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Why do Americans struggle with watching their weight, while the French, who consume rich food, continue to stay thin? Now a research by Cornell University suggests how life style and decisions about eating may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel full. However, Americans tend to stop when their plate is empty or their favorite TV show is over.
According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health expert, the French see eating as an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a fairly long time at the table, while Americans see eating as something to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans lose the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have stopped. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and frozen foods for the week. The French, instead, tend to shop daily, walking to small shops and farmers’ markets where they have a choice of fresh fruits, vegetables, and eggs as well as high-quality meats for each meal.
After a visit to the United States, Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don’t Get Fat, decided to write about the importance of knowing when to stop rather than suggesting how to avoid food. Today she continues to stay slim and rarely goes to the gym.
In spite of all these differences, evidence shows that recent life style changes may be affecting French eating habits. Today the rate of obesity — or extreme overweight — among adults is only 6%. However, as American fast food gains acceptance and the young reject older traditions, the obesity rate among French children has reached 17% — and is growing.
In what way are the French different from Americans according to Dr. Joseph Mercola?

A．They go shopping at supermarkets more frequently.

B．They squeeze eating between the other daily activities.

C．They usually eat too much canned and frozen food.

D．They regard eating as a key part of their lifestyles.

This text is mainly the relationship between _________.

A．Americans and the French	B．life style and obesity
C．children and adults	D．fast food and overweight

The text is mainly developed __________.

A．by space	B．by process
C．by contrast	D．by classification

here does this text probably come from?

A．A TV interview	B．A food advertisement
C．A book review	D．A health report

When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.
My father then set out to sell it. Eventually, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A．The author.	B．The author’s father.
C．The girl.	D．The girl’s mother

Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?

A．O. Henry once worked in Houston.

B．O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C．O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.

D．O. Henry once taught at SMU.

The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.

A．named	B．treated
C．proved	D．described

According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A．To meet the author himself.

B．To sell the O. Henry story.

C．To talk with the O. Henry expert.

D．To give money to the girl.

Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents（文件）. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A．Go shopping	B．Take his family
C．Join his family	D．Find a house

The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_______.

A．a friend of his family	B．a Sydney policeman
C．a letter in his papers	D．a stranger in Sydney

.What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Showed	B．Gave back
C．Delivered	D．Sent out

Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Turning Trash to Treasure..	B．Living in a New Country.
C．From India to Australia	D．In Search of New Friends.

Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea." "OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.
Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.
The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more." The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?" "Burnt yesterday evening."
Mr. Brown told his son that _____.

A．he would be away from home for four days

B．he would be back in seven days

C．he would be back in a month

D．he liked a cup of tea

Mr. Brown wrote the words down on ________.

A．the wall	B．the door
C．a piece of paper	D．his son's pocket

A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.

A．the second day	B．the third day
C．the fourth day	D．the fifth day

The man was very surprised because _________.

A．he thought the child's father was dead

B．the child didn't ask him to sit down

C．the child gave him a cup of tea

D．he couldn't find that piece of paper

What was burnt? ___________.

A．The piece of paper	B．Mr. Smith
C．The visitor	D．The boy

On April 1st, Mike decided to fool(愚弄) his friends.
At lunch time he said to Tom, “I think we’re going to have a test this afternoon.” “Test?” said Tom, “Really?”
“Yes, it’s quite true,” said Mike. “When I was passing by Mr. Green’s room, he was talking with another teacher about the test. Tell John, Rose and Joan about it.”
Later Tom told them about the test. Soon almost all the students knew about it. “How foolish they are!” he thought.
When class began, Mr. Green said, “Class, we’re going to have a test today.” Mike was surprised. The test was too hard for him. After class, all his classmates thanked him very much. But he could only smile. “How foolish I was !”he thought.
It really was April Fools’ Day for Mike.
Mike decided to fool his friends because ________ .

A．they were talking about the test

B．they began to prepare (准备) their lessons

C．it was April Fools’ Day

D．they were foolish

________ his classmates believe (相信) him before class.

A．Almost all	B．None of
C．Only a few	D．Some of

Mike didn’t prepare his lessons because _______

A．he didn’t like to

B．it was his holiday

C．he thought the test was easy for him

D．he believed there wasn’t going to be a test

Mike was surprised to see ________ .

A．the test was too hard for him

B．the teacher really gave them a test

C．Tom didn’t believe him

D．his classmates were so foolish

Which of the following is wrong?

A．Mike thought he himself was foolish.

B．All his classmates thanked him.

C．Mr. Green was talking with another teacher about the test.

D．Nearly everyone knew the test before long(不久).

A．can't read or do math	B．don't have important skills
C．don’t play with other kids	D．can't think or feel