每年的4月23日是“世界读书日”。尽管在科技日益发达的今天，人们获取知识与信息的途径有很多，我们还是鼓励更多的人阅读。 请以Reading—A Bright Way to A Better life为题写一篇英语作文，要点包括下表中的信息。

阅读的好处	阅读需要	考生您
操作灵活，便于获取信息；扩大视野，客观认识自然和社会。	选择内容 良好习惯 长期坚持	喜欢阅读的内容（概括）……
提升自身素养，利于人际交流；丰富生活，带来欢乐。		坚持阅读的体会…
更好生存的手段。

　　注意：1. 词数150左右。
2. 不要纯粹照点翻译。
3. 文中不能出现真实姓名。
Reading—A Bright Way to A Better life
Knowledge may be acquired through many ways, the best of which is reading. In the age of high technology, reading deserves to be paid attention to.

Children brought up on healthy diets are more intelligent compared with their junk food eating partners, a new research suggests．  

Kids fed a diet packed high in fats, sugars, and processed（加工）  foods had lower IQs than those fed pasta（意大利面食）, salads and fruit,  it was found．

The effect is so great that researchers from the University of Bristol said those children with a "healthier" diet may get an IQ improvement．

Scientists stressed good diet was essential in a child's early life as the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life．

This indicated head growth at this time is linked to intellectual ability and “it is possible that good nutrition（营养） during this period may encourage excellent brain growth” ．

Scientists tracked the long term health and happiness of around 14,000 children born in 1991 and 1992 as part of the West Country's Avon Longitudinal（纵向的）Study of Parents and Children （ ALSPAC） ．

Parents were questioned about the types and frequency of the food and drink their children consumed when they were three, four, seven and eight and a half years old． According to their different changing form, these children were marked and given grades which ranged from minus two for the most healthy to10 for the most unhealthy．

In the research, IQ was measured of 4,000 children when they were eight and half years old,  using a validated（经过认证的）test－the Wechsler Intelligence Scale（韦氏儿童智力量表） for Children．

The results found after taking account of some influential factors, a leading processed food diet at the age of three was associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half , whether the diet was improved after that age．

Every l point increase in dietary pattern score was associated with a l.67 fall in IQ．

1.Scientists stressed good diet was essential in a child’s early life because        .

A．the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life．

B．those children with a "healthier" diet must get an IQ improvement．

C．children brought up on healthy diets are less intelligent．

D．these children were given good grades．

2.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Those children with a "healthier" diet may get an IQ improvement．

B．Good nutrition at any stage may encourage excellent brain growth．

C．Scientists tracked the long term health and happiness of about 14,000 children．

D．Every l point increase in dietary pattern score was associated with a l．67 fall in IQ．

3.The results found if a child ate a leading processed food diet when he was 3, he would          ．

A．have a higher IQ

B．have a higher IQ as long as he improved his diet

C．have one IQ when he was 8

D．have a lower IQ whether he improved his diet

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A．Food for thought

B．What is healthy food?

C．Healthy diet improves children's intelligence

D．How to become clever?

 

Do you still get free plastic bags（塑料袋） from the supermarket（超市）? Things will change soon.
To protect(保护) the environment, supermarkets in China will stop providing (提供) free plastic bags after June 1st. If you don't want to pay money to buy them, you'll have to bring your own shopping bag.
What kind of bags will be the best to bring? Students in Kunming Xinying Middle School have some good ideas.
Recently 54 students of the school held an activity in which they made their own environmentally-friendly shopping bags.
Most students used old clothes to make their bags. They painted pictures like the Olympic rings on them.
But Wang Shuncheng, a Junior 2 boy, chose a different material (材料). He made his bag with old newspaper. Is a newspaper bag strong enough to hold shopping? Wang says it is, "No problem. I put six bottles of water in the bag," he said. "It's strong enough!"
Chen Lisi, a girl, had a more traditional way to make her bag – she weaved (编织) a bamboo basket. It was not an easy job. With her grandfather's help, Chen spent a whole afternoon making it. She also weaved wool (毛线) flowers on the basket.
Making bags was not all the students did. They had another job: to persuade their parents and relatives to use environmentally-friendly shopping bags instead of plastic ones. The school will show the bags so that shops and stores can get inspiration (灵感) from the students' work.
【小题1】On June 2nd, if you don’t bring a shopping bag, ________ in the market.

