Do you love holidays but hate the increasing weight(体重)that follows? You are not alone.
Holidays are happy days with pleasure and delicious foods. Many people, however, are worried about the weight that comes along with these delicious foods.
With proper planning, though, it is possible to control your weight. The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much. You don’t have to turn away from the foods that you enjoy. The following suggestions may be of some help to you.
Do not miss meals. Before you leave home for a feast, have a small, low-fat snack. This may help you from getting too excited before delicious foods. Begin with clear soup and fruit or vegetables. A large glass of water before you eat may help you feel full. Use a small plate; a large plate will encourage you to have more than enough.
Better not have high-fat foods. Dishes that look oily or creamy have much fat in them.
Choose lean meat. Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables.
If you have a sweet tooth, try mints(薄荷)and fruits. They don’t have fat content as cream and chocolate.
Don’t let exercise take a break during the holidays. A 20-minute walk after a meal can help burn off more calories.
1. Holidays are happy days with pleasure but they may ________.A.make you worry about your foods |
B.bring you much trouble in your life |
C.make you hate delicious foods |
D.bring weight problems |
A.not accept invitations to dinner parties |
B.not eat the food in high fat |
C.drink much water and have vegetables only |
D.turn away from delicious foods |
A.谈判 | B.宴会 | C.演出 | D.会议 |
A.chocolate | B.lean meat | C.salad | D.oily dishes |
A.Take a Break on Holidays | B.No More Delicious Foods |
C.Burn off Your Calories | D.Eat in a Smart Way |
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A research team from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has made a four-step plan to improve your memory in just 14 days. “It sounds like another advertisement, but it really works,” says Gary Small, a professor from UCLA. The team found the four-step plan improved the memory of teenagers under stress (压力) and older people. Here’s the program:
Memory training:
Train yourself with memory exercises throughout the day.
Healthy diet:
Eat five rather than three meals a day but less food for each meal. The food should be rich in omega-3 , such as whole grains and vegetables with antioxidants (抗氧化剂).
Physical exercise:
Have some physical exercise such as walking, basketball or running every day. Physical exercise helps your brain stay sharp.
Managing stress:
Express your feelings instead of bottling them up. Make time for fun and relaxation. Stress is one of the brain’s worst enemies. It prevents you from thinking clearly and enjoying life.
After a two-week study that included memory exercises, physical training and diet changes, the memories of the people who’re tested improved by about 5%.
“We’ve known for years that diet and exercise can help people keep their physical health. This is a key part of healthy aging.” said Small. “But keeping mentally active is just as important. Now we have proved (证明) that people can improve their rnemories through a program of memory exercises and managing stress.”
1. The research team from UCLA ________.A.showed people how to manage stress |
B.helped people to keep fit |
C.helped people improve their memories |
D.trained people to do well in physics tests |
A.eating fewer meals a day | B.eating food with antioxidants |
C.keeping away from whole grains | D.eating food without omega-3 fats |
A.身体上 | B.学术上 | C.社交上 | D.思维上 |
A.Bottling up feelings may lead to weak memory. |
B.Physical training is good for improving memory. |
C.The program to improve memories went smoothly. |
D.A strong memory depends mostly on health products. |
A.to show us ways to improve physical health |
B.to warn us that TV ads on health products are not true |
C.to prove that keeping mental health is more important |
D.to tell us healthy habits are helpful for memory improvement |
【推荐2】Early to bed and early to get up makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We must sleep at night when it is dark(黑暗的).The dark helps us sleep well.
A.The body must have enough sleep. |
B.Get up early. |
C.When the daylight comes, we should get up. |
D.Our bodies also need air to breathe. |
E.This is an old English saying. |
F.Exercise helps the blood to move around inside the body |
G.Eat healthy food. |
【推荐3】David eats well every day. For breakfast,he has bread,eggs and milk. At school,he has vegetables and rice for lunch. After lunch,he eats an apple. In the even-ing,he has chicken and fruit salad at home. David dis-likes milk,but Mom says it is healthy. So he drinks it every day. After eight in the evening,he doesn't have food. Every day,David does some sports to be healthy. He plays tennis in the morning and plays basketball after school.
1. David has _______ for lunch.A.Bread | B.vegetables | C.chicken | D.salad |
A.不喜欢 | B.不讨厌 | C.不认识 | D.不在意 |
A.7 | B.8 | C.9 | D.10 |
A.tennis | B.ping-pong | C.soccer | D.basketball |
A.David is not healthy. | B.David has a pear after lunch. |
C.David plays sports every day. | D.David can't play tennis. |
To know the special ability of poetry to catch the human spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations on March 21 each year.
The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the writer and the reader. When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when they wrote it, or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better, as if we’d written the poem ourselves.
But in the age of artificial intelligence (AI,人工智能), would a poem still mean as much if it weren’t written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, including research papers, books, news stories and even poems.
