This is not a diet. It's a simple way to lose weight~ And you don' t even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you'll become thin.
( 1 ) Wake - up
When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend( 弯曲) forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn about 10 calories (热量单位，卡路里).
(2) Start with soup
When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, you'll feel fuller, so you'll eat less when the main food comes.
(3) An apple (or more) a day
Apples are full of fiber（纤维) and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three, apples a day lose weight.
(4) Stand up and walk around
Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around.  Heavy people sit on average(平均) two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories.
Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.
小题1:What should we have first if we want to eat less main food?

A．Soup.	B．Ice cream.
C．Salad.	D．Cheese.

小题2:Why does eating apples make one's stomach want less food?

A．Because apples are delicious.

B．Because apples are full of fiber and water.

C．Because apples are sour.

D．Because only apples are filled with calories.

小题3:Which of the following may the author disagree?

A．Sitting up slowly without using your hands helps burn calories.

B．Eating apples every day is good for people's health.

C．You have to join a gym if you want to lose weight.

D．It' s good to walk around while talking on the mobile phone.

小题4:What's the purpose of the passage?

A．To give some advice on how to lose weight.

B．To advise people to eat apples every day.

C．To tell people how to enjoy a better life.

D．To advise people to give up bad habits.

小题5:In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read the passage?

A．Shopping.	B．Teaching.
C．Family.	D．Health.

材料A-D分别介绍了四本书的内容?请根据Tom, Betty, Sophia, Jane的需求?帮助他们选出他们想读的书并完成小题。
A. This book will help you understand how to stay well and avoid sickness. You’ll learn some things that you might use at home to avoid catching a cold.
B. This book has useful information about how to prevent common accidents. It’s about safety both indoors and outdoors.
C. This book will tell you something about how to keep healthy by doing exercises. You’ll learn not only the importance of doing exercises, but also the ways of doing exercises.
D. Do you have difficulties to communicate with others? Do you often say something wrong when you talk to others? This book will teach you how to say proper things to people.
小题1:Tom is collecting information about how to prevent electrical fire.
小题2:Betty is trying to advise her mother to do some sports.
小题3:Sophia wants to know some ways to avoid common cold.
小题4:Jane is studying talking strategies.
小题5:Kate wants to keep thinner and healthier. Maybe she can borrow the book from ______.

A．Tom

B．Betty

C．Sophia

D．Jane

It seems to be strange to you that there is a blind spot (盲点)on the eyes. Here is an interesting experiment (实验) that can make something disappear, when one eye is open.
Make a card about the size of a postcard and write two English letters L and R on it, L on the left and R on the right. First, hold the card about 80 cm away and you see both the letters. Then close your right eye and look at the letter R only with your left eye. And now, as you move the card slowly towards you, you’ll find the letter L disappearing. But if you move the card nearer to your face, the letter will be seen again. Now do the same experiment with your left eye closed, you’ll find the letter R disappearing.
Why does the letter disappear? It is because there is a blind spot on the eyes. When the image (影像) of the letter falls on the blind spot, it won’t be seen. That is why either of the letters disappears.
小题1:The writer of the passage thinks that ________ there is a blind spot on the eyes.

A．few people know

B．no one knows

C．most people know

D．all the people know

小题2:The word “disappear” in the passage means ________ in Chinese.

A．出现

B．远离

C．消失

D．靠近

小题3:You fail to see the letter L in the experiment because ________.

A．your eyes are poor

B．its image falls on the blind spot

C．your left eye is not open

D．you move it close to your eye

小题4:In which order (顺序) should you do the experiment?
①Hold the card
②Move the card nearer
③Close your right eye
④Write two English letters
⑤Look at the letter R
⑥Make a card

A．④⑥①②③⑤	B．①③⑥④⑤②
C．⑥①④③②⑤	D．⑥④①③⑤②

小题5:The passage mainly (主要) tells us ________.

