Colorful fruit and vegetables are good for our health. Their colors help us keep healthy. Close your eyes and think about the colors of fruit and vegetables: the red of tomatoes, the orange of carrots, the green of cabbages and the purple of grapes.

You can enjoy eating fruit and vegetables of all colors: green, yellow, orange, blue, purple and white. Each color is special and important to our health. These colors work together to keep us healthy.

The list below shows the good of some colors in fruit and vegetables:

* Green helps prevent cancer (癌症). It is good for our eyes, too. It also gives strong bones and teeth.

* Red gives us a healthy heart. It can reduce the risk of heart disease. Red helps prevent cancer and improve our memory.

* Yellow gives us a healthy immune system (免疫系统) It is also good for our eyes.

* White can keep cholesterol (胆固醇) at a low level (水平).

* Blue and purple help us keep a good memory as we grow old.

So when you are buying or eating fruit and vegetables, remember: try different colors of fruit and vegetables.

1.______are good for our eyes

A.Green and purple B.Red and yellow

C.White and blue D.Green and yellow

2.Mike is 4 years old. His mother should make him eat ______to grow strong bones and teeth.

A.cabbages B.carrots C.oranges D.tomatoes

3.The underlined word “prevent” means (意思是) ______.

A.保护 B.损坏 C.激励 D.阻止

4.Which is the best title for the passage?

A.How to keep healthy B.How to eat vegetables

C.Colorful fruit and vegetables D.Different colors

The koala

Size: 70—90cm Weight: 5—14kg

The koala with thick hair looks cute but it has very sharp (锋利的) teeth and claws (爪子).The male koala is larger than the female one.

Food: The koala eats eucalyptus leaves (桉树叶). Each koala eats about 500 grams of leaves per day.

Habit: The koala sleeps for up to 16—18 hours. It prefers to move around in the evening.

Baby fact: A healthy female koala can have one child each year. A baby koala is very small when it is born—only a quarter of an inch. It has no hair and it can’t see either. It lives in its mother’s pouch (育儿袋) for half a year. During this time, it only drinks its mother’s milk.

Danger: The number of koalas in Australia is getting smaller every year, mainly because of people. People cut down a lot of trees, so many koalas have no places to live in and they don’t have enough leaves to eat. There are fewer than 100,000 koalas in the world. Some scientists say if people don’t protect them, we won’t have any koalas within 30 years

1.When does the koala often move around during a day?

A.In the morning. B.In the evening. C.In the afternoon. D.At weekends.

2.If someone sees a newly born koala, he will find that ___________________.

A.it can see everything B.it is really small

C.it has thick hair D.it is very big

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.The female koala is smaller than the male one. B.An adult koala often weighs more than 16kg.

C.The koala doesn’t have sharp paws or teeth. D.The koala often sleeps for more than 20 hours.

A man walked into a restaurant. The restaurant advised it had the _________ menu in the world. The manager was very proud of being able to provide any dish, no matter how _________ it was.

At the bottom of the _________, there was a notice that said, “If you do not see the dish you need on this menu, please tell us and we will add it to the menu right away.”

The man __________ the menu and decided to make sure if it was true. He would order _______ that was very unusual.

When a waiter came up to take his order, he said, “You say you can serve any dish, even it’s not on your longest menu in the world.”

“That is correct, sir. We are able to meet everyone’s requirements.”

“Well, ” the man said, “bring me a sandwich with two elephant ears. __________, not African. ” The waiter wrote down in his paper: Two Indian elephant ears on toast.

“Very good, sir, ” he said, “That shouldn’t ________ long. ”

The waiter walked away quickly. The man was very surprised and rather disappointed. Then he smiled ____________ the waiter returned with a very unhappy look on his face.

“Ah!” the man said, “You can’t _________ it to me, can you?” The waiter made an apology. “I’m very sorry, sir, and this is the ___________embarrassing, ”he said, “but I’m afraid we can’t because we’ve run out of bread.”

1.A.biggest B.thickest C.heaviest D.longest

2.A.unfair B.unusual C.beautiful D.important

3.A.menu B.dish C.restaurant D.table

4.A.looked for B.took out C.looked at D.picked up

5.A.anything B.nothing C.everything D.something

6.A.American B.Indian C.Canadian D.Australian

7.A.pay B.cost C.take D.spend

8.A.as B.and C.so D.though

9.A.catch B.take C.make D.bring

10.A.least B.most C.best D.worst

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