“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” This is an old English saying. Do you know what it means? It means that we must go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy, rich and clever.
Is this true? Perhaps it is. We know the body must have enough sleep. Boys and girls need eight or nine hours’ sleep every day.
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is a very bad habit. Then you will not think or do your work well. Of course, you can’t be healthy, wealthy or wise.
When we get up early in the morning, we can go out and do morning exercises. Exercise means doing things with the body. Walking, running jumping, swimming, and playing ball games are all exercise. If we don’t exercise, our body will become weak.
Exercise helps the blood (血液) to move around inside our body. Blood takes food to all parts of our body.
Our body also needs air to breathe. Without air, we will die. We must have lots of clean fresh air if we want to be healthy. That is why many people like to go out to do morning exercise.
1. From the passage we know that it is good for our health to ____ .
| A．eat a lot | B．go to bed early | C．get up late | D．go to bed late |
| A．More than ten hours | B．Over eleven hours. |
| C．Less than seven hours. | D．Eight hours or so. |
| A．eat more food | B．sleep more | C．get up late | D．take enough exercise |
| A．Don’t go to bed until twelve o'clock.. |
| B．Take a walk after supper. |
| C．Run in the open air early in the morning. |
| D．Climb hills for half an hour early in the morning. |
| A．Jumping. | B．Swimming. | C．Riding. | D．Running. |
What makes a house a home? A home is a place of companionship with people in it who love each other, who are harmonious and closer with one another than with those in the workplace or with classmates at school. A home is a place that’s so magnetic that it’s difficult to leave. In a home there is love, sharing and appreciation, and the members help one another.
I have seen families on the street. But if they live, sleep, talk, and eat together, they are a family, even if they are poorly off. You don’t need a roof to make a home. The truly homeless are some of the rich people who build multi-million-dollar houses and are too busy to really live in them. The truly homeless are those who have turned their home into a hotel lobby. The parents work and the children misbehave. They don’t talk and eat together every day. They rarely see each other. The truly homeless people are those with babysitters, caretakers, gardeners and maids. However, people are unaware of this, as they are too busy making money outside the home that they don’t live in. This is another way of looking at the rich and the homeless. Who is to be pitied?
Control of the computer and the Internet is also important to make a house into a home. If the computer is on all the time, the house turns into an office, even if everyone is at home. Many homes these days are just offices. Human communication has stopped. The computer eats up all the time that one should be giving to others within the home. Using the computer moderately gives us time for play and communication, not with a screen, but with other people.
1. Which of the following may serve as the best title for this passage?| A．How to make a house a home? | B．What makes a house a home? |
| C．Who are truly homeless? | D．What is a home for? |
| A．that where there is home there is love | B．how to have a happy home |
| C．what people think a home is | D．the author’s concept of home |
| A．people who build multi-million-dollar houses |
| B．people who don’t spend time with the family |
| C．people who have lost their family members |
| D．homeless families living on the street in America |
| A．Computers and the Internet are important for a happy home. |
| B．A home is a place where you are willing to stay. |
| C．Sometimes it’s the rich that should be pitied. |
| D．Even the poorest people can have a happy home. |
| A．Communication. | B．Appreciation. |
| C．Kindness. | D．Companionship. |
3 . Astronomy (天文学) is the oldest science known to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about heavens (天堂). But the six planets that he could see with his eyes alone limited man.
The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size, color, and brightness of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars move as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens.
Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Until there were telescopes (望远镜), man did not know much about the moon. He did not know that the planet called Saturn (土星) had rings around it. His sight was so limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Pluto (冥王星), the last of the nine planets to be discovered was seen until 1930.
Before the spectroscopes (分光镜), man didn’t know what kind of gas was in the sun or other stars, without radio telescopes (射电望远镜), we did not know that radio noise came from far in space.
Today, astronomy is a growing science. We have learned more in the past fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.
1. Thousands of years ago, man watched ____ with his eyes.| A．the moon | B．the stars | C．the universe | D．all the planets |
| A．know what the stars were made of | B．not see their places in the sky |
| C．help themselves study the heavens | D．watch the stars move as the seasons changed |
| A．telescopes | B．spectroscopes | C．radio telescopes | D．spaceships |
| A．the 1700s | B．2,000 years ago | C．1930 | D．thousands of years ago |
| A．50 years ago | B．90 years ago | C．In the early 1700s | D．Over 2,000 years ago |
4 . Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how languages first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about 3,000 languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.
There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original (最初的) language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago.
Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time some even died out completely. About 1,000 years ago, English was a little-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
If a language has a large number of speakers or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can’t understand speakers from other parts.
1. The first paragraph mainly tells us that ____ .| A．most people in the world speak Chinese |
| B．there are thousands of languages in the world today |
| C．man has much knowledge about languages |
| D．some people know several languages |
| A．will soon die out completely | B．were once a relative of English |
| C．are no longer spoken | D．come from the same family |
| A．Chinese | B．English | C．Spanish | D．German |
| A．German | B．English | C．Spanish | D．Chinese |
| A．a special language spoken by Chinese |
| B．the sign used by the Chinese people in a special area |
| C．the difference between the old and today’s Chinese |
| D．the form of a language used in one part of the country |
