Many things we eat have some natural sugar in them. But extra sugar is often put into foods we buy. Sugar is delicious, but added sugar is not good for you. Doctors say it can have bad effects on your body by making you gain weight. But there are other bad effects from eating a lot of sugar as well. Added sugar can make it hard to think. It can give you a headache. Sugar can make you become ill. It can also cause problems for your heart. Do you feel tired a lot? It could be that you are eating too much sugar. Foods like cookies, cakes, and drinks have lots of added sugar. Even foods we think are good for us, like yogurt (酸奶) can also have added sugar.
In many countries, food makers have to say how much sugar is in their food. This is so that people can decide if they want to buy that kind of food or choose one with much less sugar. For example, some breakfast foods contain lots of sugar while others have much less. Some fruit drinks have lots of sugar added to them. Other fruit drinks have much less sugar and still taste good.What if you really like sugar? You can make small changes in what you eat and cut out the sugar slowly. If you like candy, you can eat apples, strawberries, or pears. These are all sweet, but they will not make you sick. If you like yogurt, buy yogurt that has no sugar or very little sugar. You can put strawberries or some other fruit in the yogurt to make it sweet.
1. This reading is about ________.
| A．people who eat the most sugar | B．doctors’ ideas about sugar and food with sugar |
| C．What sugar does and how to eat less sugar | D．why people like sugar |
| A．too much sugar can make you ill | B．more sugar should be added to food |
| C．too much sugar is a problem for doctors | D．too much sugar is good for people |
| A．Yogurt | B．Strawberries | C．Fruit drinks | D．Cookies |
| A．low | B．more | C．less | D．few |
| A．a zoo poster | B．a science study | C．cause your lungs to break | D．a guide book |
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Make time for a walk and do some exercises every day. Don’t wait for the lift if you want to go upstairs. Just take the stairs (楼梯).
Make time for breakfast. Even a quick breakfast, like fruits or juice, can stop hunger(饥饿) during the day.
Drink at least eight glasses of water every day. Enough water can stop you from feeling hungry (饥饿的) or tired. You can take some good drinks like water, juice and milk.
Eat at least five kinds of fruits and vegetables every day. If you want to eat something between breakfast and lunch, pick fruits and vegetables. They are great snacks (小吃).
Wish all of you a very wonderful and happy holiday season.
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1. What do people want to do during their holidays?
| A．eat delicious food |
| B．stay with their family |
| C．A and B |
| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 |
| A．apples | B．rice | C．hamburgers |
| A．Taking the stairs is a good way to do exercise. |
| B．If you have no time, you can go out without breakfast. |
| C．We must drink enough water every day. |
| A．In a story book |
| B．In a novel |
| C．In a newspaper |
【推荐2】Do you have a headache? Eat some bird brains for dinner, and your headache will go away. Is your hair turning gray? Eat black rice every day. And you won't have gray hair.
Eat bird brains and black rice? "Some people ask. "How strange!" But for many Chinese people, bird brains and black rice are not strange things to eat, they are good things to eat. They are good medicines, too.
Many Chinese believe that food can be medicine. Food that is medicine is called medicinal food. The Chinese have eaten medicinal food and spices(调味料)for hundreds of years. Ginger(姜), for example, is a common spice in Chinese cooking now. Ginger gives food a nice favor(味道). The Chinese began to use ginger many years ago. At that time, they used ginger not because it tasted good. They used it because it was medicinal Ginger, they thought, was good for the digestion (消化). It also helped people who had colds.
Not everyone approves of the medicinal food. Some people think that food and spices are not medicines. They want to buy their medicine in drug stores, not in supermarkets. Other people want to try medicinal food. They say, "Maybe medicinal food can't help me, but it can't hurt me, either.”
People can try medicinal food at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, California .The restaurant serves only medicinal food. Queen's Secret", for example, is one dish at the restaurant. Meat from a chicken with black skin is in the dish. It is for women who want to look young.
Alan Lau is the owner of the restaurant,, He says, "Some people try medicinal food only once and then say, 'It didn't work. But think about this: When your doctor prescribes (开药方) medicine. you take the medicine for five days, or for ten days, or maybe for weeks. It's the same with medicinal food. You have to eat the food many times before it begins to help. "Mr. Lau believes that medicinal food works, he eats medicinally every day.
