Many facts suggest that children are overweight (超重的) and the situation is getting worse, according to the doctors. I feel there are a number of reasons for this.
Some people blame the fact that we are surrounded by shops selling unhealthy, fatty foods, such as fried chicken and ice cream, at low prices. This has turned out a whole generation of grown-ups who seldom cook a meal for themselves. If there were fewer of these restaurants, then probably children would buy less take-away food.
There is another argument that blames parents for allowing their children to become overweight. I agree with this, because good eating habits begin early in life, long before children start to visit fast food shops. If children are given fried chicken and chocolate rather than healthy food, or are always allowed to choose what they eat, they will go for sweet and salty foods every time, and this will carry on throughout their lives.
There is a third reason for this situation. Children these days take very little exercise. They do not walk to school. When they get home, they sit in front of the television or their computers and play computer games. Not only is this an unhealthy pastime (消遣), it also gives them time to eat more unhealthy food. What they need is to go outside and play active games or sports.
The above are the main reasons for this problem, and therefore we have to encourage young people to be more active, as well as steering them away from fast food shops and bad eating habits.
1. According to the text, what kind of children may eat more unhealthy food?
| A．Those who often take exercise. |
| B．Those who often watch television. |
| C．Those who often have meals at home. |
| D．Those who often walk to school. |
| A．Children can’t choose what to eat. |
| B．Children are too busy to go out and play. |
| C．Children’s parents often cook meals for them. |
| D．There are too many fast food shops around. |
| A．Forcing. | B．Guiding. |
| C．Driving. | D．Moving. |
| A．To tell a story. | B．To provide facts. |
| C．To give advice. | D．To compare opinions. |
假设你校英语社团举办以“节约能源，从我做起”为主题的征文活动。根据下面所给的要点提示，写一篇英语短文。
要点提示：
1. 节约水电等；
2. 主动向周围人宣传节约能源的思想。
注意：
1. 词数100左右。开头已为你写好，不计入词数；
2. 内容可适当发挥，注意行文连贯。
These days wasting things has become a common phenomenon around us. _________
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Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all
However, the new research has caused a lot of
假定你是李华，你于2016年1月5日搭乘了某航空公司航班（the flight BA736），回家后发现遗失了一个行李箱。现在用英文给该航空公司写一封信，请他们帮你寻找。
信件要点包括：
1. 陈述写信原因；
2. 简要描述该行李；
3. 说明该行李的重要性；
4. 期待回复并表示感谢。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir/Madam,
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
On Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock, I was walking down Main Street. I had just parked my car. Suddenly I heard two shots. I thought they
That afternoon, I went to the movies. 
100 reward.
6 . Eat, drink and be merry. That’s what Spring Festival is all about. But there are millions of people, too, who love to let happiness go up in smoke.
Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect for them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China, especially during festive occasions.
No wonder, 40 percent of the people surveyed recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the Spring Festival because of all those gatherings and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one. Why can’t the others do the same? Because they could be seen as being rude, said more than half of the respondents. Fifteen percent feared they could be taken as “someone who cannot get along well with others”.
The Think tank Research Center for Health Development and sohu.com survey shows 61 percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socializing, and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. The study surveyed 3,800 people, 64 percent of them men.
One third of those surveyed were smokers, out of which 57 percent said they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering and accepting culture. “People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends,” research center director Wu Yiqun says.
China has more than 350 million smokers, catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan. “The survey shows we still have a lot of work to do,” Wu says. “Since Beijing is trying to make the Olympic Games smoke free, it is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately.”
