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　　In the United States, 30 percent of the adult(成年人)population has a“weight problem”. To many people, the cause is clear: we eat too much. But scientific evidence(证据)does little to support this idea. Going back to the America of 1910, we find that people were thinner than today. Yet they ate more food. In those days, people worked harder physically, walled more, used machines much less, and didn’t watch TV.

　　Several modern studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on average(平均地) than thinner people. In fact, some investigations(调查), such as a 1979 study of 3545 London office workers, reports that fat people eat less than slimmer people.

　　Studies show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Standford University School of Medicine found the following interesting facts:

　　The more the men ran, the more fat they lost.

　　The more they ran, the more they ate.

　　Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.

1．What kind of physical problem do many adult Americans have? ________.

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A．They are too thin

B．They work too hard

C．They are too fat

D．They lose too much body fat

2．According to the information given in the passage, among 500 Americans, how many have weight problem?

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3．Which of the following words can take the place of the word slim in this passage?

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4．Compared with(与……相比)the adult American population today, the Americans of 1910 ________.

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A．ate more food and had more physical activities

B．ate less food but had more activities

C．ate less and had less physical exercise

D．had more weight problems

5．What have modern medical and scientific researches reported to us?

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A．Fat people eat less food and are less active.

B．Fat people eat more food than slim people but are less active.

C．Fat people eat more food than slim people but are more active.

D．Thin people run less, but have greater increase in food intake.

阅读理解

　　There are three main kinds of food. Sugar and starch are grouped together as carbohydrates(碳水化合物) , they are found in bread, potatoes and rice. These are mainly energy-giving foods which the muscles and other tissues use. Fats are also energy-giving foods but do not give it up as quickly as the sugars and starches as they have to be broken down in the liver(肝)and made into sugar before they can be burnt by the body. Proteins(蛋白质), the third class, are the main solid part in all living cells(细胞). They are found in milk, meat and fish, and are necessary to the body in building new cells. For this reason growing children need more proteins than adults. Children cannot get much of their energy form fat because it makes them unwell if they eat too much of it.

　　In addition to these foods the body needs small quantities of vitamins. Vitamin A and D are found in fat. If a child doesn’t receive enough vitamin D, his bones do not harden so that he begins to walk late and when he does so his bones bend(弯曲). Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables. If people go short of vitamin C, they developed scurvy(坏血病). Normal people need very little of these vitamins which they get easily in an ordinary diet, so there is no need to take vitamin pills. Babies, however, get very little to eat so that they have to be given in orange juice to prevent scurvy.

1．According to this article there are three main kinds of food. They are ________.

[　　]

A．sugar, fats and vegetables

B．carbohydrates, fats and milk

C．carbohydrates, fats and proteins

D．sugar, fats and meat

2．Milk, meat and fish are rich in ________.

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3．Which of the following is not true?

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A．Children need less proteins because they are smaller in size.

B．Fat cannot be used directly by the body.

C．Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are all energy-giving foods.

D．Too much fat is not good for children.

4．Which of the facts is caused by the lack of vitamin D?

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5．Normal people can get enough vitamin C ________.

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A．by taking vitamin pills

B．by drinking orange juice

C．from their ordinary diet

D．from the fat they eat

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Most British telephone cards are just plain green, but card collecting is becoming a popular hobby in Britain and collectors even have their own magazine International Telephone Cards. One reason for their interest is that cards from around the world come in a wide variety of different and often very attractive designs. There are 100,000 different cards in Japan alone, and there you can put your own design onto a blank(空白)card simply by using a photograph or a business card.

　　The first telephone cards, produced in 1976, were Italian. Five years later the first British card appeared, and now you can buy cards in more than a hundred countries. People usually start collecting cards because they are attractive, small and light, and they do not need much space. It is also a cheap hobby for beginners, although for some people it becomes a serious business. In Paris, for example, there is a market where you can buy only telephone cards, and some French cards cost up to 4,000 pounds. The first Japanese card has a value of about 28,000 pounds. Most people only see cards with prices like these in their collectors magazine.

1．The text is mainly about ________.

[　　]

A．the history of phone cards

B．phone card collecting as a hobby

C．reasons for phone card collecting

D．the great variety of phone cards

2．When did people in Britain begin to use phone cards?

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3．The main reason for most people to collect phone cards is that ________.

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A．they find the cards beautiful and easy to keep

B．they like to have something from different countries

C．they want to make money with cards

D．they think the cards are convenient to use

4．The writer speaks of a market in Paris in order to show that ________.

