We have proof that you become what you eat. When you know the effects of different types of food, you can use your knowledge well and eat what you want to become.

Food has an impact on our physical and mental health. Have you ever heard any of the following advice?

Lettuce or milk can make you sleepy.

To stop feeling sleepy you should eat peanuts or dried fish.

Everyone has their own advice to give, which they have read about or have been told by older relatives. Some of these pieces of advice seem to contradict each other.

Eating chocolate makes you fat and gives you spots.

Chocolate contains the essential minerals: iron and magnesium.

What we need to figure out is what type of chocolate to eat to get the benefits and how much of it to eat. We can do this by reading the list of ingredients on the chocolate bar package. Exactly how much real chocolate is in there? And how much of that do we need to eat to get the benefits of the minerals it contains?

Future restaurants might be named after the physical or mental state they hope to create. Their menus will list the benefits of each dish and drink. Some restaurants have already started this concept, and list the nutritional content of their dishes on the menus.

Let’s take the restaurant “Winners” as an example. Their menu would list dishes specifically designed to help you win sports competitions. Or you could choose the Go-faster salad, which is a large bowl of mixed raw vegetables in a light salad dressing, giving you energy without making you gain weight. And what kind of dishes do you think would be on the menu at the “Clever Café”?

So what’s going to happen to hamburgers and biscuits? Will the concept of eating food, because it’s tasty, go out of fashion? Of course not! Junk food is also changing. If ice-cream is not good for children, can’t we give them fat-free, sugar-free tofu ice-cream? Unhealthy food is going out of fashion, so brands are changing. We are told not to drink cola because of the sugar and caffeine content so cola companies are making sugar-free and caffeine-free drinks. We are told dried fruit is a healthier snack than biscuits so some biscuit companies are making biscuits with added vitamins.

46. By saying “you become what you eat”, the writer means that ________.

A. you will become your own food

B. you will know what food is good by its appearance

C. food has an effect on your health

D. you will know the effects of different types of food

47. What does the underlined word “contradict” mean in the text?

A. Have influence on.                           B. Help with.

C. Oppose to.                                      D. Benefit from.

48. How can we eat chocolate properly, according to the passage?

A. To eat chocolate containing the essential minerals.

B. To read the list of ingredients on the package.

C. To get advice from others before eating real chocolate.

D. To learn how much chocolate we can consume before eating.

49. Which is true about the future restaurants?

A. The food in “Winners” can ensure you to win sports competitions.

B. They might list the nutritional content of their dishes on the menus.

C. Hamburgers will disappear in these restaurants.

D. The Go-faster salad helps you go faster.

50. The concept of eating tasty food will not go out of fashion because ________.

A. the junk food companies are changing their brand names

B. biscuit companies are making dried fruit

C. junk food will become healthier than before

D. Cola companies are still making cola

I was interested to read a newspaper article about a new concept in old people’s homes in France. The idea is simple, but revolutionary―combining a residential home for the elderly with a nursery school in the same building. The children and the residents eat lunch together and share activities. In the afternoons, the residents enjoy reading or telling stories to the children, and if a child is feeling sad or tired, there is always a kind lap to sit on and a cuddle. There are trips out and birthday parties too.

The advantages are enormous for everyone concerned. The children are happy because they get a lot more individual attention, and respond well because someone has time for them. They see illness and death and learn to accept them. The residents are happy because they feel useful and needed. They are more active and more interested in life when the children are around and they take more interest in their appearance too.

Nowadays there is less and less contact between the old and the young. There are many reasons for this, including the breakdown of the extended family, working parents with no time to care for ageing relations, families that have moved away, and smaller flats with no room for grandparents. But the result is the same―increasing numbers of children without grandparents and old people who have no contact with children. And more old people who are lonely and feel useless, along with more and more families with young children who desperately need more support. It’s a major problem in many societies.

That’s why intergenerational programmes, designed to bring the old and the young together, are growing in popularity all over the world. There are examples of successful attempts all over the world. Using young people to teach IT skills to older people is one obvious example. Using old people as volunteer assistants in schools is another, perhaps reading with children who need extra attention.

