With winter fast approaching, flu season is here. People can easily catch the flu bug and they try to fight it with western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine or some homemade secret recipes. Yet some of these strategies are ineffective or even harmful, the best way to counter the flu is to protect us from contracting（感染）it. So here are some good habits to protect people from contracting flu from the very beginning.
●During the day, keep the bedroom window open to let fresh air in．
●Wash your face with cold water in the morning and wash your feet with hot water in the evening. This practice can help boost blood circulation and improve the body's resistance.
●Do some exercises in the morning. such as jogging or shadowboxing（太极拳)for 10 minutes.
●Rinse(漱) your mouth with salt water or tea every morning and every evening. This can help kill flu bacteria, clear phlegm(痰）and keep the mouth fresh.
●Wear more clothes when it's cold and take some off when it's warm
●Get a bottle of vinegar or Chinese white wine at hand and smell it now and then. Their pungent smell can help people get refreshed and improve their body's resistance.
● Drink two kinds of beverages（饮料）before going to bed, which can help people stay away from the flu: soup made of radish（萝卜）and vinegar, and tea made of fresh ginger（生姜）．
●Close the doors and windows and put a pot of boiling vinegar in the room Vinegar steam is a good way to kill flu bacteria in the air.
1. Some people like washing their face with cold water in the morning and washing their feet with hot water in the evening perhaps because______．
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A．they want to make themselves handsome or pretty |
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B．they know it is the best way to kill flu bacteria |
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C．they think it can strengthen blood circulation and improve their resistance |
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D．they have developed the good habit of living |
2.According to the passage, we can know that the best way to fight the flu is to ______.
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A．take western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine |
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B．avoid getting it at the very beginning |
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C．use some homemade secret recipes |
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D．drink two kinds of beverages before going to bed in winter |
3. What would be the best title for this passage?
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A．Eight habits to keep the flu away |
B．The cause of contracting the flu |
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C．Winter and flu |
D．How to cure the flu |
During the week days, they are luckily busy office people; but on weekends, they are just a brood of（一窝）stay-home animals. A recent survey shows that office workers in China prefer quiet and easy ways to spend their weekends.
In the survey, conducted by job seeking and offering website Zhaopin.com, 32.8 percent of the 6,000 respondents choose to stay home at weekends and have a good rest, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
Twenty percent use their days-off to do housework. And only 19.3 percent are willing to have fun during the break time from work. Their first choice of fun is shopping.
Other choices, though practiced by few, include meeting friends, accompanying the children, trips to the suburbs, and lessons for more skills.
When they. go shopping, 54.5 percent of the white-collars actually shop in supermarkets, while 27.9. percent attend other stores, especially when discounts are offered.
These activities don't seem to cost much, as 60 percent spend average less than 200 yuan (US$26) during weekends, and 30 percent no more than 500 yuan.
When asked whom they would spend the weekends with, about 40 percent mention their partners, and 30 percent prefer a weekend all by themselves. Less than 20 percent hang out with friends.
Only 5.8 percent would kill the time with their colleagues. This is because we tend to avoid too many personal contacts with our co-workers when we don't have to work with them, according to some experts.
1. How many of the office workers who are the respondents do the housework at weekends?
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A．1,968. |
B．1,158. |
C．1,200. |
D．1,674. |
2.Why will less than ten percent of office workers kill the time with their colleagues at weekends?
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A．Because they can't spare time to play with them. |
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B．Because they tend to avoid too many personal contacts with hem when they don't have to. |
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C．Because. they have many things to deal with at weekends. |
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D．Because some experts suggest they should not keep in touch with their colleagues. |
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the survey?
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A．There is the same percentage about people preferring a weekend all by themselves and people spending no more than 500 yuan during weekends. |
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B．Most office workers can’t afford things in supermarkets, so they prefer to attend other stores, especially when discounts are offered. |
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C．More than one fifth of office workers like to hang out with friends. |
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D．All the office workers prefer to relax themselves and no one is willing to learn more skills. |
4. What is the best title of the passage?
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A．How to spend the weekends |
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B．Several ways of spending their weekends for office people |
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C．How to go shopping on the weekends for office people |
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D．Office people prefer easy weekends |
I had planted different hot peppers in my garden. A Mexican fellow called Sam worked for me. He_36_ hot peppers, too. It was late summer and a beautiful sunny day. My son, Marcus, eight, and my daughter, Ellen, ten, picked several 37 hot peppers and entered our workroom, with their 38 ．They wanted to see if Sam could 39 more hot peppers than I. After a little joking with them we agreed to the contest but they had to 40 ，too. That was not 41 terms for them so they left the room.
They 42 about an hour later with a new proposal and new hot peppers they had just picked． 43 they had reasoned that when a pepper was 44 in color it was the hottest kind. Marcus and Ellen would eat the green colored peppers 45 Sam and I would eat the red colored peppers. Giving Sam a wink（使眼色），we 46 . Showing good sportsmanship（体育精神），I had the kids 47 the peppers that Sam and I would eat. They picked the largest two red peppers. Then they picked a 48 green one for themselves. Knowing what was going to 49 ，I told them I would make it 50 for them. I cut one pepper in half and removed the 51 to reduce the heat a little. The contest was one of speed rather than 52 ．Each child had pepper in hand and was 53 to start .
Looking at my 54 I said, OK, on three. One, Two, THREE. So much happened all at once. Tears, screams and spitting running around, the children 55 their mouth with fast waving hands. A short time later, Sam and I agreed that the red tasted better than the green.
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Someone knocked at your door just now, but I didn't see who _____was.
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In rugby（橄榄球），the ball is usually carried forward by players, ______kicking is permitted.
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A．so |
B．in case |
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I can't imagine why he didn't stick to his promise____he would do his best to buy me a new bike.
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