题目内容
Terry Thomas has a very boring job ,although it pays very well .What Terry does is sitting in a rowboat all day long .He makes $ 16.37 an hour ,which is certainly an excellent wage for sitting in a little boat and doing nothing.
The boat stays all day under a bridge that is being rebuilt. There is a distance of about 100 feet between the boat and the workers on the bridge overhead. The rest of Terry’s fellow workers are up on the bridge working . Terry’s job is to rescue anyone who falls off the bridge into the water. So far, no one has given him anything to do .Although he’s delighted that none of his companions has fallen into the water, he also admits that the job is very boring because there is nothing to do.
No one on the work crew really wants duty on the boat. But the job is a union requirement ,and it must be filled. To quality for the job, a person must be an excellent swimmer and have training in lifesaving skills. Only a few men on the work crew meet those standards. Before Terry took the boat job, several others had it and gave up because they found it so tedious.
What does Terry do in his little boat all day? He spends a good bit of time making sure that his suntan lotion is adequate for the job of protecting his skin. He reads and listens to the radio .Each day he looks forward to lunch and then to quitting time.
1.What’s the best title for the passage?
A．A Boring Job B．The Man in a Rowboat
C．A Job of Great Skill D．Hard Physical Labor
2.Another word for the underlined word “tedious” is .
A．difficult B．boring C．serious D．tiring
3.Terry uses the suntan lotion because .
A．he likes the smell B．he’s out in the sun all day
C．his shirt is torn D．it keeps the fly away
4.The best part of Terry’s job is .
A．the books they give him B．getting to work with his friends
C．the chance of promotion D．the pay, lunch, and quitting time
1.A
2.B
3.B
4.D
Less TV Reduce Kids Weight
PALO AITO, California—“Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter—even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise,” US researchers said last week.
A study of 192 third and fourth grades, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds （0.91 kg） less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
“The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity,” said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician （儿科专家）at Stanford University.
“ American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years,” Robinson said.
In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continue their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet nor took part in any extra exercise.
“One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around and burning off calories,” Robinson said.
“Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more,” Robinson added.
【小题1】 The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ____.
| A．children will get fatter if they eat too much. |
| B．children will get thinner if they eat less. |
| C．children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV. |
| D．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV. |
| A．is more than four hours a day. | B．is less than four hours a day. |
| C．doubled in the last twenty years. | D．is more than on any other activities. |
| A．Children usually eat fewer while watching TV. |
| B．Children usually eat more while watching TV. |
| C．Children eat the same amount of meals while watching TV. |
| D．Children usually eat nothing while watching TV. |
| A．They usually eat more while watching TV. |
| B．They burn off fewer calories. |
| C．They change their diet while watching TV. |
| D．Both A and B |
A．he likes the smell B．he’s out in the sun all day