任务型读写(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)

阅读下面短文,根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。

注意:每个空格只填一个单词。

The USA is the first country where Mother’s Day appeared.

On May 9th, 1906,an American Anne Jevis’s mother died. Ann was in deep sorrow. In order to memorize her mother, she put forward a proposal to fix a day as Mother’s Day. On May 7th ,1914,the Congress of the USA passed a law ,making the second Sunday of May “Mother’s Day”.

Today millions of Americans observe Mother’s Day in some ways. They buy more than 150,000,000Mother’s Day greeting cards. Companies produce more than 1,000 different kinds. Most of the cards show pictures of flowers, hearts or other things that people feel are linked to being a mother. They have messages that express a person’s love for his or her mother. Some are humorous. And some have no words. People can express their own feelings for their mother. Many people give flowers for Mother’s Day. It is one of the busiest days of the year for the flower industry. Many people have written songs about mothers and Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day is a time for young children to do special things for their mother. Some would make a special gift or draw a special picture. One family activity on Mother’s Day is to have the children cook the early morning meal .Then they serve the food to their mother while she is still in bed. Or they might clean the house so she does not have to do it. Fathers might take care of the children that day so the mothers can rest, or take a walk, or read a book. Many mothers feel that this free time on their special day is a very good Mother’s Day gift.

Some families will get together for a meal at a local eating place. This means that mothers do not have to cook on their special day. Coming out to dinner has become a tradition on Mother’s Day. As a result, restaurants are extremely crowded that day. It has become one of the busiest days of the year for the restaurant industry in the United States.

Now Mother’s Day has been an international festival and more than 40 countries have accepted this festival.

                       Title:76      Day

Date

The 77        Sunday of May

78.      

Anne’s 79.           at her mother’s death

82.            

to celebrate

Cards are sent with flowers or hearts to express80.      

81.          written for mothers

Special things done by children

Make special gifts

Draw special pictures

Cook and serve the early

morning meal

Clean the house

Special things done by fathers

Look after children

Get together for a meal at a local eating place, which makes restaurants very83.       

84.        

An international festival celebrated in over 85.        countries

    You hear this,“No wonder you are fat.All you ever d0 is eat.”You feel sad.“I skip my breakfast and supper.I run every morning and evening.What else can I do?”

    Basically you can do nothing.Your genes,not your life habits,determine your weight and your body constantly tries to maintain it.

    Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania found from experiments that“80 percent of the children of two fat parents become fat,as compared with no more than 14.percent of the children of two parents of normal weight.”   

    How can obese people become thinner through dieting? Well,dieting can be effective.but the health costs are great.

    Jules Hirsch,a research physician at Rockefeller University,did a study of eight fat people.They were.given a liquid formula(配方)providing 600 calories a day.After more than 10 weeks,the subjects lost on average 45 kg.But after leaving the hospital,they all regained the weight.

    The results were surprising:by metabolic(新陈代谢的)measurement,fat people who lost large amounts of weight seemed like they were starving.They had psychiatric problems.They dreamed of food or of breaking their diet They were anxious and depressed.Some wanted to kill themselves.They hid food in their rooms.

    Researchers warn that it is possible that weight reduction doesn’t result in normal weight,but in an abnormal state lust like that of starved non.obese people.   

    Thin people, however,suffer from the opposite.They have to make a great effort to gain weight  Ethan Sims of the University of Vermont got prisoners to volunteer to gain weight.In four to six months—they ate as much as they could.They succeeded in increasing their weight by 20 to 25 percent. But months after the study ended,they were back to normal weight and stayed there.

    This did not mean that people are completely without hope in controlling their weight.It means that those who tend to be fat will have to constantly battle their genetic inheritance(遗传)if they want to significantly 1ower their weight.

    The findings also provide evidence for something scientists thought was true—each person has a comfortable weight range.The range might be as much as 9kg.Someone might weigh 60--69kg without too much effort.But,going above or below the natural weight range is difficult.The body resists by feeling hungry or full and changing.the metabolism to push the weight back to the range it seeks.

The story is mainly written to       。

    A.point out the relations between our body and mind

    B.warn us it’s extremely harmful to reduce or gain our weight

    C.tell us that it’s difficult to make a significant change in our weight

D.stress that dieting 1s a recommended way to help you reach your desired weight   

Jules Hirsch’s study’found that         .

     A.big weight loss could lead to mental problems

     B.a person’s weight can be decided by their parents’ weight

     C.only dieting cannot produce a desired result in weight reduction

     D.big efforts to lose weight may result in a weight much heavier than one’s normal weight

From the text,we know that the body can still feel comfortable

     A.when the weight goes up or down by 6 kg

     B.when the weight goes up or down by l0 kg

     C.when the weight is increased by 20 to 25 percent

     D.when the weight is decreased by 20 to 25 percent

What can be inferred from the passage?

     A.When it comes to weight,naturalness is the healthiest

     B.Weight reduction could be both risky and painful.

     C.Seek professional advice when reducing your weight.

     D.There’s no hope and no point in controlling your weight.

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