Food is life; it gives us the nourishment (营养) we need to stay alive and be healthy.__1.__ Brian Wansink, a professor at the University of Illinois, says we also eat certain foods because they make us feel good, and remind us of happy memories.Wansink calls this kind of food comfort food.For some people, ice cream is a comfort food.For others, a bowl of noodles soup makes them feel good.

2.__ Professor Wansink believes that we connect food with important times, feelings, and people in our lives.“When I was a child, my mother made a delicious soup; I loved it.__3.__ And it helps me feel better,” Says one of Wansink’s coworkers.

Do men and women choose different comfort foods? Wansink’s research at the University of Illinois says “ yes”.In his study, the favorite comfort food for both men and women was ice cream.After this, men usually preferred hot, savory (香的) foods like soup or noodles._4.__ Men and women like to eat comfort foods when they are happy, but women eat these foods more when they are sad or worried.

__5._ About 40 percent of the comfort foods in Wansink’s study were healthy main dishes or soups and vegetables.It shows, says Wansink, that a comfort food can taste good and be good for you.

A.Not all comfort food is junk food.

B.Where can we buy this sort of food?

C.Sweet foods are also their preference.

D.How does a food become comfort food?

E.Usually, we eat because we are hungry or need energy.

F.Women like sweet things such as chocolate and cookies.

G.Now, I often have this kind of food when I am tired or worried.

 

The Little Angel

Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon(外科医生) come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”

The surgeon said, “I’m ____. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t ____ it.”

Sally ____into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the ____?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers ____ through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock(一撮)of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to ____ his body to the university for study. He said it might ____ somebody else. “I said no at first, ____ Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.’”

“My Jimmy had a heart of ____, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.

Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy’s ____ on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ____. It was even harder to enter the ____ house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room ____ where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, ____ herself to sleep.

It was around midnight when Sally ____. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,

“Dear Mom,

I know you’re going to ____ me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more ____ each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to ____a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.

Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all ____. I don’t have to stand that ____any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel! I love you, Mom.”

1.A. worried B. sorryC. happy D. grateful

2.A. make B. passC. winD. like

3.A. knocked B. lookedC. sank D. got

4.A. house B. church C. hospital D. university

5.A. anxiously B. lovinglyC. patientlyD. angrily

6.A. donateB. moveC. showD. lend

7.A. affect B. help C. protectD. impress

8.A. for B. and C. soD. but

9.A. gold B. stone C. wisdom D. bravery

10.A. toys B. clothes C. belongingsD. letters

11.A. long B. smoothC. difficult D. dangerous

12.A. emptyB. familiarC. bigD. old

13.A. roughly B. exactlyC. especiallyD. possibly

14.A. put B. sent C. cried D. buried

15.A. wrote B. spokeC. sleptD. awoke

16.A. understandB. forgiveC. leaveD. miss

17.A. withB. around C. onD. in

18.A. saveB. hostC. visitD. adopt

19.A. lost B. gone C. cured D. spotted

20.A. depression B. sadness C. pain D. stress

 

When 19?year?old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make?A?Wish Foundation(基金会), nobody understood what she was talking about. But Sophia knew just how important Make?A?Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say.

Sophia told us that Make?A?Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980. “It's a charity(慈善机构) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. Make?A?Wish helps children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true,” Sophia explained.

We asked Sophia how Make?A?Wish had first started. She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris, who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman. Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris's dream come true—so, with everybody's help, Chris, only seven years old at the time, had been a “policeman” for a day. “When people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too, and that was the beginning of Make?A?Wish,” explained Sophia.

Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A Make?A?Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world. Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary, or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.

1.Sophia found out about Make?A?Wish because her best friend had ________.

A.benefited from it B.volunteered to help it

C.dreamed about it D.told the author about it

2.According to Sophia, Make?A?Wish ________.

A.is an international charity

B.was understood by nobody at first

C.raises money for very poor families

D.started by drawing the interest of the public

3.What is said about Chris in Paragraph 3?

A.He has been a policeman since he was seven.

B.He gave people the idea of starting Make?A?Wish.

C.He wanted people to help make his dream come true.

D.He was the first child Make?A?Wish helped after it had been set up.

4.Which of the following is true about Make?A?Wish volunteers?

A.They are important for making wishes come true.

B.They try to help children get over their illnesses.

C.They visit sick children to make them feel special.

D.They provide what is necessary to make Make?A?Wish popular.

 

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