Do you love holidays but hate the increase weight that follows? You are not alone.
     Holidays are happy days with pleasure and delicious foods. Many people, however, are worried
about the weight that comes along with the delicious foods. With proper planning, though, it is possible
to control your weight. The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much. You don't have to
turn away from the foods that you enjoy. The following suggestions may be of some help to you.
     Do not miss meals. Before you leave home for a feast, have a small, low-fat snack. This may
help to keep you from getting too excited before delicious foods.
     Begin with clear soup and fruit or vegetables. A large glass of water before you eat may help
you feel full .Use a small plate; a large plate will encourage you to have more than enough.
     Better not have high-fat foods. Dishes that look oily or creamy have much fat in them.
     Choose lean meat. Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables. If you have a sweet tooth ,
try mints (薄荷) and fruits .They don't have fat content as cream and chocolate.
     Don't let exercise take a break during the holidays. A 20-minute walk after a meal can help
burn off excess calories.

1. In order to really enjoy your holidays without putting on weight, you'd better__________.

A. drink much water and have vegetables only      
B. not eat much food in high-fat
C. not accept invitations to feasts                  
D. turn away from delicious foods

2. Many people can't help putting on weight after the holidays because they __________

A. go to too many feasts        
B. can't help turning away from the foods                      
C. enjoy delicious foods        
D. can't control themselves

3. Excess calories can be found in your body in the form of _________

A. energy    
B. fat        
C. food        
D. something invisible

     "Hey, little buddy, will you support me when I'm getting old?" Han Wenshan, 35 years old, asked
his new-born baby as he picked him up at home.
     The Chinese tradition of raising sons to support parents in their old age has been weakened by the
rapidly growing economy and improved standard of living. As is the case with developed countries,
China faces an aging society. People are living longer and having fewer children. Therefore many
Chinese families are falling into a 4-2-1 family pattern: a couple raises one child and supports four
elderly parents. But few realize this problem.
     The aging of the population is a trend that now affects a growing number of countries. Not long
ago, the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, issued a white paper on measures
China is taking to help its elderly population. The paper said China's population entered the aging
phrase at the end of the 20th century as the proportion of people aged 60 and above accounted for
over 10 percent of the entire population. By the end of 2005, China had nearly 144 million people
over 60, accounting for 11 percent of the population, according to the white paper.
     An expanding aged population inevitably means that many issues must be settled, as the problem
concerns every aspect of society. It puts more pressure on each family, causing disturbing economic
consequences and serious social problems. It also challenges the labor force supply and the pension
(养老金) system.
     "I used to think that it's not an issue for me to provide for the aged." said Han, whose parents and
parents-in-law all enjoy pensions and medical insurance. But last year Han's father suffered a serious
illness and afterward Han began to feel the pressure on his shoulders.

1. Which of the following is not caused by an aging society?

A. Unemployment                    
B. The problem of the pension system
C. Social problems.                  
D. More pressure on the family.

2. From the passage we can infer ___________.

A. many people haven't realized the problem of an aging society
B. children will not support their parents in an aging society
C. the aging problem is one of the concerns for the Chinese government
D. China will encourage young couples to have more than one child

3. Which of the following can be used to replace the underlined word "inevitably"?

A. Surprisingly.      
B. Naturally.      
C. Hopefully.      
D. Unluckily.

4. From the passage we can see that ___________.

A. China is the only country to face an aging society
B. most of the developing countries face an aging society
C. countries with a large population face an aging society
D. more and more developed countries face an aging society

     Most people will answer a ringing phone. Usually you don't know who is phoning or how urgent
their business is, so a ringing phone is difficult to ignore. In one experiment, a researcher wrote down
the numbers of several public phones in stations and airports. Then he called the numbers. Someone
nearly always answered. When he asked why, people usually said, "Because it rang."
     A few years ago in New Jersey, a man with a rifle killed 13 people. Armed police surrounded his
house but he refused to come out. A reporter found out the phone number of the house and called.
The man put down his rifle and answered the phone. "What do you want?" he said, "I'm really busy
right now."
     Imagine you're at work and the phone is ringing in someone else's office. Do you answer it or not?
In one survey on telephone use, 51% of participants told researches that they did. We can't ignore the
phone and for the reason, it forces its way into our lives. It interrupts what we are doing and on top of
that, the caller is often someone we don't really want to talk to. However, in the survey, 58% said they
never took the phone off the hook, and 67% didn't mind if someone called during a television programme. For 44% it wasn't a problem if someone rang during a meal, while only 28% were annoyed or upset.
If someone phoned in the middle of the night, 40% told researchers that they got nervous or frightened,
while around 30% got angry.
      Of course, when someone is really annoying, you can choose to hang up on him/her. This is in fact
one of the rudest things you can do on the phone, but 79% said they were prepared to do it in some
cases. Only 6% told researchers they never hung up on people.

