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Your body, which has close relations with the food you eat, is the most important thing you own, so it needs proper treatment and proper nourishment (营养).The old saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not as silly as some people think. The body needs fruit and vegetables because they contain vitamin C. Many people take extra vitamins in pill form, believing that these will make them healthy.
But a good diet is made up of nourishing food and this gives all the vitamins you need. The body doesn’t need or use extra vitamins, so why waste money on them?
In the modern western world, many people are too busy to bother about eating properly. They throw anything into their stomachs, eating hurriedly and carelessly. The list of illnesses caused or made worse by bad eating habits is frightening,
“Your body has close relations with the food you eat.” It really means that ______.

A．all kinds of food you eat can be ma

de into

your body

B．your body is made up of the food you eat

C．what you eat has great effect on your health

D．the more you eat, the fitter you will feel

The old saying referred to in the passage tells us that ______.

A．

eating apples regularly does lots of good to our health

B．the apple is the best among all kinds of fruits

C．apples can take the place of doctors

D．an apple is a sure cure for illness

In the second paragraph, the writer tries to let us know ______.

A．our bodies need food or we can’t live

B．often eating apples is a good habit

C．taking extra vitamin pills is completely useless

D．a good diet is of great importance for our health

From the passage we can draw a conclusion that if we want to keep healthy, we should ______.

A．only eat an apple a day

B．eat properly

C．take as many vitamin pills as possible

D．throw something into our stomachs slowly and carefully

There are three kinds of goals: short-term, intermediate and long-term goals. Short-term goals are those that usually deal with present activities. Such goals can be achieved in a week or two, or possible months. It should be remembered that just as a building is no stronger than its foundation (基础), our long-term goals cannot be achieved without the achievement of solid short-term goals. Upon completing our short-term goals, we should date the time and then add new short-term goals that will build on those that have been completed.
The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals. They might deal with just one term of school or the entire school years, or they could extend for several years. Any time you move a step at a time, you never allow yourself to become discouraged. As you complete each step, you will have more belief in your ability to grow and succeed.
Long-term goals may be related to our dreams of future. They might cover five years or more. Life is not a static (静态的) thing. We should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course of action.
The long-term goals mean______.

A．something static and easy to get if we complete our short-term goals

B．something easy to reach if we complete a short-term goal in time

C．nothing but our dream

s of future

D．a lot, such as a dream, and aspiration (热望) or a wish in our life

When we complete each step of our goals, ______.

A．we will win final success	B．we become down-hearted
C．we should encourage ourselves	D．we should think about changing our goals

It is the most important for us students to have ___________ first.

A．long-term goals	B．intermediate goals
C．short-term goals	D．dreams of future

Which of the following titles is best for this passage?

A．Three Kinds of Goals	B．How to Reach Goals
C．Changeable Goals	D．Moveable Goals

Kerry and Alice were both artists in Britain. They taught drawing and painting at Cambridge University. Although they were friends, each thought oneself to be the better painter.
One day, Kerry promised marriage to Alice. Surprised and pleased by the offer, the girl was not sure whether she would spend her future as a wife or a painter. After a moment she replied as follows, "Each of us must paint a picture. If yours is superior to mine, you can make me your wife. If not, please drop the question." Then it was decided to give it the following day.
The next morning. Alice hung her picture on the gate. It showed a bunch of flowers and won high praise from everyone who passed by. In fact, a crowd collected in front of her masterpiece and fixed eyes on it.
Several hours passed. Then Kerry was seen coming along to the gate with what appeared to be a beautiful leather suitcase in his hand. When he finally stopped before Alice, the girl artist brushed like a rose and agreed to marry him without any hesitation. Why?
What did Alice think Kerry's offer?

A．She liked Kerry, but she didn't expect him to promise marriage to her.

B．She didn't want to marry anybody.

C．She didn't like it at all.

D．She thought the offer wasn't polite.

In the sentence "If yours is superior to mine, you can make me your wife"。 "superior to" here means ____.

A．not so better than	B．better than
C．so good as	D．as good as

Which of the following is true?

A．Kerry didn't accept Alice's suggestion.

B．Kerry wasn't sure of his painting so he dropped his offer.

C．Kerry did go the next day, but he failed to take a picture

D．Kerry agreed to Alice's suggestion.

Alice's picture won high praise because ____.

A．it was true to nature	B．the flowers were red
C．it showed so large a bunch of flowers	D．people felt it strange to hang it on the gate

The "leather suitcase" was in fact ____.

A．a real one	B．a painting drawn by Kerry
C．a box with a picture in it	D．made up of leather

When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.
At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.
In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.
At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.
Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.
In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.
What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?

A．George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.

B．George W. Bush is the first son of former presi

dent George Herbert Walker Bush.

C．John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.

D．George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House.

We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.

A．got on very well at the universities

B．was very good at basketball, baseball and football

C．did everything as his father had done

D．was a very successful politician like his father

Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?

A．Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.

B．He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended.

C．He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.

D．He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.

Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”
　 Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.
　 Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.
　 Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.
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