A.
Families are very important for everyone as well as friends. Some can get on with members of their families but not with friends. Others are just opposite. Please look at the following teenagers and find out their different ideas about family and friends.
Destiny Jenna 11 years old, Cowage
I get on with members of my family after an quarrel but when we are actually quarrelling it's different, although it doesn't often happen. I get on with all of them really. I think that it depends on what they have done for me. I class some of my family as friends as well as relatives. If I am in a bad mood with someone in my family then I might choose a friend over them. I agree with the saying that you can choose your friends and not your family because your family just comes but your friends don't, do they?
Caroline Kylie, 10 years old, Blakeley
I get on with my family. I think you have to get on with them even though they might quarrel, because you love them. I have never thought of a friend better than a family member because I class my family as friends as well. I never quarrel with any of my relatives, but I think that it's right about saying that you can choose your friends but not your family.
Michelle Juan, 12 years old, Blakeley
I get on with my family, although I feel as if I have to when we argue. I argue with my mum quite often and she goes into a bad mood. I get on with all of them but sometimes they can be nasty and make arguments. I class my family as friends as well, although I have sometimes thought of a friend better than my family.
41. Who will choose a friend when she is unhappy?
A. Destiny B. Caroline C. Michelle D. Michelle's mother
42. Who hold the opinion that friends can be chosen but families can't?
A. Destiny B. Michelle
C. Both Michelle and Caroline D. Both Destiny and Caroline
43. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Destiny doesn't often argue with her family members.
B. Caroline sometimes quarrels with her relatives.
C. Michelle makes her mother unhappy because she quarrels with her.
D. Michelle's family members sometimes say nasty things and she quarrels with them.
44. Caroline thinks her friends are as important as her family members because .
A. her family is a friendly one.
B. her family members never argue with each other.
C. she classes her family as friends as well.
D. her mother is always in a good mood.
45. The passage is about .
A. family members B. how to get on with friends
C. how to get on with family members D. opinions of family and friends
B.
Feeling tired lately? Has the doctor said he cannot find anything wrong with you? Perhaps he sent you to a hospital, but all the advanced equipment there shows that there is nothing wrong.
Then consider this, you might be in a state of subhealth.
Subhealth, also called the third state or grey state, is explained as a border line state between health and disease. According to an investigation by the National Health Organization, over 45 percent of subhealthy people are middle-aged or elderly. The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam time.
Symptoms include a lack of energy, depression, slow reactions, insomnia, agitation, and poor memory. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, sweating and aching in the waist and legs.
The key to preventing and recovering from subhealth, according to some medical experts, is to form good living habits, alternate work with rest, exercise regularly, and take part in open-air activities.
As for meals, people are advised to eat less salt and sugar. They should also eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and fish because they are rich in nutritional elements, vitamins and trace elements that are important to the body.
Nutrition experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract. They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding subhealth.
46．According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?
A. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should stay home and keep silent.
B. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should go to see a doctor and buy some medicine.
C. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should have yourself examined in some good hospitals.
D. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should find out the reasons and relax yourself.
47. Middle-aged people may feel subhealthy, because .
A. they have used up their energy
B. they have lost their living hopes
C. they have more pressure in life and work
D. they begin to get older
48. The answer of preventing you falling into a state of subhealth is that you should .
A. work hard B. sleep more
C. keep relaxed D. eat more
49. As for food, experts suggest that .
A. we should never eat meat
B. we should have meals with less salt and sugar
C. we should eat less
D. we should have meals without salt and sugar
50. The underlined word "alternate" in this passage means .
A. arrange by turns B. cause to take place
C. keep up D. take up
C.
Read the following passage and choose the most suitable heading from this list for each paragraph. Note that there is one extra heading.
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A. Smoking
brings many psychological benefits. B. Tobacco is an important source of income to the government. C. Smoking is sure to cause disease. D. It's a short-sighted policy to depend on tobacco for money. E. The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful. F. The tobacco industry makes high quality advertisement for smoking. |
51.
If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. Just have a look at those people in hospital with these diseases and count how many of them do not smoke, you may be surprised at the number. Even these few people might be passive smokers without realizing it.
52.
Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It's almost like a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone, the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever so carefully that smoking may be harmful, it doesn't do to shout too loudly about it.
53.
The advertising of tobacco is one of the problems. We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lungs early in the morning. That would never do. The advertisements always depict handsome, clean and shaven young men. They suggest it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy! Smoking is associated with the great open-air life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherness. What utter nonsense.
54.
Of course tobacco can help government to raise more money. However, while money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other. Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease. Countless valuable lives are lost. In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be much better off if smoking were banned altogether.
55.
Smoking can provide constant consolation. When I feel worried or nervous, I just get a cigarette and everything seems to get right. After a day's hard work, the thing I want to do most is smoking. It can be even better with a cup of coffee. It's so enjoyable and relaxing that it relieves stresses of everyday life. So why bother to ban it and take the pleasure from us.