1 . I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but I've grown to enjoy lifting weights，and I've learned from doing it. I enjoy the sense of strength and discipline that comes when the muscles are forced to resist. I've tried varying schedules — lifting every day, every other day, two days on and a day off. The every day approach was the least effective. I get the best strengthening results when I give myself a break.

The same is true with mind and spirit. Without giving yourself a chance to reenergize, you begin to break down all the connective fibers of your life. I used to just give myself Sundays off. Now I'm scheduling downtime in the midst of everything — and “everything” includes two magazines, building a house in Hawaii, working on an ABC movie — and, oh yeah, my day job. Keeping it all straight was beginning to feel a little stressful. So I told myself that just because I have ten free minutes on my calendar doesn't mean I want to fill them. Breathing space has to become part of my daily routine.

So instead of having people lined up outside my office after the first show — I tape two a day — I do nothing for at least ten minutes. The change has worked wonders. I have more energy, and I'm in a better mood for the second show and all the business that comes afterward.

Now that I have the summer off to sit under the trees reading, napping, writing, and thinking , I know for sure it’s time well spent. I’m refilling my tank so that by fall, when the new season begins, I'll be fired up and ready for whatever is to come. Fully restored.

1. What is the function of the first paragraph?

A．To arouse the readers' concern.

B．To summarize the whole passage.

C．To state the importance of a good lifestyle.

D．To introduce the theme of the whole passage.

2. Which of the following does the author agree with?

A．Keeping everything straight.	B．Resting at any time.
C．Taking breaks between tasks.	D．Having a full schedule.

3. What does the underlined “it” in Para.2 refer to?

A．Everything.	B．Building a house.
C．My day job.	D．Working on a movie.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Lifting weights changes peopled life.

B．A little restoration helps go a long way.

C．Why people need to be in high spirits.

D．Ten minutes' break will work wonders.

2 . This is not a diet. It’s a simple way to lose weight. You don’t have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits thin people have. Keep them, and you’ll become thin.

◆Wake-up

When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, lean forward (前俯) until you feel sore (酸痛的) in your back. It will use up 10 calories.

◆Start with soup

Order a clear soup, and have it before the main food. In this way, you’ll feel fuller, so you’ll eat less when the main food comes.

◆An apple or more a day

Apples are full of fiber (纤维) and water, so your stomach will want less. Studies show that people who eat at least three apples or pears a day may lose weight.

◆Talk it up

Every time you use the cell phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn up 50 or more calories. Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.

1. The text is to encourage you to ______.

A．go on a diet	B．give up your favorite foods
C．join a gym	D．follow some habits of thin people

2. Which of the following ways is a good choice to become thin?

A．Sit up quickly in the morning.	B．Have soup before the main food.
C．Eat rice instead of apples.	D．Sit down when using a cell phone.

3. The text is most likely to be read ______.

A．in a magazine

B．in a dictionary

C．in a story-book

D．on a map

3 . According to a recent study,a new genetically modified(转基因的）rice can prevent infections of HIV,the virus responsible for the disease AIDS.

The study reports the newly-developed rice produces proteins(蛋白质）that attach directly to the HIV virus. This process keeps the virus from mixing with human cells. The scientists say it can remove the effect of the virus and block its spreading.

The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS reports that worldwide, nearly 37 million people were living with HIV in 2017. The organization says the largest number of those are in ·developing countries. Nearly two-thirds of HIV cases are in Africa. Now there is no cure for HIV/AIDS though there have been developments in oral drug treatments to slow the progression of the disease.

The new study predicts the rice-based method will lead to long-term use of the anti-HIV treatment across the developing world. Researchers said the "groundbreaking" discovery is “realistically the only way" that anti-HIV combination treatments can be produced at a cost low enough for the developing world.

They say the easiest and most cost-effective way to use the rice will be to make it into a cream to be put on the skin. The HIV-fighting proteins can then enter the body through the skin. People all over the world could grow the rice and make the cream themselves. This would prevent the cost and travel required for many patients to receive treatments and medicine.

The process of changing the genetic structure of food crops has been debated for some time. Critics of genetically engineered crops believe they can harm people. The scientific team says further testing is needed to ensure that the genetic engineering process does not produce any additional chemicals that could be dangerous to people.

1. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．The terrible situations of HIV infections.

B．The rapid development of Africa.

C．The practical ways to cure AIDS.

D．The efforts made by the United Nations.

2. In which way will the rice be used at the lowest cost?

A．By transforming it into proteins.

