Practicing yoga(瑜伽) is a helpful, popular way to keep fit. It has many followers around the world. There are many kinds of yoga. You may have 1. of “hot yoga” before. Now, in India, a new kind of yoga, water yoga, 2.(become) more and more popular among the local people.
In the city of Agra, people practice yoga in water. It is _ 3.(hard) to practice yoga in water than on land. But 4.(practice) yoga in water can be good for your flexibility (灵活性).
Harish Chaturvedi, a lawyer, 5. people water yoga for free—even the poor people can learn from him. “Water yoga can become more popular than other kind of yoga, because the body does not get tired so 6. ( quick),” he said. “Everybody can learn to swim, but if they learn yoga at the same time, they will never 7. tired.”
“The level of Oxygen(氧气) is very high in water, and you will not have any trouble breathing,” he added.
Harish believes that water yoga really helps people to keep away from 8.(ill). He mainly trains children. He has classes at the swimming pool of a local sports room regularly. Many children are 9. in it and come to learn from him.
“Harish is very 10. at performing yoga in water,” said Sudhir Narayan, a water yoga student. “He is teaching children free of cost and that is a very good thing.”
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A: Hello!
B: Hi, John. It’s Mary. So, what’s _______?
A: Well, would you please give me some ________ on how to remember English words?
B: Sure, I’d love to. In fact, I learn English words by heart.
A: How can you do that?
B: First of all, it is necessary for you to have a good _______of remembering them.
A: Do I need to remember the words in each unit all at once?
B: No, you don’t need to. Try to learn by heart a few new words each day, follow the rules of pronunciation and you will finish _________all of them in one week.
B: Thank you for your good advice. I’ll try my ________. Bye!
A: OK, bye-bye.
Did you know that tea, the most popular drink in the world (after water), was invented by accident? Many people believe that tea was first drunk 1.(几乎，差不多) 5,000 years ago. It is said that a Chinese 2.(统治者) called Shen Nong first discovered tea as a drink. One day Shen Nong was 3.煮沸) drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a tea plant fell into the water and remained there for some time. It produced a nice 4.(气味) so he tasted the brown water. It was quite delicious. And so, one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.
A few thousand years later, Lu Yu, “the saint of tea”, 5.(提到) Shen Nong in his book Cha Jing. The book describes how tea plants were grown and used to make tea. It also discusses where the 6.(最好的)tea leaves were produced and what kinds of water were used.
It is believed that tea was 7.(带到) to Korea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries. In England, tea didn’t appear until around 1660, but less than 100 years later, it had become the 8.(民族的) drink. The tea trade from China to Western countries took place in the 19th century. This helped to 9.(传播) the popularity of tea and the tea plant to more places around the world. Even though many people now know about tea culture, the Chinese are without 10.(疑问) the ones who best understand the nature of tea.
Can you remember the day when you spoke your first words? If you can, you are unusual. Try to think what the first months of your life were like, I’m sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grew older, you were awake more of the time. It took your parents more to play with you and talk to you. You watched and listened. You began to know that people make some sounds to go with some things.
Then you began to cry to make sounds you heard. And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing.
On that day you came to understand the secret of the language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is not as good as a word unless everyone agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things, they can understand each other, so these people have a language.
After you found the secret of language, you learned words. Some of the words meant things, such as books, chairs and shops. Some of the words meant actions such as go and swim. And other words describe things such as good or dirty. Soon you learn to put words together to express one’s idea, such as “I want to go out and play with my friends.” This is language. By the way of language people can communicate. So we say languages mean communication.
1. __________ can remember the day when we spoke our first words.
A. Few of us B. No one C. Most people D. Someone
2. When you were a little baby, you ___________.
A. made sounds to let people know that you wanted to eat
B. could not hear any sounds around you
C. spent most of your time eating, playing and sleeping
D. spent most of your time playing with your parents
3. The secret of language is that ___________.
A. one sound might be as good as another
B. a certain sound is for a certain thing
C. people can understand each other
D. there is a special sound for each other
4. The use of language is ___________.
A. to get everything one wants from another
B. to say what one wants to know
C. to make oneself understood by others
D. to share ideas, opinions, news, etc. with one another
One day my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. The other woman my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been living alone for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it impossible to visit her often.
That Friday after work, when I arrived at her house, my mother waited in the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary(周年).
We went to a restaurant that, although not classical, was very nice and comfortable. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady.After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. "It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small," she said. "Then it's time that you relax and let me return the favor," I answered.
During the dinner, we had a pleasant conversation nothing special but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie.
As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed.
A few days later, my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her.
Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt（收据） from the same place Mother and I had dined. A note said: “I paid this bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but I paid for two plates—one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.”
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: ‘I LOVE YOU’ and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve.Nothing in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be put off till some “other” time.
1. From the passage we can learn that_________.
A. the writer didn’t use to love her mother
B. the writer was sorry for not having shown much love to his mother
C. the writer often treated his mother at the restaurant
D. after dinner the writer went to a movie with his mother
2. What can we know about the writer’s mother according to the passage?
A. She lives with her son’s family.
B. She wanted to invite her son to have dinner again.
C. She died of a heart attack all of sudden.
D. She wrote a letter to tell her son about her illness.
3.The writer read the menu because _________.
A. his mother couldn’t see clearly
B. his mother couldn’t read at all
C. he wanted to order something her mother liked
D. he wanted her mother to relax
4.What do you think is the best title of this passage?
A .My Mother’s Life
B. An Unforgettable Meal
C. My Mother And I
D. Love is Something You should never Put off
A 15-year-old student who invented a flashlight getting power from the holder's body heat is going home today from California with a big prize and a chance to do further research.
Ann Makosinski was the only Canadian among the four winners at Google's international science competition. Thousands of young scientists from around the world took part in the competition.
Winning the science and technology competition was "a surprise". Ann said, "I think it will have a great influence on my future."
Ann thanked her family for encouraging her interest in science and said that her first toy was a box of transistors(晶体管).
The ideas for the invention came from seeing unwanted batteries and her friend's experience. When Ann visited a friend in the Philippines, she saw the friend couldn't study when it became dark because there was no electricity or light. She saw the need for a flashlight that has no batteries - Hollow Flashlight.
In her project, Ann wrote "I made two flashlights that do not use any batteries or harmful materials. They do not create any noise and will always work. The flashlight needs at least a 5℃ temperature difference between the holder's body and the environment around to produce light."
A video of Ann explaining how she created the flashlight has been watched more than 1.4 million times on the Internet.
Though Ann was successful, she has not made a decision about her career path. Ann hope that she can find a way to join her love of film and science together.
The four winners were chosen from 15 final competitors from eight countries. The competition attracted thousands of students in 120 countries.
1.In which part of a newspaper can we probably read this passage?
A. Travel. B. Culture.
C. Technology. D. Advertisement.
2. The first paragraph is written to be a(n) ________.
A. introduction B. warning
C. conclusion D. discussion
3. Paragraph 5 mainly tells us ________.
A. what Ann saw in the Philippines
B. why Ann invented Hollow Flashlight
C. how Ann's family encouraged her interest
D. what prize Ann got for Hollow Flashlight
4.According to the passage, we learn ________.
A. easy to win the international science competition
B. Hollow Flashlight is safe, noiseless and can save energy
C. Ann has made a decision to be a scientist in the future
D. few people are interested in how Ann created the flashlight
