The rising costs of health care have become a problem for many countries in the world. To deal with this problem, it is reported that a big part of the government’s health budge(预算)has been used for health education and disease prevention instead of treatment. Actually, many kinds of diseases are preventable in many ways and preventing a disease is usually much cheaper than treating it. For example, people could avoid catching a cold if they dressed warmly when the weather starts getting cold. But many people get sick because they fail to do so, and have to spend money seeing a doctor.
Daily habits like eating more healthy food would have kept millions of families from becoming bankrupt(破产)if the patients had taken ways for early prevention. For example, keeping a balanced diet(均衡饮食), such as not consuming too much animal fat and trying to have enough vegetables and fruits, seems to be quite important.
One very effective and costless way of prevention is regular(定期的)exercise, which is necessary for a healthy mind and body. Regular exercise, such as running, walking, and playing sports is a good way to make people feel better.
In addition, health education plays a key role in improving people’s health. By giving people more information about health, countries could help people understand the importance of disease prevention and ways to achieve it. For example, knowing one’s family medical history is an effective way to help keep healthy. Information about health problems among close relatives will make them aware of what they should do to prevent certain diseases through lifestyle changes, which will work before it is too late.
However, paying more attention to disease prevention does not mean medical treatment is unimportant. After all, prevention and treatment are just two different means toward the same effect. In conclusion, we could save money on health care and treat patients more successfully if our country spends more money on health prevention and education.
【小题1】 What’s the meaning of the underlined word “consuming” in Paragraph 2?

A.Avoiding.B.Producing.C.Eating.D.Cooking.
【小题2】What’s the best title of the passage?
A.Health or Illness?B.Exercise or Illness?
C.Prevention or Education?D.Prevention or Treatment?
【小题3】We can learn from the passage that ______.
A.more health education should be given
B.dressing warmly can prevent diseases
C.a balanced diet is cheaper than regular exercise
D.the government’s health budget should be increased

 

Date of birth: July 26. 1985        Weight: 50 kg

Place of birth: Changsha, Hunan    Favorite city: Paris

Height:164 cm                  Hobby: music

Type of blood: AB

Zhou Bichang was the winner of the Super Girls. She did quite well in her studies and got a high score of 681 in her NCEE in 2003.

    Zhou Bichang graduated from Futian High School in Shenzhen and is now a student at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music(??????) in Guangzhou.

Although her parents gave her a name with the meaning "write excellently" in the hope that she would become a writer. Zhou seems to be a born singer. She could sing theme songs of TV shows very well when she was only two years old. She has more than 4,500CDs.

Zhou has been well-known across the country during the contest. Fans gave her a nickname "BB" and themselves a title "Chalks". However, BB doesn't seem to enjoy the sudden success. Now she is back to school but feels a bit uneasy when fans see her. "What I really love is singing," said BB in an interview, "but not the life of a star," But that's exactly why "Chalks" love "BB".

1.Zhou Bichang is called ______ by her fans.

   A. Chalks         B.BB            C. Write fluently     D. Bichang

2.What do Zhou Bichang's parents want her to be in the future?

   A. A writer.       B. A pop singer    C. A film star.        D. We don't know.

3.What's the meaning of the underlined word "uneasy"?

   A. nervous       B. worried        C. excited            D. uncomfortable

4. What do you think Zhou Bichang can do well in from this passage?

   A. Only her study.                  B. Only singing.

   C. Both her study and singing.        D. Her study, singing and writing

 

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you looked up each word in the dictionary, once at a time, what is your translation (翻译)? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Languages do not just have different sounds; they are different in many ways. Its important to master(掌握)the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand his sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, but the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the different between the two parts of sentences.

“She only likes apples.”“Only she likes apples.”

“I have seen the film already.”“I have already seen the film.”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

1.From the passage we know that __________when we are learning English.

A.we shouldn’t put every word into our own language

B.we should look up every word in the dictionary

C.we need to put every word into our own language

D.we must read word by word

2.The writer thinks it is ________ in learning English.

A.difficult to understand different sounds

B.possible to remember the word order

C.important to master the rules in different ways

D.easy to master the rules for word order

3.We can learn from the passage that _________ .

A.the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of words

B.the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence

C.sometimes a different order of words has a different meaning

D.if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different

4.“She only likes apples.”____________.

A.is the same as “Only she likes apples.”

B.is different from “Only she likes apples.”

C.means “She likes fruit except apples.”

D.means “She doesn’t like apples.”

5.Which is the best title(题目)for this passage?

A.Different orders, different meanings.

B.How to speak English.

C.How to put English into our own language.

D.How to learn English.

 

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