41. A nursery school is a place where _______.

A. future nurses are trained

B. the elderly live

C. children are taken care of

D. the old join in activities

42. Which is true according to the passage?

A. A number of assistants are employed to take care of the children.

B. The new concept benefits both the elderly and the children.

C. The children become stronger after getting more individual attention.

D. The children learn that sick people will die.

43. What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 3?

A. The reason why the old and the young are separated.

B. One reason why children don’t live with their grandparents.

C. The support children need.

D. The problem that the old and the young are separated.

44. What does the “intergenerational programmes” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. Combining elderly homes with nursery schools.

B. Letting the children and the residents eat together.

C. Asking young people to teach IT skills to older people.

D. Using old people as volunteer assistants in schools.

45. What is the best title for the passage?

  A. Old people’s homes in France.

  B. Building bridges of life.

  C. A Solution to the elderly problem.

  D. Children’s new happy life.

       阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31~40的相应位置上。

Most of us have been in both positions: the giver and the receiver. And while a certain amount of joy can be picked from being a receiver,   31   enormous amount of joy comes   32   giving.

I have been offered help and offered payment   33   certain things I do, and I almost always turn down such offers. I know I shouldn’t, but it’s a pride thing. I do expect payment when I do a regular job,   34   I just wish to help when I do something for someone. However, when we turn down offers for help, we do not realize it. But it actually hurts those   35   offer to help, and we are denying those people the chance   36  (feel) the joy of giving. Most people on this earth will not offer genuine help if they cannot do so. And if they do, they are motivated only by the desire to share   37   they have with others.

The next time you   38  (offer) help, no matter what that offer may be, do not turn   39   down! Swallow your pride and allow that helpful person the   40  (please) of giving! And when you can, pay it forward and bless back!

Mariska Hargitay, who plays a tough but beautiful detective on NBC’s Law & Order, recently 21 her childhood friend Annette Condon Tauber to breast cancer. “It was   22  . Ann defined so much of who I am.” says the   23  . “She was my champion and the most   24   friend.”

Ann was diagnosed(诊断) in 2003, when she was 38, shortly after the birth of her fourth daughter. However, she never told them she was   25  , hoping for a miracle and not wanting to burden her friends. “I understand her not wanting to   26  ,” Hargitay says. “And to my mind, she did 27   the disease to some extent.” By late 2005, the cancer had   28   to Ann’s liver in a golf-ball-size mass. She passed away in May 2007. In   29   of Ann, Hargitay signed a programme that raises money for breast cancer research. Participating workplaces let employees wear jeans on October 5 for a $5 donation. “It’s a real way for everyone to feel like they’re making a   30  ,” says the Emmy-winning actress.

假如你是一名高三学生，经常为看电视的事跟妈妈闹意见，今天你跟妈妈达成一致意见。请根据以下表格的内容，以 An Argument 为题写一篇120字左右的英语短文。

注意：1．短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数；

2．要根据表格中的内容，但不要逐字翻译；

3．可以适当增添合乎情理的过渡性语言。

An Argument

I am a Senior 3 student. I often quarrel with my mother over whether I can watch TV after school. My mother ___________________________ _____

 His ______ (咳嗽) was nearly, but not quite, cured.

―Hello , may I speak to Dr．Firth?

―  61   .Dr Firth has just gone to a meeting .

―  62  .

―It’ll be my pleasure.

―I’m Dick .Please tell him to call me when he comes back．I want to know whether my daughter is quite well.

―  63  .Your daughter is quite well now.

―Really?  64 

―Your daughter Carol, Dad!

―Oh , my dear!   65 

―Yes , I hope I can go back tomorrow.

       A．Are you all right now?

       B．I’m afraid you can’t

       C．Who are you then?

       D．That’s great.

       E．Don’t worry .

       F．Would you mind giving him a message?

       G．You’re welcome.

