题目内容
I’m a skeptic（怀疑论者）when it comes to the benefits of taking vitamins and other supplements. We swallow far more than any other country---yet we’re not the healthiest folks by far, nor do we live the longest.
There’s more bad news for vitamins this week: Turns out that taking folic acid （叶酸）and vitamin B12 supplements doesn’t prevent heart attacks or death, according to a major new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was hoped they would, since the vitamins do reduce levels of homocysteine, an amino acid（氨基酸）that is higher in the blood of people who have a higher risk of heart disease. In fact, homocysteine was reduced 30 percent after one year of treatment in the participants who took both vitamins. But in the following three years, just as many vitamin takers died as those who didn’t take the vitamins. Even worse, the study was stopped early because another similar study suggested that there may be an increased risk of cancer from taking B vitamins.
I had been taking a health ---food store monster multivitamin（综合维生素剂）for months. Coincidentally, I had been experiencing some strange numbness in my legs that was starting to scare me. I remember sitting in a long meeting with ankles crossed, and when I tried to stand up I crumpled on the floor and lit my chin on the glass coffee table because my leg had gone completely numb and worthless. As I sat there and shook my leg, I got that “pins and needles” feeling and soon was OK. But it scared me enough to make an appointment with a neurologist who suggested an MRI to rule out multiple sclerosis, stroke, or a brain tumor.
While I’ll never know for sure if the vitamins caused my problem, many, many studies have reminded us that pill forms of vitamins and minerals don’t provide the same benefit as getting them form food. There’s a lot we don’t know about how the human body works. Until we know more, I’m getting of my vitamins from the famer’s market.
1．Why do people take folic acid and vitamin B12 supplements?
A．They want to stop heart attacks or live longer.
B．They want to liver longer.
C．They want to increase risk of cancer.
D．They want to experience some strange numbness.
2．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．It was the multivitamin he took that caused the writher to get the “Pins and needles” feeling.
B．Taking more vitamins will not make a man healthier or live longer.
C．The vitamins can reduce levels of homocysteine in our body.
D．The less homocysteine in our blood, the less chance we’ll have heart attacks.
3．What can we know from the last paragraph?
A．The writer is getting most of pill forms of vitamins form the markets.
B．The writer continues to take vitamins in great quantities.
C．The writer is getting vitamins from food, which can provide more benefits.
D．The writer will never take pill forms of vitamins and minerals.
4．The best title of the passage can be .
A．Vitamins: Benefit Us Lot B．Vitamins: No Help for Your Heart
C．Vitamins: Bad for the Brain, Too D．Some Bad News about Vitamins
AACD
六、书面表达（满分15分）
假如你是李华，今年上高三在即，看到大家每天为自己所做的一切，深有感受。请根据下表提示，写一篇110词左右的短文、可以适当增加细节、适当发挥。
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家长 |
生活上的照顾 |
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学校 |
提供方便（安排讲座……） |
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老师 |
学习上的帮助（鼓励，答疑解难……） |
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你自己 |
（自由发挥，至少两点） |
开头已经给你：
I’m a senior 3 student. The college entrance exam is on the way. ___________________________
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下面是美国著名游记作家Bill Bryson的几本作品，首先请阅读它们的封面信息：
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A. |
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail |
B. |
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America |
C. |
I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away |
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D. |
The Road Less Traveled: 1000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail |
E. |
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe |
F. |
The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity |
下面是对这几本书的简要介绍，请把它们对应的封面信息找出来：
1. In this collection, Bill Bryson is writing from home. We find he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic perspective(远望视角) of one who has stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson holds the mirror up to U.S. culture and feel strange to his motherland.
2.This book is a guide to the world’s unspoilt sights and experiences. It presents one thousand fresh and fascinating alternatives to hundreds of well-known tourist destinations and sights, including alternatives to the Carnival in Rio and the beaches of Thailand, the most-visited national parks, over-rated restaurants and holiday sites.
3.Returning to the U.S. after 20 years in England, Bill Bryson decided to reconnect with his mother country by hiking the length of the 2100-mile Appalachian Trail. Awed by merely the camping section of his local sporting goods store, he still goes into the wilderness and learns hard lessons about self-reliance.
4. A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. This book is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth, the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him to across 38 states in the country, which is like a small town in his opinion.
5.Born in Iowa, Bryson backpacked through Europe as a young man. While living in England some 20 years later, he revisited many of the same places from arctic Norway’s northern lights to romantic Capri in Italy. Here he jumps back and forth between old memories and new experiences.