Have you ever bought Genki Forest (元气森林) sparkling water because it’s advertised as “sugar-free”? It’s popular among students. The company recently apologized for a misleading advertisement.
The company said the drinks are “sucrose-free”(零蔗糖), but this is not the same as “sugar-free”. Now the company has changed the words “sugar-free” to “low sugar” on the bottles.
In fact, there are many kinds of sugar. Sucrose is just one of them. Other kinds of sugar, such as fructose (果糖) and sugar alcohol (糖醇), are still in Genki Forest drinks. These types of sugar are used as sweeteners (甜味剂). They offer little energy, but a small amount of them can make drinks taste sweet. That’s why diet drinks like Genki Forest are popular among people who want to lose weight.
However, studies find that the sweeteners might make people eat more. When you eat sweet-tasting things, it sends your brain a “sweet signal”. Then your brain tells your body to prepare itself to take in energy. But since the diet soft drink has little energy, you will feel hungry and start getting energy by eating more food. According to China Daily, drinking too many diet drinks might lead to obesity (肥胖) and type 2 diabetes (糖尿病). Would you like to try diet drinks now?
1. Why did Genki Forest apologize?| A．For not having sugar in its drinks. | B．For misspelling words on its packaging. |
| C．For advertising its products incorrectly. | D．For making too many advertisements. |
| A．There are sweeteners in its drinks. | B．Its drinks have high levels of sucrose. |
| C．Its drinks taste sweeter than other drinks. | D．People can lose weight with its drinks. |
| A．They cause the brain to stop receiving signals. | B．They provide enough energy for people. |
| C．They stop the body from getting energy. | D．They probably make people feel hungrier. |
| A．fun | B．harmful | C．refreshing | D．fashionable |
| A．Sweeteners can make drinks sweeter. | B．Genki Forest is popular with people. |
| C．Diet drinks can help people lose weight. | D．Think twice about the diet drink trend. |
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【推荐1】Healthy eating doesn’t just mean what you eat, but how you eat. Here is some advice on healthy eating.
Eat with others. It can help you to see others’ healthy eating habits. If you usually eat with your parents. You will find that the food you eat is more delicious.
Listen to your body. Ask yourself if you are really hungry. Have a glass of water to see if you are thirsty. Sometimes you are just thirsty, and you need no food. Stop eating before you feel full.
Fat breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. After you don’t eat for the past ten hours, your body needs food to get you going. You will be smarter after eating breakfast.
Eat healthy snacks. We all need snacks sometimes. In fact, it’s a good idea to eat two healthy snacks between you three meals. This doesn’t mean that you can eat a bag of chips instead of a meal.
Don’t eat dinner late. With busy life, we always put off eating dinner until the last minute. Try to eat dinner at least 3 hours before you go to bed. This will give your body a chance to digest most of the food before you sleep for the next hours.
1. How many pieces of advice does the writer give us on healthy eating?| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．利用 | B．消化 | C．储藏 | D．享用 |
| A．Not eating snacks at all. | B．Eating as much as you want. |
| C．Eating some when necessary. | D．Eating enough every day. |
| A．Eating alone is better than with others. |
| B．It doesn’t matter if you don't want to have breakfast. |
| C．Eating dinner before going to bed is OK. |
| D．We should listen to our bodies when eating |
| A．Healthy Food. | B．Important Meals. |
| C．How to Eat Healthily. | D．How to Keep Healthy. |
【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? |
First, eat different food, especially fruit and vegetables. You may have a favorite food, but you'd better eat something different. If you eat different food, you will probably get more nutrients（营养物质）your body needs.
Second, drink water and milk as often as possible. When you're really thirsty, cold water is the No. 1 choice. Milk is a great drink that can give you more calcium（钙）your body needs to grow strong bones.
Third, listen to your body. How do you feel when you are full? When you're eating, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Eating too much will not make you feel comfortable and make you feel fat.
Fourth, limit screen time. Screen time is the time you watch TV, DVDs and videos, or using computers. It is good to take more exercise such as basketball, bike riding and swimming. You can't watch TV for more than two hours a day.
Fifth, be active. One thing you'd like to do, as a kid, is to find out which activity you like best. Find ways to be active every day.
Follow these rules and you can be a healthy kid.
1. Which kind of drinks can give you more calcium?
| A．Milk. | B．Tea. | C．Juice. | D．Cold water. |
| A．more than two hours |
| B．more than three hours |
| C．less than two hours |
| D．four hours |
| A．fish |
| B．sweets |
| C．meat |
| D．fruit and vegetables |
| A．four | B．five | C．nine | D．fifth |
| A．When you're eating, you have to notice how your body feels. |
| B．You can eat your favorite food, but you'd better eat something different. |
| C．You can watch TV as long as you like to get more information. |
| D．We should try to live in an active way in our life. |
While working in Shanghai, Lindsay met many Chinese people with strange English names. Some of them chose a lucky number of “Seven,” a favorite fruit, “Apple,” and a cartoon character, “Snow White.” Others had names like “July” and “Rabbit.”
