Four Healthy Experience Gifts Wellness Fans Will Love

Healthy classes

Deciding to eat healthier is usually a top New Year’s resolution for most people. You can help a loved one by treating them to a healthy cooking class to learn new tips and tricks that make cooking a healthier, more enjoyable experience. When people sign up for a cooking class, they are going to have a better mental attitude and mood. Sur La Table offers gift certificates (证书) to a variety of cooking classes nationwide that will appeal to just about any taste.

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Salt cave spa day

Sure, you could gift someone a day at any spa and they’ll enjoy it. The goal is to breathe in the refined (提炼的) air, which may help improve breathing system problems, from asthma, colds, to allergies, according to the Salt Therapy Association (which also has a list of locations nationwide). While the science on salt caves is limited, consider it another way to reduce stress and find more balance.

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Year-long pass to parks

Research has shown that spending time outside can help improve your memory, and lessen feelings of sadness. And research on people without sadness has shown similarly promising results of nature’s effect on one’s mood. For those who love a good nature walk or hike, consider gifting a year-long pass to parks. This experience gift gives them admission (进入许可) to more than 2,000 sites.

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A night in

Sometimes all we need is permission to do nothing, even if that’s just at home. The Lather Wellness Retreat offers the chance to relax without having to go anywhere. When we give ourselves permission and the gift of wonderful activities that will help us to reduce our stress, we sleep better and our immune systems (免疫系统) are more balanced.

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1.What can we do with the gift “Healthy” classes”?

A.Relax our body by cooking. B.Learn to prepare better meals.

C.visit different cooking schools for free. D.Make New Year’s resolutions for others.

2.Who might prefer the gift of a year-long pass to parks?

A.Those who want to go fishing. B.Those who want to have a cave spa.

C.Those who want to sleep better. D.Those who want to enjoy outdoor activities.

3.Which of the following can let you feel relaxed at home?

A.A night in. B.Healthy classes.

C.Salt cave spa day. D.Year-long pass to parks.

假定你是李华。你校将于下周六举行“我的拿手菜（My Special Recipe）”大赛，并举办健康饮食讲座。你的留学生朋友Jackson对中国饮食很感兴趣，请你用英语写一封email邀请他参加此次活动。内容包括以下要

点：

1.活动时间和地点；

2.活动的内容和意义。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jackson,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I’m looking forward to your coming.

Your sincerely

Li Hua

根据下列各句句意及所给的单词的首字母或汉字提示，用单词的恰当形式填空。

1.The two brothers are like each other in appearance, but d_________ widely in their tastes.

2.Surely, an i________ person like you can deal with any difficult situation.

3.He felt d_______ when he was told that he had failed in the exam.

4.I couldn’t sleep because the bed was so u________.

5.It is unfair for them if I r_______ silence on such an important matter.

6.The _______(设备)for the extreme sports, like bungee jumping, is very expensive.

7.His _______(祖先)came to America from Ireland.

8.Against all odds the child_______(幸存) in the world.

9.________(与...相比)with most of the women at the time, she was lucky.

10.We offer a course that________(与...相联系) English Literature to other sudjects.

    Zhong Congrong, a successful businessman from Chongqing, China, has become known as the "the millionaire rubbish collector" for his longtime habit of picking up any garbage he finds in the streets of his city.

Zhong began____ the streets of Chongqing three years ago, ____ a family trip to southern China's Hai nan province. There, he_____ a retired (退休的) university professor who had reportedly been picking up rubbish from one of the local beaches every day, for the last four years. He was so______with the woman's dedication (奉献) to rubbish-collecting. Zhong _______ to copy her daily habit in his home city_____ he got back home from his vacation.

Interestingly, in the beginning, Zhong's rubbish- collecting habit received a lot of___ comments both from locals and the media. People just couldn't__ why a millionaire would do this. They thought it was nothing more than a stunt (噱头) to attract_____ , but Zhong didn't let this_____ him.

Even his family was confused by Zhong's____ at first. His wife and children were_____ by the media reports of his strange habit. And they even_____ to be seen with him in public._____, as time went by, people's _____ changed. They noticed that their neighborhood became_____ thanks to Zhong's efforts.

____ , they started to praise and. ____ him. His wife is now an anti-littering activist herself, and ____ anyone throwing rubbish on the street,

The millionaire rubbish collector has been doing his best to. ___ others as well. He wears an orange T-shirt with " anti-littering" words whenever he does his job" on the street." Whether we throw away or pick up rubbish has nothing to do with our academic degree, cultural background, age, or social status," Zhong said.

