When  people    travel    in  another  city  or   country ,they  sometimes  stay  in  the  homes of the local people.  This is called   homestay  .   It  is    a  great  experience  because  you  can  meet  people    from   a  different  country   or  city  and  learn  something  new  about   that  place   .                                                                                       I  am  Wan  Li  from  China.  I came  to  the  UK   with  my  friends  for  a  short   visit  .    we   are  living   with  an English  couple   ,Mr.   and  Mrs.Green  ,in  the  west   of    London.    They   have    a    wonderful      four –bedroom  house   .     This   is  a new   house  .  It   has    two   bathrooms     and  a   garden    with  many    beautiful    flowers.   I   have   a   bedroom    of   my   own   .                                                                                     
There  are   some    shopping    centres    and     restaurants     near     the    house,     and   the  house   is  close   to   an     underground  station. It  takes   about  thirty  minutes  to  get  to   the  centre  of  London. 
I  think   a  homestay   may  be   a  good   choice  for  you  if  it  is  your  first  time  to  visit  abroad .  The local  people  are  friendly  and  willing  to  help. If  you  happen  to  celebrate   the  holidays  with  them,  you  will  get  to  know  more  about    western  culture  and  customs.
【小题1】The  underlined  word   homestay   in  the  passage  means_________.

请根据句意或括号中的中文提示、英文释义，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。
【小题1】She loves taking photos and always takes her    ▲   (照相机) wherever she goes.
【小题2】Now that they have a baby, they    ▲   (很少，不常) get the chance to go to the cinema together.
【小题3】It will be Mike’s twelfth    ▲   (the day of one’s birth) next Saturday.
【小题4】With the help of the police, Tim was    ▲   (having good luck) enough to get back his lost bike.
【小题5】Tom did very badly in the maths test. Poor him! He    ▲   the test again.

Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

?? Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩) and pumping（向---送出） blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

??? Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: "Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart."

??? The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, "The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. So our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don't see - and guide whether we see fear."

?? To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person's feeling of fear. "We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’ to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear," Dr Garfinkel said.

?? "We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder."

1.What is the finding of the study?

A. fear has something to do with one's health.

B. fear is a result of one's relaxed heartbeat.

C. One's heart affects how he feels fear.

D. One’s fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

2.When are people more likely to feel a sense of fear ?

A. When the heartbeat is relaxed.

B. When their hearts are contracting.

C. When people are tired.

D. When people are happy.

3.The study was carried out by analyzing （分析）_______.

A. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

B. volunteers' heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

C. volunteers' reactions to horrible pictures and data form their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

4.Which of the following is closest in meaning to "mechanism" in Paragraph 6?

A. Order.           B. Machine.          C. Treatment.          D. System.

5.This study may be useful to _______.

A. treating anxiety and stress better

B. explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety

C. finding the sky to the heart-brain communication

D. understanding different fears in our hearts and heads

It seems that women and beauty go together.? I think so.? Look around yourself. Fashion ads are almost everywhere.? Whether they have realized or not, a sea of. fashion is all around women.? They are made to think that without beautiful clothes they will look old and lose their charm(魅力）. So who doesn’t want to dress up to be beautiful and young?

But I don’t agree with the opinion that women have to show their beauty through their looks.? Their mind can be more beautiful and attractive than their looks.? A woman has experienced many troubles and may be called “aunt”, but she can still be beautiful if she has excellent qualities like knowledge, a kind heart and great courage(勇气）.

What’s more，old and young,? beautiful and ugly are relative.? People who keep a young mind will never feel old.? Knowing about new things and wanting to learn more，they can keep up with fashion.? Simply dressed women are also beautiful in their own way.

Reading and learning is the best way to keep one young.? Good books can feed the flower of one’s heart and looks.

1.Why does the writer say that women and beauty go together ？

A. Because women are sure to be beauties.

B. Because women like to show their beautiful clothes.

C. Because women try to keep their beauty by dressing up.

D. Because women like to watch fashion ads.

2.According to the writer, in order to stay beautiful, women should

A. follow fashion? B. do more exercise

C. keep their mind young? D. buy more clothes

3.What does the underlined word “relative” most probably mean in Chinese?

A.正常的? B.合适的? C.亲戚的? D.相对的

4.Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. Women and Fashion? B. Beauty and Ugly

C. Women and Beauty? D. How to Keep Young

What does blood do for us? It brings food to all parts of our bodies and takes waste away from them. All parts of our bodies are made of cells. These cells are very small. They all need all the time. No one could make pictures of cells because no one could see them.

What makes the blood move round the body? The heart is a pump. It pumps the blood and sends it round the body. The heart has rooms with doors between them. It pumps blood in and out through these doors by changing the size of the rooms so that the doors are opened and shut. The heart keeps a stream of blood going all around the body and back again to itself. The heart is a very important part of one's body. When it stops beating, one will die.

1.Blood is important to our body because it can         

2.What does the underline word "microscope" mean in Chinese?

3.According to the passage, a pump is used to