Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
This is an old English saying (谚语). It means that we should go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich and clever.
Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need ten hours’ sleep every night. If you go to bed late, you can’t have enough sleep. Then you can’t think carefully and your homework will be wrong. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We should sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us sleep well. When the daylight comes, we should get up. This is the time for exercise. If the body is not used, it will become weak. Exercise keeps it strong.
Exercise helps the blood (血液) to move around inside the body. Blood takes nutrition (营养) to all parts of our bodies. The brains (大脑) in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better!
Our bodies also need air to breathe (呼吸). Without air we will die. Get up early in the morning and we can have plenty of clean, fresh air. That will keep us healthy and happy.The old English saying tells us _______.
| A．how to make more money |
| B．when we should get up |
| C．it is important to go to bed and get up early |
| D．to stay up late |
A child needs at least _______ hours’ sleep every night.
| A．7 | B．8 | C．9 | D．10 |
If you want to make your body strong, you should _______.
| A．exercise often | B．have enough sleep |
| C．go to bed early | D．get up early |
_______ provides nutrition for our brains.
| A．Air | B．Blood | C．Exercise | D．Sleep |
Which of the following statements is Not true?
| A．Enough sleep makes you think carefully. |
| B．The more sleep you have, the cleverer you are. |
| C．Dark is good for sleeping. |
| D．People will die without air. |
美国加利福尼亚州Bellcrest学校的学生创办了一本名叫School Bell的校刊。阅读下面制作校刊的六个步骤，完成制作流程的正确排序。
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One day in the eighth grade, I was taking a Math Test on basic trigonometry (三角学). Now for a middle school student, there was nothing basic at all about it. So I had studied for about two hours the night before. After reviewing it for some time, I had started to understand it, so then I closed the book and ____________. However, it was not until midnight that I fell asleep. The next day, when I got the test, it might as well have been written in Serbian (which I don’t know how to read). I tried my best to work out the hard problems, but the numbers I came up with were strange. I sat back on my chair and looked for any possible answers, but I could not remember anything or think correctly. I started thinking about my dad coming home from work to find that I failed the test …
“How could you have failed the test? I am certain that nobody else in the whole class got as bad a grade as you did!”
Naturally I didn’t want that to happen. My dad was also really busy at work at present, so I was afraid that this might make him mad. When feeling hopeless, I noticed that my table partner was writing fast on his test. I could see smoke rising up from how fast he was writing. I was attracted（吸引）to look over at his test, but then the many bad results I had heard about cheating（作弊）came into my mind. I reasoned(推理，思考) that if I started cheating now, it would be hard to give up that habit during high school. In the end, I decided not to copy his answers, and got a B- on that test. Even though my dad gave me a hard time about it, it would have been a lot worse if he found out that I had given in and cheated.
| A．surprised | B．relaxed |
| C．worried | D．excited |
| A．had breakfast | B．went to bed |
| C．took exercise | D．rode to school |
| A．proud of him | B．tired of him |
| C．strict with him | D．pleased with him |
| A．could read Serbian |
| B．didn’t cheat at last |
| C．got a good grade at last |
| D．didn’t work hard that night |
Have you ever thought about what kind of job you would like to have when you grow up? Many people think that we can have only one job in our lifetime. We all know that this is not true, but quite a few people actually think this way. For example, when people choose a major (专业) in college, they think that the decisions they make now will decide their jobs for the rest of their lives. However, there are many examples where people became successful after changing their careers (职业) later in life.
J. K. Rowling, writer of the famous novel Harry Potter, was a school teacher before she began writing books. In fact, she was out of work before the first Harry Potter book came out.
Former（前任） US President Ronald Reagan began as an actor when he was a young man. He later decided that he wanted to do political work. This kind of passion (激情) finally led him to become President of the United States.
The famous 19th century artist Vincent Van Gogh was not a painter from the beginning. He once worked as an art salesman and later became a preacher. It was only 10 years before he died that he decided to become an artist.
Careers are always open to change. The important thing is to find what you are really good at or what you really want to do. Once you find that passion, it’s all a matter of how hard you try.
| A．Vincent Van Gogh | B．Ronald Reagan |
| C．J. K. Rowling | D．Harry Potter |
| A．政治的 | B．艺术的 | C．文学的 | D．经济的 |
| A．what major you choose in college |
| B．how much money you can make |
| C．changing jobs as often as possible |
| D．finding what you really want to do |
| A．Par 1→Pars 2~4→Par 5 | B．Pars 1~2→Par 3→Pars 4~5 |
| C．Par 1→Pars 2~3→Pars 4~5 | D．Pars 1~2→Pars 3~4→Par 5 |
Imagine a world where air pollution is no longer a problem. Clean air is all around us. People don’t have to worry about polluting the air every time they drive their cars. They no longer need to face the problem of not having enough fuel（燃料）either.
Although scientists have been trying for many years to develop a new kind of car that does not need gasoline (汽油), they have been unsuccessful. Recently, however, car engineers have succeeded in creating a new kind of car that runs on gasoline and electricity（电）. This is the famous “hybrid car”. This car gets its name from the fact that it has a gasoline engine (引擎) and an electric motor inside. Hybrid cars do not pollute the environment as much as the cars that are commonly used today. They also cost drivers less money because they need less fuel than ordinary cars.
Hybrid cars are becoming widely popular in the United States. They are soon expected to become widely used around the world. If scientists and engineers continue to work on car development, perhaps the world with clean air that we imagined earlier just might become real in the future.
| A．cars | B．drivers |
| C．engines | D．scientists |
| A．increase air pollution | B．run only on electricity |
| C．have no engines inside | D．need less fuel than ordinary cars |
| A．like electric cars | B．drive cars easily |
| C．live in the world with clean air | D．understand how hybrid cars work |
| A．The Car of the Future | B．The Meaning of Hybrid |
| C．The Use of Hybrid Cars | D．The Invention of the Car |
Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is called a tongue twister (绕口令). It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly（顺利地，流利地）, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practising them.
| A．listening | B．writing |
| C．pronunciation | D．communication |
| A．it is very boring to read |
| B．it teaches us a lot of knowledge |
| C．we don’t know who “she” is |
| D．the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar |
| A．Story Time | B．Study Garden |
| C．Latest News | D．Lost and Found |