1.A.cleaning up B.worrying about C.looking for D.getting through

2.A.for B.after C.without D.before

3.A.recognized B.met C.interviewed D.greeted

4.A.impressed B.satisfied C.familiar D.bored

5.A.pretended B.agreed C.remembered D.determined

6.A.in case B.as long as C.as soon as D.even though

7.A.negative B.unusual C.unfair D.reasonable

8.A.explain B.understand C.admit D.prove

9.A.tourists B.cooperators C.attention D.business

10.A.ruin B.harm C.stop D.frighten

11.A.reflection B.questions C.words D.behavior

12.A.annoyed B.embarrassed C.moved D.shocked

13.A.failed B.managed C.expected D.refused

14.A.However B.Therefore C.Besides D.Instead

15.A.attitude B.life C.hope D.condition

16.A.larger B.quieter C.brighter D.tidier

17.A.Strangely B.Unluckily C.Gradually D.Immediately

18.A.bother B.support C.miss D.hate

19.A.cheats B.criticizes C.invites D.chooses

20.A.force B.amuse C.honor D.encourage

How to Pass an Important Test

Whether it’s a first grade science test or college entrance exam, all tests have one thing in common: you have to pass.1.Stuck in a situation where you don’t know how to? This article can help.

Tips

★1. Once you get the study guide, make plans right away to study as soon as possible. No excuses! Killing time with friends isn’t worth it，since you can always hang out with them any other day.

★2. Get plenty of rest.2.If you walk into the classroom sleepily, you’ll most likely not finish the test because of how tired you are.

★3. Eat a good meal for breakfast.3.A few healthy good breakfast suggestions are oatmeal (燕麦片) , whole grain and high fiber food, grapefruit with fresh fruit salad.

★4. Bring all necessary materials.4.Bring pencils, pens, pencil sharpeners. snacks (if allowed) ，erasers, calculator (if allowed) and anything else you’ll need for the test.

★5.5.Showing up late cuts back the time you’ll have to take the test if it’s already testing hours. You’ll probably miss any important information needed in completing the test. In some tests，late comers are not allowed to take thetest，and get a instead of a satisfactory score.

A.The exam tests vocabulary, reading and math skills.

B.That one piece of cheese probably won’t last until test time.

C.Don’t forget to set your alarm clock and show up on test day on time.

D.Studies show that if you get enough sleep, your brain will be much more efficient.

E.Showing up without something as simple as a pencil can make a big effect on your test.

F.Failing the test won’t help you in the long run, so it’s important to know how to prepare to pass that big test.

G.This test is a challenging one and every year many students are unable to qualify it just because of lack of guidance.

    English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world's books and three quarters of international mail are in English.Of all languages，English has the largest vocabulary-perhaps as many as two million words.

However，let's face it:English is a crazy language.There is no egg in an eggplant，neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger.Sweet-meats are candy，while sweetbreads，which aren't sweet，are meat.

We take English for granted.But when we.explore its paradoxes（探讨它的矛盾），we find that quicksand can work slowly，boxing rings are square，public bathrooms have no baths in them.And why is it that a writer writes，but fingers don't finger，grocers don't grocers，and hammers don't ham？If the plural of tooth is teeth，shouldn't the plural of.booth be teeth？One goose，two geese-so one moose，two meese？

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same，while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites？How can overlook and oversee be opposites，while quite a lot and quite a few are alike？

How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next？

English was invented by people，not computers，and it reflects（反映）the creativity of hu-

man beings.That's why，when stars are out，they are visible（能看见的）；but when the lights are out，they are invisible.And why，when I wind up my watch，I start it；but when I wind up this essay，I end it.

1.According to the passage____.

A.sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things

B.there should be egg in an eggplant

C.pineapples are the apples on the pine tree

D.boxing rings should be round.

2.Which of the following is the correct plural?

A.Teeth. B.Geese.

C.Meese. D.Tooth.

3.Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?

A.A wise man and a wise guy. B.Overlook and oversee.

C.Quite a lot and quite a few. D.Hot as hell and cold as hell.

4.The underlined words"wind up"in the last paragraph probably mean"_______".

A.blow B.roll up

C.get hurt D.finish

5.Through the many paradoxes in the English language, the writer wants to show that human beings are______.

A.clever B.crazy

C.lazy D.dull

The easy way out isn’t always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cookbook and chose a menu which included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time, I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I doubled everything. As Doug loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticky dough (面团) covered with ugly yellowish marks. Realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn't have to face Doug laughing at my work, I went on preparing the rest of the meal, and, when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the windows to see what he was doing. Looking out, I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in our rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast (酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. I had to admit what the ‘living thing’ was and why it was there. I don’t know who was more embarrassed by the whole thing, Doug or me.

