【推荐2】Keep Happy and Healthy

It’s very important for high school students to stay happy and healthy. Without a healthy body, they cannot study well.    1    However, a healthy lifestyle is not just about eating healthy foods. Some other things are also important to a healthy lifestyle. Here are some tips for you to stay happy and healthy.

You should eat healthily. Eating healthy foods and drinks will help you stay away from diseases and help you enjoy life to the fullest. This means choosing foods from the five food groups. Eat regular meals, including breakfast, to set you up for the day.    2    Also, eat slowly.

    3    Exercising for at least 60 minutes per day helps develop a healthy body and mind. There are many ways you can include physical activity in your life. For example, you can walk up stairs, walk around the school grounds, get active during school breaks, and walk or cycle to and from school.

Get enough sleep every day. Getting enough sleep is necessary for you to relax and recover from your day.    4    Before you go to bed, do not watch TV or use your computer. Instead, you can turn on some relaxing music and drink a glass of warm milk.

Spare time for fun activities every day. You cannot study all the time. If you study all the time, your body will get too tired. Do something for fun. It helps you get relaxed, which in turn can help you study better.    5    

A．Happiness is all around us.

B．Take part in physical activity.

C．You can also get support from your friends.

D．Drink plenty of water and avoid junk food.

E．It allows you to get ready for your next day.

F．So include something interesting in your day.

G．Without a happy mood, they may not want to study.

【推荐3】People often go to cafes to relax themselves and keep themselves from falling asleep, but Mr. Healing, a popular cafe chain in South Korea actually does the opposite. Customers can come in, order a drink, lie down a comfortable massage（按摩）chair, and take a nap.

Many Koreans suffer from a lack of sleep as a result of overworking, so any opportunity to relax and even take a nap is greatly appreciated. Mr. Healing is the perfect place to go when you’re on a short work or school break and you need to catch up on sleep. The cafe offers massage periods in various modes, depending on how much time you have and how you choose to spend it.

The 20-minute session is priced at $ 3.5, the 30-minute massage costs $ 7, and the 50-minute session is $ 9, all of which also include a drink. Once you make your choice, you are taken to the “healing center”. You are asked to take off your shoes as well as any jewelry that might damage the chairs, after which you can choose a massage mode, from “stretch” or “sleep”. You can start with stretch for a few minutes, and then switch to sleep if you want to take a short nap. After it comes to an end, you are taken back to the cafe area to enjoy a coffee or one of the many other refreshing drinks on the menu.

Mr. Healing cafes are so popular in Korea that customers are advised to make reservations in advance to be sure that a massage chair is available. “I have to sit on a chair and stare at a computer monitor all day due to my job, the healing room was truly effective to relieve tiredness and stress from weekdays,” said Park Hye-sun, a 24-year-old officer.

Some have described Mr. Healing and other similar cafes in South Korea as simple fashions, but others see them as a sustainable business model, because they offer a service that Koreans really need.

1. Why do customers come to Mr. Healing?

A．To have themselves checked.	B．To rest for a while.
C．To drink specialty coffee	D．To sleep before work.

2. What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?

A．The price of the service.	B．The choices for customers.
C．The process of the service.	D．The tips for customers.

3. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．The massage.	B．The coffee.
C．A sound sleep.	D．Your choice.

4. What is Park’s attitude towards Mr. Healing?

A．Negative.	B．Neutral.
C．Critical.	D．Positive.

【推荐1】Fishy Weather Conditions

Laj amanu, Australia, is a dry little town, sitting right on the edge of the Tanami desert. Can you imagine how surprised people were when live fish rained down on them from a dark gray cloud. It happens that there are similar cases in England and Honduras.

How do clouds make fishy? The simple answer is that they don’t. There is a particular weather phenomenon (现象) called a waterspout. A waterspout is just like a tornado (龙卷风), only it forms above oceans, lakes, or rivers. Like a tornado, a waterspout moves in a circle at high speeds. When it moves above the water, it tends to carry the fish with it, as well as frogs or other small plants or animals.

Scientists couldn’t work it out at first. To make matters stranger still, the fish in Honduras were very much alive when they rained down to the ground, but they were all blind. In England and Australia, it rained fish and snakes, and none were blind. It was difficult to puzzle out, but the blind fish gave them a place to start.

Scientists knew that some fish that lived in deep, underground caves with no light sources often lost their eyesight. So when blind fish rained down on Honduras, scientists began to connect some clues (线索，提示). Clearly, these particular fish were pulled from an underground water source by force.

