1 . The benefits of exercise have been fully noted and your resolutions have been made. Yes, you want to be fit and live a long and healthy life.     1    .

According to standard advice issued by the World Health Organization, adults should be getting at least 150 minutes of moderate physical workout or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week to extend their lives, get fit, have stronger muscles and be a healthy weight. If that didn’t already sound a lot, the WHO says to double that if you want to get further benefits.

The good news for those who dislike sports is that it’s possible to stick to these guidelines without entering a gym or breaking into a jog.     2    .

This idea is in line with evidence from a study last year of more than 130,000 people in 17 countries, which found that walking to work and housework such as vacuuming or mopping the floor are activities enough to reduce the risk of early death by 28 per cent, as long as you do 150 minutes a week. If you aren’t one for housework, you will be pleased to hear that your weekly amount of exercise can be put into the weekend with no ill effects, says Gray Donovan of Loughbirough University, UK.     3     But his team analyzed data from more than 63,000 adults in the UK covering 18 years and found that people who favored a “weekend fighter” plan had pretty much the same reduced risk of early death from all causes as those who spread out exercise. “One weekly exercise is usually sufficient to reduce mortality and morbidity (死亡率和发病率),” Donovan says. Even weekend fighters who did less than the recommended amount for the week fared better than inactive people.

    4     “No level of exercise is too much,” says Donovan. “There’s no increase in mortality or morbidity if you keep increasing the amount.” Just don’t go too hard each time.

A．However, take care not to do too much exercise.

B．Most governments urge people to do a little every day, or at least spread their exercise over the week.

C．Having a busy weekend with three or four hours spent taking exercise does more good than thought.

D．Could you ever get too much of a good thing?

E．But what do you actually have to do to get the desired results?

F．The WHO’s definition of moderate exercise includes housework and gardening.

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

If you like to buy imported products, here is a piece of good news. China has cut import tariffs (进口税) on 187 consumer goods.

Goods     1     (benefit) from the cut range from food and health supplements to clothes and recreational products. According to China’s Finance Ministry, their tariffs have dropped from an average of 17.3% to 7.7%. Tariffs on some special infant formulas have been cut from 20% to zero.

The move is thought to be part of an effort     2     (encourage) people to spend more at home. This can help China transform its economy to a consumption-driven one. Also, the cuts     3     (mean) to signal to the world that China is opening up its economy.

Doug Lippoldt, an economist at HSBC, says the cuts in the import tariffs are positive. In China, there is a huge demand     4     foreign brands. People think imported products are safer and are of higher quality. Now, with the reduction on import tariffs, the domestic market,     5     a few retailer giants used to dominate, has to become more competitive.     6    , in the long run, will bring great benefit to consumers and the Chinese economy. Furthermore, consumers     7     (tempt) to buy foreign goods from Chinese retailers will help create jobs.

    8     the move may benefit consumers and the Chinese economy, it’s not good news for daigou, people who resell items they buy abroad to consumers in China. Analysts say the days of     9     many consider to be a booming business may indeed be numbered. “Lower tariffs mean Chinese consumers can buy imported products at a     10     (costly) price at home; daigou traders will lose their price advantage,” says Yu Simin from CECRC, an e-commerce consulting firm.