6. Compared with previous studies, the recent one found that ______.

A. a lower-salt diet may mean less sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption

B. a low-salt diet keeps children out of high blood pressure

C. children face the risk of having strokes and heart attacks

D. low-salt food products do not do harm to people’s health

5. According to the passage, obesity is directly linked to ______.

A. high-salt foods　　　

B. sugar-sweetened soft drinks

C. high blood pressure　　

D. strokes and heart attacks

4. Which of the following is the right order of the events?

a. became a doctor

b. became a full time writer

c. started to publish comic short stories

d. wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.

e. entered the Moscow University Medical School

A. e→c→a→d→b

B. d→a→b→c→e

C. e→c→b→a→d

D. a→e→c→b→d

(二)

“Children who eat less salt and drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks may significantly lower their risks of obesity,” researchers recently reported in the journal Hypertension.

“Sugar-sweetened soft drinks are a significant source of calorie intake in children,” said Feng J. He, a researcher at St George’s University of London, England. “It has been shown that sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption is related to obesity in young people.” They wanted to know whether there is a link between salt intake and sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption.

Dr He and colleagues analyzed data from a 1997 national survey of more than 2,000 people between 4 and 18 in Britain. “We found that children eating a lower-salt diet drank less fluid,” said He. “From our research, we estimated that 1 gram of salt cut from their daily diet would reduce fluid intake by 100 grams per day.”

The researchers also found that children eating a lower-salt diet drank fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks. From their research, they predicted that reducing salt intake by 1 gram each day would reduce sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption by 27 grams per day, after. “If children aged 4 to 18 cut their salt intake by half, there would be a decrease of about two sugar-sweetened soft drinks per week per child, so each child would decrease calorie intake by almost 250 kilocalories per week,” Dr He said.

In previous studies, researchers found that a low-salt diet lowers blood pressure in children, and prevents the development of high blood pressure later in life. “Both high blood pressure and obesity increase the risk of having strokes and heart attacks,” Dr He said.

Dr He recommends that parents check labels and choose low-salt food products. “Small reductions in the salt content of 10 to 20 percent cannot be detected by the human salt taste receptors (感受器) and do not cause any technological or safety problems,” Dr He said.

3. Which of the following adjectives can’t be used to describe Chekhov?

A. Sensitive.

B. Cool.

C. Quick-minded.

D. Warm-hearted.

2. In 1880, Chekhov ________.

A. became a full-time writer

B. studied medicine in Moscow University

C. practiced medicine in his hometown

D. published his most memorable stories

1. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ________.

A. had a lawful lover

B. was an illegal writer

C. used to be a lawyer

D. was a competent doctor

第二节：开放作文(15分)

请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

In your English class, your teacher shows you the following picture. You are asked to describe the picture and explain how you understand it.

提示词：放大镜：magnifier

第一节：情景作文(20分)

假设你是红星中学高三一班的学生李华，近日你班同学参加了世界自然基金会WWF组办的“我为哥本哈根减斤碳”活动，大家开始在日常生活中减少能源、纸张等的消耗。请根据以下四幅图提供的信息，给某英文杂志写一篇以“Low – carbon Living”为题的英文稿件，介绍你们参加此次活动第一天的具体做法。

注意：1．信的开头已为你写好。

2．词数不少于60。

Low – carbon Living

Recently, my classmates and I participated in the activity of Low – Carbon Living organized by the WWF. On the first day