1 . Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words in the box.

discipline     cycle       dominate     reward     rely     stimulate

Balancing one’s work and personal life can be rather difficult. Many people get into the     1     of coming home from work and watching TV or surfing the Internet. Although this may seem relaxing, it is not appropriate in the long term for personal growth. Therefore, for the sake of a healthy personal life, it is essential to be     2    and not just     3    on such passive activities. Show some passion and challenge yourself to do something different every night, if only for one hour at least. Set yourself goals, find a hobby that     4    your mind, or just get round to doing all those little things you’ve been meaning to do. Once you resist allowing work to     5    your life, your     6    will be a great sense of achievement

2 . Complete the sentenced with the correct forms of the phrased in the box.

make up one’s mind       shave off       feel pessimistic       in response to take control of       stress out       rely on       straight away

1. When the old man ________ his beard, he looked more energetic.
2. His parents tried to persuade him to stay in the local city to live a life of leisure, but he had already ________ to work in the countryside.
3. You cannot expect to feel better ________ after taking the medicine.
4. He ________ his desire for high fat food and managed to lower his blood pressure.
5. She walks 20,000 steps a day ________ her friend’s challenge.
6. He was ________ because he had lost no weight after three months of dieting.
7. He used to ________ me to remind him to exercise regularly.
8. The team ________ about being able to win the championship.

3 . Complete the conversations with the correct forms of the phrased in the box.

begin with     be in control of     make a choice     decide on     make up one’s mind

1. A: Hello, doctor. I want to lose weight, but I just can’t seem to do it. What can you do to help me?
B: Well, first, it’s necessary to ________what you eat. Cut out all fatty food and sugar drinks, and eat more fruit and vegetables.
2. A: I really need to ________ a way to exercise more. I could use a fitness app, but my phone’s full.
B: So delete a few files. I’m sure the ape doesn’t take up much space.
3. A Before exercising, always do a few warm-ups to ________
B: know. But then I always feel too tired to continue!
4. A: Should I go for the pizza or the fried chicken? I hate ________ like these. You know what — I’m going to eat both!
B: Wow! Don’t eat too much junk food — you’ll get fat. I’ve actually ________ to go on a diet, so I’ll just stick to the fruit salad.

4 . Complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box. Add more sentenced or paragraphs to the passage if possible.

examine       dominate       facilitate       rely on

Simply speaking, a healthy lifestyle is about finding the right balance and making good choice. Life is composed of many elements, such as family, friends, study, work, entertainment, and so on. If one element     1    your life and the others are ignored, you will lose balance and not feel good.

Carefully     2    your daily activities. Your health    3     what you choose to do in your daily life. A healthy lifestyle is generally a balanced life in which you make wise choice. Neither too much nor too little is good.

Slowly     4     changes in your lifestyle by using a step-by-step process. You do not have to change everything at once. Make small changes each day and your lifestyle will become healthier.

5 . Complete the summary using the words from the box below.

alcohol     appropriate     cue     cycle     negative     pill   psychology     reward     tobacco     discipline

Teenagers often have bad habits. Most can be stopped by taking     1    action. However, habits like     2    and     3     abuse can lead to serious addictions. According to modern     4    , to change bad habits, we must first analyse them using the “habit     5    ”. To fix or improve a bad habit, we must first find out what the     6    is. Then we must change the old    7     routine to something more positive. If successful, we will feel a sense of     8     and our bad habit may disappear. Changing a bad habit is difficult, and it is easy to make excuses and give up. We need to make up our minds and show some     9    , and make small changes over time. There is no magic    10     to help us, but changing will ensure we have a happy and healthy life!

6 . Complete the sentenced with the correct forms of the words in the box.

dimension   emerge   exhibition   guarantee   investment   purchase     recognition     representative   visual

1. The first principle for any art collector is to ________ only what you love.
2. If you are not interested in works of art by classical masters, contemporary art by ________artists is also worthy of your attention.
3. In the art market, no one can________ that an artist will be a good ________
4. The art competition gives young artists a chance to gain________ from the most respected art professionals.
5. Different from other________ art forms, sculpture operate in three ________
6. The ________ From Rembrandt to Vermeer is quite________ of the Dutch Golden Age of art.

7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. dismissed        B. faintly        C. foreign       D. granted E. journeyed       F. mysterious       G. overlook        H. promise I. reflection       J. typically       K. version

The Charm of Daffodils

On April 15, 1802, the poet William Wordsworth and his sister were enjoying a spring walk through the hills when they came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). William decided there was nothing for it but to write a poem, which he published in its final     1     in 1815. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is, to some people, the most famous     2     on the power of nature —

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Long     3     as a common field flower, unworthy of serious attention by the artist, poet or gardener, the daffodil enjoyed a revival thanks in part to Wordsworth’s poem. Today, it’s easy to     4     the daffodil for we can find it almost everywhere, in gardens or in art.

