Outside the Box
The Harvestfest contest was falling on Friday and everyone in school was talking about it. All the students would show up in their self-made costumes and a winner would be chosen by the principal.
“Do you have your costume for the Harvestfest contest?” Alice asked. “I’m going as a chocolate bar. My mom and I have been working on it all week.”
“Yeah, I have a costume,” said Jordan Eastman, popping up the two front wheels of his wheelchair as he waited for his dad to pick him up. “But it’s boring.”
“Why? What is it?” Alice asked.
“MaxMag the superhero, but Danny, Tom and Izzy are all going as MaxMag too.” Jordan shook his head. “That’s too many to stand a chance at winning the contest.” He waved to his dad, who had just pulled up in front of the school.
Jordan rolled his wheelchair toward his dad, and Alice walked with him to the minivan.
“Maybe you should go as something else.”
“The contest is Friday night.” Jordan sighed. “It’s too late to change costumes.”
“Jordan, you have to think outside the box. Look around your house and see what you have. There’s hidden potential in everyday items.” She took a sip of her drink, and told Jordan that her chocolate-bar costume was made from old fabric her mom had lying around and recycled plastics.
On his way home, Jordan was quiet. He kept thinking about Alice’s words: Think outside the box. There’s hidden potential in everyday items. When he got home, he found his mum handling with some wooden pieces. She was putting a new desk together. On top of the desk was the huge empty cardboard box the pieces had come in. Mom smiled at Jordan, pointing at the desk, “What do you think?”
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Jordan’s eyes fell on the box and he smiled, “It’s perfect . … with my wheelchair.”
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Soon it was Friday night, and Jordan couldn’t wait to show his costume.
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A.bring up | B.bring about | C.bring in | D.bring back |
A.Devoted; admired | B.Devoted; admiring |
C.Devoting; admired | D.Devoting; admiring |
A.which | B.where | C.whose | D.that |
5 . Apps play tricks on you to turn an activity into a habit. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to encourage healthy behaviors such as exercising or playing word games.
Do a cost-benefit analysis.
Build in “cheat days”. They are like days off from a strict diet.
A.Use digital timers. |
B.Schedule a limited amount of time for your habit |
C.It’s hard to be mindful of why we do what we do. |
D.Limiting tech overuse can’t be only your responsibility. |
E.But even a good habit can cross the line into unavoidable overuse. |
F.Actually, doing your favorite activity without a goal can be relaxing. |
G.However, don’t be so motivated by rewards that you ignore signs your body needs a rest. |
A.process | B.benefit | C.position | D.climate |
7 . Why is Eating Colourful Food Good for You?
Most of us are faced with the same choice numerous times a day: what to eat. Along with price, accessibility and preference, we’ll often use a food’s healthfulness to help us make a decision.
It’s widely accepted by researchers that we need a varied diet.
Eating lots of colours may lower your risk of missing out on all vital nutrients. “If we’re missing a colour of the rainbow, we may be missing a function of that food, “ says Minich. This is because plant foods contain thousands of natural compounds, which have anti-infiammatory(抗炎的)benefits.
Blue and purple foods, including blueberries, have a high content of the plant anthocyanin(花青素), which has been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
A research fellow at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health says eating a colourful diet can also help people avoid possible side effects of eating too much of one food. “
Eating a rainbow diet may also be complex.
A.Food is very complex. |
B.A varied diet is packed with different vegetables. |
C.It could be really tricky to get every colour every day. |
D.But how do we know we’re getting enough nutrients? |
E.Different coloured foods come with different benefits. |
F.However, is colour the best guide to getting all the nutrients? |
G.And one way to do this is by eating all the colours of the rainbow. |
A.who | B.where | C.which | D.that |
A.seated; focusing | B.seating; focused |
C.sat; focusing | D.sitting; focused |
A.satisfaction | B.appointment | C.delight | D.convenience |