It has rained fish on every continent, and each time, people have tried in various ways to explain this strange phenomenon. Historically, villagers thought the “fishes from the heavens” might be answers to prayers (祈祷) for food. Others suggested that floods overran river banks and oceans, leaving the fish on the city streets. No scientist had actually seen the rain as it occurred, only the fish left on the ground. But in 1990, a National Geographic team happened to be in Honduras when the Rain of Fishes began. They recorded what was happening and made history by finally proving that the fish really did fall from the sky.

This huge breakthrough wasn’t just a spot of good luck. It changed thousands of years of myths (虚构的事；谬论) and legends into true stories and provided scientific explanations for how fish came to live in deep caves. It explained ancient cave paintings and cast (投射光线) new light on how species have spread over time. It turned out to be a lot more than just a little fishy weather.

1. According to the passage, a waterspout ________.

A．can make animals blind

B．is difficult to catch on film

C．can carry items (物品) with it

D．is a dangerous sea creature

2. The blind fish made the scientists start to think that ________.

A．raining fish was a warning of natural disasters

B．animals changed to match their environments

C．the weather system differed from place to place

D．the waterspout theory seemed more possible

3. The first sentence in the last paragraph probably suggests that ________.

A．waterspouts came to be a center of scientific research

B．the scientists were fortunate to have made their discoveries

C．hard work went into determining the cause for the raining fish

D．the scientists relied heavily on unusual events to drive their studies

4. The author writes the passage to ________.

A．explain what caused the fishy weather

B．describe the magic phenomenon

C．persuade people to protect the environment

D．encourage people to do scientific research

【推荐2】There’s nothing better than a walk in the countryside for lifting our spirits. Connecting with nature has been proven to help our mental health. For some, the best tonic is to wander through a forest, but as we admire the trees that surround us, it’s worth knowing these trees are doing more than just being nice things to look at.

We’re already aware of the healing properties of trees - they produce oxygen and clean the air we breathe by absorbing about a quarter of all human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. Deforestation isn’t helping with this which is why so many people want to save them. But there’s more to these impressive forms of vegetation than we might think. Researchers have discovered evidence that proves they are actually intelligent.

It’s thought that trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a network of fungi (真菌). Under the ground are tree roots, and fixed among them, along with bacteria, are thousands of superfine threads of fungi. And research has shown that they are all interconnected. They can help each other by sharing nutrients, and they can even warn of approaching threats. Scientists say it’s like the trees are talking to one another.

Ecologist Suzanne Simard has called this network the Wood Wide Web. She discovered that parent trees use this network to help their offspring (后代). Speaking to the BBC, she said: “We found that the parent trees would favour those seedlings that were of their own family VS the strangers” by sending them more nutrients. She also found that trees are smart enough to change their behaviour and have managed to adapt and survive in a changing environment.

So it seems trees really are the stars of our natural world, and with around three trillion of them on our planet, it’s time to show them some respect if we want them to flourish.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 3?

A．Trees share information by talking.

B．Trees share nutrients through their roots.

C．Trees are connected by a network of fungi.

D．Trees communicate with each other through bacteria.

2. From Suzanne Simard, we can know _________.

A．parent trees mistake strangers for their offspring

B．parent trees offer nutrients to all the seedlings fairly

C．trees can adjust themselves to a changing environment

D．trees are so smart that they can change the environment

3. Where is the text probably from?

A．A health report.

B．A science fiction.

C．A travel brochure.

D．A popular science magazine.

【推荐3】Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of 50. In fact, they say by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were when they were 18 years old.

The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of 18 and 85. The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.

Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of 24 and 25. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply (突然地) after people reached their fifties.

The study also showed that men and women have similar feeling patterns as they grow older.

However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their feelings. They so spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be connected to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.

The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being (幸福) related to age.

1. According to the survey of the Gallup Organization people are most likely to become happier ______.

A．when they are between the ages of 18 and 85	B．when they come to their old age
C．when they are in their twenties	D．when they are 18 years old

2. You may have the highest level of stress when you are at the age of ______.

A．20

B．25

C．35

D．40

3. Who would probably show the greatest interest in the passage?

A．Those who are worried about getting old	B．Those who are single and unemployed
C．Those who feel unhappy all the time	D．Those who suffer from mental stress

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Women Are Easier to Be Happy in Life	B．The Young Are Happier Than the Old
C．Getting Older Means Getting Happier	D．The Younger, the Happier

【推荐2】The traffic signals along Factoria Boulevard in Bellevue, Washington, generally don't flash the same length of green twice in a row, especially at rush hour. At 9:30am, the full red/yellow/green signal cycle might be 140 seconds. By 9:33am, a burst of additional traffic might push it to 145 seconds. Less traffic at 9:37am could push it down to 135. Just like the traffic itself, the timing of the signals changes.

