1 . Winter Swimming Tips
Winter swimming has many benefits:
• Helps blood move around your body faster.
• Helps keep you fit.
• Improves your immune system.
• Helps your body better deal with low temperatures.
TIPS Start with just one minute twice a week, and then build up. You can also prepare your body with very cold and short showers. |
Take more breath in.
Experienced winter swimmers take two breaths in instead of one. Try to get more oxygen(氧气) into the blood.
Recovery(恢复) is the key.
After the swim, drink something warm and eat something sugary. Do not have a hot shower—your body will send blood away from your vital organs (重要器官).
1. What is NOT the benefits of winter swimming?| A．Helps blood move faster. | B．Keeps you healthy. |
| C．Helps your body deal with low temperature. | D．Keeps people excited. |
| A．You may try to get less oxygen. | B．You may take only 1 breath. |
| C．You may take 2 breaths. | D．You’d better not breathe. |
| A．Drinking something warm. | B．Having a hot shower. |
| C．Eating nothing. | D．Sleeping for a long time. |
2 . Recently, China Youth Daily has done a survey on memes（梗）. They find that 67.34% of the interviewees will share new memes with their friends while the rest of the interviewees say “no”. Some people think that memes can create a relaxing atmosphere, but others think that Internet language should not be widely used in real life. Do you think memes can help social communication?
| Chen Shuqi Memes are created to communicate with others not only online but also in daily communication offline. Most memes have more than one meaning, which helps people express their feelings better. Nowadays, memes have become fashionable in daily lives and have made the Chinese language more diverse（多样化的）. |
| Xia Xiaoyu Though memes are popular in daily communication, they have some disadvantages. For example, memes are changing so fast that some people will fall behind. Using memes relies on the important premise（前提）that both speakers understand each other. If one of them doesn’t understand, it will be embarrassing. So I suggest that people should use easier words instead of following the crowd blindly. |
| Zeng Xinyue Some memes are from movies, comics and other popular entertainment（娱乐）. People can use this kind of memes to recognize friends who have the same interests as they do. What’s more, these funny memes can attract more people to share what they like. If you get tired of a boring conversation, you can add proper memes that not only make it lively but also show your sense of humour. |
| Liu Jiaming Using certain memes may sometimes resonate（共鸣）with someone, but they can also cause misunderstanding. Recently, the meme “AaBaAaBa” has been popular. But do you know the meme was first used to laugh at the deaf and dumb? What if you were made fun of? |
| A．The writer. | B．Chen Shuqi. | C．Zeng Xinyue. | D．Liu Jiaming. |
| A．Memes help to find out friends sharing the same interests. |
| B．Memes are changing so fast that some people will fall behind. |
| C．Memes may cause misunderstanding if we use them too much. |
| D．Memes have made either online or offline dialogues boring. |
| A．In a storybook. | B．In a newspaper. |
| C．On a shopping website. | D．In a sports magazine. |
3 . We all know eating vegetables and fruit is good for us. We can find a lot of colorful vegetables and fruit in the store. Some vegetables and fruit are red; some are green and some are yellow and orange. There are some other colors, too. For example(例如), eggplants(茄子) are purple or green.
Do you know the secrets(秘密) of their colors? Orange or yellow vegetables and fruit are good for our eyes. Blue or purple vegetables and fruit are good for our memory(记忆力). Red vegetables and fruit are good for our hearts(心脏).
So you can see, colorful vegetables and fruit are good for our health. (79)你想变得健康吗? Buy colorful vegetables and fruit and eat them.
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4 . On Thursday, scientists in Indonesia told the public that they found a special frog without lungs and takes breath through its skin. Researchers believe that the little animal could tell us how environment can cause some animals to change so greatly overtime.
The frog was found by a scientific research team in Indonesia last summer. And the team was led by David Bickford, a biologist at the National University of Singapore. The special animal is the world’s first known lungless frog species. Only a few amphibians have been found lungless. “These are about the most ancient and bizarre frog you can get on the earth.” Bickford says.
Frogs’ living environment has been polluted by chemicals from farming. And the team believes it’s possible that the frog may have changed in order to move fast and stay alive in the cold rivers. The team adds that this “extreme change” was probably necessary to make the frog lose the ability to float. That way, it could avoid being swept down the mountain rivers.
Scientists say it’s more important to protect the frog’s river living environment. In the last few years, illegal tree cutting and gold mining have caused the once clean waters to turn brown with pollution.
“The gold mining is completely illegal and small size,” Bickford says. “But when there are thousands of them on the river, it really has a great effect. The frog might be out of the river then.”
1. The frog is special because ________.| A．it doesn’t need to take breath with its skin | B．it’s the first lungless species in the world |
| C．it can take breath with its lungs or its skin | D．it’s lungless and takes breath with its skin |
| A．perfect | B．unusual | C．expensive | D．modern |
| A．the special animal is the first known frog species in the world | B．the change of the frog makes it possible to stay alive out of the river |
| C．the frog may have changed partly because of chemicals from farming | D．the frog’s ability to float probably helps it avoid being swept down |
| A．It’s high time to protect the frog’s living environment. | B．The frog will have to live on land in the near future. |
| C．The importance of frogs should be known by the public. | D．Gold mining is the main cause of water pollution. |
5 . Water is a very important part of our environment (环境). It covers (覆盖) nearly three quarters of the Earth’s surface. It is fun to swim and play in water. Water is also very important for life. In fact, we can live much longer without food than without water to drink. Every living thing needs water. Without it, plants and trees will not grow; fish will have nowhere to live.
