小明减肥以后，感到身体疲倦、虚弱，不知如何是好，于是他写了一封电子邮件向健康专家求教。请根据下面内容，以小明的名义写一封120字左右的邮件。
原因：觉得自己太胖，体重不断增加，担心形象不美，有同学背后嘲笑他。
过程：1、去健身房，两三次就放弃了，感觉太累也没时间；
2、节食，坚持了大约一个星期，经常饿得不能继续他的学习；
3、悄悄服用减肥药，一开始有效果，体重迅速下降，但减肥药对他产生副作用。
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From: |
Xiaoming@yaohoo.com |
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To: |
Healthexpert@163.com |
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Subject: |
Losing weight |
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Dear Health Expert, I have got a problem and I need to ask for your help._______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ On the one hand, I want to lose some weight; on the other hand, I don’t want to risk my health. I don’t know what I should do. Could you be kind enough to give me some good advice? Best wishes! Xiao Ming |
Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the well-being of local inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Business can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, first-class roads, and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If the room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.
1.___________: Tourism
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Advantages |
●Helping develop 2. __________ ●Keeping the 3. _________and beauty ●Advancing the well-being of local people ●4._________ more jobs |
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5. __________ |
●6._________ other parts of the country’s economy ●Making public places 7._________ ●Increasing 8._________ on traffic ●9._______ a large amount of money to build infrastructures ●Causing a 10._____ of money if the facilities are left unused |
1.Last Wednesday, Chinese President Hu Jintao flew to France f________ a state visit to Australia to attend the sixth summit of G20.
2.I would appreciate it very much if you could a_________ our plan.
3.During the summer vacation, he attended an English training course and now he can speak English f_______.
4.They are the best team in their country and they d_________ to win the match.
5.Obviously it is your fault. There is no need for you to d_________ yourself.
6.I’m quite c__________. I really can’t decide which answer is correct.
7.When she was lying in hospital, she r_________ not having taken her mother’s advice.
8.Regular exercise helps the film star get into shape and keep a slim f_________.
9.It is a bad habit to s_______ breakfast, for your body needs the energy it provides.
10.They made so loud noises that I couldn’t c_________ on my study in the classroom.
A Southampton University team found that people who were vegetarians by 30 had recorded five IQ points higher on average at the age of 10. Researchers said it could explain why people with a higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet was connected to lower heart disease and obesity rates. The study of 8,179 people was reported in the BritishMedicalJournal.
Twenty years after the IQ tests were carried out in 1970, 366 of the participants said they were vegetarians — although more than 100 reported eating either fish or chicken.
Men who were vegetarians had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians. There was no difference in the IQ scores, between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarians but reported eating fish or chicken.
Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for these factors.
Vegetarians were more likely to be female, to be of higher social class and to have higher academic or vocational qualifications than non-vegetarians. However, these differences were not reflected in their annual income, which was similar to that of non-vegetarians.
Lead researcher Catharine Gale said, “The findings that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarians as adults, together with the evidence on the potential benefits of a vegetarian diet on heart health, may help to explain why a higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life.
But Dr Frankie Phillips of the British Dietetic Association said，“It_ is_ like _the _chicken _and _egg. Do people become vegetarians because they have a very high IQ or is it just that they are clever enough to be more aware of health issues？”
1. What’s the result of the research mentioned in the text?
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A．Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life. |
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B．Children with a higher IQ are less likely to have heart disease later in life. |
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C．Intelligent children tend to belong to higher social class later in life. |
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D．Children with a healthier heart tend to have a higher IQ later in life. |
2.It was found in the research that________.
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A．most of the participants became vegetarians 20 years after the IQ tests were carried out |
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B．vegetarians who ate fish or chicken were of similar intelligence with strict vegetarians |
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C．female vegetarians were more likely to have higher annual income than non-vegetarians |
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D．vegetarians were more likely to have higher annual income than non-vegetarians |
3.What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
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A．Intelligence is linked to not just being a vegetarian but to many factors. |
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B．The rate of getting heart disease is linked to your lifestyle. |
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C．The link between a high IQ and being a vegetarian is still uncertain. |
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D．The link between a healthy heart and diet remains to be proved. |
4.What’ s the best title for the text?
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A．Get more IQ points! |
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B．Be a vegetarian, please! |
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C．Vegetarian diet cuts heart risk |
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D．A high IQ is linked to being a vegetarian |
Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart.
“I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home,’ but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education,” says Jacobs.
The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.
With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators(管理者) expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around.
At the same time, tuition（学费）continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade,
“If we go on this way for another 25years, we won’t have an affordable system of higher education,” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”
Financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.
1.How did the Jacobs manage to solve their problem?
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A．They asked their kids to come home. |
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B．They borrowed $20,000 from the school. |
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C．They encouraged their twin sons to do part-time jobs. |
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D．They got help from the school and the federal government. |
2. Financial aid administrators believe that ______________.
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A．more families will face the same problem as the Jacobs |
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B．the government will receive more letters of complaint |
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C．college tuition fees will double soon |
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D．America’s unemployment will fall |
3.What can we learn about the middle class families from the text?
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A．They blamed the government for the tuition increase. |
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B．Their income remained steady in the last decade. |
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C．They will try their best to send kids to college. |
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D．Their debts will be paid off within 25 years. |
4.According to the last paragraph, the government will ____.
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A．provide most students will scholarships |
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B．dismiss some financial aid administrators |
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C．stop the companies from making student loans |
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D．go on providing financial support for college students |
BUS SERVICE
New York City — Brennan, New Jersey
(Trip time: 30 minutes each way )
Timetable
●Buses leave the Railway Station, New York 7:00 a.m. and every half-hour thereafter(此后) until 11:30 p.m.
(7 days a week).
●Buses leave Brennan Station 20 minutes before and after every hour from 6:20 a.m. to 10:40 p.m.
(7 days a week ).
●Evening rush hours(5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) buses leave the Railway Station, New York every 15 minutes (Monday — Friday).
●Holidays: buses leave every hour on the hour time, each direction.
All tickets must be bought at Window 12, the Railway Station, New York, or at the Brennan Station Window before boarding buses.
1.What time does a bus leave New York for Brennan every Thursday?
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A．10:20 a.m. |
B．6:30 a.m. |
C．6:45 p.m. |
D．4:40 p.m. |
2.Which is the latest bus you should take from Brennan if you have to arrive at the Railway Station, New York before 4:00 p. m. on Monday?
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A．The 3:20 p. m. bus |
B．The 3:00 p. m. bus |
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C．The 3:30 p. m bus |
D．The 3:40 p. m .bus |
3.What time does a bus leave Brennan for New York on Christmas Day?
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A．1:00 p. m |
B．9:40 a. m |
C．3:15 p. m |
D．8:30 a. m |
