题目内容
It is ________ we do-you and I ________ changes the world.
- A.that; that
- B.that; what
- C.what; that
- D.what; what
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 classes | B.the lost cooking skills |
C.the healthy eating | D.the reason for obesity |
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. |
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. |
A.difficult | B.necessary | C.funny | D.timely |
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 lot | B.go to bed early | C.get up late | D.go to bed late |
A.More than ten hours | B.Over eleven hours. |
C.Less than seven hours. | D.Eight hours or so. |
A.eat more food | B.sleep more | C.get up late | D.take enough exercise |
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. |