B．By processing it into a cream.

C．By attaching it to the HIV virus.

D．By adding it to an oral drug.

3. What can we infer about the genetic engineering process?

A．It can prevent infections of HIV.

B．It has produced dangerous chemicals.

C．It is intended for the developed world.

D．It requires further testing to ensure the safety.

4. From which is the text probably taken?

A．A biology textbook.

B．A first aid brochure.

C．A social web page.

D．A health magazine.

4 . For Stevens Point locals in the US, the city is flooded with delicious fried fish. Here are four top choices for the community to have a try.

Hilltop Pub&Grill

Hilltop Pub&Grill first opened in the 1980s and took the Stevens Point community by storm with its delicious food and unique decoration style. Its fried fish are beloved due to the use of “high-quality North Atlantic fish, with a light beer batter (面糊)”.

The Final Score Bar&Grill

The Final Score Bar&Grill aimed to become a local hot spot in 2001 when Jim Billings, the owner, took charge of the business. Billings feels that their five batter choices set them apart from their neighboring bars. Besides, various wines are available.

Point After Pub&Grill

Point After Pub&Grill started serving delicious food and cold beers in a welcoming environment in 2009. But its history runs much longer. “Before it was Point After Pub&Grill, it had been Northside Bar for 30 plus years,” explained Molski, the owner. Molski feels that the pub’s four special batter choices and other fish specials are what help make it an area landmark.

Two Harps Pub

This Irish pub opened its doors to the public in 2017 and has been drawing fans and locals ever since. “I had done my career for a long time and was kind of bored with it,” said Nick Moore, the owner. “And this opportunity fell into my lap, so I went with it. It really made sense to open up an Irish bar.” The growing pub advises guests to try a cold beer with their Friday fried fish.

1. What makes Hilltop Pub&Grill popular with customers?

A．The convenient location.	B．The special food.
C．The high-quality service.	D．The unique wine.

2. What do The Final Score Bar&Grill and Point After Pub&Grill have in common?

A．They are both run by the same company.	B．They are both famous for great wines.
C．They both feature some particular batter.	D．They were both founded ten years ago.

3. What is special about Two Harps Pub?

A．It is the newest among the four pubs.	B．It offers free cold beers to customers.
C．It only provides fried fish on Fridays.	D．It has a unique decoration style.

5 . Here list some biggest and best bookstores in Beijing:

Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore

It is the one of the best bookstores in Beijing and largest chain bookshop in China with thousands of branches. It offers a large collection of books involving politics, economics, literature, education, art and science, with a total number of nearly 200,000 books. VCDs, DVDs and digital reading materials can also be found in the bookshop.

Opening Hours: 09:00 - 21:30

Location: No.218, Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District (next to Oriental Plaza)

China Bookstore

As one of the best bookstores in Beijing, it is not a very big one, but it offers many traditional Chinese literature works. The new books here are at an 80% discount normally, while there are some second hand books as well at much cheaper prices. Additionally, you will find an impressive selection of books on Chinese painting, calligraphy and photography.

Opening Hours: 09:00 - 17:00 (Weekdays)

Location: No.115, East Liulichang Street, Xicheng District

Beijing Language and Culture University Press Bookstore

This is the best one from which to buy Chinese language learning books of all levels. There are also dictionaries, encyclopedias, linguistic books and reading materials from which to choose.

Opening Hours: 09:00 - 17:00 (Weekdays)   09:00 - 16:00 (Weekends)

Location: Chengfu Rd, Haidian District

Beijing Book Building

There is a great variety of books from which you may choose. In this biggest bookstore in Beijing, you will find books written in English in the basement, and there are many Chinese language learning materials on the third floor. The personnel in the bookshop are very helpful, and they speak English.

Opening Hours: 09:00 - 21:00

Location: No.17, West Changan Avenue, Xicheng District

1. Where are you most likely to find affordable new books at a lower price?

A．Chengfu Rd, Haidian District.

B．No.218, Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District.

C．No.17, West Changan Avenue, Xicheng District.

D．No.115, East Liulichang Street, Xicheng District.

2. Which bookstore has the longest opening hours on weekdays?

A．China Bookstore.

B．Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore.

C．Beijing Language and Culture University Press Bookstore.

D．Beijing Book Building.

3. What is special about Beijing Book Building?

A．It sells Chinese language learning books.

B．It features the largest variety of books.

C．It has many floors and sections.

D．Its staff can communicate in English.

