1 . To get in shape soon, some people use “quick” methods without realizing that these methods can put their overall health in danger. For example, they lose weight by eating fat-free food. It’s true that consuming（消耗）fewer fats can help you get in shape sooner, but low fat foods like dried fruits, nuts, beans, etc, actually contain high amounts of calories. For example, fruit juice contains no fat, but has high calories, so drinking more than one glass of fruit juice won’t help in losing weight.

To rely only on fruit and vegetable juice to lose weight is also a wrong method. By replacing your meal with only juice, you decrease the calorie intake（卡路里摄取量）greatly. It’ll help lose weight, but it can make you lack energy, leading to headaches, stomach disorders, etc.

It’s true that exercise helps to keep healthy weight, but it’ll probably not help you much if you don’t take care of your diet by reducing your calorie intake. If you believe you can exercise every day and eat as much as you want, you’re incorrect. For healthy weight loss, you need to burn more calories than you consume. So, you need to limit the intake of food.

Wrong weight loss methods are dangerous. So if in doubt, you’d better ask a doctor before starting weight loss. Luckily, it’s possible to lose weight with healthy methods. For example, follow healthy food habits, exercise regularly for 20-30 minutes every day, and go on with a healthy lifestyle even after you lose weight. Anyway, as you don’t gain weight overnight, it can’t be lost in a short time either. Give yourself some time. Although healthy methods may take a bit longer to work, they’re surely good for your body.

1. We can know from the first paragraph that             .

A．fruit juice is low in fat and calories	B．most people don’t lose weight safely
C．eating high fat foods helps lose weight	D．some quick shaping methods may be harmful

2. Relying on a liquid diet to lose weight is wrong because it            .

A．makes you skip meals	B．reduces the calorie intake greatly
C．can cause a few health problems	D．doesn’t help you to lose weight fast

3. How can we get more calories burnt than we consume according to Paragraph 3?

A．By reducing mental pressure.	B．By only drinking fruit juice.
C．By having more rest.	D．By exercising with food control.

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．We should be patient with losing weight.

B．We can actually lose weight very easily.

C．Regular exercise is enough for us to lose weight.

D．We don’t have to consider our doctor’s advice.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Schoolwork can be stressful sometimes,     1     （especial） in the final year of high school. Daily matters can pile up and affect our health. Therefore,     2     （find） a good way to deal with pressure is important. I just discovered my new favorite method ， the trampoline （蹦床）!

The door opens and you are     3     （amaze） to see people jumping and flying around like superheroes. The trampoline park is full of colorful inflatables （充气气垫）. For     4     （begin）， it is the best area to start.

It was a little bit frightening at the beginning, as we     5     hardly walk on the trampolines. But when I started to jump, I felt all the stress leave my body. After jumping for a while, I     6     （lie） down and closed my eyes, imagining I had become a bird     7     could touch the sky.

There     8     （be） some other bouncing activities. My favorite one was the basketball dunking area. It included a full-height basketball hoop above runway trampolines. With the power of bouncing, I could dunk like     9     NBA superstar. It was not only relaxing, but also fun!

While outdoor activities are largely up to the weather, indoor trampoline parks are really good places     10     （go） whenever you want to have a good time.

3 . A bunch of strangers showed up at the gym in the early morning of the last Sunday of April. A few athletes were already stretching their arms, but most of us could barely focus. As I was burning off last night's wrong decision—a big meal, I spotted a poster about a gym's 21-day workout challenge, and I immediately signed up. I always wanted to train for a marathon, so I considered this as my warm-up. Besides, I needed to stop being lazy and this was my chance to make a change.

It was easy to promise on paper, but three weeks of recommended exercise routines and diet restrictions wouldn't be easy. I stuck to working out 30 minutes a day, and I didn't disturb my normal routine. Instead, I had to be faced with the tough work of being more creative in my spare time, thus breaking some bad habits.

Overcoming weaknesses with willpower was my goal for the next part of the journey. But the difficult part about making a challenge is realizing that “wanting" and “doing" are two very different things. Just like a career, you have to physically work for it rather than just wait for it to happen. But that's hard. Throughout the 21 days, I often told myself that the challenge was meaningless and tried to sabotage myself from exercising. However, finally I overcame that negative thought and kept working out.

At the end of the challenge, I learned something even more important: Feeling the results is better than seeing them. I had fewer headaches and more energy, and was simply happier. I even felt a little smarter as I researched which foods were better for my body, and learned how to make healthier meals. I felt a sense of accomplishment, too, because even though I wanted to give up dozens of times, I didn't. I felt my waist got smaller and my arms got stronger, and I no longer felt guilty after having a piece of cake or a drink.

1. What was the author's wrong decision?

A．Going to the gym early.

B．Training for a marathon.

C．Eating a lot the previous night.

D．Stopping being lazy for a change.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Some of the author's bad habits.

B．Some ways of the author's killing his spare time.

