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Here is some information about some of the wonders of the world. I am sure you will be interested in them.

The Pyramids of Egypt

There are about eighty pyramids known today. The most well-known was for Pharaoh(法老) Khufu. It is known as the “Great Pyramid”. It’s also the largest one. Workers used about 2.3 million blocks of stone to build it. (A)用了20年的时间才建成。

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The garden sat on a hill. It was a large and wonderful structure(建筑物). Many parts of the garden were high up on large columns(支柱). There were many big and green trees with lovely flowers. Although there are many different ideas about the garden, we are not sure whether this wonder ever existed(存在)!

The Lighthouse of Alexandria

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed about 2,000 years ago. It was in Egypt, too. (B) It was one of the ancient wonders of the world, about 135 metres high. It was once the highest building in the world. Although it doesn’t exist now, many people come to see its relic(遗址) every year.

1. The passage has talked about _____ wonders of the world.

2. “_____” has the same meaning as Sentence A.

A. We built it for twenty years.         B. It spent twelve years building it.

C. It took twenty years to build it.         D. Workers took twelve years to build it.

3. _____ raised high up the parts of the garden.

4. The Chinese meaning of Sentence B is “____”.

5. Which is NOT true?

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1.How o_________ do you come to school late?   Never.

2.Farmers milk some m _________from cows.

3.J________ food isn’t good for your health.

4.I can’t do it by myself. Can you h_________ me?

5.I eat fruit three t_________ a week.

6.My father is very busy. He only plays basketball o______ a week.

7.Does he drink milk every morning?   No,hardly  e____.

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I think too many people take weight-loss pills without really knowing that they can do

h 1.   to their health. I read about a Canadian actress who had to go to h 2.   because she took some weight-loss pills. She lost 7 kg in two months. However, in the pills there’s something that c 3.   liver (肝脏) failure, so she had to get a new liver. Luckily, a Chinese young man d 4.   part of his liver to save her life.

R 5.   , my cousin has read about a new weight-loss pill and she really wants to try it. I’ve told her the story of the actress, but she won’t l 6.  . She’s only 12, but she has become a girl who cares about her figure (体型) and how she looks. She often r 7.   to eat. My aunt is worried that my cousin will buy the pills in s 8.  . She says h 9.   is priceless. She thinks that children must eat properly as they are g 10.   all the time. I think she is right.

A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don’t start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce(确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically(生物学上)these sleepyhead(贪睡者)students aren’t used to the early hour.
　　“Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies,” says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent (青春期的)sleep at Brown’s School of Medicine.
　　Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns(方式).
　　Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.
　　Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But it’s not just a matter of choice---their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns.
　　All of this makes the transfer(迁移)from middle school to high school---which may start one hour earlier in the morning----all the more difficult, Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescents are up against difficulties when they try to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body’s way of saying. “I need a timeout.”
【小题1】Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because _______.

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根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。（每空一词）

When you f___1__ high school or university, is learning done? The answer is “No”. In many countries, people continue l ___2___ all their lives. Why is lifelong(终身) learning important? How can it h___3____ you? Let’s look at one example of lifelong learning in Japan.

You go to school and learn. You study. You take tests. But learning doesn’t happen in school. Learning doesn’t s__4__ when you graduate (毕业) from high school or college. You are learning all the time. For example, learning can h__5____ when you go to a museum. It can a___6____ happen when you get a job. You learn when you p___7__sport or when you take a trip. Learning is life! We n___8___ stop learning. Every day you can improve y___9___ by learning something new.

In Japan, lifelong learning is very important. People in Japan like to try new learning activities. Music, calligraphy(书法) and f__10____ languages are some of their favorite classes. The Japanese take classes to improve their skills and learn new things.

When we graduate from school, we can continue to learn. Make lifelong learning one of your goals!