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Do you have healthy habits?
Mary	Yeah! I think my habits are very healthy. I get up early and go to bed early. Every morning, I eat a good breakfast. I eat fruit and vegetables every day. And I often play tennis for two hours with my friends.
Alan	No, I don’t. I get up late so I have no time to eat breakfast. For lunch, I usually eat lots of hamburgers. I know they are not good for me but I like them. I never play sports. In the evening, I usually play computer games after I finish my homework. I go to bed late, at about eleven o’clock.
Helen	Yes. My habits are very good. I never eat unhealthy food. Ice-cream tastes good but I never eat it. Every day I get up at six o’ clock and go to bed at eight thirty. I eat well and play sports every day. I run with my father in the morning. So I’m very healthy.

1. What does Mary eat every day?

A．Fruit and vegetables.	B．Milk and hamburgers.
C．Eggs and hamburgers.	D．Ice-cream and rice.

2. What does Mary often do with her friends?

A．Goes to school.

B．Does her homework.

C．Plays tennis.

D．Has lunch.

3. What does Alan usually have for lunch?

A．Hamburgers.

B．Vegetables.

C．Chicken.

D．Fruit.

4. Why doesn’t Helen eat ice-cream?

A．Because she doesn’t like it.	B．Because it’s not healthy.
C．Because it doesn’t taste good.	D．Because her parents don’t let her eat it.

5. What can we know from the passage?

A．Helen runs with her classmates.	B．Alan plays sports every day.
C．Mary and Helen have healthy habits.	D．Alan doesn’t do his homework in the evening.

【推荐2】Wu Yue, a 14-year-old student at a Junior High School in Hangzhou, usually has lunch with his classmates in their dining hall. But one day, a newcomer, the school headmaster, joined them at the same table. They talked about the food that the dining hall offered and had a nice chat.

Wu is not alone. Many students across China have the chance to eat with their headmasters. The government issued a notice on food safety and nutrition (营养) management in schools, asking headmasters from kindergarten to high school to have meals with students. The rule took effect (生效) on April 1st.

Many schools now have seats for school managers when they eat with students in the dining hall. After talking with them, the managers have to write reports and make suggestions to dining hall workers. Many students were asked about the food that they liked most. To their surprise, their favorite dishes appeared in the dining hall later. “It’s not just about the food. It makes me feel that I have a say in school,” explained one student. “My ideas are valued.”

Some headmasters regard these mealtime conversations as their main chance to communicate with students. And they notice that some students prefer meat to vegetables. “We are thinking about how to improve the dining hall’s dishes and provide students with a healthy diet,” one headmaster said. As students become more familiar with the school managers, they begin to express their own points of view.

“It’s important to understand students’ requirements. Our practice shows the school’s sense of responsibility,” another headmaster said.

1. Who is the newcomer to have lunch with students at the dining hall?

A．The new student.

B．The school teacher.

C．The school headmaster.

2. When did the rule take effect?

A．On April 1st.

B．On March 1st.

C．On January 1st.

3. What do the school managers have to do after chatting with students?

A．They have to write reports and make suggestions to dining hall workers.

B．They have to play games with students on the playground.

C．They have to help the dining hall workers do some cleaning.

4. According to paragraph 4, what are the school managers thinking about?

A．How to improve their dining hall conditions.

B．How to provide students with a healthy diet.

C．How to communicate with the parents.

5. From this passage, we can infer (推断) ________.

A．students are not satisfied with the school’s management

B．students now prefer fruit and vegetables to meat

C．school managers pay more attention to food safety and nutrition

D．the relationship between teachers and students becomes better

【推荐1】People in India call New Year “Diwali” or “the Festival of Light”.

They often clean their houses before the day of Diwali. Most people clean their houses in the morning. They often decorate (装饰) their houses with flowers. They also make sweet food look like flowers, people and animals. Then they visit their friends and give them presents and cards.

On New Year’s Day, many people open the doors and windows and light candles in front of the doors. They want to bring good luck to their families. After Diwali, people often clean their houses again. Some people like to make loud noises at their houses. They think this can make bad spirits go away.

1. People in India call New Year “Diwali” or “the Festival of ________”.

A．Food

B．Fruit

C．Light

2. Indian people often decorate their houses with ________.

A．trees

B．cards

C．flowers

3. Indian people make ________ look like flowers, people and animals.

A．presents

B．sweet food

C．clothes

4. The underlined word “candles” means ________ in Chinese.

A．蜡烛

B．镜子

C．灯笼

5. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．People in India often light candles on New Year’s Day.

B．People in India often clean their houses before and after Diwali.

C．On New Year’s Day, Indian people often visit their friends.

【推荐2】Do you want to celebrate your birthday in space? It would be very different from what you might do on earth. For example, your birthday cake would be flying. The candles could not be lit because astronauts cannot start a fire in the spaceship.     1     Voices are almost the only things that are not changed by being weightless, which means that everything has almost no weight in space.

    2     Some feel as if they have a cold all the time. That’s because without gravity (引力), the fluids (液体) in their bodies move towards their heads. Their faces look a little fatter. For the same reason, their waists (腰) get smaller and their chests get bigger.