1. Why did the Chinese use ginger many years ago?| A．Because it had a good taste |
| B．Because it was good for health |
| C．Because it made people feel cold |
| D．Because it gave food a different flavor. |
| A．agrees to | B．cares about | C．hears of | D．gives up |
| A．Can Food Be Our Medicine? |
| B．Can Spices Change Our Cooking? |
| C．What Is the Best Medicine for a Headache? |
| D．What Can People Eat in a Chinese Restaurant? |
【推荐3】Chinese people are eating too much salt. On average, people in China eat about 10.5 grams of salt each day, much higher than the 6 grams recommended(建议) by Chinese Dietary Guidelines (2016).
China now has one of the highest salt intakes (摄入量) in the world. To fix this, China issued the first salt reduction guide for its food industry on April 18, 2018, People’s Daily reported.
If the guide is followed properly, the average salt intake for Chinese people will drop by 20 percent by 2030. The guide calls for food companies to lower the salt content in their products by improving their production technology and adjusting (调整) flavors.
The salt we take in mainly comes from processed food. For example, a 104-gram can of Lay’s classic potato chips contains about 0.66 grams of salt, which accounts for over 10 percent of the recommended daily salt intake.
A small amount of salt makes food taste better and is important for good health, but eating too much increases the risk of high blood pressure, Xinhua reported.
Less salt leads to better health. And there's no need to worry that food will be less tasty in the future. A study by the Monell Chemical Senses Center in the United States found that it's easy for people to reduce their salt intake. Although you may think your food is not salty enough at first, your taste buds (味蕾) will gradually get used to it and you will feel that your food tastes the same as it did before.
1. What is TRUE about Paragraph 1 and 2?| A．Chinese people eat six grams of salt each day on average. |
| B．Chinese people take in 75 percent more salt than is recommended. |
| C．Chinese people have the highest salt intake in the world. |
| D．Chinese people have never had their own salt intake guide. |
| A．Chinese people. | B．Food companies. |
| C．The salt industry. | D．Potato chip makers. |
| A．Many people will find the food not tasty. |
| B．There will be no more processed food. |
| C．Chinese people will take in less salt than they do now. |
| D．Chinese people will not get enough salt in the future. |
| A．High blood pressure is common in China. |
| B．Taking in less salt can make us healthier. |
| C．There is no need to worry about a lack of salt. |
| D．Our taste buds prefer the flavor of salt. |
【推荐1】①Anyone watching the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China over the last few days has seen lots and lots of snow—man-made snow. No other cities have held the Winter Olympics on almost 100% artificial snow before.
②This year’s Winter Olympics was held in Beijing, China, and in two areas northwest of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou. The areas get cold in winter, but they don’t get a lot of natural snow. That’s because they’re close to the Gobi Desert, and are generally very dry.
③That meant _______. China took water from a reservoir which helps supply Beijing’s drinking water and sent it to a nearby river. To carry the water to the mountains for making snow, the country ran miles and miles of pipes. China says making the snow took about 49, 000 gallons of water. Outside experts say it probably took a lot more water than that.
④China paid an Italian company called Techno Alpin to make the snow. Techno Alpin made artificial snow at several earlier Winter Olympics. For the snow in this year’s Olympics, Techno Alpin laid over 40 miles (64 kilometers) of pipes and brought in hundreds of snow-making machines. Even with all those machines, making the snow for this year’s Games took seven weeks.
⑤In recent years, it has become more and more common to use artificial snow at winter sports events. That’s true even in places that used to have a lot of snow naturally. Some artificial snow was used in the Winter Olympics in 2010 and 2014 because of warm weather. In the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, almost 90% of the snow was man-made. As the world warms because of climate change, problems like this are expected to become far more common. Michael Mayr, who leads Techno Alpin in Asia, says, “You could not have winter sports now without man-made snow.”
1. Which of the following can be put in ________ in Paragraph 3?| A．we had to find new places for winter Olympics |
| B．snow is an important part of winter sports games |
| C．artificial snow has been widely for winter Olympics |
| D．some serious changes were needed for the Winter Olympics |
| A．had little experience in making artificial snow for Winter Olympics in the past |
| B．may have more chances to create artificial snow for the following winter games |
| C．spent about fifty days in making artificial snow for 2018 PyeongChang Olympics |
| D．used more than 40 gallons of water and laid over 49, 000 miles of pipes in Bejing |
| A．making artificial snow is easier and cheaper |
| B．natural snow is not as clean as artificial snow |
| C．there is a temperature rise on the earth nowadays |
| D．most places are too dry to hold winter sports games |
| A．Man-made snow met the need of a green Olympics. |
| B．2022 Beijing Winter Olympics had an important change. |
| C．Artificial snow helped make Beijing Olympics a success. |
| D．China spent a lot on artificial snow for Beijing Winter Olympics. |
【推荐2】Nowadays, there are more and more cafes in libraries and bookshops. New study found that a certain level of noise in a place like a cafe can actually develop your creative ideas. Here are some other very interesting findings of the study.
