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Teenagers who spend hours in front of the television may have a poorer diet as young adults.

A study，which included nearly 1，400 high school students，found those who watched TV for five hours or more per day had less healthy diets than peers(同龄人）five years later. Why does this happen? Should the parents take any measures?

On the one hand，people who spend a lot of time in front of the TV, especially teenagers，may snack more，and that may affect their long-term diet quality.

On the other hand，TV ads for fast food，sweets and snacks tempt teenagers to eat more of those foods. And TV time might also replace exercise time for some kids.

Lead researcher Dr. Daheia J. Barr-Anderson，of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis，told Reuters Health a clear correlation between TV time during high school and diet quality in young adulthood. While the heaviest TV viewers were eating the most junk food , those who'd watched less than two hours per day had the highest intake(吸收)of fruits，vegetables, whole grains and high-calcium food. In her opinion，parents should limit and monitor TV viewing.

As far as I am concerned，children should watch no more than two hours of television per day. And parents should set a good example by eating right，being physically active and curbing their own TV time.

1.What's the best title for this passage?

A. People should keep away from TV to keep healthy.

B. Teenagers' TV time may affect their diets later.

C. Why do teenagers like TV"

D. Parents' own habits may affect children later.

2.According to the passage，heavy TV viewers tend to＿．

A. eat more fruits    B. eat less junk food

C. take in fewer vegetables    D. take in high-calcium food

3.What suggestion does the author give the parents？

A. They must watch TV with their children.

B. They should forbid the children to watch TV.

C. They should pay attention to nutrition in diets.

D. They can't do what they don't want their children to do.

4.The underlined word“curbing" in the last paragraph can be replaced by

A. controlling    B. checking

C. adding    D. stopping

Charlie is a teacher and his wife, Maria is an artist. The night before last, just before the longest day of the year, Charlie was sitting in a deckchair enjoying the warm summer air when Maria touched his shoulder and he could tell immediately she was a little worried about something. He asked her what the matter was and she replied that there was a strange thing on the jacket that was hanging in the bedroom. They had both lived in the West Indies (西印度群岛) and had seen a lot of strange creatures in their house before. But now they were living in England and so Charlie just laughed and said he would have a look at the “thing”.

He walked to the bedroom. He saw a jacket hanging in the bedroom and went up to it to have a closer look at the “thing”. The moment he touched it, the thing sprang into life. Now Charlie experiences fear like the rest of us but when this creature opened its wings, he jumped out of his skin and ran screaming from the room like a small child doing about 100 miles an hour.

For a moment the next-door neighbours thought that Charlie was murdering his wife because of the noise they could hear. In fact, it was a bat that frightened Charlie.

Eventually Charlie managed to trap the bat in a box and took it to the garden to let the bat fly. Maria, who had been playing the guitar while Charlie was upstairs, asked Charlie if he had found out what the thing was. “Oh, nothing to worry about”, he said casually hoping that the terror could not be seen in his eyes, “it was just a bat.”

1.Why was Maria a little worried one night?

A. Because she couldn't find her guitar.    B. Because she saw something strange.

C. Because it was too hot for her.    D. Because she had quarreled with her husband.

2.The underlined part “jumped out of his skin” in the second paragraph probably means ____.

A. stood up    B. was very frightened

C. threw off his clothes    D. was very excited

3.What happened to the bat?

A. It was killed by Charlie.    B. It was badly wounded.

C. It was set free by Charlie.    D. It was kept as a pet.

4.It can be inferred that ________.

A. Charlie was afraid that his wife would laugh at him if she knew the truth

B. the neighbours would report to the police about Charlie murdering the bat

C. the bat wouldn't come to Charlie's room again because it was frightened

D. Maria heard her husband screaming downstairs and became frightened

假如你非常喜欢中央电视台的“动物世界(Animal World)”这个节目,请根据以下内容提示,以“My Favourite TV Program”为题,给CCTV-9英语频道的编辑写一篇英语短文。

喜欢这一节目的理由:1.喜欢小动物;2.节目生动有趣;3.增长了不少知识。

注意:①词数100左右;②可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;③开头语已为你写好,不计入总词数。

My Favourite TV Program

“Animal World”is a popular TV program by CCTV.It is also my favorite program.

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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。

Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a disease involving her nervous system.The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering 1. this illness.They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.2. Angela firmly believed that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.The doctors were charmed by her 3. (defeat)spirit.They taught her about imaging—about seeing herself 4. (walk).Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy(理疗),lying there faithfully doing her imaging,visualizing herself moving,moving,moving!

One day,5. she was straining with all her might to imagine her legs moving again,6. seemed as though a miracle happened: the bed moved! She screamed out,“Look what I 7..(do)! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved,I moved!” Of course,8. this very moment everyone 9. in the hospital was screaming,too.It was the San Francisco earthquake.But don’t tell 10.  to Angela.She was convinced that she did it.And now only a few years later,she’s back in school.On her own two legs.No walking sticks,no wheelchair.

How far would you walk to learn about something that interested you? When he was young,Jacob Lawrence often walked more than sixty___from his home in the Harlem section of New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Jacob wanted to be a(n)___,and he believed that studying the famous paintings___in that museum would help him.

It was 1930,when many people were out of work,money was tight and people suffered a lot.Still the streets were ___with energy and color.As he walked through Harlem,Jacob looked hard at the people,the churches,and barber shops and so on.He___those images in his mind,along with the images of paintings he saw in the museum.

Jacob came from a poor family.His mother believed there was little chance___her son could grow up to be a successful painter.She wanted him to aim for something more flexible.But Jacob’s teacher,Alston,in an art program saw that he was talented.Alston___him how to use paints to make stage sets.

As time passed,Alston let Jacob rent work space in his own studio.That was an exciting place for a young black man ___to become an artist.Many creative people gathered there to talk about art,literature and history.From their___,Jacob learned that history books often ignored the accomplishments of African Americans.He decided to paint a series of pictures describing the story of a black hero.He ____Toussaint,who had helped free his people____French ruling.

Many people admired Jacob’s pictures,but he needed____admiration.To help his family,he often had to work at jobs that____him away from painting.Then something encouraging happened.An artist named Augusta got Jacob a job.For eighteen months,Jacob was given a____to paint pictures.For the first time,he felt like a____artist.

1.A. steps    B. blocks    C. buildings    D. avenues

2.A. artist    B. tutor    C. scholar    D. official

3.A. swinging    B. existing    C. hanging    D. twisting

4.A. lined    B. decorated    C. associated    D. filled

5.A. stored    B. received    C. created    D. remembered

6.A. whether    B. which    C. that    D. when

7.A. recommended    B. reminded    C. provided    D. showed

8.A. hesitating    B. struggling    C. marching    D. participating

9.A. experiences    B. performances    C. accents    D. conversations

10.A. chose    B. accepted    C. counted    D. employed

11.A. against    B. from    C. for    D. with

12.A. more than    B. rather than    C. other than    D. less than

13.A. broke    B. gave    C. permitted    D. took

14.A. award    B. title    C. salary    D. prize

15.A. permanent    B. popular    C. positive    D. professional