Everyone’s at it, even my neighbors. I thought I might be the only person left in the world who hadn’t done an eBay deal. So I decided to try my hand at online auction(网上拍卖).

Buying for beginners: Sign up on WWW.eBay.com Most items(e.g. tables, computers, and books) ready for auction will come with a picture and a short description; others may be marked with “Buy It Now” and have a fixed price. You can buy these right away.

If the item is being auctioned, you offer the highest price you are prepared to pay and eBay bids (出价) for you. The bid will be increased little by little until it goes beyond your highest bid, then you are emailed and asked if you would like to bid again. Auctions last up to 10 days and when they finish you get an email telling you whether you have won the item.

How to pay: Sellers decide how they would like to be paid and you need to check this before placing a bid as you might not want to post a cheque or postal orders. The easiest way is through PayPal, an online payment system that takes the money away from your credit card.

Selling made simple: If you plan to sell on eBay, it helps to include a picture of the item. I followed my friends’ advice and put up the items I wanted to sell for a 10- day auction, starting on a Thursday. This way buyers had two weekends to bid.

The big things in life: It’s easy to post a small item, but furniture is a big part of eBay and this has to be collected or sent by deliverymen. Check the ways of delivery before you bid.

57. What is the passage mainly about ?

A. How to make payment online.                    B. Ways of making delivery online.

C. Advantages of an online-auction system.     D. How to use an online-auction system.

58. After bidding for an item, a buyer _______ .

A. can’t buy other items any more          B. should make payment immediately

C. has chances to make higher bids           D. must give your credit card to the seller

59. You should _______if the item is being auctioned.

A. make loud noises                           B. get the others not to bid

C. ask the other people’s price          D. offer the highest price you are ready to pay

60. The easiest way of making payment mentioned in the passage is _______.

A. through an online payment system              B. through a local bank system

C. by sending the money to the seller               D. by paying the delivery man directly

The North and South poles are remote and freezing places that receive lots of animal visitors but few human tourists.

But even if you never plan to visit the polar bears in the north or penguins in the south, now is a perfect time to start thinking about them. That’s because 2007 marks the beginning of the International Polar Year (IPY), a two-year-old activity of science projects that aim to show how important the poles are to the health of our planet. During the IPY, which will last until March 2009, thousands of researchers from more than 60 countries will conduct more than 200 projects and expeditions(远征) to both the top and bottom of the world.

In recent years, the polar regions have begun to change severely as a result of global warming. Temperatures there are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth. As a result, the ice and snow in these regions are melting（融化） at record-setting rates. One result is that sea levels are rising around the world, putting animals and people at risk.

Only by studying the poles, say IPY researchers, can we find ways to protect them and ourselves.

Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are cold and remote, but the two regions have important differences. For one thing, the Arctic is an ice-covered ocean surrounded by land. The Antarctic, on the other hand, is a continent of ice-covered land surrounded by water.

Most polar studies have focused on the Arctic, and that is where scientists have observed the most remarkable changes in the ice. During a typical year, Arctic ice expands(扩大) in the winter and shrinks(缩小) in the summer. But recently, the amount of ice covering the ocean has been steadily dropping in both seasons.

53．Which of the following might be the best tile of the passage?

       A．Earth’s Poles Interest Scientists             B．The Animals of Earth’s Poles

       C．Earth’s Poles in Danger                         D．The Discoveries of Earth’s Poles

54．The goal of the International Polar Year is __________.

       A．to make it clear that the poles have much to do with a healthy earth

       B．to provide practical theory to further develop this distant area

       C．to call on as many scientists as possible to do research on the poles

       D．to discover more mysteries unknown to man

55．What is the main factor that has caused the changes of the poles?

       A．The increasing number of animals.            B．The development of the poles.

       C．The melting of the poles.                          D．The rising temperature.

56．What unusual phenomenon worries the scientists?

       A．In summer the ice of the Arctic loses faster.

       B．The ice covering the Arctic shrinks even in winter.

       C．The ice of the Arctic increases less than in the past.

       D．The changes in the Arctic are more serious.