Height is just one of the thousands of features your genes decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then most probably you will be tall, too, but if you have questions about how tall you're going to be, ask your doctor if he or she can help you find it out.
But genes don't decide everything. For example, eating an unhealthy diet can keep you from growing to your full potential(潜力). Getting plenty of sleep and enough exercise will help you grow to the expected height.
No doubt you're wondering how fast you should grow. It depends. There's no perfect or right answer. Generally speaking, kids grow about 2 inches (6 centimeters) a year between age 3 and the time when they start puberty (when your body starts changing and becoming more grown up).
Your doctor will know how your growth has been going over the years. Two centimeters here and 2 inches there are not nearly as important as the height you're at now, how you've been growing up to this point, and what other changes your body may be going through.
Don't be scared if you seem to have grown a lot in a very short time. Everyone has a growth spurt(高峰)during puberty. The age for starting puberty is about 10 for girls and about 11 for boys. But it can be earlier or later ----between 7 and 13 for girls and 9 and 15 for boys.
You'll usually begin to notice that you're growing faster about a year or so after your body starts to show the first changes of puberty. 
【小题1】. The Chinese for the word “puberty” is          .
A.童年时期B.婴幼儿时期C.习惯养成期D.生长发育期
【小题2】 If you want to know how fast and how tall you should grow, _____.
A.you should have enough exerciseB.you can ask doctors for help
C.you should save the environmentD.You can record your growth during puberty
【小题3】 This passage is mainly about          .
A.how the genes work in your bodyB.when is the time you grow fast
C.why you look like your parentsD.how you grow to a certain height
【小题4】 After reading this passage, we can explain          .
A.how good it is to be a doctorB.how much sleep time we need
C.why genes can’t decide everythingD.what healthy diet is
【小题5】 Which is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A.Your height most probably depends on how high your parents are.
B.Girls’ age for starting puberty is usually earlier than that for boys’.
C.The time showing the first changes of puberty is never noticed.
D.You may be scared sometimes when you grow too fast.

 

In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him. “My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame(名誉)or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius(天才), who has since then composed(作曲)lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜). 

“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.

Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album(集)he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.

  Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.      

Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事业). He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.

  “So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate(感激) could help me learn and grow with them.”

1.Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?  

①. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.

②. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

③. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.

④. Few people bought his records.

A. ①②③④         B. ④②③①       C. ①③②④      D.④①③②

2.Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?

A. Because he wants to live in the UK.

B. Because his record company asks him to.

C. Because he wants to sell his album in the UK.

D. Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career.

3.Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.

A. taking trips gives him some ideas of music

B. what we really want to follow is the most important

C. music is a thing that can bring him fame and money

D. in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing

4.What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?

A. Kind and helpful.                 B. Proud and confident.

C. Active and hard-working.       D. Calm and disappointed.

 

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