The global figures reveal that even the Americans put Britain to shame when it comes to taking exercise. Britain has one of the most sedentary populations on the earth, with almost twice the proportion of people defined as “inactive” as in neighboring France. In the UK, 63.3 percent of the population fails to meet recommended levels of physical activity, increasing their risk of conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. By contrast, 40.5 percent of US citizens are inactive, despite more than 30 percent of them being obese.
Now, there’s good news. Smart foods that tell the brain you have eaten enough could hold the key to beating obesity, researchers have claimed. They hope the foods will contain a special chemical which mimics (模仿) the message our gut (肠道) sends to the brain when it is full. By sending the message earlier, the brain can be fooled into not overeating. “We know nutrients interact with gut cells, which send chemical messengers——hormones —— to the brain to signal ‘stomach full’,” Dr. Jens Holst said.
This message from our food to gut to brain is now being used to fight obesity. Holst discovered GLP1, which acts on parts of the brain that regulate appetite. “There is a raft of hormones, which will tend to help end a meal,” said Dr. Holst. “We don’t know much about which nutrients are involved and whether we can handle how food interacts with those signaling systems and how those systems are integrated(整合) at different levels in the brain.”
The team hopes their research could lead to drugs which mimic the message, and hopes to eventually make food that can also contain the messages. “It would be even better if we could come up with smart foods,” said Holst.
1.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “sedentary” in Paragraph 1?
A. Proud. B. Inactive.
C. Silent. D. Energetic.
2.What message could smart foods probably tell the brain?
A. Which food tastes good.
B. When to stop eating.
C. How to get enough nutrition.
D. How to live a healthy life.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Smart foods still have a long way to go.
B. Dr. Holst doesn’t think highly of smart foods.
C. There will be more and more overweight people.
D. It’s fashionable to stay slim at present.
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The global figures reveal that even the Americans put Britain to shame when it comes to taking exercise. Britain has one of the most sedentary populations on the earth, with almost twice the proportion of people defined as “inactive” as in neighboring France. In the UK, 63.3 percent of the population fails to meet recommended levels of physical activity, increasing their risk of conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. By contrast, 40.5 percent of US citizens are inactive, despite more than 30 percent of them being obese.
Now, there’s good news. Smart foods that tell the brain you have eaten enough could hold the key to beating obesity, researchers have claimed. They hope the foods will contain a special chemical which mimics (模仿) the message our gut (肠道) sends to the brain when it is full. By sending the message earlier, the brain can be fooled into not overeating. “We know nutrients interact with gut cells, which send chemical messengers——hormones —— to the brain to signal ‘stomach full’,” Dr. Jens Holst said.
This message from our food to gut to brain is now being used to fight obesity. Holst discovered GLP1, which acts on parts of the brain that regulate appetite. “There is a raft of hormones, which will tend to help end a meal,” said Dr. Holst. “We don’t know much about which nutrients are involved and whether we can handle how food interacts with those signaling systems and how those systems are integrated(整合) at different levels in the brain.”
The team hopes their research could lead to drugs which mimic the message, and hopes to eventually make food that can also contain the messages. “It would be even better if we could come up with smart foods,” said Holst.
1.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “sedentary” in Paragraph 1?
A. Proud. B. Inactive.
C. Silent. D. Energetic.
2.What message could smart foods probably tell the brain?
A. Which food tastes good.
B. When to stop eating.
C. How to get enough nutrition.
D. How to live a healthy life.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Smart foods still have a long way to go.
B. Dr. Holst doesn’t think highly of smart foods.
C. There will be more and more overweight people.
D. It’s fashionable to stay slim at present.
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dWolf Warrior IIis putting China in the global spotlight. It’s also the first film 1. (taste) success both in terms of box office（票房）earnings and promoting Chinese values.
Since its release on July 27, it 2. (earn) an unimaginable 4.5 billion yuan, setting a record for domestic movies at the box office. The film focuses on a rescue operation in Africa, 3. (lead) by former special forces soldier Leng Feng — played by Wu Jing helps Chinese workers and local Africans flee a war-torn（受到战争破坏的）and plague-ravaged（瘟疫肆虐的）country.
Wolf Warrior II links（联系）art to reality, and reminds people 4. the massive evacuation（撤离）of Chinese people from Libya when civil war 5. (break) out there in 2011, and from Yemen in 2015, as well as the challenges the Ebola virus created in West Africa from 2013 to 2016.
The film describes 6. the Chinese government aims to protect overseas Chinese citizens. Just 7. the message at the end of the film reads, “Citizens of People’s Republic of China, when you encounter danger in a foreign land, do not give up! Please remember, at your back 8. (stand) a strong motherland.”
Thanks to China’s increasing participation（参与）in global affairs, the president could 9. (consider) as a modern Chinese hero. “10. (hold) up a banner（信仰）of peace, friendship and responsibility, Wolf Warrior II should be seen as a brave effort to promote Chinese values around the world.
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Wolf Warriors II is putting China in the global spotlight. It’s also the first film 1.( taste) success both in terms of box office earnings and promoting Chinese values.