A．you can get free plastic bags

B．you’ll have to pay for the plastic bags

C．you can’t buy anything

D．you can’t use plastic bags

【小题2】From the passage, we can infer(推测) that ___________.

A．Plastic bags will not come into our life any more.

B．When you go shopping after June 2nd, you have to bring a shopping bag.

C．Plastic bags are bad for the environment.

D．No one will use plastic bags after June 2nd.

【小题3】What does “persuade” in the last paragraph mean?

A．劝说

B．阻止

C．保证

D．反对

【小题4】Supermarkets in China stop providing plastic bags because _________.

A．they want to save money

B．markets want to make more money

C．plastic bags are very expensive

D．they want to protect the environment

【小题5】Which of the following is not right from the passage?

A．People may use other material to make shopping bags.

B．The students’ work may bring inspiration to the supermarkets.

C．You can’t use plastic bags in supermarkets any more after June 1st.

D．The newspaper bag made by Wang Shuncheng seems strong.

Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: Once we have learned something, additional learning trials(尝试) increase the length of time we will remember it.
In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.
The multiplication tables(乘法口诀表) are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.
The law of overlearning explains why cramming(突击学习)for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one's future development.
【小题1】What is the main idea of paragraph 1?

A．People remember well what they learned in childhood.

B．Children have a better memory than grown-ups.

C．Poem reading is a good way to learn words.

D．Stories for children are easy to remember.

【小题2】The author explains the law of overlearning by_________.

A．presenting research findings

B．setting down general rules

C．making a comparison

D．using examples

【小题3】According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_______.

A．a result of overlearning

B．a special case of cramming

C．a skill to deal with math problems

D．a basic step towards advanced studies

【小题4】What does the word "they" in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Commonly accepted rules.

B．The multiplication tables.

C．Things easily forgotten.

D．School subjects.

【小题5】What is the author's opinion on cramming?

A．It leads to failure in college exams.

B．It's helpful only in a limited way.

C．It's possible to result in poor memory.

D．It increases students' learning interest.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only

be used once.  Note that there is one word more than you need.

A．probably

B．attached

C．respectively

D．finalists E. beating

F.  sales    G. amazing     H. similar    I. included   J. contest

Do you have a problem with the messy homework? Good news! You may soon be able to solve that, thanks to Keagan Bolibol and her Problem Pad.

Keagan is the winner of the Staples Invention Quest for kids, a (41)________ that encourages people to invent helpful office products. This is the first year that the Invention Quest has （42）________ a category for kids. “ I’m very excited,” Keagan told Scholastic News Online. “ I really can’t believe I actually did it. From the moment I entered it, it’s really (43)________that I should make it this far.”

Keagan was one of the five (44) _______ in the kids’ category. She is a fourth-grader in Woodinville, Washington.  Keagan’s Problem Pad is (45)________ to a dry-erase board except that it can fit into a notebook. It also has a pen (46)_______ to the bottom, along with helpful tools like a multiplication table (乘法表). Kids can use the Problem Pad to do their homework and other projects. They can make mistakes and then erase them. When they finally get them right, they can copy their work on a clean sheet of paper.

Keagan received a $25,000 prize for her invention, (47) ________ thousands of other kids. If her product is produced and sold in Staples stores, she can also receive royalties（版税），part of the money made from (48)________ of a product. “ I’m (49) ________ going to donate some to charities. Then the rest is for college,” said Keagan.