1 . Understanding how much sugar and saturated fat (饱和脂肪) is in your drink can be confusing. Many of us end up having too much without realizing it. Saturated fat is often added into drinks to improve their “mouth-feel”. But having too much of both sugar and saturated fat can increase your risk of diabetes (糖尿病). Too much sugar can also lead to obesity (肥胖).

Nutri-Grade “grades” your drinks based on their sugar and saturated fat levels. Think of this as a score. Drinks graded “A” have the lowest sugar and saturated fat content, while drinks graded “D” have the highest.

Starting from the end of 2023, all drinks sold in Singapore must put a Nutri-Grade label (标签) on the drinks, according to sugar and saturated fat levels.

To manage your sugar and saturated fat intake, drink less Nutri-Grade C and D drinks and go for healthier choice or Nutri-Grade A or B drinks or simply choose water.

1. In which country now can you see the Nutri-Grade labels on the drinks?

A．China	B．The USA
C．Singapore	D．Japan

2. According to the passage, too much sugar may lead to ________.

A．low stress	B．bad tastes
C．heart diseases	D．over weight

3. Which Nutri-Grade means the least healthy drink?

A．	B．
C．	D．

4. What is the usual sugar level in the Nutri-Grade C drink?

A．＜1 g/100 ml.	B．1—5 g/100 ml.
C．5—10 g/100 ml.	D．＞10 g/100 ml.

5. Which label can probably be put on the drink on the right ________?

A．	B．
C．	D．

2 . Staffan Lindeberg is a medical teacher at the University of Lund in Sweden. He was interested in a Stone Age diet. In the early 1990s, he began to study the diet of the people on the island of Kitava as it was very close to the Stone Age diet. While there, he found that people did not suffer from (患有) heart attacks, diabetes (糖尿病), being overweight and many other diseases common in western countries.

As a result of his findings, he decided to test patients in Sweden to see how such a diet would affect them. Fourteen patients followed a Stone Age diet while another fifteen followed a Mediterranean diet, also healthy with lots of fruit and vegetables. All of the patients in the tests had high blood sugar levels, most suffered from diabetes and all had heart problems.

At the end of three months, the group following the Mediterranean diet had reduced their blood sugar levels by a small amount but those following the Stone Age diet had much lower levels of sugar in their blood. The patients in both groups also lost weight although the level of sugar in the blood and the patients’ weight didn’t seem to be related.

So, what is it about the Stone Age diet that can make us healthier? The diet contains (包含) some meat, fish, vegetables and nuts (坚果) but it doesn’t contain any milk products or wheat, and there is no salt.

The next question is whether the Kitava people are healthier than us. After all, their life expectancy (预期寿命) is much lower. According to Staffan Lindeberg, this is not as simple as we may think. Because of their poor healthcare, there is more chance of them dying at a young age. However, if people on Kitava manage to reach fifty, they are likely to live as long as people in more developed countries.

1. What does the underlined word “them” refer to (指代) in Paragraph 2?

A．Staffan Lindeberg’s findings.	B．Patients in Sweden.
C．Diseases in western countries.	D．People on the island of Kitava.

2. What did the test show?

A．The Stone Age diet could reduce blood sugar levels.

B．The Mediterranean diet could help treat diabetes.

C．The Mediterranean diet could help people lose weight quickly.

D．High blood sugar levels could cause people to lose weight.

3. Which of the following picture show the Stone Age diet?

A．

B．

C．

D．

4. The Kitava people have lower life expectancy because of ________.

A．unhealthy eating habits	B．poor living environment
C．poor medical condition	D．a serious disease at a young age

5. What is the writer’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To compare two different diets.	B．To tell people a latest study on diets.
C．To prove the Stone Age diet is healthy.	D．To introduce a healthy but forgotten eating habit.

6 . According to a report in Singapore’s The Straits Times, the Singaporean government announced that, starting from December 30, 2022, all drinks sold locally must use nutritional grade labels (营养等级标签) A, B, C, or D on their packaging, marking the percentage of sugar and saturated fat (饱和脂肪) in the drinks. The labels are from A to D. The more sugar and saturated fat a drink has, the less healthy the drink is. So recently several Singaporean drink companies have already started to put these labels on every drink.

1. Why have Singaporean drink companies started using these labels?

A．Government rules.	B．Increased savings.
C．Educational advantages.	D．Customer needs.

2. Which NUTRI-GRADE is the healthiest drinks?

A．NUTRI-GRADE A.	B．NUTRI-GRADE B.
C．NUTRI-GRADE C.	D．NUTRI-GRADE D.