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A．card collecting is pupular among young people

B．French and Japanese cards are the most valuable

C．people can make money out of card collecting

D．card collectors magazines are very useful

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　　Basketball is one sport－perhaps the only sport whose exact origin(起源)can be stated. During the winter of 1891, Dr James Naismith, a college teacher in Massachusette, invented the game of basketball in order to supply exercises for the students beween the closing of football season and the opening of the baseball season. He fixed fruit baskets overhead on the walls, and using a football, organized nine-men teams to play this new game in which the purpose was to try to toss(扔)the ball into one basket and try to prevent the other basket. Though there have been many changes in the rules since then, such as the reduction(减少)of the number of players on a team from nine to five, the game is almost the same today. American soldiers introduced it to Philippines in 1900 and to Europe during World War I, and being adopted by foreign nations, it soon became a world-wide sport. It is interesting that although basketball was invented as an indoor game, it is now played almost entirely outdoors.

1．According to the passage, ________ was played in winter before Dr James Naismith’s invention.

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2．The main task of each team is ________.

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A．to toss the ball into their own basket

B．to toss the ball into the other team’s basket

C．to stop the other team from tossing the ball

D．both A and C

3．Before 1900, basketball was played ________.

[　　]

A．only in the U.S. A.

B．in the U.S. A. and Europe

C．in Philippines

D．both A and C

4．According to the passage, which of the following is not true?

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A．Dr Naismith invented basketball at the end of the nineteenth century.

B．There were 18 players on the basketball playground when the game was invented.

C．Basketball became popular throughout the world soon after it was invented.

D．People in Europe didn’t play basketball until in the late 1920’s.

阅读理解

　　The story of Diego Maradona, the Argentinian(阿根廷)football player, is the story of rise and fall of a poor man who became a world star, but paid the price of fame(名誉). He is now at the end of a career (职业生涯)which saw him as the bright star of World Cup Football. In the 1990s, this career has come into the poor performance on the field, drug-taking, speaking ill of football officials, being forbidden and finally facing court(法庭) action in which he has had the defend charges(指控) of shooting at several reporters.

　　Maradona was born in the poor area of Furito in Buenos Aires, Early in his life, he was able to realize a dream of most poor boys, the dream that is the way out of poverty-trap is through success in sport. Sport in the world around is an activity open to all people, no matter what their background(背景)is.

　　Diego Maradona is one of eight children. His farther is an Italian and mother an Italian. The games of football played in the dirty street outside his small white storeyed home in Furito were to provide(提供) him with a passport (护照)out of the small home. Today, poorly dressed boys still run and kick balls around the street from which a hero traveled to become one of the world’s great football artists.

　　Football expert(专家)Francis Corneo found Diego’s gift. He says that the young played“a natural” and there was nothing he could teach him. He had never seen anyone played like him in his thirty years’ life.

1．In the second paragraph of this passage, what does the underlined word“poverty-trap”mean?

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A．The position in society.

B．Extremely poor condition in one’s life.

C．Poor living conditions which are hard to escape from.

D．Becoming wealthy in the future.

2．Which of the following is not true?

[　　]

A．Maradona’s performance is not as good as before on the field.

B．He will be brought in an action against his bad deed.

C．He showed no respect for some football officials.

D．Francis Corneo found a gift and gave it to Maradona.

3．Sport is an activity open to all people, no matter what their background is. The sentence tells us ________.

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A．evrybody enjoys sport and could turn a dream into reality

B．through sport everybody may be successful and become a famous star in the world no matter how poor he used to be

C．if one wants to be a famous sport star, he must have special background

D．people from working-class families will never get international success

4．We can infer form the passage that ________.

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A．Maradona will face a possible term if found guilty(有罪)on the shooting charges

B．background is very important for sport

C．Maradona is as famous as a football star before

D．Maradona is doing so well in playing football that he can’t be knocked out

阅读理解

　　Bicycle tour(旅行)and race

　　A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27(Sat. & Sun.). At 5:30 a m, the riders will leave Tian’anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometres as a training leg. Then the next 55 kilometre leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive(竞争性的)part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli.

　　The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside of Nandaihe, covering a distance of 20 kilometres. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free for play at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing.

　　Cost: 200 yuan

　　Telephone: 4675027

　　Brazilian footballers

　　The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guo’an Team at the Workers Stadium on August 26. The club has four national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World Cup star Romario who had promised to play for at least 45 minutes.