C．The importance of sticking to the normal daily routine.

D．The difficulty of the author's keeping on with the workout plan.

3. What does the underlined word “sabotage" in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Prevent.	B．Hear.
C．Improve.	D．Distinguish.

4. What did the author learn from the workout challenge?

A．Eating healthy food is more important than exercising.

B．Overcoming a challenge could bring good feelings to him.

C．It's more important to see what he likes than just feel it.

D．There was no need to feel guilty about things he disliked to do.

4 . Since the early 1980s, sponsorship （赞助）has become a major part of sport. But how effective is it?

There were some big changes to football shirts in the early 1980s. Instead of shirts telling you the name of the team, they gave you the name of a company. At times, it wasn't clear if the team playing was Manchester United or Sharp Electronics. However, fans soon got used to the new look shirts until they changed again: first to Vodafone, then to American Insurance Company AIG, and then to American re-insurance company Aon. It's hard to keep track sometimes.

So, why has sports sponsorship become so popular? Both sides see clear advantages. Most large companies are keen to link their brand to a well-known sporting personality because they believe raising their image in this way will increase sales. And the large sums they offer to do so is a big incentive （激励）for the other side. There's a lot of money involved in sports sponsorship, and many predict that the sums will be rising over the coming years.

But problems can arise. For example, what happens if they sponsor an unsuccessful player or team? Will they look stupid at the end of the season if their team has lost? And what happens if they sponsor a team or player who gets into trouble? DeutscheTelekom was one of the major sponsors of the famous cyclist Lance Armstrong but found it in an awkward situation when he failed drugs tests. As a result of this scandal（丑闻），many companies have moved away from sponsoring cyclists. Instead many now choose to sponsor events rather than the people. Of course, it doesn't matter which team wins because the audiences will see lots of company ads and logos everywhere and the companies know that they will win.

But the really important question is, does sponsorship work? Will you buy their products after the game just because you've seen their ads and logos? There's clearly more research to be done.

1. What's one of the effects of sports sponsorship on the football fans?

A．They can buy cheaper football shirts.

B．They recognize the teams more easily.

C．They welcome the changes of sponsorship.

D．They are confused about the names on the shirts.

2. According to the passage, we can know that .

A．Sponsorship is often a win-win situation.

B．Many sports teams actually dislike sponsorship.

C．The money on sports sponsorship will decrease.

D．Sports sponsorship certainly promotes a company's sales.

3. Why do many companies sponsor events instead of players now?

A．To better spread their brands.

B．To cut the cost of sponsorship.

C．To attract more people's attention.

D．To avoid unexpected troubles of the players .

5 . Working out can help teenagers boost their grades, a new study suggests. Adolescents who routinely engaged in moderate to vigorous（剧烈的）exercise showed long-term improvements in their academic performance, the British Journal of Sports Medicine study reported.

“Our study suggests that the effect of physical activity may be quite large,” John Reilly, a professor at the University of Strathclyde said. The researchers looked at a sample of about 5000 children who were involved in a long-term study that tracks children born in the UK between 1991 and 1992. When children reached 11 years old, their daily physical activity levels were measured using an accelerometer（加速器）for three to seven days. The device, similar to a pedometer（计步器）tracking the number of steps taken, recorded the average time children exercised, which was 29 minutes a day for boys and 18 for girls.

“The actual levels of daily physical activity at age 11 were quite low,” Mr. Reilly noted. The children had their academic performance tested at ages 11 and 13 with compulsory national tests for students, and also at 15 or 16 with the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam. The tests assessed the children’s abilities in English, math and science subjects. The results showed that the more children participated in moderate to vigorous physical activity, the higher their test scores were at age 11 in all three subjects. For girls, science scores were most strongly linked to exercise.

When children were tested again at age 13, their academic scores were still linked to how much they had exercised when they were 11 years old. By the time the youngsters took the GCSE exam, each 17-minute-per‑day increase in physical activity for the boys was linked to an improvement in their scores. Every additional 12-minute increase a day in exercise for the girls was also linked to an increased score, especially in the science category.

The researchers have called for more studies to look at the possible academic benefits that could be derived if students exercised the recommended 60 minutes or more a day.

1. What’s the study about?

A．The influence of exercise on students’ scores.

B．The secrets of students’ ranking high in class.

C．The causes of students’ participating in sports.

D．The ways of improving students’ physical conditions.

2. What is the function of the device used in the study?

A．To record how long students exercise.

B．To record the walking speed of students.

C．To record how many steps students walk.

D．To record the number of calories students consume.

3. What do the study’s results show?

A．Students at age 11 do more exercise than at other ages.

B．Boys at age 13 get more benefits by doing more exercise.

C．Girls’ science scores are more closely related to exercise.

D．More and more students do exercise to improve their scores.

4. What does the underlined word “derived” probably mean in the last paragraph?

A．adopted.	B．acquired.
C．concluded.	D．displayed.