1 . Three tips for protecting your eyes during the winter

We usually worry about staying warm during the winter months, and think less about protecting our eyes.     1    .Here are three things you can do to protect your eyes during winter months.

Tip 1:     2    .

During the winter, our eyes are often exposed to blowing, dry, hot air that can cause them to become dry. Here are a few treatments:     3    . Keep yourself away from direct heat sources while sitting. Use a humidifer (加湿器) to help reduce dryness.

Tip 2: Wear sunglasses with UV (紫外线) protection.

UV rays in the winter can harm our eyes.     4    . Wear sunglasses when you’re outside, or driving, to protect your eyes from UV rays. This is especially important as days lengthen into spring and the sun gets stronger.

Tip 3: Goggles (护目镜) protect in many ways.

Goggles not only protect our eyes from UV rays, but they also help keep our eyes from drying out from the winter wind. In addition, think about all those branches, leaves, and dirty snow that can severely injure our eyes upon contact.     5    . Don’t forget them!

A．Clean your eyes carefully

B．Don’t let your eyes dry out

C．Goggles protect the eyes from the wind

D．Keep eye drops at hand to wet your eyes

E．It is wise to wear quality goggles

F．In fact, they can do even more harm when they’re reflecting (反射) off snow

G．However, the winter months can be as hard on our eyes as the summer months

2 . The world has many beautiful sounds. we can hear the songs of birds and laugh of people. We can listen to cool music and news reports. And all this is due to(归功于) our ears! They bring us a world of sounds.

But some people can’t hear any sound at all. Some are born deaf. Others can hear well in their childhood, but too many loud sounds hurt their ears later on.

In China, 6 children out of 1000 have hearing problems when they are born. They can not hear ordinary sounds clearly. Children who have hearing problems usually also have learning problems at school.

A lot of things can cause hearing problems. For example, too much earwax is not good for our hearing and noise louder than 85 decibels(分贝) can hurt our ears and make us lose our hearing for a short time or even forever.

Hearing is a problem for all of us. So we should do our best to give our ears special care. Don't forget the following:

Try to stay away from places with too much noise. If you have to go, wear earplugs(耳塞). A pair of earplugs can cut the noise by 30 decibels. When swimming, remember to put earplugs into your ears to stop water from getting in. Never put anything sharp into your ears. If you think you have too much earwax, ask your parents to help you clean it out.

Keep these things in mind! Then you won’t ask “WHAT?” when you are older.

1. In the first paragraph, the writer wants to       .

A．tell us many beautiful sounds.	B．describe the sounds.
C．teach us how to use ears.	D．show the importance of ears

2. The word earwax means        in Chinese.

A．耳膜

B．耳鸣

C．耳垢

D．耳疾

3. Hearing problems may be caused by       .

A．a little earwax	B．learning problems at school
C．noise louder than 85 decibels	D．earplugs that can only cut noise by 15 decibels

4. Which of the following is not mentioned(提到) in the passage?

A．Hearing problems caused by diseases(疾病).	B．People with hearing problems.
C．Ways to protect our ears.	D．Danger of loud noise