A car needs gas to run and your body also needs food to work for you. Eating the right kind of food is very important. It can help your body grow strong to take care of what you eat.

　　There are four main food groups altogether. The dairy group has food like milk, cheese and sour milk. The other three groups are the meat and fish group, the fruit and vegetable group, and the bread and rice group. Each meal should have at least one food from all four main groups. With all these food together, you will be given enough energy during the day.

　　It is easy to get into bad eating-habits. You may eat your breakfast in a hurry to get to school on time. Or you may not have time for a good lunch. It may seem easy to. But you will find yourself tired in these days and you can not think quickly.

　　Watching what you eat will help your body remain healthy and strong. It is also good to take some exercise. It will help you eat more if you take a walk or play games in the open air. Having a good eating habit with some exercise is the key to your health.

(1)Which of the following diets do you think is the best one? ________

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A．Corn, fish, cream and pork.

B．Eggs, tomatoes and chicken.

C．Milk, bread, cabbages and beef.

D．Rice, beancurd, apples, fish and chicken.

(2)Which of the following is a good eating-habit? ________

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A．Going to school without any breakfast.

B．Finishing your lunch in a very short time.

C．Eating fish and chips for supper all the time.

D．Having at least one food from all four groups in each meal.

(3)In this passage the writer mainly tells us that ________.

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A．right kind of food with exercise will keep you healthy

B．taking exercise can keep your body strong

C．every person needs food to grow well

D．enough energy helps people think more quickly

(4)The underlined word“dairy”in the second paragraph means ________.

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A．the shop that sells milk and butter

B．the food made out of cows such as milk and butter

C．a farm where cows are kept

D．a place where milk products are made

　　By walking, begging rides both in wagons and in the cars, in some way, after a number of days, I reached the city of Richmond, Virginia, where I continued my study. It was about eighty-two miles from Hampton. When I reached there, tired, hungry, and dirty, it was late in the night. I had never been in a large city, and this rather added to my misery. When I reached Richmond, I was completely out of money. I had not a single acquaintance（熟人）in the place, and, being unused to city ways, I did not know where to go. I applied（申请）at several places for lodging（住宿）, but they all wanted money, and that was what I did not have. Knowing nothing else better to do, I walked in the streets. In doing this I passed by many food stands where fried（油炸的）chicken and half-moon apple pies were piled high and made to present a most tempting（诱人的）appearance. At that time it seemed to me that I would have promise all that I expected to possess（拥有）in the future was to have got hold of one of those chicken legs or those pies. But I could get neither of these, nor anything else to eat.

(1)Where did the author arrive after a number of days? ________

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(2)How did the author get there? ________

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(3)Why did the author walk in the streets? ________

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A．He was unused to city ways.

B．He didn't know how to apply for lodging.

C．He had no money.

D．He knew nothing else.

(4)What did the author expect to possess when he passed by food stands? ________

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A．Chicken legs.

B．Apple pies.

C．Both chicken legs and apple pies.

D．Either chicken legs or apple pies.

(5)What's the best title for this passage? ________

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　　Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers, I had, without telling anyone, tried to continue my studies in literature（文学）at evening classes. It was a tiresome walk from one end of the city to another and to sit among adults was uninteresting. I was the youngest in the class, so the friendship I knew at school was absent, I put up with it for a short period. It was too long a walk on cold winter's nights and it was hard to put my heart into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers. So I continued reading books and started writing poetry at home.

　　By chance, I won some prizes and award（奖励）for literature. A young woman from a TV company came to the college one day. She told me that I had won a national poetry award. I stared at her in astonishment and disbelieved her. She wanted to make a short film about me, to which I said:“No, I couldn't do that.” Not that I had any real excuse, I was just frightened. In the end she persuaded me that I should do it the following day.

　　So I did. They made a short film of me reading one of my poems and I became more interested in literature than ever. I wondered what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not imagine myself spending the rest of my days dealing with machines. So one evening, I hesitatingly（犹豫地）told my parents that I wanted to return to school. They were greatly surprised and, I think, a little afraid but they did not try to persuade me not to. They wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and whether I realized that if I gave up my job training, it would be very difficult to get a good job. But nothing could stop me, and they asked about the matter not further.

(1)Which of the following has more probably been discussed in the paragraph above this passage? ________.