A．the blind spot can move

B．an interesting experiment

C．where the blind spot is

D．there is a blind spot on the eyes

阅读表达
阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。
According to a new survey, students’ safety has become a big problem. Nearly 50% of students say they are worried about robbery on the way to and from school. Now in many big cities in China, some schools have taught an unusual lesson: self-protection. Students like this lesson because there are no exams or boring classes. 77① _____________Chen Haoyu, a teacher at Beijing No. 25 Middle School, gives young students advice on how they should deal with danger.
If you are robbed
Keep calm. If you cannot cry for help or run away, give the robber your money. Try to remember what the robber looks like and tell the police later.
If you are in a traffic accident
If a car hurts you, you should remember the car number. If it is a bicycle, try to call your parents before you let the rider go. 77②_____________.
If it is raining hard and there is lightning
Don’t stay in high places and stay away from trees.
When there is a fire
Get away as fast as you can. Put wet things on your body and try to find an exit. Do not take the lift.
If someone is drowning
If you can’t swim, don’t get into the water. Cry out for help.
78 Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Take care of yourself at all times!
小题1:How many suggestions for dealing with danger did Chen Haoyu give?
_________________________________________
小题2:请从A、B、C中为77①、②选择合适的选项，并将其字母序号分别填在下面的横线上。
A. This is because you don’t know how seriously you are hurt.
B. It is important to protect you from being hurt.
C. And they can learn how to save lives and know how to stop danger before it really happens.
① _____ ② _____
小题3:请把划线部分的句子翻译成汉语。
______________________________________________________________
小题4:What should you do when there is a fire?
_____________________________________________________________
小题5:请为本文拟一个合适的标题。
______________________________________________________________

We all enjoy the beautiful show of colours as leaves change each autumn. But did you ever wonder how and why this happens?
Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots and take carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into glucose (葡萄糖). Glucose is a kind of sugar, which plants use as food for energy and growing.
The way plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar is called photosynthesis that means “ putting together with light”. A chemical called chlorophyll helps photosynthesis. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter, and trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. Trees rest during this time and live on the food they store during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories.
As the green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves, we begin to see yellow and orange leaves. Small amounts of these colours have been in the leaves all along. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in autumn. In some trees, like maples (枫树), glucose is caught in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into a red colour. The brown colour of trees like oaks (橡树) is made from waste left in the leaves.
It is the mixture of all these things that makes the beautiful colours we enjoy during autumn.
小题1:The word “chlorophyll” in the third paragraph means _______ in Chinese.

A．叶绿素

B．氧气

C．胡萝卜素

D．蛋白质

小题2:The leaves of the trees in autumn turn yellow because of the short of _____.

A．water and carbon dioxide

B．glucose and energy

C．sunlight and water

D．sunlight and carbon dioxide

小题3:The way that _______________________ is called Photosynthesis .

A．plants change water and carbon dioxide into sugar

B．plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar with the help of sunlight

C．plants use glucose as food for energy and growing

D．chlorophyll is a great help

小题4:Which of the following is NOT true?

A．When autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter.

B．During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.

C．During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colours are kept in the leaves all the time.

D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer.

小题5:This passage tells us __________________.

A．all the plants can grow well with the strong sunlight

B．there are all kinds of plants on the earth

C．all the colours of the leaves aren’t made from chlorophyll

D．maples and oaks have the same reason as other trees for the change of colours

完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给选项中，选出最佳选项。
At the beginning of this century, medical scientists made an interesting discovery: we are built not just of flesh (肌肉) and blood but also of time. They were able to show that we all have a ‘body clock’   1  us, which controls the   2  and fall of our body energies. It can   3  us different from one day to the next.
The idea of a ‘body clock’ should not be too   4  because the lives of most living things are controlled by the 24-hour night-and-day cycle (循环). We feel   5  and fall asleep at night. We become   6  and energetic during the day. Most people will have a bad feeling if the 24-hour cycle is   7 . For example, people who are not used to working at night can find that lack (缺少) of sleep causes them to  8  badly at work.
  9  the daily cycle of sleeping and waking, we also have other cycle which lasts longer than one day. Most of us would   10  that we feel good on some days and not so good on others; sometimes our ideas seem to be so active and at other times, they are not.

