摘要:(10-11.浙江省苍南中学高二上期中) With food, water and electricity , the villagers suffered a lot after the earthquake. A. cut down B. cut up C. cut off D. cut in
Washoe is a young chimpanzee(黑猩猩).She is no 1 chimpanzee, though.Scientists are doing a research 2 her.They want to see how civilized(驯化)she can 3 Already she does many things a human being can do.
For example, she has been learning how to exchange 4 with people.The scientists are teaching her 5 language.When she wants to be picked 6 , Washoe points up with one finger.She rubs her teeth with her finger 7 she wants to brush her teeth.This is done after every meal.
Washoe has also been 8 to think out and find answers to problems.Once she was put in a 9 with food hanging from the ceiling.It was too high to 10 .After she considered the 11 she got a tall box to stand 12 The food was still too high to be reached.Washoe found a 13 pole.Then she climbed onto the 14 , grasped the pole, and 15 down the food with the pole.
Washoe 16 like a human, too.The scientists keep her in a fully furnished(家具齐全的)house.After a hard 17 in the laboratory, she goes home. 18 she plays with her toys.She 19 enjoys watching television before going to bed.
Scientists hope to 20 more about people by studying our closest, relative(亲属)-chimpanzee.
Washoe is a young chimpanzee(黑猩猩).She is no 1 chimpanzee, though.Scientists are doing a research 2 her.They want to see how civilized(驯化)she can 3 .Already she does many things a human can do.
For example, she has been learning how to exchange(交换) 4 with people.The scientists are teaching her 5 language.When she wants to be picked 6 , Washoe points up with one finger.She rubs her teeth with her finger 7 she wants to brush her teeth.This is done after every meal.
Washoe has also been 8 to think out and find answers to problems.Once she was put in a 9 with food hanging from the ceiling.It was too high to 10 .After she considered the 11 , she got a tall box to stand 12 .The food was still too high to be reached.Washoe found a 13 pole(杆), then she climbed onto the 14 , grasped the pole, and 15 down the food with the pole.
Washoe 16 like a human, too.The scientists keep her in a fully-furnished(家具齐全的)house.After a hard 17 in the lab, she goes home. 18 she plays with her toys.She 19 enjoys watching television before going to bed.
Scientists hope to 20 more about people by studying our closest relative(亲属)-chimpanzee.
It had been a tiring day and I was looking forward to a quiet evening.My husband wouldn't come back until late and I had 1 to sit down in a comfortable armchair in the living room and read a book.I 2 the children to bed early and 3 a cold supper and some coffee.Soon I was sitting comfortably with a plate 4 with food before me and a book at my side.
I was just beginning to eat when the telephone rang.I put down my knife and fork and hurried to 5 it.By the time I got back to the living room, my coffee 6 cold.After I finished my 7 I began to drink my coffee with my book 8 at page one.Suddenly there was a 9 at the door.It gave me such a great surprise that I spilt the 10 and made an ugly stain(污迹)on my skirt.Some stranger had got 11 and wanted me to show him the way.It 12 ages to get rid of him.At last I 13 to sit down again and actually read a whole page without any more interruption until the baby woke up.He began crying loudly and I rushed upstairs.The baby was 14 awake at eleven o'clock when my husband came home.I should have cried myself when he asked me if I had a(n) 15 evening!
In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood a massive grandfather clock.Meals in that dining room were a 1 for four generations to become one.The table was always 2 with food from wonderful family recipes(食谱)all 3 love as the main ingredient(成分).And always that grandfather clock stood like a trusted old family 4 , sharing our happiness.
As I was a child, the old clock 5 me.I watched and listened to it during meals.I 6 how at different times of the day, that clock would strike with a wonderful 7 .Year after year, the clock struck a part of my of 8 , a part of my heart.
Even more wonderful to me was what my grandfather did each day.He 9 wound that clock with a special and magic key, which 10 the clock ticking and striking.He never let that clock wind down and 11 .When we grandkids got a little older, he showed us how to 12 the clock.
Several days after my grandfather died, I entered the dining room, with tears flowing 13 .The clock stood desertedly 14 , seeming smaller and not as magnificent as before.I couldn’t 15 to look at it.
Years later, my grandmother gave me the clock and the key.The old house was quiet.I opened the clock door with my shaking hand.Then 16 , reverently(虔诚地),I entered the key and wound the clock.It sprang to 17 .Tick-tock, tick-tock, life and chimes were breathed 18 the dining room, into the house and into my 19 .In the movement of the hands of the clock, my grandfather 20 again.
Girls that eat with their families are less likely to develop eating disorders, a study says.
New research shows girls who regularly have 1 meals are much less likely to adopt extreme weight control 2 such as vomiting(呕吐), using laxatives(泻药)or diet pills.
A study 3 more than 2500 American high school students found that girls who ate five or more family meals a week had a much healthier 4 with food in later life.
The research, 5 in international magazine Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, polled students aged 13 to 17 in 1999 who were 6 five years later.Regular family meals were found to have a protective effect 7 the girls’ age, weight, socio-economic status, 8 habits or relationship with her family.
Experts say doctors should 9 families to have dinner at the table 10 on the couch in front of the television to 11 serious eating disorders.
Belinda Dalton, director of eating disorders clinic the Oak House, said 12 with family helped "normalize"(正常化)young people's relationship with food.
"When the young are feeling that they're not dealing properly, they 13 something that they can control and food is something 14 and accessible for them to control. 15 , if they're sitting with their family on a regular basis then their family can be more in 16 of their eating," Ms Dalton said."It's about young people feeling connected with their family and that builds self-esteem(自尊)and sense of 17 and that works very actively 18 someone developing an eating disorder."
An eating disorders expert, Kirsty Greenwood, said meal times were often difficult for sufferers."It's typical that they feel very 19 of their eating habits and often won't eat with other people.Perhaps it's because they haven't 20 the importance of the family meal in their growing up," she said.