You may know the saying: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A recent study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong has discovered another saying: An apple a day keeps old age away.
The study involved fruit flies(g果蝇), as they share many genes(基因) with humans. Researchers gave one group of fruit flies normal food, and another group of fruit flies got the same food including apple.
The results showed that flies that ate apple lived an average of 55 days longer than the flies that didn’t eat apple. The study also found that apple-eating flies were more able to walk, climb and move about as they became old, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reports.
The researchers believe that the antioxidants (抗氧化剂）found in apples are good for health.
In another experiment, researchers studied the diets of thousands of women. They found that those women who often ate apples were 20 percent less likely to have heart disease.
Scientists have recently discovered the apple’s genetic code(基因代码). This allows scientists to make new kinds of fruit that are healthier. Researchers are already using this information to grow apples with added antioxidants. Antioxidants help to keep eyes and joints (关节)healthy and protect against heart attacks and cancer.
Apples that help people lose weight may be in supermarkets in just four or five years. They are said to be “extra healthy” apples that can stop people from overeating.Fruit flies were used in the research because_______________ .
| A．they love to eat apples |
| B．they share similar genes with humans |
| C．they are easy to catch |
| D．they can live longer |
By studying the diets of many women, researchers ___________ .
| A．proved apples were good for people’s health. |
| B．found they are healthier than men |
| C．helped them to lose weight successfully |
| D．discovered the genetic code of the apple |
From the story, we can infer(推测) that _________________.
| A．women like to eat apples more often than men |
| B．people who eat apples are easier to have heart disease |
| C．scientists are studying a new type of apples |
| D．apples’ genetic code is similar to other fruits |
You may find the passage in ____________ .
| A．a science magazine | B．a guidebook |
| C． a picture show | D．a storybook |
Can you imagine a world without the Internet? It’s surprising to think about it. Now, China has more than 162 million Internet users, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre. This is the second largest number of users in the world after the United States. Today, 66% of Chinese “netizens(网民)” are teenagers. “They spend about thirteen hours every week online,” said Qian Hulin, an Internet expert. Doctor Song in Beijing Xuanwu Hospital said about 14% of Chinese netizens who are teens often went on playing online games for over ten hours.
The main reasons why teenagers surf the web are to search for information, to communicate with others and to have fun. On the Internet, teenagers can find out almost anything. And surfing the web can help students with their homework and widen their knowledge.
Li Dong, a teacher at No. 41 Middle School in Shijiazhuang, is for her students using the Internet. “When we talk in class, students who surf the Net usually know more background information than the others,” she said.
In addition, people can use the Internet to write letters or stories and send emails. Many teens keep in touch with their friends online. It is cheaper than phoning somebody far away and also much quicker.______ has the most Internet users in the world according to this article.
| A．China | B．America | C．Canada | D．Russia |
There are about ____Chinese netizens to surf the web about 13 hours every week.
| A．107 million old | B．22.7 million old |
| C．107 million young | D．22.7 million young |
Doctor Song said some teenagers continued ________ more than ten hours.
| A．playing online games |
| B．searching for information |
| C．chatting with their friends |
| D．sending emails to others |
Li Dong in No.41 Middle School is for her students using the Internet because she _.
| A．thinks surfing the Net can help students spend less time on homework |
| B．thinks the students surfing the Net can get more background information than the others |
| C．wants her students to talk to her about their hobbies and interests |
| D．wants to know what her students do and think about at home |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．China has the second largest number of Internet users in the world. |
| B．From the first paragraph we can know that Doctor Song works in Beijing Xuanwu Hospital. |
| C．Surfing the web can widen the students’ knowledge. |
| D．“It” in the last paragraph only refers to sending emails. |
Ellie lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a few houses were washed away, but Ellie’s house was high enough to keep them safe.
Many families lost everything in the flood. And Ellie took in one of the families. She shared her home with them until the family could build their own new house. Ellie’s friends could not understand why she did so because she already had so many children to look after.
“Well,” Ellie said to her friends, “At the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We will not be able to have much for Christmas. I am going to get just one present for us all. Now I will go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who had no parents, ‘Here is our present,’ she said to her own children.”