1. The passage is written with the purpose of________.| A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival |
| B．introducing a way to make friends with Chinese |
| C．stopping smoking during the Beijing Olympic |
| D．telling us that offering cigarettes is a bad habit |
| A．the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festival |
| B．the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptable |
| C．the fact that many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festival |
| D．it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes |
| A．the tobacco market is not developing smoothly |
| B．the writer thinks that smoking wastes a lot of money |
| C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market |
| D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers |
| A．people will be free to smoke during the Beijing Olympic Games |
| B．only a few smokers still have the habit of offering cigarettes |
| C．offering cigarettes is the most effective way for socializing |
| D．some nonsmokers will even accept the offered cigarettes |
Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills differ. Some children are very skilled in some areas while poor in others.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to repair them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up.
| A．Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter. |
| B．The more cost in education, the better the result will be. |
| C．Cooking requires patience and time. |
| D．What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children are badly off for self-respect and self-confidence. |
| E．The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. |
| F．These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. |
| G．Thus, the more the children use the computer, the better the result will be. |
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A recent announcement by scientists that they have successfully cloned the first human embryo(胚胎) has caused much debate and has shocked many people around the world. On the one hand, some scientists point out that if you clone an embryo, you can produce valuable tissues(组织) and organs that could be used to save human lives. On the other hand, many people, including some scientists, disagree and fear that if mankind interferes with (干涉) nature in this way, they may be on their way to producing a real-life Frankenstein's monster.
Cloning is producing an exact copy of a plant or an animal using its cells. The first mammal to be cloned successfully from an adult cell was Dolly—the sheep. She was born in 1996 and died in early 2003, at a much younger age than normal. When she was born, many people were angry because they thought cloning would create more diseases in the animal world. However, in general the scientists were praised for their wonderful scientific breakthrough.
The Scottish scientist who created Dolly, Ian Wilmut, is shocked that some scientists are now considering cloning human beings. Although he researches cloning, he has never thought of creating copies of humans. Instead, he thinks the scientists should concentrate on creating new tissues and organs that could eventually be used to cure diseases like cancer. However, some people consider that cloning human embryos with the intention of destroying them shows no respect for human lives.
While cloning human embryos is illegal in many countries, some scientists are already pushing ahead with the research so as to deliver a cloned human baby. Severino Antinori, an Italian doctor, is one of the leaders in this field of research. He has declared that he wants to be the first to clone a human being.
In China, scientists have focused their efforts on cloning animals, as well as stem cells to be used in medical research. China has succeeded in producing clones of cows and goats, and continues to research ways in which cloning can benefit mankind.
1. Which of the following statements about cloning is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Cloning technology can only be applied to animals. |
| B．A cloned animal can live longer than a normal one. |
| C．People all over the world are happy about the birth of Dolly. |
| D．Cloning can produce valuable tissues and organs to cure human diseases. |
| A．cloning may produce a real-life Frankenstein's monster |
| B．cloning might create more diseases in the animal world |
| C．cloning human embryos shows no respect for human lives |
| D．cloning can't help those who want to clone their dead children |
| A．Ian Wilmut. |
| B．Severino Antinori. |
| C．The author. |
| D．The Chinese scientists. |
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Kiss crisis, hug horrors and the UK's handshake headaches
Greeting someone, saying goodbye — these situations fill me with unease. You have a second to make a dangerous decision. One peck (轻吻)? Two pecks? Three? No kisses at all? Why, I think, as I crash into the other person’s face, why can’t it be as simple as a handshake?
A survey by the soap company Redox in May showed one in five Brits now feels a handshake is “too formal”, according to the Daily Mail. Some 42 percent said they never shook hands when greeting friends. For one third of people the alternative was a hug, for 16 percent a kiss on the cheek.
British people are known to be reserved (保守的) — unfriendly, some would say. Handshakes used to work for us because we didn’t have to get too close. But the super-British handshake is no longer fashionable. We want to be more like our easygoing Mediterranean neighbors who greet each other with kisses and hugs.
The trouble is, we still find it a bit awkward. What does a married man do when greeting a married female friend, for example? How should someone younger greet someone older?
Guys don’t tend to kiss one another; my male friends in Britain go for the “manly hug”, taking each other stiffly (不自然地) in one arm and giving a few thumps on the back with words like “Take it easy, yeah?”.