And because gravity is not pressing on the spine (脊椎). The spine relaxes and stretches (舒展). Astronauts grow one or two inches in space.     3    

Since nothing has weight, astronauts can lift heavy objects easily.     4     However, it is harder to stay still in space than to move around, so the astronauts always hold onto something or tie themselves to something.     5    

How different life in space is from that on earth! Do you want to experience the life in space?

阅读短文，把A—E五个句子入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整。

A．Some astronauts feel sick for the first few days in space.

B．They can even lift each other.

C．There are pieces of Velcro (魔术贴) to stick things in spaceships.

D．Your friends could still sing Happy Birthday to You.

E．But when they come back on earth, they shrink (收缩) to their normal height.

【推荐3】Most bees are brown, hairy and 8 to 22 mm long. Bees live as part of a large family. Over 25,000 kinds of bees have been found. Among all of them, honey bees are the most common.

Honey bees always live in groups called hives（蜂群） Each hive has a queen, drones（雄蜂）and workers（工蜂）. Like a human society, each bee in a hive knows its own job.

The queen is the largest bee. She doesn’t go out to work, but lays eggs. Sometimes a queen can lay 3, 000 eggs in a day.

Drones do not collect food from flowers. They are the queen’s husbands. When there’s not much food, drones are often kicked out of the hive.

Workers are the smallest and busiest bees. A colony can have 50,000 to 60,000 workers. They collect food for the queen and babies. They guard the hive and help to keep it cool by fanning their wings. A worker only lives for 28 to 35 days.

To collect a pound of honey, a bee may have to fly a long way. Sometimes it is equivalent to（相当于） twice around the world. Bees have to visit more than 10,000 flowers to make a pound of honey.

1. ______________ kinds of bees have been found.

A．Over 25, 000

B．Over 3,000

C．Less than 25,000

D．Less than 3,000

2. What does the queen do in a hive?

A．Collects food.

B．Collects honey.

C．Visit’s flowers.

D．Lays eggs.

3. What will happen to drones if there is not much food?

A．They must collect flowers for themselves.

B．They are often kicked out of the hive.

C．They collect food for the queen and babies.

D．They will make honey.

4. Which of the following is right?

A．A worker can lay 3,000 eggs in a day.

B．Workers are the largest and busiest bees.

C．Workers guard the hive and help to keep it cool by fanning their wings.

【推荐1】Nowadays, watching TV is a popular way to relax. More and more people watch TV in their free time. There are many different kinds of TV programs. What kinds of TV programs do you like? I ask my parents and some of my friends what kinds of TV programs they like.

My mother likes watching soap operas. She thinks it’s relaxing. She loves to watch them after dinner. My father enjoys watching movies. He says he can’t stand soap operas because they’re boring. My little cousin says she likes cartoons. People in the cartoons are always funny. They make children laugh. As students, we like movies better than TV programs. But boys and girls like different movies. Most girls like scary movies and comedies. Besides that romances are not bad. Boys like action movies. And they love science fictions.

To be honest, different people like different shows. It’s just like different people having their own hobbies (爱好). Some of us never watch TV.

1. ________ people watch TV in their free time.

A．All

B．Some

C．More and more

D．No

2. I ask ________ what kinds of TV programs they like.

A．my parents	B．all my friends
C．some of my friends	D．my parents and some of my friends

3. Who likes soap operas?

A．My mother.

B．My father.

C．My little cousin.

D．My parents.

4. What kind of movies do most girls like?

A．Scary movies.

B．Comedies.

C．Romances.

D．A, B and C.

5. The article is mainly about ________.

A．different people have different hobbies	B．different people like different TV shows
C．all the people like watching TV	D．people like seeing movies

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Stonehenge is an ancient circle of stones in the south of England. It was built about 5,000 years ago. Every year, it attracts thousands of tourists to enjoy its beauty. They also wonder about how and why it was built.

There are about 80 stones and each is about five meters tall. The stones were 380 kilometers away from where they were made. The ancient people had only wooden tools. To move the stones they probably used tree trunks (树干) to roll them along. So it was a wonder to build Stonehenge. Scientists say it took millions of man-hours to move and raise the heavy stones. How did people move these huge pieces of stone from the place so far? No one knows the answer. One record said the great stones were carried to England by huge magical (有魔力的) aliens! But we don’t know.

Some scientists believe that Stonehenge was a temple. Some believe it was a place to bury dead people or perhaps it was used to study the stars and the sky at night. Others think it was even used to tell the time. Whatever the stones were used to do, they have always been the pride of British people.

1. Every year thousands of visitors come to visit Stonehenge to ________.

A．enjoy its beauty

B．study how & why it was built

C．take photos around it

2. Each of the stones is about ________ meters tall.

A．5

B．80

C．380

3. Which paragraph tells about the use of Stonehenge?

A．Paragraph 1.

B．Paragraph 2.

C．Paragraph 3.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Magical Natural Stonehenge

B．A Man-made Wonder in England

C．Visitors to Stonehenge