The daffodil originated in the ancient Mediterranean, where people associated them with the idea of death and life. Its scientific name comes from the story of Narcissus, a handsome youth falling in love with his own image. The gods     5     him immortality (永生) as a daffodil to save him from death. But it isn’t only Mediterranean cultures that have concentrated on the daffodil’s     6     power of life and death. A variety of the daffodils     7     along the Silk Road to China. There, the flower appeared to express not only the happy     8     of spring, but also other painful emotions such as loss.

The English botanist John Parkinson introduced the traditional yellow variety from Spain in 1618. Aided by a wet but temperate climate, daffodils quickly spread across lawns and fields, causing its     9     origins to be forgotten. By the 19th century they had become     10     British — so much that traders planted bucketfuls of bulbs wherever they went.

8 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

One Medical

On Thursday, Amazon announced its first major acquisition (收购) under Mr. Jassy’s occupation as C.E.O., spending $3.9 billion for One Medical, a chain of primary care clinics around the country. The deal is a sign of Amazon’s health care ambitions. As the company has     1     from one business to another — including books, CDs, electronics, dog food and clothes — it has had to look in less obvious spots to find opportunities that can provide meaningful     2    .

Health care has been     3     to Amazon executives who believe it is an extremely large market, filled with inefficiencies and generally lacking the kind of     4     approach that Amazon tries to take with its businesses. “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need     5    ,” Neil Lindsay, the senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement announcing the deal. He also listed some of the     6     of modern health care: booking appointments, sitting in waiting rooms, even finding a parking spot.

Amazon wants to be the “front door” through which customers     7     health care. That One Medical sees about five times as many virtual visits as     8     appointments most likely made it attractive to Amazon. The company also has something Amazon values     9    : data. One Medical built its own electronic medical records system, and it has 15 years’ worth of medical and health-system data. While individual patient records are generally protected under federal health privacy laws, the big data skill that has     10     Amazon’s success can be powerful in health care — for predicting costs, targeting interventions and developing products and treatments.

9 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. needed     B. directly       C. constantly        D. dangerous       E. weightless       F. repaired    G. affected       H. permanent     I. scans        J. results        K. decades

Bad News For Astronaut Skeletons

Astronauts whose bones are weakened by spaceflight may not recover even after returning to Earth, according to a new study. This raises questions about how humans will cope on long space missions.

The     1     conditions in space mean that astronauts’ bodies are not     2     exercising in the same way as they are on Earth. Muscles get weaker but bones are also     3     because the body does not replace minerals that are     4    .

Since 2015, doctors at the University of Calgary in Canada have been studying the problem by comparing     5     of astronaut tibias (shinbones) made before flight,     6     after return to Earth, and after six and 12 months of recovery time. Their     7     show that a year after returning to Earth, bones still have up to 2.1% lower mineral density (a measure of their strength) than before the flight.

Dr Leigh Gabel, who led the team, explained that the effects of a few months in space were equal to several     8     of ageing on Earth. Damage to the bone itself that occurs in space can’t be     9    , says Gabel, so “the astronaut’s overall bone structure permanently changes”.

The study found that the longer the space mission, the greater and more     10     the bone loss. This supports a 2020 study that predicted that during a three-year mission to Mars, one in three astronauts would be at risk of osteoporosis (fragile bones). Gabel says space agencies will need to improve the exercise and nutrition they offer astronauts if they are to go on such long trips.

10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. appear       B. faded       C. immediately       D. ordinary       E. overlooked        F. pairings G. progressively       H. signals       I. translate       J. underwent       K. unexpected

Mixing senses: synaesthesia taught to adults

Brain training for synaesthesia — where you mix up sensory information — may be just around the corner. People have been taught to experience a form of synaesthesia where letters     1     as certain colours, in their everyday life.

By the end of the nine-week course, most of the volunteers were seeing text in the real world take on particular colours, on road signs, for example. “The colour     2     pops into my head as soon as I saw the words on the road sign,” said one participant.

Synaesthesia is thought to result from people’s brains developing in such a way that their sensory     3     get mixed up. So “Tuesday” might evoke (导致) the colour pink, for example, or the word “tree” might taste like popcorn. Early life experiences may play a role — some synaesthetes report that their letter-colour     4     match the colours of a childhood alphabet or fridge magnets. But is it something you can learn as an adult?

Two years ago researchers made some aspects of the condition by getting people to read books where some of the letters were printed in certain colours. This improved their scores on tests but didn’t     5     out of the lab.

What if people     6     more intense training? Daniel Bor at the University of Sussex, UK, gave people daily half-hour training courses to teach them 13 letter-colour associations, using     7     harder tasks. The volunteers also practised with specially coloured e-books. As well as passing the lab tests, 9 of the 14 volunteers reported seeing coloured letters to varying extents when they read     8     black text. Many saw effects by week five, and some had synaesthetic experiences daily. Their power     9     once the training stopped.

The training had a(n)     10     benefit too. The volunteers gained 12 points in IQ tests by the end of training. However, this may be a general benefit of intensive training with memory-related tasks, says Bor, who adds that he may in future put the training tools online.