【推荐1】The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger, a kind of round sandwich of cooked beef.     1     At fast food restaurants, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurants, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars.

    2     Most of them sell hamburgers, French fries and milkshakes, which are traditionally popular foods among Americans. In addition, there are many fast food restaurants that serve Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice cream.

The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one. Fast food restaurants are popular.     3    

First, they are not formal restaurants. Customers wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place.     4     People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone else prepares it. In fast food restaurants the food is usually ready before the customer even orders it. Finally, most food in a fast food restaurant is not expensive.     5     However, they may not be able to afford a more traditional and more expensive restaurant very often.

A．Second, they are fast.

B．Chinese diets are also welcome.

C．In fact, they reflect American life style.

D．They will go to a good restaurant for important guests.

E．The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant.

F．Therefore, people can afford to eat at a fast food restaurant often.

G．There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States.

【推荐2】For those of us who can’t live without a morning cup (or three), the latest assessments of the health effects of coffee are comforting. Its consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of all kinds of ailments, including Parkinson s disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, gallstones, cirrhosis, liver cancer, melanoma and prostate cancer.

In fact, in numerous studies conducted throughout the world, consuming three 250 ml cups of coffee (of about 400 milligrams of caffeine, coffee’s main active ingredient) a day has been associated with reduced death rates. Published in 2015 in Circulation, a study of more than 200. 000 participants followed for up to 30 years found that those who drank three to five cups of coffee a day, with or without caffeine, were 15 per cent less likely to die early from all causes than were people who avoided coffee.

As a report published in 2020 by researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health concluded, although current evidence may not recommend coffee or caffeine to prevent disease, for most people drinking coffee in a proper amount “can be part of a healthy lifestyle”. They found that consumption of three to five standard cups of daily coffee may in fact reduce the risk of several chronic (慢性的) diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

“Despite various concerns that have cropped up over the years, coffee is generally remarkably safe and has a number of important potential benefits.” says Dr Walter C. Willett, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School.

Some of coffee’s other benefits come from polyphenols and antioxidants. Polyphenols can inhibit the growth of cancer cells and lower the risk of type 2 diabetes; antioxidants, which have anti-inflammatory effects, can counter heart disease and cancer. But neither means coffee is beneficial regardless of how it’s prepared. When made without a paper filter (滤纸), as with a French press, espresso or Turkish coffee, harmful oily chemicals may come through.

When it comes to decaf, there are still some health benefits. As with caffeinated coffee, the polyphenols it contains have anti-inflammatory properties that may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer.

1. What are the figures in Paragraph 2 intended for?

A．For indicating the popularity of coffee.

B．For illustrating the positive effect of drinking coffee.

C．For revealing the hidden risks of not drinking coffee.

D．For comparing the differences of coffee with or without caffeine.

2. The underlined word “inhibit” in the last but one paragraph probably means ________.

A．increase

B．maintain

C．prevent

D．monitor

3. It can be learned from the passage that ________.

A．antioxidants plays a positive role of reducing some diseases

B．it is advised to prevent diseases by drinking coffee currently

C．it is the caffein in coffee that contributes to reducing death rate

D．people who avoid drinking coffee are more likely to live a healthier life

4. Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?

A．Terrible Coffee, Oh No!

B．Drinking Right Makes A Healthier Life!

C．The Benefits of coffee, You Can’t Miss!

D．Coffee Or Not Coffee, That’s A Question!

【推荐3】Shake Shack is a new kind of restaurant becoming more popular in the U.S. The restaurants are not “fast food.” They are known as “fast casual”.

Observers say Americans want more choices and fresh food when choosing where and what to eat. This trend is one reason why the fast food restaurant McDonald's has struggled financially.

McDonald's is one of the best-known restaurants in the U.S. and even around the world. Their ads say “I’m loving it.” But in the last quarter of 2014, McDonald's net income dropped by about $300 million. Worldwide sales dropped for the eighth month and even more than expected.

Bonnie Riggs is a restaurant expert. She says one reason Americans like fast casual food is because it's new. They are creative, they are innovative, they are something different and we like to try new things.

Ms. Riggs says Americans made 61 billion visits to restaurants last year. Three out of four visits were to fast food restaurants, like McDonald's. Fast casual is still a small percentage of restaurant visits. She says it's “growing quickly” because they meet consumers' needs.