　　Ticket prices: 60,l00,150yuan

　　Time/Date:4:30pm, August 26(Sat.)

Telephone: 5012372

　　The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on August 26-27 at the Huairou Mountain-climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin and other places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibition climbing. Free for spectators(观众).

　　Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou.

　　Time/Dates:9-12am, August 26 and 27

　　Telephone: 7143177, 7144850, Wang Zhenghua

1．The main purpose of announcing the above events is to give information about ________.

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A．visiting teams

B．famous players

C．things to do for the weekend

D．prices to pay for the sports events

2．If you take part in the bike tour, you will ride for ________.

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3．The underlined word“leg”in“Bicycle tour and race”probably means ________.

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4．What is special about the rock climbing competition?

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A．A foreign team takes part in it.

B．You can watch it without paying.

C．You don’t have to be a sportsman to take part.

D．The bus trip to the place of the competition is free.

5．If you want to find something to do for Saturday afternoon, which telephone number will you call?

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阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　When a consumer (消费者) finds that something he or she bought is faulty or in some other way does not live up to what the producer says for it, the first step is to present the warranty(保单), or any other records that might help, at the store of buying. In most cases, this action will produce results. However, if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction.

　　A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain(投诉) directly to the store manager. In general, the“higher up”the consumer takes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect it to be settled. In such a case, it is usually in the consumer’s favour, taking it as true that he or she has a just right.

　　Consumers should complain in person whenever possible, but if they cannot get to the place of buying, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter.

　Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can show clearly what is wrong. If this cannot be done, the consumer will succeed by presenting specific information as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements. For example,“The left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of the right one is unclear”is better that“This stereo (立体音响) does not work.”

　　The store manager may advise the consumer to write to the producer, if so, the consumer should do this, stating the complaint as politely and firmly as possible. But if a polite complaint does not achieve the expected result, the consumer can go a step further. He or she can threaten(恐吓) to take the seller to the court or report the seller to a public organization responsible for protecting consumers’ right.

1．When a consumer finds what he bought has a fault in it, he should first ________.

[　　]

A．complain personally to the manager

B．show something provable in written form to the store

C．threaten to take the matter to court

D．write a firm letter of complaint to the store

2．If a consumer wants a quick settlement of his problem, it’s better to complain to ________.

[　　]

A．a shop assistant

B．the producer

C．a public organization

D．the store manager

3．The most effective complaint about what was bought can be made by ________.

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A．showing the fault of it to the producer

B．saying firmly it is of poor quality

C．asking politely to change it

D．explaining exactly what is wrong with it

4．The passage tells us ________.

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A．how to make the complaint have a good effect

B．how to settle a consumer’s complaint

C．how to avoid buying something wrong

D．how to deal with complaints from consumers??

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　A child’s birthday party doesn’t have to be a hassle; it can be a basket of fun, according to Beth Anaclerio, an Evaston mother of two, ages 4 and 18 months.

　　“Having a party at home usually requires a lot of running around on the part of the parents, and often the birthday boy or girl gets lost in wild excitement. But it really doesn’t have to be that way.”said Anaclerio. Last summer Anaclerio and her friend Jill Carlisle, a Northbrook mother of a 2-year-old, founded a home party-planning business called“A Party in a Basket.”Their goal is to help parents and children share in the fun part of party planning, like choosing the subject or making a cake, while they take care of everything.

　　Drawing on their experiences as mothers, they have created (制作)10 ready-to-use, home party packages. Everything a family needs to plan a party, except the cake and ice cream, is delivered to the home in a large basket.

　　“Out parties are aimed for children 2 to 10,”Anaclerio said,“and they’re very interactive(互动) and creative in that they build a sense of drama based on a subject. For example, at the Soda shopper party the guests become waiters and waitresses and build wonderful ice cream creations.”

　　The standard $200 package for eight children includes a basket filled with invitations, gifts, games and prizes , paper goods, a party planner and the like. For more information, call Anaclerio at 708-864-6584 or Carlisle at 708-205-9141.

1．The main purpose of writing this text is ________.

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A．to share information about party planning

B．to introduce the joys of a birthday party

C．to announce a business plan

D．to sell a service

2．The most important idea behind the kind of party planning described here is that ________.

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A．it brings parents and children closer together

B．guests play a part in the preparation of a party

C．parents are spared the trouble of sending invitations

D．it provides a subject of conversation

3．What does the underlined word“hassle”(paragraph 1) probably mean?

