【题目】Where in the world can you take an hour's train ride, and pass a forest, a London street, a scene from the Wild West, and a burning building that never burns down? There's only one place, and that's Hollywood, in California. The scenes you see from the tourist train are film sets(布景) in the Universal Studios, one of the oldest and largest movie companies in the USA.

A visit to Universal Studios brings back memories of great days of Hollywood, the films and the stars. But they are only memories. Hollywood isn't quite the same as it used to be. Costs have gone up and confidence has gone down. Movie-makers are afraid to spend their money on expensive new ideas. Instead, they repeat old ones.

The film industry is changing fast. Teenagers still go out to the movies. The theatre is a good place to meet friends away from home. But older people mostly stay home to watch series, like Dynasty have become as important to Hollywood as expensive movies. These “soap opera”, as they are called, show rich, powerful families living in beautiful homes and wearing beautiful clothes. But the actors and actresses are nearly all middle-aged, like many of the people who watch them.

Though it is soap operas that are keeping the film-makers of Hollywood in Business, big films are still being made in America. But more and more of them are made outside Hollywood. New York is the most important new center, but there are many others as well. Movie-makers have realized that they don't need Hollywood any more. Modern cameras and real houses instead of expensively made copies in a studio. Other states, especially Florida and Texas, are working hard to take the film business away from California. They are offering better working conditions and lower cost. But Hollywood is fighting back. The state of California is trying hard to keep its best-known industry.

【1】 From the passage, we know Universal Studios is ________.

A. a very large park

B. a busy London street

C. a famous movie company

D. an old Hollywood movie

【2】 The movie industry in California isn't as successful as before because ________.

A. young people don't go to movie theatres any more

B. there is strong competition from other states

C. its movie companies are in need of young stars

D. the state hasn't put a development plan into action

【3】What can we learn about “soap operas” from the passage?

A. They are teenagers’ favourites.

B. They are much more expensive.

C. They are less attractive.

D. They are cheaper and easier to make.

【4】 The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. something about the film industry in the USA

B. the importance of soap operas in Hollywood

C. the good old days of Hollywood

D. the film business in California

【题目】How often do you exercise? A new study found that one third of the kids from 12 to 15 weren’t getting enough physical activity. The results were about 800 kids.

Doctors suggested an hour or more of physical activity every day. According to the , only 1 in 4 of the US kids exercised enough.

Few in the survey met the doctors’ ideas about physical activity that raises the heart rate and makes people become . However, most of those kids said they did less than an hour of exercise the week before. Overall, about 25% they got an hour of that kind of hard exercise every day. Kids reported they usually did most of the activities outside of school gym class---- for boys and running for girls.

The study found that teens were less active than normal-weight girls and boys. Overweight girls were kind of less active than normal-weight girls, levels were similar among overweight and usual-weight boys. The study also said that the obesity rate for children aged 2 to19 17%, or about 12.5 million kids.

“There’s always room for improvement,” said Tala Fakhouri, was the lead writer of the report. She also said the results provided useful information to fitness campaigns such as Let’s Move, which was started by the First Lady Michelle Obama in 2010. To encourage kids to eat right and get in shape, the First Lady schools and held exercise events. She also called on schools to offer regular classes.

Fakhouri suggested kids who got physical education at school may get grades. She said schools could do more to help by not cutting rest and giving kids more time for physical activity.

【1】A. depended on B. kept on C. set up D. helped with

【2】A. work B. study C. lesson D. subject

【3】A. adults B. boys C. girls D. kids

【4】A. thinner B. heavier C. stronger D. weaker

【5】A. said B. told C. spoke D. talked

【6】A. too B. also C. hardly D. either

【7】A. chess B. painting C. basketball D. singing

【8】A. overweight B. thin C. tall D. short

【9】A. and B. so C. or D. but

【10】A. were B. was C. had D. did

【11】A. which B. what C. this D. who

【12】A. ask for B. agree on C. help with D. talk about

【13】A. built B. went C. visited D. travelled

【14】A. English B. gym C. math D. physics

【15】A. less B. lower C. better D. worse

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