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Some people say it's the most exciting thing they have ever done in their lives. Other people say it's dangerous and 1 . “Bungee jumping, ” 2 it is known, has become very 3 in the USA, France, New Zealand and Australia. Every year, thousands of people 4 50 meters or more 5 only by a “ Bungee”, a rubber cord (绳索) that stops them 6 the ground.
Bungee jumping 7 in 1979 when two students from Oxford University, England, jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA. 8 , bungee jumping businesses have 9 all over the USA and other places, 10 in some countries it is not 11 by law. In the USA, bungee jumpers pay $80 or more to fall through the air 12 nearly 100 km an hour — risking(冒险) their lives if the bungee cord 13 .
Emily Stead is a bungee jumper who has survived 50 jumps. “It's 14 !”she says. “I first went bungee jumping five years ago. Then, I jumped just 20 meters. My 15 jump was 50 metres — from a hot-air balloon. It's the best 16 I have done. ”
Other people do not agree. “Bungee jumping, ”says Dr Willian Finch in Colorado, USA, “is both stupid and dangerous. This month I have seen twelve people who 17 their legs or ribs (肋骨) from a bungee jump. Until now, 18 has died — but sooner or later, it will happen. ”Studies show that about two in one million might have 19 of death. Almost every accident was caused by the jumper not being 20 connected to the cord or the cord not being firmly connected to the jump platform.
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I was fat kid who grew into an overweight adult. I was laughed at for being heavier than the other kids, me feeling shy. I tried several diets, but worked, and I gaining weight. Another factor my weight gain was my love for cooking, especially rich, high-fat desserts, which I enjoyed preparing and, of course, eating.
When I finished high school at the age of 18, I weighed 215 pounds. the self-confidence to go to a new, faraway school, I decided to stay close to home going away to college. I continued with my unhealthful eating habits and felt more miserable as the weight came on, but I did nothing about it except buy larger plus-size clothes.
My turning point came 10 years later at a friend's New Year's Eve party when I was at my all-time highest weight of 330 pounds. I caught my in a mirror and the truth me: I was overweight and unhealthy, and unless I did something about it now, I would only get bigger and .
After leaving the party, I thought about my past weight-loss and realized they didn't work because they required me to abandon foods I loved. Then I would constantly think about food and binge, the diet my hunger and not feel deprived.
My biggest was finding a way to fit my passion for cooking into my healthier lifestyle. At first, I tried to stay away from the kitchen to myself thinking about food. The result: Food was all I thought about. had to be some way to combine cooking with healthful eating. I found the after reading several low-fat cookbooks. With some trial and error, I could modify my favorite foods and make them low in fat, yet delicious.
The pounds started coming off, and when I started exercising (usually cardio and weight training five times a week), they seemed to melt away. I didn't feel deprived, and I felt free to give my body the care and attention it .
I lost 165 pounds over the next two years. I had many ups and downs. I was determined to go on. Another challenge to me was not to beat myself up if I ate something that was unhealthy and to take it as a sign to abandon my healthful habits. I vowed to start again and always keep my goal in mind. Thanks to losing weight and becoming fit I am my body and myself. I have finally found myself.
1.A．hardly???? B．frequently???? C．immediately???? D．instantly
2.A．left???? B．to leave???? C．leaving???? D．having left
3.A．nothing?? B．no one?? C．none?? D．anything
4.A．ended up??? B．ended over??? C．ended up with?? D．was ended up
5.A．contributing to? B．resulted in? C．resulting from? D．led to
6.A．lacking of B．lack of C．lacking D．lacked in
7.A．or rather? B．instead of C．together with D．as well as
8.A．reflection B．infection C．imagination D．attention
9.A．laughed B．hit C．knocked D．beat
10.A．unfamiliar B．unhappier C．unfriendly D．unfit
11.A．efforts B．affords C．effects D．infects
12.A．giving out? B．giving in ? C．giving up ? D．giving away
13.A．satisfy ? B．decrease ? C．increase ? D．fill
14.A．challenge ? B．success ? C．energy ? D．work
15.A．keep ? B．have ? C．prevent ? D．make
16.A．It ? B．They C．There ? D．I
17.A．solution ? B．secret ? C．answer ? D．road
18.A．deserved ? B．focused ? C．caught? D．paid
19.A．Instead ? B．However ? C．Therefore ?? D．So
20.A．keep up with? B．in line with? C．put up with? D．catch up with
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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving（旺盛的）. As Skolnich notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline（衰退）in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce（离婚）rate needs to be taken in this pro- marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty- five years ago, the typical American family consisted of the husband, the wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children, and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses （配偶）．
Thus, one can find every type of tamely arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriages; marriages with “full - time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with“full- time”children from the present marriage and“ part- time”children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half- brothers and half - sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that ________.
A. Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C. there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe
D. more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
Divorced Americans ________ .
A. prefer the way they live
B. will most likely remarry
C. have lost interest in marriage
D. are the majority of people in the society
Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families？
A. Which types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.
B. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.
C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.
D. There are no nuclear families any more.
查看习题详情和答案>>In Revere,Massachusetts,a hundred policemen searched for a lost boy who left his home in his sleep and woke up five hours later on a strange sofa in a strange living room,with no idea how he had got there.?
At the University of Iowa,a student was reported to have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking three quarters of a mile to the Iowa River.He would take a swim and then go back to his room to bed.?
An expert on sleep in America claims（声称） that he has never seen a sleepwalker.He is said to know more about sleep than any other man alive,and during the last thirty-five years he has lost a lot of sleep watching people sleep.He says.“Of course,I know that there are sleep-walkers because I have read about them in the newspapers.But none of my sleepers ever walked,and if I were to advertise for sleep walkers for an experiment,I doubt whether I could get many takers.”?
Sleepwalking,however,is a scientific reality.It is one of those strange things that sometimes look quite like the fantastic（怪诞的）.Doctors say that sleepwalking is much more common than is generally supposed.Many sleepwalkers do not try to find help and are never recorded.?
1.Generally speaking,sleepwalkers are the ones that _________.
A.can climb on roofs?
B.can walk through windows?
C.can do fantastic things during their sleep?
D.can walk in a half-awake state?
2.It was reported that a boy _________.
A.was found on a strange sofa,telling how he had got there?
B.slept in his own room but woke up in a strange room?
C.lost his way five hours after he left home?
D.was searched for by policemen because he lost his way?
3.The passage mentions a college student who got into the habit of _________.?
A.getting up in the middle of the night and walking out?
B.walking three quarters of a mile every day?
C.swimming in the Iowa River before going to bed?
D.walking about before he went to bed?
4.An American expert knows more about sleep than any other man alive _________.?
A.because he can get many takers for his experiment?
B.because he has had trouble with sleep for 30 years?
C.but he says he has never seen sleepers walk?
D.but he has nobody to sleep together with him?
5.People think sleepwalking is nothing but one of the fantastic things without any explanation.Why??
A.It is so common that it needn't be recorded.?
B.Scientists take no interest in it.?
C.Doctors don't want to care about it.?
D.No records about it have been made.
查看习题详情和答案>>It was early spring.The sun was strong and warm.I went over the hillside fields behind my village，__1__buntings and linnets，the birds I loved most.
I turned along a bush between two fields where I had seen the birds before，but on this fine day almost the first birds that I saw were winter visitors.I was__2__not to see a bunting straightaway，but I went on，stopping occasionally to look at the black-thorn (黑刺李) flowers in the bush，and ___3___I did hear a bunting singing.Or was it? Was I not perhaps turning a note of skylark (云雀) song into that of the song I was hoping to hear?
But the bunting's song was pretty clear，and within a few minutes I was proved___4__.The song was coming from the bush，and as I approached ___5__I saw the brown bird resting in a small tree.It opened its mouth，and__6__once more.Then it flew off.It was the only one I saw that day，but at least I had found one of the birds I had__7__.
It was not until I was on my way back home that I caught sight of some ___8__.I saw five of them gathering on the ground when I was just coming back beside the ___9__where I had found the bunting.As I came nearer，they flew up，spreading their tails so that their white edges ___10___ to look like a white fan in the sky.Then，to my___11__，some big pigeons suddenly came flying and joined the linnets.
A moment later they had all__12__ — but I had fulfilled my hopes for the day.
1．A.looking at B．looking for C．looking up D．looking after
2．A.disappointed B．dismissed C．dissatisfied D．disturbed
3．A.directly B．gradually C．suddenly D．immediately
4．A.proper B．right C．useful D．true
5．A.sadly B．hurriedly C．proudly D．quietly
6．A.danced B．ateC．sang D．shouted
7．A.observed B．noticed C．expected D．described
8．A.linnets B．skylarks C．pigeons D．buntings
9．A.bush B．road C．grass D．black-thorn
10．A.widened B．enlarged C．lengthened D．expanded
11．A.knowledge B．pleasure C．amusement D．honor
12. A．gathered B．lost C．missed D．gone
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