“The children were very excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sisters. I was that Christmas present.”How many children did Ellie had in total?
| A．Five. | B．Six. | C．Seven. | D．Eight. |
What happened in the winter?
| A．There was a flood. |
| B．There was an earthquake |
| C．There was a rain storm. |
| D．There was a fire. |
What did Ellie do to help other families?
| A．She gave them food. |
| B．She bought many Christmas present for them. |
| C．She took in one of the families. |
| D．She took in a girl. |
What did the poor woman in German bring to her children for Christmas?
| A．Many beautiful presents. | B．Nothing. |
| C．A girl. | D．A daddy. |
What do we learn about Ellie in the passage?
| A．She had no children. |
| B．Her husband was killed. |
| C．She had no parents. |
| D．She gave much money to others. |
American boys and girls love watching television. Some children spend six hours a day in school and four to six hours a day in front of the television set. Some even watch television for eight hours or more on Saturday.
Televisions are like books or films. A child can learn both bad things and good things from them. Some programs help children to understand the news, and others show people and places from other countries or other time in history. With television, a child does not have to go to the zoo to see animals or to the ocean to see a ship. Boys and girls can see a play, a concert or a game at home.
Television brings many places and events into our homes. Some programs show crimes (犯罪活动) and other things that are bad for children, so parents sometimes help them to find other interesting things to do.Some children spend eight hours or more ________ on Saturday.
| A．studying | B．playing card games |
| C．watching TV | D．helping their parents |
On television children can see ________.
| A．games | B．big animals |
| C．oceans | D．almost everything |
Children usually spend ________ a day in school.
| A．six hours | B．more than eight hours |
| C．only a few hours | D．four hours |
“Television brings many places and events into homes. ” means ________.
| A．television makes things happen in homes |
| B．we can know places and events without going to see them |
| C．we can see houses and buildings on TV |
| D．we can find them easily |
Parents sometimes help their children find other things to do when there is ________ for children.
| A．a bad program | B．an animal |
| C．a game | D．an uninteresting film |
Mr. Smith never watched TV. He thought that people spent too much time watching it. Some of his friends often talked about sports shows, the movies and plays. Mr. Smith said to himself, “They never read any books or go out in the evening. ” So he didn’t buy a TV.
Two years ago, Mr. Smith was 60 years old. He stopped working in the hospital. His son bought him a TV. He began to watch all the news. He knows much more about the world now. And he reads more books, too.
Now, Mr. Smith will get very unhappy if you trouble(打扰) him when he is watching TV. I can’t know that one can change(改变) his idea when he is 60. Mr. Smith didn’t watch TV because ________.
| A．he had no time to watch it |
| B．he thought it took (占用) people much time to watch TV |
| C．he couldn’t buy the TV set |
| D．he thought watching TV is bad for people’s eyes |
Mr. Smith ________ when he worked in the hospital.
| A．went to mountains |
| B．played sports |
| C．read books |
| D．watched TV |
Mr Smith didn’t work in the hospital ________.
| A．after he was 60 |
| B．before his son bought him a TV |
| C．when his son asked him not to work |
| D．after he liked watching the news |
Mr. Smith is ________ now.
| A．58 | B．60 | C．62 | D．61 |
The black word “unhappy” means ________ in Chinese.
| A．很高兴 | B．很和蔼 | C．不高兴 | D．不理解 |
阅读短文完成下列任务
Thank you for watching CCTV’s Around China. I’m Quan Ling, a reporter from CCTV. Now, we’re in Penghu, Taiwan. The beach here is really beautiful and clean. It’s raining these days, today is sunny, but the weather is hot and humid. But there are lots of people here on vacation. Some people are taking photos; some are swimming in the sea, and others are 4on the beach. Look at this group of young men playing beach soccer. 3. They are only wearing sports shorts and sunglasses. They are running barefoot(光脚). They really look cool. I’m 5that they can play so well in this heat. This is a very beautiful and interesting place. It’s also a good place to relax. I like here so much that I really don’t want to leave.
任务一选择最佳答案What does Quan Ling do?
| A．A soccer player. | B．A reporter. | C．A tourist. | D．An actor. |
What’s the weather like today?
| A．Rainy. | B．Sunny. | C．Hot and humid. | D．Sunny, but hot and humid. |
任务二把划线句子翻译成汉语________________________________________________________________
任务三从方框中选择适当的动词并用其适当形式补全短文
| relax, surprise, lie |
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