1 . Scientists are working on a pill (药丸) to help people who do no exercise. It could also increase the performance of those who do exercise. The scientists are from California. They say the pill could produce the same benefits to the body that it gets from running. It could make us healthier. It could gave us more patience,fat loss,a better mood,a healthier heart and a longer lifespan-all without exercising.
The scientists said the pill helped to increase athletic performance in mice by 70 percent. This could be good news for people who want to exercise more.
The scientists looked at how the body changed with exercise. A researcher said,“It is well known that people can improve their endurance (忍耐力) through training. The question for us was: How does endurance work? And ...can we replace training with a drug?” He found a chemical that could copy the positive effects of exercise without needing to exercise. The chemical made the body burn fat instead of sugar. Burning fat instead of sugar means you can improve your energy to the same level as someone who exercises,without the need to exercise.
1. The scientists working on a pill to help people who do no exercise come from ________.| A．the UK | B．the US | C．France | D．Canada |
| A．People who like sports. | B．People who like study. |
| C．People who dislike sports. | D．People who like going out. |
| A．生命 | B．寿命 | C．生活 | D．工作 |
| A．Because it is very expensive. | B．Because it is made by scientists from America. |
| C．Because it burns fat in our body. | D．Because it is very rare at the moment. |
| A．A Pill That Can Replace Exercise. | B．How to Lose Weight. |
| C．A Pill That Can Help People Exercise. | D．Exercise Is No Use |
2 . In a room full of people,you can still feel lonely. Loneliness is a state (状态) of mind usually caused by feelings of being misunderstood,or having no friends or persons to talk to during a difficult time. There are many things that make one feel lonely,like going to a new school where he doesn’t know anyone. There are a lot of reasons for people to feel lonely,but there are also many ways to stop the feeling of loneliness.
Ask yourself why you are feel lonely. This is the first thing you should do when you feel lonely. Write down your feelings and thoughts. Take time to find out if you always feel lonely or you feel lonely just because something happened in your life recently.
If your loneliness is internal (固有的)，find a psychologist that you can talk to about your feelings.
Communicate with others who share the same interest with you by joining a club or surfing the Internet and getting into chat rooms.
Go to different places and do something different. This will provide you with opportunities to meet new people and make new friends.
Give a hand to those who are in trouble. I think this is the best way to stop your lonely feelings. By doing so,you’ll know loneliness isn’t the terrible thing.
1. To stop feeling lonely, what should you do first？| A．Find someone in trouble and help him. | B．Find out the reasons for our loneliness. |
| C．Travel to some interesting places | D．Communicate wit others. |
| A．培养 | B．放弃 | C．发明 | D．分享 |
| A．have a good rest | B．make new friends |
| C．forget our loneliness | D．enjoy the beautiful world. |
| A．Helping others. | B．Keeping busy |
| C．Chatting with friends | D．Travelling to new places |
| A．feel lonely | B．want to make friends | C．often surf the Internet | D．always make trouble |
| David King is a Chinese student in France. “I never had cheese or even milk before I came to France. Cows are seldom seen in my part of China. So there is no milk or milk products. I drank some milk when I first arrived in France. I hated it! I tried cheese, too, but I didn’t like it. I love ice cream, though that’s made from milk.” |
| Birgit is from Sweden. She traveled to Australia on vacation. “I was in a restaurant that was special in fish. I heard some other people order flake, so I ordered some, too. It was delicious! Later, I learned that flakes is an Australian name for shark. Now, whenever I see a new food, I try it on purpose. You know why? I remember how much I enjoyed flake.” |
| Chandra is a dentist in Texas. She is from India. “ I’m afraid to try new foods because maybe there is beef in them. I’m a Hindu(印度教信徒)and my religion(信仰) stops me from eating meat from the cow. That’s why I can’t eat hamburgers or noodles with meatballs.” |
| Nathan is from the United States. He taught for a year in China. “My friend gave me some 100-year-old eggs to eat. I didn’t like their appearance at all. The eggs were green inside, but my friends said the color was normal. Chinese people put something on fresh eggs. Then they put them in the earth for three months. So the eggs weren’t really very old. Even so, I didn’t want to touch them.” |
1. David King is a student in France and he comes from________.
| A．China | B．Sweden | C．India | D．America |
| A．cheese | B．eggs |
| C．hamburgers | D．flake |
| A．she can’t eat food with beef |
| B．she doesn’t like their appearance |
| C．she doesn’t like foreign food |
| D．she doesn’t need any food at all |
| A．a worker | B．a dentist |
| C．a teacher | D．a student |
| A．David King often drinks milk |
| B．flake and shark are the same fish |
| C．a Hindu eats meat from the cow |
| D．the egg is put in the earth for a hundred years |
Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are. The eye-recognition(眼睛识别) programme is tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain and Italy.
Scientists are working on other systems, such as knowing you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! And machines can already tell who you are from your voice or your fingerprint(指纹). But eye-recognition will replace other ways of finding out who you are. It is better, because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.
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1. Where has the programme for remembering eyes been tested?
| A．Banks and factories. | B．Banks and shops. |
| C．Schools and computers. | D．Schools and shops. |
| A．You look at the machine and type a number. | B．You need to speak and then look. |
| C．The machine looks at your face. | D．You look at the machine. |
| A．Remembering eyes or smell. | B．Remembering fingerprints or voices. |
| C．Remembering faces or voices. | D．Remembering hands or faces. |
| A．Some eyes are the same. | B．Eyes can change. |
| C．It is not always correct. | D．Eyes can get dirty. |
| A．You needn’t remember a number. | B．You needn’t take money with you. |
| C．You don’t need to look at the machine. | D．People think it’s interesting. |
