Have you ever played the video dance game? Now such games are used to help lose weight!
Like many other teenage boys, Jones loved sports. But at 5 feet, 175 pounds, he found his weight a trouble. His doctor wanted him to lose 50 pounds so that he may catch up with the football game by the end of summer.
Jones chose the popular dance revolution video game at home to increase his activity. He had lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now, after two weeks playing the game, he has lost another 10!
The health study is being done by an insurance company, which hopes that game will lead to better health and lower costs. “Obesity claims(肥胖索赔) last year cost us $77 million. We have to cut those costs”, said a member of the insurance group. The company provides a game console(游戏主机), a dance mat and software for the six-month, $ 60,000 study.
The study is more than commercial thing of an insurance company. It is widely supported by physical education and health professionals.
In West Virginia, 43% of the nearly 6,000 children examined for heart disease risk were considered over-weighted; more than 25% were too fat. “We are in a crisis of childhood obesity not only in West Virginia but in America,” said a researcher.
Researchers are looking at the potential for improving effects by using the game. A teacher in West Virginia has been using the video game in her classes since last fall. She reported that the game does improve heart health as well as eye-hand coordination, and her students take the video game as a great alternative to jumping rope or ball games.
The US Education Department is putting the game in 20 schools to control childhood obesity. Well, are you going to try such a game to dance away your extra weight?
1.The underlined part is trying to tell us .
A．the study is more important than the money of the insurance company
B．the study is only an insurance company’s business
C．the study involved many insurance companies
D．it’s not only the insurance company that is concerned about the study
2.It can be inferred that .
A．in West Virginia 25% of the children were too fat
B．the government and society think highly of the game
C．the teacher is a success in using the video game
D．the US Education Department is promoting the game all over the country
3.The most suitable title for the passage is .
A．Dance Away Your Weight
B．Play the Video Dance Game
C．Solve the Problem of Obesity
D．A Magic Video Dance Game
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的, 异常的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is .
A．repeated without any change
B．treated as a joke
C．set in the present
D．made some changes by the parent
2.The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it .
A．develops their power of memory
B．makes them less fearful
C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs
3.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that .
A．fairy stories are still being made up
B．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C．people try to modernize old fairy stories
D．there is more concern for children's fears nowadays
4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that .
A．they are full of imagination
B．they make teachers of history difficult to teach
C．they are not interesting
D．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
In the tenth grade，I began working for free at a vet’s that was run by a friend. I wanted to get experience for what I thought would be my future job. However，on one particular Saturday morning I learnt something perhaps more important.
The hospital was in the middle of one of the poorer sections of the city and some people could only pay for the most basic treatments. On this Saturday，a man and his young son，who was probably about 7 years old，walked in with a small cat in a cardboard box. There was something wrong with the cat’s left eye. But the man could not afford to pay for the cost of the medicine. He kept quiet for a while，and then he asked where the nearest animal shelter was. Hearing this，his son cried and started to argue with him. All of a sudden，an older woman who was sitting in the waiting room stood up，walked up to the counter，and told the man that she would pay for the cost. The man thanked her and the son got to keep a healthy cat.
I always thought it was the right thing to help out a needy person，but I only saw people do acts of kindness on TV or in movies. What the woman did made me believe that these things do happen in real life，and quite often.
Now，when I can’t decide whether to help someone who is in need，I remember this woman，and then I have the courage to step up to the plate. Sometimes other people follow.
1.We can infer that a vet’s is most probably a hospital for .
A．kids B．the poor C．animals D．women
2.For what purpose did the writer work at the vet’s?
A．To help out his friend
B．To make some pocket money
C．To gain some work experience
D．To learn more about society
3.What would the man probably do with the cat if the woman didn’t help him?
A．Take it home without treatment.
B．Give it to someone on the street.
C．Give it to the woman.
D．Give it up.
4.We can learn from this passage that .
A．the man doesn’t like keeping a cat
B．the older woman often helps people out
C．the man’s son didn’t agree to the man’s first decision
D．the hospital often asks for too much money
书面表达
假设你是红星中学高三（1）班的学生李华，请根据以下各图的先后顺序，用英语写一篇日记，记述你周日在小区里扫雪的过程。
注意：1.日记的开头已经为你写好；2. 词数不少于60.
参考词汇: 笤帚 broom 小区 neighbourhood
Sunday January 12 Snowy
This morning, __________________________________________________________________________________
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书面表达
假定你是李华，将于今年七月从新星外语学校毕业，你从报纸上得知B&B公司要招聘一名英文秘书，你很感兴趣。请给该公司写一封求职信，包括下列要点：
1．成绩优秀； 2. 能熟练使用电脑； 3. 业余爱好…
注意： 1.词数不少于50； 2.开头语和结束语不计入字数。
Dear Sir/Madam,
I learned from the newspaper that your company needs an English secretary. __________________________________________________________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Handwriting can make or break the first impression. If your handwriting is difficult for others to read, you will sometimes feel embarrassed. 1. . It needs lots of practice to improve your handwriting.
2. . Try each of them out on a piece of paper by signing your name. Find out which type of pen you can write best with. You may be amazed at the change in your handwriting just by changing to another pen.
3. . Do not just do what feels comfortable because that is just your old bad habit coming back into play. Try to hold the pen lightly and don’t press too hard.
Use your chosen pen to write Os on some pieces of lined paper. Write until you have filled up all the lines. Be careful with each O that you write. 4. . Practice writing Os as much as possible. Remember : practice makes perfect. You may practice for weeks or months if you need to. 5. .
As your handwriting shows signs of improvement , go ahead and keep on practicing by writing more words.
A. Gather different types of pens
B. Practice holding your pen in different ways.
C. However , a bad writing habit is hard to break.
D. Choose a type of pen with which you write best.
E. It won’t help if you write a lot of careless Os on the paper.
F. Two to three months’ practice is enough to get good handwriting.
G. After you are confident in your Os, do the same thing with your name.