In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called “bot or not”, where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that all over the years, some of the website’s poems were able to fool(欺骗)65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.
By creating the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would doubt the difference between humans and machines – and be able to tell what makes us human.
“The human mind is not a cold, hard fact,” Schwartz said during his speech. A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldn’t be able to get the same meanings and feelings across as a human poet could. In fact, now AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, “The computer works like a mirror that reflects (反映) any idea of a human.”
1. The purpose of the first three paragraphs is to ___________.
A.introduce where World Poetry Day comes from. |
B.show how popular poetry is around the world. |
C.show the importance and beauty of poetry. |
D.give some tips on enjoying poetry. |
A.Computers are better than humans at writing poetry. |
B.Computers can also produce poems of high quality. |
C.Readers don’t really care whether the poems were written by humans. |
D.Few readers can tell poems written by computers from those by humans. |
A.fail to use the correct grammar and style |
B.can’t create poems that are meaningful |
C.can’t show feelings as well as humans |
D.only know how to follow humans’ poems |
【推荐2】A plant is a living thing. It uses its many parts to grow from a small seed to a large plant. Each part helps the plant stay healthy. Plants also need sunlight to grow. They get light from the sun and minerals from the soil. These things help the plant stay alive and grow.
1. Which is the missing word in the first box?
A.Leaves. | B.Grasses. | C.Dirt. | D.Water. |
A.The stem. | B.The flower. | C.The root. | D.The fruit. |
A.A plant grows flowers under the ground. | B.Flowers can grow into new plants. |
C.Not all plants have fruit. | D.The stem helps hold the roots up. |
A.Parts of plants. | B.Seeds of plants. | C.Leaves of plants. | D.Roots of plants. |
A.Geography. | B.Biology (生物). | C.Physics. | D.Chemistry (化学). |
【推荐3】Some people believe that humans could live on the planet Mars by the year 2100. Our own planet, the Earth, is becoming more and more crowded and polluted. It is hoped that people could start all over again and build a better world on Mars.
Here is what life there could be like. At present, our spacecraft are too slow to carry large numbers of passengers to Mars—it would take months. With the development of technology, by the year 2100, the journey might only take about 20 minutes by spacecraft that travels at the speed of light! However, the spacecraft would travel really fast, so the journey to Mars might be quite uncomfortable. Many people would feel ill.
Humans can’t live without water, air or food. So far, nobody knows whether there would be enough water or air on Mars for people. Moreover, scientists are not sure whether plants could grow on Mars. Food would most probably be in the form of pills (药片) and would not be so tasty.
Compared with life on the earth, life on Mars would be better in some ways. People would have more space. They might live in houses with huge comfortable rooms. Also, robots would do a lot of their work so that they could have more time to relax. There would probably be no schools on Mars. Every student would study at online schools with “e-teachers”.
Life on Mars would be interesting and challenging. However, it may take hundreds of years to make it true. So the most important thing we need to do now is to protect our beautiful blue planet—the Earth!
1. People would move to Mars because ________.A.the earth is crowded and polluted |
B.plants could grow better there |
C.flying to Mars would be fun |
A.spaceships | B.planes | C.space stations |
A.Fast and enjoyable. | B.Fast but uncomfortable. | C.Slow but comfortable. |
A.There would be enough water and air on Mars for people. |
B.Food on Mars would be more delicious than that on the earth. |
C.The writer thinks living on Mars would be full of challenges. |
A.Environment on the Earth | B.Food on Mars | C.Life on Mars |
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Students.
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1. Which statement about Liu Ning is NOT true?A.She is a college student. | B.She has passed the TEM 4 exam. |
C.She is learning on Dictionary.com. | D.She is now in Beijing. |
A.students | B.parents | C.teachers | D.friends |
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C.Because it makes people smart. | D.Because it is free. |
A.Students. | B.Educators. | C.Others. | D.Everyone. |
A.a website | B.a post | C.a magazine | D.a textbook |
【推荐2】Most people want to be happy, but few know how to find happiness. Money and success alone do not bring lasting happiness. Aristotle, a Greek thinker, said, "
Another secret to living a happy life is to be active, and have hobbies which you forget your problems and time.
Finally, many people find happiness in helping others.
Happiness is a choice - not a result.
A.Happiness cannot be perfect. |
B.Happiness depends on ourselves. |
C.Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. |
D.The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. |
E.Studies show that people feel good when they spend their time helping others. |
F.Many people experience this by dancing, or playing a sport, such as swimming. |
Do you know many students aren’t healthy today?
Now many students know sports are good for their health.
A.And many boys and girls don’t like vegetables. |
B.But they don’t like playing sports. |
C.Instead (反而), they like junk food. |
D.So if you want to be healthy. |
E.Oh, it sounds boring. |