Why do you think people who live in some hot countries eat very spicy(辛辣的)food? Is it because the spices make the food taste better? Is it just because their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents liked hot food，or is there some connection between spices and healthy food? Researchers from Cornell University think that it is because spice plants have some important chemicals. These chemicals can kill bacteria(细菌)which spoil food．
“Most common spices can kill 75 to 100 percent of the bacteria in food，”explains one of the scientists．The bacteria grow more easily and spoil(变质)food more quickly at higher temperatures．For this reason，it is more difficult to keep food from spoiling in hot climates，
Do you like your food spicy? Your answer probably tells something about the country you come from．If you like spicy food，it is possible that hundreds of years ago，when there were no fridges，people in your country started using spices to keep the food from spoiling．The traditional spicy dishes helped those people to live longer，healthier lives．Today，in a time of fridges，the spices just make the food taste good．The chemicals in spices keep food from spoiling by_________．
| A．making food taste better |
| B．making food hotter |
| C．preventing bacteria getting into food |
| D．killing bacteria in food |
Food goes bad more quickly in hot climates because_______．
| A．cold temperature makes bacteria |
| B．bacteria get used to hot food |
| C．high temperature helps bacteria grow faster |
| D．bacteria spoil food only at high temperature |
According to the passage，spices are useful in the following things except_____．
| A．helping you to live longer |
| B．helping to keep you healthier |
| C．making your food taste better |
| D．taking the place of fridges |
Hello, boys and girls. My name is Linda Miller. My first name is Linda. My last name is Miller. Nice to meet you. Look! This is my ruler. It’s red.
Hi, I’m a boy. I’m Jack. My family name is Green. Look! This is my clock. It’s white and black. That is my pen. It’s blue.
Good morning! My name is Lucy King. Lucy is my first name. King is my last name. Nice to meet you. This is my jacket. It’s yellow.______ is a boy.
| A．Linda | B．Jack | C．Lucy | D．Mary |
– She is Linda, what’s her family name?
--_____.
| A．Miller | B．Linda |
| C．Green | D．King |
He is______. His clock is white and black.
| A．Jack Green | B．Jack King |
| C．Linda Miller | D．Lucy King |
– She is Lucy, what color is her jacket?
--______.
| A．It’s black and white. | B．It’s yellow |
| C．It ’s red | D．It ’s blue. |
_____ and ______ are two girls.
| A．Linda Miller; Jack Green |
| B．Linda Miller; Lucy King |
| C．Lucy King; Jack Green |
| D．Linda King; Lucy Miller |
This is a photo of Mr. Green’s family. The man is Mr. Green, the father. The woman is the mother. They have a son and a daughter. The son is behind Mr. Green. His name is Tom. He’s 13. Kate is Tom’s sister. She is 11. Tom and Kate are in the same school, but they are in different（不同的） grades. Tom is in Grade Three and Kate’s in Grade One. They are good students.Mr. and Mrs. Green have ___________.
| A．a son and a daughter | B．Tom and Kate’s sister |
| C．three children孩子 | D．a family of five |
The woman is ________ mother.
| A．Kate’s | B．Tom’s |
| C．Kate’s and Tom’s | D．Kate and Tom’s |
Tom and Kate are in the same_____ .
| A．class | B．grade |
| C．school | D．year |
Green is the _____ name.
| A．man’s | B．woman’s |
| C．boy’s | D．family |
Tom and Kate are _________.
| A．good child | B．good students |
| C．in different schools | D．in the same grade |
My name is Mimi. I’m black and white. I like sitting on the chair in the sun in winter. Do you know my favorite food? It is fish. I don’t like apples. I can climb trees. I can sing “ Miao, miao”. What am I? Can you guess？What color is Mimi?
| A．Black. | B．White. |
| C．Black and white. | D．Red |
What does Mimi like doing in winter?
| A．Sitting in the sun. | B．Running. |
| C．Dancing. | D．Singing |
What’s Mimi’s favorite food?
| A．Eggs. | B．Fish. | C．Rice. | D．Fruit |
What can Mimi do?
| A．Climb trees. | B．Play computer games. |
| C．Watch television. | D．Cook |
What is Mimi?
| A．A dog | B．A bird | C．A cat | D．A tiger |
What is your favourite cartoon? It may be difficult for you to decide. But for pianist Lang Lang, Tom and Jerry is the best one.
When Lang Lang was two years old, he saw Tom playing the piano. This was his first time to enjoy western music and this experience encouraged him to learn to play the piano.
His talent at the keyboard has taken him from Shenyang to the world.
Lang became a good piano student at three. Ever since, the boy has been doing better and better. In 1997, the 15-year-old boy studied at a famous American music college.
Lang’s performance are full of energy. He is well-known for making facial expressions and moving around while playing the piano.
The road to success has never been easy. Lang’s father stopped his job to look after him, while his mother stayed in Shenyang to make money. But Lang considers himself lucky and believes he should give something back. He has helped the children in poor areas a lot.
| Personal ____ |
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| About his personal life |
Name |
Lang Lang |
| Year of birth |
_____ |
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| _____ |
Keyboard |
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| Favourite ___ |
Tom and Jerry |
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| The reason for ___ |
He believes himself lucky and should give something back. |
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| About his musical life |
The __ |
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| Famous for his ___ |
“Fish stories” are stories of the greatest fish that a fisherman has almost caught, but for some reason, the fish always get away. Usually, these stories do not have much truth to them. One of the biggest fish stories in history was about a whale.
In 1891, a ship hunting for whales in the South Atlantic Ocean found a very large whale. While the hunters were trying to kill the whale, it sank two small boats. One man drowned, and another man, James Bartley, was lost in the ocean. However, after the hunters finally killed the whale, they cut open the whale’s stomach and found Mr Bartley inside. He was not dead!
Several weeks later, Mr Bartley seemed to have gotten over his terrible experience. The only thing he could remember was that while he was inside the whale, it was very hot. The liquid (液体) from the whale’s stomach had turned all of his skin snow white. Mr Bartley had to live with the effect from the whale for the rest of his life.
Today, many people have heard about the strange experience of Mr Bartley and do not buy it. Not one real fact has been found to prove that the events ever took place described by the sailors. No scientist or newspaper reporter was ever able to talk to Mr Bartley, and all of the stories told in magazines about Mr Bartley’s experience were explained by other sailors on the boat. Mr Bartley was probably not even a real person at all.
In 1928, after the captain (船长) of the whaling ship had died, one man asked the captain’s wife about Mr Bartley’s story. The wife said that no man who had sailed on her husband’s ship was ever swallowed by a whale.
However, this has not stopped James Bartley’s story from being repeated, and many people today still believe that it is true.What made Mr Bartley’s skin white?
| A．The ocean water. |
| B．The whale’s teeth. |
| C．The heat inside the whale. |
| D．The liquid in the whale’s stomach. |
Who may have talked to Mr Bartley?
| A．A scientist. | B．The captain’s wife. |
| C．The sailors on the ship. | D．A newspaper reporter. |
The captain’s wife said that .
| A．the story was not true |
| B．her husband told her the story |
| C．the whale was never found |
| D．Mr Bartley didn’t work for her husband |
Today, many people have heard about the strange experience of Mr Bartley and do not buy it. Here “buy” means .
| A．明白 | B．相信 |
| C．购买 | D．证明 |
In paragraph 4 and paragraph 5 we may know that Mr Bartley .
| A．became a writer later |
| B．died when he was young |
| C．told his story to a magazine reporter |
| D．was not even a real person at all |