题目内容
LONDON—Manchester is Britain’s fattest city, a survey for “Men’s Health” has found, beating Glasgow for the first time since the magazine started examining the issue three years ago.
Editor Pete Muir said the survey had looked at a variety of factors from gym membership to heart disease rates to find the fattest city. “Manchester has more fast food restaurants than anywhere else in the UK,” he told Reuters. “People are taking the easy choice—eating and then just sitting in front of the TV.”
Manchester’s problem is part of a wider trend. On Thursday, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) blamed a lack of exercise and poor diet for a fifth of adult Britons being obese (过度肥胖的). “Obesity is a major risky factor connected with heart disease, diabetes and premature death (糖尿病和早亡).” said an ONS survey. “None of the 108 young men in the survey reported eating five portions of fruit or vegetables on average each day.”
In Manchester, the head of the city’s public health programs said he did not believe that they were necessarily the fattest city, but that they did have problems and were aiming to address them. Social deprivation (贫困) was a major factor. “One of the myths is that the stressed-out rich businessman is the one who is overweight,” David Regan told Reuters. “In fact, it is the poor areas that have the most problems. We aim not to be the fattest but the fittest city but we have a long way to go.”
Second in the survey is Stoke-on-Trent, followed by Liverpool, Swansea and Lecicester. Glasgow is sixth.
1.Manchester took the place of __________ and became Britain’s fattest city.
A.Liverpool B.London C.Stoke-on-Trent D.Glasgow
2.Obesity may lead to the following EXCEPT __________.
A.Heart disease B.diabetes C.premature death D.a lack of exercise
3.This article is most probably taken from __________.
A.a newspaper B.a science book C.a novel D.a biography
阅读快车系列答案目前，许多中学生利用周末和节假日上课外补习班，对此人们有不同的看法。请根据下面内容写一篇短文。
赞成者的观点 | 1. 能够学得更好，考试考得更好，上更好的高中； 2. 避免花太多时间看电视、玩游戏。 |
反对者的观点 | 1. 学生需要时间休息； 2. 压力过大不利于身体健康。 |
你的观点 | 1. 课堂上好好学就足够了，补课不必要； 2. 课后可以自己...... |
注意：1. 表达清楚，语法通顺，上下文连贯；
2. 必须包括提示的所有信息，并适当发挥，至少两点；
3. 词数：100词左右（文章开头已给出，不计入总词数）；
4. 不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。
Nowadays, many middle school students are taking all kinds of after-school classes at weekends or on holidays. There are two different opinions about it.
Some people think that
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阅读下列短文，根据短文中的信息完成文后表格。在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。（每空一词）
There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the influences it has on the human body. They have found that laughter can really make people healthier.
Tests were carried out to study the influences of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar influences to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial (有益的).
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce pain on the body. In one test doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which reduce both stress and pain.
As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics (诊所), in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. Because of good influences, such clinics are very popular with all kinds of patients. Doctors have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial influences similar to those caused by laughter.
Since laughter is so effective, try to laugh as much as you can. Believe it will do much good to your health. If you are not used to laughing in front of others, you can also smile as often as possible to others because it can have almost the same influence.
Title | Laughter |
Theme | Laughter can improve our 1.. |
The recent medical discoveries. | ·Doctors have studied what influences laughter has on people. ·Doctors have found people’s health can be improved by 2.. |
The 3. of laughter | ·Laughter can increase people’s blood pressure, heart beating and breathing. ·Laughter can also exercise the muscles of a few parts of one’s body which 4. the face, the stomach and the feet. ·Stress and pain are 5. because laughter can help to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain. |
The use that doctors make of laughter | ·Doctors set up laughter clinics, where patients are 6. to laugh to improve their condition. ·If patients don’t really like laughing, they can smile because smile can make 7. influences to laughter. |
The writer’s 8. | ·Try to laugh as often as 9.. ·10. much to others if you don’t like to laugh in public |