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A．The writer's unhappy childhood.

B．The poor teaching quality of the writer's school.

C．The writer's leaving school against his teachers' advice.

D．Whether it was worth leaving school for job training.

(2)The writer did not feel comfortable at the evening school because ________.

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A．he found it difficult to make friends with his classmates

B．he had to walk a long distance to the evening school

C．he could not put his heart into reading books after he was caught in the rain

D．all of the above

(3)After his success, the writer ________.

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A．decided to get a good job

B．decided to continue his studies in literature at the evening school

C．decided to return to the school he had left

D．began to feel very important and proud

(4)Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．His parents worried that he would have no future if he returned to school.

B．His parents worried that he would leave school again.

C．It was difficult for one who studied literature to get a job.

D．His parents did not want him to continue his education.

　　Increasingly, over the past ten years, people--especially young people--have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed（加工，处理）food, is not good for the health. As a result, there has been a growing interest in natural foods： foods which do not contain chemical additives（添加剂）and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today.

　　Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic（生物）matter. Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures. Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry （家禽）：there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins.

　　There are other aspects（方面）of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually unnecessary! Although a natural alternative（选择）, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not sugar that is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes（消耗）an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals, and no fiber.

　　It is significant（有意义的）that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed. But it is present in unrefined（未加工的）flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively （相对地） rare. Thus the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on “healthy eating”.

(1)Which of the following can best sum up the passage?

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A．People's growing interest in natural foods.

B．Natural foods and healthy eating.

C．Harmful effects of sugar.

D．The importance of fiber in foods.

(2)People become more interested in natural foods because ________ .

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A．they want to change their eating habits

B．they have become conscious of the importance of health

C．natural foods are more nutritious than processed ones

D．natural foods, as natural alternatives, can also provide people with energy

(3)Which of the following descriptions of chickens raised in poultry farms is false?

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A．They are fed on food which is little better than garbage.

B．They live in very crowded condition.

C．The eggs they lay lack important vitamins.

D．They are fed well and move around in one building.

(4)By mentioning “the question of sugar” (Line 2, Para．3), the author implies that ________ .

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A．the output of sugar cannot meet the needs of our consumption

B．sugar, as one kind of additive, is bad for health

C．the increasing consumption of sugar is habit forming

D．sugar merely sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful

(5)Which of the following can we infer from the passage?

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A．Soil that is rich in organic matter is not nourished by chemical fertilizers.

B．Nowadays chemical fertilizers are scarecely used in agriculture.

C．People will live on more and more sugar.

D．Fiber does not play a remarkable role in healthy diet.

　　Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is necessary for their life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have all been told and told again, is as necessary as putting gas in the family car before starting a trip.

　　But for many people the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is by no means a pleasure. So despite（尽管）all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures are available （可得到的）, the number of people who didn't have breakfast increased by 33 percent-from 8.8 million to 11.7 million--according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.

　　For those who feel pain or guilty（内疚的）about not eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years show that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong without having breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect performance,”said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve performance.”

　　Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better performance is surprisingly not proper, and most of the recent work relates to children, not adults. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr．Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, “is poor”.

(1)The latest year for which figures could be obtained is ________ .

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(2)For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that ________ .

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A．several studies have been done in the past few years

B．the omission of breakfast does no harm to one' s health

C．adults have especially made studies in this field

D．eating little in the morning is good for health

(3)“…nor does giving people breakfast improve performance” means ________ .

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A．anyone without breakfast does improve his performance

B．not giving people breakfast improve performance

C．having breakfast does not improve performance, either

D．people having breakfast do improve their performance, too

(4)The word“literature”in the last sentence refers to ________ .

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A．stories, poems, plays, etc.

B．written works on a particular subject

C．any printed material

D．the modem literature of America

(5)What is implied but not stated by the author is that ________ .

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A．breakfast does not affect performance

B．Dr．Pollitt is engaged in research work at an institution of higher learning

C．not eating breakfast might affect the health of children

D．Professor Bender once taught college course in nutrition in London

　　Even the fairest and most impartial（不偏袒的）newspaper is a medium of propaganda（宣传）. Every daily newspaper has an editorial page. Here opinion is expressed on events and personalities in the news. But editorial judgment is so persuasively presented that many people accept these opinions as facts. Good journalists uphold a code of ethics which distinguishes between news and editorial opinions. This code holds that in an editorial column the publisher is entitled to advocate any cause he chooses. It is understood that there he is speaking as a partisan（党人）and may express any view he desires. Because a modern newspaper is so expensive to produce and so costly to establish, newspapers have increasingly become big business organizations. Although there are exceptions, these large newspapers tend to reflect the views of their owners in their editorials on economic and political matters.

