About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight.This is almost one out of every three people in the United States.Some people eat  1  food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others do running exercise with machines,take medicines,or even have operations.you can see losing weight is  3  work,and it will also cost a lot of money.But  4 do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about their look of the body.For many people,looking nice also means to be  5 .Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6  overweight is not good.
Most people want to find a faster and  7  way to take off fat,and books of this kind are very popular.These books tell people how to lose weight.Each year a lot of new books like these are  8  .Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.
Losing weight can be expensive.Some overweight people go to health centers,like La Costa in California.Men and women 9 several hundred dollars a day at these health centers.People live there for one week or two,taking exercise,eating different foods.Meals there may be just a little.All this works for losing weight. 10 4 days on the program,one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds(2.27kg).At 400 dollars a day, she spent 320dollars to lose each pound.But she said she was still glad to do so.
Health centers,books,medicines,operations,running and exercise machines all get a lot of money.So in the United States,losing Weight may mean losing money too。

【小题1】
A.1essB.moreC.niceD.fast
【小题2】
A.ForB.SoC.OrD.And
【小题3】
A.goodB.usefulC.hardD.easy
【小题4】
A.whyB.whatC.howD.when
【小题5】
A.highB.shortC.thinD.fat
【小题6】
A.talkB.sayC.speakD.tell
【小题7】
A.dearerB.harderC.shorterD.easier
【小题8】
A.takenB.givenC.writtenD.copied
【小题9】
A.payB.costC.takeD.have
【小题10】
A.BeforeB.UntilC.AfterD.At

It was Mother's Day. John was so busy with his work that he had ___1___time to return home. When he passed by a flower shop in the evening, he got an idea. "I'll send Mum some roses ."
___2___John was picking his flowers, another young man went inside. "How many roses can I get for only five dollars, Madam?" he asked. The assistant Nancy was trying to tell him roses were as ___3___as forty dollars a dozen . Maybe he would only buy some carnations.
"No, I have to have red roses. " He said, "My mum was badly ill last year and I didn't spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special, it has to be roses ___4___rose is her favorite. "
After hearing it, John said he would pay the rest of the money for the young man. When the young man took the roses, he almost jumped into the air and ran out of the shop. John was quite excited to see that. Then John took out his money and___5___his roses and asked the assistant to send them to his mother.
As he walked out, he saw the young man crossing the street and going into a___6___. But soon he found it was not a park but a cemetery. Crying, the young man___7___put down the roses," Mum, oh, Mum, why didn't I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help ___8___find my mum and tell her I love her..."
___9___thinking anything, John turned and quickly walked back to the shop. He would take the __10____home himself.

【小题1】
A.noB.enoughC.muchD.more
【小题2】
A.AfterB.JustC.WhileD.Before
【小题3】
A.cheapB.beautifulC.expensiveD.awful
【小题4】
A.becauseB.soC.butD.when
【小题5】
A.looked afterB.took awayC.paid forD.got out
【小题6】
A.shopB.parkC.train stationD.hospital
【小题7】
A.loudlyB.happilyC.carefullyD.hardly
【小题8】
A.himB.herC.meD.them
【小题9】
A.AsB.WithC.withoutD.For
【小题10】
A.carnationsB.moneyC.scarfD.flowers

If you have a bottle of water recycled(再利用) from urine(尿), would you drink it? Astronauts at the ISS may soon do so.
NASA(美国航空航天局) said it would use a high-tech machine to recycle wastewater at the ISS. The machine will recycle water for washing hands, shower water, water for brushing teeth and even urine to make drinking water. It will save millions of dollars each year.
At present, each ISS astronaut uses about 4.4 liters(升) of water every day. It costs about 24 million dollars a year to send water up to the ISS. A liter of water costs about $ 11,000.
The machine will be sent to the ISS later. NASA hopes it will recycle about 93% of all the water used on the station.
Will the water be clean? Different chemicals will be put in the wastewater. The water will be heated to 130℃ to kill bacteria(细菌). Scientists say that the recycled water is thousands of times better than the water from a city tap.
【小题1】NASA will use a high-tech machine to recycle wastewater at the ISS to ______.

A.protect the ISS
B.make the astronauts work harder
C.provide better water and food for the astronauts
D.save the cost of sending water up to the ISS
【小题2】At present it costs NASA about ______ dollars to transport water up to an astronaut at the ISS a day.
A.4.4 thousandB.11 thousand
C.48.4 thousandD.24 million
【小题3】Scientists plan to get rid of bacteria in the wastewater by ______.
A.freezingB.heating
C.shakingD.precipitating(沉淀)
【小题4】The passage mainly tells us something about ______.
A.water recycling at the ISS
B.the International Space Station
C.a high-tech machine
D.the cost of NASA
【小题5】Which of the following sentences is TURE?
A.The recycled water is much better than that from a city tap.
B.The high-tech machine will recycle all the water used on the station.
C.The ISS astronauts use more water than us.
D.The high-tech machine can only recycle urine to make water.

It was very late at night when Sam got off the train . He was tired and wanted to find a hotel to have a rest. He looked around and saw a hotel not far away. There were three floors in it. Then Sam went in.

“How much do I need to pay for a single(单人的) room a night?” Sam asked.

“Well , sir,”said the girl, “a single room on the first floor is fifty dollars a night.”

“What about the one on the second floor?” asked Sam.

“Forty dollars.”

“Then how about the one on the third floor?”

“Thirty dollars.”

Sam picked up his suitcase(手提箱) and wanted to go out.

“Don’t you think our price is reasonable?” The girl said.

“Yes,” said Sam. “Your price is of course reasonable, but I’m sure your hotel is not high enough.”

1.Sam wanted to find a hotel after_______.

A.working a whole day                     B.getting off the train

C.getting out of his car                     D.walking a whole day

2.How many floors were there in the hotel?

A.One             B.Two              C.Three            D.Four

3.Sam needed to pay_____for a single room on the second floor.

A.$50              B.$40              C.$30              D.$20

4.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “reasonable”?

A.理智的           B.昂贵的           C.奇怪的           D.合理的

5.Why didn’t Sam stay in the hotel?

A.Because the hotel was full(满的)

B.Because the hotel wasn’t clean.

C.Because the hotel wasn’t nice enough.

D.Because Sam thought the price was high.

 

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