It seems school children all over the world complain about their school food. Cherie Blair,the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, said that she would prepare a packed lunch for her son if school dinners do not improve. So what do students of your age eat for lunch at school?
Japan
High schools have canteens(餐厅), which serve everything from noodles to rice, but not burgers and chips. Other children bring food from home such as cold rice balls, meat or fish,pickles(泡菜) and vegetables.
Students take home a menu for the coming month including notes on nutrition value. Twice a year parents are invited to have a taste of the food. The class with the fewest leftovers(剩饭) at the end of the month receives a prize.
United States
A typical menu from an American school is made up of a hamburger with fried potatoes or roast chicken, fruit and cookies. School lunches must also provide at least one-third of the daily dietary allowances(定量) of protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories.
Australia
Meat pies, sausage rolls and hot dogs are all traditional dishes in Australian school shops. But as the country pays more attention to children’s health, healthier foods have started to find their way onto school menus.
Many schools have used a traffic light system. The sale of red-labelled foods, like pastries(点心), chocolate and soft drinks, is served only twice a week. Healthier green-labelled foods such as sushi(寿司), sandwiches, corn and watermelon. In some schools, students have a choice of up to 89 foods to choose from, including popcorn and rice.
South Africa
Most of South Africa’s schools do not serve meals at all. Classes end at 1:30 p m and students get their own lunches. Many students bring food from home, usually sandwiches. Fast food and fried food sell the best among students. But as more people began to realize the fact that being too fat may cause different diseases, some schools in towns have led the way towards better nutrition. Now students at these schools are provided with porridge(麦片粥) with vegetables, such as onions,beans, carrots and tomatoes.
1.Cherie Blair thought that .
A. her son should enjoy his school dinners
B. Tony Blair should complain about he school food
C. she was too busy to make packed lunch for her son
D. school dinners in her son’s school were not good enough
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. There are no canteens in most schools in South Africa.
B. School lunches in the United States have enough nutrition.
C. Australian schools encouraged students to eat red-labelled foods.
D. Not all schools in Japan have canteens to serve food to students.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. All traditional dishes in Australian school shops are very healthy.
B. There are a lot of traffic lights in most Australian schools.
C. Australian schools have started to serve healthier foods to students.
D. Chocolate and watermelon are regarded (看作) as healthier foods in Australia.
4.From the passage, we know that .
A. high school canteens in Japan serve all kinds of food
B. one third of the students in the US have lunch at school
C. school serve different foods from country to country
D. Australian students are not allowed to buy soft drinks
As an Englishman, I can speak three languages—English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren’t.
Some statistics（数据）from the survey done by the European Commission（欧盟委员会）showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.
And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That’s why my people don’t think it is necessary to learn a foreign language.
In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14. So why don’t students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.
To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.
Changing the British attitude（态度）to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decided to try!
1.Which of the following about the British people is TRUE?
A. They are good language learners.
B. 62% of them speak two or more languages.
C. More than half of them only speak English.
D. They are famous for speaking foreign languages.
2.In Paragraph 4, “option” means .
A. game B. choice C. mistake D. conversation
3.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Speaking English B. Young English learners
C. Schools in the UK D. Foreign Language Learning in the UK
What problems do the teenagers probably have? Here is a survey showing their main problems.
Problems | Causes | Suggestions |
Feeling stressed | Too much homework; Don’t have enough time for their hobbies. | Make a plan for study and hobbies. Find time to relax as possible as you can. |
Getting short-sighted (近视的) | Too much homework; Bad reading and writing habits. | Do homework or reading in a correct way. |
Fighting with each other | Don’t know how to get on well with classmates. | Make more friends and understand each other. Share your problems with them. |
Feeling tired of study | Computer games’ bad influence | Don’t be crazy about computer games. Play them just for a short time when you are tired. |
Getting fat | Having more pocket money to buy snacks; Dislike doing exercise. | Use your pocket money to do something meaningful. Spend some time doing exercise every day. |
1.What problems are caused by too much homework?
A. Feeling stressed and fighting with each other.
B. Feeling tired of study and getting fat.
C. Feeling stressed and getting short-sighted.
D. Getting short-sighted and feeling tired of study.
2.If Simon is feeling stressed, he should .
A. buy some snacks
B. do much more homework
C. donate his pocket money to Project Hope
D. make a plan to spend time on study and hobbies
3.Which is a good way for the teenagers to stop fights?
A. Doing less homework. B. Learning how to make friends.
C. Playing computer games. D. Paying no attention to each other.
Every country has many volunteers who help to take care of others. They_________ books to the people in hospitals or homes for the elderly. Sometimes they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their________.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or _______ . They paint, clean up,__________their houses or do their shopping.
For boys who no longer have__________, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing places and help them to get to know things that boys_________ learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts (工艺). Some of these clubs organize short__________to the mountains, beaches, or other places of interest________ . Most of these clubs use high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to _________the names of boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to_________ happiness to others.
1.A. sell B. read C. throw D. show
2.A. voices B. speeches C. songs D. problems
3.A. young B. happy C. old D. hungry
4.A. repair B. pollute C. build D. remove
5.A. brothers B. sisters C. fathers D. mothers
6.A. never B. usually C. only D. seldom
7.A. meetings B. picnics C. parties D. trips
8.A. nearby B. faraway C. abroad D. home
9.A. report B. forget C. remember D. choose
10.A. cause B. bring C. take D. lend
—Lucy, I hear the new TV tower is fantastic. Could you tell me ?
—Sure! Take No. 8 bus. It’s not far.
A. how far is it B. where is it
C. how I can get there D. which bus should I take
The boy looks nice in white and the red sweater looks good the girl.
A. with B. in C. on D. for
