English teenagers are to receive compulsory(必修的)cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to fight the country’s increasing obesity(肥胖)rate. It’s feared that basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost as parents turn to pre-pre-pared convenience foods.
Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in England-even if it was mainly aimed at girls. In recent decades cooking has progressively become a minor activity in schools. In  many cases the schools themselves have given up cooking meals in kitchens in the schools .But the rising level of obesity has led to a rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught.
“What I want is to teach young people how to do basic, simple recipes like a tomato sauce, a bolognaise, a simple curry, a stir-fry-which they can use now at home and then in their later life”, said Ed Balls, the minister responsible for schools.
The new lessons are due to start in September, but some schools without kitchens will be given longer to adapt. There is also likely to be a shortage of teachers with the right skills, since the trend has been to teach food technology rather than practical cooking. Also the compulsory lessons for hands on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the well-known cookery writer, Pru  Leith, believes it will be worth it .
“If we’d done this thirty years ago we might not have the crisis we’ve got now about obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook, not just so that they’ll be healthy, but because it’s a life skill which is a real pleasure”.
The renewed interest in cooking is primarily a response to the level of obesity in Britain which is among the highest in Europe, and according to government figures half of all Britains will be obese in 25 years if current trends are not stopped.
【小题1】The passage mainly talks about        .

A.the compulsory cooking classesB.the lost cooking skills
C.the healthy eatingD.the reason for obesity
【小题2】Which of the following is NOT the purpose for English teenagers to receive cooking lessons?
A.To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food.
B.To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate.
C.To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost.
D.To stop parents from turning to pre-prepared convenience foods.
【小题3】In what way will cooking lessons benefit the students?
A.They will be able to do some basic, simple recipes like a tomato sauce.
B.They will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well.
C.They will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills.
D.They will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country.
【小题4】The well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, thinks it        to offer compulsory cooking lessons in schools.
A.difficultB.necessaryC.funnyD.timely
【小题5】It can be inferred from the passage that       .
A.cooking has always been an important part of school education in England
B.English teenagers will have their cooking lessons twice a week for one year
C.the obesity rate in Britain has been rapidly growing in recent decades
D.the students will pay a lot of money to the school for their cooking lessons

If you want to keep healthy, you should have good habits. What is a habit? It is something we do very often. We don’t even think when we do it. It has become a part of our lives.
“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” This is an old English saying. Do you know what it means? It means that we must go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy, rich and clever.
Is this true? Perhaps it is. We know the body must have enough sleep. Boys and girls need eight or nine hours’ sleep every day.
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is a very bad habit. Then you will not think or do your work well. Of course, you can’t be healthy, wealthy or wise.
When we get up early in the morning, we can go out and do morning exercises. Exercise means doing things with the body. Walking, running jumping, swimming, and playing ball games are all exercise. If we don’t exercise, our body will become weak.
Exercise helps the blood (血液) to move around inside our body. Blood takes food to all parts of our body.
Our body also needs air to breathe. Without air, we will die. We must have lots of clean fresh air if we want to be healthy. That is why many people like to go out to do morning exercise.
【小题1】From the passage we know that it is good for our health to ____ .

A.eat a lotB.go to bed earlyC.get up late D.go to bed late
【小题2】How long should young boys and girls need to sleep a day?
A.More than ten hoursB.Over eleven hours.
C.Less than seven hours. D.Eight hours or so.
【小题3】If we want to keep healthy, we must ____ .
A.eat more foodB.sleep moreC.get up lateD.take enough exercise
【小题4】Which of the following habits is NOT GOOD?
A.Don’t go to bed until twelve o’clock..
B.Take a walk after supper.
C.Run in the open air early in the morning.
D.Climb hills for half an hour early in the morning.

It's really true what people say about English politeness: it's everywhere.When squeezing past someone in a narrow aisle, people say "sorry".When getting off a bus, English passengers say "thank you" rather than the driver.In Germany, people would never dream of doing these things.

After all, squeezing past others sometimes can't be avoided.and the bus driver is merely doing his job.I used lo think the same way, without questioning it, until I started traveling to the British Isles and came to appreciate some more polite ways of communicating with people.

People thank each other everywhere in England, all the time.When people buy something in a shop, customer and retail assistant in most cases thank each other twice or more.In Germany, it would be exceptional to hear more than one thank you in such a conversation.British students thank their lecturers when leaving the room.English employers thank their employees for doing their jobs as opposed to Germans, who would normally think that paying their workers money is already enough.

Another thing I observed during my stay was that English people rarely criticize others.Even when I was working and mistakes were pointed out to me.my employers stressed several times but none of their explanations were intended as criticism.It has been my impression that by avoiding criticism, English people are making an effort to make others feel comfortable.This also is shown in other ways.British men still open doors for women, and British men are more likely to treat women to a meal than German men.However, 1 do need to point out here that this applies to English men a bit more than it would to Scottish men' Yes, the latter are a bit tightfisted.

1.What is the author's attitude towards English politeness?

    A.He appreciates it                    B.He gives no personal opinion

    C.He thinks it is artificial             D.He thinks it goes too far.

2.What can we learn about customers and retail assistants in Germany?

    A.It's always a retail assistant who says thank you.

    B.A customer never says thank you to a retail assistant.

    C.They always say thank you to each other.

    D.They may say thank you only once.

3.We can learn from the last paragraph that Scottish men _____.

    A.are more likely to be involved in a fighting.

    B.are not so willing to spend money for women.

    C.are more polite than English men.

    D.treat women in a polite way.

4.The author develops the text through the method of         .

    A.giving comments                      B.telling stories

    C.making comparisons       D.giving reasons

 

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