Sitting on a chair all day in school can make anyone want to move around. So, more and more teachers are letting students have a ball. By sitting on exercise balls instead of chairs, teachers find students' posture (姿势) and attention improve.
Dottie Pownall, a fifth-grade teacher in West Virginia, USA, has been using balls as chairs since December 2008. "The students love them", she says. Pownall took a survey of her students. She found that 80% of the students thought sitting on the balls helped them pay more attention to what they were learning.
The teacher, Pisa Witt, felt so strongly about the use of balls as chairs, she started Witt Fitt. This company encourages the use of the balls. And the company educates not only teachers but also students on how to use them. "Our products are used in 24 states, three provinces in Canada, Puerto Rico ('波多黎各) and Japan," says Witt. "Research shows that sitting on the balls makes them sit up straighter. You can slouch (低头垂肩地坐) on a ball," says Witt, "but it feels awful." Because the students are moving, their blood (血液) increases. That carries more oxygen (氧气 to the brain (大脑), so the kids have more energy and can focus longer.
"Furthermore, they're fun." says Pownali.
1. What will happen if a student sits on a chair all day in school? The student will _________.
A. pay more attention to his lessons B. be fun
C. like to move around D. sit up straighter
2. How long has Dottie Pownall used the balls?
A. About three years. B. Only one year.
C. In 2008. D. Since he was a fifth-grade teacher.
3. In how many countries are the balls used as the students' chairs?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two. D. One.
4.Teachers choose balls instead of chairs because sitting on balls helps the kids___________.
A. improve the students' posture and attention B. slouch on the chairs
C. have fun D. Both A and C are correct answers.
5.Which is better for kids to study in class, sitting on a chair or sitting on a ball?
A. Sitting on a chair. B. Sitting on a ball.
C. They are the same. D. We don't know.
Here's an interview to a pilot about his life.
(R=Reporter; P= Pilot)
R: How much time do pilots actually spend flying a plane?
P: It varies (WES'J) from about 20 minutes on some domestic (区别) flights to as much as 18 hours on international flights. It all depends on if the flight is a short- or long-haul flight.
R: Do pilots take breaks during flights or do they fly the whole time?
P: Yes, we take breaks during long-haul flights. Airlines assign (指派) three or four pilots to long flights. We take turns flying the plane.
R: If pilots are traveling all the time, how do they deal with jet lag (时差)?
P: Jet lag is annoying for almost all pilots. I try to go to sleep as I would at home.
R: How important is it to know the weight and size of the plane you are flying?
P: It is very important. We weigh almost everything put into the airplane and make estimates (估计) according to the number of people on each flight.
R: Do pilots eat the airplane food?
P: Yes, we eat business class food! Airplane food changes every season and is very delicious if you don't hate eating lobster (龙虾) every day! The pilots on the same plane are supposed to make different meal choices so that if one of the dishes causes food poisoning, only one of them will be sick. That way, at least one pilot will always be well enough to fly the plane!
1.The number of pilots depends on _.
A. how many hours a plane flies B. what kind of planes they are
C. the airline companies assign D. what the pilot likes
2.In order to know the weight of the airplane, the pilots must know_ __.
A. the weight of everything put into the plane
B. the number of people on the plane
C. the weight of the things and people on the plane
D. the importance of the weight
3.What's the Chinese meaning of the word "poisoning" in the passage?
A. 中毒 B. 难吃 C. 缺少 D.浪费
4. What does the pilot think of the airplane food?
A. Airplane food is more delicious than lobster.
B. The pilot suggests having airplane food instead of lobster.
C. The pilot doesn't like the airplane food at all.
D. Airplane food is as delicious as lobster.
5. What question doesn't the reporter ask in the interview?
A. How to keep passengers safe?
B. How long do pilots actually spend flying a plane?
C. How to deal with jet lag?
D. How to take breaks during flying.
Want to say "hello" from Disneyland? Send a post card!
Beautiful scenes of paradise (乐园), wild animals, silly pictures — you can find them all in one place. Where? On a post card! Have people always sent post cards? No. Before post cards, people liked sealed letters.
The idea for the first decorated (装饰) post card came to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card with decorations would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, post cards with pictures appeared. By law, people had to write their note on the front ——on the picture! The back was only for the address. Several years later, England allowed a divided-back post card. Then people could write their note on the back left side and put the address on the right. During the early 1900s, the golden age of post cards, picture post cards became a craze of the world. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million post cards. Today, post cards are the third most popular collection in the world after stamps and coins.
1.We can see some silly pictures on the post cards.
2. Post cards were produced before sealed letters.
3.In 1861, the first decorated post card appeared.
4.Post cards were most popular during the early 1900s.
5.Stamps, coins and post cards are the most popular collections in the world.
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，则在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误）。则按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，并在该行右边横线上写出该词，且也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下面划一个横线（___），并在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：该行若无错, 不要改。
It was sunny this afternoon. Mum and I go to 1.________________
the park where is near my home for a walk. 2.________________
When we were walking, I saw the little girl. She 3.________________
was eating a banana. After she finished eating them, 4.________________
she threw the banana skin on the ground into the 5.________________
park. I walked over to pick it and told her it 6.
was wrong to do so. If all of us do like that,
the park has become dirty. Then we can’t 7.________________
enjoy by ourselves in it. All of us must 8.________________
improve our environment and then we can 9.________________
make our environment clean but beautiful. 10.________________
用所给动词的正确形式完成短文，并将答案依次填在短文后面相应的横线上。
Once upon a time, there was a rich man. Each morning, the rich man found a poor man 76 (sit) on a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man 77 (get)out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me. I want 78 (know) why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir ,” said the poor man, “I am a failure. I 79 (have) no money, no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I will sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “Tonight your dream 80 (come) true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month.”
A few days later, the rich man went into the poor man’s room to ask him how he 81 (feel) in it. To his surprise, he found that the man 82 (move) out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked why, he said, “You see, while I 83 （sleep）on my bench, I dream I am there in the big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But while I 84 (be) there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream , and I 85 （can not）get any sleep at all.”
1.__________ 2.___________ 3.____________ 4.___________ 5.____________
6.__________ 7.___________ 8.____________ 9.___________ 10.____________
阅读下列短文，完成短文后面的表格内容。（各小题不超过5个词）
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.
He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson.
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