Since its release on July 27, it 2.( earn) an unimaginable 4.5 billion yuan, 3. ( set) a record for domestic movies at the box office. The film focuses on a rescue operation in Africa, 4.( lead) by former special forces soldier Leng Feng—played by Wu Jing —who helps Chinese workers and local African 5.(flee) a war-torn and plague-ravaged(瘟疫肆虐的) country.
Wolf Warriors II links art to reality, and reminds people of the massive evacuation(撤离) of Chinese people from Libya 6. civil war broke out there in 2011, and from Yemen in 2015, as well as the challenges the Ebola virus created in West Africa from 2013 to 2016.
The film describes 7. the Chinese government aims to protect overseas Chinese citizens. Just8. the message at the end of the film reads, “Citizens of the People’s Republic of China, when you encounter danger in a foreign land, do not give up! People remember! At your back 9.(stand) a strong motherland.”
Thanks to China’s increasing participation in global affairs, the president could be considered as modern Chinese hero. 10.（hold）up a banner(旗帜) of peace, friendship and responsibility, Wolf Warriors II should be seen as a brave effort to promote Chinese values around the world.
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Finally, I got a part – time job working at the local coffee shop. I had figured that the job would be easy. However, the actual situation was not what I had expected. The customers were hard to please. There was always too much sugar, too little ice, or not enough skimmed milk. However, I kept at it.
One rainy day, Hank, one of my regular customers, came in looking sad and defeated. I asked what the problem was and if we could help, but Hank wouldn’t tell me any details. He just said he felt like going to bed, pulling the sheets up over his head, and staying there for a few days. I knew exactly how he felt.
Before he left, I handed him a bag of his favorite type of doughnuts along with his iced coffee. He looked at me skeptically because he hadn’t ordered anything else except iced coffee.
“It’s on me,” I told him. “Have a nice day.”
He smiled and thanked me before turning around and heading back out into the rain.
The next day was a horrible one. The rain kept pouring down and I spent my afternoon hanging out the window, handing people their orders. What’s worse, no one felt like tipping that day.
However, around 7:00 pm, Hank drove up to the window. Instead of ordering anything, he handed me a single pink rose and a little note. He said that few people take the time to care about others nowadays and he was glad there were still people like me in the world. I was speechless and very touched; I hadn’t thought that I had done anything incredible.
The note read:
Christine,
Thanks for being so sweet, kind and thoughtful yesterday. I was sincerely touched by you. It is so nice to meet someone that’s nice, warm, sensitive and unselfish. Please don’t change your ways because I truly believe that you will excel. Have a great day!
Hank
Later, I did come across more complaining customers. But anytime I felt sad or just sick of coffee, I thought of Hank and his kindness. Then I would smile, hold my head up high, clear my throat and ask politely, “How can I help you?”
1.How did the author feel after he began to work at the coffee shop?
A．Disappointed. B．Confused. C． Excited . D．Satisfied.
2.What happened to the regular customer of the author?
A．He was very sick and had to stay in bed for some days.
B．He was not satisfied with the coffee served to him.
C．He was anxious to stay at home for a long time.
D．He was not feeling himself for some reasons.
3.What does the underlined word “skeptically” probably mean in the passage?
A．questioningly B．hopefully C．anxiously D．excitedly
4.It was Hank who helped the author realize the importance of .
A．patience in one’s work
B．being kind to regular customers
C．taking time to care about others
D．sticking to one’s own career
5.What is the best title of the passage?
A．Coffee Shop Kindness B .A Warm – hearted Man
C．My Part – time Job D．A Horrible Raining Day
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Yaoming is so tall that he can be ________in the crowd easily.
A. picked up B. picked out
C. figured out D. helped out
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One side effect of globalization and the related phenomenon of greatly increased mobility is that the traditional definition of “foreigner” has passed its sell-by date.
Is a European who has lived in China longer than in his home country, becoming fluent in the language and culture in the process, still a foreigner in China, or has he become more of a foreigner in his own home town? What about a Beijinger who did her schooling in Canada and then lived and worked in mainstream society there for another 20 years while raising a family, who has no intention of returning to China? Does she think and act like a foreigner? What do we mean by this label(标签)?
When I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, the faces you would see during a walk through a local shopping mall back in the 1960s and 1970s included almost none of Asian descent. Today the same malls are full of Asian faces, and a glance at the ranks of top scoring students in local schools reveals lots of Asian surnames.
To some extent, this is no great surprise in the American context, because America is a land of immigrants, and a cultural melting pot. Apart from the native American Indians, Americans are (or were), in some way, all foreigners anyway. Absorbing a large number of immigrants is an established pattern in American history.
In most places, the traditional foreigners were people who didn’t speak or read the local languages well, were unfamiliar with local customs and lifestyles, often engaged in relatively third-class work, and certainly not the type of people you would want your sons or daughters to marry. But, nowadays, a foreigner down the street may have better SAT scores than you did, or higher degree from a better university. He might also be your son’s or daughter’s next employer.
The traditional role models are getting mixed up, and it looks like this is just the beginning of a new chapter. Today, the whole thing has totally changed. It’s not about where people are from or what color their skins are. It’s about who they are, what values and skills they bring, and how they think.
