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Reading is very important to help you learn English. This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability.
1._______.
Part 1 is Messages. In this part somebody wants to send information in writing to somebody else. There is a test on timetable and a test on text messages.
2. ________. You will find some descriptive writing in this part. There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer.
Part 3 is Places. In this part, too, many different kinds of English are shown, some informal and some formal（正式的）. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a thank-you letter.
Part 4 is People. In this part all the tests are about people. 3.________. There are also some biographies（传记）about famous people. There is a job application as a model to help with your writing, as well as testing your reading.
4.________, or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text.
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Do you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? Normally the women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s. Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent（聪明的） than women. Right? Wrong. Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size. Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain. The brain is made up of “grey matter” and “white matter”. While men have more of the white matter, the amount（数量）of “thinking” brain is almost the same in both men and women.
It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls may learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of different information at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.
There are other important differences between two sexes（性别）. As white matter is the key to spatial（空间的）tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. “A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions … and women often need to!
The differences begin when fetuses（胎儿）are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children when they are very young. A boy would try to climb a barrier before him or push it down while a girl would ask for help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills. It may all go back to our ancestors, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?
A. Grey matter controls thinking in the brain.
B. Men’s brain is 10% less than women’s.
C. Grey matter plays the same role as white matter.
D. Men and women have the same amount of white matter.
2.What can you infer from Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A. Men have weaker spatial abilities.
B. Women do not need to tell directions.
C. Women prefer doing many things at a time.
D. Women do many jobs at a time better than men.
3.What can you learn from Paragraph 4?
A. Our children needed more spatial skills.
B. Women may have more feelings than men.
C. Young boys may be stronger than young girls.
D. More women take up jobs requiring speech skills.
4. The passage is mainly about _______.
A. ways of being more intelligent
B. differences between men and women
C. studies on brains between two sexes
D. studies on white matter and grey matter
The rising costs of health care have become a problem for many countries in the world. To deal with this problem, it is reported that a big part of the government’s health budge（预算）has been used for health education and disease prevention instead of treatment. Actually, many kinds of diseases are preventable in many ways and preventing a disease is usually much cheaper than treating it. For example, people could avoid catching a cold if they dressed warmly when the weather starts getting cold. But many people get sick because they fail to do so, and have to spend money seeing a doctor.
Daily habits like eating more healthy food would have kept millions of families from becoming bankrupt（破产）if the patients had taken ways for early prevention. For example, keeping a balanced diet（均衡饮食）, such as not consuming too much animal fat and trying to have enough vegetables and fruits, seems to be quite important.
One very effective and costless way of prevention is regular（定期的）exercise, which is necessary for a healthy mind and body. Regular exercise, such as running, walking, and playing sports is a good way to make people feel better.
In addition, health education plays a key role in improving people’s health. By giving people more information about health, countries could help people understand the importance of disease prevention and ways to achieve it. For example, knowing one’s family medical history is an effective way to help keep healthy. Information about health problems among close relatives will make them aware of what they should do to prevent certain diseases through lifestyle changes, which will work before it is too late.
However, paying more attention to disease prevention does not mean medical treatment is unimportant. After all, prevention and treatment are just two different means toward the same effect. In conclusion, we could save money on health care and treat patients more successfully if our country spends more money on health prevention and education.
1. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “consuming” in Paragraph 2?
A. Avoiding. B. Producing. C. Eating. D. Cooking.
2.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Health or Illness? B. Exercise or Illness?
C. Prevention or Education? D. Prevention or Treatment?
3.We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. more health education should be given
B. dressing warmly can prevent diseases
C. a balanced diet is cheaper than regular exercise
D. the government’s health budget should be increased
Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket - anything with a round ball, I was useless,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year he met John Ridgway and started to work as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of adventure（冒险） in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway’s cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, he decided that this would be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition （探险）towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite（冻伤）, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his sled up and over the rocky mountains.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.
1. What changed Saunders according to Paragraph 2?
A. A friend’s words. B. A mountain bike.
C. His 18th birthday gift. D. His first marathon.
2.What did Saunders do in 2001?
A. He decided to build up his body.
B. He met John Ridgway in Scotland.
C. He worked as an instructor at school.
D. He took an adventure to the North Pole.
3.What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?
A. He is a success in sports. B. He is the youngest British skier.
C. He is Ridgway’s best student. D. He is a good instructor at school.
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Stuck on a desert island（被困荒岛）？ |
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http://www.TalkingPoints.com/ Started on 23rd April by Steve |
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Post 1 Steve USA |
Hi, everyone. What would you miss most if you were stuck on a desert island? For me, I’d probably miss the rain. What about you? |
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Post 2 Tomas Germany |
Good question. Steve, I think I’d miss different types of bread, and shopping at the supermarket. I’d miss the food most. |
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Post 3 Miko Japan |
It would have to be music. I couldn’t live without my music. I wouldn’t miss going to school at all! |
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Past 4 Jayne UK |
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned their family? I’d be lost without my husband and two kids. They’re the most important for me. |
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Post 5 Jaime Mexico |
Hi, I would miss the Internet and Japanese food, like sushi. I’d also miss TV shows and shopping for clothes. |
1. Who would miss his or her family most?
A. Steve. B. Tomas. C. Jayne D. Jaime.
2.Miko would feel bad if there was no ______.
A. rain B. food C. family D. music
3. How many of them mentioned that they would miss food?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very 36 life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would 37 my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never 38 again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I didn’t want to be bad enough. She 39 that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school-walking on my own!
When the Great Depression（大萧条） 40 , my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support（支撑） both of us. At that moment, I decided never to be 41 again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real 42 point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1916. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels for families and was angry that they charged（收费）an extra $2 for each child. That was too 43 for most American families. I told my wife that I was going to open a hotel for families that would never charge extra for 44 . There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not 45 , mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of hard time. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my heart, I 46 doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world - Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a 47 in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
1.A. quiet B. boring C. hard D. strange
2.A. accept B. change C. disturb D. check
3. A. study B. speak C. listen D. walk
4.A. drove B. expected C. explained D. covered
5.A. did B. hit C. cut D. fit
6.A. excited B. brave C. patient D. poor
7.A. leading B. breaking C. turning D. celebrating
8. A. expensive B. fantastic C. different D. special
9.A. husband B. parents C. children D. wife
10.A. successfully B. surprisingly C. interestingly D. importantly
11.A. always B. sometimes C. almost D. never
12.A. task B. hotel C. company D. wor