After noticing the problem, Lindsay had an idea. She quit her job and set up a website (bestenglishname.com) to help Chinese people get better English names.
The website helps people in two ways. After they take an online quiz, people will get five English names based on their personal information, such as age, job and even future plans. This costs 18 yuan. People can also meet with Lindsay to talk about their English name. But that costs more.
Now, about 2,000 people each day visit the website. Most of them are preparing to study or work abroad. Lindsay is planning to offer them more help, such as helping them write resumes（简历).
1. What does Lindsay think of the name of “Rabbit”?
| A．Wonderful. | B．Strange. | C．Creative. | D．Wrong.. |
| A．continued | B．asked | C．picked up | D．gave up |
| A．Her website mainly helps the English--speaking people. |
| B．Her idea came from his work experience in China. |
| C．She plans to provide more service for the customers. |
| D．She can help the people to get name in two ways. |
| A．A hard-working American girl | B．Never choose English names without thinking |
| C．How to find a good English name | D．An American girl helps choose English names |
【推荐2】When it comes to making healthy lifestyle changes, which should come first changing your diet or becoming more physically active?
Previous studies suggested that providing people with too much information about nutrition and physical activity at once tends to be discouraging. That has led to the popularity of advising people to make changes gradually, and set smaller goals.
So the scientists divided 200 inactive participants who were aged 45 or older into four groups. One group was instructed about making diet and fitness changes at the same time, the second group was taught about diet changes first, then fitness changes four months later, the third group changed their exercise habits first and made changes in their eating habits four months later, and the final, control group was not instructed about either diet or fitness changes but about how to manage their stress.
The researchers tracked（跟踪）the groups for full year. Compared to the control group， the three intervention groups made healthy changes in their diet. Those who changed their fitness habits first significantly increased the amount of exercise they received daily compared to the other groups after four months. However，at the end of the year，the group that changed both diet and exercise at the same time was the only one that met the nationally recommended targets for both exercise and nutrition levels，while those who worked on improving their nutrition first were unable to meet the recommended levels of fitness after a year. The researchers suspect that changes to diet are easier to make than changes to physical activity.
The findings show, however, that pairing diet and exercise changes may help to overcome some of the barriers people face in adding more physical activity into their lives. If people change diet and exercise orderly, the scientists say, they may end up placing more importance on the first set of behavior changes and feel less pressured to address the second set.
1. The advice mentioned in the second paragraph seemed ________.| A．popular | B．dangerous | C．scientific | D．unsatisfactory |
| A．The first group. | B．The second group. | C．The third group. | D．The control group. |
| A．they might be very crazy |
| B．they wouldn't like to change their behaviour |
| C．it is much harder to change physical activity |
| D．they might put on weight before changing their physical activity |
| A．Pairing diet and exercise changes. |
| B．Becoming more physically active first. |
| C．Changing diet and exercise following a fixed order. |
| D．Changing diet first and placing more importance on it. |
【推荐3】With her eyes always feeling tired, 16-year-old Sun Run went to the hospital with her parents in January. She was shocked when she found out that her eyesight dropped from 5.0 to 4.6 in only 5 months. “A few of my friends have had the same experience lately,” Sun said.
In fact, poor eyesight among Chinese primary and middle school students rose from 59.2 percent to 70.6 percent in the first six months of 2020, according to the Ministry of Education (教育部).
To protect students’ eyesight, the Chinese government has worked out new requirements (要求) for schools. For example, according to the requirements, the size of text in students’ textbooks should be no smaller than nine-point (小五号). Teachers should also avoid (避免) using projectors (投影仪) or other multimedia equipment (多媒体设备) that are too bright, Beijing Daily reported.
There are also requirements for desk and classroom lights. For example, these lights should give off as little blue light as possible. Blue light is bad for our eyes, as it can kill the photoreceptor cells (感光细胞) we need, according to Harvard Medical School. Many of the electronic devices (电子设备) we use every day, including our phones and computer screens, give off blue light.
Chinese government has also taken other steps to protect students’ eyesight in China. In May 2020, schools were asked to make sure that students have at least two hours of outdoor activities a day.
1. Why the writer mentioned Sun’s story in Paragraph 1?| A．To show she should go to the hospital earlier. |
| B．To show most Chinese students wear glasses. |
| C．To show many Chinese students have bad eyesight. |
| D．To show Chinese parents should take their children to the hospital. |
| A．11.4 percent | B．59.2 percent | C．70.6 percent | D．4.6 percent |
a. schools to use textbooks with larger text
b. teachers to avoid using overly bright multimedia equipment
c. schools not to use blue bulbs in classrooms
d. schools to use lights that give off less blue light
| A．abc | B．abd | C．acd | D．bcd |
| A．Multimedia equipment that is too bright may harm our eyesight. |
| B．Students should have at most 2 hours of outdoor activities a day. |
| C．Only mobile phones give off blue light. |
| D．Students should have at least 2 hours of outdoor activities a week. |
