the United States use the internet, and about half of these kids use it every day. They visit chat rooms and send e-mails. They go to websites to get information for their homework.
"Kids are now living in a virtual(虚拟的) world," says Greenfield, an expert at University of California, "As the Internet is becoming more and more important for our life, we should worry about one question: Is the Internet good or bad for kids? "
"It's ***to answer the question because the Internet involves(涉及) so many things," says Justine, who is from Northwestern University. "They include online computer games, news, messages and even e-mails to your grandmother." So more and more people believe that the online world can be helpful in some ways but dangerous in others.
“Although it's not easy to tell whether it's good or bad,”says Justine, "the Internet, at least, is very useful and can be used widely by everyone in the world.The writer discovered Google at the age of .
| A．5 | B．12 | C．17 | D．22 |
Greenfield .
| A．is an expert from Northwestern University |
| B．wants to stop all the kids from using the Internet |
| C．is worrying about whether the Internet is good or bad for kids |
| D．thinks that the Internet is good for all the kids in the world |
in the passage should be the word ““.
| A．difficult | B．possible |
| C．easy | D．Good |
Should children do chores? Yes. Chores are good for them. Doing chores teaches them many important things. It will help them in their life.
There are many things that parents can do to encourage their children to do chores. Here are some suggestions:
Start early. Parents start giving their children chores to do when they are young.
Parents should show their children how to do chores and teach them one chore at a time.
Change the chores as children grow. Parents should make sure that the chores they give to their children are appropriate to (适合于）their children’s ages and abilities( 能力）.
Pay children for the chores they do. For example, pay them 1 dollar for taking out the rubbish.
Don’t nag(唠叨）.
Don’t do chores for their children if they forget or refuse.
| What are good for children |
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| What doing chores teaches children |
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| What parents should do as children grow |
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| How much parents can pay for taking out the rubbish |
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| What the fifth suggestion is |
E. You can get some examples from newspapers, magazines or TV shows. Let her know it’s really bad. |
Nowadays, lots of students in Shenzhen complain that they have too much homework. Because of this, they feel unhappy about learning at school. According to a survey, a pupil has to spend two hours finishing the homework every day. It usually takes three hours for a middle school student and four hours for a high school student to finish the homework every day. Students in Grade Nine often do their homework until midnight. And all of them have to get up at as early as six o’clock the next morning.
Mr. Li, a doctor in a hospital, told me yesterday, “Half of the students in Shenzhen are sub-healthy(亚健康的). The lack (缺乏) of sleep makes them tired and their health is becoming poorer and poorer.” Many parents worry about this.Too much homework makes the students feel _____.
| A．unhappy | B．unhealthy |
| C．tired | D．all of the above |
Mr. Li said _____ of the students in Shenzhen were sub-healthy.
| A．all | B．half | C．few | D．none |
According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
| A．A pupil usually has no homework in Shenzhen. |
| B．Many students in Shenzhen want much homework. |
| C．Students in Shenzhen have enough time to sleep. |
| D．Students in Grade Nine often do their homework until 12:00 at night. |
The underlined word “this” means “______”.
| A．that the students’ health is becoming poorer and poorer |
| B．that the students have too little homework |
| C．that the students complain too much |
| D．that the students have too much sleep |
What does the passage mainly tell us?
| A．Many children are seriously ill. |
| B．Children in Shenzhen study well. |
| C．Too much homework keeps the students in poor health. |
| D．How long students spend on their homework |