　　In the news columns, however, the complete and unbiased facts should be reported. The better metropolitan newspapers and the great press associations usually can be relied on to keep their news impartial. But the less ethical publications often deliberately“color”the news to favor or oppose certain groups or movements.

(1)The author states that no modern newspaper ________.

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A．is free of propaganda

B．is controlled by big business interests

C．separates fact and opinion

D．operates according to a code of ethics

(2)According to the passage, all daily newspapers ________.

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A．have an editorial page

B．follow a code of ethics

C．are operated by an unbiased publisher

D．are supported by a big business organization

(3)According to the journalistic code of ethics, a newspaper must ________.

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A．accept only responsible advertisers

B．separate editorials from news

C．interpret news according to its editorial viewpoint

D．determine what the reader should know about the news

(4)According to the passage, a newspaper publisher may use the ________ editorial page to support.

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A．only the cause which is most popular

B．any cause supported by the advertisers

C．any cause he believes in

D．only the cause of the owners

(5)Newspapers have entered the category of large business organizations because of ________.

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A．their influence on the reading public

B．their reports of stock market activity

C．the millions of papers sold daily

D．the tremendous costs of production

　　A good reader is one who can read beyond the lines, seeing ideas implied through the words, and one who can bridge the gap between the obvious and the suggested, thus obtaining much more information. Let's look at the following sentence: JOHN HENDERSON WAS DRIVING HOME LATE LAST NIGHT FROM AN EXHAUSTING BUSINESS TRIP. As you might have realized, this is the opening sentence of a story. It tells the reader whom the story is about--John Henderson, and when the event takes place--late one night. If we read carefully and thoughtfully we can also infer from this sentence that:

　　1. John Henderson may be a businessman because he has just finished a “business trip”.

　　2. John Henderson must be very tired because the trip is“exhausting”.

　　3. John Henderson must be very eager to get home because he is driving “late”at night right after this exhausting（精疲力尽）trip.

　　Making inferences while reading will always help us achieve a better comprehension. But we should keep in mind that inferences must be made with care and supported by evidence. In order to make reasonable inferences we should:

　　1. Read and think beyond the printed words.

　　2. Analyze the information given in the text.

　　3. Determine the author's reason for his choice of words.

(1)According to the author, a good reader ________.

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A．can read between the lines

B．should have a large vocabulary

C．knows enough grammar rules

D．must have a good knowledge of the author

(2)From the quoted sentence, you know John Henderson was most likely ________.

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(3)From the quoted sentence, you know John Henderson had a(an) ________.

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(4)When the author asks us to make inferences while reading, he intends to say ________.

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(5)The best topic of the passage is ________.

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　　About three hundred words in the English language come from the names of people. Many of these words are technical words. When there is a new invention or discovery, a new word may be coined after the inventor or scientist.

　　It is interesting to observe how many common words have found their way into the language from the names of people. Lord Sandwich who lived from 1718～1792 used to sit at the gambling（赌博）table eating slices（片）of bread with meat in between. As the Lord was the only one among his friends who ate bread in that way, his friends began to call the bread “sandwich” for fun. Later on the word became part of the English language.

　　The word“boycott”means to refuse to have anything to do with somebody or something. It comes from a man called Captain Boycott. He was a land agent（代理人）in 1880 and he collected rents and taxes for an English landowner in Ireland. His tenants decided not to speak to him at all. Eventually（终于）word got back to the landowner and the Captain was removed. The word “boycott” became popular and was used by everyone to mean the kind of treatment that was received by Captain Boycott.

(1)Lord Sandwich was fond of ________.

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(2)The tenants did not like ________.

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(3)When the landowner found out that the tenants were boycotting his land agent, he ________.

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A．dismissed the Captain

B．praised the Captain and made the word“boycott”popular

C．removed the poor tenants

D．increased the rents and taxes

(4)The writer mainly tells us ________.

