题目内容
13.Is Dieting Ok for Kids?You may know some adults and kids who worry about their weight and say they're going on a diet.You might wonder if you should be on a diet,too.(36)CWhy?Let's find out.
Dieting to Lose Weight
(37)EWhen someone diets to lose weight,the person is trying to eat fewer calories than the body uses.By doing this,the person may lose body fat and decrease his or her weight.Likewise,if a person eats more calories than the body uses,the person may gain weight.
Kids usually do not need to diet in this way.(38)BDuring this time,kids need a variety of healthy foods to keep their bodies growing properly.Some kids are overweight,but even overweight kids often can improve their health simply by eating nutritious foods and being more active.
(39)GBut kids may hurt their health even more by doing something drastic,like skipping meals or deciding to eat only lettuce.
Who Needs to Diet?
Though some people may feel they weigh too much or too little,there is no perfect body shape.Some people have larger frames (bigger bones) and will always look bigger and heavier than people with smaller frames.
(40)FYour doctor can examine you and check your body mass index (身体质量指数).That's a way of estimating how much body fat you have.If the doctor is concerned about your weight,he or she can recommend a couple of goals:
for you to gain weight at a slower pace
for you to maintain your current weight
For some kids,the doctor may recommend losing some weight,but this should be done with the doctor's help.Kids who need to lose weight may visit with a dietitian who can explain how to reduce calories safely while still getting all the necessary nutrients.
A.It is important to form a good eating habit.
B.Unlike adults,kids are still growing and developing.
C.But most kids do not need to-and should not-diet this way.
D.Not eating properly can be very harmful to kids.
E.All foods and many drinks contains calories.
F.Talk to your doctor if you have questions about your weight.
G.Being overweight can cause health problems.
分析 本文是一篇科普类文章,你可能知道一些成年人和孩子担心自己的体重,说他们会在节食,你可能会想你是否应该节食.但是大部分孩子都不需要节食,本文以此展开谈论,介绍了节食是为了减少体重,需要节食的人群.
解答 36.答案:C.句意:但是大部分孩子不需要以这种方式节食.根据"You might wonder if you should be on a diet,too"及下文可知,C符合语境.故选C.
37.答案:E.句意:所有食物和许多饮料都包含卡路里.根据"When someone diets to lose weight,the person is trying to eat fewer calories than the body uses"可知,E符合语境.故选E.
38.答案:B.句意:不像成年人,孩子还在生长和发育.根据"During this time,kids need a variety of healthy foods to keep their bodies growing properly"可知,B符合语境.故选B.
39.答案:G.句意:超重会造成健康问题.根据"But kids may hurt their health even more by doing something drastic,like skipping meals or deciding to eat only lettuce"可知,G符合语境.故选G.
40.答案:F.句意:如果对你的体重有问题,和你的医生交流.根据"Your doctor can examine you and check your body mass index (身体质量指数)"可知,F符合语境.故选F.
点评 本文是一篇科普类文章,题目主要考查文章内容理解及上下文联系,做题时应结合文章上下文内容并根据所给选项的含义进行分析,从而得出正确答案.切记胡乱猜测,一定要做到有理有据.
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A new law was passed by Milan's city council banning the sale of take-away food and drinks after midnight in some districts which are famous for their nightlife (42)F.The purpose of this unusual move is,according to the city council,to discourage night gathering in downtown areas.
The law inevitably has given rise to a number of protests,accusing that the government has (43)K people's normal lives.However,if you take into consideration the country's (44)H economy and its high unemployment rate,the local government's fear of‘night assembling'may be reasonable.
In fact,Milan's law is only the strangest of a host of restrictions on nightlife that have (45)A up in European cities recently.Madrid's city center was declared a‘low-noise zone'last September and the city council has been refusing to (46)D bar and club licenses ever since.
Why do European cities deal so strictly with nightlife?It may be because Europe's population is getting older and can no longer (47)Jlate night activities within the neighborhood.
In the past,bars and clubs bloomed in European city centers,which were (48)B to working class populations.But gradually,these people began to move out of the city centers and into the suburbs.Only the wealthy and the upper-class people can afford to live in (49)I centers now.But these people don't go to bars and clubs to socialize.Instead,they consider fun-seekers who wander in their neighborhoods annoying.They also worry that bars and clubs will make their neighborhoods less (50)C and devalue their housing property.
"They not only make it (40)Bto sleep at night,but they are doing (41)Cto our houses and shops,"said John Norris,one of the protesters.
"If we must have these (42)Dtrucks on the roads,"said Jean Lacey,a biology student,"why don't we build a new road that goes round the town?Burlington isn't much (43)Cthan a large village.It is the place which is very famous for the local places of interest.Its narrow high streets were never(44)Bfor heavy traffic."
Harry Fields also learning (45)Csaid they wanted to make as much(46)Das possible to force the (47)Ato realize what everybody was having to (48)A."Most people don't live here anyway,"he said,"they come far away from here for (49)Bagainst heavy trucks running through the narrow high streets all the time.The Town Hall is soundproof(隔音的),so it is probably difficult for the government officials in the hall to(50)Athe noise all that much.But ifs high time that the officials realized the problem."
The fourth student,Liza Vernum,said she thought the public were(51)Don their side,and even if they weren't,they soon would be.
I asked if they were (52)Bthat the police might come to stop them."Not really,"one of them said,"actually we are (53)Abell-ringers.I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church.There is no(54)Bagainst doing like this."
I left the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears,(55)Dit was right or wrong of them to do so.
