At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to__bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of diets but nothing worked. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my weight.

When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me____. I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with this extra weight any more.

That year, I____a seminar(研讨课) where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world. A seminar leader shared her____story —she had not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $25,000 for homeless children.

____by her story, I created the As We heal(痊愈), the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000. In this way, I could not only heal myself but heal the world by supporting a movement set up 30 years ago to end hunger.

____I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would run into the same difficulties that beat me before. While the____hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right path. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It worked perfectly. Donations began ____in from hundreds of people.

Of course, I also took some practical steps to lose weight. I hired a fitness coach. I began to eat small and___ meals and exercise often.

A year later, I____my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and great.

1.A. add B. mix C. kill D. share

2.A. simply B. specially C. secretly D. seriously

3.A. organized B. mentioned C. attended D. recommended

4.A. sad B. successful C. ancient D. cartoon

5.A. Surprised B. Reminded C. Influenced D. controlled

6.A. AS B. Until C. If D. Unless

7.A. excitment B. fear C. anger D. joy

8.A. breaking B. stepping C. jumping D. flooding

9.A. heavy B. healthy C. expense D. full

10.A. reached B. remembered C. missed D. dropped

Attention residents(居民)!

Spring is here and the office of Loveland Housing is happy to announce the dates for the 2019 Spring Cleanup!

The cleanup in Loveland will take place on Saturday May 11th, beginning at 9:00 a. m. We will also do pick-up for Dove Valley, Windsor Meadows, and Century III on the same day. The cleanup at Lone Tree in Estes Park will be done on Sunday May 12th, 2019. If you have something that you would like to be picked up, please call the Spring Cleanup line at 970-635-5958. Please leave your name, complete address, phone number, and a list of the objects that you wish to be picked up. If you do not call or provide all of this information, your objects will not be picked up. You can leave a message up until Friday May 10th, 2019.

If you are in a town house, please leave all household(家用) objects outside in front of your unit on the sidewalk. If you are in a flat, leave all household objects in front of the building in the grass areas. All objects must be outside by 9:00 a. m on the morning of pick-up.

Non-acceptable objects include: televisions, air conditioners, washing machines, fridges, or other electrical products; dangerous materials such as motor oil, paint, auto batteries, cleaning products, chemicals; other everyday household rubbish. If you have any of these objects and you do not know what to do with them, turn to the local resource disposal(处置) office for help.

The City of Loveland has provided a truck for the cleanup and the Loveland Housing staff members have volunteered their time so that we can offer this service for free! So get your objects ready and call to take advantage while you still can! Thanks!

1.Where will a pick-up be done on Sunday May 12th?

A. In Windsor Meadows. B. At Dove Valley.

C. At Lone Tree. D. In Loveland.

2.What will probably be collected during the 2019 Spring Cleanup?

A. Food waste. B. Furniture. C. Televisions. D. paint

3.The notice is announced mainly to .

A. get the residents prepared for the cleanup

B. show the residents a list of non-acceptable objects

C. tell the residents the pick-up service is free

D. have the residents know the date of the 2019 Spring Cleanup

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is a lovely song for children, but it has two misunderstandings (误解). First, stars aren’t little. Some may be Earth-sized, but most are bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system (太阳系). Second, they don’t twinkle; they shine. And the brightness and color of the light from each star provide information about its temperature, size and even its age. viewing the stars from Earth is a bit like looking at them through a water filter (过滤器) because the air is thick compared to the emptiness of space. What is more, air is always moving, so starlight appears to be moving, too. The air also makes stars appear dimmer (暗淡的) than they would be if we could see them from space.

If you stop and look at the sky carefully on a dark and moonless night, it’s easy to find color differences among stars. The color of a star is a signal of its surface temperature. The hottest stars are blue, and the next hottest are white. Yellow stars like the sun are next, while red stars are the coolest of the visible (可见的) stars. Many red stars are so dim that people can’t see them at all, and some stars hardly send out any light at all. One reason that stars different in brightness is that hotter stars produce more energy than cooler ones, but another important reason is that some are much bigger than others.

Some stars appear brighter to humans simply because they’re closer. Astronomers rank (排列) the brightness of stars which are seen from Earth by giving them a name known as magnitude (光度) ---the smaller the magnitude, the brighter the object. They have also designed a number that ranks stars according to how bright they are when compared to each other. With a magnitude of minus 26.7, the sun is the brightest object in the sky.

1.From the song quite familiar to children, the writer wants to prove that .

A. most stars are smaller than Jupiter

B. Jupiter is bigger and brighter than Earth

C. stars are very large and always shine brightly

D. starlight’s brightness and color are the signs of its temperature

2.Magnitude is designed to see .

A. how far a star is from Earth

B. how bright a star is compared to other stars

C. how far a star is from other stars

D. how bright a star is seen from Earth

3.Which is the best title of this passage?

A. What do stars look like?

B. Which song do children like best?

C. How to view the stars from Earth?

D. Why are many stars so dim at night?

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