小题1:	A．beside B．inside C．outside D．under

小题2:	A．life B．offer C．use D．rise

小题3:	A．show B．treat C．make D．change

小题4:	A．difficult B．natural C．surprising D．frightening

小题5:	A．quiet B．tired C．comfortable D．cheerful

小题6:	A．regular B．serious C．lively D．clear

小题7:	A．disturbed B．pushed C．restarted D．troubled

小题8:	A．perform B．suffer C．count D．control

小题9:	A．With B．As well as C．Except D．Rather than

小题10:

A．afford B．admire C．advise D．agree

Frogs are animals that can live both in water and on land. There are more than 5,000 kinds of frogs on the earth. The earliest known frogs lived about 190 million years ago and the frogs today still look the same. Here are some fun things that you might not know about frogs. Enjoy!
The Biggest and the Smallest Frogs
Some frogs can be very big. The biggest kind of frog is the Goliath Frog in West Africa. Its body can be nearly 30cm long, about the size of a large cat. The Gold Frog and the Poison Frog are the smallest frogs in the world. They are less than 1cm long. Though the Poison Frog is very small, it is not weak at all. It is dangerous. Any animal that eats it will die very soon.
The Best Jumpers
Frogs are very good at jumping. They developed jumping legs so that they would not be eaten by other large animals. Using their big strong legs, more frogs can jump over 20 times their own length. The Australian Rocket Frog can even jump over 2m, which is 50 times its body length (5.5 cm). That might be the reason why frogs are called the best jumpers on the earth.
The Cryogenic Animal
Some frogs like the Common Wood Frog have a special ability to live in very cold places. When the temperature goes down, they become ice frogs. 2/3of their body water freezes. Their hearts stop, and their breathing stops too. You may think they are dead, but in fact they are not. Maybe we humans can learn the way that the frogs do for medical purpose.
小题1:The earliest frogs lived about          million years ago.

A．20

B．30

C．50

D．190

小题2:      can jump over 2m.

A．The Goliath Frog

B．The Common Wood Frog

C．The Poison Frog

D．The Australian Rocket Frog

小题3:What will happen to a Common Wood Frog at very low temperature?

A．It will die very soon.

B．It will be an ice frog.

C．It will become dangerous.

D．It will become very small.

Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water！This is just one of hundreds of pieces of advice you might get if you have the hiccups（打嗝）.Hiccups are so mysterious(神秘的)．We really don’t know why they start and why they stop．
Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups．Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well．Others eat a little sugar．Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it．
An American man named Jack O’Leary said that he had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years．He tried 60，000 cures，but none of them worked．Finally he prayed（向…祈祷） to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately．
A British worker didn’t stop his hiccups until eight months later. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well．He tried them all，but the hiccups continued．Finally，he drank a “secret” mixture(混合物) someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone．
Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure．
小题1:        might be the best cure for hiccups.

A．Special pills

B．A spoonful of salt

C．Cold water

D．What you believe in

小题2:The British worker spent __________ in stopping his hiccups．

A．4 hours

B．2 days

C．8 months

D．8 years

小题3:What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Different ways to stop hiccups

B．What makes hiccups happen

C．How to get hiccups

D．Jack O‘Leary’s hiccups

“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment(失望),my mother would say this to me.
After I left college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.
At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire（雇佣）a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete(运动员)to work for it . I wanted this job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt so frustrated(沮丧). “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the lift, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”
小题1:Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?

A．Because he never graduated from college.

B．Because he didn’t work hard in college.

C．Because he didn’t have much experience.

D．Because he didn’t know about sports.

小题2:Which of the following is the correct order of events?
a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.
b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.
c. The writer graduated from college.
d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.

A．cbda

B．cbad

C．bcda

D．bcad

小题3:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The writer’s parents didn’ t want him to be a sports announcer.

B．There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown.

C．The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer.

D．The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last.

小题4:According to the last paragraph, what did the writer’s mom want to tell him?

A．He shouldn’t be a sports announcer.

B．Disappointment leads to failure.

C．He should be proud of himself.

D．Everything will be OK if he keeps trying.

During the day we work and play, and at night we sleep. Our body rests when we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. Our body grows most when we are asleep. Children who are tired usually need sleep. We can get better at our lessons after having plenty of rest. Boys and girls who are eight or nine years old need ten hours of sleep every night. Our body needs plenty of air when we are asleep. If we do not get enough fresh air, we will feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our head，our lungs need to get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night, we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better than warm air. Boys and girls who want to be strong must get plenty of sleep.
小题1:Our body grows most while we are _______.
A. exercising   B.playing C.sleeping
小题2:Too little sleep makes us _______.
A.tired   B.hungry  C.happy
小题3:_______ during the sleep may cause us to feel tired in the morning.
A.Too much air  B.Not enough fresh air   C.Too much cold air
小题4:How many hours of sleep should 9-year-old children have every night?
A.8 hours.  B.9 hours.  C.10 hours.
小题5:What do the lungs need most?
A.Fresh air.        B. Exercise.        C.Warm air.