What is the secret to a healthy diet? Whether you’re already slim or trying to lose weight, one of the best things you can do is reduce the size of your bowls and plates. A study has found that changing from a twelve-inch to a ten-inch plate leads people to eat 22 percent fewer calories. In this way, you’d be reducing more than 5,000 calories a month from your diet.
By devoting a few minutes to planning for healthy meals, you can improve your own health and that of your family. Studies from UCLA suggest that a home-cooked dinner takes only about ten minutes longer to prepare, on average, than serving processed or ready-made food.
Slow the pace of your meals. Pay attention to what you’re eating.
| A．Don’t eat on the run. |
| B．It really is that simple. |
| C．Sit down to dinner with the entire family. |
| D．Stop eating when you’re about 80 percent full. |
| E．Parents who eat with their children report greater satisfaction with family life. |
| F．However, if you keep preparing meals at home. You’ll save time in the long run. |
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If you want to have true friends, you should be a true friend yourself.
Laughing with a friend is the best, because sometimes crying brings you closer together. Don’t be afraid to be yourself when you stay with your friends. Show your true feelings with your friends.
Be a nice gift giver.
Gift-giving isn’t just for birthdays or holidays — it can be a fun way of making your friends feel special!
Stand up for him or her.
If someone laughs at your friend, don’t just stand there quietly.
| A．Do something about it! |
| B．Wonder what you can? |
| C．Laugh and cry together. |
| D．Spend much time with your friends. |
| E．But you don’t need to buy expensive gifts. |
| F．Then friends will know each other much better. |
【推荐2】Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what you should do to achieve happiness? These are important questions for anyone who is looking for happiness. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.
When something goes wrong, try to find out a solution instead of being lost in self -pity.
Spend a few minute each day thinking about the things that make you happy.
Finding the humor in situations can also bring happiness. Finding a way to look down upon a situation can make you happy, too.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填人文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整。
| A．Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness |
| B．Truly happy people don’t allow difficulties to affect their happiness. |
| C．Making a plan will make you happy. |
| D．Make yourself stay with happy people. |
| E．These minutes will help you focus on the positive things in your life. |
【推荐3】Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump(堆存处). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
In other cities, the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles(堆) where they slowly change into something called humus(腐殖质), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help them grow.
1. You can most probably read the passage on ________.| A．an advertisement (广告) | B．a poster | C．a science book | D．a story book |
| A．排污 | B．洗 涤 | C．吸尘 | D．过滤 |
| A．By burning it off. | B．By throwing it off. |
| C．By reusing and recycling it. | D．You can do with it at any way. |
【推荐1】Being too fat is bad for your health. If you get sick, being too fat can make the problem worse.
Walk for 45 minutes a day. Thirty minutes of daily walking is enough for most people.
Bring the color blue into your life. Believe it or not, the color blue will make you eat less.
Eat one less cake a day, or drink one less glass of orange juice, or have three fewer bites of a hamburger. Doing any of these alone is enough to help you stay away from being fat.
根据短文内容，将下面的句子还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺(每个选项只能用一次)。
| A．Eat slowly and calmly. |
| B．Don’t use red, yellow, or orange in your dining areas. |
| C．If you want to eat anything you could get, you’re really hungry. |
| D．To keep healthy and thin, you should do the following. |
| E．Walking for more than 30 minutes a day can help lose weight. |
【推荐2】Does having a good breakfast improve school study? More than 1, 000 students in the city of Lawrence took part in an experiment one year ago and the answer is YES.
In the experiment, students with breakfast got higher scores in their tests than those without breakfast. Among those who had breakfast, fewer students were late for school, and much fewer missed their school. “By eating breakfast, you feel active in your morning study and you keep good health.” Says Amy, a famous doctor. She did the experiment for one year.
Students without breakfast may be losing nourishment in eggs, fruit, milk, bread and so on. So try to get your children to have breakfast so that they can feel well, keep strong and do their best in their school work.
1. In the experiment, students without breakfast got ________ scores in their tests than those with breakfast.| A．higher | B．high | C．lower | D．low |
| A．食物 | B．营养 | C．实验 | D．经历 |
| A．to get more scores in their test | B．feel active in your morning study |
| C．keep good health | D．all of the above |
| A．Among those who didn’t have breakfast, fewer students were late for school. |
| B．Much more missed their school among the students who had breakfast. |
| C．Having a good breakfast improves school study. |
| D．Less than 1, 000 students in Lawrence took part in the experiment. |
| A．Breakfast or Not. | B．When to Have Breakfast. |
| C．Where to Have Breakfast. | D．How to Have Breakfast. |
【推荐3】To save time, many Americans buy foods which can be quickly made ready for the table. On holidays, families enjoy delicious meals. For example, on Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November, family members get together for a turkey dinner with pumpkin pie（南瓜派）.
The United States is known around the world for its fast food, such as hamburgers, sandwiches, pizzas, salad bars, and many kinds of ice cream. People can easily find fast food chains（连锁店）, such as McDonalds, and KFC, in most of the big cities in the world.
These years, many people have taken more and more care of their health while eating. They come to know eating too much meat will make them overweight. Many of them are also worried about food additives（添加剂）. Some of them may be harmful to the body.
1. Many Americans buy _______ to save time.| A．ready-made food |
| B．food to cook at home |
| C．inexpensive food |
| D．foreign food |
| A．November 4th |
| B．every the 4th Tuesday in November |
| C．the fourth Thursday in November |
| D．every November the fourth |
| A．take-away |
| B．home-cooking |
| C．fast |
| D．Chinese |
| A．我的 | B．超重的 | C．糟糕的 | D．更好的 |
| A．overweight | B．their health | C．food additives | D．fast food |