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A．a party designed by specialists

B．a play requiring careful thought

C．a situation causing difficulty or trouble

D．a demand made by guests

4．Which of the following is most likely to be a party planner?

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A．

B．

C．

D．

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　To get a good mark in examinations has been regarded as being most important for a student, and it is also what parents always expect their children to do. But is it enough? These days increasing attention has been paid in schools the country to what is called quality education. It means that a student, apart from doing well in exams, should develop his skills in other ways so as to turn himself into a qualified graduate for modernization of the motherland.

　　Quality education, said Xing Jizu, Party Secretary of the Education Bureau of downtown Hongkou District Shanghai, aims to help students to gain a high moral standard, a strong sense of patriotism (爱国精神), a strong wish for learning, as well as a sound (健康的) mind and body.

　　“We need reforms (改革）to achieve our goal for quality education,”Mr. Xing Jizu told SSP. He also outlined what they had planned.

　　Xing said that return of Hong Kong to the mainland in July, 1997, for example, was regarded as a very good chance for the education advances. A lot of related activities were organized at all the schools in Hongkou.

　　Besides, all schools in the district were advised to set up after-class art or science groups. A student’s art festival is to be held in each school every year.

　　As for physical education, every student is required to have at least one hour of exercise a day. Every year, a sports meet will take place at each school.

　　Besides, various kinds of after-school activities will be organized to help develop the students’ practical and social abilities.

　　“What we are doing is by no means to weaken the importance of the regular classroom teaching or exam results,”Xing pointed out.“Instead, we hope that through quality education, students can learn more, in less time in an easier way. Only in this way can we bring up children fit for the bright future of China.

1．The writer thinks that to get a good mark in examinations has been regarded as most important for a student is ________.

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A．completely right

B．one sided

C．completely wrong

D．only a single standard for a good student

2．The word“outline”means to ________.

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A．give main points of

B．to tell something about education

C．answer some questions of

D．draw a picture of

3．In this text, quality education is really that ________.

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A．every student gets development in all sides

B．it is all right for a student to get a good mark

C．it is all right for a student to get a single skill

D．it is impossible that a student can develop on all sides

4．The text tells us that ________.

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A．quality education is a must in schools

B．politics must be put in the first place

C．students should be able to bear hardships and stand hard work

D．it is never late to learn

阅读理解

　　Read the following interview with Dr. John Bass, an international shark (鲨鱼) specialist who has spent many years studying sharks:

　　First of all, doctor, are all sharks dangerous?

　　No, they aren’t. There are about 250 different kinds of sharks, but fewer than 30 of them are dangerous to humans. Certain sharks are very aggressive(好斗的) and we should fear them, but the danger of shark attacks is much lower than most people think.

　　So which sharks are dangerous?

　　The Great White shark is the most dangerous. Then there is the Tiger shark, which other sharks are afraid of, and the Blue shark. Both of them are very fast and dangerous.

　　Which are the biggest and the smallest sharks?

　　The Whale shark is the biggest shark in the world. It grows up to 15m in length and weighs as much as six large cars. The smallest shark, which is found near Japan, could fit into the palm of your hand because it is only 15－20cm long.

　　Do all sharks have teeth?

　　Yes, they do. Most sharks have hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of sharp teeth. These are arranged in rows of four or more. They fit quite loosely in the jaw. When the front ones break off or fall out, spare teeth move forwards from the rows behind. Sharks get a new set of teeth every two weeks. In 10 years, a Tiger may lose as many as 24,000 teeth!

　　That’s a lot of teeth! What kind of food do sharks eat?

　　Most sharks feed on small fish, and they keep the oceans healthy by eating sick and injured fish. However, hungry sharks will eat almost anything, including smaller sharks and even rubbish. Inside one Tiger which was found, there was a tin can, a bicycle tyre, a leather wallet and an alarm clock!

　　And how do sharks find their food, doctor?

　　A shark’s sense of smell is excellent. It will follow the smell of blood across thousands of meters of ocean. They also see well, and they have good hearing. Sharks can feel movement in water very easily too, and it is possible for them to feel a fish moving as far as 30m away.

1．Most types of sharks are ________.

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2．A shark’s best sense which helps it most in finding food is its sense of ________.

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3．Sharks are helpful to us as ________.

[　　]

4．Choose the best title for this passage. ________

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A．Sharks: Our Friends

B．Sharks: The Killers

C．Sharks: The Figures

D．Sharks: The Facts