Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just take out from the freezer. Fruit, candy, nuts, chocolate, cake with butter cream frosting(糖霜),even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.
I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer —finally, two freezers—to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.
If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen butter-cream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.
The freezer treats a lot of fruits kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(点心).This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get super-hard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freezer, they will have a double taste.
As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.
【小题1】 What is the passage intended to tell us ____________.

根据汉语提示完成下列各句，每空一词。

76.  吉姆因偷窃被判处五年监禁，于一个月前被释放。

Jim was _______ _______ five years in prison for stealing and was released a month ago.

77.  罗伯特看起来像是个善良又可靠的人，可实际上他只在乎自己的钱。

Robert looks like a nice and reliable man, but in fact the only thing he _______ _______ is money.

78.  一旦你养成坏习惯，你会发现它很难摆脱。

________ you get into a bad habit, you’ll find _________ hard to get out of it.

79.  多年的战争已经让这个地区成为废墟。

Years of fighting has left the area _______ _______.

80.  他看起来是这么滑稽以至于每个人都放声大笑起来。

He looked so funny that everybody at the English party _______ _______ laughing .

81. 别失去信心，即使你考试失败。

   Don’t _______ _______ even if you fail the exam.

82. 这位善良的女人倾其一生去帮助那些无家可归的孩子们。

The kind lady __________ all her life to _______ those homeless children.

83.  仿佛到了世界末日！

It seemed as if the world was _______ _______ _______!

84.  自从李平在这里定居后，和邻居们相处得很好。

Since Li Ping settled here, he _______ got _______ _______ with his neighbors.

Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just take out from the freezer. Fruit, candy, nuts, chocolate, cake with butter cream frosting(糖霜),even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.

I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer —finally, two freezers—to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.

If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen butter-cream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.

The freezer treats a lot of fruits kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(点心).This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get super-hard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freezer, they will have a double taste.

As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.

1. What is the passage intended to tell us ____________.

A. Fruit should be frozen before one eats it.   B. Frozen food is better than hot food.

C. The author prefers frozen food.          D. Hot food is not healthy.

2.The author began to enjoy frozen food when he _________.

A. was young   B. learned cooking   C. got married   D. got a fever

3. Why does the author NOT advise us to take hot cookies?

  A. Because they need more time to prepare.

  B. Because the taste is not good when they are hot.

  C. Because they are too delicious to avoid our overeating.

  D. Because we may eat them quickly and enjoy them less.

4.What does the underlined word “it” in the third paragraph refer to?

  A. The taste   B. Butter cream   C. The cookie   D. Frozen butter cream frosting

5. Which of the following is the advice the author gives on eating fruit?

  A. Make bananas hard.        B. Keep grapes in a bowl.

  C. Mix kinds of fruits together.  D. Add melted chocolate to bananas.

Uh­oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food，get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason why a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break—they get deep­rooted in our brains.

That's not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become deep­rooted has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad.“Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting against the power of an immediate reward. We all as creatures give greater value to an immediate reward than something that's delayed，” says Dr Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Just how that bit of happiness turns into a habit involves a pleasure­sensing chemical named dopamine(多巴胺). It trains the brain to want that reward again and again—increasing the connection each time—especially when it gets the right cue(暗示) from your environment.

People tend to overestimate their ability to resist temptations around them, thus destroying attempts to get rid of bad habits. Even scientists who recognize it find it hard to resist.“I don't like popcorn. But every time I go to the cinema, I have to eat it，” Volkow says.“It's fascinating.”

A movement to pay people for behavior changes may make use of that connection, as some companies offer employees immediate payments for adopting better habits. However paying for behavior turns out, researchers say there are some steps that may help counter your brain's hold on bad habits: repeat，repeat，repeat the new behavior—the same routine at the same time of day. Determined to exercise？Doing it at the same time of the morning makes the brain recognize the habit eventually. If you don't do it, you feel awful. Exercise itself raises dopamine levels, so eventually your brain will get a feel­good hit even if your muscles protest. Reward yourself with something you really desire, Volkow stresses. You exercised all week? Stuck to your diet? Buy a book, a great pair of jeans, or try a fancy restaurant.

20．What's the subjective reason for being hard to break bad behaviors?

A．Some behaviors get deep­rooted in our brains.

B．We prefer an immediate reward.

C．We value delayed gifts.

D．We are all creatures of nature.

21．What does the underlined word “connection” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Pleasure and behavior.  　B．Brain and reward.

C．Happiness and dopamine.  　D．Cue and environment.

22．It can be inferred that the higher the dopamine level is，________．

A．the harder it is for you to break the bad habit

B．the less pleasure you will get

C．the stronger bad habits will become

D．the more you'll want to get a reward

23．Why does Volkow eat popcorn even though he doesn't like it?

A．Because he recognizes the importance of him.

B．Because it is needed for normal growth of the body.

C．Because he can't resist the temptation of it.

D．Because it makes him relaxed to eat popcorn while seeing films.