That is by design. Bellevue, a fast-growing city just east of Seattle, uses a system that is gaining popularity around the US: intersection(十字路口) signals that can adjust in real time to traffic conditions. These lights, known as adaptive signals, have led to significant declines in both the trouble and cost of travels between work and home.

“Adaptive signals can make sure that the traffic demand that is there is being addressed, ” says Alex Stevanovic, a researcher at Florida Atlantic University.

For all of Bellevue’s success, adaptive signals are not a cure-all for jammed roadways. Kevin Balke, a research engineer at the Texas A&M University Transportation Institute, says that while smart lights can be particularly beneficial for some cities, others are so jammed that only a sharp reduction in the number of cars on the road will make a meaningful difference. “It’s not going to fix everything, but adaptive signals have some benefits for smaller cities,” he says.

In Bellevue, the switch to adaptive signals has been a lesson in the value of welcoming new approaches. In the past, there was often an automatic reaction to increased traffic: just widen the roads, says Mark Poch, the Bellevue Transportation Department’s traffic engineering manager. Now he hopes that other cities will consider making their streets run smarter instead of just making them bigger.

1. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Increased length of green lights.	B．Shortened traffic signal cycle.
C．Flexible timing of traffic signals.	D．Smooth traffic flow on the road.

2. What does Kevin Balke say about adaptive signals?

A．They work better on broad roads.

B．They should be used in other cities.

C．They have greatly reduced traffic on the road.

D．They are less helpful in cities seriously jammed.

3. What can we learn from Bellevue’s success?

A．It is rewarding to try new things.	B．The old methods still work today.
C．It pays to put theory into practice.	D．The simplest way is the best way.

【推荐3】Year 2020 seems to be the year of healthy eating. People are choosing to follow a vegetarian diet, and some have even given up animal products entirely.

But Joe Rogan, the most popular podcast host in the US, was against this trend and called January 2020 “world carnivore (食肉动物) month”. In his recent podcast, he reviewed his experience with “the carnivore diet”. Starting in January, he ate only meat for 30 days without any vegetables or fruit.

The podcaster tried the diet after the famous psychologist Jordan Peterson claimed that the diet could promote energy levels and mental health, according to Business Insider.

Rising to the challenge, Rogan posted regular updates about his diet on the popular social platform Instagram. With the average day consisting of just 2 meals, breakfast would be 6 eggs or a steak, and dinner would include either another steak, such as beef, fish or liver.

After 30 days, Rogan said he felt amazed. He also wrote, “I lost 12 pounds. Lots of pains went away. My energy is constant, and I have improvements in my stomachache. I went into this thing, thinking that this carnivore diet was kind of strange, but this is as good as I’ve felt in a long time.”

It has positive results, but some have pointed out the diet’s limitation. Speaking to CNBC, Linda Horn, a health expert at Northwestern University, said that studies show that a high-quality diet with a variety of nutrients is connected with “a better quality of life, long life and reduced risk of chronic (慢性的) diseases”. She added that the energy people claim to feel from the carnivore diet is probably not because of the meat. Instead, she said kicking carbohydrates (碳水化合物) and sugar causes weight loss and it makes people feel better.

While the carnivore diet may offer you some benefits, eating a balanced diet will afford you more health benefits than consuming a single food group, according to Healthline.

1. How did Rogan respond to the vegetarian trend?

A．He helped promote it on his podcast.

B．He gave up animal products entirely.

C．He started to eat only meat for 30 days.

D．He suggested a “world carnivore month”.

2. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．How Rogan benefited from the carnivore diet.

B．Why Rogan tried the carnivore diet at the beginning.

C．How the carnivore diet helped people improve their health.

D．Why Rogan kept posting updates about his diet on Instagram.

3. Why do people feel better from the carnivore diet according to Linda Horn?

A．They get more and more energy from it.

B．The diet helps them reduce their aches and pains.

C．The meat in the diet improves their mental health.

D．They lose weight without taking carbohydrates and sugar.

4. What can be concluded from the passage?

A．Keeping a balanced diet is still a wise choice.

B．The carnivore diet has become a trend in 2020.

C．Further studies will be completed on the carnivore diet.

D．The carnivore diet is more beneficial than a vegetarian diet.