1. In the experiment, people answered the researcher's phone _______.

A. for fear that it was urgent
B. in order to help him gather the data
C. to test the function of the phone    
D. to show their interest in the survey

2. The gunman answered the phone because _____.

A. he decided not to give up his resistance to the police
B. he tended to answer a ringing phone
C. he wanted to tell the reporter that he was too busy to offer any information
D. he intended to be friendly with the media

3. According to Para.3, most people _____ when they were doing their work or watching television.

A. minded the ringing of the phone
B. couldn't ignore the phone
C. refused to answer the phone in someone else's office
D. kept the phone ringing

4. What is implied by the sentence "79% said they were prepared to do it in some cases"(in the
last paragraph)?

A. They were annoyed by the rude callers.
B. They were prepared to punish those rude callers.
C. They were going to hang up on annoying phones.
D. They also agreed that it was a rude thing to hang up on others.

5. The purpose of the survey is to find out _____.

A. how the phone interrupts people's work
B. what role the phone plays in people's lives
C. why people mind a ringing phone sometimes
D. when the phone communication is more welcome

     In the year Shakespeare died in 1616, New England was born. This was in fact four years before
any English speakers permanently (永久) settled in that northern location. But in 1616 it was already
the subject of the book A Description of New England, by that busy explorer and promoter Captain
John Smith, who had visited the land two years before.
   According to Smith, New England owes its name to Sir Francis Drake. Not that Drake ever saw or
talked about New England, but in sailing around the world he stopped in 1597 at a place on the Pacific
coast of North American and called it Nova Albion, the Latin for "New England". Following Drake's
lead, Smith called the area at a similar latitude (纬度) on the Atlantic coast by the same name, translated
into plain English.
   The very words New England show the direction of Smith's thinking. This was to be an extension (延
伸) of Old England, not a new kind of community. The map in his book gives only English names for the
places of New England, and he provides a special list showing thirty American Indian names replaced by
English ones: Accormack by Plymouth, Massachusets River by Charles River, Kinebeck by
Edenborough, to list a few. Some of those changes succeeded. But what finally happened after the
Plymouth colonists landed four years later has turned out differently than Smith had imagined, for Indian
names as well as English ones still cover the new England area.

1. Captain John Smith arrived at the area New England in__________.

A. 1579      
B. 1614    
C. 1616      
D. 1620

2. The underline words "that northern location" probably refer to__________.

A. Edenborough    
B. Nova Albion  
C. New England  
D. Massachusets

3. The passage is written mainly to__________.

A. explain why English and Indian names are both used in New England 
B. explain how the name New England came into being
C. tell people New England was named by Sir Francis Drake
D. tell people that New England has a long history of having the name

4. It can be inferred from the passage that_________. 

A. Sir Francis Drake first used the name New England
B. The name New England was given by Captain John Smith
C. New England and Old England refer to the same land
D. English speakers began to settle in New England in 1612

     There are some special traditions in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome
visitors. They give visitors a lei, a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright
flowered shirt and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese,
Japanese and Filipino holidays and all the holidays from the United States. They call Hawaii
the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means " I love you".
     Usually when people from different countries, races and traditions live together, there are
serious problems. There are so many people  living in  Hawaii, but in general, people have
learned to live together in peace.
     Hawaiians get most of their money from visitors, and most of the visitors come from the
mainland and from Japan. There are so many people living in Hawaii now that there are
residential areas ( 住宅区 ) where there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and pineapple
companies have moved to the Philippines, where they do not have to pay workers as much
money. The families of the first people who came from the U.S mainland own the important
banks and companies .Japanese are also buying or starting business here.

1. The author wants to show that _____.

A. we should all go to Hawaii.
B. it is possible to learn to live together in peace.
C. it is not possible to live together in peace.
D. Hawaii is the only place where there is peace.

2.  A  lei is _____. 

A. group of flowers                      
B. bright flowered shirt  
C. way to say hello and goodbye            
D. necklace of flowers

3. _____ plays an important part in the development of Hawaii. 

A .Modern industry  
B. Agriculture  
C. The air line  
D. Tourist trade

4. A good title for this article might be_____. 

A. Hawaii, the Aloha State            
B. Living in Peace Together
C. The Flowers of Hawaii              
D. The Problems of Hawaii    

     Some people are pessimistic(悲观的)when they think about the future. They say that, a hundred
years from now, we will have used up most of the earths resources. We will have made our seas so
dirty that we will not be able to eat fish from them. There will be so many people in the world that we
will have to use all the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland left.
     Other people have a different idea about the future. In their view, the city of the future will be a
huge pyramid-shaped(金字塔形的) building, which will be floating on the surface of the sea. About
5,000 families will live there, and there will also be schools, shops in it.
In a hundred years'time, people will not need to use oil. They will heat their homes with power from
the sun.
     Think of space. Perhaps a station will be set up on the moon; people will be able to visit the moon
as to urists. They may even spend their holidays in space, travelling from planet to planet.
     What an interesting picture!
     Many people don't think about the future. "I don't care. I'll be dead. "they say. But it is our duty
to care because the world of a hundred years'time will be the world of our children's and their children
after them.

