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HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.
Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.
“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.
High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.
Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”
“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.
The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.
Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.
“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.
Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.
What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?
A. The size of fat population. B. The number of fast food restaurants.
C. The economic growth rate of the state. D. Things related to unhealthy ways of life.
Which city topped 2003 fattest cities list?
A. Houston. B. Dallas. C. Detroit. D. Philadelphia.
By saying “living big” (in Paragraph 9), Boulton means people _________.
A. are growing fatter B. are living wastefully
C. eat too many fatty foods D. are spending too much time working
Which of the following is best supported by the text?
A. Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S.
B. Bill White is happy with the newspaper report.
C. People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S.
D. Most school children in Houston have weight problems.
查看习题详情和答案>>The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic(赞同的) audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, “High school English teachers are not doing their jobs.” He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established.
My topic is not standards nor its decline(降低). What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young; he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.
My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies (缺陷). But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack.
The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate.
Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived(察觉) as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar(特有的) to today’s young people, it naturally follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise, young people would not commit offenses against the language.
1. The speaker the author mentioned in the passage believed that _____.
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A．the language of the younger generation is usually inferior(差的) to that of the older generation |
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B．the students had a poor command of English because they didn’t work hard enough |
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C．he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years |
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D．English teachers should be held responsible for the students’ poor command of English |
2. In the author’s opinion, the speaker ______.
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A．gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students |
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B．had exaggerated(夸大) the language problems of the students |
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C．was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their jobs |
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D．could think and speak intelligently |
3.The author’s attitude towards the speaker’s remarks is ______.
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A．neutral |
B．positive |
C．critical |
D．compromising |
4.It can be concluded from the passage that ______.
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A．it is justifiable(有理由的) to include English as a school subject |
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B．the author disagrees with the speaker over the standard of English at Grade 9 level |
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C．English language teaching is by no means an easy job |
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D．language improvement needs time and effort |
5.In the passage the author argues that ______.
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A．it is unfair to blame the English teachers for the language deficiencies of the students |
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B．young people would not commit offences against the language if the teachers did their jobs properly |
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C．to eliminate(消除) language deficiencies one must have sensitive eyes and ears |
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D．to improve the standard of English requires the effort of several generations |
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第一节：阅读表达（每小题３分，共１５分。）
阅读下面的短文，并根据要求回答问题。
Confidence: you’ve either got it or you haven’t, right? Wrong. Most people learn confidence
as they go through life.
Even if you are shaking like a leaf on the inside, you’ll make a lasting impression if you can come across as confident. Here are some confidence-building tips.
Fake(假装) it! If you can pretend that you feel confident when you don’t and keep on doing so, your fake confidence will soon turn into real confidence. It only takes a few repetitions of an activity for it to become a habit—so get in the habit of .
Think it. For an instant encouragement to yourself-esteem (自尊心), recall three things that give you positive emotions. It could be a great compliment somebody paid you, a special time when you felt happy and popular, or when you really excelled (胜过别人) at something. Bringing them to mind will help you to feel good instantly—and when you feel good, you have greater confidence.
Focus it. Difficult situations, such as interviews or new jobs, can make you feel shy. If you’re feeling anxious about yourself, stop thinking about yourself and focus on something else. It could be that you focus on something normal, like the view out of the window, or that you pay more attention to the task at hand—getting the job! Either way, you'll feel less awkward.
Talk it. If you keep telling yourself that you're not good at something, you’ll start to believe it. Next time you blame yourself, ask yourself whether you'd talk to your friends like that. So quit being negative and start recognizing and appreciating the things you are good at.
Walk it. Great posture can signal great confidence. Walk with a purposeful stride, walk with your back straight and with your head held up high!
1．What is the best title of the passage? （within 8 words）
2．Please fill in the blank in the 3rd paragraph with proper words to complete the sentence.
（within 6 words.）
3．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Stop finding fault with yourself and try to think more about your advantages.
4．Which of the tips given in the passage will work best with you? Why? （within 30 words.）
5．Please translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从以下各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; and when you start using them again, they will slowly become strong again. 1 knows this, and nobody would think of 2 the fact.
Yet there are many people who 3 to know that the memory works in the same way. When someone says that 4 has a good memory, he 5 means that he keeps his memory 6 practice by exercising it very 7 , either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is 8 , he means that he does not give it enough 9 to become strong. The position is exactly the same as that of 10 people, one of 11 exercises his arms and legs by playing balls, while the other 12 in a chair or a car all day. If a friend of yours says that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own 13 . But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, 14 of us think that his parents are to blame, or that he is just 15 , and few of us realize that it is just as it was his arms or legs that were weak. Not all of us can become very strong in body or very clever in mind, 16 all of us can improve our strength and our memory by the same means 
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Have you ever 18 that people who cannot read or write usually have 19 memories than those who can? Why is this? Of course, because they cannot write down something in a little notebook or something else. They have to remember names, places, songs and stories; so their memory is always being exercised.
In a word, if you want to have a good memory, 20 practise remembering.
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