36.A.satisfied | B.disturbed | C.frightened | D.excited |
37.A.college | B.village | C.town | D.church |
38.A.change | B.repair | C.ring | D.shake |
39.A.now and then | B.day and night | C.up and down | D.sooner or later |
40.A.easy | B.difficult | C.uncomfortable | D.pleasant |
41.A.work | B.good | C.damage | D.research |
42.A.fast | B.modern | C.old-fashioned | D.noisy |
43.A.cleaner | B.bigger | C.more | D.dirtier |
44.A.tested | B.meant | C.kept | D.picked |
45.A.history | B.tour | C.biology | D.building |
46.A.money | B.mess | C.trouble | D.noise |
47.A.government | B.students | C.people | D.drivers |
48.A.stand | B.accept | C.know | D.share |
49.A.shopping | B.meeting | C.working | D.studying |
50.A.notice | B.mention | C.fear | D.control |
51.A.never | B.seldom | C.entirely | D.mostly |
52.A.surprised | B.afraid | C.pleased | D.determined |
53.A.proper | B.experienced | C.hopeful | D.serious |
54.A.driver | B.law | C.official | D.student |
55.A.reminding | B.remembering | C.agreeing | D.wondering |
It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel(方向盘),his car becomes the additional part of his personality.There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man's very worst qualities.People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind a steering-wheel.They swear,they are ill-mannered and aggressive,willful as two-year-olds and completely selfish.All their hidden anger,disappointments and envies seem to be exposed by the act of driving.
The surprising thing is that society only smiles so kindly on the motorist when seeing his behaviors talked about above.Everything is done for his convenience.Cities are allowed to become almost unsuitable to live because of heavy traffic; towns are made ugly by huge car parks; the countryside is damaged by road networks; and the mass annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic,to be conveniently forgotten.
It is high time a world code were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life.In regard to driving,the laws of some countries are dishonorably loose and even the strictest are not strict enough.A code which was universally accepted could only have a dramatically beneficial effect on the accident rate.Here are a few examples of some things that might be done.The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is; all the drivers should be made to take a test every three years; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through inflexible annual tests for safety.Even the smallest amount of alcohol in the blood can destroy a person's driving ability,so present drinking and driving laws (where they exist) should be made much stricter.The highest and lowest speed limits should be put on all roads,as has been done in the USA.All advertising stressing power and performance should be banned.These measures may sound unacceptably harsh.But surely nothing should be considered to be too severe if it results in reducing the annual loss of human life.After all,the world is for human beings,not for motor-cars.
Title:Strict Traffic Laws Can Prevent Accidents | |
Present situation of road accidents | .Road accidents seem to happen (71)frequently. .We are quietly sitting back and letting road slaughter happen. |
(72)Reasons for so many road accidents | .When driving a car,a man tends to become ill-mannered and behave in an (73)aggressiveway. .It seems that all the hidden anger,disappointment and envies are (74)exposedby the act of driving. .Society just (75)tolerate/bearvarious kinds of bad behavior of a motorist. .People (76)ignore/overlookthe road accident statistics. |
(77)Measures that should be taken to reduce road accidents | .The driving test should be standardized and made much more difficult. .All the drivers should take a test every three years. .Only people at or (78)above/over 21 can get a driving license. .All vehicles should be given strict annual tests.Drinking and driving laws should be made much stricter. .The highest and the lowest speed limits should be put to (79)use. .No advertising which stresses power and performance should be (80)allowed/permitted. |
Gaul,with about 170seventh-and eighth-graders,has its own history of lower level academic achievement.One likely reason:education beyond the basic requirements hasn't always been a top priority for families who've worked the same land for generations.Here,few adults have college degrees,and outsiders(teachers included) are often kept at a respectful distance.
Since 2002,Gaul's students have been divided into four classes,each of them was taught almost every subject by two teachers.The goal:to find common threads across disciplines to help students create a big picture that gives fresh meaning and context to their classwork and sparks motivation for leaning.
Working within state guidelines,each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans,incorporating non-textbook literature,hands-on lab work and fields trips.If students are covering the Civil War in social studies,they're reading The Read Badge of Courage or some other period literature in English class.In science,they study the viruses and bacteria that caused many deaths in the war.
Team teaching isn't unusual.About 77percent middle schools now employ some form of it,says John Lounsbury,consulting editor for the National Middle School Association.But most schools use four-or five-person teams,which Gaul tried before considering two-person teams more effective.Gual supports the team concept by"looping"classes (跟班)so that the same two teachers stick with the same teens through seventh and eighth grades.Combining teams and looping creates an extremely strong bond between teacher and student.It also,says teacher Beth Ahlholm,"allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."
Ahlholm and teammate Madelon Kelly are fully aware how many glazed looks they see in the classroom,but they know 72percent of their eighth-graders met Maine's reading standard last year--double the statewide average.Only 31percent met the Maths standard,still better than the state average(21percent).Their students also beat the state average in writing and science.And in 2006,Gual was one of 47schools in the state to see testing gains of at least 20percent in four of the previous five years,coinciding roughly with team teaching'arrival.
A Classroom with Context | |
Problems of the school | Being a farming town,it (149)achieved little in education before. |
(150)Further education is considered less important. | |
The community is relatively (151)closed rather than open to the outsiders. | |
Ways of solving the problems | The division of the classes is made and students are well (152)motivated. |
Individual schedules and lesson plans are (153)made/adopted/conducted by each team. | |
A strong (154)bond/tie/connection between teacher and student is established through combining teams and looping. | |
Signs of (155)success | 72percent of the eighth-graders (156)meeting/reaching Maine's reading standard |
(157)Tenpercent higher than the state average in Maths | |
The school beating the state average in writing and science | |
Four of the previous five years (158)seeing/witnessing at least 20percent test gains |
--Pity!You didn't listen to my advice; otherwise,you _________.( )
A. | would not have taken in | B. | might not be cheated | ||
C. | should not have been taken in | D. | would not have been taken in |