A. It is a prepackaged frozen or fresh meal that requires none or very little preparation besides heating up.
B. At least two handfuls of vegetables or salad are recommended. If they are not easy to get, you can just include a piece of fresh fruit as a starter or dessert.
C. It’s no surprise that frozen ready-made meals are popular. They’re fast, convenient, inexpensive, and easy. All you need to do is find healthy ready-made meals that taste good and satisfy your hunger.
D. We all love a warm and hearty home-cooked dinner, but let’s face it: fighting through rush hour traffic after a long day’s work seldom leaves us with the time to prepare such a meal. Instead, we turn to a ready-made meal.
E. The primary concern with ready-made meals is that they don’t include vegetables or salads. When you’re eating a ready-made meal you’re usually in a hurry, so if you’re going to add some vegetables, it needs to be just as quick and easy.
A. It is called rucking, a term from ruck marching, which is a skill that militaries around the world have long used for training.
B. Rucking involves walking with a weighted backpack. It’s an easy way to strengthen your heart and muscles without hurting the joints (关节).
C. Anyone who walked to school with a backpack full of books has already tried an exercise routine that is getting popular in the fitness world.
D. Even people eager for more exercise should progress slowly. Shoes that fit well can help you avoid additional foot pressure and safely walk on an uneven land.
E. As with any new physical activity, newcomers should start rucking with slow and stable steps. If you don’t have basic conditioning, try walking the expected distance with a very light pack first. Then slowly add more weight.
During the gold rush, a man who had been mining for several months decided to quit his job. He hadn’t found any gold yet and the work was becoming
He sold his equipment to another miner who
| A．various | B．handsome | C．boring | D．simple |
| A．searched for | B．picked up | C．went through | D．watched out |
| A．hitting | B．missing | C．losing | D．finding |
| A．gave up | B．stirred up | C．caught up | D．broke up |
| A．ending | B．success | C．failure | D．result |
A. I realized then that my greatest joy in life was to share a connection and bring joy to others’ lives. I knew I would seek more ways to do that.
B. When the day of the event finally came, I observed in awe as my shy students each beautifully expressed their genuine love for their mothers.
C. As Mother’s Day approached that year, my plan for the day was to give each of my students the opportunity to standup in front of the class and express his or her feelings towards his or her mother.
D. When I began to teach English at a high school, I found that many of my students were hard-working on their own, but shy and not active in communicating with each other, even with their parents. Later I decided to help them.
E.I watched many of the mothers hold back tears as they were overcome with emotion and love for their children. Frankly, I could not hold back my own tears. I was so proud of my students. At the end of the event, most parents expressed their thanks to me, which inspired me to continue holding the event every year.
A. Then we walked around and started learning about Hongcun and its history by admiring its ancient architecture.
B. All in all, our day in Hongcun was more interesting than I thought it would be. And the town really looks like something out of a traditional Chinese painting.
C. We went into some houses that were built by extremely wealthy salt and silk traders. And then we saw some houses where ordinary people had lived. They were small but seemed quite comfortable.
D. I had my doubts about spending my day off visiting Hongcun. From what I knew about the town, it seemed like just a small, very traditional sort of town. However, my friend promised that I wouldn’t be disappointed with a visit to the town. And I wasn’t!
E. When we got off the bus at Hongcun, we were greeted by a beautiful view of Nanhu (the South Lake). The scene of the lake and town would make a particularly nice postcard. The black roofs, the white walls, and clear blue water made the view truly unforgettable.
A. These homes can easily collapse during earthquakes or slip and slide downhill in landslides, especially after heavy rain.
B. On the top of that, there is the added aspect of global warming. This has mainly been caused by the huge amount of carbon dioxide produced by factories and vehicles.
C. The reason why nature is beginning to turn on us is that overpopulation. The population of the world is growing at the rate of 10,000 people an hour, nearly 90 million a year.
D. The destruction of the world’s forests plays a part, too. As a result, a hotter ocean causes stronger winds. Atlantic hurricanes are 40% stronger now than they were 30 years ago.
E. Most of the growth is in the developing world. Poor people in agricultural areas often move to the cities. They build homes from whatever materials they can find.
I lived with my mom and grandmother since I was 8 years old. Running a big grocery store in our town, my mom was very busy and seldom had time to take care of me. Every day I was left inside the house with my grandmother who was too old to take me out to play. I always thought that my mom cared more about her business than me.
One sunny afternoon, two of my closest friends, Jason and David, called me to go biking at the park. My grandmother was sleeping in her bedroom. I thought it was my chance. So I climbed over our gate and got out. Jason lent me his bike and sat at the back seat of David’s bike. Then the three of us went together to the park, which was not far away from our home, to enjoy ourselves. I was riding the bike as fast as I could around the park. And I felt as if I were flying!
Suddenly out of nowhere, a little boy appeared in front of me.
Through this experience, I realized accidents may happen any time and that mother is always the one who loves me best.
| A．My leg hurt a lot and I saw some blood on my trousers. |
| B．Jason was shocked and he immediately rushed to the grocery store to tell my mom. |
| C．Knowing that I was not seriously hurt, my mom kept me at home for a month as a punishment. |
| D．To avoid him, I made a sudden turn, knocked onto a tree and fell over. |
| E．Soon my mom came and drove me to the nearest hospital. |
| F．To my surprise, instead of getting mad at me, she said sorry for not taking good care of me, which made me deeply regretful. |
| A. extremely important, because it will affect other things B. to show that sb/sth is right or reasonable C. to introduce new things, ideas, or ways of doing sth D. the process of comparing two or more people or things E. many times at short intervals F. able to give completely correct information or to do sth in an exact way |
2. We must constantly adapt and innovate to ensure success in a growing market.
3. Comparison with other oil-producing countries is extremely interesting.
4. Police have stressed that this is the most accurate description of the killer to date.
5. This is a crucial year for your relationships in general and your love life in particular.
Hello, everyone! I have just come back from a wonderful trip to Tibet. It was so beautiful there that I felt I was in a fairyland. The scenery was so impressive and the air was pretty fresh and clean.
A.These activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meaning of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it.
B.When you see, hear, or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds. You will only remember something longer if it goes into long-term memory.
C.When you learn a foreign language, you need to remember lots of words. To remember words better,you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term.
D.Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books.And like a library, it’s organized. When you put away a book —or memory—you can’t just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find the word again.
E.How can you do this? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can write new sentences that include it, or you can invent a little story about the word, with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word.For example, if the word is“height”, you can think of the tallest person you know.