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A．two interesting stories

B．how to use the two words

C．Lord Sandwich and Captain Boycott

D．something about the origin of words

　　There are many commonly held beliefs about eyeglasses and eyesight that are not proved to be facts. For example, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes. But there is nothing to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age. Wearing wrong glasses. however, can prove harmful. Studies show that only children can develop poor eyesight if they have wrong glasses. We have all heard of some of the myths（荒诞的说法）about how eyesight gets bad. Most people believe that reading in poor light causes poor eyesight, but that is untrue. Too little light makes the eyes work harder so they soon get tired and strained（疲劳）. Eyestrain also results from reading too long, reading in bed, or watching too much television. But, although eyestrain may cause some pains or headaches, it does not harm eyesight directly. Nevertheless, proper lighting, when reading or studying, is essential（基本的）to maintain（保持）good eyesight.

　　Another myth about eyes is that they can be transplanted. It is quite difficult to connect an eyeball to a new brain. And it is impossible to transplant a whole eyeball to another person. Only certain parts of the eye can be transplanted now. But if we keep clearing up the myths and learning more about the eyes, some day it may be possible to replace a full ball.

(1)This passage mainly tells us that ________.

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A．people have many wrong beliefs about eyes and eyesight

B．there are many things about the body that are not completely understood

C．there are several causes of eyestrain

D．eyes are important to people

(2)How many wrong beliefs about eyes and eyeglasses are mentioned in the passage? ________

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(3)Perhaps the author believes that ________.

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A．people are still learning things about eyesight

B．headaches are usually caused by eyestrain

C．people should wear glasses as soon as possible

D．people only believe things that are proved facts

(4)“commonly held beliefs”in the first sentence means ________.

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A．ideas that only low-class people believe

B．ideas that most people believe

C．beliefs that have something in common

D．foolish beliefs

(5)What does the word“transplant”mean? ________

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A．To transport from one place to another.

B．To translate from one part to another part.

C．To move from one part of the body to another.

D．To change one form to another.

　　Today's teenagers, at least in the eyes of the older generation, have no reason to be unhappy. However, a recent survey（调查）aiming at teenagers in 22 provinces shows that 12.97 percent of the people questioned have some sort of mental problems. This originates from quarrelling with people or from pressure with studies, causing depression, constant worry and fear, the survey says.

　　Experts warn that mental problems are becoming an increasingly bigger threat to teenagers, and have resulted in higher rates of smoking, drug taking and over-drinking among youth.

　　Today's teenagers are faced with tougher challenges in study and employment. As an only child in a family, young people bear higher expectations from their parents.

　　Living under such great pressure makes teenagers susceptible to mental problems. On the other hand, teachers and parents tend to focus their attentions on academic performances, but take no notice of their feelings.

　　Mental problems, if not addressed properly will greatly influence the quality of the country's talent（人才）. It is estimated（估计）that by the year 2020, mental illness will increase to one fourth of the total cases of illness from the present one fifth.

　　The survey should ring alarm bells to schools and parents, and efficient measures must be taken to ensure the health of our teenagers-both physically and mentally.

　　School should build up a contingent（可能的事件）of professional personnel to give students regular checkups and consultations（咨询）on their mental health.

　　Parents are encouraged to make friends with their children so that they are willing to and dare to share their problems with parents.

(1)The author's purpose in writing the text is ________.

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A．to settle the teenagers' mental problems

B．to blame the teachers and parents for the teenagers' mental problem

C．to tell us the reasons for the problem

D．to analyze（分析）the problem which is important to teenagers

(2)The survey says the teenagers have mental problems because ________.

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A．their quarrels with others or pressure with studies cause depression, constant worry and fear

B．their parents give too high expectations to them

C．their teachers and parents don't pay much attention to their feelings

D．they are not given regular checkups and consultations on their mental health

(3)It can be inferred that ________.

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A．mental illness is one fifth of the total cases of illness now

B．all parents are not friends of their children who'd like to share problems with them

C．mental problems are becoming more and more dangerous to young people

D．parents think there is no reason for the teenagers not to be happy

(4)The author's attitude towards the problem can be described as ________.

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(5)“susceptible”in Paragraph 4 is close in meaning to ________.

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A．likely to feel a strong effect from

B．doubtful

C．afraid of something to happen

D．against