Traveling is one of the most important activities and people have been interested in it for many years. Modern traffics develops fast, so traveling to different places has become much easier than before.

Staying healthy:while traveling can make your trip happier. But do you know how to keep healthy during a trip? The following information may be useful for you.

Before leaving:

● Wear comfortable shoes, a hat and sunglasses.

● Take some necessary medicine with you. They can be used when you get sick or have other problems.

● If you do lots of sports like walking or climbing on your trip, you should do some exercise for weeks or months before you leave.

While traveling:

● Be sure not to eat dirty food or bad fruit.

● Have enough time to take a rest during your trip.

● Tap water(自来水) is not safe, so drink bottled water and always clean the cover on the bottle.

1.The passage mainly talks about ________.

A. eatingB. travelingdrinkingD. shopping

2.If you do lots of sports while traveling, you should ________ before you leave.

A. do some exercise for weeks or months

B. learn more about sports

C. watch many sports games

D. buy a car

3.You should ________ before you leave your home for trip.

A. take some medicine with you

B. clean your house

C. drink much water

D. wear warm clothes

4.You had better ________ while you are having a trip.

A. do enough exercise

B. have enough time to take a rest

C. drink tap water

D. be too tired

5.If you ________ while travelling, your trip will be happier.

A. walk fastB. eat too much

C. keep healthyD. climb the mountain

It seems school children all over the world complain about their school food. Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said that she would prepare a packed lunch for her son if school dinners do not improve. So what do students of your age eat for lunch at school?

Japan

High schools have canteens(餐厅), which serve everything from noodles to rice, but not burgers and chips. Other children bring food from home such as cold rice balls, meat or fish, pickles(泡菜) and vegetables.

Students take home a menu for the coming month containing notes on nutrition value. Twice a year parents are invited to have a taste of the food. The class with the fewest leftovers(剩饭) at the end of the month receives a prize.

United States

A typical menu from a US school is made up of a hamburger with fried potatoes or roast chicken, lettuce and pickles, fruit and cookies. School lunches must also provide at least one-third of the daily dietary allowances(定量) of protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, calcium and calories.

Australia

Meat pies, sausage rolls and hot dogs are all traditional dishes in Australian school shops. But as the nation pays more attention to children’s health, healthier foods have started to find their way onto school menus.

Many schools have used a traffic light system. The sale of red-labelled(标签) foods, including pastries, chocolate and soft drinks, is served only twice a week. Healthier green-labelled foods such as sushi, sandwiches, corn and watermelon, however, are available every day.

In some schools, students have a choice of up to 89 foods to choose from, including popcorn and rice.

South Africa

Most of South Africa’s schools do not serve meals at all. Classes end at 1:30 p.m. and students get their own lunches. Many students bring food from home, usually sandwiches.

Fast food and fried food sell the best among students, which has led to a rise in obesity among children. But as more people began to realize the fact that being too fat may cause different diseases, some schools in towns have led the way towards better nutrition(营养). Now students at these schools are provided with lunches of porridge(粥) with vegetables, such as cabbages, onions, beans, carrots and tomatoes.

1.We can infer from the text that ________.

A. a usual menu from a US school has enough nutrition

B. most students in South Africa eat their lunch at home

C. many schools in Australia have traffic lights outside their school

D. you can have whatever you like in school canteens in Japan

2.What does the underlined word “obesity” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Fighting.B. Sadness.C. Food shortage.D. Overweight.

3.What is the main idea of the text?

A. Schools should try to satisfy the needs of students.

B. Schools serve different foods from country to country.

C. Food served in the US is the best of all.

D. School children all over the world dislike their school food.

4.The text is written for ________.

A. school lunch sellers

B. schoolmasters

C. students of your age

D. nutritionists (营养学家)

Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to another culture or race.

People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.

“Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “Cinderella, or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”

Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “there is a greater need for communication”. Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.

Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. “The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere,” she says.

“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says, “What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody’s story.”

1.What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?

A. They share the same way of storytelling.

B. They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures.

C. They learn their stories from the American natives.

D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.

2.The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____.

A. start a new lifeB. settle down in another place

C. direct filmsD. become good actors

3.Pugh has practiced storytelling with _____ groups of people.

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

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