“They know it’s being prepared while they wait, it's fresh, uh, fresh ingredients, quality food, good tasting food at reasonable and affordable prices.”

Many Americans still like their fast food, Ms. Riggs says, they just are not going as often. And, she says, some people buy prepared foods at stores and take them home to eat. Others like to cook at home.

1. The writer mentioned McDonald's to prove that _______.

A．It is the most famous restaurant in the US

B．a good company has a good advertisement.

C．fast food is the most popular food in America

D．the sales of its fast food is falling fast

2. According to the text, fast casual is growing fast because______.

A．it satisfies the need of customers

B．its food is really a king of fast food

C．it provides eaters with much cheaper food

D．it lies where people can easily find it

3. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Americans suffer from their love for fast food.

B．Americans eat more fast casual and less fast food

C．Americans leave McDonald’s for healthy food

D．Americans have a habit of eating fast food

【推荐1】In a new research, doctors are making use of feature films in an attempt to encourage their patients to talk more freely about their problems. Supporters of “film therapy” say that discussing characters and plotlines from a proper film can help people to understand their feelings better.

One of those using the method is Dr Zhang, a doctor from Shanghai, who charges ¥250 for a one-hour “film therapy“ session. He said, “I was treating a woman who had been badly heartbroken in a relationship, and who was experiencing such strong feelings that it was difficult for her to speak about them. I told her that her situation reminded me of On the Waterfront, where the hero realizes his brother is dishonest and he feels a great sense of betrayal(背叛).My patient identified so easily with him that she started to cry. Watching and discussing the film unlocked all the feelings she had buried. Each time she watched and cried, she felt better.

Dr Zhang admits that film therapy does not work for everyone, but says he has used it successfully with about a third of his clients. ^“Through the films’ characters, plots and even music, it allows people to face their problems.^” He said that Falling Down, in which Michael Douglas plays the part of an unemployed man who is so depressed that he uses violence, was an example of the dangerous results of not letting anger go. ”I used this film with a patient who was very upset because he was holding back a lot of the anger he felt towards people who had hurt him,“ said Dr Zhang. “We talked about Michael Douglas’s character and the violent path he takes, and my patient then realized that he needed to let go of his feelings more regularly so as not to burst out like a time bomb. ”

1. What are doctors doing in a new research?

A．Taking advantage of feature films to help patients.

B．Talking with patients much more than before.

C．Sharing feelings about film plots with patients.

D．Trying to understand their patients better.

2. Why did the patient cry when she watched On the Waterfront7

A．She thought of her lover suddenly.

B．She realized she had been cheated.

C．She brought her sufferings to mind.

D．She wanted to release her sorrow.

3. What did the patient decide to do after discussing Falling Down with Dr Zhang?

A．To learn a lot from Michael Douglas.

B．To release his anger on a regular basis.

C．To act out his anger through violence.

D．To forgive those who had once hurt him.

4. Which statement is Dr Zhang more likely to agree on?

A．Film stars can help people solve their problems.

B．The film therapy can be applied to most patients.

C．Films can contribute to unlocking hidden feelings.

D．This therapy should be popularized all over the world.

【推荐3】Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child or even an animal, such as a dolphin can learn to recognize faces.

We also tell people apart by how they behave.When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels make that person different from others.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex.But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm and so on.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing or typing his personality.

People have always tried to “type” each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain’s (坏人) or the hero’s role. In fact, the words “person” and “personality” come from the Latin, meaning “mask”. Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can easily tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys” because the two types differ in appearance as well as behaviors.

1. Why does the author mention the fingerprints in Paragraph 1?

A．To make people learn to recognize faces.

B．To show people have different personalities.

C．To describe the features of fingerprints.

D．To explain people differ in facial features.

2. Why can we tell one type of person from another?

A．People differ in behavioral and physical characteristics.

B．Human fingerprints provide unique information.

C．People’s behavior can be easily described in words.

D．Human faces have complex features.

3. Which of the following is the major point of the passage?

A．Why is it necessary to identify people’s personality?

B．Why is it possible to describe people?

C．How to get to know people?

D．How to recognize people best?