1.By mentioning a European and a Beijinger, the author tends to tell us ____.
A. it’s no longer proper to define foreigners according to their birthplaces
B. the label of foreigners can never be removed
C. most foreigners can do well in learning languages
D. it’s impossible for a foreigner to get recognition abroad
2.What can be inferred from the 3rd paragraph?
A. In 1960s and 1970s, Asians didn’t shop in Chicago.
B. Today, more and more Asian travelers like to shop in Chicago.
C. There are more Asian immigrants today than in the 1960s and 1970s in Chicago.
D. Most Asian students do well academically in the schools in Chicago.
3.The underlined part in paragraph 1 has the closest meaning to____.
A. the term “foreigner” should be redefined
B. the term “foreigner” should no longer be used
C. there are no more foreigners in the world today
D. the term “foreigner” is not proper to define people
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Globalization and mobility caused more and more immigrants.
B. The standards of defining “foreigner” have thoroughly changed.
C. America is a cultural melting pot.
D. Immigration is a global social phenomenon.
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A rising population is one of the main reasons that there is global warming. Between 1650 and 1850 the population increased by 0.75 billion people going from 0.25 billion to one billion. From 1930 to the end of the century the population rose from two billion to over six billion. In just a third of the time the population rose by more than five times what it did before. It is expected that this trend in the changing population will continue and could even heighten. The growing population requires increasing amounts of energy. These energy demands and other supplies require production, which almost always involves the emission of greenhouse gases. The more the population increases the more greenhouse gases that are produced and the greater the increase in temperature.
The burning of fossil fuels is one of the best-known causes for global warming. The major reason for fossil fuels contributing so much to global warming is the release of carbon that occurs during the burning of fossil fuels. When people burn fossil fuels, they release large amounts of carbon by way of the release of carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide in the air then leads to global warming.
Another source of carbon dioxide comes from deforestation. In forests there is a large amount of carbon that is stored in the trees and other plants. This carbon is out of the atmosphere because the trees consume the carbon from carbon dioxide. When people cut down trees, they are frequently burned. This burning releases the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that was stored in organic matter. Even when new trees are planted, it can take up to one hundred years to make up for the carbon that was released. It is commonly thought that because trees absorb more carbon dioxide, the atmosphere experiences positive effects.
Sophie Armstrong, the writer of Earth Care put it, “There’s no doubt that the earth is becoming warmer because of human activity rather than a random but natural phenomenon.
1.Which of the following titles goes with the text?
A. A Rising Population
B. Saving Sources of Energy
C. Global warming: The causes
D. Carbon Dioxide
2.The underlined word “deforestation” means________ .
A. rising population B. burning of fossil fuels
C. greenhouse gas D. cutting down or burning trees.
3.To sum up from the passage, it is_________ that has caused global warming.
A. human activity B. sources of energy
C. natural forces D. the polluted atmosphere
4.Which column of a website might the passage come from?
A. Economy. B. Art C. Environment D. Health
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You might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation（撤离）of an island nation—the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland.
During the 20th century , sea level rose 8—12 inches. As a result ,Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water which has polluted the country’s drinking water.
Paani Laupepa , a Tuvaluan government official ,reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years .Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms.
Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions（导致温室效应的气体排放）,which are a main cause of global warming . “By refusing to sign the agreement ,the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC.
Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries .
Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable （易受影响的）to rising sea levels .Maumoon Gayoon ,president of the Maldives ,told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”.
1.The text is mainly about ________.
A．rapid changes in earth’s temperature
B．bad effects of global warming
C．moving of a country to a new place
D．reasons for lowland flooding
2.According to scientists ,the direct cause of more and fiercer storms is ________.
A．greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations
B．higher surface water temperatures of the sea
C．continuous global warming
D．rising sea levels
3.Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not ________.
A．agree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
B．sign an agreement with Tuvalu
C．allow Tuvaluans to move to the US
D．believe the problems facing Tuvalu were real
4.The country whose situation is similar to that of Tuvalu is ________.
A．Australia B．New Zealand C．the Maldives D．the United States
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What is eBay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can
trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods, including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on.
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started eBay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade(升级) and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great.com crashes of the late 1990s, eBay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet.
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is take an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place .Of course for each item (商品)sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.
1.We learn from the text that eBay provides people with_______.
A. a way of buying and selling goods
B. a website for them to upgrade
C. a place to exhibit their own photos
D. a chance to buy things at low prices
2. Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?
A. For fun. B. To make money.
C. For gathering the engineers. D. To fulfill a task of his company.
3.From “he has never looked back”in Paragraph 2, we learn that Peter______.
A. did not feel lonely B. was always hopeful
C. did not think about the past D. became more and more successful
4.How does eBay make money from its website?
A. By bringing sellers together. B. By charging for each sale.
C. By listing items online. D. By making e-photos.
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It is widely known that burning coal for electricity is one of the main causes for global warming , but we can’t ignore the cars’ _____ to the greenhouse effect.
A. devotion B. contribution
C. attraction D. reflection
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