If you have to miss one meal a day, which meal will cause you fewest health problems if you don’t eat it? If they have to make a decision of this type, most people (especially very busy people) will choose to skip (not to eat) breakfast.

    However, many experts in the field of health consider breakfast (the meal which “breaks” your “fast---- a period of time without eating anything ” which started the night before) to be the most important meal of the day. If we eat a good breakfast, they say, we will have the energy and nutrients we need to begin our working day with vigor and hopefully with good humour. But many people skip breakfast or replace it with snacks or a cup of coffee for a well-balanced meal. What happens if we ignore the importance of breakfast?

   One recent study conducted in the United States tested a large number of people. Participants included both males and females who ranged in age from 12—83. During the experiment, these people were given a variety of breakfasts, and sometimes, they had to skip breakfast completely. Special tests, including blood tests and endurance tests, were set up to analyze how well the participants’ bodies functioned when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast.

    The result showed that if a person eats an adequate (充足的) breakfast, he or she will work more efficiently and more productively than if he or she skips breakfasts or eats a very poor breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person’s work involves mental activity. The study showed that if schoolchildren eat fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, they will learn more quickly and will be able to concentrate on their lessons for a longer period of time than if their breakfast diet is inadequate .

The study also showed that, contrary to what many people believe, if you skip breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry if they skip breakfast that they eat too much for lunch and end up gaining weight instead of losing. So remember, if you are on a diet, skipping breakfast will not help you. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

1.

According to the passage, we can safely say _____.

A. if you skip breakfast, you will not lose weight at all

    B. if you skip breakfast, you won’t eat much for lunch either.

    C. skipping breakfast won’t do a bit of harm

    D. skipping breakfast will help one lose weight

2.

In the word “breakfast”, “fast” probably means _____.

A. “moving quickly”               B. “going without food ”

C. “unlikely to go fast”          D. “fast food ”

3.

 Special tests were organized to analyze how participants’ bodies functioned when ______.

A. they had skipped breakfasts      B. they had had breakfasts

C. they had eaten special breakfasts D. they had had all three meals

Studies have shown that children grow and develop quite normally on a diet ___ plenty of bread and vegetables with small amounts of milk and meat.

A．is consisted of      B．consists of         C．consisted of        D．consisting of

Below is a discussion on a website.

68．Who would miss his or her family most?

A．Jaime        B．Jayne       C．Miko     D．Paola

69．Which of the following people would feel most uncomfortable without the news media?

A．Steve        B．Jaime          C．Roger              D．Tomas

70．How many of them mentioned that they would miss food or drink?

A．One         B．Two           C．Three                 D．Four

Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.

    Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

   At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.

   At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.

1.Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?

A. The Britons got expensive tea from India. 

B. Tea reached Britain from Holland.

C．The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea.

D．It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea.

2.This passage mainly discusses_____________.

A．the history of tea drinking in Britain 

B．how tea became a popular drink in Britain

C．how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea   

D．how tea-time was born

3.Tea became a popular drink in Britain.

A．in eighteenth century    B．in sixteenth century

C．in seventeenth century   D．in the late seventeenth century

4.People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because.

A．it tasted like milk               

B．it tasted more pleasant

C．it became a popular drink

D．people tried to copy the way Madame de Servinge drank tea

60．We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain mostly resulted from the influence of　________.

 A．a famous French lady    B．the ancient Chinese

 C．the upper social class  D．people in Holland

In England, afternoon tea is the most informal (非正式) meal of a day. It is taken between four and five. If you are a friend of the family, you may come for tea at any time. Very often it is not taken at a table. The members of the family and visitors take the tea in the sitting room. Each person has a cup and saucer (茶盘), a spoon (调羹) and a small plate for bread and butter (黄油) and cakes. By the way, do not help yourself to cakes first, bread and butter first, and then cake. Do remember: Though you can eat as much as you want, do not put more than（超过） one piece of bread or cake on your plate each time.

1.In England, afternoon tea is usually taken

A. between breakfast and lunch        B. in the middle of a day

C. early in the afternoon              D late in the afternoon

2.A real English afternoon tea has               .

A．tea only                               B．both tea and food

C．tea, food and vegetables                  D．the same things as other meals

3.If you want to have afternoon tea in a friend's home,               .  

A．you must send a message before you go

B．you must take food with you

C．you must go only when he asks you to

D．you may put only one piece of bread or cake on your plate each time

4.Help yourself to                   . 

A．cakes first                             B．bread and butter first

C．either bread first or cake first              D．only one piece of bread or cakes .

5.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．People don't use the same spoon for afternoon tea.

B．Afternoon tea is often taken in the sitting room.

C．For afternoon tea, people use cups only.

D．Afternoon tea is often taken with bread and cakes.