1. How many viewpoints are discussed here about the future?

A. Two      
B. Three      
C. Four        
D. Five

2. In the pessimistic view, people will        in a hundred years 'time.

A. have to use power from the sea  
B. have to live on the moon    
C .be able to grow food on the sea  
D. find it difficult to live on the earth

3. Where will people live in the future in the optimistic view?

A. On the moon  
B. On the sea      
C. In pyramids    
D. On other planets

4. The writer of the article seems to agree        .  

A. with those who look at the bright side of the future
B. with those who take a pessimistic view about the future
C. with those who won't trouble their heads about the future  
D. to none of these viewpoints

      To be a good teacher, you need some of the talents of a good actor: you must be able to
hold attention and interest of your students; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong,
pleasing voice which is fully under your control; you must be able to act what you are teaching,
in order to make its meaning clear.
     A good teacher doesn't sit still before his class; he stands all the time he is teaching; he walks
about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express
his feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and musical note of his voice
always changing according to what he is talking about.
     The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean he will indeed
be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher's
work and the actor's. The actor has to speak words he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly
the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he
uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt
words seem natural on the stage.
     A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play-they
ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don't understand something, they say so.
The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience. He can't learn his part by heart, because
their brains couldn't keep discipline: they couldn't keep strictly to what another has written.

1. If you want to be a good teacher, you should______.            .

A. act out what you have learnt strictly 
B. be a good actor on the stage
C. sit all the time while teaching     
D. suit the need of different students

2.The underlined word "talents" in the first paragraph means_____.          

A. methods      
B. gifts      
C. wishes      
D. interests

3.The main difference between students and audience in the theatre is that
students _______.         .

A. move around the class                
B. keep silent all the time
C. take an active part in class            
D. like body language

4. If Tom Hanks, a famous actor, would like to be a good teacher, he may need training in ______.   .

A. how to use body language          
B. how to repeat his lines
C. how to be more quick - minded      
D. how to be attractive

     Cities with high levels of homeownership-in the range of 75%, like Detroit and St. Lous -had on
average considerably lower levels of economic activity and much lower wages and incomes. Far too
many people in financial problems are trapped in homes they can't sell, unable to move on to new centers
of opportunity.
     The cities and regions with the lowest levels of homeownership-in the range of 55% to 60% like Los
Angeles and New York-had healthier economies and higher incomes. They also had higher levels of
happiness and well-being.
     I was shocked to read these interesting points that Richard Florida made in his recent article. Let
me try to understand. The people in Detroit and St. Louis are less happy than the people in New York,
and Los Angeles. And, the reason is because of home ownership rates?
First, to compare them to New York City (the economic capital of the world), Los Angeles (the entertainment capital of the world) seems unfair. Most people in almost any other city in the world might be less
happy!
     Next, let's try a different way of determining whether renters are happier than homeowners. Why
don't we ask them? Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey 2010 reported:
     75% of current renters believe owning a home makes more sense.
     67% plan to buy a home at some point in the future.
    When they asked current renters for the major reason to buy a house, these were their answers (they
could pick several answers):
     78% said it was a good place to raise children.
     75% said because they would feel safe.
     70% said because you have control your own space.
     If you believe renters are happier, you would also have to believe the majority enjoy living in a less
safe environment, which wouldn't be a good place to raise children and would be a place where they
have less control of their space.

1.Which of the following is a fact?

A. People in Los Angeles earn high incomes because of its low homeownership rate.
B. New York's low homeownership rate increases people's happiness levels.
C. Detroit's high level of homeownership causes its economic problems.
D. St. Louis has a higher level of homeownership than Los Angeles.

2. In his article, Richard Florida tried to express that ________.

A. people in Los Angeles are happier than those in St. Louis
B. Renting a house is better than owning a house
C. Detroit's economy is healthier than New York's economy
D. New York and Los Angeles are happiest cities

3.The writer believes that New York Cities and Los Angeles________.

A. pay employee highest wages in America
B. benefit from low levels of homeownership
C. are leading cities across the globe
D. are best American cities to live in

4. From Fannie Mae's survey report, we can know that________.

A. paying rent makes more sense
B. most homeowners plan to sell their houses
C. most renters prefer to become homeowners
D. parents need to buy a house for their children

5.According to the passage, current renters' reasons to buy a house are the follows except _______. 

A. to have a good place to raise children 
B. to live in a safer environment
C. to make money
D. to have control of their own space