1.The writer’s purpose in writing this story is ________.

A.to tell an interesting experience

B.to show the easiest way out of a difficulty

C.to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman

D.to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books

2.Why did the woman’s attempt at making the bread turn out to be unsuccessful?

A.The canned orange had gone bad.

B.She didn’t use the right kind of flour.

C.The cookbook was hard to understand.

D.She did not follow the directions closely.

3.Why did the woman put the dough in the rubbish bin?

A.She didn’t see the use of keeping it

B.She meant to joke with her husband.

C.She didn’t want her husband to see it.

D.She hoped it would soon dry in the sun.

4.What made the dough in the rubbish bin look frightening?

A.The rising and falling movement.

B.The strange-looking marks.

C.Its shape.

D.Its size.

5.When Doug went out the third time, the woman looked out of the window because she was  ________.

A.surprised at his being interested in the bin

B.afraid that he would discover her secret

C.unhappy that he didn't enjoy the meal

D.curious to know what disturbed him

    To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the 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 that 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 which 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 and actions 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, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1.What is the text about ?

A.How to become a good teacher.

B.What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C.What teachers and actors could learn from each other.

D.The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

2.A good teacher ____ .

A.knows how to hold the interest of his students B.must have a good voice

C.knows how to act on the stage D.stands or sits still while teaching

3.In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?

A.The teacher must learn everything by heart .

B.He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .

C.He has to deal with unexpected situations .

D.He has to use more facial expressions .

4.The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A.students can move around in the classroom

B.students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C.no memory work is needed for the students

D.the students must take part in their teachers’ plays

5.Which of the following is true?

A.Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to stay in class.

B.A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to stay in class.

C.A teacher must speak louder than an actor.

D.A teacher must have a better memory than an actor.

阅读表达

A funny thing happened about a month ago when I opened the double doors of a small storage area in the back of my house where I kept my garden supplies during the long winter.

There, on top of a tower of dirt-filled pots, was a flash of green, topped with two of the most unlikely pink flowers you’ve ever seen. A quick examination showed that, in fact, this was a living, growing plant.

How was this possible? I was lost in thought. I couldn’t figure out how the plant survived under such environment. The unheated space had been sealed up (被密封) by us all winter, except for the times when we opened the doors to take the tools. It was still cold outside. Could this be one of those garden miracles I’d read about?

I wondered what helped the plant exist. I looked around and discovered something approaching an explanation. There are small glasses along the top of the double doors. And it’s possible that a ray of sun beams (照射) directly on that pot, giving it just enough light and warmth to let it to live in its own personal greenhouse.

I learned some lessons from this wonderful plant.

For one thing, I am moved by the accident of the whole thing. Had I started to put my pot six inches to the left or right of that spot, the plant might not have derived a little warmth from the sunshine. Had I pulled out the roots of the plant instead of cutting back the greenery in late fall, there would have been nothing but dirt in that pot.

But there’s something else that inspires me about this. Just how little light and warmth it took for this plant to move forward, grow and flower. It is wonderful to consider that just a drop of sunshine can awaken a day, a place and a life. When it comes to positivity, a little goes a long way.

1.How did the plant look like?(no more than 10 words)

________________________________________________________________________________________

2.In what environment did the plant grow?(no more than 10 words)

________________________________________________________________________________________

3.What helped the plant exist?(no more than 10 words)

________________________________________________________________________________________

4.What does the underlined word in Paragraph 6 mean?(1 word)

________________________________________________________________________________________

5.What do you learn from the story? Please explain in your own words.(no more than 20 words)

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根据所给的首字母和中文写出所缺单词的正确形式

1.He trekked across some of the most i__________(荒凉的、不宜居的)terrain in the world.

2.You can use the hut as a base for the e_______(探索)into the mountains around.

3.Education should be a universal right not a p_______(特权).

4.There is a f______(基本的、根本的)difference between the two points of view.

5.The plan is designed to m______(鼓舞)employees to work more efficiently.

6.We can’t help s______(怀疑)the real purpose of suspending the scheduled passenger operations of all Chinese carriers to and from the USA.

7.He paused, a______(显然)lost in thought

8.The hotel is not responsible for any loss or damage to guests’ personal p______(财产).

9.Taking regular exercise is the most efficient way to build up and m______(保持)a reasonable level of physical fitness.

10.I’d like to p______(提议)a toast to the bride and groom.