6.Older people need the same amount of vitamins as younger people.

True.Older people need the same quantity of vitamins as younger people although they need fewer calories.Certain illnesses raise the requirements for some vitamins,but that is true for the young as well as the old.

5.Natural vitamins are better supplements(补充) for the diet than synthetic vitamins.

False.There is no difference.A vitamin has the same properties(性质) and specific chemical structure whether made in a laboratory or taken from plant or animal parts.

4.Taking extra vitamins beyond the recommended daily allowances won’t give you more energy.

True.It’s widely believed that extra vitamins provide more energy.But taking more than the body needs doesn’t make if function better,just as overfilling your gas tank doesn’t make your car run better.

3.Food eaten between meals can be just as good for health as food eaten at regular meals.

True.Nutritional value depends on what types of food you eat,not when you eat them.Eating an egg or an orange between meals can contribute to a good diet.

2.Fresh vegetables cooked at home are always more nutritious than canned vegetables.

False.The difference depends more on how vegetables are prepared than whether they are fresh or canned.Vegetables cooked in too much water can lose a large quantity of vitamins.

1.People who don’t eat meat can stay healthy.

True.As long as people eat enough milk,eggs and meat alternates(替代物),they can get enough protein(蛋白质).

6.(★★★★★)What is the most proper title for the　 passage?

A.Income Increasing in Britain　　　　　　　　　　 B.Revolution Changing the World

C.Britains Going High Fashion　　　　　　　　　　 D.Sales in Britain Going Down

G

All of us eat every day,but most of us don’t understand nutrition(营养).How much do you know about good nutrition?Are the following statements true or false?

5.(★★★★★)What is the main idea of the passage?

A.Car use needs to be discouraged.

B.Clean air is only possible if we reduce car use during rush hours.

C.Car use is causing problems with the ozone layer creating poisonous gases.

D.The government spends billions of dollars controlling the pollution coming from cars.

F

After 78 years in the UK,the Dutch clothing retailer (零售商) has closed shop for the last time.But C & A is not alone.In the past week the best known names on British high streets-Marks & Spencer,Boots and littlewoods-have announced some of their worst ever trading figures.

The downturn is not a case of belt tightening.Although there are fears of a recession(衰退),UK consumer (消费者) spending has set new records in the past year.Experts say the sudden fall is the result of a revolution that is changing almost every side of British lives.

sumers are declaring an end to all things ordinary.The good taste revolution has swept the country with remarkable speed.Sales of once popular fashions (时髦) are dropping quickly.Just three years ago Marks & Spencer was the UK’s favorite.People now consider the fashions “ordinary”.

Yet just 100 yards (91 metres) from the empty aisles (通道) in London’s Oxford Street,the story is different.Burberry enjoyed a 35 per cent increase in sales income in the last three months of last year.Gucci saw its sales rise 25 per cent.Armani reported 20 per cent growth.Demand for the logo-print(商标) at Louis Vuitton cannot be satisfied immediately.And growth is not only limited to the wealthy Southeast.

Experts say Britain has moved from a “good enough” culture to “good taste”culture.Almost everywhere you look-from clothes,to food and drink,to cars,to home furnishings,to holidays-Britons are buying into a life less ordinary.

Rising wealth is driving the revolution.New research shows that the average UK household(family) is 40 per cent better off than in 1986.“In the past only those with money and time on their hands were able to devote energy to the search for tasteful living,”says Martin Harward,a director at the Henley Center.“But as incomes rise and free time increases,the privileged(wealthy) many are living higher.More middle-class consumers are developing a sense of their own self-image　 through what they buy.”

4.(★★★★★)The main idea of this passage is ________.

A.when the Internet came into being　　　　　　　　　 B.how Tim Berbers-Lee formed W3C

C.why computers develop so rapidly　　　　　　　　　 D.how the World Wide Web started

E

Reducing the use of cars during rush traffic hours will make the environment more livable.Unfortunately,our present living and working environments encourage the use of cars.But,the car is taking us down the road in lower-quality air.The exhaust(废气) from cars:

-damaging the earth’s protective ozone layer and helping to cause the global warming;

-causes as much as 50% of the smog-producing compounds and chemical rain in our atmosphere;

-causes 60% of the carbon monoxide in our atmosphere.

When you consider that the average person breathes in 9 000 quarts of air a day,you realize how important clean air is to human being.

The government has spent billions of dollars to control car pollution.Yet,some big cities are still in violation(侵害) of public health standards that protect people from breathing poisonous air.The health care costs related to unclean air are huge.

The traditional way of cleaning up what comes out of tailpipes has not done the job of getting rid of automobile emissions(散发物).Yet today’s cars produces far less pollution than models from the 1960’s.But there are now almost 51 million more cars on the road than there were in 1960,and drivers are traveling many more miles.As a result,cars are still the single largest source of city pollution today.

If we are going to achieve clean air,we need to discourage car use by individuals,especially during rush driving hours.

At the same time we reduce car use,we must also improve our public transportation system.If going to and from work by public transportation was convenient and cheap,people would use the system instead of using cars to drive to work.

Yes,it will cost money to improve our public transportation system.But we now spend billions each year in controlling car emissions without much success.Giving some of that money to public transportation would be a small price to pay for cleanest air.

Unless we do something to reduce car use and get people to use public transportation,our love affair with the car will be the death of our environment.

3.(★★★★★)What is the article mainly about?

A.The life of Dave Thomas.

B.The dream of Dave Thomas.

C.The schooling of Dave Thomas.

D.The growth of Dave Thomas’ business.

D

Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging materials. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version(原始版本) of e-mail. While working at a laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a programme, which let him store these messages. This gave him another idea:write a programme that will let academics(学术界人士) from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(服务程序所用的协议) and HTML(超文本链接标示语言) programmes which formed the basis of the World Wide Web.

The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used his codes to work with different operating　 systems. New things like web browers and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100 000.

In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. “The web can help people to understand the way that others live and love. It helps us understand the humanity of people,” he says.