Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.
1. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?
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A．They thought spinach made them strong. |
B．They thought Popeye was funny. |
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C．Spinach had a lot of iron. |
D．People liked folic acid. |
2. A research group told people that spinach____.
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A．made Popeye strong |
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B．was a green vegetable |
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C．had less iron than other green vegetables |
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D．had more iron than other green vegetables |
3.The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from____.
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A．iron |
B．folic acid |
C．spinach |
D．exercise |
4.Folic acid is ____.
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A．something in food |
B．a vegetable |
C．dangerous |
D．a certain kind of spinach |
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
My classmate LiuXin became crazily about a popular 1.___________
star last year. She now listens his songs, buys his pictures 2.____________
and goes to his concerts wherever they are.She seems 3.___________
to have lost interest on her studies.All that shw wants 4._______
is to know about his latest news.As the result, she has fallen 5.__________
behind others.We are all very worried about her and wanted 6._________
to help her,but she doesn’t follow our advices.Our teacher 7.___________
Mr Chen has told her parents about this.They are surprising 8.________
and sad.I don’t think Liu Xin is the only girl who are crazy 9._________
about popular stars.What can we do it to help them out? 10._________
根据下列句子汉语注释，在答题卡相应的位置上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）
1.At last I managed to _____________(说服) him to give up smoking.
2.The meeting was called off in the ____________(缺席)of many women.
3.She feels a strong sense of __________________(职责) towards her employees。
4.If people are better educated,there is a good chance that we will see less _______(暴力)
and fewer wars.
5. I couldn’t sleep because the bed was so ___________(不舒服).
6. His performance was _________(完美的) in every way.
7.Xinshiji is a ____________(私立的) school.
8.The problem is of great _____________(重要的)
9. He _________ (犹豫)about what to next.
10.He talked of other cultures as if they were more ________(熟悉的) to him than his own.
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
---Look at this beautiful little statue I bought on my vacation.
---_1.__Oops! Oh,no! I’ve broken it !
---What a shame.
---Aunt Mary,I’m so sorry!_2.
---Oh, don’t be silly!
---But I broke it!
---Never mind, dear.3. And besides, I was planning to give it to you anyway.
---4. You’re not just saying that to make me feel better, Aunt Mary?
---No, o! 5. But the thing certainly wasn’t expensive, and I definitely bought it for you
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A．I cannot believe my ears. |
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B．Oh, it’s so lovely and so delicate! |
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C．It wasn’t all that expensive. |
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D．I’ll pay to have it fixed. |
E. I didn’t do it on purpose.
F Of course, don’t want you to feel bad.
G. You are just joking?
Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20---25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender (性别)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.
They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.
The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.
1.The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _________.
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A．health |
B．long life |
C．ageing |
D．effect |
2.The text mainly talks about ________.
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A．men’s heart cells |
B．women’s ageing process |
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C．the gender difference |
D．hearts and long life |
3.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _________.
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A．women have more cells than men when they are born |
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B．women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat |
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C．the female heart loses few of the cells with age |
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D．women never lose their pumping power with age |
4.We can know from the passage that _______.
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A．the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out |
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B．scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells |
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C．the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss |
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D．women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20 |
While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.
The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to compete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.
I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold – his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.
I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.
But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.
No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.
A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and he should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.
Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.
1.From the passage we can learn that the young man .
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A．made his turn to start back pitifully |
B．was skillful in freestyle in the game |
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C．swam faster than the average swimmer |
D．was not capable enough to win the medal |
2.The crowd changed their attitudes because .
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A．they felt sorry for the young man |
B．they were moved by the young man’s courage |
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C．they wanted to show their sympathy |
D．they meant to please the young man |
3.What’s the best title for the passage?
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A．Compete for Gold! |
B．Try again! |
C．Break a Record! |
D．Go for it! |