It is found that sound stimuli (刺激) in the background helps us improve decision making. Some have even called it the coffee shop effect (影响). So, the jazz music and light conversation aren’t noisy any more—they could help you come up with your next great work.
One of the biggest things about coffee shops is the social-improvement effect: you go there, you see other people working and it makes you just naturally start working as well. Just watching them can encourage you to work harder.
Visual variety (视觉多样性) helps in solving a problem, but requires you to think outside the box. If you always stay in your office, it will be sometimes difficult to have solutions. Coffee shops, though, generally have visual stimuli. And hitting up different coffee shops each time keeps things even more different.
Pablo Picasso, Bob Dylan, Jean-Paul Sartre. Simone de Beauvoir and JK Rowling—whether they’re painters, singers, songwriters, philosophers or writers, people across nations and centuries have developed their creativity working at a table in a cafe.
1. Which of the following is social-improvement effect mentioned in Paragraph 3?| A．You are better at making decisions in the coffee shop. |
| B．You start working as you see other people working. |
| C．You can easily find ways to solve different problems. |
| D．You don’t care about the noisy sound in the cafe. |
| A．Visiting. | B．Building. | C．Studying. | D．Running. |
| A．To introduce them. | B．To describe a situation. |
| C．To support his idea. | D．To express the feeling. |
| A．The music and pictures in different coffee shops. |
| B．The importance of drinking coffee every day. |
| C．The famous people who work in coffee shops. |
| D．The good sides of working in the coffee shops. |
【推荐3】Weighing too much can damage your health, and obesity (肥胖) is a growing problem for both kids and adults around the world. Sleep might be one answer to the problem. A new study has found that elementary school students who slept too little were more likely to gain pounds.
Past studies have shown a link between sleeping less and weighing more, but scientists have had a tough time determining “which came first, the chicken or the egg,” says Julie C. Lumeng of the university of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In other words, it hasn’t been clear whether kids who weigh too much have trouble sleeping, or whether sleeping less leads to weight gain. Both scenarios (可能出现的情况) seemed equally possible.
To get a better idea of which causes which, Lumeng and her colleagues interviewed the parents of 785 third graders from around the United States. The parents answered questions about how well their kids slept that year. Three years later, the parents answered the same questions. By sixth grade, 18 percent of kids involved in the study were obese.
The scientists found no relationship between weight and the students’ race or gender. It also didn’t matter how strict their parents were, or whether they were boys or girls. Obesity struck all of these groups equally. Instead, sleep seemed to be the key factor. Over the three years of study, the children averaged a healthy 9.5 hours of sleep a night. Some kids, however, slept a lot more or less than others.
For the sixth graders, every hour of sleep above the 9.5 houraverage was linked to a 20 percent lower risk of being obese. Sleep appeared doubly important for the third graders. Every extra hour of sleep they got was linked to a 40 percent drop in obesity.
1. What does the underlined sentence on paragraph 2 imply?| A．Scientists have found the exact causes of children’s obesity. |
| B．There is always something difficult to understand through theory |
| C．The cause-effect relationship between weight and sleep isn’t clear. |
| D．A person’s weight has something to do with the amount of his sleep. |
| A．9. 5 hours of sleep a night is enough for children. |
| B．The more a child sleeps, the healthier he will be. |
| C．Sixth graders need much more sleep than third graders. |
| D．One’s race or gender has nothing to do with his weight. |
| A．By listing figures. | B．By comparing different opinions. |
| C．By conducting a survey. | D．By telling stories. |
| A．sleep might be only answer to the problem of obesity |
| B．being obese has something to do with their race or gender |
| C．it’s more important for third graders to have over 9.5 hours of sleep than sixth graders |
| D．the more people sleep, the less likely they will gain pounds |
| A．The benefits of enough sleep for children. |
| B．Sleeping less increases the risk of obesity. |
| C．Which comes first, little sleep or obesity. |
| D．How many hours of sleep do children need? |
【推荐1】One day, I heard an American boy said to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite surprised at the answer. Thinking he had not made himself understood or the girl had not heard him clearly, he said. “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.” But the girl still kept saying “No.” In the end, the American boy could not understand and didn’t know what to say.
What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t accept a compliment in the same way as the American people do. She should answer, “Thank you” instead of “No”. She really understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel proud and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the dishes you have cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you.”