3. What is the sugar level in the NUTRI-GRADE B drink?

A．< 1%.

B．1—5%.

C．5—10%.

D．>10%.

4. Which NUTRI-GRADE includes Full-fat milk and Flavor-added milk?

A．Grade A.

B．Grade B.

C．Grade C.

D．Grade D.

5. In which section of a newspaper can you probably read the material?

A．Lost and Found.	B．Do It Yourself.
C．Music and Movie.	D．Food and Health.

7 . Amelia, a ninety-year-old woman, is my friend’s neighbor (邻居). She is very healthy (健康的) and looks young in other people’s eyes. She lives in a cute house with a garden. She grows vegetables in it. She has a dog, Billie and a cat, Katy.

It’s a fine day. I come to visit Amelia with my friend Lucy. Amelia is very glad to see us. She tells us her healthy living habits (生活习惯). She has three meals on time every day: at 7:00 a.m. for breakfast, 11:30 a.m. for lunch and 5:30 p.m. for dinner. She has lots of vegetables. She only eats a little meat because too much meat isn’t good for her. She only drinks water and milk.

“Early to bed and early to rise (早睡早起) can make a man healthy,” she says. She goes to bed at 9:00 p.m. and gets up at 6:00 a.m.

Amelia is hard-working (辛勤的) and warmhearted. Every day she works in the garden for about 4 hours. She often gives vegetables to the neighbors and she also helps them to look after their kids and makes nice cakes for them.

“Working makes me healthy and helping others makes me happy,” she says.

1. Billie is Amelia’s ________.

A．cat

B．dog

C．friend

D．neighbor

2. How many hours does Amelia sleep (睡) every day?

A．Four.

B．Six.

C．Eight.

D．Nine.

3. What does the underlined word “warmhearted” mean in English?

A．Cute.

B．Kind.

C．Happy.

D．Healthy.

4. According to (根据) Amelia, what should we do if we want to have a healthy life?

A．Keep pets and drink juice.	B．Do farm work and eat a lot of meat.
C．Have meals on time and help others.	D．Grow vegetables and work eight hours a day.

5. The passage mainly (主要) talks about ________.

A．what time Amelia gets up	B．what food Amelia eats every day
C．how Amelia has a healthy life	D．how helping others makes Amelia happy

10 . Many schools in China have snack shops (小卖部). Students can go there to enjoy a snack and a chat. However, they will soon become a thing of the past.

The government has banned (禁止) snack shops in all kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools across the country.

This caused a lot of discussions. Many students are sad about the ban. “Without snack shops, school will be less interesting,” a student from a high school said. “We won’t be able to have different kinds of drinks or desserts. ” However, many parents showed support for the rule. “Some of the snacks at these shops are cheap and of low-quality (劣质). Many of them have lots of salt and sugar, which are bad for students health.” a parent told The Global times. “Students rush to shops to buy snacks as soon as class is over, which affects the teaching order. ”

The rule also asks schools to keep an eye on students meals. Principals (负责人) must keep record of each meal and solve any food problems as soon as possible. Parents can also eat with students and give suggestions to the school on food safety.

▲For example, many parents in Australia volunteer in schools, according to China National Radio. These parents, at least, do their best to make sure that their children can have healthy food. In Japan, primary and junior high school students eat lunch in their classrooms, where they learn about diet and nutrition (营养) and Japan’s food culture, reported City Lab. They also take turns serving meals to each other, cleaning up, and recycling. This helps children have “a sense of gratitude (感恩)”, wrote Nobuko Tanaka and Miki Miyoshi Japanese school lunch experts.

1. Many students are sad about the ban because ________.

A．they can’t eat in the classroom

B．they can’t have different kinds of drinks or desserts

C．without snack shops, school will be more interesting

D．some snacks at school will be expensive and not very healthy

2. What’s Paragraph 3 mainly about? ________

A．People’s opinions on the rule.

B．The content (内容) of the rule.

C．Why the government made the rule.

D．What schools should do according to the rule.

3. From Paragraph 3, we know parents are ________after knowing the news.

A．happy

B．disappointed

C．worried

D．angry

4. Which of the following sentences can be put in the ________.

A．Some foreign countries have similar rules.

B．Many parents in foreign countries don’t agree with the rule.

C．Chinese students have a sense of gratitude because of this rule.

D．In fact, many foreign countries have their own ways to make students eat healthily.

5. The underlined word “They” in the last paragraph refers to ________.

A．parents

B．principals

C．students

D．teachers