Studies show that walking several times a week can lower, or reduce, the danger of many diseases. Walking also can help you lose weight.

Fast walking is good for the heart. It lowers the blood pressure. Researchers say walking can reduce the danger of suffering a heart attack by as much as fifty percent.

Studies have shown that walking for thirty minutes a day can delay and possibly prevent the development of Type Two Diabetes. It can prevent diabetes among people who are overweight and at danger for the disease.

Studies show that women who walk and take calcium reduce their danger of thinning of the bones. Walking also helps lower the pain of arthritis in areas where bones are joined by strengthening the muscles around the bones.

Walking several times a week is a good way to control your weight and even lose body fat. Studies show it also helps lower feelings of sadness.

Experts say walking is one of the safest ways to exercise. There is a low danger of injuries. So it is good for people who are starting an exercise program for the first time and for older people.

A walking program is easy to start. You should wear loose clothes and good shoes. Shoes designed for walking are best.

How fast should you walk?  You should be breathing hard while you are walking. Yet, you should be able to

talk.

Let your arms move back and forward at your sides while you walk.

1.The title of the passage probably is ______.

2.“Walking is one of the safest ways to exercise” means ______.

3.Walking helps reduce the following EXCEPT_________.

4.According to the passage, walking ________.

Valencia is in the east part of Spain. It has a port on the sea, two miles away on the coast. It is the capital of a province that is also named Valencia.

The city is a market center for what is produced by the land round the city. Most of the city’s money is made from farming. It is also a busy business city, with ships, railways, clothes and machine factories.

Valencia has an old part with white old buildings, colored roofs, and narrow streets. The modern part has long, wide streets and new buildings. Valencia is well known for its parks and gardens. It has many old churches and museums. The university in the center of the city was built in the 13^th century.

The city of Valencia has been known since the 2^nd century. In the 8^th century it was the capital of Spain. There is also an important city in Venezuela named Valencia.

1. From the text, how many places have the name Valencia?

2. What is the main difference between the two parts of the city?

3. When was Valencia the most important city in Spain?

4. What is Valencia famous for?

5. The main income of the city of Valencia is from its _____.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分。）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给出的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

After listening to everyone’s concerns and problems, Professor Smith looked over at the hostess (主持人) and asked her if she could get a paper and pen for everyone in the room. She    36   a minute later, and brought some paper and pens.

“Do me a    37  ,” Professor Smith asked. “We’re going to try something and I    38   your cooperation. On the small piece of paper please    39   the 3 biggest problems you are facing in your personal life right now. Don’t write your name on it. We’ll keep it    40  .”

The group found the experiment    41  , not knowing what was to follow.

After everyone wrote down their problems, Professor Smith asked everyone to    42   their paper and put it in a small basket that was in the front of the room. There were    43   expressions throughout the room,    44   again, everyone cooperated, wanting to know what would    45   next.

Professor Smith shook the basket and then he    46   around the room and asked each person to    47   a paper from the basket. After he had done that, he sat back down and looked around the room.

“Friends,   48   the paper and read to yourself the problems that you    49  ,” Professor Smith said.

Then, Professor Smith    50   at the woman sitting on his left and asked, “Lisa, would you like to    51   your problems that you wrote down with those that you chose from the basket?”

“No,” Lisa said.

Next, Professor Smith asked the man sitting next to Lisa the    52   question. “Would you like to exchange the problems you wrote down with those that you chose from the basket?”

   53   the reply was “No.”

Professor Smith went around the whole room. Everyone had a    54   to answer.

Surprisingly, the answers were all the same — no, no, no, no…. Some people said that “I can settle my own problems, but I can’t    55   what I chose out of the basket”. Some people said “Wow — these make my problems look like nothing.”

—Would you like to come to the party?

—______, but I’m very busy preparing for the exam.

—The weather report says it is going to be a fine day.

—But I will take an umbrella with me ______ rain.

A nest is to a bird ______ a house is to a man.

Her parents had had a very anxious moment but everything _____ to be fine in the end.

The news _____ he has passed the exam makes his parents very happy.

It was not until he became very ill ______ he went to see a doctor.

______ from the moon, the earth looks like a beautiful blue planet.