题目内容
you saw last week? The major cause of your forgetfulness may be linked to what you store in your body,
not in your short-term memory bank.
Tests continue to show that people with enough Vitamin B-2 do well in memory exams. The "B"
could stand for "brain", if you're one of many with limited instant recall. And the number one source of
that vitamin is sunflower seeds.
Even when you're sleeping or relaxing, your brain is still at work. Although it makes up just two
percent of your total body weight, it uses up to 30 % of the calories you take in each day. For it to work
properly, it must be fed. Even if you're not a breakfast eater, that meal is the best way to prepare your
brain for the day. A quick and easy English muffin with peanut and butter in it, a glass of milk, and an
orange, might be what your brain may be asking you the first thing in the morning when you feel your
head is in a fog. Having sunflower seeds and fruit between meals adds more muscle to that hungry,
demanding organ. Vitamin B-1 also helps the memory, and that is found in eggs, meats and nuts. In
Chinese culture, walnuts (核桃) are known as the fruit for a long life because it is believed that they feed
both the kidneys and the brain. And according to Chinese culture, if you keep those two important organs
in good working order, you'll live longer.
However forgetful you are, just keep in mind the letter "B", which will help you to "bear in mind
almost everything" even on those days when life's challenges are sending you in a billion directions.
1. The underlined word "muffin" in the third paragraph probably means_________.
A. menu
B. dinner
C. calorie
D. cookie
2. In the passage, Chinese culture is mentioned to____________.
A. support the idea of long life
B. show the importance of vitamin B-1
C. warn the readers of two organs
D. remind us of walnuts and sunflower seeds
3. What can we conclude from the passage?
A. What we eat seems more important than what we learn in terms of memory.
B. Two percent of our brain is still active when we are sleeping or relaxing.
C. It doesn't make much difference to our brain whether we have breakfast or not.
D. Life's challenges have no effect on our memory, if dealt with in a proper way.
4. The best title for the passage could be_______________.
A. Human of Memory Loss
B. Vitamin B-2 and Memory
C. Forgetful? But not Brain
D. Chinese Culture of Long Life
阅读理解
Do you ever have days when everything seems to go wrong? Sarah Rosenbaum does. In fact, last week nothing seemed to go right for her at all…
On Monday her mom and dad were out, so Sarah decided to have a TV dinner. She wanted to switch the oven off at 7: 30 but she was practicing the cello, and it wasn't until 8 o'clock that she suddenly realized: she had forgotten her TV dinner ! She rushed into the kitchen, but it was too late- everything was black.
On Tuesday she offered to clean up the apartment for her parents. After she had vacuumed the carpets, she threw away a pile of old newspapers and computer magazines. The next day, dad asked where they were. He wanted to cut our an article he had seen in one of the computer magazines, and he was furious when he found out that Sarah had thrown them away. On Wednesday she took Foxy for a walk in the park and lost him. She looked for him everywhere, but he had disappeared. The stupid dog came back later, but that was after Mrs Rosenbaum had telephoned nearly everybody in the neighborhood.
Thursday went all right until the evening. Sarah put the dirty things in the dish-washer and switched it on, but when she emptied it later, two of the glasses she had put in were broken. Her mom wasn't very pleased because she always washed the good glasses by hand.
Now it was Friday, and Sarah wanted to go the hamburger drive-in with Nacy, Bob and Mike that evening. But she had already spent her pocket money. In fact, she had spent it on Monday, just after mom had given it to her. “Shall I ask dad for the money for tonight?” She wondered. “After all the stupid things I did this week. ”
1.What happened to Sarah on Monday?
[ ]
A.She got everything black.
B.She ruined her TV dinner.
C.She forgot the time.
D.Her parents were out without her.
2.On ________, Sarah found out that she had made a mistake to throw away ______ .
[ ]
A.Tuesday, computer magazines
B.Wednesday, a pile of old newspapers
C.Wednesday, computer magazine
D.Thurday, a pile of old newspapers and computer magazines
3.Sarah's father was furious when he found out that Sarah had thrown the magazines away. “Furious” is close in meaning to
[ ]
A.disappointed |
B.curious |
C.delighted |
D.angry |
4.What made her worried on Friday?
[ ]
A.She did all the stupid things that week.
B.Her mother gave her pocket money on Monday.
C.She broke two of the glasses.
D.She had no money left to go to the hamburg drive-in with her friends.
5.What is the best title for the passage?
[ ]
A.A Busy Week. |
B.Everything Goes Well. |
C.What a Week! |
D.An Unlucky Girl. |