People use the fresh water in lakes and rivers for drinking, washing, cooking and growing food. We cannot live on Earth without water, so we must take care of it.
1. How much of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?| A．1/2 | B．2/4 | C．3/4 |
| A．People. | B．Fish. | C．The sun. |
| A．We can live much longer without water to drink than without food. |
| B．All the living things need water. |
| C．We can live on Earth without water. |
| A．Drinking. | B．Washing. | C．Both. |
| A．People. | B．Fish. | C．Animals. |
6 . Nowadays, school buses are popular in China. Many students take a school bus to school. It looks like a tourist bus. The undergrounds and common(普通的) buses often take much time. But school buses can save a lot of time. How do children go to school in other countries?
In the US, yellow school buses are a common way for children to get to school. There are about 480,000 school buses in the country. But why are the school buses all yellow? Yellow became the color of school buses in 1939. American educator(教育家) Frank W. Cyr first suggested(建议) it. The color on the buses helped warn other cars: be careful. Black letters(字母) on a yellow bus are also easy to see in the early morning.
However, there are not many school buses in the UK. Students from public schools usually take buses or the underground to school. In Japan, schools are small in cities. So there is no need to use school buses. Children usually walk to school.
1. A lot of students in China take __________ to school.| A．undergrounds | B．common buses | C．school buses | D．a special car |
| A．警示 | B．照亮 | C．敲打 | D．支持 |
| A．Chinese | B．Japanese | C．American | D．English |
| A．a school bus in the US looks like an underground |
| B．letters on a yellow bus are black and easy to see |
| C．many students in the UK take school buses to school |
| D．school buses are popular in Japan |
| A．How do students go back home from school in the world? |
| B．Why are school buses popular in China and America? |
| C．How do students go to school in different countries? |
| D．Why are school buses yellow in the US? |
7 . Do you get lots of reading tasks as part of your homework? You might wish that you could read faster. There are some people who say that you can learn to read at super-high speeds. But experts disagree on this idea.
"Speed reading is not actually possible," said Elizabeth Schotter, a scientist at the University of South Florida, US. Schotter pointed out that people who say that they can teach others how to speed read are usually doing it to make money by selling courses and books.
In fact, speed reading has been made known to people since 1959, when US educator Evelyn Wood introduced a speed reading program. Several US presidents have even asked their officers to take sped reading courses. However, there is no real science behind sped reading.
Schotter explained that reading is a task difficult to finish. It includes four steps: seeing a word, getting back its meaning from your memory, connecting it to other words. in the same sentence, and then moving on to the next word, This process uses many parts of the brain at one time. It can't be sped up.
Some people who say they are able to speed read are simply skimming. Skimming involves reading a passage quickly and only looking for certain words or sentences. Skimmers can figure out the main idea of a passage—especially if it's a topic they're familiar with—but they will not be able to remember all the pieces of information.
So is there a way to become a faster reader? Research suggests that you should try to improve the number of your words and simply read more.
1. According to Schotter, which of the following is TRUE?| A．It's good for students to read at super-high speeds. |
| B．Speed reading courses are supported by real science. |
| C．Reading includes four steps, it`s not easy to finish |
| D．Speed reading courses and books are useful for us. |
| A．Skimmers will not forget all the pieces of information. |
| B．You must read the passage carefully when you are skimming it. |
| C．Skimming focuses on all the words or sentences of a passage. |
| D．By skimming, skimmers may find the main idea of a passage. |
| A．Learn more words and read more. | B．Taking speed reading courses can help. |
| C．Read more books about sped reading. | D．See the words at super-high speeds. |
8 . It is easier to go down the hill than to climb up the hill, so it is easier to fall into bad habits than into good ones. Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little without one being aware of（意识到）their danger. School boys first pick up little bad habits in the school and on the street. When they can’t write their lessons, they copy from their schoolmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends gambling（赌博）, they want to gamble. When they get bigger, the habits become stronger and stronger, so that they can no longer get rid of（摆脱，除掉）them. From copying, they learn to steal, from gambling, they learn to cheat. At last they become distrusted（不信任） by everybody. How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits in the beginning.
1. It is easier to fall into ______ than into ______ .| A．good habits, bad ones |
| B．bad habits, good ones |
| C．bad habits, good one |
| D．good habits, bad one |
| A．suddenly | B．little by little |
| C．faster and faster | D．slower and slower |
| A．In the school. |
| B．On the street. |
| C．In the school and on the street. |
| D．In a hospital. |
| A．stronger and stronger | B．weaker and weaker |
| C．better and better | D．less and less |
| A．copy others |
| B．learn steal and cheat |
| C．get rid of the bad habits in the beginning |
| D．laugh at others |
