There have always been a lot of commonly believed but false ideas about being fat and doing exercise. Some people believe that they can’t help putting on weight as they get older, while others hold that if they stop exercising, their muscles will turn into fat. Here are some more myths:
I’ll never lose weight --- I come from a fat family
Wrong! While we can’t change the body type we are born with, we can’t blame our genes for making us fat. There’s plenty of evidence that fatness runs in families, and the main reason is that they share the same habits of eating too much and exercise too little.
I am fat because I burn calories slowly
Wrong! Fatness is not caused by a slow metabolism(新陈代谢). If fact, although fat people consume more energy that slim people, they also fail to realize how much they eat! Keeping a diary can help you work out your daily food intake more accurately.
Exercise is boring
Wrong! Anything will become boring if you do it repetitively. The key is to develop a balanced and varied program that’s fun as well as progressive. If you enjoy a Sunday walk, take a different route. If you do Yoga, try a tai chi class. If you like swimming, set a distance or time challenge.
No pain, no gain.
Wrong! Exercise is not meant to hurt. Indeed, pain is your body telling you something’s wrong, and continuing to exercise could lead to serious injury. You may experience mild discomfort as you begin to exercise regularly, but when your body adapts to the positive changes in your lifestyle and the aches should disappear relatively quickly. If you don’t, rest and seek medical advice.
1.What does the author think about being fat?
A.It is the family genes that make people fat.
B.People are fat because they consume too little energy.
C.It is the consequence of people’s unbalanced lifestyle.
D.A diary of exercise can prevent people from becoming fat.
2.According to the author, how can we make exercise more interesting?
A.By taking varied exercise.
B.By choosing simple exercise.
C.By doing regular exercise.
D.By sticking to outdoor exercise.
3.What is the author’s opinion about “No pain, no gain” in exercising?
A.Exercise should be stopped if continuous pain is felt.
B.Keeping fit is essentially a painful experience.
C.Pain in exercise is a precondition for reaching your goal.
D.Getting used to pain leads to positive changes in your body.
4.What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To argue the importance of keeping fit.
B.To prove some medical facts about being fat and doing exercise.
C.To confirm what has long been believed about keeping fit.
D.To inform readers of some misunderstandings about fatness and exercise.
No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.
All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation”(解读) of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it.
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism of life”, and “ a heightening(提升) of life”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.
1.To have a better understanding of a poem, one should________.
A. discuss it with others B. analyze it by oneself
C. copy it down in a notebook D. practise reading it aloud
2.According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students________.
A. to understand life. B. to enjoy poetry.
C. to become teachers. D. to become poets
3.What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?
A. More importance should be attached to the teaching of poetry.
B. Poetry is more important than any other subject.
C. One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetry
D. Poetry is the foundation of all language and literature courses
书面表达
请从下列人物中选择你最喜欢的一位,在所给信息的基础上用英语写一篇120词左右的短文, 要点如下:
1.对该人物的简单介绍
2.喜欢该人物的理由
人 物 | 成 就 |
Charlie Chaplin | 1.电影演员,导演,制片人,无声幽默的大师, 所塑造的“小流浪汉”角色举世闻名; 2.被授予奥斯卡(Oscar)特别奖。 |
Yuan Longping | 1.农业领域的先驱者,研制出高级杂交水稻; 2.帮助很多欠发达的国家提高水稻产量,成为联合国解决饥饿的的方法之一。 |
Lin Qiaozhi | 1.致力于妇产科的研究,著有书籍; 2.一生未婚,接生5万多婴儿。 3.2009年9月14日,被评为100位新中国成立以来感动中国人物之一。 |
A great person I admire
The great person I admire is __________________________________________________
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dear Wendy,
Thank you 1. your inviting me to go on holiday with you.I thought this would be a very good 2. to see you again.I still remember the time when we chatted the night through, 3. (discuss) our plans for the future. It 4. that everything would be OK with our arrangements (安排) this weekend. 5. , oneof my relatives, 6. has been in the United States for twoyears, will visit my family this Saturday. My parentsexpect me to stay at home. As a 7. , I regret 8. (tell) youthat I have to9. our plans. I think we can meet duringthe summer holiday. When that time comes, we will be together again and enjoy the 10. (beauty) scenery of Wenzhou.
Best wishes
请根据首字母或中文写出符合题意的单词或词组;注意正确形式,若有误概不给分。
1.Only in Hainan have we seen such amazing houses s_____________________by various kinds of flowers and ever- green trees in winter.
2.The moment I saw the old photo taken in Hangzhou, which is f________________ for its attractive scenery, the memories of my childhood came crowding in.
3.At the end of the meeting, they put forward three different _______________(方法,途径) to the study of physics.
4.See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn’t __________________ (有意义,讲得通) to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.
5._________________(幸亏,由于) our teachers, who are strict with us, we have made rapid progress in our study so far.
根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D和E中选出最适合填入短文空缺处的选项,选项中有一项是多余选项。
Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole that was behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator (美洲鳄鱼) was swimming toward the shore. His mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In utter fear, she ran toward the water, yelling to her son as loudly as she could. 1. It was too late.
Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him. From the dock, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched his legs. 2. The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard her screams, raced from his truck, took aim, and shot the alligator.
Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. 3. And, on his arms were deep scratches where his mother's fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy after the trauma(痛苦的经历), asked the boy if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted his pant legs. And, then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, “But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my Mom wouldn't let go.”
We have scars, too. Not from an alligator, but the scars of a painful past. 4. We foolishly get into dangerous situations, not knowing what lies ahead. The swimming hole of life is filled with danger and we forget that the enemy is waiting to attack. That is when the tug-of-war begins. If you have the scars of love on your arms, be very, very grateful. And never judge another person’s scars, because you don’t know how they were made.
A.Some of those scars are unsightly and have caused us deep regret.
B.You are a child of God. He wants to protect you, and provides for you in every way.
C.Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother.
D.That began an incredible tug-of-war (拔河赛) between the two.
E.His legs were extremely scarred by the violent attack of the animal.