【推荐1】In England, everyone knows James Oliver. He has his TV show. In the show, he tells people how to cook healthy food. Everyone like his show because his food is easy to make.

James wants people to eat healthily. In some schools in England, the food at lunch time isn’t healthy. One day, James goes to the school to make a TV show about healthy eating habits. He cooks the food with lots of fruit and vegetables. At first, students don’t want to eat them because they don’t like fruit or vegetables. But after they taste the food, they love it. After that, food in the school is healthy.

Health is very important to us. Many people don’t think we need to care about our bodies when we are young. It’s not right. Here are some suggestions (建议) for you to keep healthy.

●Drink lots of water every day. It can help you stay away from illness (疾病).

●Playing sports can keep you healthy and make you strong.

●Don’t eat junk food like hamburgers.

●Having enough (充足的) sleep is healthy. Go to bed early and sleep 8 hours every night.

On holidays you’re likely to eat and overeat between family gatherings, office parties and celebrating with friends. Studies show it is easier to put on a few pounds this time of year. Here are some tips to help you enjoy holiday food without completely changing your diet:

●Switch(转换) to small plates.

Not only do smaller dished fill up faster, but the same size helps look like more food when it’s on a small dish.    1    But whatever the size of your plate, it’s most important to remember to keep it balanced; half for vegetables, a quarter for grains and a quarter for lean meat.

●Measure out (按量配给)snacks

Your favorite holiday movie is on. Take a minute to check the nutrition label (营养标签)and measure out a serving to keep calories (卡路里)in check. Take one popular brand of buttered microwave popcorn for example,     2    But the bag contains 2.5 serving. Eat the whole thing on your own, and you’ll have eaten 425 calories.

●Split an entree (主菜).

Many restaurants serve far more food than one person needs in a single meal.     3    Or pack half your entree to go as soon as it's served. Or choose a small size, if available.

●Stop eating when you feel satisfied.

You don’t have to feel too full, or force yourself to clean your plate before putting down your fork.    4    . When you’re satisfied, save the rest for leftovers (剩余物).

【推荐3】Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are some kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: ①green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; ②citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; ③potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; ④meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; ⑤milk and foods made from milk; ⑥bread or cereal (谷物), rice is also in this kind of food; ⑦butter, or something like butter.

People in different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at 11 o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population (人口) so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

【推荐1】What will you do on a trip? Visit famous places, go shopping or take photos? How do you let family and friends know you are on holiday? Phone calls?

    1     Postcards have 170 years of history in the UK.

More people went on holiday to the seaside.     2    . So they sent postcards to let their families know they arrived safely. There are different pictures on the front of the postcards. Some pictures are about beautiful places. Others are about famous food like fish and chips. And others are maybe with jokes（玩笑） on the front.

    3     People usually write words or phrases to show they miss someone on their postcards. It’s common to use “Thinking of you” or “Wish you were here”.

    4     They often make fun of（取笑） the British weather like rainy days. You can see that the postcards show a rainy day with no one on the beach. This humor makes postcards popular in Britain.

So next time you are on a holiday, you can try to send postcards to your parents or friends.     5    

【推荐2】Do you sleep well every night? Studies show if we have a good rest, we must have more energy to study. At the same time, we will be healthier.

    1     The bedroom is the main place where we sleep at night, so its environment directly affects our sleep. And good sleep plays an important role in our health. So we should advise our parents to pay attention to our bedroom environment.

Our bedroom should have proper light.     2     If the light is too dark, it will affect people’s eyesight. If the light is too bright, it can affect the speed of falling asleep.     3    

    4     Many old people like to put a lot of flowers in the bedroom. Of course, these flowers can make us relaxed and feel well.     5     It can really affect people’s sleep. So don’t put too many plants in our bedroom.

Our bedroom should be ventilated (通风) often. We should often open the window so that fresh air can come in. Otherwise, we may find it difficult to breathe.

【推荐3】When you open the fridge, you find some moldy (发霉的) food sometimes. But before you can throw it away, your mother stops you. She doesn’t want to waste food. She cuts off the moldy part and eats the rest. Is it safe to do this?

Mold can grow on almost all kinds of food. Mold is usually green, white, black or grey. Mold makes food soft and changes its color. Moldy food tastes quite bad—and it’s not safe to eat.

If you find mold in soft food, throw it away. Soft food, such as bread, tomatoes or hot dogs, usually holds water. This allows mold to easily grow below its surface. Bacteria (细菌) can also grow along with it.