The biggest questions, if you do decide to kiss, are how many times and which cheek first. Unlike the French, who comfortably deliver three, our cheek-pecks usually end in embarrassed giggling (咯咯笑): “Oh, gosh, sorry, I didn’t mean to kiss you on the lips, I never know where to aim for first!”
But then it’s never been easy for us poor, uncomfortable Brits. Even the handshake had its problems: don’t shake too hard, but don’t hold the other person’s hand too limply (无力地) either, and definitely don’t go in with sweaty hands.
Maybe it’s better to leave it at a smile and a nod.
1. What is the article mainly about?| A．Origin of the traditional British way of greeting someone. |
| B．New trends and problems that Brits have with the way they greet people. |
| C．Why the author feels uneasy when greeting someone or saying goodbye. |
| D．Differences in greetings between Britain and other Western countries. |
| A．It is now considered unfriendly to greet friends with a handshake in Britain. |
| B．A kiss on the cheek is becoming the most popular form of greeting in Britain. |
| C．Most Brits no longer offer to shake hands with those they meet. |
| D．More and more Brits prefer to be greeted with a hug or kiss. |
| A．not helpful | B．too informal | C．quite embarrassed | D．very interesting |
| A．A hug. | B．A smile and a nod. | C．A handshake. | D．A kiss on the cheek. |
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Kiss crisis, hug horrors and the UK’s handshake headaches
Greeting someone, saying goodbye — these situations fill me with unease. You have a second to make a dangerous decision. One peck(轻吻)? Two pecks? Three? No kisses at all? Why, I think, as I crash into the other person’s face, why can’t it be as simple as a handshake?
A survey by the soap company Radox in May showed one in five Brits now feels a handshake is “too formal”, according to the Daily Mail. Some 42 percent said they never shook hands when greeting friends. For one third of people the alternative was a hug, for 16 percent a kiss on the cheek.
British people are known to be reserved(保守的) — unfriendly, some would say. Handshakes used to work for us because we didn’t have to get too close. But the super-British handshake is no longer fashionable. We want to be more like our easygoing Mediterranean neighbors who greet each other with kisses and hugs.
The trouble is, we still find it a bit awkward. What does a married man do when greeting a married female friend, for example? How should someone younger greet someone older?
Guys don’t tend to kiss one another; my male friends in Britain go for the “manly hug”, taking each other stiffly(不自然地) in one arm and giving a few thumps on the back with words like “Take it easy, yeah?”.
The biggest questions, if you do decide to kiss, are how many times and which cheek first. Unlike the French, who comfortably deliver three, our cheek-pecks usually end in embarrassed giggling(咯咯笑): “Oh, gosh, sorry, I didn’t mean to kiss you on the lips, I never know where to aim for first!”
But then it’s never been easy for us poor, uncomfortable Brits. Even the handshake had its problems: don’t shake too hard, but don’t hold the other person’s hand too limply(无力地) either, and definitely don’t go in with sweaty hands.
Maybe it’s better to leave it at a smile and a nod.
1. What is the article mainly about?| A．Origin of the traditional British way of greeting someone. |
| B．New trends and problems that Brits have with the way they greet people. |
| C．Why the author feels uneasy when greeting someone or saying goodbye. |
| D．Differences in greetings between Britain and other Western countries. |
| A．It is now considered unfriendly to greet friends with a handshake in Britain. |
| B．A kiss on the cheek is becoming the most popular form of greeting in Britain. |
| C．Most Brits no longer offer to shake hands with those they meet. |
| D．More and more Brits prefer to be greeted with a hug or kiss. |
| A．not helpful |
| B．too informal |
| C．quite embarrassed |
| D．very interesting |
| A．A hug. |
| B．A smile and a nod. |
| C．A handshake. |
| D．A kiss on the cheek. |
