HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.

　　Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.

　　“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.

　　High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.

　　Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”

　　“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.

　　The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.

　　Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.

　　“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.

　　Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.

What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?

       A. The size of fat population.       B. The number of fast food restaurants.

       C. The economic growth rate of the state.    D. Things related to unhealthy ways of life.

Which city topped 2003 fattest cities list?

　    A. Houston.         B. Dallas.          C. Detroit.   D. Philadelphia.

By saying “living big” (in Paragraph 9), Boulton means people _________.

       A. are growing fatter                B. are living wastefully

　    C. eat too many fatty foods           D. are spending too much time working

Which of the following is best supported by the text?

       A. Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S.

       B. Bill White is happy with the newspaper report.

       C. People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S.

       D. Most school children in Houston have weight problems.

 ---- Do you _____ any difficulty ______ the subject ?

  ------ Yes. It’s too hard for me.

A. take; to understand          B. have; in understanding

C. take; understanding          D. have; to understand

VII． 书面表达10%

假设你是李华， 最近国内一家英文报纸正在讨论北京动物园是否应迁出市区。以下是你所在班级讨论的情况。请你给该报写一封信，反应讨论结果。

赞成迁出理由：1）游客多，交通堵塞       

2）郊区环境好

反对迁出理由：1）建于1906年，中外闻名   2）搬迁易造成动物死亡          

注意：1）词数80-100左右，信的开头已为你写好。

   2）可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

         3）参考词汇： 在郊区---in the suburbs       

                                                                                                                June 3, 2010

Dear Edior,                                

Recently, our class have had a heated discussion about_ whether the Beijing Zoo should be moved out of the city.    ____                                                                    

 _____ is known to us all, Yao Ming is an iconic( 偶像的) figure of Chinese basketball .

A. What      B. As         C. It        D. which

______ production going up by 60%, the company had another excellent year.

A. As                  B. For   ?             C. With             D. Though?

VI. 短文改错

找出下面一段文章中的错处并改正。如该行缺一词，在文中缺词处标上“  ”  ，并在相应的横线上写上正确的词语；如该行多一词，在文中用斜线划掉多余的词，并在相应的横线上写上该词，用斜线划去；如该行错一词，在文中用横线标出，再在相应的横线上写上正确的词语。如该行无错，在相应的横线上打上“  ” 。

示例：

Betty wants to be  nurse and works with sick people        a       

who need her helps.                                 help     

Last summer Betty  had  broke her leg.                had     

The pain was very great and she couldn’t walk.                    

  The telephone rang and I picked out the receiver(话筒). “Hello,”   69.____________

I said.  “Hello,” said the voice. “Bill here, is Betty there?”         70.____________

“I’m sorry,” I said, “You have got the wrong number.”             71.____________

A few seconds late, the telephone rang again. Just                 72.____________

as I expected he was Bill, “You have made a mistake again.”        73.____________

I explained. The telephone rang a third time. This made I           74.____________

angry. I speak in a big voice, “Hello, Bill, Betty here.”             75._____________

For a moment there was a dead silent. Then someone said,         76._____________

“What’s the wrong with you, Tom?” It was my mother.            77._____________

I could do anything but say sorry to my mother.                  78_____________

22. __________unexpected advice they have given us!

A. What               B. what an            C. How          D. How an

 Rome was not built in a day. You should set ____ goals and work hard to achieve them.

A. alternative     B. considerable        C. subjective        D. realistic

--Where have you been?  

---I got caught in traffic, otherwise I _______ here earlier.

A. would be                  B. have been                 C. had been                  D. would have been

________ from Milan Trenc’s novel, the film Night at the Museum brings to life a world

where dinosaurs wander the earth.

A. Adapted         B. Adapting               C. Having adapted                D. To be adapted