But it’s easy to remove mold from hard food. The mold can’t grow very deeply inside this kind of food. According to the BBC, you should cut about 2.5 cm around and below the mold to remove it. It’s OK to cut the moldy parts out of hard food and eat the rest. But if the food is completely covered with mold, you should still throw it away.

Most kinds of mold are bad for us. But some kinds of mold can be used to make food. For example, penicillium can be used to make many types of cheeses, such as blue cheese. These cheeses are safe to eat-and they’re quite delicious as well.

Running is free, you can do it almost anywhere and it has many advantages. Suitable for adults and children, it can improve your fitness, reduce your risk of illness and help to have a healthy active lifestyle. If you’ve never been a runner and are thinking of giving it a try, there are a few useful tips.

Goals   Set yourself goals of time, times or miles. You don’t need to take part in a competition. Sometimes, competing with yourself can be just as much of an exciting challenge.

Clubs and teammates   Run with a friend or local group. Most clubs meet the demands for all ages and ability levels, including beginners. According to research, you’re more likely to keep on exercise if you do with someone else.

Diary   Keep a training note of your runs. This could include as much or as little detail as you like. You could write your route (路线), distance, time and feeling. If you feel like you’re not making as much progress as you wanted, look back over your past achievements!

Variety (变化)   Mix up your routes and distances to avoid being boring. Doing other forms of exercise is known as cross-training. Swimming and cycling are other great ideas to support and improve your running, as well as being enjoyable exercise too.

【推荐2】Stonehenge is a famous place in England, one of the oldest and most mysterious(神秘的) places in the world. It was probably put up between 1800 B.C. and 1400 B.C. It lies in the city of Salisbury, which is about 13 km south of Stonehenge.

Stonehenge was a ring of standing stones, including upright(垂直的) stones with a horizontal(水平的) stone lying across the top. When it was completed, it was made up of a double circle of stones with two more groups of stones outside the circles. Over time, however, many of the stones have been broken by wind and rain, only a small number is still standing today.

It is unclear who built Stonehenge or even how it was built. Many of the stones must have been transported over 250 miles to Stonehenge. Single stones, some of them weighing about four tons, must have been sent on rivers and rolled over land on tree trunks(树干). They can’t have been carried! The men who moved the stones didn’t have wheels or horses. Each stone had to be moved by hand.

The purpose of Stonehenge is just as mysteries. It has been called a place to honor ancestors, a sun temple, an ancient clock and a calendar. Some people think the stones have been built in a special way to mark sunrise and sunset at certain times during the year, because the sun shines directly into the center of the stones. Others have even thought that it was an ancient generator, which is a machine to produce electricity, because it was built along energy lines in the earth and was used to make use of the earth’s natural energies.

【推荐3】Nowadays, the food that you buy comes from many different countries. Have a look in your fridge, and fruit bowl and check the origins(来源) of the food. Perhaps there are apples from California, lamb from New Zealand, or potatoes from Egypt. You will probably be surprised how far food travels to get to your plate. This journey, from “field to plate”, is called “food miles”. A food mile is the distance that food travels from the farmer’s field to the person who buys the food. Nowadays, food often travels thousands of miles to get to the consumer(消费者). Why is this, and what are the effects of these long distances?

Traditionally, farmers sold their food in the local market so the food didn’t have to travel very far. The consumers also did not travel very far, because they went to their local market to buy the food. This was a good system for farmers and consumers. However, there were some disadvantages. For example, consumers could only buy food that farmers produced locally. In addition, they could only get food that was in season. Now, because of modern technology, food comes from all over the world. We do not have to wait for spring or summer to buy strawberries or tomatoes. They are available in winter if we want.

Some countries have got most of their food from other countries. This is because they have difficult climates(气候). The United Arab Emirates(UAE), for example, gets 85% of its food from other countries. Even food made in the UAE often uses materials(原料) from other countries.

What’s wrong with “food miles”? Is this not a good way of increasing international trade? I believe these miles are worrying for a number of reasons. First of all, because food travels such long distances, we need more planes, trains, and ships to move the food. This means we use more oil, so there is more pollution and more global (全球的)warming. What’s more, food that travels a long way is not fresh and usually not very tasty. Tomatoes, for example, are picked early and kept for their long journey. For this reason, they are usually tasteless when they get to the consumer. Local food has a better taste, and it also reduces the amount of global pollution.