In our country, we think being modest is a virtue and being proud is a bad thing, but in my opinion, being confident does not mean being proud, so sometimes you should be confident instead of being modest.
If you are modest and say “No, I’m afraid I can’t do it well” when working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say “No”, you will certainly be looked down upon by others. When asking for a job, if one says something like “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “let me have a try”, he or she will expect to get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence.
1. Why did the Chinese girl say “No” when she was praised?| A．Because she thought she should be proud. |
| B．Because she thought she should be confident. |
| C．Because she thought she should be modest. |
| D．Because she thought she is a student. |
| A．you can do it well | B．you can’t do it well |
| C．you like doing it | D．you don’t like doing it |
| A．瞧不起 | B．瞧得起 | C．表扬 | D．批评 |
| A．The girl didn’t hear the boy clearly. |
| B．The American boy understood the girl’s answer. |
| C．In China, people think being modest is a virtue. |
| D．The writer thinks being modest means being proud. |
| A．We should be proud and impolite in the west. |
| B．We should be modest and confident in the west. |
| C．We should be modest and brave in the west. |
| D．We should be brave and confident in the west. |
Learning a new language is hard. In a recent research, scientists found that your chances of reaching fluency(流利) in a new language drop off at the age of 10. Does that mean you should give up your French class if you are older than 10? No!
The research found that it’s “nearly impossible” to reach fluency if you start learning a language after age 10. That’s not because your language skills start to get worse. “You’re still learning fast,” says Joshua. “It’s just because your ability to learn starts dropping at around 10 or 11 years old.”
The researchers say people who try to learn a new language after 10 may still become quite good. But they will probably not become fluent. Kids may better than adults at learning new languages for many reasons. One is that children’s brains are more adaptable(能适应的)than adults’ brains. This means they are better able to change. Kids may also would like to try new things. And adults may depend on the rules of their first language. But kids are able to accept a new language without them.
1. Why is it difficult to reach fluency if we start learning a language after age 10?| A．Our ability to learn starts dropping. | B．We can’t learn fast any more. | C．Our language skills start to get worse. |
| A．Adults’ brains are more adaptable. |
| B．Adults like to try new things. |
| C．Adults may depend on the rules of their first language. |
| A．Mary, 8 years old. | B．Tom, 18 years old. | C．Jenny, 42 years old. |
Subject: Help! Date: 21/ 10/ 2006 10:02 a. m.
Dear Aunt Aggie,
I’m having a problem with my classmate, Rena, at school. The other day I wrote an e-mail to another classmate, Beth, in which I said some things about Rena that perhaps weren’t very nice. Unluckily, when Beth was writing back to me, she accidentally forwarded（无意间转发）the message to Rena! Now Rena is really angry with me and won’t talk to me, and Beth is unhappy as well. She’s said sorry to me a hundred times already, but the harm is done. I feel bad, because I never would have said those things to Rena’s face, but how can I get her to forgive（谅解）me? What should I do?
Joe
To: Joe@ heinfo. net From: Aggie@ yahoo. com
Subject: Some advice Date: 22/ 10/ 2006 10:45 a. m.
Dear Joe,
This problem is more common than you might think! E-mail is very useful, but also very dangerous, as you don’t know where your message might end up! First of all, you should say sorry right away to Rena. Explain that it was a mistake, and that you didn’t mean to hurt her feelings. It may take time for her to be able to forgive you, but that’s up to her. Then you might want to do something nice for her. Perhaps send her some flowers to show that you’re truly sorry. Also, you should remember that old saying: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. ” And good luck!
Aggie
1. What is Joe’s problem in the first e-mail?
| A．Joe made Rena unhappy and he felt very sad. |
| B．Joe’s classmate, Rena, sent Beth an e-mail and made her unhappy. |
| C．Joe received a wrong e-mail from Rena and became angry. |
| D．Joe’s friend, Beth, is unhappy because Joe sent her an angry e-mail. |
| A．He emailed her and said sorry. | B．He asked Beth what he should do. |
| C．He emailed Aunt Aggie for help. | D．He said sorry to Rena face to face. |
| A．because you don’t know who the e-mail is for |
| B．because you can never know who will get your e-mail at last |
| C．because you don’t know where your e-mail was written |
| D．because you never know where the message is from |
| A．Joe, Beth and Rena should have a talk together. |
| B．Joe should wait for some time before saying sorry to Rena. |
| C．Joe should ask Beth to explain that to Rena. |
| D．Joe should say sorry to Rena, and then send her some flowers. |