6 . This month, Germany’s transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt , proposed the first set of rules for autonomous vehicles(自主驾驶车辆）.They would define the driver’s role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the “death valley” of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

Dobrindt wants three things: that a car always chooses property(财产）damage over personal injury; that it never distinguishes between humans based on age or race; and that if a human removes his or her hands from the driving wheel — to check email, say — the car’s maker is responsible if there is a crash.

“The change to the road traffic law will permit fully automatic driving,” says Dobrindt. It will put fully driverless cars on an equal legal footing to human drivers, he says.

Who is responsible for the operation of such vehicles is not clear among car makers, consumers and lawyers. “The liability(法律责任）issue is the biggest one of them all,” says Natasha Merat at the University of Leeds, UK.

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human “ be watchful and monitoring the road” at every moment.

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars. “When you say ‘driverless cars”, people expect driverless cars.” Merat says “You know — no driver.”

Because of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says Ryan Calo at Stanford University, California. That is happening in the UK and Singapore, where government-provided driverless vehicles are being launched.

That would go down poorly in the US, however. “The idea that the government would take over driverless cars and treat them as a public good would get absolutely nowhere here,” says Calo.

1. What does the phrase “death valley” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A place where cars often break down.	B．A case where passing a law is impossible.
C．An area where no driving is permitted.	D．A situation where drivers’ role is not clear.

2. The proposal put forward by Dobrindt aims to __________.

A．stop people from breaking traffic rules.	B．help promote fully automatic driving.
C．protect drivers of all ages and races.	D．prevent serious property damage.

3. What do consumers think of the operation of driverless cars?

A．It should get the attention of insurance companies.

B．It should be the main concern of law makers.

C．It should not cause deadly traffic accidents.

D．It should involve no human responsibility.

4. Driverless vehicles in public transport see no bright future in __________.

A．Singapore

B．the UK

C．the US

D．Germany

7 . A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He telephoned the vet.

“What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he arrived.

“My cow’s ill,” the farmer said. “I don’t know what’s the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat.   She’s making a strange noise.”

The vet looked over the cow.   “She’s certainly ill,” he said, “and she needs to take some very strong medicine.”

He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, “Give her these. The pills should make her better.”

“How should I give them to her?” the farmer asked.

The vet gave him a tube (管子)and said, “Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow.   That’ ll make it.”

The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.

“How’s your cow?” the vet asked.

“No change,” the farmer said, “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”

“Oh?” the vet said, “Why?”

“I did what you said,” the farmer answered.   “I put the tube in the cow’s mouth and then put two pills down it.”

“And?” the vet asked.

“The cow blew first,” the farmer said.

1. In the story, the vet must be _________.

A．the farmer’s friend	B．a milk factory
C．a hospital for cows	D．a doctor for animals

2. The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______

A．couldn’t lie down	B．didn’t eat the pills
C．couldn’t make any noise	D．was ill

3. Which of the following is true?

A．The farmer ate the pills himself.

B．The cow got better after taking the medicine.

C．The vet came to help farmer change the cow the next day.

D．The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day.

8 . Indian officials recently suggested weight guidelines (指南) for children’s school bags.The central government said the weight of the bag should depend on the age of the child. It advised all Indian states to set limits to meet the new guidance.

Indian officials have criticized (责备) schools for making students carry heavy school bags and giving young children homework.

Under the guidelines, no homework would be given to children in grades 1 and 2. This will make sure that the youngest students have no books to carry home. For students in grades 3 to 5, the weight of a school bag would never be more than three kilograms. And bags would never weigh more than five kilograms for students in grade 10.

The Indian government noted studies that showed how a heavy school bag could affect students’ soft and developing spines (脊柱). One study found that 68 percent of young children suffered from mild back pain. The mild pain can develop into long-term back pain and affect bones of the spinal column.

The study included more than 2,500 children between the ages of 7 and 13. It found that more than 88 percent of children carried more than 45 percent of their body weight on their backs.

Mumbai is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The state requires that a schoolbag’s weight should be not more than 10 percent of a child’s body weight. Many schools there have started using white boards and projectors in classes, which have reduced the number of books to be carried to school.

But in large parts of rural (乡村的) India, children still have to walk great distances, weighed down by heavy school bags. Some have to bring about 4-5 kilograms of books in their school bags and also carry lunch boxes and water bottles in other bags.

1. Who are responsible for children’s heavy schoolbags according to Indian government?

A．Parents.

B．Schools.

C．Children.

D．Lawmakers.

2. What did the studies find?

A．Students’ school bags weighed half of their body weight.

B．88 percent of children suffered from back pain.

C．45 percent of children damaged their bones.

D．Heavy bags harmed most children.

3. How heavy a bag is a child weighing 30 kg in Mumbai permitted to carry?

A．10 kg.

B．15 kg.

C．Less than 3 kg.

D．Less than 5 kg.

4. What do we know about the children in rural India?

A．They have fewer books to carry.	B．They have to carry extra weight.
C．They have heavier homework.	D．They have busier school life.

9 . A few years ago, I took a trip to New York City with my mom and my cousin. It was a girls’ weekend to celebrate my cousin’s upcoming wedding. We spent the morning shopping and stopped in a family-owned Italian restaurant. The woman who greeted us was the cook, and her elderly mother who'd started the restaurant was behind the counter (柜台). There were only five tables in the whole restaurant and we were the only customers.

We were chatting about what we wanted to do that night when my cousin suddenly stood up and pointed behind my mom and me. Black smoke started pouring from a staircase (楼梯) in the hallway that led to the businesses above that one. Thinking the floor above us must be on fire, my mom ran to the back to tell the cook, while we tried to convince the elderly Italian woman, who actually couldn’t speak English, to come outside. She couldn’t see the smoke from her place behind the counter and just scolded (训斥) us in Italian.

Finally, my cousin physically picked the lady up. Thankfully, she was a tiny lady and my cousin was strong. We got her outside and she finally saw the smoke. My mom took her phone out to call the firemen, but someone else must have already done that because we heard the sirens (警报声) coming. The firetruck rounded the corner, nearly hitting the front end of a cab. The passengers in the back of the cab started screaming, but the driver looked calm.

Thankfully, no one was hurt. We didn’t find out what had caused the fire, but at least it didn’t spread beyond the second floor. The cook thanked us for helping them, and her mother kept hugging my cousin. The rest days were peaceful compared to that day, and I’ve always wanted to go back and see if that restaurant was still there.

1. Where did the fire probably break out?

A．From the kitchen.	B．From the hallway.
C．From a staircase.	D．From the second floor.

2. Why did the elderly Italian woman scold them?

A．She was easy to become angry.	B．She mistook them for trouble makers.
C．She thought they were making noises.	D．She didn’t need help from other people.

3. What can we learn from the third paragraph?

A．The fire truck hit the cab at last.	B．The cab driver called the firemen.
C．The fire truck arrived just in time.	D．The passengers in the cab were injured.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．I spent a weekend in New York City.	B．What an unforgettable day it was.
C．A big fire destroyed a restaurant.	D．How special a restaurant it was

10 . Some places in the world have strange laws. It’s important for you to know about them before going there.

Whoever likes to chew gum(口香糖) may have to leave Singapore. The government really wants to keep the city clean and will fine you for chewing gum.

Before you leave for the United Arab Emirates you’d better make sure you aren’t visiting during Ramadan(斋月). During that time you aren’t allowed to eat or drink in public. Tourists have been fined up to $275 for drinking in public.

Lovers spend so much time kissing each other goodbye at train stations that trains often start late. This law—no kissing your lover goodbye at train stations – is rather old, and isn’t in use today in France.

In Thailand it’s against the law to drive a car or motorcycle without a shirt on, no matter how hot it is. Punishments are different in different areas and can include warnings and tickets costing about $10. No joke ---the local police will stop you.

Studies in Denmark have shown that cars with their headlights on are more noticeable by other drivers than those with their headlights off. Drivers there are required to leave their headlights on even during the day, or they may face a fine up to $100.

Do you often buy things using coins? Don’t do it in Canada. The Currency Law of 1985 doesn’t allow using only coins to buy things. Even the use of the dollar-coin is limited (受限制的). The shop owner has the right to choose whether to take your coins or not.

Make sure you know about these laws before your next trip. Better safe than sorry.

1. What is mainly talked about in the text?

A．How to make your trip around the world safe.

B．Why there are strange laws in the world.

C．Interesting places you can go to around the world.

D．Some strange laws you should know about for your trip.

2. If you are driving a car in Thailand, __________.

A．you should wear your shirt even though it’s hot

B．the police will play a joke on you

C．the police will give you tickets costing about $10

D．you should always keep your headlights on

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．Kissing goodbye at train stations isn’t allowed in France today.

B．The Singaporean government cares a lot about its environment.

C．Tourists in the United Arab Emirates shouldn’t eat in public.

D．You can turn your headlights off in daytime in Denmark.